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Variety of Laces Introduced Into Summer Fashion Picture By CHERIE NICHOLAS T ACE, a favorite material down ' through the centuries, is this season soaring to new heights in the fashion domain. Lace nowadays is being used in more ways than was | thought possible in yesteryears. It I Is entering into every phase of fash- j Ion. This could not be so were it not for the amazing variety of laces now being manufactured—laces so versatile that they can be used as dependably and satisfactorily as any fabric. It challenges the imagination to realize that the usefulness and adaptability of lace has been made to cover such vast scope. Today this fabric is being fashioned into every kind of apparel—bathing suits, red ingotes, hats, gloves, and most sig nificant of all, stunning tailored jack et suits. Lace used for suits looks as if it might be a choicely pat terned open weave mesh, but it isn't. It's sturdy. Next time you go on a shopping tour, look at these new me ticulously tailored suits. You will see them in white or colors, and In navy and black. There seems to be no end to the enchanting fashions that are being made of lace. Citing a few of the newest lace entries, there is the long evening coat of pastel Alencon lace over a matching sheer dress, also the practical-to-wear daytime redingote of fabriclike cotton lace. 1 and lace capelets and stoles that are newer than jackets to wear with sheer summery dresses. To look your radiant best at day time summer occasions wear a sim ple frock of lace in a delectable color. The two frocks shown in the foreground of today's photograph il lustrate this idea. The fact that the skirt of each model is pleated means that lace and pleats are continuing to play a charming duet in the new summer style picture. The model to the left is a slim ming dress in a sheer lace. The bodice has a low V-neck in a flat tering line. Shirring at the waistline gives it easy fullness. The skirt whittles the figure into slimness with its stitched pleats. Imagine this lovely model in any color you like, for it is available in all the newest shades. To the right in the picture a lace dress for the fashlonwise woman is shown- It is a type that may be worn to bridge parties, afternoons at the club and so on. It is a classic for the woman who would dress be comingly and tastefully. The skirt is knife pleated. The bodice is de tailed with a grosgrain cord bow tie at the neckline. The dress is made of a delicate looking lace, softly fem inine and very practical. Centered in the picture is a jacket dress in lace. The dress with a jack et can be worn on formal or less gala occasions. It is always a wel come fashion, especially if it is lace. I This model, in a dainty flower-pat terned lace, has a mite of a jacket entirely scalloped with a tiny col lar and puffed sleeves. The cun ning jacket is wearable with other gowns. It would be especially ef fective worn with a black net eve ning gown or with a flower print that repeats the jacket color. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ——* *1'.* S >—I sw—mpy. '.j+.rsiw Middy-Type Dress For you who sew it is easy to keep in style by using good fabrics and simple patterns. Just now middy type two-piece dresses are very much in the fashion picture. It is dresses of this sort that require de pendable materials. One of the per fect “finds” this season in the white goods collections is serg-a-hed. It launders beautifully, is amazingly inexpensive and is wearable. It is just such simple frocks as this that young girls want most this season. Vegetable Jewelry Out California way vegetable jew elry is quite the rage. CBS Star Helen Wood strikes a new style note with a necklace of com kernels. Al most the only item that hasn't as yet made its appearance on milady’s neck is a string of potatoes. These necklaces are made of various gaily colored seeds and pods, with alter nate brass beads and coral chips. Best of all, they’re both light on the neck and pocketbook. ■ Paris Fashions Turn Masculine in Style New suits In today’s Paris fash ion parade are finished with mascu line precision, but a saving fem inine touch is introduced by organdy blouses with frilled fronts and field fiower bouquets for mannish lapels. Closely fitted redingotes in pat terned wools and silks, fine-striped wools and pencil-striped dark fab rics are among the collections. One house features tailored silk suits in checked surah and double-breasted models with horizontal stripes. Loose backs in plain and printed crepes have full skirts shirred to hip yokes. Some are trimmed with linen, while others have linen bo leros, with paillettes. White pique trims frocks and coats, and sailor hats. For young girls there are checked silk dresses to be worn with linen redingotes and bolero suits of checked wools embroidered with white soutache. Silhouettes reflect the masculine line above the hips. Shoulders are natural and waists slim, and slim hips are emphasized. Lace-Trimmed Blouses W orn W ith Cotton Skirts From all indications the cotton evening skirt worn with a lingerie blouse is going to be a leading sum mer fashion. The one liked best is the full peasant type, made of a bizarre flower print topped with a wispy lace-trimmed snowy white blouse. Very attractive skirts are being made of gay plaid ginghams, also of colorful sheer, crinkled cot tons. Skirts of cotton lace, with dark Jersey fitted bodices, or long torso middies of Jersey seem to please the smart set. The ’teen ape also has a yen for skirts made of flowered glazed chintz. Lower Heels Good news! It is interesting to know that shoes are being built for comfort as well as smartness. The latest models are made of in describably soft leather, -nd the heels are much lower. l*f Clmo Scott %’cMo+t (Released by Western Newspaper Union.I ElUworth and His Zouaves THE name of Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth is almost forgotten now but 80 years ago it was on the lips of millions of Americans. As the youthful colonel of one of the most picturesque bodies of soldiery the United States has ever known, he was something of a military idol and a national hero. So when he was shot down by a Confederate sympathizer in Alexandria, Va., on May 24, 1861, he not only became the first officer of his rank to lose his life in defense of the Union, but his death did much to inflame the North against the South in the early days of the Civil war. Ellsworth was born on April 23, 1837, the son of a poor tailor In the village of Malta, N. Y. Even in his youth he showed a fondness for military life and while he was still a school boy in Mechanicsville, he organized and commanded a com pany which bore the high-sounding name of “The Black Plumed Rifle men of Stillwater." He tried to ob tain an appointment to West Point but failed through lack of political influence. So he started west to seek his fortune. Eventually he landed in Chicago, where he was chosen captain of a national guard company. He outfit ted them in zouave uniforms, re named them the Chicago Zouave Cadets and soon made them one of _ the best drilled military units In the country. After an exhibition tour of the East in 1860, he returned to Illinois. In Springfield he became a stu dent in the law office of Abraham Lincoln who had recently been nom inated for I resident by the Repub lican party. Since political cam paigning seemed more exciting than studying, young Ellsworth plunged into it with the greatest enthusiasm and so won the esteem of Lincoln that he was invited to accompany the President-elect to Washington. Lincoln, when he became Presi dent, planned to make his young law student and ex-zouave the head of the nation's militia system. But this was blocked by the “profes sional” soldiers in the war depart ment and Ellsworth had to content himself with a commission as sec ond lieutenant. Then Fort Sumter was fired upon and Lincoln called for 75,000 volun teers to defend the Union. Ells worth immediately resigned his commission and hurried to New York city to organize the men of the New York fire department as a vol unteer regiment. In less than two weeks he was back in Washington as colonel of the Eleventh New York infantry, known as the "Fire Zou aves," fully equipped, drilled and ready to take the field. On May 24 the "Fire Zouaves” were a part of a force ordered to cross the Potomac and occupy parts of Virginia. Ellsworth's regiment was sent to Alexandria where their commander saw a Confederate flag flying over a hotel, the Marshall house. He dashed into the hotel, rushed up to the roof and tore the flag down. As he was returning, he was met in the hallway by J. W. Jackson, the proprietor, who fired a bullet through the young colonel’s heart. President Lincoln ordered that Ellsworth’s body be taken to the White House where it lay in state in the historic East Room. Later it was escorted down Pennsylvania avenue by a detachment of cavalry, followed by carriages in which rode the President and members of his cabinet to the railroad station. There it was placed in a special train which bore the young commander to his burial place in Mechanics ville, N. Y. Two days later President Lincoln wrote a long letter of condolence to | Ellsworth's father and mother. It i Is even more noteworthy than the famous letter to Mrs. Bixby which, ; it has recently been revealed, was not written by Lincoln at all, but by his secretary, John Hay. In it, , instead of writing about a soldier : whom he had never seen, Lincoln was paying tribute to a man whom I he had known personally as a law clerk In his office in Springfield and j his companion on the fateful Jour ; ney to Washington, and whom he j had grown to love. CAT CLUE 86 By JAMES FREEMAN (Associated Newspapers.) VTNl Service. INSPECTOR Will Hatch climbed the last of four flights of dirty stairs and paused. His chief aide. Detective Jed O’Brien, followed, puffing and blowing like a steam engine. Will grinned, “That’s the last, Jed. Catch your breath and let’s go.” O'Brien chose not to reply. Silent ly, like a faithful dog. he followed his superior to a door. Will knocked on the door, and then opened it without waiting for a re ply. A man had partly risen from a table in the center of the room. A man’s hat and coat were thrown across the bed A soiled shirt hung over the back of a chair. There was an ashtray on the table, a half fllied bottle of milk, a glass and a box of crackers. The man was in his shirt sleeves. He must have been under thirty. His features were dark and swarthy. He watched Hatch from black, close-set eyes. His attitude was that of suspicion. •’Hello,” said Hatch, easily. "Your name Volkoff? Leon Volkoff?” “Well, what if it is?” The man at the table scowled and stood up to his full height, which wasn’t a great deal. Hatch advanced across the room, studying the man. His expression was not hostile, though he was won dering how difficult Volkoff was go ing to be to handle. For he was sure the man was Volkoff. The de scription fitted in perfectly. Behind Hatch, O'Brien leaned heavily against the door casing. "What about it?” the man repeat ed darkly. "I’m looking for a man named Volkoff,” he said. “Wanted for mur A man was sitting on tho bed. He looked up, startled. der.” Hatch paused, and when the man made no i#ply, he went on, “I think you’re him.” ”^(eah?” the man sat down. “So you’re a copper, eh?” And you’re lookin’ for a killer named Volkoff, an’ yuh think I’m him? Well, what about it?” Hatch shrugged. “Either you prove you’re not him, or I’ll take you along." “Smart guy, eh? One of them cop pers what never makes mistakes. I hate coppers." “Start proving,” said Hatch, “or put on your coat.” The man’s eyes left Hatch’s face and moved about the room, com ing to rest at length on O'Brien, standing at ease by the open door. A tom-cat had come in through the door and was stretching himself just inside the room. With a sudden dis play of savageness, the man picked up the ashtray and flung it at the cat, missing by inches. The cat looked at the man in sudden alarm, turned and fled from the room. “I hate coppers," the man repeat ed, turning back to face Hatch, "and cats." He paused, studying Will’s face with hatred in his black eyes. “I ain’t trying to prove nothin’ to a copper. I’ll talk to the judge; prove who I am.” Hatch shrugged, his face expres sionless. “Suit yourself, feller. Get your coat.” The man stood up and walked over to the bed. Hatch watched him. O’Brien, standing by the door, watched him, too. Presently the man was ready. They descended the stairs. On the second landing they paused. Hatch produced a pair of handcuffs and clamped them on the man’s wrist. He told O'Brien to wait. Then he began ascending the stairs again. The man shouted a protest, but O’Brien silenced him by clamping a hand over his mouth. Hatch came back up the stairs softly. He crouched before the door a moment, listening. Then stepped inside. A man was sitting on the bed. He looked up, startled. He was small, compared to Will. His features were dark and swarthy. His eyes were black and close-set. Hatch said, “Come on, Volkoff. You’re wanted for murder!” O'Brien was puzzled about It Hatch had to explain. “Murder is serious business,” the ' inspector said. ‘In the first place, the man took it too lightly. He didn’t want to get away. On the contrary, he wanted us to take him In. That wasn’t natural. There must have been another reason. I figured he wanted to get us out of the room. It was the cat made me sure I was right.” "The cat?” •‘Sure. Cats don’t come into strange rooms and stretch and act like they lived there unless they ex pect a welcome. The man didn’t own the cat, or it wouldn't have act ed like that. The answer must be that Volkoff liked cats and owned one.” "What was the other guy doing there?” "The other guy was a stall. Vol koff kept him there in case we came after him. When he heard us on the stairs, Volkoff hid under the bed. The other guy got us out of the room by posing as Volkoff and let ting us arrest him. When Volkoff was well away, the other guy would prove who he was, and we’d have to let him go.” Hatch threw away the butt of his cigar and thought of Volkoff’s white, frightened face. “Murder,” he said musingly, “is serious business.” Ultra-Violet Light Assists Fight on Potato Ring Rot Because an ultra-violet light hap pened to be delivered upon a certain day, potato growers throughout the world were given a powerful weapon to fight bacterial ring rot of pota toes, a disease which has spread throughout the nation in 10 years. The accidental discovery was made at Montana State college, Bozeman, Mont., by Dr. V. E. Iver son and Dr. H. C. Kelly. Iverson, a horticulturist, was searching for a quick and positive means of identi fying ring rot in seed potatoes. His search was prompted by the rapid spread of the disease within Mon tana. Within two years it had spread throughout the state, causing a large percentage of rotted potatoes in the field and heavy storage losses capped by further shipping losses. Iverson believed that a quick and positive means of identifying the disease was the key to the situa tion. If seed potatoes could be ex amined quickly, ring rot infected po tatoes could be discarded and only disease free stock planted. The only means of identifying the disease was the old gram stain test. To use this test meant a laboratory, a high pow er microscope and plenty of time. One man could test about 200 pota toes a day, altogether too slow for a disease that spread so rapidly and it was impractical for use by seed producers. Dr. Iverson started, with the aid of Dr. Kelly, a physicist, to explore the possibilities of X-ray identifica tion of the disease. This failed. While the two men discussed the failure, Kelly unpacked an ultra violet lamp his department had just ordered. Obeying an impulse, Iver son cut the end off a potato and thrust it under the light. The result was unmistakable. The ring rot area of the potato fluoresced bril liantly. Since then the two scientists have tested this light under every condi tion and it detects ring rot or any tissue breakdown accurately. The light is the H-4 type ultra-violet black lamp of 100 watts. In use the opera tor cuts the end of the potato, holds it under the light and if it fluor esces, the potato has ring rot or some tissue breakdown. If it does not fluoresce its tissues are unaf fected. Tt)e use of this means of identi fication has spread to a number of states and is used by several com mercial seed growers in Montana now. Instead of 200 potatoes a day, an operator can test nearer a ton a day. Anyone can use the lamp with a few minutes practice and its low cost puts it within easy reach of seed producers. Dr. Iverson points out however that the ultra-violet light is only one part of the fight against ring rot. The disease spreads rapidly by in fection so every sanitary precaution must be taken to prevent infection. Rice for Third Population Rice is one of the oldest known foods, is mentioned in Chinese rec ords dating 2800 B. C. It is native to India, which grows some 60,000, 000,000 pounds annually. China, largest consumer of rice, issues no data on annual production. Rice is a member of the grass family, grows best in warm and moist regions. Usually rice fields are flooded during the growing sea son, but in some districts such irri gation is not required. The cultivation of rice began in United States in the Carolinas about 700. Today the annual U. S. yield amounts to 50,000,000 bushels. Lou isiana, California, Arkansas and Texas are the chief centers of rice production in America. The wild rice of North America’s swamps, while not adaptable for cultivation, provides an important food for wild ducks. Ten Most Beautiful Words What are the 10 most beautiful sounding words in the English vo cabulary? A nation-wide poll to se lect the words was conducted recent ly by a Detroit columnist, Frank Colby, and of the thousands of words received, the 10 most beautiful words were as follows: Mother, memory, cellophane, bellboy, mel ancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wil derness, tambourine and lavender. Words were received from every state in the Union, with the lists con tributed equally between men and women. Some of the jawbreakers received included tintinabulation, vivisepulture, necrophagous, and on omatopoeia. One swain submitted his sweetheart’s name, saying, "This is the only really beautiful word there is.” ' / TO MAKE, my, a FIVE delightful pairs of motifs 1 are distinctively either His and Hers or Mr. and Mrs. Guest towels and pillow slips—even tea towels (the smart comer mono grams are suggested for this use) will benefit from the application of these unusual designs. These would make grand gifts for the lovely June bride or would be in great demand at the church bazaar. • • • Z9321. 15 cents, is a pattern which givea you intriguing embroideries for persona] linens. For this pattern send your order (with coins) to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Name ... Address ... Copt 1941 by Kpilot! Company Dreaming vs. Reality Some people merely dream of being something; others keep awake and are something. 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