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The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
ESCORTS TO THE DEFENCE.

Occasionally the photographer snapped
some one else. and though most took II
with good grace. once in a while a gen.
tleman would refuse to allow the lady
with him to be reproduced by the camera.
I asked the Bachelor why this was. and
he laughed a cynical. mirthless laugh.
There were SO many theatrical lights
shining about that every one was busy
pointing out and whispering names to
each other. and there were a number OF
aristocratic looking women. who took
only a most languid interest in the pro-
ceedings.
The more aristocratic they looked the
more uncertain their reputation seemed
to be, and gave up trying to find some
who were really what I had first sup
posed them
The second race saw US all back in our
appointed seas- and I lost interest in
The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
YOU MAY POSE At FIRST.

It's the queerest thing. girls: you may
come here happily shabby and you may
even be little superior about the we'll
dressed Parisiennes. with their carefully
chosen gowns and hats and discreetly
blended color effects.
You probably say, My dear. how do
they do It? How do they have the time.
when there Is so much OF greater inter
est in the world to busy ones self about"
And your head goes up in the air a
trife as you realize that you are not as
these other women. Your aims and ideas
are higher. nohler.
Then slowly. insidiously, the delicious
poison enters your veins. It's an agree
able miasma rising from centuries Of
fashion-creating. from the dust Of gener-
ations of garments made and worn here.
You find yourself gazing aimlessly in
at the hats. Your nose almost gets per-
manently hattened by being pressed
against the panes behind which nestle
layers of diaphanous garments You look
at every coat and skirt which passes and
you picture yourself in its mate.
You pull yourself together and strug-
gle You go to the Louvre and the Lux
embourg to escape. but bless your heart.
you can't!
You find yourself wondering how Venus
would have looked in a slashed skirt or
Diana in DireStoire coat.
At last you succumb.
Then you have a perfect orgy of clothes.
You plunge recklessly, madly. You can't
stop. You're like a squirrel on a wheel.
just going round and round with glazed
eyes and whirling brain. and If you
have kind friends they drag you away
before It is too late
February is the month when the new
clothes are born in Paris, and during
all that month and March Fashion is
the real President Of the republic and
you'd have TO have a heart of stone and
no eyes or ears to resist her call and deny
yourself new Easter garments
ONE OF THE SUMPTUARY LAWS.
You've got to get a straw hat when
February is about Il week old.
That's understood. If you have any
respect for yourself you put away velvet
and take to tagal while the winter winds
are ctiu boisterous and you are yet
swathed in furs.
That's the chic" of II, see?
This IS one OIL the 1ore-mentloneo
Sumptuary Laws.
Another is that you must have a coat
and skirt of the latest mode. and you
must christen 1t the opening day of the
races. 1t may be SO cold that you have
to wear a fur cloak over II, but It gives
you a prestige with yourself and those
who know to feel that you are wearing
1t at the proper moment in spite of the
elements.
In February Paris takes on a most
commercial atmosphere. In March she
has finished with the creating and dis
posing of garments and settles down
to the enjoying of them.
In February the hotels are crowded
with queer. men and women. Many of
them are hard-featured and badly
dressed: others are smart and very at
tractive, but you may know them all py
their cleaning eyes.
Eyes that are everywhere. seeing and
Rppraising.
These are the buyers.
They come in their numbers and they
ire to be met in all places where people
The Washington herald., 1913-03-30

bowed out and told: We are not showing
to-day. madame, but If madame cares to
come tomorrow"
Cross my heart this is no exaggerated
| story. I've experienced it.
You see. they think you may be spy
from the buyers or from other houses or
something like that. and they can't take
any risks: they'd rather lose a possible
customer.
And " you try to go in as a newspaper
lady-oh. well. Just don't try!
It's awful to know that so much is hap
pening and you are not in it and of it.
and as my fever was at its height at the
time I had to assuage it: so when |
found doors barred to a plain Jane like
me I sought out one I knew who has
strings Of pearls and motor car and a
name to conjure with. and she took me
about where listed.
And behold! everywhere the bolts were
withdrawn and we could enter.
DUcHESSES AS SALESWOMEN.
The performance was always the same
We were buying costumes for the races
and We were made welcome in beautiful
salons by soft-voiced, distingue ladies.
with silken gowns of sombre black.
1t was quite a blow to me when / dis
covered that these duchessy persons were
simply saleswomen. and I gazed with awe
at She of the Pearls who treated them
as the dust beneath her -heeled feet.
For myself I cast deprecating glances
at them in apology for being as am and
for having come within their beautiful
and naughty radii-
Then when We were seated in lovely old
Louis XIV or Empire chairs there would
be a discreet pause that gave US time to
study our surroundings. the lofty rooms.
the rich hangings. thick carpets and
tasteful decorations. and time to be i'm
pressed by the retinue Of liveried ser
wants standing about and the battalion Of
salesladies.
MANY WITH THE AILMENT.
Others with clothesitis were there also;
women swathed in chinchilla and sable
and redolent Of subtle perfumes, elderly
women. young women. thin women and
fat women, and all wore the same eager,
yearning, appraising look.
Sometimes men were with them, but
let's draw a veil over them, because men
who are not buyers are poor things at a
clothes show and nobody wants to know
about them anyhow.
The buyers were always huddIed in a
group by themselves, quite a sheep and
goats idea, and they presented a contrast
to eager women customers for they
seemed Indifferent but watchful while We,
We could not, thus dissemble.
Well, after the pause had lasted a fit-
ting time a vision would enter noiselessly
and gracefully and bow before us, turn
ing and twisting like a physical culture
teacher. till we could see every line, and
curve and artful fold OF tho gown she
wore.
She was always good looking-no use
applying for the position of a mannequin
II you're not. She was tall. lissome and
generally a brunette with beautifully
coiffed hair and a skin and eyes that
Nature did well with anyhow. and which
art touched up afterward.
I'm crazy about these Paris mannequins
they're 20 self-contained and dignided
and they take their peacock task SO Sc
riously. No grimacing. no glad eyes.
It's vocation. They ars priestemes at
the Shrine Of Clothssl
The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
CAUSE OF THE EDIcT.

This was because the couturiers declare
that the buyers hold the goods here long
enough to have cheap models copied from
the originals and sell those on their own.
And the buyers say this touches their
honor. Some got very wrathy and would
not buy at all.
I don't know the rights and wrongs of
the affair or how 1t will come out. but
the point is 1t made things hum a bit in
the dressmaking world. and the secrecy as
to models was so profound that I'm told
workers were shut up like jurymen toward
the last and had meals brought to them
SO they wouldn't gossip with their friends
Then came the openings
Now. you think. of course, that you can
go to any old opening at any old time.
don't you?
Well, go way back and rest. for you
never mace bigger mistake In your life.
II you just went and said: Good after
noon. I want to see some frocks." you'd
be received courteously. but you wouldn't
get anywhere. One saleswoman would
pass you on to the next, and she to still
another and so on. and all would ask you
In gentle accents who recommended you.
and finally you would ma yourself being
The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
American Finds Herself Swept Before the Blast Which,
Emanating During February and March from the
Brains Of Gown Makers and Millners Of the
French Capital, Blows the New Styles to
the -Four Corners Of the World.

gather. At the theatres. in the hotel
corridors. In the cafes. the showiest res
taurants and walking in e Bois.
You can't get away from them. and
after a while you don't want to. for
they're interesting in their own line.
don't IN the least know what they
are ike when they are at home. but when
they're here en- masse and all on the qui
Vive they're unique.
And every one knows them.
The city is crowded with buyers
now," says the Partisan. with a smile.
Have you noticed all the buyers we
have In our midst? I'm sure they're more
numerous than usual" remarks another.
They are a feature Of the Season.
HUSH BEFORE THE OPENINGS.
They bring with them a tension, a
sort Of clothes hush: no, not a clothes
horse. hush. I'm taking this very Sc
riously. I'll have you understand. so
come and do likewise.
The hush comes just before the Open
ings. by which I mean the dressmakers'
Openings. very imposing and long-await-
ed affairs.
For some months before the show days
garments are conceived and made in the
greatest secrecy. that the right house
may not know what the left house doeth
Every one is sworn to silence, and
saleswomen are not even told what the
lure Is to be when the customers arrive
Fashion writer's nearly go mad in
these hard times. for here are women all
over the world waiting breathlessly for
news Of what is to be foisted upon them
by the implacable Dame Fashion. and it,
a breakneck business finding out
] tell you Paris is Just a seething
mass Of secrecy and curiosity the first
two weeks of February.
Ny children. I got whirled into il.
Don't ask me how. I don't know.
was one Of those who came with up
lifted head and slightly elevated nose
and said: How do they d, it?"
And fell.
tumbled into a morass of cloth and
s. of gold and silver. of laces and en-
broideries
I dashed from couturier to couturier
with burning cheeks and glittering eyes
l appraised the charms of the beautiful
doll-like manneQuins. and was ninny
enough to think that what they wore
with such grace would also suit me-
That's their skilful way of showing of
things.
l priced all garments saw. I mingled
with buyers and eager customers.
1t went to my head like strong wine
The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
NUMBERED AMONG VICTIMS.

Yes, my angels. your respected and usu-
ally clear headed. IL seemingly weak,
auntie. got an attack OF clothesitis that
was virulent while 1t lasted. devastating
at its height and which has left her yearn-
ing for the erstwhile simplicity Of the
lampshade hat and the homemade dress
that brought her over here.
Still. l don't reproach myself, because
stronger than might have succumbed this
year.
Everything was more than usually ex-
citing. The tension was greater than
ever. War was waging between the dress
makers and the buyers because of the new
edict, and I assure you no speech Of NJ.
Pofncare has yet caused the sensation that
the combined action OF the couturiers did.
You remember what it was?
The big houses announced TO the buy
ers that all goods purchased from them
would be shipped to the firms direct and not
10 the Paris addresses of the buyers, as
heretofore.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
FORCE OF HABIT
WAS HIS WATERLOO
Joseph Kosher Had Ten Wives and
viii Go Back to the
Penitentiary.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The force of
habit was strikingly illustrated here
today when Joseph Kosler who boasts
ten wives, was captured in the home of
wife No. ] to whom he returned af-
ter abandoning No. 10, who caused
the arrest.
Kohler, who is 80 years old, was
sent to Sing Sing five years ago for
four years, six months term because
up to that time he had annexed only
nine spouses. Six months ago he got
out and falling victim again to his old
habit, welded Miss Martha Schmidt.
For this marriage he was accommo-
dating. He posed as Joseph Schmidt,
and Martha didn't even have to
change her name. That did not help,
however when he fled and artha dis
covered him domiciled with wife No. 1
but it was not until the arrest that
she discovered how really shop worn
her derelict husband was.
Kohler pleaded guilty today and
probably will get another vacation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
MEXICO RAILWAYS
MAY BE TIED UP
oil Supply Controlled by Rebels Who
Have Hold on the
Tanks.

lBy United Press staff correspondent
MEXICO CITY, Dec. PA COM
plete tie up Of Mexicos railway trans
lrortation facilities threatens unless
the rebels from Mexico City to Vera
Cruz. the only means by which for.
elgners could escape from the capital
!! In the event of trouble, has only a
scant months supply of oil. It was
predicted here tonight that every
wheel would stop on the Mexican
National lines within week unless
the rebels release the oil supply. All
Mexican locomotives are oil burners.
The Oil comes from the region around
Tampico. The rebels have possession
of the only railroad line from Tampico
and thus control the fuel oil supply.
Rear Admiral Mayo of the United
States navy, arrived at Vera Cruz late
today and Immediately it was rumor-
ed in diplomatic circles here that he
was sent to supersede Rear Admiral
Fletcher in command Of the American
ship fotilla in Mexican waters.
Rear Admiral Fletcher is outranked
in point of service by Rear Admiral
Sir CHRISTOPHER Cradock, the British
naval commander at Vera Cruz. BY
international naval custom the rank
ing admiral directs the movements of
an international fleet in situation
such as now exists in Mexico. A re-
port that was not confirmahle from of
fetal and diplomatic sources was
that some embarrassment resulted at
the recent battle of Tampico when
Rear Admiral Fletcher assumed com
mand of the International squadron of
warships off the oil port
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Record High Tides.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
Los ANGELES, Calf, Dec. ~
The west coast of Los Angeles coun-
" Is strewn tonight with wreckage
and debris swept from water fronts
OF dozen towns by the highest tides
IN their history.
Venice, with damage aggregating
100000 suffered the loss of its new
sea wall and bulkhead Several
houses were undermined and dozen
piers damaged. Other towns suffered
minor damage.
Another high tide is due tomorrow
ana fears are felt for the safety OF
ne Standard Oil company's pier at
snengo. valued at almost half a
million 'ollars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
DIsORDERLY KISSING
Is SOMETHING NEW
Western Judge Cannot Agree With
Eastern One who Fined
Couple.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
SAN FRANCISCO. Calf. Dec 20
There are three kinds of kisses. Per
functory kisses, stage kisses and soul
kisses.
ANY one who interferes with soul
kissing. commits a crime" Thus
spoke Superior Judge Graham when
told that Judge Beall of New York
had fined a young man and woman
SO each for kissing in a park.
II am in favor of kissing" Judge
Graham continued, land think it out
of any judges province to decide
whether kiss, no matter where the
kissing is done, is or is not disorder
ly.
"Disorderly kissing is kind |
never heard of before
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
RAILROAD WRECK
NARROWLY AVERTED
Rock Island Passenger Train Strikes
Broken Rail Near Des Moines
River Bridge.

What might have been serious
wreck was narrowly averted last
night when the Rock Island train
which is due to arrive in Keokuk at
7::35 o'clock ran into a broken rail
about mile above the Des Moines
river bridge, according to passengers
on the train.
The trouble occurred after the train
had passed Sand Prairie. The passen-
gers received a sevsre shaking up a,
it was, but the cars did not leave the
track. Had the rail completely given
away the coaches might have been
thrown into the river. The jolt as
the train hit the broken rail was APP
parent. but by some miracle the spot
was cleared. When the crew went
back to see what had caused the jolt
ing, it was found that section of the
track was broken up.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
TWO SMOOTH ONES
RUN OUT OF TOWN
Chief kenney Gives Men Their Choice
Of Going to Work or of
Moving.

Two well dressed strangers who
were flittingsin and out of Keokuk for
the past several days were hailed be.
fore Chief of Police Kenney, Friday
and given chance to go to work or
blow" the town. They agreed to the
latter proposition and said they would
go to Peoria. They boarded the T..
P. & w. train Friday afternoon.
The police had been watching the
men for some time. and suspecting
them of getting ready to "pull off
something" decided to get them out
of town. The men when they first
came represented themselves as rail-
road men. Their willingness to leave
town, when requested leads the police
to believe they were not working on a
cold trail
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
SHIPPING BIG LION
FROM HALLS FARM
King of Beasts Gagged up in prv
Goods Box Was on Way
to Montgomery.

a lion nearly full grown, was the
center OF attraction at the union sta
.ion last night. The big animal was
oeing shipped from the Billy Hall
iarm near Lancaster to Montgomery,
Ala, to be used in one Of the winter
geological gardens there.
Inc lion was Gagged up in big dry
goods box which was lined on the
outside. He was exceedingly peevish,
ana made known his disgust at being
TRANSPORTED through the snow. The
train south at midnight carried him
TO his new home in Dixie.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Into the lev Water.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. Pr
Policemen who responded to the yells
for help coming from the icy waters
of Fall Creek tonight discovered Roy
Holtslaw, %, chauffeur, perched up
on the side of his overturned car.
After being rescued Hotslaw WIS still
too daz I'd to explain how his car went
over the viaduct at Alabama street.
In the belief that there were three
others in the joy riding party, the po-
lice began dragging the stream.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Died of Broken Heart.

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LOS ANGEL ElS, Calf, Dec ~
Grief over the death of his son,
Lieut.. Hugh Kelley, Of the U. s. army
aviation corps, caused the death at
Louisville, Ky, of Colonel R. NJ. Kel-
ley, according to a message received
here today. Lieutenant Kelley was kill
ed in an aeroplane accident at San
Diego month ago The shock caused
his fathers collapse
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Quit and Came Home.

UNITED Press Leased Wire #Seryice.l
LIVERPOOL, Dec. PA passenger
aboard the Caramania which sailed to-
day for New York, was Andrew Fur
useth, president of the international
Seamen's Union, who resigned this
week as an American delegate to the
international conference on safety at
sea in session here. Furuseth, fol
lowing his resignation by cable to
President Wilson, said he quit be
cause he thought the proposed repor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
General rornex Dead.

UNITED Press eased Wire Service !
WASHINGTON Dec. 27.-Brigadier
General GEO. H. Torney, surgeon gen
eral of the army, died here tonight.
General Torney's death was due to
pneumonia which he contracted three
weeks ago. He was sixty-thres years
old and had been surgeon general five
years. A widow, one daughter and
four sons survive him. One of the
latter is lieutenant in the army.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
EXPRESS Office Eire.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-Water and fire
damage from a blaze that Quilted two
floors CT six story building on Wash
ington street, near the city hall, to-
night did an estimated damage of
100000 The Adams Express com
pany. Southern Express company and
the Kohlsaat Baking company We're
the principal losers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28

he has been ambassador for almost a
year. 1t is understood he will resign
his Russian post at the end OF six
weeks and return to Paris to legin a
campaign for reelection to the cham
Der of deputies.
DeCasse who was sent to st Peters
burg on special mission in the
guise of a French am as ad2r, re.
turned to Paris during the recent cab
met crisis. He was spoken of at the
tin to succeed Louis Barthou, but
declined
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Reception and Linen Shower.

/ United Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 Miss Cen
evieve Clark, the speakers daughter,
will lead a group of congressional
debutantes New Years day in re-
ception and linen shower at the Wash
ington Gospel Mission. Assisting her
will be Miss Dorothy Edison, daughter
of the inventor, Miss Cox, daughter of
the Ohio governor and Misses Nelson
and Campbell of the congressional
set.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
FUNERAL RECORD
5 o 8 . o . . . & . . o o o o
Mrs. John Stack.

The funeral of Mrs. Luella Stack,
wife of John Stack, was held at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon al the resi-
dence, 324 North Eleventh street, Rev.
R. w. Lilley, of the First Christian
church conducting the services in the
presence of large number Of neigh
bors and friends.
The pallbearers were Roy Fogel,
Everett Junkins, Robert Bregenzer,
Merle Comstock, Allen Belts and
George Gillespie.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
is CHAMPION
OF HOME WRECKERS
Liquor Heads the List While Moth
ers-in-Iaw Are Far Down
the Line.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Dec. -Mothers-in-law
can't compare with "old red-eye" in
the business of wrecking homes, ac-
cording to the annual report of the
court of domestic relations, made pub
lie tonight. Liquor, the report says,
caused nearly half the broken homes
in Chicago last year and mothers-in-
law only six per cent. Tie report
tabulates by per centages the causes
of martial happiness. The table fol-
lows:
Drunkenness, 46.
immortality of man, L.
Immortality of wife, .02
Ill-tempered men 0S.
Ill-tempered wives .03
Mothers-in-law .06.
Fathers-in-law OF.
Youthfulness 04.
Laziness Of husbands %.
Sickness OF.
All other causes IA.
The report urges a provision by
which prisoners earnings while in
the county work house shall be sent
to the family.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
sack Cloth and Ashes.

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CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-Wiliiam Cham
hers. charged with drunkenness, was
freed nv judge Dolan this afternoon
when he promised to go to church
every Sunday in 1914 and turn his
nav envelone over to his wife every
Saturday night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Won Klein Sentenced.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 27-Con.
victed a week ago of polygamously
living with Miss Ethel Newcomb, E.
E. C. yonKlein of Minneapolis, this
afternoon was sentenced to serve
from one to four years in the state
penitentiary.
Evid ence was introduced at the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
New Submarine Boat.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec. 27 TIE
United States submarine torpedo boa.
C-S was launched here TODAY The
C-3 is expected to make ten and one
half knots an hour when submerged.
The craft was built by the Like Tor
pedo Boat company and was christea-
ed by Miss Marian Lake.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Express Companies HIT.

tonited Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Dec. 27-Parcels post
,''t the express companies pretty
'iard jolt during the Christmas sea
ION, local officials admitted tonight.
=. A. Hamilton, general agent of the
=, y Express Co.. declared that his
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28

company's business in Chicago fell off
a. least rs per cent this year. D. w.
0aWson' general manager of the
same company, echoed Hamilton,s
statement. The National Express Co.
also admitted heavy falling off in
holiday trade.