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Ginglinms, either plain or In sranll
folalds and checks, and percales, plain
ami In narrow stripes, make up the
prettiest of practical everyday dresses
for the very little girl. In any case these
materials are nearly always a combi
nation of one color with white and ure
made up with white cotton goods of
some other weave, as dotted swlss or
pique or kindergarten cloth, or any ef
fective cotton goods that will wear
well.
Plaids and checks, expanded In size
and In more intricate color combina
tions, are used for girls progressing to
ward the "flapper" ago ; having arrived
there the young miss glories in all sorts
of gay ginghams. Grown-ups go in for
big plaids, stripes, checks and plain
ginchnras In quieter color combina
tions and those with narrow black
cross-bars woven In the plaids and
stripes have made a great success.
WHAT
A letter dated Janunry 15 has been
received from Mrs. Gertrude Austin,
chief of surgical dressings service,
American Red Cross, Paris, France,
thanking the central division for ship
ment of dressings, as follows:
"If you could see the delight of army
officers and lied Gross officials when
they inspect nil tho splendid things
that come to us from America, you
would realize what flno work you are
doing for our men."
We have orders from national head
quarters to stop absolutely the mak
ing of trench caps. The government
Is now furnishing with ench man's
equipment a cap especially designed
for use under the steel helmets worn
at the front. Tho winter is nearly
over, and yarn shouldn't any longer be
used for unnecessary lartlcles.
Hand-knitted socks are greatly
wanted and whereve suitable yarn
can be obtained the production of this
article should be pushed. Pew hel
mets will bo needed until further no
tice. We are advised by Washington as
follows:
"Not only do wo need comfort kits
continuously, on account of the arrival
from time to time of fresh troops at
tho camps to replace those sen abroad,
hut we also wish to accumulate a sur-
plus stock which so far as been impossible.
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When Applying Your Valance.
There Is always an easier and more
practical way of doing things than the
way you are doing them. Take, for in
stance, the applying of the valance to
your window draperies. If you are do
ing It In tho ordinary way you, no
doubt, nail the valance in place. Then
when It comes time to take It off for
cleaning purposes you have tho trouble
of pulling out the nails and oftcner
than not the material is torn in the
process. The easier and more practical
way is to ' substitute clasps for tho
nails. Sow tho pockets of the clasps to
n strong tape and nail this to tho
hoard. Attach the snaps to the val
ance at tho proper places and your
problem is solved.
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Summer.
Ginghams arrived early In the van
guard of spring styles and at present
are flourishing to the point of taxing
manufacturers to supply the demand
for them. The colorings are fine and
it is a great satisfaction to know that
the dye3 are made in America. ,
Plain yellow ginghams In many tones
of the color arc used for little and big
wearers of this reliable and favored
fabric. It is nearly always mado up
with white and a pretty example of
this combination for a little girl of
five or more years Is shown in the pic
ture. It is a plain frock for everyday
wear with a "baby" waist having the
skirt gathered to it. A substantial
quality of dotted swiss Is used for the
bands; these are set In the waist at
each side and extended into tabs fin
ished with tho narrowest of edgings.
The sranll turn-back cuffs-and tho col
lar are made of swlss, also.
CAN
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"Indeflnlto numbers of black sateen
pinafores, women's wrappers, women's
and girls' chemises, girls' dresses and
children's capes are needed ; tho quan
tity of underclothing in general to ho
double that of outsido clothing. Cloth
ing for infnnts of ono to three years
sjiould be rushed rather than lnyettes.
i"A group of six women In Chicago
recently took 50 pairs of under-standard
socks, and returned tho following
perfect articles from the wool: Thir
teen sweaters, one pair wristlets, ono
scarf, nine helmets, 18 pairs of socks
and four trench caps. Chapters could
easily do this work themselves, and
send In to tho division only the per
fect articles."
The above paragraph shows how es
sential It Is to make knitted articles
according to standards set by the
Red Cross. Any chapter will furnish
the necessary information and bulle
tins. Many department stores In Detroit
took advantage of heatle'ss Mondays to
Increaso tho production of Red Cross
supplies. Tho girls In these stores
who gave Ave hours of these Mondays
to work in tho American Red Cioss
rooms received the usual day's pay.
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New Toque Features.
Tho now presentment of a now
toque shows some distinguishing fea
tures, notably tho high, full crown oj
silk or dull patterned gauze, while the
surrounding motifs tako tho form, In
this case, of leaves made up of tiny
black and white feathers studded with
Jet. Cockades of ribbon would also
have a good effect. A white beaver
felt with n series of small black vel
vet strups fringed with silk Is decided
ly distinctive. This hat will be een
later on in most of tho now schemes, a
soft geranium being one of them, with
prune, Jade and Chinese green, and
ochro yellow this latter color looking
best, perhaps, with a touch of black
velvet or dull brown.
UUr
HE saga of tho deeds by
Stefnhtison newly dono
may yet reveal that tho
Arctic ralrago dream is
true.
Ills lay of discovery
which comes now so brief
ly out of tho frozen north describes
Islands hot far remote from that mys
terious Crocker Lnnd which wns only
of tho kingdoms of tho nlr. When tho
final account of tho explorations of
Vllhjalmur Stcfunnson Is given it Is
likely that It will show that he hus
gono far In solving that great rid
dle of tho polar llocs as to whether
or not there exists n vast continent, or
nt least nn extensive archipelago as
yet uncharted by man, hidden In the
blind spot of the world.
Tho news which camo by way of
Fort Yukon, Alaska, brought there by
a trader who had seen tho sturdy
scientist nt Ilerschcl Island, records
further achievements of tho Cnnndlan
Arctic expedition, of which ho Is tho
commander. The only polar explorer
of note on tho western side, Vllhjal
mur Stefansson comes to. tho foro even
In these days of war and upheaval,
for his conquest of nnture and cir
cumstance, aside from tho Important
results which have attended It, mark
him as one of tho most remarkable
men of the age.
Stefansson Is of tho blood of tho
North. Ills father was a native of
Iceland, nlthough the explorer himself
wna born nt Armes, Mnnltoba, thirty
eight years ago. Ttho University of
North Dakota and Harvard equipped
him in science, but the Iron will and
tho stalwart constitution went back to
the Icelandic forbears,
It was in 1004 that he went to Ice
land on research work for his nlma
mater at Cambridge, but It wns not
until ten years ago that Stefansson be
came an Important factor In Arctic
work. Sluce that tlmo ho has labored
almost without ceasing. Once lie camo
out of tho North, wrote a book and wns
back again In the boreal fastnesses be
fore he had even read the proofs of his
rather hastily written volume.
It was In time of respite from his
mission beneath the North star that
he told us much of the strange Eski
mos whom he had found, n race blue
eyed, red-bearded and often fair and
rudy of skin, which had never seen
the men of the white ra'ce nor heard of
such. They might have been descended
from that ancient Icelandic colony es
tablished by Lclf Erlcson, which is
supposed to have been driven by pi
rates into the realms of the North. Be
tween the blond Eskimos and Stefans
son there sprang up a sense of kin
ship and from them he learned many
secrets of life In the Arctic which were
to stand him In good stead In his re
searches. The young explorer's work nt Capo
Parry and later in the neighborhood of
Coronntion gulf made a name for him
In science and Justliled tho expenses
borne by such Institutions as the
American Museum of Natural History,
the National Geographic society and
tho universities. The fact that in 1913
tho Canadian government decided to
finance his further explorations in tho
North, with a view of finding new
lands and obtaining other important
results, gave to Stefansson a new rolo
and a new mission. He became a sub
ject of Great Britain and left Victoria
empowered to raise tho ling of a new
sovereign over new lands.
Canada claims Jurisdiction over all
tho territory which may He north of
her borders. Take down the map of
the Arctic regions and note that north
of Alnska and of the Canadian bor
ders there Is a vast area, bald and
white on the map, a region unex
plored. Here and there is a scant In
dication of lands locked In this un
charted expanse. There nro a few
Islands around the margin of it, but
here after centuries of polar explora
tion and after hundreds of brave men
have lost their lives In bootless quests,
there Is little known about an area
which must contnln at least half a mil
lion square miles.
Science has held for manv vears
that there Is beyond tho'palcoerystlc
floes ,n great land mnss. Tho tidal ob
servations Indicate very strongly that
such is tho case. From the Pacific
slda scarcely any tide enters tho Arc
tic ocean. Two tidal streams muko
their way into it from the Atlantic.
One I't-oceeds by way of Baffin bay
and frets Itself out in tho narrow
cnanuels of tho Arctic archipelago.
Tho second stream, which may be
traced and studied north of Alnska.
does not, according to all observations,
cross the North polo but sweeps along
the coasts of -Siberia.
There is then a great obstruction of
sorao kind, an Immovable body of enor
mous area, not a shifting expanse of
Ice, and that mny bo solid land. So
such authorities as Dr. R. A. Harris
of tho United States coast and goo
dotlc survey have long believed, and
have sought to establish by Ingenious
demonstraUons.
As long ngo ns 1000 Rear Admiral
Robert E Peary, on his dash to tho
North pole, scanned the horizon to tho
aorth and northwest of Capo Thomns
Hubbard and believed that ho saw
land of great extent, a vast Island, a
:untlnent, mayhap, which In deference
to one who had financed his cxpedl
.lons, he then nnd thero called Crocker
'.unci. He doubted not from what he
hen s"Vl tlmt his eyes had beheld the
Map Showing Stefansson'a Recent
unfulfilled vision of the mighty North.
This much, of course, Stefansson
knew before ho stnrted on his own
quest as a conquistador of tho pole.
It was his belief that one day ho
would not only set foot on the Crocker
Land which Rean Admiral Peary be
lieved ho had seen, but also find
reaches of territory In what many had
believed to be an Impenetrable sea.
He set forth from Teller, Alaska,
on June 27, 1013, with a well equipped
expedition In the steamship Karluk,
prepared to do at least three years of
work beyond the Arctic circle. The
Karluk was caught In floes 20 miles
from the mouth of the Colvlllc river.
It was at this point that Stefunsson,
accompanied by Ave men, landed for
the purpose of hunting cnrlbou and
other game.
The floe In which tho Karluk was
embedded was torn from tho shore by
a heavy gale in which Stefansson and
his party o hunters nearly lost their
lives. After a hopeless drift of four
months the Karluk was crushed In tho
lco off Herald Island on January 11,
1914. There had been tlmo to removo
most of tho supplies to the Ice. Tho
company of the Karluk which re
mained was divided Into two compa
nies. Eleven of the number In all lost
their lives. ' The others succeeded In
reaching Herald island and nlso
Wrangell Island. Capt. Robert A.
Bartlett, of Peary North pole fnme,
uccompanled by nn Eskimo, mado a
dash to the mainland and tho follow
ing September brought tho King and
WInge to the rescue.
Stefansson, unaware of tho tragedy
in his wake, proceeded on ills way
after he had learned that the Karluk
had drifted beyond his reach. The
daring trip which ho mado to tho
north from Martin's Point demon
strated his sclf-confldenco and hardi
hood. With two companions, Storken
sen and Ole Andrcsen, ho pressed on
to try his fnte with tho floes. Tho en
tire resources of the party consisted
of one sled and a dog team with which
they were conveying 1,800 pounds of
supplies and baggage, two rifles and
300 rounds of ammunition.
Stefansson literally put his theory
of life to the proof, fer h nnd his fol
lowers became Eskimo, dressed as
such and subsisted for tho most part
on the meats which make that raco so
rotund and oily. Other explorers, nc-
XMAS TREE CUSTOM HAD
ITS ORIGIN IN NEW YORK
The custom of placing an evergreen
tree in tho homo on Christmas eve to
be decorated and hung with gifts Is of
course n yuletlde rite of ancient stand
ing, but In its modern form ns prac
ticed In the United States It Is com-'
pnrntlvely young and had Us origin in
New York.
Mnrk Carr Is tho man who Intro
duced the Christmas tree to New York
city ns New York knows it now. He
was a Catsklll woodsman, no hnd
traveled a bit and wns acquainted with
tho Christmas customs of various
countries. Ho thus camo to see tho
possibilities of tho evergrcons of the
Catskills: ,
The more thought, ho gave to the
llttlo trees tho moro confident ho was
tht't they would make a fine Christ
mus decoration. He decided to trjr
Arctic Explorations. Black Masses Show
Black Line the Explorer's Route.
customed to tho many needs of civili
zation, hnvo always looked forward
with anxiety to tho idea that they
might have to Bubslst on such primi
tive fare, but Stefansson nnd his two
comrades welcomed tho novel subsist
ence methods In their unbroken Jour
ney of 700 miles.
Proceeding to tho north nnd north
west from Prince Patrick island, Stef
ansson discovered his first new land
on Juno 15, 191C, In 78 degrees north
latitude and 114 degrees west longi
tude. Ho surveyed this now territory
to the eastward for 100 miles, and
from observations mado at a height
of 2,000 feet estimated nt thnt tlmo
that tho newly discovered territory
extended for nt least 160 miles.. It ap
parently touches tho periphery of tho
nren marked unknown.
The party returned to a baso camp
nt Capo Kcllctt on Banks Land and,
after having communicated Its discov
ery to tho outside world, prepared to
push Its explorations further Into tho
unknown realms of tho North.
More land was discovered, according
to tho latest advices, In Juno of the
following year In approximately 80 do
grecs north latitude and 102 degrees
west longitude. In August of tho snmo
year additional land was seen In ap
proximately latitude 77 degrees north
and 117 degrees west longltude.Thcso
figures ure only approximate and do
not tako Into account tho outline of
the lands ns they aro likely soon to bo
set forth in tho official records of tho
Canadian government.
That there Is a large land mnss or
a conglomeration of many islands In
tho unmapped regions which have been
tho objective of Mr. Stefansson all
these years thero can bo llttlo doubt.
If there were not solid nnd well an
chored terra firma in thoso regions the
scientists believe that tho enormous
glutting and choking of tho straits and
tho channels of the Arctic could hardly
occui.
Tho drift of various vessels indi
cates thnt thero aro Impenetrable
tracts of largo area In tho so-called un
explored region. Dr. Herbert J. Spin
den In tho Scientific American not
long ngo discussed the extent of the
uncharted polar basin as Indicated by
the drift of tho vessels of explorcra.
"Tho track of tho Karluk," ho wrote,
"practically completes tho drift record
from Point Barrow, In Alnska, to
Spltzenbcrg Island, north of Norway,
them nnd came to New York before
Christmas in 1851 with a lot of tho
evergreens. Ho took up his stand In
St Mark's place, which was then moro
or less of a shopping center.
no decorated ono of the trees with
ribbons nnd tinsel and sparklers nnd
other things until it wns u riot of
color. Tho sight Immediately struck
the fancy of tho ladies of tho StuyTC
huH section nnd lower Second nvenue,
which were then vastly different from
what they are now. Two hours after
he had placed his trees on display he
had sold out his cargo and wns speed
ing back to tho Cntsklllx ns rapidly
as conveyances could take him.
He returned the day before Christ
man with n larger load and found New
York walling for him and his trees.
Ho sold them all beforo they had been
New Land Discovered and tho Solid
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two-thirds of tho circuit around tho
pole. It ends nt almost tho samo
placo whero tho drift of tho Jennnctte
began, and this vessel in turn sank
not far from tho beginning point of
tho Frnm's long voyage in tho grip of
tho floe.
"All drifted .toward tho west, but
the Fram mado moro to the north
thnn tho others did. Theso certified
trncts block a vast area capnblo of
holding n continent tho sizo of Green
land or extensive archipelagoes.
"Contrary to some published reports,
the new land north of Siberia found
by Commander Wllkltzky of tho Itu?
slnn navy cannot possibly bo part of
this supposed laud mass. The Fram
drifted in between this now land
(Nicholas II Land) nnd tho pole,
passing over an area of deep ocean
soundings. Tho De Long Islands, near
which tho Jeannetto sank, nnd the ill
defined mass of Bennett .Land, may
mark tho extrcmo extension toward
tho west of tho supposed lnnd of the
Arctic ocean,"
As tho work of exploration carried
on by Mr. Stefansson is official in
character, there is every reason to be
lieve that after tho closo of tho Euro
pean war Canada will devoto exten
sive resources to further cxploratlou
bused on what he lias already nsccr
talued.
Although tho lignite deposits which
Stefansson reports finding nro not
considered of commercial Importance
nt present, it mny bo that tho re
searches of tho explores: will open up a
now region for development. His me
teorological and tldnl observations are
bound to bo of great servlco to 'navi
gators. Tho ethnological investigations
which Stefansson'a ready sympathies
und keen insight into life have enabled
him to make aro likely to provo of
exceptional value to science. Ho wait
the first to grasp the spiritual ideas
and concepts of tho Eskimos and to
explain their peculiar beliefs concern
ing tho migration of souls.
Taken all in all, If Vllhjalmur Staf.
nnsson returns to civilization in tho
spring of 1918, as ho planned to do,
ho will hnvo a mas3 of Important in
formation of all kinds to collnto and
arrange, of which tho geographical re
sults will form nn Important part, as
they may well lead to tho lifting of tho
veil of time from thft necrots of an lce
locked land.
In tho city threo hours and for prices
which would compare favorable with
tnoso of today.
This was tho real start of Christmas
trees in Now York.
Roast Armadillo.
The distress of war lias caused us to
cat many strnngo things. Wo aro cast
ing hungry looks at many an animal
that we hnvo heretoforo regarded with
merely zoological interest. For in
stance, tho armadillo. According to
tho San Antonio Light, tho first wagon
load of armadillos nrrlved ou last Sat
urday at tho Texan city nnd was imme
diately sold to ultimate consumers who
found tho meat of tho armadillo, which
suggests food nbout as much as does
n British tank, to ho greatly like pork
and entirely edible,
This consumption or nrmndillo on
the hnlf-shell by San Antonlnns sug
gests ii thought. Will n zoo eventual
ly beconio n place where animals are
kept In cages, not because tho animals
nrp wild. Init to preserve them from
the covetous tooth of man? ClnclanalL
Times Star.
