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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

of tiny moss roses shading from
cream to bright crimson. The effect
was delightfully."- quaint.
Some Of the dancing gowns in soft
thin stuffs are almost incredibly
simple, as, for instance, French
model made of gray soft batiste over
a slip Of bright rose. At the foot of
the skirt the rose peeped out beneath
the gray for few inches and the lat
ter was caught in by narrow garland
of tiny roses Of rather vivid shade Of
red. These tiny brilliant roses seem
to be feature of the summer gown.
Gray and pink is a favorite combina-
ton for the thin frock, the lighter
shade yelling the brighter tone, with
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

have a very pretty graduation gown
and keep it for best all summer than
nave one that cost very little that
would not be suitable for post-gradua-
ton garden parties and dances The
happy mean is struck by making the
gown as fussy and pretty as possible
with simple materials and in a youth
full etyle. The gowns shown here en-
body these essentials admirably.
Graduation gowns are usually of lin
gerie,j as the month of June is apt to be
sultrS in most portions of this country,
but crepe de chine, marquisette, wolfe
and thin silks are often used for the
making Of the sweet girls" white
robes. A charming gown Of white null,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

White lawn gowns made in one piece
with inserts of lace are reproduced
from very costly models, and they are
very becoming to most figures. The
lace need not be especially fine if
small pattern is chosen, but the lawn
should be soft finished. The band of
lace that defines the waist line should
be placed much higher than it was
last season and the neck may be cut
bit low, but not decollete. The sleeves
should reach just to the elbow or else
extend to the wrist. the three-quarter
sleeve being out Of favor at present.
TUNES are very becoming to slim,
young girls, and they need not be of
lace or embroidered material, perfectly
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29
By HELEN FALCO

plain tunics being in favor for even
elaborate gowns. Tunics Of all-over or
eyelet embroidery are very smart, and
after the graduation day may be worn
over slips of color with good effect.
Three pretty tunic gowns are shown
in the illustrations. One Of figured net
embroidered with heavy silk flowers is
mounted oyer pale yellow mousseline
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

MAYHEM sewing. the index finger
va soon becomes roughened from
w the needle pricking through. I
hit upon this plan. Whenever I
sew, 1 use two thimbles, one on tho
left index finger and the other In the
usual way. What a comfort! No
pricked fingers or little spots of blood
to come through on some fine fabric.
&c. r.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

e o much high-class music can be
u enjoyed by means of the talking
- machine that the instrument has
decided educational value A
mother gives prizes to her three little
ones when they learn to recognize the
operate or classic selections they hear
from the records The
children soon learn the airs well
enough to whistle or pick the themes
on the piano. E. S. IL
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

eating, are yet simple and economical.
Families desiring a more elaborate bill
Of fare can readily use them as foun-
Gation, adding dishes in accordance
with the rules given. The Editors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29
Me8N% Lingerie and Graduation Gowns 4NGSg
49, By HELEN FA-o0 mSN@

with high satin belt and a fiat band
of lace outlining the Dutch neck and
the foot of the skirt, is to be worn by
a pretty blue stocking who leaves
Barnard College this spring. A bunch
of white sweet peas tucked into the
belt is all the frills that this young
high-brow will permit herself on the
great day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

broidered linen this model would be
stunning.
Another gown is Of blue linen, the
gathered skirt adorned with buttons in
front and handsomely embroidered.
The kimono bloused bodice has yoke
and cuffs Of embroidered white linen
and a wide crushed girdIe.
The third tunic grown is of en-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

F those who wish to drive nails into
walls for pictures closely observe
the mopboard or n1olding above 1t,
they will find impression of nails
These can be located easily, even when
puttied over. When you find where the
mopboard has been nailed place nails
directly over it in the wall and they
will strike the joist. W. b. T.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-29

"a MOFF pocket IS a great convent
IA ence when shopping in the win-
~ ter. Mine is made of a piece of
brown satin ribbon, matching
the lining of my muff. It is cut by
IL inches, hemmed to 9 by 10. In the
hens are pieces of whalebone that
keep the pocket closed and the edges
are sewed together an inch from each
end. At each end Of the whalebone is
small crocheted ring, and through
these I slip the cord on which I sus-
pend my muff for shopping. In the
pocket can put a purse, handkerchief,
muff and small purchases, as well as.
theatre tickets and card case. I often
call it my steamer trunk."-Mrs.
Pedagogue.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
GRADES AND GOOD ROADS
Highways Travelled by Heavily Loaded
Vehicles Should Ee Kept Down
to Three Per Cent.

A one per cent. grade on road
means rise of one foot for each
hundred feet of distance travelled up
the hill. A ten per cent. grade means
ten feet rise in each hundred feet SO
travelled. A one per cent. grade, then,
means that in travelling up hill one
mile an ascent is made of 52S feet,
while ten per cent grade means a
rise in altitude of 528 feet in mile
Accurate tests have shown that a
horse which can pull 1000 pounds on
level road can pull only $40 pounds
on rise of one foot in fifty, and on a
rise of one foot in ten he can pull
only $50 pounds. These facts show
that the greatest load than can be
hauled over road is the load which
can be taken up the steepest hill on
that road, or through the deepest
mud hole. 1t is therefore advised
that all highways travelled by heavily
loaded vehicles should be kept within
three or four per cent. grade if
practicable. To do this may require
change of location to get around
hills, always keeping in mind that the
lower the grade the larger the load
may be hauled and the cost of haulage
kept at the lowest point.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28

iVEJ ASHINGTON.-The public rebuke
w of President Taft, in which he
istigmatized certain persons as small
Drained and narrow-minded critics."
following the withdrawal of names of
men prominent in the political world
up for membership in the ultra-exclu-
sive Metropolitan club, has conferred
the attention of the country on the
snobbishness of Washington.
Close observers assert that the i'm
impetus given to existing social condi-
lions dates from the Spanish-American
war. Before the treaty of Paris the
millionaire residents of Washington
could be counted on the fingers Now
all the rich and retired, the famous or
otherwise, the representative OF whis-
ky, sugar, tobacco-every kind of trust
has his palace in an ultra-exclusive
residential section and the womenkind
set up to be social leaders.
Money and influence in the gilded
throng is the test which Washington
now applies to every ambitious public
man and his wife. The clubs are ruled
by money, and men who have baked
the political or financial schemes of
those who are high in Washington
clubdom are punished if they seek the
companionship in clubs such as they
would obtain in their home cities.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
Influence of Money in Capital Clubs

One of the most exclusive clubs In
Washington keeps on its rolls a man
who deserted his wife and six children
to elope with the wife of fellow.
member of the same club, while 1t re-
fused admission to a man who had de.
feated the ambitions of certain high
officials. Ten years ago the late Gen.
Henry G. Corbin, then adjNtant gen.
eral of the United States army. was
kept out of this same club through the
efforts of men whose sons he would
not appoint to fat positions during the
Spanish-American war. So many such
incidents have occurred in the past
decade that they cease to surprise.
Time was that when a new cabinet
Der of the lower house came to Wash
ington, some courtesy was accorded by
society. Now that richly clad dame
inquiries about the home status Of the
raw officials and II the report is not
up to the standard, Madame Cabinet
Official or Senator or Representative
will have a lonesome time, unless she
has some personal friends In the great
realm.
The president and his wife will be
courteous. They will follow the ira
ditions, and will ask them to the
functions decreed by a century of OBJ.
servance. But except to visit among
those whom their husbands rank
makes natural alliance. they need
not hope for amenity from the real
leaders of Washington, the wealthy
women whose palaces are clustered
up and down 10th street and Massa-
chusetts avenue and about Dupont
circle
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
Birds a Help to the Farmer.

The demand for the protection of
wild birds was once based solely on
humane and esthetic grounds; now the
demand is coming to be based in addi-
ton on economic grounds, which will
commend it to larger number of men
and insure 1t more careful hearing
in the court of public opinion. Bird
slaughter not long ago was decried be-
cause the native songsters were being
killed at the behest of millinery
fashion.
Now another note is sounded. The
increase of insect pests and conse-
quent reduction of the harvests has
corresponded with the decrease of the
birds. In addition to filling their
craws with insects numerous wild
birds feed on weed seeds, and weeds
are handicap in agriculture.
In several states increasing safe
guards are being thrown around birds
because of their worth as aids to agri-
culture.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28

The question may be asked wheth
er bond issue of 100000, 900 for aid
in road building would be at all haz-
ardous. BY referring to the state.
ment of the treasury department, one
Will lind that the present bond issue
amounts to about $11 per capita, and
the annual interest charge is 20 cents.
The issue of $5OO,O0O,OO0 of bonds
would carry the bond issue up to APP
proximately SIG per capita and the
interest charge to A cents. At that
rate 1T would be the smallest bonded
indebtedness per capita of any of the
leading countries of the world AS
against the SIG, Great Britain has a
debt of $SS per capita, German $40,
Italy 1872, and France $144. 1t is per-
fectly safe to say that if the govern
ment would issue and expend $780,
100000 of bonds in aiding the con-
struction of permanent highways, the
people would never know that an ad-
ditional tax had been imposed and
would never feel the payment. This
step would give a mighty impetus to
road building, and in ten or fifteen
years probably 100000 miles of good
roads could be built, and this would
revolutionize transportation and
would add UNNECESSARILY to the pleas
ure of country life, and would add sew
eral times the amount to the prop
erty value of the nation, and give us
better schools higher social life and
a higher standard of civilization
There is widespread demand for
a parcels post, and as congress usu-
ally responds to popular demand, and
always does if the clamor is loud and
long enough. So it is quite probable
the parcel post will be tried out
Let the government help build good
roads-the highways over which the
children must go to school, the doc
tor to reach the suffering and over
which must pass every bushel of
grain and every bale of cotton raised
the road which reaches every field,
every farm home and every market
town. The people everywhere de-
mand good roads. Roads are univer-
sal; waterways are sectional. Good
roads mean a saving in transportation
far greater than can be accomplished
in any other way. Good roads mean
better schools, more social life and
higher standard of living; they mean
progress and civilization.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
Spring B1ouces

Never before have so many attrac-
tive designs for blouses been offer
ed as this spring, and the clever
needle-woman who is able to make
her things at home may revel in
dainty waists that will be both effec-
tive and in style all summer.
One with wide, low collar, so pop
ular nowadays, is of blue and white
dotted challis, and gathers it's charm
from the quaint cut and the self-cov-
cred cordings which are a finish to
it. The undercuffs to the novel
sleeves are of lace to match the col
lar, and the whole blouse is espec-
tally attractive.
In the central part of the cut there
be either inset with lace motifs or
embroidered in color, according to
the fancy Of the maker. 1t is of
handkerchief linen and it, too, shows
the propensity OF new fashions for
odd cutting in the blouses as well as
In the tailored suits.
The third blouse, which as illus
trated here, is carried out in white
popgee, is both attractive and simple
and offers itself to development in
two materials or in plain colors.
while the frill Of soft chiffon may be
substituted by a frill of lace On a
blouse of linen.
All three waists will be found USE
full as patterns for the blouse to sum-
mer dresses and. may also be carried
out with different length sleeves
and a variety Of cut and finish along
the lines here laid down.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
Russia's Fight on Tuberculosis

The first white flower day." which
was observed in Russia on May 8.
was a Success beyond the hopes of
the most sanguine," says the Rus
sische Correspondent. Throughout
the nation on that day men, women
and children offered for sale tiny
white flowers. The proceeds of the
sales were handed over to the League
for the Prevention and Cure of Tu-
berculosis. Money in large quantities
was collected, the smallest and poor
est hamlets contributing their share.
1t is not to be wondered at, because
Russia is really the land of the dread
malady. The trying climate and I'M
speakable sanitary conditions make it
fruitful ground for the develop
ment of the disease, and statistics
show that in late years there has
been a steady increase in it's rayages.
The manner in which the people re-
sponded on the first white flower
day" shows that they appreciate the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28

There are now 1000 miles OF state
roads and more under construction.
There are macadam roads totaling in
mileage 2,400, constructed by towns.
There are more than 10000 miles Of
earth roads, properly shaped and
crowned, stones picked and removed,
depressions filled, culverts and bridges
repaired. Towns have constructed
5000 miles Of gravel roads, in first
class condition.
To keep these roads navigable, so to
speak, shape means work, systematic,
untiring labor on the part of great
corps of people. The state Is divided
into nine districts, with Mr.. Lyon in
actual charge of these. Each district
has a superintendent. an assistant to
Mr.. Lyon. Then the state is again
subdivided into forty-four counties I'M
Ger the supervision of fifty-four super
intendents, who in turn are answerable
to the nine assistants Of Mr.. Lyon.
Then 1t is further subdivided into 934
towns, under 934 town superintend-
ents. BY this system Commissioner
Lyon can reach within twenty-four
hours after notification any road in
the state in need of repair.
Work of construction and repair is
now at it's height, and Mr.. Lyons re-
port of recent date showed that on one
particular day there were $4,000 men
and teams on the roads of the state.
Cooperation on the part of automo-
bilists with the state authorities is
urged by the state highway depart
ment. Mr.. Lyon asks that tourists
running across anything wrong with
the roads Immediately report the same
to him. In this way tourists-those
who are actually using the roads
will not only aid the state, but them
selves, in keeping the highways in the
best Of condition.
THE upkeep Of motor cars" says
Mr.. Lyon, will this year be reduced
40 per cent. in my mind, on account
of repairs to highways being made"
Towns are this year raising by
taxes for highway improvement the
sum of ,504,67523. The state is
turning over to the towns to aid them
in this work $1,593.070. Bridge work
during the year 1911 is to cost $685.
414.63. The amount to be paid out for
new machinery is $180,011.25. Special
road Improvements in towns of the
state are to cost $279, 706.22, making in
all $5,1S5,S77.33 to be expended by
towns this year.
The state is to bond itself for $19,-
100000 for the construction of state
roads. Towns and counties are to be
called upon to provide as their share
$5,000,000 The state legislature has
appropriated $1,S00,000 for the main
tenance of state roads already con-
structed.
The sum Of $21,9S5,S77.33 is to be
expended in one year for road con-
Istruction and improvement throughout
the great Empire state-that is, this
amount is available for the work, and
in all probability will be utilized by
the state department Of highways.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28

or Fulton's steamboat, for which q
patent was issued Feb. II, 1909.
Following the resumption of a regu
lar system of serial numbers for pat
ents the first important American in.
vention to be granted patent was the
Colt revolver.
The next great American invention
to receive patent was the Morse
telegraph instrument. The patent, No
1,647, was issued June 20. 1910. The
patent issued to Charles Goodyear
June is, 1874, acknowledged his in.
vention of the process of the vulcaniz.
alton of india rubber The basic pat.
ent of the pneumatic air brake was
issued to George w. Westinghouse
April 10, 1869. 1t bore serial number
$500
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28

ventures further afield in quest Of
booty. Finding ship in trouble, he
attacks 1t and murders everybody on
board. Coming across a village that
looks peacefully inviting, he sacks ii,
massacreing all the adult male inhab
itants
Then, with his load Of loot, he does
not return to the place from which he
started, but seeks another island,
where, with his comrades, he remains
until they have eaten up or otherwise
disposed of the proceeds Of the expe,
dition. Meanwhile to hunt down the
piratical band Is much like looking
for needle in a haystack, for the
Philippine group comprises many thou.
sands of little islands, which toward
the south are scattered all the way
from Sulu to within sight of Borneo.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
Sons OF butchers.

Three of the stained glass windows
in the Hall of the Butcher Guild,
London, contain the portraits of
Cardinal Wolsey, William Shakes
peare and Daniel Defoe in recogni-
ton of their connection with the
meat trade.
The Cardinal was the son of a
respectable" butcher at Ipswich in
Suffolk and "The Immortal Bard"
assisted while a youngster a butcher
in his native town of Stratford-on-
-s5.-
Defoo, nowadays known as the
author of Robinson Crusoe." but in
his day en- adventurer and secret
agent of his Government, was the
son of butcher in Fore street and
member of the guild.-National Pro-
visioner.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28

THE lid on the seething cauldron of
L Indian affairs is loose 1t is to
be taken off without further delay by
Chairman Graham, of the committee
on expenditures in the interior depart
ment.
For years there has been endless
rumor and vague accusations of graft,
trickery, jokers in legislation, of ap-
preparations nominally designed for
the Indians, but actually going to land
grabbing rings; of looting of the In
dian estates all over the country, of
waste in maintaining the Indians and
policies that tend to rcc. e.ize them
The facts are to be dug out. If the
charges are true, they are to get light
If not, they are to be disproved The
investigators expect to stir up very
bad odor.
Where do the millions appropriated
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
Jewel 1,hief's Ruse.

A novel method of defrauding a
jeweller was successfully carried out
by Paris thief He drove up in a
carriage to the jewellers shop with
his right arm in sling, and was
Ostentatiously attended by foot
man carrying a rug. He selected
jewels to the value of $3.50, and
when the moment came for payment,
asked whether the jeweller minded
him sending his man home for the
money.
No objection was taken to this
course, and then there was another
request. would you mind writing
for me?" asked the customer Il
have hurt my arm. Just write,
Please give Robert $780, and sign
it Henri" The jeweller wrote the
note and in fifteen minutes Robert
was back with the cash.
When the jeweller went home a
light dawned. What" his wife
asked, did you want that $3.50
for?" The thieves had made the
jeweller, whose name was Henri, pay
for the gems with his own money
London Globe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
WHAT GOOD ROADS DO COST
New York to Expend Over $5,000,000
This Year in Repair
Work.

How few Automobiles and tourists
realize as they glide over the good or
bad roads of New York state what
the upkeep of these highways and by
ways is costing their town, county and
state, and indirectly them. If they
would stop to think of this there would
be much less profanity when one
chances upon a mud puddle difficult to
dodge.
In the first place, the average, or,
rather, the majority of tourists have
no idea of the number of miles of
roads in New York state which must
be annually repaired, oftentimes semi
annually. Frank D. Lyon, the deputy
commissioner of the state highway
department, has furnished statistics
and information on this subject which
are not only startling and surprising,
but vastly interesting to motorists.
There are in the Empire state So
900 miles Of roads, a greater mileage
of which is improved highway than
all the other eastern states put to-
zether. not including. Massachusetts.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-07-28
Government to Wipe Out Moro Pirates

1T is somewhat startling to learn
i that piracy as bold and fierce as in
the days of Captain Kidd still -four
ishes under the American flag. The
Moro pirates of the Philippines have
begun their attacks on peaceful mer-
chant ships once more. A patrol of
American gunboats was maintained
over the Moros in the Sulu seas until
recently, and withdrawn in the belief
that they had been pacified. The
Moros believed that the Americans
were afraid of them, and piracy imme-
diately famed out afresh. Now the
patrol will be re-established.
The Malay pirate of the eastern seas
is perhaps the most notorious of all
freebooting types. He excels Captain
Kidd in reckless daring and ruthless
cruelty.
Instead of sailing bodily forth in
fleets of outrigger boats, after the old
time style, with force numbering
hundreds of armed and intrepid war
riors, the Moro pirate of today estab-
fishes headquarters on some small
island, and therefrom as a base of
operations conducts furtive raids. If
successful, he becomes holder, and