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Wule Doesn't Get This Idea of Saving Daylight
{ ITHONIA, GA.—Among the many problems that had to be solved with the
inauguration of the daylight-saving movement, and one that still is a
sotirce of perplexity to local professors of natural history and astronomical
translations is the regulating of the
famous Lithonia jackass, who, by his
regular and dependable brayings, has
regulated clocks and watches in Litho-
ania for several months. :
E. W. Reagon, who lives not far
from the center of the town, owns the
biggest jackass in De Kalb county,
the prize specimen of North Georgia.
Something more than a year ago
Reagon’s little son, Aaron, started go-
ing out in the morning and leading
his horse out of the barn, and when-
ever the jackass saw the horse he
would bray. Aaron was pretty regular in his time, hence the jackass brayed
every morning at eight o'clock sharp. During the last six months he has
brayed at precisely eight o'clock whether he saw a horse or not. Lithonia
folks quit bothering about watches and clocks. Whenever they heard the
jackass bray the children hiked to school.
Then along came the daylight-saving law. Those who have clocks and
watches got them out and greased them up, preparatory to setting them ahead
an hour. They didn’t want to depend upon a braying jackass when govern-
ment law is concerned. Their old tickers must do full duty now, if they never
did before. So they set their timepieces ahead one hour and let it go at that.
But how were they to set the old jackass ahead an hour? Not by pushing
from behind, said some. One man said he had tried it, and it didn’t work.
Neither did he, for a fortnight.
A special meeting of the board of trade has been called to consider ways
and means of setting up “that braying jackass,” who still insists on hee-hawing
at eight o'clock, old time, but which is nine o’clock, new. time, thus making all
the kiddies late at school.
Grateful Wildcat Gets His Benefactor in Trouble
AN FRANCISCO.—Fred Hall, pioneer of Shingletown, Cal., is sorry now he
befriended a female wildcat two years ago. Hall was traveling along Bat-
tle creek on his snowshoes one day when he came upon a wildeat and her two
young cubs. One of the cubs was
caught fast in a steel trap that Hall
, himself had set.
zv\] wl The look of anguish in the mother
\ +4 cat's eves caused Hall to take pity on
= red 2 i. B the brute, and instead of killing the
. San na 2 ‘J. trapped cat and the other two animals
Hg A DE N Hie with his rifle, Hall drove the mother
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3 “% and other cub away and liberated the
\ A animal held in his trap. ;
x The mother cat followed Hall to
3 his cabin and brought her cubs with
her. Hall dressed the injured animal's
leg and gave the animals some food. ¥e then closed the door and left them
outside. A few weeks later the mother cat brought a freshly: killed fawn,
which she laid at the cabin door and then, like a tame cat, stood purring and
arching her back in front of the cabin door. When Hall took the young deer
inside the cabin, the cats made off into the woods. :
Since then the mother wildcat and her cubs—now grown to full size—have
paid Hall regular visits. Each time they bring Hall a present of some dead
animal—not always a freshly killed animal, though.
Hall was not bothered much for a time by having wildcats keep him in
meat, but when two game wardens found the carcass of a deer in his possession
out of season he had some explaining to do.
Needless te say, the game wardens did not believe Hall's story. But Hall
asked them to remain a day or two and see for themselves. The officers
accepted the invitation and two days later the three wildcats appeared. One
of the young cats dragged a large dead animal into the clearing. It proved to
he the carcass of a neighbor's thoroughbred calf!
The neighbor, William Dunham, expects Hall to pay for tha calf, contend-
ing that the wildcats in killing the calf acted as Hall's agents.
Youngster Hadn't Much to Give, but He Gave It
ETROIT.—Holding tightly to a tattered book and with a bundle of papers
under his arm, a small and very brown and dirty, curly headed boy sidled
up to a group of soldiers standing at the door of the armory Saturday, pulling
at the coats of the men to attract
their attention.
“Get along out o’ here, sonny, we
don't want any papers,” said one as
the lad wiggled his tiny person into
the group.
“Say, sojer, I want t’ know where
t' leave books for the sogers. I got a
book here. It wuz me brudder’s, then
he guv it t' me and I was keepin’ it
for me little brudder, but he, th’ baby,
he died last week und we don’t want
it no more, and I want t’ guv it to &
sojer.”
“Kiddie, you're alright; come here and let me see the book,” said one of
the men. The book, thumbed and dirty, with its gay-colored pictures streaked
and partly obliterated, was a collection of Mother Goose rhymes.
“Me muvver read in th’ paper books wuz wanted for th’ sojers, so I
brunged all I got,” said the youngster.
“What are you, anyway, boy, an Italian?” asked a soldier.
“New, I ain't no Eyetalyun; I'm a Serb,” replied the lad.
“Well, you don't talk like one—I guess you're just a regular American,”
and his interrogator laughed.
“Sure, 'm an Amurriken, but I'm a Serb, too, fer I cum here on a ship
wrapped up in me muvver's shawl,” was the lad’s retort. “Anyway, I don’t
like no Chermans. And, mister sojer, pleas’ take me book for th’ sojers.”
The men then bought all the youngster’s newspapers, carefully took the
treasured old book into the armory, and sent the boy away happy with his
pockets bulging with apples, popcorn and candy.
“Exhibit A” Won the Suit for Fair Plaintiff
EW YORK.—After Miss Minnie Lipkowitz, seventeen years old, had had her
ankles measured on the counsel table in the presence of the jury, the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit company gave up.and Justice McAvoy, before whom, in
> the Bronx supreme court, the pretty
stenographer's suit for $5,000 damages
was being tried, announced that the
case had been settled out of court.
Miss Frieda Thomas, counsel for
Miss Lipkowitz, said that $1,000 was
reasonable compensation for the dis-
crepancy of three-quarters of an inch
between the right and left ankles of
her client. Miss Thomas staged the
big scene which riveted the attention
of the jury so surely that the traction
lawyers decided to quit. She had
drawn the interest of the jurors by promising to show them, which she later
did. With the aid of a tape measure she proved that her client’s right ankle
was 9% inches, while the left ankle was 10% inches in circumference.
Miss Lipkowitz, who is a stenographer, testified she had been pushed off
the subway platform at Broadway and Forty-second street, her left ankle
wedging between platform and car. Fortunately, the train was not moving, but
her ankle never was the same.
After the case had been outlined and Miss Thomas had said, “I shall show”
so many times that the jury was crimson, Miss Lipkowitz was called to the
counsel table, and with very rare grace climbed upon it. Then, while the jury
threatened to volplane out of the jury coop, she slowly lifted her piodish skirt
and exhibited all that her attorney had promised.
VWANT T' GIVE THIS
BOOK T° THE SOJERS
a/fers
CAPE FOR SUMMER
Daytime and Evening Wrap in the
Same Garment.
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Materials Include Serge, Gabardine,
Broadcloth or Wool Jersey—Worn
Loose or Belted.
There is no question about the popu-
larity of the cape for the spring and
summer of 1918. A year ago, states a
fashion writer, capes were brought out
in large numbers, but their popularity
was never very firmly established, and
a great many manufacturers who cut
up much good material for these gar-
ments were inclined to be slow about
repeating the experiment this spring.
However, as the weeks have passed
the cape vogue has firmly established
excellence for morning, afternoon and
evening wear, and is developed in
nearly every one of the spring fabrics.
Capes for wear with bathing suits
appeared last summer and are again in
one of the latest uses of the cape is
that of part three in a set of boudoir
or lounging pajamas. The pajamas
noted, made of rich silk with mandarin
coat handsomely embroidered, had a
detachable circular cape reaching a
trifle below the waistline in the back.
The cape shown in the sketch, made
of one of the popular spring wool
Cape for Spring and Summer Wear.
fabrics, such as serge, gabardine,
broadcloth or wool jersey cloth, has
moderately long pointed back and front
sections. The cape has arm slits, and
it may be worn loose all around or as
shown in the skitch, with the belt of
self-fabric drawn. about the waist in
the back, underneath the cape, pulled
through openings left for the purpose
and tied loosely in front.
This cape is lined with one of the
bright printed silks, and it can easily
be made reversible, using either self-
material in contrasting shades, or wool
fabric for one side and satin or silk for
the other. Thus a daytime and eve-
ning cape will be embodied in the same
garment. Only loose capes can be so
handled, of course.
Quaint Boudoir Cap.
A pretty little cap that reminds one
faintly of the head coverings worn
by French sailors—in shape, not mu
coloring—is made of pale pink crepe
de chine. A straight band, four inches
a frill of inch-wide lace and handed
with rows of insertion to match. The
crown is made of fine Brussels net
over the pink silk and in divided into
four segments by straps of narrow
pink satin or velvet ribbon, the cen-
ter of the crown, where they cross,
being adorned by a fluffy pink pom-
pon.
Handsome Sport Shirts.
There is now rookie crepe de chine,
washable, which has been used for a
handsome shirt, its severe cut softened
somewhat by a new plaited yoke and a
low open neck with a wide collar edged
with knife-plaited frills. The waist is
tucked back and front. Windsor ties
with flowing ends &re worn with these
sport shirts. Some of the newest have
wide big foulard dots and are unusual
enough to be smart.
Outside Blouse.
There is no diminution in the fash-
ion for the outside blouse. They have
sashes instead of girdles, and the full-
ness over the hips is taken in at the
side seams. The newest material for
these blouses is gingham, plaid or
plain. A red-and-white checked ging-
ham outside blouse has a short sash
of turkey-red cotton, and it is worn
with a white jersey skirt.
A New Motor Veil.
Now that long motor trips are shout
to begin, women will welcome a new
motor veil which completely énvelopes
head and hat and has a breathing space
of thin chiffon to be worn directly over
the face. Silk jersey cloth of thin
weave is used for the heavier part of
the veil, which is rainproof as well as
dustproof. The colors most often seen
| are gray, green, navy, beige and plum.
itself. At this time it is the wrap par |
evidence for the coming summer, and !
wide or so, of the silk is edged with |
TAILORED SUIT A FAVORITE
Indications Point to Reaction From
Dressy Top Coat Uniform—Jack-
ets Vary in Length.
The strictly tailored suits are again
receiving attention. Many of the best-
dressed women have been noted wear-
ing such suits, a good indication, notes
a fashion critic, that there has been a
certain reaction from the dressy top-
coat uniform of the winter. There is
no denying the fact that the tailored
suit is dear to the heart of the Ameri-
can woman.
Few suits were shown at any of the
openings which were recently held and
those few were of more elaborate de-
sign. It therefore follows that the
tailored suits seen this spring may be
said to be thoroughly American in
make.
As usual, the first choice for such a
suit is the dark navy blue serge, the
man’s serge, or the more twilled gab-
erdine, but it must be dark and, this
vear more than ever before, blue is to
be the color used above all other
shades.
The length of the skirts this season
varies from six to eight inches. from
the floor. Where the skirt is inclined
to be rather narrow, it is best to ad-
here quite closely to the six-inch
length, for these skirts are bound to
draw up on the body and prove very:
inartistic when a woman is sitting. In
skirts that are plaited and when the
figure will allow it, the eight-inch
length is considered smart.
The jackets vary in length from the
! Eton, of which you have heard a great
| deal, to the -jacket which reaches
| about to finger tips, which is probably
the type of jacket that will be featured
for fall.
WOULD REVIVE TRIMMED HATS
American Milliners Anxious to Bring
the Fashion Back-—Paris Ap-
proves the Plan.
The American milliners are earnest-
ly endeavoring to bring back trimmed
hats into fashion. They feel that the
American woman will continue to buy
shapes, cheap and expensive, bad and
good, and then attempt to trim them
at home. Paris has set the seal of her
approval on the trimmed hat, and it is
probable that we shall get the impetus
of this influence by July, says an au-
thority.
As far as women and art go, the hat
should be left as it is. However, the
trade thinks otherwise.
The poke hat continues to gain ad-
mirers. It is both small and large; it
is made of straw and of satin, and the
ribbon streamers hang down the back.
Young girls are ordering this kind of
hat in yellow straw with pink ribbons,
pink roses and a pale blue chiffon fac-
ing. Sounds Victorian, doesn’t it?
DRESS HINTS FOR WOMEN
Novel sleeve designs inspire dress
thrills.
Suit skirts are plain, narrow =nd
fairly long.
Flowers made of ribbons decr ‘ate
organdy frocks.
Tailleurs, as a rule, are made ~vith-
out belt or girdle. 8
~All forms of field flowers are used
for hat decorations.
Bison, hay, chinchilla and dee’ are
names of new colors.
Fancy checked voiles make ur into
smart chemise blouses.
Kid, colt and Sea island duc*: are
materials for white shoes.
Baby’s bonnet is no longer a bon-
net, but a crocheted toque.
Flowers of raffia with moss | ack-
ground trim garden hats.
GOWN OF BLUE SERGE
This afternoon gown designed In
Paris Is of blue serge with the skir{
draped over a black satin petticoat.
The upper part of the dress Is blocked
nff in yellow,
CGO OBE P i Py
PENNSYLVANIA
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Royersford tax rate has been fixed
at six mills.
Newton Boone, breaker builder for
Ario Pardee when the latter develop-
ed the Hazleton coal fields years ago
and one of the best known-fishermen
and hunters in this part of the state
wag taken to the State hospital at
Hazleton suffering from gangrene of
the foot.
Heads of patriotic organizations,
lodges, school boards and councils of
the Hazleton district, formed a War
Chest association at a mass meeting
at Hazleton city hall to raise $350,000
in twelve monthly instalments to fi-
nance all future war drives in this
community.
Altoonians are paying twelve cents
a quart for milk, a decrease of two
cents. This action by the dealers is
the aftermath of a stormy session re-
cently with the local food administra-
tor, 8S. 8S. Reighard, when that official
accused the milkmen of charging too
much for milk. In reducing the price,
the dealers have put into effect a cash
system and have eliminateg rear-door
deliveries,
Altoona women are running elevat-
ors working on the railroad tracks and
clerking by the hundreds in the rail-
road offices, positions before the war
held exclusively by men. It has re-
mained also for Miss Ethel Wilson
and Miss Miriam Jackson to invade
another spot, inhabited formerly by
the male sex alone. They have accept-
ed positions as managers of the larg
est billiard parlor in the city.
Hazleton’s idlers must go to work
or to jail, declared Mayor H. W. Heid-
enreich when he arranged for a fore-
ible enrollment of all loafers. They
will either take jobs or else be prose-
cuted under the vagrancy act.
E. W. Peters, Montour county fuel
administrator, fixed anthracite prices
for this year. They are: Pea, $6.45;
chestnut, $7.90; stove, $7.90; egg,
$7.20, and chestnut and pea mixed,
$7.25 a ton. Danville is thirty-two
miles from the Shamokin miles.
At the New Castle school board
meeting this week, the board took final
action on the matter of ousting the
study of German from the high school.
German will be dropped at the end of
the present term, being replaced by
Italian, French and Spanish.
Patriotism and self-sacrifice are be
lieved in by Mrs. Harriet Salt, of New
Castle. She sold her sewing machine
and turned the money into the Red
Cross fund. The total was $50.50.
¢sther Rubel, aged six years, of
Miners Mills, near Wilkes-Barre, was
instantly killed when struck by an au-
tomobile driven by Charles Sitko. The
little girl had been helping in her
father's store and was going across
the street to deliver a bottle of milk
when the automobile appeared from
behind a street car and struck her.
The Danville school board fixed the
tax rate for this year at 12% mills,
which is the same as it was for 1917.
When a bench warrant was issued
for Arthur Hemmerly, of Berwick,
who failed to appear before the
Columbia county court for trial on a
minor charge, Judge Harman was told
that he was in the draft. The court
at once decided that his country had
first call on Hemmerly.
Declaring that he preferred the ar-
my to jail, Edward Woods, of Dan-
vill arrested for a misdemeanor, was
allowed to enlist, and he was sent to
Camp Meade.
The last sermon in the German lan-
guage in the historic St. John's Ger-
man Lutheran church in Marion town-
ship, near Beaver Falls, was preached
by the pastor, Rev. Theodore Fisher.
Hereafter the services will be inh the
English language. St. John's church,
better known in this locality as “Ber-
ry’s Church,” was built in 1837 by set-
tlers from Alsace-Lorraine. From
1837 until now the services and ser-
mons have been in German.
Through the efforts of the Sharon
chamber of commerce the housing
problem is nearing a solution. YOV-
ernment aid has been promised. The
‘ndustries of the valley are now
working almost exclusively on gov-
ernment work and war orders. It
was ascertained by an investigating
committee that 58 per cent. of the
workers are forced to hoard and only
18 per cent own their own Homes. It
is expected that hundreds of new
dwellings will be built in Sharon and
vicinity this year.
The National Reform association,
represented by Dr. J. M. Tibbets and
Rev. G. L. Beeman, of Pittsburgh,
opened a campaign against polygamy
in Pottsville. Mrs. Marion Williams,
for twelve years the second wife of
a Mormon, is among the speakers.
She was -a native of this county and
was only six years old when her
father was persuaded by Mormon mis-
sionaries to go to Utah with his ten
children. It is alleged the Mormons
expect to introduce polygamy exten-
sively after the war.
Hazleton held the biggest patriotic
celebration seen here since the troops
came back from the Mexican border
when it raised the honor flag won in
the third Liberty Loan drive at city
hall as the official opening of the war
chest drive schedules for next week.
George Anderson has been held for
court in Lancaster to answer a charge
a building in which was stored tobacco
on which there was insurance. An-
derson -was seen in the vicinity of the
building shortly before the fire was
| liacovered,
of arson. It is alleged he set fire to!
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Columbus Man Knows What He Is
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About 8 weeks ago 1 saw your ad for
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