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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
The Care of Smart Shoes and Hose

las seldom as possible and the polish al
lowed to dry thoroughly when first ap-
piled before being rubbed. 1t is more
fashionable nowadays, however, for the
tan shoes to acquire as quickly as possi-
BILE a dark reddish hue. A banana peel
rubbed evenly over the surface and the
Leather allowed to dry out well before
being shined with the liquid polish will
darken the shoes rapidly and few
implications of sweet oil will give the
same result, and also help to make the
leather waterproof The liquid polish and
the paste must be put on very evenly to
avoid marking and staining, and clean
rag and soft brush should always be used.
Special shoe polishing gloves are now to
be bought, which greatly simplifes the
process of home shoe cleaning, as they
keep the hands absolutely clean.
To keep brown stockings in their orig
inal color or to restore their natural shade
If faded, some powdered henna should be
placed in the rinsing water, just as blue
ing is used to keep white stockings from
turning yellow.
When white shoes, whether canvas or
bucks1in, become very much soile6 z
girl need not be at all afraid Of
giving them good scruobing with
soap, warm water and stiff brus sh.
The different chalk powders are OK
Icellent to cover up dirt and mud, cut
they do not pretend to remove it, so that
as soon as the white paste is brushed
off, as happens all too soon, the shoes are
as soiled as ever. To wash white shoes
they should first be brushed thoroughly
with stiff clean shoe brush kept just
for this purpose. When every particle Of
the loose dirt as well as the white powder,
has been removed then the scrubbing
process begins, and good lather is not
to be feared. When the shoes have been
as well washed as is possible and the
soap carefully rinsed off, they should be
placed in the sun to dry, after which they
are given a coat of thin chalk paste, again
dried in the sun and then will be ready
to wear as good as new.
For white shoes there should always
be a supply at hand of fresh shoe laees
or white ribbon, for soiled white ribbon
ties take away all the good looks of a
white shoe. White ribbed ribbon is now
preferred to the soft silk shoestrings.
For pumps fiat leather or canvas bows
are in vogue this year instead of the rib
bon pump bows. A new pair of the
canvas or buckskin bows will do much
to make a pair of last years pumps look
like the latest fashion Of 1910.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
SOCIAL AMENITIES FOR :
THE SCHOOL GIRL

course, visit the more important coun-
tries-don't you knOw''-and is just start
ing for New Zealand.
1t is difficult indeed at such remark
to keep the wings of the dear old eagle
from Tapping furiously, but restraint is
the first lesson to be learned in England,
and the lack of it is thought a sure mark
of i'll breeding.
There is no question but that it rests
with the young girls of to-day to raise up
their country in the estimation of the rest
of the cultured world. With our great
desire to see and to know, Europe is
crowded all the year round with Amer
icar tourists, and upon their shoulders
rests the responsibility of showing what
we are to the people of other lands. I'm
fortunately the ideal of Americanism is
not very high as yet.
The American girl is admired for her
beauty, and as a rule for the combined
charm and simplicity of her dress, but
she is not by any means held up as a
model to the girls of other countries She
has made herself unpleasantly conspicuous
in her manners, loud in her talk, irration-
ally lavish with her spending money-all
unforgivable errors. :, -
Before the American woman can. really
be admired abroad the American girl has
much TO learn. She must smooth down
her nasal twang, she must lose that air
of 81 am from America, admire me % She
must strive not to attract attention, but
to repel it she must, in other words, seek
always to be inconspicuous rather than
noticeable. Through these means only
can an American girl hope to stand out
and be looked up to with real approval by
foreigner and American alike. With these
characteristics she is conspicuous as a
"lady," and a lady wherever she is at
tracts admiration.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

gown that will look trim and neat when
the coat is removed and a jacket that is
almost exaggeratedly plain in its lines;
Many of the newest pongee, rajah and
shantung costumes are lined with "a
foulard silk showing a ground of the same
color of Nthe pongee, and the separate
waist to wear with this costume is of the
same silk.
There are also to be seen extremely
pretty combinations of pongee and tou-
lard showing the entire upper part of the
gown of silk trimmed with bands of
pongee, while deep pongee hounce is
put on just at the knees, where the
pongee coat hides the joining. The jacket
in turn is lined with foulard, and there
are revers and cuffs of the dotted silk
This same effect is seen carried out in
of lightest weight cloth and
chiffon, of chiffon and foulard, of silk and
chiffon cloth, as we'll as still other of
what might be dubbed contrasting COM
binations. Carried out in light, youthful
colorings, this model of dress is not too
old for a girl of sixteen or seventeen years.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

Perhaps it is because they are proud to
"show off, the greater independence
which is allowed to the growing gener-
alton at home, or through a mistaken idea
of patriotism they wish TO flap the free
wings of the national bird before all the
world and impress the greatness of their
glorious Stars and Stripes upon every
other country in civilization. Whatever
the motive, it is not laudable one. The
members of an older civilizatio know
that the height of culture is to be incon-
splcuous, and argue that it is only those
who are not sure of themselves who try
TO impress their Importance upon others.
Real greatness speaks for itself and does
not have to be constantly emphasized.
when in Rome do as the Romans do"
is an excellent motto for a young Ameri-
can girl to keep in mind when travelling
in foreign lands. Only by conforming as
closely as possible to the manners and
customs of the young people of each coun-
try she visits can she hope to be incon-
spicuous, while the very following of GER
tain little customs and rules of etiquette
shows a gentle courtesy which is not
going to pass unnoticed-nor unappre-
ciated.
A good American citizen need not be
afraid either of showing appreciation of
the wonders of the Old World. She
knows that in her own country are nat
ural beauties even more marvellous than
any seen by the average tourists in Eu-
rope, but for art, no matter in what
branch, she must how down gracefully be-
fore the wonderful works of hundreds of
years ago. The American who insists
that Niagara Falls is more impressive
than Westminster Abbey is equalled only
in laughable narrowness by the English
man who would like, rather, to see Amer
lea, but on his vacations he must, of
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

NOST girls who have to darn their
lNown stockings have given up wear
ing pumps. The slipping up and down
on the heel would wear out any stocking
in day and there was not time at the
end of the week to keep mended up.
If trouble is still experienced with all
evening slippers, and also the Oxford
ties if is an excellent plan TO baste
small square of black silk on the outside
of the stocking just where the shoe rubs.
This will be found a wonderful relief as
regards the knowing that the heel OF
ones stocking is sure to be quite whole,
land it will also save the lining OF the
shoe itself. When the stocking is rubbed
to hole the creases, in turn, wear out
the lining of the shoe.
Just as soon as a shoe lining has be-
come worn it should be taken to be
mended. For very small amount a
shoe or slipper can be entirely refined, if
necessary, and this will save the stock
ings extraordinarily. Many girls now
have a bit of suede placed at the inner
side of the heel of their shoe, thinking
it will help to keep low shoe from
slipping.
| A girl who finds she gets unreasonably
tired, and has constant backaches from
walking on city pavements may be rea-
sonably sure that the last of her shoe is
wrong for her and that the heel is either
too high or placed too far forward. Rub
Der heels are also great fatigue savers in
the city.
Fortunately, the fad of wearing French
heels for any outdoor use has quite dis
appeared, so that the house slipper and
the pretty pump that is worn with a
long reception dress are quite distinct
For walking Oxford ties are fashionable
once more, and there is a pump with
two eyelets hidden by wide fiat buckle
that is quite pretty.
For summer white canvas and white
buckskin are generally worn with white
gowns, but for the morning russet shoes
and stockings are equally smart for young
girls. To get their brown shoes to a good
color they should take the trouble of al
ways cleaning and polishing them them
selves. If it is desired to keep the leather
light in color the shoes should be polished
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

passed. The all silk shower proof foulard,
though slightly more expensive than the
cotton back quality will more than repay
in both service and duration.
Neither linens, silks, voiles nor lawns
show full folds or added 1ounces, but fat
bands of the material gathering in and
holding in place the fulness of the skirt
are seen on many smart models of the
moment That the lower part of the skirt
may be wider than the top and yet give
the effect of hanging perfectly straight,
the skirt is in two parts, the lower end
being put on just below the knees, under
the fiat, tight band.
Belts and narrow girdles are seen on all
simple gowns. The belt is now perfectly
round, is about three inches in width and
is finished with a fiat double bow knot at
the back. The belt may be placed just
at or trihe above the natural waist line.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

II HREE piece linen gowns are still
much in vogue, and a pretty dress o.
light blue or of raspberry pink linen.
with jacket to match, should certainly
be included.in a girls summer outfit. 1t
might be we'll to have waist and skirt sep
arate, so that at one time the coat and
skirt can be worn with a white bodice,
and again the gown throughout worn
without the jacket. If there c0n not be
more gowns in the outfit than are abso-
lutely essential, then one three piece white
street costume will make an excellent in.
vestment.
The gown, if prettily made, can serve as
an afternoon frock; the skirt can o.ca-
sionally be used as an extra skirt with a
lingerie bodice, and the jacket can be worn
at will with any white skirt or white dress.
Linen, fortunately, never wears out, and
for this reason it is we'll TO have the suit
of plain white butchers linen, rather than
cream colored linen, which precludes the
jacket from being worn with auy other
white skirt.
The Russian blouse coat and skirt cos
tunes are extremely pretty for young
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

NVF HEN chiffon is used in combination
w with other textures it is invariably
tucked or laid in fine box piaits, and
is seldom made up over a stiff boned or
even a heavy silk lining, A few hand
tucks are better, however, chan multi
tude of machine plaits. A chiffon over
dress and foulard or silk gown is not seen
to any extent in the young girls fashions
but the upper part of the gown and chit-
fon made on foundation only of chiffon
cloth is in evidence in all colors from
white to the mourning dresses of black
chiffon and silk.
AS careful, if not closer, attention is
bestowed upon the lining of chiffon
bodice as upon the dress itself, for trans
parent chiffon shows defects plainly in the
under dress. There should be border
of lace at the top of the rounded neck, and
in many of the Innings band of wide
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

n LATED skirts are decidedly sin"
again, and among the new models in
linen dresses there is to be seen the
greatest variety in the adjustment of
plaits and tucks. The fewer and sim
pier the collection of tucks the better,
though, for linen is intended distinctly as
tub. dress, and it is a mistake to lose
sight of this fact in making it up.
For travelling and for wear coming in
and out of the city through the early sum-
mer a Russian blouse suit of dark blue or
even deep strawberry linen is delightfully."-
smart and. still more important consid-
GRAFTON, deliciously cool.
For travelling pure and simple there is
nothing, however, to equal the comfort
of dark blue pongee made with a simple
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

T GIRL who is to remain in the city
II late in the season or who is sufficiently
near town to make frequent shopping
excursions during the early part of the
summer must be provided with a really
trim yet serviceable dress. For this pur-
pose dark blue foulard made up on a lawn
lining and, unless absolutely essential for
the figure, not boned at all is excellent.
Not for years have foulard silks enjoyed
the popularity that is accorded them at
present, and for a semi-elaborate gown for
hot weather the material cannot be sur
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

lace beading is placed about the corsage,
with ribbon a shade lighter than the gown
itself run through. India silk instead of
the more perishable chiffon or mousse
line de sole is often employed in lining the
chiffon bodices.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

girls. With cuffs, round collar and belt
formed of an embroidered band of linen
the coat will be sufficiently elaborate for
afternoons and may even be worn over
trim lingerie frock if so wished. 1t is
mistake to have the jacket too short, for
the longer it is the better it will serve as
an extra coat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

# HEN for afternoon there are the pom
gee, rajah and tussor fabrics that
can serve so many purposes, from a
gown to wear travelling to frock to don
at afternoon tea time.
For tennis and all outdoor life the
check ginghams trimmed with bands of
plain colored material and softened by a
dainty yoke of lawn and lace are attrac-
tive year after year. If carefully laun-
dered the color will not fade, nor, if a
sufficiently good quality be bought, will
the sun take the bright color from this
material. A pretty model in gingham
shows the favorite simple bodice, finished
with tiny rounded collar, to be worn
either with soft plated frill and lace
or lawn or with high collar, of course
transparent The sleeves are three-quar-
ter length, finished off with the same
white frill, below which can be added
or not as desired, white cuffs of lawn
and lace.
Both collar and cuffs should be at
tached by small clasps under the band of
plain colored material, so that they can be
removed and freshened without the whole
gown being laundered, and also that the
same frock may be worn one day with a
high collar, the next with the turned
down white frill. A band of the plain
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

color forms the belt, below which the
gown is quite full, the texture being
caught in again lightly by fat piece just
at the knees. Below the band again the
skirt is full, yet hangs straight, with no
suggestion of actual flare. Large sized
French dots worked upon the fiat, plain
bands will add extraordinarily to the
finish of this model.
In the check gingham dresses extreme
effects are obtained through adroit manip-
ulation of the small squares. By turning
in and over apparently plain bands of
color can be arrived at, the white checks
being held in place and out of sight by
coarse French knots. The same effects
can always be obtained in any striped
goods. whether the stripes be of solid or
varied sizes and shadings.
= VEN when high standing collar is
also worn a wide plated and lace
- bordered frill about the throat is seen
on many of the newest gowns. The dress
should be finished complete without the
frill. which can then be put on or not as
occasion demands. An old gown can per-
haps be attractively furnished up by add
ing about the throat and wrists fresh
white lace frill This wide ruching is only
used on a short sleeve or on one which is
ended at or just below the elbow, even If
there is a long cuff below this again. The
frill must be tackled back against the
sleeve. not allowed to fall down over the
arms.
The linens and cotton taffetas this year
are extremely pretty. Not only are they
altogether perfect in coloring, but the
models are also unusually smart, while
decidedly simple Raspberry, chantecler
and deep rose are perhaps the favorite
hues. but the blues are much in demand
and green is more popular even than last
year. A delicate pea green makes most
attractive gown for young girl, who is
more likely to be able to wear this color
than an older person.
Natural colored linen will make a use
full gown or suit, but mauye and lilac, the
loveliest of all colors, must be saved for
later years. Let the young people wear
the beautiful bright shades while they
can. The day is sure to come when they
will DO longer look their best in the glori-
Gus pinks and reds, and then the softer
puppies and lavenders will appeal to them
far more than if they had been wearingI
these Shades since they were small chill
dren.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18


young girls frocks this season
is charming simplicity that is
inevitably attractive. Even
though the detail of a gown
may be exquisitely fine in work
manship, the effect as whole is Of a
costume emtnently suitable in every way
for girl not yet through her school days.
In the short dresses there is none of the
exaggeration of line and over-elaboration
of trimming that is noticeable in many
costumes for grownups, and the young
girls fashions, whether for morning, af-
ternoon or evenings, all show a most agree
able tendency toward the appropriate.
There is considerable clever adapting of
prevailing styles to short dresses and
youthful lines, and wherever extremes are
popular in grownup clothes notifications
of the fad so much in vogue are to be wit
messed among the children's frocks. The
skirt, for example, which clings in closely
to the figure about the hips, but in which
all the fulness is caught in to a narrow
band about the feet, is suggested in the
young girls skirt in which the material
is put on quite full about the hips and is
kept from flaring over much by a straight
band of the same or some different ma
terial put on below the knees.
Fashions for young people are, after
all, but an adaptation of the costumes
smart at the moment for grownups, and
the successful schoolgirls dressmaker is
she who displays greatest good taste and
ingenuity in this combining and readjust-
ing
The morning and afternoon dresses for
young girls for the late spring and early
summer are exceptionally pretty this
year. Striped check and fancy ginghams
of all kinds are much in vogue at pres
ent, and this means that special attention
is being given to all morning gowns. Col
ored linens, both the dark blue and all
light shades, are smart for dresses and
coat and skirt costumes as well.
Natural colored linen and also darker
shades of tan, relieved only with a touch
of white at the wrists, are extremely
pretty and always serviceable, while the
bright, becoming pinks and blues are
charming for the morning and do not soil
as readily as all white.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
HASKELL TALKS PROHIBITION
Governm ut Can Interfere with Individ-
ual Rights.

Atlanta, Ga.-"As a soldier is com
PEELED to swear allegiance to his country
before he is allowed to fight her bat
ties, so should a candidate be made to
swear allegiance to a position of author
ity," declared Gov. Charles n. Haskell
of Oklahoma in an address before the
convention of the Southern Anti-Sa-
loon League here. Gov. Haskell was
urging the election of only anti-liquor
candidates to office.
Discussing the right of the government
to prohibit the sale of intoxicants, Gov.
Haskell said:
"Anti-prohibitionists argue that prohi-
bition hinders the private rights of citi-
zens. This is undoubtedly true, but the
government has a right to do this. Sell
ing of p~oisons is prohibited by aw. A
man who buys carbolic acid is buying it
with his own money, and if he wishes to
drink it, it is purely a personal matter,
but the law denies him the right"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
JAP CASE GROWS CRAVE
JAPANESE STATE DEPARTMENT
BEHIND MOVE FOR MEN.
On Order Sent to Acknowledgement
of Philippine Islands.

Washington.-The question of the
Japanese spies held at Manila by this
government has become an important If
not a serious affair.
Instructions were cabled Thursday to
the attorney general and the secretary
Of justice of the Philippines by the war
department, detailing the proper pro-
ceedings.
These instructions, it is stated, are
concprred in by the state department, al
though the state department declares it
has nothing to do with the case.
The silence of the state department in
the matter is justiiable, because it IS
excellent authority that the Japanese
foreign office is behind the application
of the two spies for release on habeas
corpus.
1t is admitted that if this case should,
by any unforeseen circumstances, become
one of negotiations between the state de-
partment and the Japanese foreign office,
the issue would be very doubtful.
Ii the state department should yield
to the japanese contention, it would be
because the state department chose to
ignore a specific Philippine law which
covers and can heavily punish the otfense
Of the spies.
The aggravation of the offense of the
two Japanese prisoners lies in the fact
that they We're e~nIeavOring to get in
formation which is concealed from the
press al Washington.
The ease OF the prisoners is regarded
as one of extreme Gelicacy. 1t includes
elements, any one of which, should it 90
wrong, would involve the United States
in a direct question of national honor
with Japan.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

Commend us to that Toledo man
who had ten tons of turnips to sell.
but was not satisfied with the price
offered him by the wholesalers, and
deliberately gave the entire lot to the
populace. who carried those turnips
away in baskets. says Chicago Trib-
une. He couhd afford to do it, and he
dit 1t. and through his indignant gen
crosby. so to speak, more people in
Toledo probably Toasted on boiled tur-
nips during the next "a hours than
ever before in the history of the city,
while all the circumambient atmos-
phere was redolent of their more or
Hess grateful perfume. But suppose 1t
had been a carload of onions!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
Can Governor Change Mind.

Frankfort, Ky.-Whether the governor
of Kentucky may legally exercise the
common privilege of changing his mind
IS a questic. which very probably will
be submitted TO the courts. Gov. Will.
son vetoed the bill amending the pure
food law so as to allow oleomargarine to
be sold when colored, if it was so brand.
ed. Later he recalled the measure and
signed it. 1t is eOntended on the one
side that aftoc the bill passed into the
hands of the secretary of stats it was
ceyorG the control of the executive.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
AMBASSADOR TO WORLD.
Rev. DR.. Macarthur Selects New Post for
Roosevelt.

New York.-"I nominate Theodore
Roosevelt for ambassador extraordinary
to all the courts of the world in the
interests of universal and perpetual
peace" said the Rev. DR.. r. S. Mac
Arthur Sunday to his current events
class in Calvary Baptist church. His
proposal was applauded. DR.. MacAr-
thu was discussing What shall we do
with Col. Roosevelt ?"
NO m0e exalted mission can be
named for any man in the world today"
DR.. Macarthur continued. THE time is
coming when the nations shall learn to
war no more. Here we have a notable
sphere of the varied talents, remarkable
skill and wide experience of Col. Roose-
welt. He has the ear of the civilized
world in places high and low as no other
man ever had. To him doors of palaces
and cabinets will readily open. 7.