Specialties From Parasol Designers
MUCH ingenuity is evident in the
shaping and covering of new par
asols. The skill of the maufacturer
must be equal to making up the most
fanciful dreams of those who originate
sunshades that look like big, brightly
colored flowers, with their cups in
verted. They have seized upon the
Persian designs in silks, upon the
broad stripes and checks, and appro
priated bold-flgured laces to make the
most intricate and the most captivat
ing things!
One of the simpler designs is shown
in the picture. It is rather large and
bowl-shaped. Its first covering is of
white silk. Posed over this is a vague
ly flowered overcovering finished with
a scallop at the edge in each panel
of the parasol. The scallops terminate
In a small ornament which, with a
portion of the edge, hang free from
the undercovering.
A pretty parasol, smaller in size and
not so deeply curved, is covered with
white taffeta. Long diamond-shaped
panels of Persian silk in bright colors,
with red dominant among them, are
shirred so that their edges are narrow
ruffles. One of these is mounted over
each rib, their upper points disappear
ing under the tip at the top. The low
er point reaches within about five
inches of the edge of the white taffeta
covering. This is a gay and rich-look
ing little affair, suited to almost any
K- light summer costume.
Plain white parasols with borders of
black and white “checkerboard"
silks are novel and immensely smart.
They are not expensive, ranking in
price with those made of broad stripes.
Among the latter a black and white
striped covering has a border of bright
Persian silk at the edge, about six
i inches wide. It is made on the frame
that we are all familiar with, and is
moderate in design as well as price.
Parasols of shepherd's check, bor
dered with bright-colored bands, are
not new in designs, but they are, like
the all-white ones, always in style.
They look especially smart w'ith out
ing hats and dresses, and will be
seen with the Panama hat decorated
with a sash in the same color as the
band on the sunshade. They are among
the least costly of all and stand near
the head of the list of desirable acces
sories for summer toilets.
Finish for Lingerie.
An exquisite finish for lingerie can
be achieved by crochet work, says
the Modern Priscilla. Instead of but
tonholing neck and sleeves, cut
smoothly, following the lines of the
! pattern. Turn from you with fore
; finger of left hand, following the
method known as rolling or whipping.
Over this crochet with fine cotton,
white or colored, using four single
stitches, and picot of four chain. Set
all close together. It is substantial,
dainty, producing effect similar to tat
ting, and is rapid work.
Liberty in Sleeves.
There is a delightful liberty in the
realm of arm covering. To each aria
its sleeve is evidently the creed of the
designers at the moment. If a woman
wishes to let an admiring public see
that she has been given the rare gift
of a lovely arm she may adopt the
Grecian shoulder drapery which
serves as a sleeve, but is careful not
to hide a fraction of the arm.
A Word or Two About Caps
WITHOUT any claim to originality
to aid them these two bou
doir caps unblushingly call attention
to themselves as noteworthy. They
are examples of what the new laces
bring to morning caps in the way of
attractiveness and grace. If these
laces and nets were less supple, they
would not fall in such soft ruffles, and
if they were too sheer they would not
make such successful plaitings and
hair coverings.
The cap at the left has a full soft
crown of all-over lace and a frill of
lace about the face which widens to
ward the back, where it covers the
neck. It Is adjusted to the head by
the elastic cord that is run in a casing
on the under side where the frill joins
the crown. A few little roses of chif
fon. joined by long stems of silk-cov
ered cord, wander aimlessly over the
crown.
The cap at the right is made of
fine net, having a broad panel of
lace along the center of the crown run
ning from front to back. The frill is
of plaited net and the cap is adjusted
with a small elastic cord.
Narrow satin ribbon is laid in a se
ries of short puffs across the front cf
the cap. ending at each side in a short,
pointed end. These are the simplest
of caps, innocent of wires. There are
any number of others, in all sorts of
shapes, all suggesting the hour of gold
en leisure spent at home. They are
only a part of the story of caps, which
-continue to flourish in the smile of fa
vor which the dancing girl still be
stows upon them. But the dancing
cap is really another story.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
The Hair at Night,
When sleeping, the head should al
ways be uncovered and the hair will
retain its beauty and luster much
longer. Brush the hair thoroughly,
then raise it nearly to the crown of
the head and braid it in one long
braid. It can then be thrown over
the pillow and you can sleep on eith
er side or the back without lying
on the hair, and the hair is getting a
good airing all night.
Lace Flounces
Several skirts for dancing have old
fashioned lace flounces, two or three
of them, festooned under roses, and
individualists are elongating their
lace sleeves until they form mitts
with thumbs to cover the top of the
hands.
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Collie Saves Man’s Life.
Fred O’Connell, twenty-four, a SL
Louisan, owes his life to the services
of a Scotch collie owned by Town
Clerk Will Parker of Pana.
O'Connell’s left foot was caught be
tween the bumpers of two cars when
the train took a siding in West Pana.
O'Connell's foot was pinioned and he
was unable to extricate himself. His
cries attracted the collie. The dog
Eeerned to take in the situation and
ran to the Parker home, one block
away, where he gave the alarm. Mrs.
Parker followed the dog to the siding
and found O’Connell unconscious. .Mrs.
Parker notified the trainmen and they
extricated O'Connell.—New York Sun.
Favorite Target.
“You see this shirt,” said the gen
eral who was campaigning in a small
but turbulent country. “It is full of
bullet holes!”
“Good heavens! You weren’t wear
ing it at the time!”
“No. We were using it as a flag
i of truce.”
LEGISLATURE TURNS DOWN RE
QUEST OF STATE MILITIA.
REJECTS OFFER OF UNCLE SAM
State Deprived of Over $300,000 Of
fered by the Government Be
cause of Meager Appropriation.
Lincoln.—The state of Nebraska
has been deprived of over $300,000 of
fered by the government because the
legislature would not make a suf
ficient appropriation to enable the
National Guard to put itself on an ef
ficiency basis.
The finance committee, under the
leadership of Norton of Polk, chair
man of the committee, slashed the
appropriation from $03,000 to $37,000
in the face of the government's offer
to give the state $300,000 and besides
equip the Ashland range so it would
be mobilization ground for the mi
litia not only of this state, but of the
nearby states. The committee was
supported by a vote of 48 to 41. Mer
edith of Saunders, moved to amend
by making the appropriation $93,000.
After voting down by a vote of 40
to 54 the amendment for an appropria
tion of $93,000 for the national guard,
the house then proceeded to vote down
another amendment making the appro
priation about the same as two years
ago, or $68,000.
Governor Signs Four Bills.
The governor has signed the follow
ing bills:
House Roll No. 5—Providing that
counties where there is no high school
must establish a county high school.
House Roll No. 263—Increasing the
salary of councilmen in towns of from
5,000 to 25,000 to $1,500.
House Roll No. 301—Provdes that
property owners must mow weeds on
their property.
House Roll No. 749—Appropriates
$3,000 for the railway commission to
use in opposing freight rate increases
by western railroads.
Now Applies to Parents.
Amended so as to apply to parents
of dependent children instead of to
mothers only, the Beal bill providing
pensions for parents of children need
ing aid was passed by the house. It
now only needs the signature of the
governor to become a law. The house
also passed a bill regulating the prac
tice of dentistry-, a bill forbidding
baseball playing on Memorial Sunday
until after 3 p. m. and a bill provid
ing that clerks of the district court
must turn over naturalization fees to
the county.
Inspection Bill Brought Up.
An exceedingly warm session of the
house committee on miscellaneous
subject took place over house roll No.
2S7, by Stebbins, providing for the in
spection of private hospitals, schools,
convents and other institutions by the
members of county boards once every
four months. After the members of
the committee had expressed their
views upon the bill in the executive
session, a vote was taken, which re
sulted 8 to 3 in favor of placing it on
the general tile. The bill has not yet
been reported out by Chairman Korff.
First Sign of the End.
The first sign that the beginning of
the end of the legislature was in sight
was given when Norton of Polk, floor
leader, sent up a motion for the ap
pointment- of a sifting committee. The
committee was appointed by Speaker
Jackson and consists of three demo
crats at large and a democrat and re
publican from each congressional dis
trict. This gives the republicans six
members of the committee and the
democrats nine.
Omahans Lodge Protest.
A petition has been filed with the
state senate protesting against, the
proposed slash by the house in the
appropriation for the national guard
in this state.
Us: of School Hous:s.
The house, in passing H. R. No. 603,
by Harris, gives voters of school dis
tricts the right to decide, at annual
meeting, whether school houses may
be used for other purposes.
Senators Keeping Up.
The senate is making good progress
in disposing of its measures. Within
a few days, it is expected, all bills
will be out of the standing committees.
Commission Files Complaint.
The State Railway commission has
filed its formal complaint with the In
terstate commission asking a suspen
sion of the proposed advance by the
railroads in live stock rates.
House Recommends Dope Bill.
Without amendment, just as it
passed the senate the Rrookley anti
dope bill has been recommended for
passage by the house. The bill fol
lows the federal drug act and makes
more stringent the local provisions.
Fire Escapes on School Buildings.
That school houses of two stories
height should be equipped with fire
escapes is the opinion of the hous^
members who have approved a bill to
that effect. The present law applies
only to three-story buildings.
Governor Sends in Bill.
Governor Morehead has sent a bill
to the legislature. It requires county
assessors and clerks to return to the
secretary of state each year lists of
veterans of the army and navy who
served in the civil war, the Mexican
war or the war of 1812 with Great
Britain. These lists are to give in
formation as to service records and
present postofflee addresses of the
veterans. Grand Army of the Re
pub’ic officials a re anxious to secure
more complete data concerning sur
vivors of the three wars.
CLEAR PATH FOR MERGER RILL
House in Committee of the Whole
Recommends Greater Omaha
Measure for Passage.
Consolidation of Omaha, South
j Omaha, Dundee and Florence by leg
islative act, without a vote on the
question in any of the merging units,
was agreed upon by the house in com
mittee of the whole. The vote was
55 to 43 in favor of that action. The
bill wrent through the committee of
the whole only after a hard battle by
its opponents. Amendment after
amendment was offered for the pur
pose of submitting the consolidation
proposition at a special election, but
they were of no avail, the friends of
the measure, under the leadership of
Henry Richmond of Douglas, assisted
by others of the Douglas county dele
gation, held their forces well in hand
and refused to budge an inch.
Merrick county has takei. an ad
vanced step along the line of construc
tion of the Lincoln highway automo
bile road, a letter received by Repre
sentative Osterman of that county
from Joe A. Hays, secretary of the
State Roads association of Merrick
county, containing the following:
“At a recent meeting of our State
Road association of Merrick county,
our president, H. E. Glatfelter, an
nounced a gift of 2.000 barrels of ce
ment for the construction of a seed
ling mile of concrete on the Lincoln
highway in Merrick county and our as
sociation is now taking the necessary
steps to construct this mile at the
earliest practical date this spring.
“Assuming that your road commit
tee will recommend for passage an up
to-date, comprehensive road bill, sim
ilar to Ohio, and practically along the
line of Colorado's convict labor avail
able for road work in Nebraska, we
ask you to present this to the proper
authorities as our request for the first
camp of twenty-five convicts for road
work, to be assigned to Merrick coun
ty."
No change is made in the existing
laws against prize fighting in the
amended boxing bill as reported
favorably by the house judiciary com
mittee. The bill also provides that all
wrestling matches shall be regulated
by the proposed state athletic com
mission and provides heavy penalties
for any person implicated in holding
a fake wrestling or boxing match. The
principal features of house roll 255 as
originally introduced by Representa
tive W. N. Chambers of Omaha arc
retained, but the measure as first pro
posed repealed the present drastic
laws against prize fighting.
Water power legislation, which has
so far been held in the background at
this session, now shows some pros
pect of taking shape under a compre
hensive plan. Three bills dealing
with this subject have been reported
out for, the general file by the house
committee on irrigation, water poweT
and drainage. One other bill is in
f preparation and will be brought out
soon.
The special appropriation bills in
troduced at the request of the Grand
Army of the Republic carrying $12,000
for a Thayer monument and $15,000 to
pay expenses of civil war veterans at
tending the Vicksburg memorial cele
bration. will probably be reported for
indefinite postponement.
It would not be advisable for the
i county commissioners of Keya Paha
county to lease permanently a portion
of the new court house for county high
school purposes, according to an opin
ion furnished by. Assistant Attorney
General Roe.
The state flag bill, introduced as an
act of patriotism by Matteson of Clay,
passed through the house on third
reading by a vote of 89 to 0. The
measure is backed by the various pa
triotic organizations of the state.
Abolition of the office of county
coroner will be assured as soon as the
governor signs House Roll No. 208 by
Tibbetts, which passed the senate.
Seventeen bills, seven senate files
and ten house rolls, have been signed
by the governor. None are of very
great importance. • #
Hereafter bridges off main roads
need not sustain a greater weight than
fifteen tons, according to a bill passed
by the senate.
April the seventh is now fixed as
adjornment time by the more ex
perienced legislators and employees
of the legislature.
The Kiechel bill regulating the sale
of agricultural seeds and giving the
state food commission greater power
of supervision passed the senate.
It was decided by the finance com
mittee of the house to allow the sum
of $<7,500 for additional improvement
for the state fish hatcheries at South
Bend and Valentine. The proposed
appropriation of $10,000 for this pur
pose was scaled down by the com
mittee.
Municipal equal suffrage went down
to defeat in the house by a vote of 40
for and 54 against Many voted in
the negative because they felt It too
important a matter for legislative ac
tion.
House ro'.l 307. the Anderson bill to
permit of the appointment of a com
missioner to inspect all cars of stock
and investigate all disputes between
shippers and commission firms, has
been reported for the general file.
The new plan of reapportioning
state school funds—something which
created discord in the committee of
the whole because it shears Douglas
and Lancaster counties of a total of
$25,000—was approved by the house
on third reading. The vote was 58
for and 36 against.
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Girls! Try This! Makes Hair Thick,
Glossy, Fluffy, Beautiful—No
More Itching Scalp.
Within ten minutes after an appli
cation of Danderine you cannot find a
single trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after a
few weeks’ use, when you see new
hair, fine and downy at first—yes—but
really new hair—growing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine immediately dou
bles the beauty of your hair. No dif
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. The effect is amaz
ing—jour hair will be light, fluffy and
wavy, and have an appearance of
abundance; an incomparable luster,
softness and luxuriance.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton’s
Danderine from any store, and prove
that your hair is as pretty and soft
as any—that it has been neglected or
injured by careless treatment—that's
all—you surely can have beautiful hair
and lots of it if you will just try a lit
tle Danderine. Adv.
KILLED WHILE ROBBING TOMB
Plunderer of Egyptian Sarcophagus
Crushed When Roof Fell in, and
Companions Fled.
Professor Petrie, the eminent Egyp
tologist. while exploring about thirty
five miles from Cairo, discovered a
tomp of the Twelfth Dynasty that
thieves had broken into thousands of
years ago. A tragedy attended the
robbery, as Professor Petrie also dis
covered. The Sunday School Times
calls it “a tragedy of providential
justice.”
"It appears," says Professor Petrie,
“that the plunderers removed only a
few bricks, so that a man could crawl
into the tomb. One of the men entered,
opened the coffin, lifted the mummy
out and laid it across the coffin, so
that he could easily unwind the band
ages. He first found a collar of beads,
which he passed out into the shaft,
where we found it. Then he came to
the jewels (a beautiful work of gold
and colored gems), and took it from
the body. Before he could do anything
more the roof apparently fell in, and
crushed him and the mummy. The
other robbers, seeing the fate of their
accomplice, abandoned the tomb, and
filled in the shaft to hide their guilt."
The explorers found the skeleton of
the robber beside that of the mummy.
—Youth's Companion.
Gave Himself Away.
The general was distributing medals
for special valor. Summoning Private
Bumptious to step forward, much to
the general surprise of the ranks, he
thundered out:
“Men. look upon this hero, and imi
tate his bravery! All through the
long night he stood firm at his sen
tinel’s post, although completely sur
rounded by the enemy, and there he
remained calmly.”
Urivate Bumptious turned deadly
pale. But before he fell in a faint to
the ground, he gasped out:
“Then they were enemies! I thought
they were our own troops."
A fat purse and a thick tongue
rarply go together.
Why cannot the groom sometimes
be the best man at his own wedding?
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| WORTHY A PLACE IN HISTORY
Cadets of Chapultepec Made for Them
selves a Record Which Will
Long Endure.
The defense of Chapultepec. during
the war between the United States
and Mexico in 1847, was almost as
gallant as was the attack. In this
attack forty-eight Mexican cadets,
among others, lost their lives. The
story is a stirring one.
For many years the celebrated
Castle of Chapultepec, where Monte
zuma held his barbaric court in the
surrounding groves of cypress, where,
during nearly three centuries, lived
the successive viceroys of Spain, and
where Maximilian made his imperial
home, has been the West Point of
Mexico.
When General Scott had taken the
place by storm and General pravo bad
surrendered, a Mexican cadet, only
fifteen years old, seeing the flag of his
country in peril, most of his comrades
being already slain, climbed the flag
staff, tore the banner from its place,
wound it around his body and slid
down, intending to plunge over the
precipice, in order to save the colors
from falling into the hands of the
enemy. *
The act of heroism being frustrated
the brave boy, with the banner still
wrapped about him, fought until he
was cut in pieces. Forty-eight of these
schoolboys, ranging from fourteen to
twenty years, lie buried in one grave
at the foot of the hill. Year after
year the cadets of Chapultepec strew
flowers upon the grave.—Lewiston
Journal.
A Leading Question.
In the blue days between Christmas
and New Year’s, when a printing order
would have caused either of them to
start an inquest to determine the san
ity of the customer, two printers met
in the corridor, says Associated Adver
tising.
“Just transacted some business?”
quoth one.
“Naw!” said the other, in a tone to
tease a further response.
“Yes, I did—I just mailed a letter,”
said the first.
To which the other responded,
breathlessly, “Tip me off—where’d
you'd get the two cents.”
Mick’s Pipe.
The Irish Guards were holding a po
sition at Ypres, and flying bullets were
the order of the day. The Germans
endeavored to break through, and after
a particularly brisk volley Private
Flynn was heard to shout:
“Murder of wars, I’m done now alto
gether!”
“Why, have you been hit?” shouts
Captain P-.
“Not entoirely hit, sir.” shouts
Flynn; “but I’ve been waiting this ten
minutes for a smoke from Murtagh’s
pipe, and by the powers they've just
shot it out iv his mouth.”
Generally Amusing.
Would-Be Contributor—Do you print
serious poetry by amateurs?
Editor—Only in the humorous col
umn.
The Result.
“That man arrested as a fence has
political influence.”
“Then he’ll be whitewashed.”
It isn't heroism so much as the ac
cidental limelight upon it that makes
heroes.
It is far better for a man fp talk
through his nose than through his
hat
The man who is away from home
most of the time dodges a lot cf do
mestic trouble.
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biliousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out—the headache,
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases—turn them
out to-night and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom
ach.
Don’t put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret to-night straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chil
dren love Cascarets because they
never gripe or sicken. Adv.
PUT WARFARE ON NEW BASIS
Use of Field Artillery at Crecy Marked
the End of the Mail-Clad
Fighting Man.
Of all the world’s great battles
Crecy possesses a unique interest. The
English used only three pieces of field
ordnance. They were small cannon
made of trees, bored, and bound with
iron hoops, and the missiles were of
stone, scarcely larger than baseballs.
Doubtless this rude artillery made far
more noise than it affected damage.
It was the longbow and the broad
sword that won the battle, but never
theless gunpowder was henceforth to
play an ever-increasing part in the
strife of nations.
Explosives wrought a vast change
in fighting methods on land, for many
of the old-time weapons were rendered
quite useless in face of death-dealing
ball and shot. Warfare afloat, too,
would be revolutionized. Hitherto the
fighting ships had been largely car
riers of soldiers in order to board and
fight, as on land; whereas the time
was at hand when ships could be rid
dled with cannon-balls without the
crews coming into actual contact.
Couldn’t Feaze Her.
A young woman was recently intro
duced to a voluble old lady as "sister
to So-and-So, the artist.” Instantly
the latter exclaimed:
"I should have known the relation
ship, my dear, by the resemblance.
Why, it is perfectly startling. I never
saw two faces more exactly alike in
contour and—”
“But, Mrs. C.,” interrupted the girl.
“I am only his sister-in-law.”
“Which makes it all the more won
derful,” continued the other, without
displaying the least embarrassment cr
hesitation.
After the War.
"When I was at the front in Bel
gium, I took part in many running
fights.”
“And I'll bet they were the only
kind you were in.”
Even an obese family may have a
skeleton in the closet.
Everything comes more quickly to
those who refuse to wait.
I
The Question
Before Us Is—
Wha importance—if any—is there
in the Mineral Content of food?
Listen then, to a well-known physician:—
“Unfortunately for the well-being and health of the
individual and the human race, the manufacture of foods
has been tending more and more to isolation of chemical
entities; and our modern methods of ‘refining’, ‘purify
ing’ and ‘improving’ the foods which Nature so abund
antly furnishes, deprive the natural, wholesome food
products of most of their mineral constituents and there
by reduce their real food values to a minimum.
“The human organism receives but a small fraction
of the nutritive minerals which Nature evidently intend
ed it to have, and the inevitable result is Mineral Starva
tion and its dire consequences in the shape of Malnutri
tion, General Debility, Anemia, Indigestion.Tuberculosis,
Rachitis, Gout, Carcinoma, Diabetes, Nephritis, Decayed
Teeth, and other modern diseases."
The recognition of these facts led, about twenty years ago, to the
perfecting of a food extraordinarily rich in those “mineral constituents”
mentioned above, and which are so necessary for proper growth and
maintenance of body, nerves and brain.
That food is
Grape-Nuts
—a food containing all the nutriment of wheat and barley, including the priceless
phosphorus, iron, lime, sulphur, etc., of these grains.
Easy of digestion, nourishing, economical, delicious-1—this food, as a part of the
daily ration, has proved its worth to thousands.
“There’s a Reason”
—sold by Grocers everywhere.
