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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1918)
TWO-FABRIC SUITS SOME SOBER GOWNS Vary Smart Outfit for Gonoral Sensible and Economical Fabrics Summer Wear. • A O n # #f N tw e it Idea* Is Squara-Cut C#at of W hite or Light-Colored Fabric— Topping Dark Skirt. Coats of plain dark material, such as velvet, velveteen, serge, wool, Jer sey or satin, combined with gay striped or checked skirts, have been featured for sports wear through the winter. The sleeveless dark coat worn over a light-colored blouse, the two topping a striped or checked skirt, has also been much In evidence o f late. One of the newest Ideas In sports ap parel is the square-cut coat o f white or light-colored fabric, topping a dark striped or checked skirt. The sketch illustrates a very smart sports suit for summer wear. The skirt is of black and white striped satin, and the coat is of plain white heavy satin, with scarf collar faced in black. Tiny turn-back cuffs o f black finish the plain sleeves, and large black satin-covered buttons fasten the coat. The skirt of this suit is laid in box plaits. Black and white satin ribbon might be attractively and conven- New Idea in Sports Apparel. tantly used for this purpose, the seams necessary to join the ribbon strips be ing concealed by the overlapping plaits. The coat has been christened the “ pony” coat, and in various forms it is made a part o f many spring suits de veloped in one fabric only. Sometimes the coat reaches only to the hips and is open in front to admit a gay-colored vest or vestee, and again it is long enough to be used as a separate sports coat. Straightness of line is its inva riable rule. Not Disregarded. Black Satin, Blue Serge, Gray Jersey Cloth and Shades ef Gaberdine Ruling Street Costumery. There is no disposition shown by the French designers, as they have ex pressed their genius in the new clothes, to omit all the fabrics that are sensible and economical. Black satin, blue serge, gray Jersey cloth and several shades of gaberdine are ruling street costumery. Metal tissues and laces are lavishly used for the afternoon and the eve ning, but they are sobered by miles of chiffon. Sturdy crepe de chine, which looks fragile and is not, is o f fered in the smartest gowns fo r the street. There are one-piece frocks as well as suits, and capes have superseded top coats. Elaborate and expensive embroidery has given way to ornamen tation by means o f wool or twine, and Intricate machine stitching is aban doned in favor o f bits of applied ma terial, straight rows o f military bra'd or folds of corded satin. Lace is used as though Belgium had been reinstated and every one o f the lace weavers working overtime. Flounces, capes, sleeves and panels o f lace are dropped on narrow, slim un derslips o f satin. Satin and serge are combined for those who want to wear a frock for the next six months without feeling uncomfortably warm or cold. Waistcoats, the styles o f which were drawn from all the epochs preceding this one, are used in coats, which gives the economical woman a chance to re furbish her last year's suit and feel herself quite in the picture. The French designers knew that they were offering a sop to the economists in promoting this accessory. Sturdy pique has been revived fo r those who do not care to Invest in handkerchief linen, perishable batiste or expensive flowered voile. These suits and frocks o f pique are trimmed with velvet, as In older day*, and all the dyes that France has manufac tured for her own use have been brought to bear upon white and cream lace in order to make harmonious cos tumes ; and this trick again gives the woman of slender means a chance to look exceedingly smart through the medium o f dipping yellow lace in a small quantity o f reliable dye. Paris has sent over a multiple num ber o f short, straight jackets, with fronts that do not meet, and in the space between is displayed a frilled front with a turnover collar and a dot ted foulard cravat. This little front Is basted Into the coat, and thereby saves one from using a whole shirt waist, with its accompanying laundry bill. CAPE FOR SPRING WEAR COATS WITHOUT ANY SLEEVES Dolman Has Been Replsced This Sea son by the Loose, Shapeless and Sleeveless Outer Garment. France likes the sleeveless idea in garments so much that she has built new coats that droop over the shoul ders but have no sleeves. This is a medieval idea that did not seem to interfere with the comfort o f the men and women o f the twelfth century, when the weather was as cold as now and the houses 100 per cent colder. Among the materials that France of fers to America in the building of these sleeveless coats is a corded silk and wool poplin. It used to be worn by us. It was made into frocks and wraps and turned out In those dolmans that were trimmed with bugles and paillettes and edged with fur. This season the dolman has been re placed by the loose, shapeless, sleeve The reason for the popularity of less coat. This came over from France, where It was worn on one of capes for the coming season is readily the smart stages by an actress who explained by the existence of this model of pearl-gray velour with Its knows how to dress. All the American shops are looking deep scarf collar edged with heavy ailk to the French theater today fo r in fringe. spiration. and the theaters themselves Laundered Laces. have burst into a new bloom o f life Dainty laces should be washed In and beauty through the presence of so many thousands o f American soldier* the following way if you would keep on leave with money In their pockets. their fresh, new look: Purchase 4 cents' worth o f benzoline; this spirit Is highly Inflammable, so should be Substitutes fo r Wool. kept away from artificial light or fire. The rough weave heavy silks are Take two basins and into each put a good substitutes for wools, and will little o f the benzoline. Dip the lace answer every purpose o f gaberdine or In one, douse it up and down, then serge and at the same time a little squeeze gently and dip in the second cooler for summer. Silks of*this de lot o f benzoline; by then all the dirt scription can be used either In light or will have dropped out. Shak<’ the lace; dark tone*, and some models have been it will dry <n a fow minutes and look made up most successfully with flat like new. braid applied In smart conventional de signs. Pile Fabrics Still Used. In view o f the shortage of wool fab Vest Effects on Blouses. ric* expected next winter. It is thought Blonses o f sheer materials with vest that the various pile fabrics will be like arrangements o f silk over them very much used. Plushes and veloura are shown for aftentoon. It is to be fot coats are expected to be much in supposed that the skirt would match demand and. of courae. fur coata tor either the silk or the chiffon o f the those who can afford them. hi ease. ONE ON HUBBY usually, bat nowadays girls are dola# such odd things. Perhaps ths* is no worse than being an elevator girl, and one of the Van Dyckman girls— per fectly splendid family, you know— has Just gone In for that” However, Dixon James was not quite so resigned as was Mariana’s mother. Mariana went ahead with her plans, Make and having applied for the position as conductor, resignedly waited the threw (Copyright, 1918, by th* McClure Newspa weeks that were to elapse before her services would be needed. T o make per Syndicate.) the time pass more pleusantly, Dixon When Mariana, In moments o f pa got his mother to get up a house party triotic fervor, thought of herself us at their country place, and Mariana braving the perils o f the ocean and packed her little trunk and rehearsed Bom* Breeders Prefer to Use Hens for doing her bit In France, it was always the new dance steps with considerable as an ambulance driver, than as a Hatching, as Geese Sometimes Be enthusiasm. trained nurse or an office worker. The come Difficult to Manag*— There was to be a little dance the reason was not fa r to seek. Murianu, first night o f the party and Mariana Incubation Varies. ever since she gave up riding side sad was laying out her newest dancing dle and equipped herself for a cross (Prepared by the United States Depart saddle, hud been quite taken with her frock and other accessories on her bed before dinner, when D ix’s mother ment of Agriculture.) own appearance in breeches. When I — an old-fashioned little gray-haired “ What is meant by a ‘melting pot,’ The successful raising of goslings dressed her prettiest in filmy ruffles lady with a twinkle in her brown ma?” should begin with feeding the geese an and entrancing furbelows fo r a dance eyes— knocked at her door. egg-produciug ration during the latter “ A Jackpot, my son, in which men Mnriana hesitated before her pier part of the winter or early spring. The “ Mariana, dear,” she said, “ I am burn their money.” glass long enough to see that she had geese should be allowed to make their been properly hooked up and that she asking you a favor that I don’t think nests early in the spring on the floor had forgotten no necessary accessory, you’ll mind granting. First, did you of the poultry house, or in large boxes, bring any riding togs?” but when she was dressed in her riding barrels or shelters provided for the togs she stood long and admiring be “ Oh, yes, indeed— I brought two sets purpose. fore the mirror, studied with infinite — Dix said there would be some riding. The eggs should be collected daily satisfaction the straight line o f her I ’d love to let someone have either and kept in a cool place where the con leather legging, the neat Juncture o f ou tfit” tents will not evaporate too freely; if that legging with her tan boot, the im- “That is sweet o f you, dear,” said I kept for some time they may be stored mneulate trimness of her white pique the older woman, “ hot that isn’t the in loose bran. The first eggs are usu stock, the severity o f her plain sailor favor. You see, we are two men shy. i ally set under hens, while the last ones hat that hid almost all o f her pretty There are seven girls and only five* which the gooae lays may be hatched curls and the well-tailored severity o f men— two o f the men have Just got either under hens or under the goose, the coat that extended from her slight their commissions and had to disap if she gets broody. If the eggs are not shoulders to her knees. She did not point us. Girls do dreadfully hate to removed from the nest in which the admire the image because it was the dance with girls, but I thought fo r a goose is laying she will usually stop reflection o f n charming and graceful lark you’d be wUIIng to ploy man. D ir laying sooner than if they are taken young girl, but because it looked to her says you make u wonderful boy. You away. Some breeders prefer to raise fo r all the world like a young boy. For understand— you wear your riding ail the goslings under hens, as geese Mnriana was at the age where the things and piny man, w ill you?” sometimes become difficult to manage greatest compliment anyone might Mariana's enthusiasm was genuine, when allowed to hatch and rear their have paid her was to tell her that she and willingly did she hang the pink young. Hens used fo r hatching goose was not feminine, that she thought ruffles and furbelows back In the ward eggs must be dusted with Insect pow like a boy and that she was free from robe and don her most boyish riding su it der and have good attention, as, in the any o f the foibles o f sex. case of geese, the period o f incubation “ You can lead, can’t you?” D ir The very first day she met Dixon is longer than In that o f fowls. Goos* James he had b“ en fortunate enough asked her after dinner when they had eggs may b# hatched In incubators and to pay her a compliment o f this kind. cleared the floor fo r the little dance the goslings successfully raised in H e had ridden across the country with and Mariana admitted that she could. “ Oh, papa! Couldn’t you take Fred brooders, although this Is not a com her brother and reached the Burden “ It’s aw fully decent o f you. T il Intro into your business? H e’s so ambi mon practice. house Just as she was mounting her duce you to the girls you don’t know. Incubatlen ef Goos# Eggs. tious, and we are to be married soon, own horse fo r a country ride. So Dixon W e’ll call you Teddy to make it seem The period o f incubation o f goose and the brother remounted their natural.” too.” Mariana had not at first realized eggs varies from 28 to 30 days. Mois horses and started out again with “ Er— what could he do?” that she was to play the role o f Teddy ture should b* added to the eggs after Mariana. "W hy, couldn’t you make him prert- fo r the entire house party, but she the first week if set under hens or In “ You know, I have never enjoyed dent o f the business or something?” Incubators; this is usually done by riding with a girl before so much as was, and so her dressing simplified sprinkling the eggs or the nest with I have with you,” he told her. “ In itself to simply changing from one rid ing suit fo r day wear to the other for fact, you don’t seem like a girl. You’re evening. In the meantime she danced more like some awfully nice kid only with girls and rode beside them brother.” and walked beside one o f the other o f Marinna hnd treasured that compli them on all the little outings and really ment. It was worth more than a dozen saw nothing o f Dix or any o f the other o f the usual sort, and ever since that men. day Mnriana had grown more and A fte r all the guests had retired one more addicted to the boyish costume night Marinna knocked at the door o f and more and more rebellious against one o f the girls— one she hnd been skirts. She had never been convinced escorting on u moonlight stroll that one wuy or the other on the suffrage evening. “ I f you have two dressing question, but when she learned that gowns, would you awfully mind lend some o f the early suffragists hnd re ing me one? I ’ve only got the pajama belled against skirts, she hnd declared sort, and— well, I am getting tired herself a decided suffragist and rode wearing trousers. I want to he a girl with her fnir hair streaming, In a coat — Just In my own room," And the o f steel mall, to represent Joan o f Arc other girl laughingly handed Teddy at the next suffrage procession. her fluffiest, laciest pink chiffon negli Then she bought n pair o f housework gee. overalls and went about her own bed By the end o f the five-days’ house room and little sitting room mornings pnrty Marian went home, only with dusting and putting things to rights in difficulty concealing her grievance thnt costume. H er mother positively toward her hostess’ son, Dix. Even forbade her going out o f her domain tually, o f course, the grievance made The Teacher— Why, Jimmy, Jimmy t in the costume. O f course all her Itself known to Dix aud there was an H ave you forgotten your pencil again? negligees were cut on pnjuma lines explanation. Teddy was pouting a W hat would you think o f a soldier go and, inconsistent as was it with her little nnd blinked back a tear. T h e ing to war without a gun? suffrage conventions, she fancied that other wouldn’t blink back so “ he” drew Jimmy— I ’d think he was un officer. she would like to be a Turkish woman a filmy handkerchief from “ his” because o f the bloomers. breeches pocket and wiped It tenderly “ I can do almost anything,” she told away. her chum one day, “ If I am not ham “ I ’m not a bit Jeulous,” Teddy began. White Chinese Gander. pered with petticoats. I ’m sure If I “ I don’t mind at all that you have gone warm water. Four to six eggs are set ever make n name fo r m yself it w ill about with nil the other girls and under a hen and ten to thirteen under be in breeches— riding breeches or haven't even looked at me, but— well, a goose. They may be tested about the housework overalls, or somethlug o f I guess what makes me feel peeved tenth day, and those which are infer that sort.” is that I hud such a pretty dance frock tile or contain dead germs should be Then came the wnr and Illustrated with pink ruffles and laee and every removed. They hatch slowly, especial newspaper supplements were flooded thing made Just for the party, and I ly under hens, and the goslings are with pictures o f dairy girls In breeches, haven’t had It on once.” usually removed as soon as hatched factory girls In overalls nnd street cur This was D ix’s cue and he took It, and kept in a warm place until the conductors In suits like the Roldler’s and as he gathered the tearful little process is over, when they are put uniform. Manana felt devoutly thank- ! Teddy In his arms— they had met In back under the hen or goose. Some ful that she had lived In an age when the woods by chance when gathering breeders who hatch with both geese she might wear trousers and not be j «ticks for a picnic fire— lie explained and hens give all the goslings to the t hooted like poor Amelia Bloomer and his entire plot to her. Yes, he loved geese. Hens with goslings may be those other worthy pioneers In petti- . her illstrni tedly, and had longed to be confined to the coop and the goslings coat emancipation. The question was. with her every minute. But he wnnted allowed to range. The latter, especial- j Just which line o f emancipated occu to make her give up the idea o f being ly i f the weather is cold, are not usu- ; pation should she pursue. First she j n conductor— wnnted to show h er that ally allowed to go Into water until they decided to he an ambulance driver, but ; sometimes there were advantages In are several days old. In mild weather ! the idea struck every one as absurd. ! being just a girl. the hens are allowed to brood the gos Particularly did Dixon James plead lings from seven to ten days, when the with her to abandon this project. Soldier’s Cobbler Kit. latter are able to take care o f them Our soldier boys learn many things “ In the first place, they wouldn’t ! selves. Good-sized growing coops, have you,” he told her. “ You're only ! besides actual soldiering. When they with board floors, should be provided eighteen and you are too darned 1 return to their prosaic tasks after the for the goslings, and they must he pro pretty. What do you know about mix- ; war, there will lie many a bunk clerk, two or three new vegetables, I be tected from their enemies and given ing up with a lot o f rowdy soldiers? j fo r Instance, who will he eligible to lieve.” some attention when on range. They won’t want girls like you— they j Join the cobblers' union. O f course Feeding Gt«#e and Goslings. want some big husky amazons that j there arc* shoe-repair stations nil along Geese are generally raised where can give a hand to lifting stretchers j the lines o f battle, but so much de they have a good grass range or pas and one that has nerves like Iron. You i pends upon the condition of his shoes ture, as they are good grazers, and, ex say you couldn’t stand being n nurse. ' nnd his consequent foot-comfort, that cept during the winter months, usually Why, my dear child, you’d have to go most o f the boys carry u little cob pick up most of their living. The pas through more horrors as an ambulance I blers’ kit and mnke small repairs them ture may be supplemented with light driver.” selves. The kit consists primarily of feeds of the common or home-grown Finally she was dissuaded. *B u t : a hollow linndle, the top o f which un grains or wet mash dally, the neces eventually her mind was made up. screws to disclose the awl, screwdriver, sity and quantity o f this feed depend- j She read In some not distant city an cobblers’ tacks, and other essentials log on the pasture. Goslings do not appeal fo r street car conductors— fo r repair work. A t the opposite end need feed until they are 24 to 36 hours the kind that wore leggings nnd knee- o f the device Is a spool o f waxed twine, old, when they should be fed any of length coats and bloomers—and not which threads Immediately into the the mashes recommended for chickens the petticoat sort— she announced firm awl when the awl is screwed Into or ducklings. ly that she considered It her duty to place. When some other tool, such as give her services as a conductor. She a screwdriver or knlfehlade, is to be was going to release some man for used, It is screwed Into place Instead service, she announced. Arguing o f the awl. In addition to his shoes First Essential Is Clsanllnesa In Han against her was ir. vain, and after sev the soldier may mend his torn leggings dling Milk Utensils— Becond Is eral family rouncll* o f war, It was de and his saddle straps. to Keep Ceel. cided to let her go her own sweet way. Couldn't Scare Beavera " It would usually be a fam ily dis So troublesome have beavers be It Is almost ns easy to produc* good grace,” her mother said to Dixon cream as poor cream. The first essen James one day, for o f late Dixon was come to the farmers along the Walla tial is cleanliness in handling tbs milk usually to be found somewhere about W alla river that one rune er erected utensils, particularly ths ssparator. the Burden summer place. " It really a heaver "scarecrow,” which was ef City Man— What do you d n woen The second is ia keeping the cream would be a scandal to have one’s fective the first night. On the second your horse balks? cool until delivered and making at least daughter be s street car conductor i night the beavers cut down the scare tri-wsskly deliveries ia ■unuatr. The Countrymen— Sell him. crow and used it in their dam. Ill EARLY SPRING Fowls Should Be Allowed to Their Own Nests. KEEP EGGS IN A COOL PLACE OR SOMETHING POSTED OFTEN DO WHAT HE’D DO PRODUCTION OF GOOD CREAM
