BLOUSE IN DEMAND
EN TER TA IN IN G W OUNDED AN D SICK SOLDIERS
iddy in a Straight Jersey Silk Is
a Smart Thing.
>pular Garment May Be Worn as a
Substitute for Sweater, Short
Waist or Cuirass.
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(S W e ite r n N ew spaper Union
One o f the most Important things In the reconstruction nnd rehabilitation o f wounded und disabled soldiers is to
keep their minds occupied and free from cares, nnd this Is done at the big reconstruction und rehabilitation hospital at
the Pfetddlo, San Francisco. The photograph shows u boxlqg match held in the yard of the hospital while the wounded,
Boated all around, look on.
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WHERE GERMAN TROOPS FIGHT STRIKING MINERS
A general view of a miners' colony lu the Itulir mining district, Germany, where government troops have been try
ing to quell the rioting miners.
DEMOBILIZING WAR DOGS
VETER AN FORESTER IS HONORED
No sooner had we heard o f the
raight Jersey silk middy blouses
)rn at Monte Carlo by smart women
an the shops introduced them In
nerlea, writes a fashion authority,
e get clothes by wireless these days,
le garment and the cable come to-
ther. It must be a delightful truth
the Amerlcun people that this Is s o ;
at they can see In their own shops
erythlng that Europe offers, and al-
>st as quickly as Europe accepts It.
course the American public does
t accept a novelty ns quickly as
ance does. It takes six months, as
rule, between there and here. W e
cept our own fashions, however,
>re quickly than we do the French
es.
Take the Instance o f the long, tight
Irt which was put Into the chan-
-_ls o f fashion last fall. This Is a
good example of how rapidly the
American continent takes up some
thing that Is Introduced here. This
skirt is worn from the It. F. D. routes
to the centers of all great cities. We
nre very, very tired o f It by this time.
It goes In at the knees, back and
front, and permits
walking only
through a silt at the back.
It Is
sold fo r any price that one has In
the purse. The reason fo r the popu
larity o f the American designs Is that
they are sent out by salesmen Into
every plnce where clothes are bought
and sold.
All of which Is to say that when
the Riviera began to show those loose
jersey silk blouses, which are quite
negligee In appenrnnee, the American
shops offered them for the Florida
Riviera. They are merely straight
piece,s o f brilliantly colored silk Jersey
In a heavy or a thin weave. In golden
yellow, for Instance, they look like
the gold mesh bags that women enrry.
They are so supple that they do not
really stand away from the figure;
they just wrinkle against It. The neck
Is high or low, and the sleeves are
elbow length or long. They are trifti-
med with a band o f jersey In another
color. This outlines the neck and
wrists, the edges o f the pockets are
put In, and sometimes the hem, where
It flattens against the hips or turns
up to form a purse pocket and one for
handkerchiefs.
Any kind o f skirt seems to do for
these vivid blouses, and over them nre
worn satin mantels, short sealskin
coats and rippling capes o f horizon
blue broadcloth. In the American re
sorts they will be the smnrt thing,
worn as a substitute for a sweater, a
shirtwaist or a cuirass blouse. Women
who have money have ordered six or
eight o f them In such colors ns gold,
henna, tomato red, French blue, Eng
lish rose pink nnd Irish green. There
is no attempt to have them demure,
although It Is considered quite smnrt
to wear one o f dead white edged with
black over n white, plaited crepe de
chine skirt, and with a white nnd
black hat. Other women who try out
this black nnd white scheme add n
deep set sailor hat of lacquered scar
let straw.
The Loose Back Panel.
The present season has a fondness
for loose panel effects, both on gowns
nnd on suit coats. Sometimes, In con
nection with gowns, these panels will
reach from the heck far to the bottom
o f the skirt, being caught just a bit
at the wnistllne, In order to hold
their shape. On coats, the panels oc
casionally widen out Into almost mili
tary capes.
DANCE GOWN FOR YOUNG MISS
The war dogs of the British army,
which performed Innumerable fine
deeds during the great war, nre being
demobilized mid efforts nre being
made to provide for their future care,
A fund o f $100,000 Is being raised In
England for this purpose.
Sacrificed Principles to Safety.
.The truth o f the following story Is
vouched fo r: Henry Smith of Newton,
N. J., raises chickens, hut their lives
are not worth n copper when they
won't Uy. Lately they have been tak
ing changes, so one day recently Henry
went out in the back yard and killed
one. As he carried the corpus delicti
toward the kitchen, he observed that
he was followed by a horrified pullet.
“ Young lady," said Henry, "oft goes
your head tomorrow morning If you
don’t lay an egg today.“ She couldn't.
So she sacrltid'd.her moral principles
nnd stole an egg from the hennery
next door. Several hoys say they saw
her roll the egg over to her house. She
Is still alive.
The state o f l ’ennsylvnnla on Its arbor day planted 80 trees In honor of
Dr. J. T. Hothrock. who renched the age o f eighty on April 9. Doctor Roth-
rock, one of the vice presidents o f the American Forestry association and for
20 years bead of the l ’ ennsylvnnln association, Is known ns the “ fntlier of
forestry In Pennsylvania.”
The grizzly bear has been ki^wn to
the white race a little more than a
century. Lewis and Clark wrote the
first official accounts o f him in 1806,
nnd he was first discussed publicly In
1814 by Gov. De W itt Clinton in New
York city. Guthrie’s old geography
says that he was named Ursus hor-
ribilus by Naturalist George Ord In
1815. Fossil records Indicate that the
grizzly Is o f Aslntlc origin. He appears
to have come into America about a
million years ago over one o f the pre
historic land bridges that united
Alaska nnd Asia. Benrs and dogs are
descendants from the same parent
stock. The grizzly hear never eats hu-
mnn flesh. Is not ferocious and fights
only In self-defense. He leads an ad
venturous life, Is a horn explorer and
c.-cr has good Wilderness manners—
n« ver makes attacks. The numerous
cases In which the grizzly has been
made a pet nnd companion o f ninn,
where he was thoughtfully, intelli
gently raised, show him to be a su
perior animal, dignified, intelligent,
loyal nnd uniformly good-tempered.
Not a grizzly exists in any o f the
four national parks of California, and
that anlnml, once so celebrated In that
state, is extinct there. He Is also ex
tinct over the grenter portion of the
vast territory which he formerly oc
cupied, and Is verging on extermina
tion.
The natives o f the Torres Strait
islands have their own Ideas about
showing respect to the dead. One
way Is to anoint the body with half
the contents o f a bottle o f cheap scent
sold by the enterprising Orientals. The
rest o f the bottle is corked up and left
on the grave. There Is a tiny grave
on Moa at the foot o f which is a baby’s
feeding-bottle— the probable cause of
the unfortunate’ lnfant’s death. Though
some o f the larger Islands have ceme
teries, graves are scattered nil over
the plnce. Generally decorated with
empty and Inverted rum bottles, they
are often found beside the corpse’s
(ate residence. Where the relatives
have been more ambitious— or better
off— a “ proper marble” has been pro
cured from Townsville or some other
coastul town. The setting-up o f one
of these stones Is the excuse for a gen
eral gorge. Such an event recently
took place at Dnrnley, where a “ proper
stone” was erected over the grave of
the late Mamoose— head man or king.
The ceremony was followed by a three-
days’ gorge o f pig, yams, turtle, etc.
which was shaken down— and room
made fo r more— by vigorous dancing
and singing by all hands.
Mother’s Cook Book.
Family Food.
Cornmeal, If freshly ground with the
germ left in It, Is so much superior to
the ordinary, long keeping cornmenl,
that there Is no comparison. In many
up-to-date homes a small mill Is used
to grind wheat und corn when needed.
Corn Bread.
Take two cupfuls o f cornmeal, two
cupfuls o f sour milk, two tablespoon
fuls of shortening, two tablespoonfuls
o f sugar, one nnd one-half teuspoon-
fuls o f salt, two eggs, one tenspoonful
o f soda nnd one tnblespoonful of cold
water.
Veal and Cornmeal Scrapple.
Cook if pound of veal until tender,
then chop fine nnd return to the liquor,
which should measure five cupfuls;
add one pint o f canned tomatoes, one
chopped onion, one clove o f gnrllc,
chopped, twenty-four olives, chopped,
one tnblespoonful of chill powder, one
chopped chill pepper, three tenspoon-
fuls of salt, one-quarter of a tenspoon
ful each o f paprika nnd pepper; add
gradually enough cornmeal (mixed
with cold water to moisten) nnd cook
until thoroughly cooked. Pout; into a
dish nnd when cold roll In flour and
fry In f a t
Language Employed in the
Wording of Peace Treaties
D ainty and artistic la this danoa
frock fo r tha young mis#. It la In
paatal shades of ahell pink with Alloa
blue ribbon.
FARM
ANIMALS
PROTECTION OF FEEDER HOGS
Department o f Agriculture Conduct»
System of Vaccination Againet
Hog Cholera.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
In an effort to protect the swine In
dustry of the country against the pos
sibility o f Introducing sick hogs Into
well herds, and at the same time to
permit the shipment from stock yards
o f stocker and feeder hogs, the United
States department of agriculture con
ducts a system o f vaccination against
cholera as a part o f Its Inspection serv
ice at the various stock yard centers.
More than 324,000 Logs were Im
munized for shipment as stockers and
feeders from stock yards o f 18 cities
during the six months from July to
December, 1918, Inclusive. To accorn-
Torres Strait Islanders
Have Their Own Idea of
Showing Respect to Dead
Com Pudding.
Take two cupfuls o f canned com (or
fresh Is better), one sweet pepper cut
fine; scald three tnhlespoonfuls of fine
comment with one and one-half cup
fuls o f scald'ng milk and let stand un
til cold. Add the com, pepper and a
beaten egg with a teaspoonful-of salt
and two tnhlespoonfuls o f fnt. Bake
in n slow oven for an hour or more,
stirring It the first half-hour n few
times, then let It brown. Dried com,
softened, may be used In place o f can
ned corn fo r this dish.
W OUNDED SPA R TA C A N S IN BERLIN
Farmer Values Airplane.
George Kottnkel, a farmer of Ayles
bury, Saskatchewan, has actually or
dered h n airplane, ami goes on record
ns the first farmer to adopt this ve
hicle In his regular business.
Mr.
Knunkel, who was one o f the pioneer
farmers In that region, believes thor
oughly In agriculture by machinery,
and plans to use his airplane in mak
ing trips to various cities to dispose
o f his farm prmluce. Having been
the first fanner In that part of the
country to buy an automobile, he ap
Nurses banding wounded Spnrtncnns on the Frankfurter Alice In Berlin.
parently buys his first airplane In the Many Spnrtacans were left dead or wounded on the streets of the capital
after the latest hot battle between the tw o factions.
same matter-of-fact bualness way.
Grizzly Bear Never Eats
Human Flesh; Not Ferocious
— Eights When Necessary
Inoculating a Hog With Cholera Se
rum.
plish this without spreading disease,
In the face o f all the attendant dan
gers, required, o f course, such close
care that the wisdom o f some phases
o f the Inspection .system may not have
been always apparent to all concerned.
With swine moving by carloads and
trainloads from producing areas Into
public stock yards o f the country, says
the statement, the pens of such yards
are inevitably Infected with the com
mon swine diseases, of which cholera
Is the most Important. Owing to this
condition federal regulations formerly
required the slaughter o f swine re
ceived, but after the serum and virus
treatment against hog cholera was
standardized the possibility o f resha
ping Immature hogs fo r further feed
ing resulted In a modification o f the
rules. Under the plan now In force
swine properly vaccinated and disin
fected may be resliipped for any pur
pose, including breeding.
Immunizing hogs against cholera Is
a veterinary procedure, including the
preventive-serum treatment, taking o f
temperatures and observing the condi
tion o f the animal during the test
period. Necessarily the official regu
lations are o f technical character, and
It has come to (he attention o f the de
partment o f agriculture that In some
cases the rules have been misinterpre
ted so as to make them appear respon
sible fo r fluctuation In the stock-hog
market.
For the Information o f the public,
the bureau o f animal industry outlines
briefly the method o f Inspection:
A ll public stock yards are consid
ered to be Infected and swine are,
therefore, exposed to the contagion
from the time o f their entry Into the
yards; consequently It Is Important
that they be Immunized promptly af
ter arrival at such yards, to protect
them against contracting the disease.
For that reason the -deifhrtment op
poses the immunization o f swine that
have been so exposed fo r more than
five days. Hogs, though they may not
show physical symptoms o f cholera,
may In some Instances be affected with
the disease to such an extent that Im
munization will not protect them. *
It Is not permissible to Immunize
swine fo r Immediate shipment Inter
state If they show symptoms o f con
tagious or Infectious disease.
• I f a considerable percentage o f the
animals In a lot Is found to have high
temperatures, the possible presence of
such disease Is Indicated and the ani
mals are not Immunized or permitted
to be shipped Interstate. It is possible
to have hogs with high temperatures
as a result o f conditions surrounding
the shipment to market, in which case
they w ill return to normal within a
short time.
Live S tock
T—
NOTE'S
The language employed In treaties
Is usually o f the most formnl charac
Start training the colt early.
ter, hut occasionally, when treaties are
• • •
considered with eastern powers a more
A
farrowing
rail
In the pen is a good
florid style is used. At any rate, ac
young pigs.
cording to a correspondent, a treaty thing to protect • the
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between Great Brltnin and Persia be
Pigs w ill die I f allowed access to
gins: “ Praise he to God the All-Perfect
The old
and All-Sufficient. These happy leave* their dams after weaning.
milk Is poisonous.
are a nosegay plucked from the thorn
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less garden o f concord, and tied by the
Until
the
lambs
are about three
hands o f the plenipotentiaries o f the
two great states In the form o f a weeks old they should be fed four
times dally, one-half pint o f milk be
definite treaty In which the articles of
ing given each lamb at each feed.
friendship and amity are blended."