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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.
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silver. They will look well on the table or in the china closet.
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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. Arfher fired six shots at
the clergyman, but only the last one
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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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