THE SCMLWEEkLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTK. NEBRASKA.
GERMAN "PILL BOX" TURNED INTO A DRESSING STATION
Whdl'Well Dress
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Women Will Weac
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Blouse of White and Colored Crepe.
The same blouses tlmt are mnde for
wear In the summer weather of the
south will cheerfully face the snows
of the bleak northern winter. For
blouses refuse to Acknowledge winter
and take none, of the responsibility of
keeping us warm-. Their mission In
life Is to look pretty nnd to be be
coming, and to add to our joys. They
leave It to steam, heat und heavy coats
to protect womankind from .the -cold,
nnd are therefore much at homo any
where. .
Georgette crepe continues at the high
tide of favor for dressy blouses and
has even appropriated to Itself some
of the stylo features that distinguish
tailored blouses of crepe de chine the
Rhirt-bosom front for Instance. A very
striking tailored blouse called the Ued
Cross has made Its appearance. It Is
very mannish, with high collar and
plaited shirt front. It Is In fact very
much-like a shirt, and Is not gathered
In at the waistline, hut depends upon
the skirt belt to keep It In place. At
the front of the high turn-over collar
a small cross of red satin takes the
place of a tie. This waist Is success
fully developed In will to wash satin.
The fair sojourner In the South, pic
tured above,, has on a pretty crepe
blouse developed In white nnd a color.
An underblouse of white crepe Is veiled
with a dark overblouse, appearing
darker where It Is full. There Is n
square Insert of white at the front,
veiling largo dots In the darker color
In the blouse that are embroidered on
the underblouse. The white collur Is
bordered with the dark crepe, and the
deep cuffs are made of It.
So far nearly ull the new blouses
are open at the throat. The Chinese
collar, rather higher than when It made
Its Initial appearance, offers variety
In neck finishing. The tailored shirt
waist is always good style with a high
neck.
Just at this season designers of
blouses arc getting ready to make new
models. These appearing at winter re
sorts have a "try-out" and they may
usher In a now order of things In
blouses. Those that are successful
pave the way for spring fashions.
This Year's Ribbon Novelties.
The great day of ribbons dawns an
nually about a month before Christ
mas nnd the sun of prosperity con
tinues to shine on the ribbon depart
ment for n month or more. Up to
Christmas eve everybody at the rib
bon counter Is frantically rushed.
Even after the holidays the Impetus
given business makes Itself npparent
for some time. Every year many
beautiful novelties for personal and
household decoration nre shown along
with the ribbons for making them und
they are Immensely helpful in smooth
ing the path of the Christmas shop
per. This yenr there Is a furore for
bags, with shopping' bags and knitting
bags made of ribbons, in the front
rauk of things fashionable. No self
respecting woman of today ignores
entirely the call to Knitting needles.
Even though she never gets beyond
knitting squares for quilts, she lends
her morul support to the cause that
makes her competent sisters so use
ful. Everywhere the lady goes her
knitting bag Is sure to go too.
Many of the new, fashionable shop
ping bugs are made of metal and satin
brocades and they arc mounted on
French gilt or silver mountings that
fasten securely like those used for
leather bags. Knitting bags are sup
ported by largo rings of celluloid or
glass, simulating jade, amber, jet, tortoise-shell
and other things.
Pretty things for the children are
shown in tho plcturo above. The
group includes blunket bows for the
baby's carriage robe, hair bows for
llttlo girls, small garters for support
ing the sleeves of Infant's dresses
and u lingerie bow of narrow ribbon
for young girls. The blanket bow at
lie left Is made of wide pink .satin
ribbon and has eight loops, each abouf"
six inches deep after It is knotted
at tljo top. The allownnce for the
knot Is throe Inches so each loop will
require nine Inches of ribbon. There
are two knotted ends about twelve
and sixteen Inches long after they are
knotted and about four Inches of rib
bon ure needed for tho knot at the
heart of the bow. About three and u
quarter yards will be an ample allow
ance. A larger bow of wider ribbon is
shown at the right with loops eight
Inches deep. At tho heart of this bow
n rosette is made of short loops each
three inches deep. There is one long
end. Three und three-quarters yards
of pnlo pink brocaded ribbon will
make this handsome bow.
The little garters shown nt tho top
of the plcturo are made by shirring
nurrow satin ribbon over Hat elastic
bands and finished with rosettes of
baby ribbon. At tho right of tho pic
ture a hair band for n little girl
shown at the right of the -group 1m
made In the same wuy. Next It is a
pretty lingerie bow of narrow pink
satin ribbon with knotted loops and
ends nnd. finally a bow for the hair
of the young miss who Is under the
"flapper" age, that Is not more than
twelve. It is a butterfly bow of bro
caded ribbon mounted In a covered
band of elastic.
Watermelons may bo kept some time
with a fair degroq, of buccoks by seal
lug tho end of the stem, where it Is cut
from the vine, with vax.
MAGIC SLATE.
Thcro wns once," snld Witty Witch,
as sho sat In the center of old Mr.
Giant's cave, and told stories to the
elves, brownies, gnomes, goblins nnd
many of her other little friends, "a
very mischievous little gnome."
At this all the gnomes snt up very
straight and hoped that Witty Witch
didn't mean any of them.
She noticed their worried expres
sions right uwny, and said, "No, this
llttlo gnome Is not with us todny. Ho
Is far over at tho other side of the
world, doing u lot of good I'm Bure,
and liuvlug n very good time. For he's
grown to bo a fine gnome.
"But years ago ho wns very naughty.
He didn't mean to be so bad at first,
but somehow It grew to be very easy
and he kept on doiug one thing nftci
the other which he knew he shouldn't
be doing nt all.
"Each time ho hud an excuse such
as 'I vrxin't do this again; only this
once.' But of course when tho next
time came he snld the very same thing.
And from being simply a mischievous
gnome ho grew Into a very naughty
gnomo Indeed.
"IIo teased creatures smaller than
himself, and of course thnt is one. of
the meanest things in the world. For
we're being very big cowards when we
do such things. And then he would
He Looked Much Bigger Than He Did
in School.
forget about his lessons until It was
too late, and he would try to do them
In n hurry nnd he would do everything
quite wrong.
"In school he would put tho answers
down on his slate and every time ho
had to rub them out. One day ho
said to himself,
" 'I think slates are the nicest things
In the world. Anything wc wrlto or
draw on them we can tub right out
again. I guess I'll be llko n slate my
self. I'll do what I please and then
I'll rub it out.'
"Of course ho didn't quite know how
he wns to do thnt. Itubblng out chalk
marks on his slnte he found to bo
quite n different matter from rubbing
out menn and naughty actions 1
"Still he said to himself that ho
would never do the same naughty thing
ngnln,vnnd ho wns sorry lie had dono
them, nnd thnt was just about the
same as rubbing them out.
"Ho nlwnys pretended In school thnt
he knew the answer to every question.
Then, when Professor Gnome would
nsk what ho had written, he would
sny, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Professor, but 1
didn't know you -wanted me to keep
the nnswer on my slate. T rubbed It
out.' For then, he thought, ho hnd
shown ho knew something by writ
ing on his slnte even though he did
not write the answer nt all, but sim
ply something quite nbsurd.
"One night he wns very tired. He
hnd been playing hard and had qulto
forgotten about his lessons, nc hnd also
knocked down a little creature smaller
than himself, but he snld to himself
that he was sorry for that, ne really
hadn't meant to be so rough.
"Suddenly before his eyes he saw
Professor Gnome, only he looked much
bigger thnn he did In school. He wns
carrying a big slnte.
'"This Is u slate which cannot bo
rubbed off by your sponge, llttlo
gnome,' he snld. 'I have the magic
rubber for It which tho Fairy Queen
gavo me. You can now do your les
sons correctly on this slnte nnd when
I think they nre well dono then I
shall take your slate and rub It clenn.'
"And tho little gnomo seemed to be
bnck In the school-room now and he
had written something on his slate
Just to pretend he knew tho nnswer
nnd then ho tried to rub It off before
Professor Gnome saw It. But It
wouldn't rub nt all. And all the cluss
laughed at him for knowing absolutely
nothing.
"Next It wns recess time, nnd tho
little gnomo he had knocked down
was crying. He had bumped his head
as he had fallen, and the bump kept
growing Inrger nnd larger until nt last
his heed hud gone entirely and there
was only a big bump left!
"'Oh, how the gnomo felt. 1
shall always remember that I can't rub
out everything I do,' he said. 'My
magic slate will teach roe a good les
son, for I'll be so ashamed when I
see nil my mistakes right in front of
mo until I have made them really
and truly right.
"It wns only a dream, to be sure,"
said Witty Witch, "but from that day
on the gnomo worked and plnyed nu
though everything ho did and said
went down on a slate which could not
bo washed off unless everything war
-- ' 1 ' i' ' M
This captured Gorman "pill box" In a muddy, torn-u t sittlon of the west front, has been converted Into n
dressing station. These dressing stations, being close to thi lighting lines, are the menus of saving many lives by
quick attention to the wounded.
HELPING WOUNDED COMRADE WHILE PRISONERS TRAIL ALONG
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This characteristic scene from the west front shows a Canadian soldier helping a wounded comrade back to tho
trenches while two German prisoners, only too glad to be captured, follow after qulto unguarded.
NEW AMERICAN AIRPLANE BOMBS
RAVEN JOINS BRITISH NAVY
I This raven Joined up with tho Brit
1 Ish naval forces In tho Mediterranean,
I and Is now nil especial pet aboard ono
in uio cruisers, seniors mo world
over are very fond of mascots, and nl-l
ways have them nbonrd ship If they
cat).
Several types of airplane bombs Invented b.v Americans and adopted by
the United States government are shown In tho Illustration. The man Is kick
ing one of the missiles to show that It Is harmless unless Its nose hits something.
MUCH IN LITTLE
Krnuleln Then von Pnttkmer, at
tached to the Turkish forces operat
ing In Mesopotamia, Is the only wom
an wur correspondent oflkiully recog
nized by the Gcrmuu government.
Miss Augustu Seaman of Milwau
kee, whose father was an ofllcer In
the German army, will purchase and
outfit a Itcd Cross automobile and
drive it herself.
The Central rnllrorid of Georgia em
ploys 10 women ngents, whonu duty
It Is to solicit nnd handle ull freight
and other matters pertaining to thl
end i f the IiiikIih'xh.
Tho Grand Falls of Labrador aro
the highest In the world they have
a sheer drop of 2,000 feet. Tho falls
of Niagara drop 101 feet.
New Zealand, In 1010, slaughtered
a,!MS.(n.H luiiilm for food.
Argentina's national wealth Is es
timated nt .$0,820,000,000.
Britain has replaced l,2.r)0,000 men
In Industries by women.
Spain's commerce In 11)1(1 totnled
?-170,072,:t22, of which $2110,00 1,231
represented Imports.
In home of the cigar stores of Italy
patrons light up from a piece of nV
which Is hung up In a convenient place
i ami tilliu'"i to Imi'ii sloulv.
Annexation of South Sea Islands.
A formal declaration thnt Japan In
tends to retain possession, after tho
war, if the South Sea Islands, now un
tier her protection, Is urged upon tho
government by the Tokyo Asahl. Tho
new French cabinet has declared, In
the chamber of deputies, says tho To
kyo Journal, they will not stop fight
ing until tho recovery of Alsace-Lot
ralno; It Is wise for a nntlon to do'
dare Its alms In prosecuting n war
.Notwithstanding this, some Jnpnnesa
bureaucratic statesmen make a polni
of denouncing the nttltudo of thoso In
favor of declaring to tho world tho
Just and proper demnnds of the Jnpa
neso people, In connection with thd
wnr, lest It hurt tho feelings of the
allies. It Is a mistake to view a dec
Inratlon of the Just clnlms of n nntlqn
as a demonstration of Hellish lnten
lions or breach of International ettf
quette, says tho Tokyo paper, and tho
Japanese government should follow!
the example of the French cabinet nntl
make a public declaration at once as
to Japan's Intention to retain posses
sion of the South Hen Islands after th
war nnd to make other proper claims.
Such frank declarations on tho part
of belligerents tiro important In mnk
Ing known to all concerned their truo
Intentions. Tho Tokyo Asahl concludes
by declaring that the Japanese people
nre desirous that their government
shall take such step at the present
Important Juncture.