Appropriate For Christmas Gifts Fancy Sterling Silver Initial & Rim Glassware Premiums Fit to Grace tbe Table ot a King ALMOST FREE TO READERS OF THE STAR-INDEPENDENT Six (6) Fancy Ster- j Y i can select any com- I .. o .| t • • i I! 1 , hination or get the entire set ling' Silver .Initial j. jJ|J||| consisting of nine (9) pieces Thin Blown Tumblers I' «§r|f| with One (1) Coupon and 48 cents. |l * | I Only One Coupon I 1» cents extra by mail. || • i lij the advertised charge. Two (2) piece set ffmmmm,_ If wanted by mail, —Sugar Bowl and I I «jll| j| li'i Mil | add the amount Cream Pitcher, ; i ! I specified. Sterling Silver In- ' f "M 1 , f j 111 A 7. , , j^j a ] i I i u mus a * One (1) Coupon ! ■3n£| |||| - and 48 cents. N. ' l| .n ji |J Tilt J1» cents extra by mail. | I 1 1 ' l||| Sf tf= Ifldepflndttlt One Large I I T I Tin li I*° take at *~ Water Pitcher ['/ZSi\ I ! AfrSl 1 J an L ase of f„i..on ly 7 3 !{sy ;clj ipn hir^r™ cents andi one i J j i I s°ld without a (1) Coupon. I I | ! j ||| , i | I'T* coupon, which I'l I -,/ m I i „ I will appear" II cents extra || I 1 \ f | |j 111 j || |'|| I|f j | dailv on paSfC b y mail - dig "7 Ji lltfP 2. REMEMBEK: This newspaper with several others, before entering into a contract with the decorations ti> offer this glassware to its readers, investigated everything, and now guarantee each piece of glass to be perfect, and last but not least, the sterling silver cannot be removed, and it' they were put on sale in the ordinarv wav each piece would cost at least three or four times.the amount we ask. Women readers of THE STAR-INDEPENDENT will not need much in the way of persuasion to see the 8 unusual value of this new offer. This ware is of the finest glass, and each piece is decorated with your owp initial in guaranteed Sterling silver. They will look well on the table or in the china closet. rl !5 This Fancy Combination Initial Glassware was never sold in the ordinary way and couldn't be purchased in the city of Harrisburg now, if we hadn't entered into nil arrangement with the decorators to give our readers a chance to purchase them at factory cost. Clip the Coupon From Page Two (2) Present or mail it to THE STAR-INDEPENDENT with the required amount and the set is vours. Sets now on display at the office of • THE STAR-INDEPENDENT 18, 20, 22 South Third Street Harrisburg, Pa. OF INTEREST TOWOMEN WINTER HATS IN I CHIC SIMPLICITYj Daguerreotype Styles Are Here in Full 1 Skirts, Drooping Shoulders and Stiff Nosegays—Buttons and Braid New York, Deo. 24. j A gown may be charming, but if the j trimming is not of the proper kind or j is not properly applied, it is spoiled, j This season buttons plav a most im portant part in the ornamentation of! dresses and suits. They may be cloth-1 covered, crocheted, braid-covered or of! bone. The bone buttons are, perhaps, j the newest and smartest. They are gen erally plain and round with visible holes. Buttons are used on the under side of a sleeve, quite close together from wfist to elbow and down the front of a waist giving a very military effect. A great deal of braiding is being used on coats and suits. Not fancy braiding especially, but edges are being finished with braid, or bound with a new sort of satin braid which comes in all widths. Progs, a trimming also an offspring of the rage for things mili tary, are made from braid. Kven in the new waists we see the edges bound with braid, chiffon or silk, alike. Waists of net are braided with fine soutache and a verj- effective trimming it is. Buit coats this season are, as a rule, in the vicinity of 26 inches in length. The skirts are plain at the top and daring out to an eight-yard hem, six inches from the floor. In many of these skirts there is an underskirt of not such huge measure. This naturally shows the crinoline tendency in our clothes. In the early part of the last century, when these vide skirts were worn, there were hoops beneath to keep them standing out and to show their entire width. Imagine a woman getting into a Twentieth Cen tury street car or a Fifth Avenue bus with a hoop skirt to-day! Still, with skirts widening rapidly t here is no telling quite what to expect, tor when Dame Fashion gets to moving she does not always stop at mere con sistency. The latest skirts are faced up with haii" cloth for the denth of from twelve to fourteen inches to give the proper stiffness. And one charming gown, which 1 saw worn not long ago at, a hotel where the faithful followers of the fickle Dame assemble for tea and to dine, was not only faced up very high but was. also corded with a thick cord which made it swing attractively. Worn with these skirts are bodices which cut ofl straight around the waist line, in the old-time basque stvle. Some times tliev are corded on the edge. The sleeves were some of them very long, and others short and puffy. The line of the low necks of these bodices are long over the shoulders exposing the tips of them in the fashion one sees in daguerreotypes. Others, where they are not wanted so low are finished with a fichu of the same material which is draped around the shoulders giving the long line of the shoulders but showing only the V of the neck. Another crinoline type is the dress with a many flounced'or ruffled skirt. T This last with wreaths of tiny roses I woven among the ruffles and possibly I'areleslv catching one up is a most j fascinating style for an evening frock, especially for the girl of lithe and slen | der lines. | The trim short basque buttoning A Frock With Surplice Closing Waist and Yoked Skirt Developed in Serge straight up the front, and ending at the waistline, except for two short points below, is very smart when worn with the full skirt. The illustration is a model which shows an idea of an Amer ican designer. The yoke and front panel of the skirt are in one, while the fullness is placed at the side in wide side pleats, thus giving the smart out line of the winter, a flatness front and bark and a flaring at the sides. Fur is used extensively as trimming on the winter frocks. It'is put around the bottoms of tuuics and skirts, at tlio HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24. 1914. I lower edge of cuffs and around the , necks of .suits, dresses and .separate coats. Fur is soft, but scarcely becom ing to tlic average face and requires i something to /five a bit of color, so the j artificial flower was placed at the neck, ! and lo! it made the fur vastiv bucoui | ing. The flower, whether artificial or nat ural, is a most important accessory of a | woman's toilette this season. The cor j bouquets of \ iolets are always ] good, but the very smartest and uew ! thing in the 'way of natural flowers is to have them made into a tiny stiff bouquet, like those pictured in the days of our grandmothers. Stifflv packed to gether, rising in the center and sur rounded by a stiff frill of pauer lace. In the artificial flowers this same | thing is carried out, only the leaves are l used to simulate the frill of lace. One charming bouquet had three frosty pink A Trim Short Basque With Skirt Flaring Smartly at the Sides leaves placed together in such a way as to form a triangle. In the center of this triangle was a stiff little bunch of berries of a deeper pink than tho loaves. A half blown rose is among the newest of tho flowers, in pinks and deep reds. Another flower which is having a great popularity is the water lily in white or pink with a large yellow "cen ter. These are shown with long stems which are often looped up gracefully underneath the tlower. t A combination of small fruits and their blosoms is very attractive against the dark coat or frock. A one-piece frock which serves for an illustration has a surplice closing waist with the new close-fitting sleeves and the fashionable yoked tunic. The lower section of the tunic is side pleated and falls over the closer fitting lower skirt section. A new wide hat which is a late example of some of the later winter styles is worn with this dress. A wide velvet sailor, it flares up at one side and is trimmed with a single large red rose. The hats of the winter are exquisite in their simplicity and Wending of col ors. A tiny high-trimmed turban with a crown of plum-colored velvet is wreathed in berries and soft-toned vel vet roses. It. is a model which is charm ing when worn with either tailored suit or frock of silk. One cunning toque made of mulberry-colored velvet has a high crown and velvet ribbon fails in two streamers down the back. The whole effect is distinctly of the 1840 period. Some of the hats have stream ers. not only on the small sizes but even fipon the larger sailor models. A lan sailor hat. is trimmed with five blue velvet ribbon streamers which fall off the brim and are continuations of rib bon that makes the crown, running around it from brim to top, PENNILESS TO GOT $06,000 Former Convict. Inmate of Mission, Tells of Legacy Left by Aunt Philadelphia, Dec. 24 —'Working his way into a "better life" bv cleaning windows and tying packs of kindling wood Whosoever Gospel Mission, iu Germantown, 'Stephen Blair, an ex convict, with neither friends nor fam ily and only a few cents of 't'his world's wealth, this week received a telephone message to meet a lawyer from Mon treal at the Hotel Walton. When he resumed his work at the mission he was worth approximately $96,000. Sixteen years ago, near Minneapolis, w'bere he was living in affluence, Blair, then a youth, quarreled witfl his broth er, shot and killed him. The sentence was 20 years, but in 1913, after serv ing 1 6 years, Blair was released on good behavior His parents had died; his relatives had moved away; he was without friends or money. And every employer gave him „the same reply, •'No, I do not. want an ex-convict.'' Half-starved and driven by despond ency almost to suicide, Blair euded a forlorn year of wandering three weeks ago at tiff Whosoever Mission. Home body hail told him that there "they brought convicts back to lit'e.'' Con verted and given work, Blair told the superintendent, -lohft R. Melntyre, that he wanted to stay, for, he said, "I have no friend in the world." But lie vaguely remembered an old aunt, Caroline Blair, who lived in 'Mon treal. It is of this aunt's estate that Blair is to share. Mr. Melntyre, of the' mission, en abled Blair to recover his fortune by directing friends in Montreal to follow what appeared to be a very small clue. Blair will not receive his inheritance until he is identified by former ac quaintances in Minneapolis. Though lie is to have nearly SIOO,OOO. he m ist continue to work a* the Whosoever Jlis sion until Mr Mclntvre ran raise enough money to ta'ie him west. SANTA TO 4.000 CHILDREN Exercises at Drifton Mark Christmas Joy ill the Coal Fields Drit'tou, Pa., Dec. 24.—The Coxe Santa Claus yesterday made his 43d an nual round among the 4.000 children of the miners employed at the collieries of Coxe Brothers & 00. Mrs. Eckley B. Coxe, widow of tii > anthracite operator and former State Senator, who for near ly half a century has made happy the hearts of the little ones, yesterday aft ernoon began the distribution of gifts and candies in her home I>>. and to day will complete .'he work in other placq^. Suitable programs wore rendered in the school buildings at Drifton, ana similar exercises will be helil in all the other mining towns to-day, under the direction of Prof. Peter McKiernan, of diazleton, who has been traiuiug the Vhiltlreu for four weeks. The gifts were purchased by Mrs. t'oxe in Philadelphia several weeks ago a t'ter a list of the eligible children bad been obtained early in the fall. The Sifts consist of clothing, toys, sleds, candies, cake and oranges. STRANGLING ON *SOO RING Alleged Woman Thief Swallowed Dia mond in Pawnshop Philadelphia, De.\ 4.—Emma Ciar nett. 26 years old, colored, is in dan ger of strangling to death at the Hahne mann hospital, because she swallowed a SSOO diamond ring which she is alleged to have stolen from her employer, Mrs. Frank Raser, 117 North Eleventh street. The woman was arrested in a pawn shop in 'Baltimore Wednesday. S'he at tempted to pawn the riu£ and S6OO worth of other jowelrv said to have iieeti stolen from Mrs. Raser. When a detective entered the pawnshop her hand went to her face and the ring dis appeared. Vcsterja.v on her way to tihis city with Detectives O'Neil ami LeStrange, Kmma began to breathe wheezily and almost choked, £he confessed that in an effort to save the ring from confisca tion she hails wallowed it. Physicians inserted a tu'be in her throat to permit her to Ibr.eatho and to-day an X-rav ex amination will be made. MINER IS DECAPITATED Son U1 at Home and Wife Was Buying a Christmas Tree Scranton, Pa., De •. 24. —M. J. Roach, So years old, was deapitated yesterday morning; and his rig-fat leg almost sev ered at the hip, when he was caughf be neath a fall of ro.-k in the Gravity slope colliery of the Delaware and Wild son Coal Company at Archbald. His son is ill at-home, and the motlher spent the t morning shopping for a Christmas tree for the lad. Mrs. Hoach's 'brother in-law, Hugh Conway, was killed in the mines five months ago. MINISTER SHOT IN STEEET Montreal Clergyman Is Seriously Wounded by Mission Worker Philadelphia, Dec. 24.—in acknowl edgment of the Russian McP. Scott, pastor of St. John's Presbyterian church, was shot ajid seriously wounded last night on 'Broadview avenue here toy Harry Asher, a mission worker from Montreal, who lias been in Toronto aibout a week. 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Ruling for We give you what you want, the way you want 'US M the trade - it, when you want it. rfjj G. E. AUGHINBAUGH 1 | 46 and 48 N. Cameron Street m is |g Near Market Street HARRISBURG, PA. S A Bell Telephone call will bring one of our solicitors. il INCIDENT DURING NA VAL ' ~ : ' : ~ " " .■ . f Wj" ' ■ "-1 , I THE UON TURNED SIOWLY 4ND MAJESTICALLY ROUND AND FIRED HER. BBOADSIDE ONCE THE naval b attla off tha Bight of Heligoland, which occurred during the very ea:iy stages of the war and whloh was the first really decisive naval engagement between the British fleet and the German, was remarkable for the accuracy and effectiveness of the heavy guns on the British battla cruisers. The Lion. In particular, did ♦ery deadly work with her huge 13.5-Inch guns. A naval Wan present at the action wrote:—"lt was a fine aight to see Lien demolish- one cruiser. We could see her (the cruiser's) shots falling short, but still the Lion did not fire. For fully ten minutes the orulser belted away without get> ting a single hit. Then the Lion, who was leading the line, hplsted 'open fire," turned slowly and majestically round, and fired bar broadside—once. It was quite sufficient. Up went took effect, in the 'hip. Asher's motive, according to his own statement to t'he police, waa revenge. M>r. Scott, %e declared, had injured his mission work. Asher was arrested im mediately futft-er tho shooting. Two Couples Wedded at Hershey Hershey, Dec. 2 4.—A beautiful wed ding took place at t'he homo of Dr. and a cloud of smoke and steam from "the target.' and whan It cleared off her aft funnel was at a rakish ancle and a huge rent appeared the length of her aide. After a few more salvoa ahe waa rapidly sinking by the stern. Shortly afterward aha half hauled down her ensign, and as we ware steaming up to stand by and rescue her survivors she hoisted It again and opened fire. It was a dirty trlok, but they got their deserts. Once again the Uon turned, and this time fired but five shots from her huge turrets. Amidst a shower of splinters, smoke and fire she disappeared. We steamed over the spot, but although there was plenty of wreckage not a single living thing was to be-aeen. Thla incident only luted forty-five minutes, although th« battle was raging for eight hours." Mrs. M. li. Hersihey on Tuesday noon when t'heir daughter, Bfiss Catherine E., was married to Stanley R. Oldham, of Pittsfield, Me. The Rev. George S. pastor of the Derry Presbyterian church, 'performed the ceremony in the presenile 0 f members of the families of the bride and groom. The young couple left for Pittstiekl, their future home. Ou Sunday noou at the home of 'Mr. and Mrs. William Wagner, at Derrj Church, t'heir daughter, Carrie, was mar ried to Irwin W. Knoll, of AjwviHe. The nuptial knot was tied by the Rev. Joseph Nissley, of 'Hummelstown. 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