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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1915-01-15

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OF INTEREST
TO WOMEN
STREET CLOTHES TAILORED
and SEMI TAILORED IN CUT
Plain Goats and zouave Jackets Mark
the Divergence of the Mode
Boots and Hats of Military
Origin
New York, April "a.


Now that Easter is past history and
the smart woman has placed her stamp
of approval on this style and that by
actual wearing, street clothes resolve
themselves into two distinct types, the
tailored and semi.tailored suit.
Perhaps it is the anticipation of a
cross-continent trip to the Fair that is
making the tailored suit so popular or
it may be milady on charity bent finds
the plain coat and short skirt in keep
ing with her mood. Whatever the ir-
resistible influence is, it has left our
suits of frill and fancy and left them
for the most part plain creations with
coats medium length and skirts short
even to the top of the high boot.
In the window of Fifth Avenue
shop, model of dark blue gabardine
is attracting the gaze of the never ceas-
ing stream of well-dressed women who
frequent this thoroughfare. Suggestive
of uniform, it boldly stands forth
with patch pockets over the seams, a
small one above and large one below
the broad belt of white leather that
sports black buckle. The collar,
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will suffer because of impaired efficiency of the
service while the arrangement lasts.

will suffer because of impaired efficiency of the
service while the arrangement lasts.
Five crews on the New York and Pittsburgh line
cannot do competenty the work of distributing the
heavy mails on that route. Six crews were not able
to handle it to the satisfaction of busy men who
than they have been getting during these years of
all too extravagant economy in that particular
department. The men ON the five crews, if they
must do the work of the withdrawn sixth crew in
addition to the work which of itself kept them very
busy under the old arrangement, will not be as
efficient they ought to be, no matter how hard
they strive to perform their duties satisfactorily
and to avoid "demerits. - The general public will
feel the consequences.
Although the Interstate Commerce Commission
has ordered the railroads not to work their train
many hours as they do their shop and office
men, because the nature of the trainmen work is
more exacting and nerve racking, the Postoffice
Department, it has been pointed out has persisted
in comparing the time put in by its railway mail
clerks whose work is more exacting and nerve
racking than that of any of train crew except
the engineer, with the hours spent by comfortably
situated employees in its offices at Washington.
The duties of the railway mail clerks are unlike
those of any other in government service or in
any other service for that matter These duties
are not simple of themselves, requiring they do
the memorizing of lengthy routes. The mail clerks
perform them, standing constantly on their feet,
while the trains make sudden starts and stops and
swing around frequent curves. The men are not
free to dispose of their time as they want
to when they are off duty, for they must continy
ually be preparing slips and labels and commit
ting to memory various mail routes. Not the least
of their occupations during the intervals between
their runs is that of resting themselves after the
rigors of their work.
The uncalled for and the unwise change on the
New York and Pittsburgh line which the depart
ment made without in the least considering the
wishes of the men affected, and which has aroused
the righteous dissatisfaction of the mail clerks in
this city and elsewhere, ought not by any means
to be permanent.
The people do not want their mail delayed or
lost, in order that the Postoffice Department may
at the end of its fiscal year be able to display
surplus They are not eager to have more
economical service they are to have more
efficient service
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COMMON SENSE In PAYING TAXES

City Treasurer Reichenbach, of Allentown, re-
Gently made very remarkable report on tax col
lectons in that city. 1t showed that at the close
of the last fiscal year there was only $153.12 of
outstanding tax due the city. Of this amount
$10336 was due on five dwellings the ownership of
which was in doubt, and the rest, 1916, was due
on group of lots the owner of which could not be
found. In other words practically all of the Allen
town city taxpayers had squared up by the end of
the year.
In Harrisburg on April l, 1915, the official rec
ords show, there city tax remaining unpaid
from the year 1913 to the amount of 81 33311 and
from the year 1914 to the amount of $39 $50 51 or
a total of $50,S9262 still due for the two years,
not counting the rapidly accumulating penalties on
these overdue moneys.
The Harrisburg delinquent taxpayers, for their
own good and for their city, good, should make a
careful study of the above comparison of the
amounts of the back taxes due Allentown and the
back taxes due this city. They can learn from the
comparative figures something for their own profit.
There is an old saying something to the effect
that there is nothing more certain than death and
taxes. Taxes, like death, have to be met sometime
They can be paid before August in the year they
are assessed and if they are paid by that date the
man who pays them saves one per cent of the
amount of the bill They can be paid between
August and September at the exact amount of
the face of the bill. If payment is postponed until
September l. of the year in which the taxes become
due, penalty of per cent of the original bill is
charged against the property owner. After that
one per cent month is added so long as the bill
remains unpaid. If, at the end of two years. the
bill still is unpaid, the city sells the property and
keeps from the receipts of that sale the amount of
the tax due, plus the accumulated penalties
Thus it is seen that there is absolutely no escap-
ing the payment of taxes and that the longer they
remain unpaid the greater they grow. For instance
there was on April l. last, just % per cent in pen
alties due the 81 33311 of the 1913 taxes that
remained unpaid at that date. In other words
these taxes had increased to almost onefourth more
than the taxpayers would have had to pay had they
settled up before September l, 1913 In the $39,.
55951 of 1914 taxes still unpaid on April 1, last
the accrued penalties amounted to ten per cent or
roughly, $4,000 in excess of the original amount of
the taxes
Thus it is shown that the payment of taxes when
due is plain and simple matter Of good business
The people of Allentown recognized that when they
paid up all their taxes except $15312 but the Har-
risburg taxpayers, who still have $500OO back tax
bills unpaid, have failed to recognize it.
We must conclude, therefore, that the property
owners of Allentown are endowed with far
greater percentage of common business sense than
the property owners of Harrisburg
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1.-THE Drama Upside Down.

In the theatre the public permits the
playwright to deny certain facts be-
cause it is only by the deliberate de-
NAL of these facts that the drama is
possible. In real life rooms have four
walls, but in the theatre one of these
walls must be removed so that the spec.
tators can see and hear what is said
and done in the room. In real life a
whisper may be inaudible ten feet
away, but on the stage it has to be
loud enough to reach the back of the
gallery. In real life our speech is un-
certain and ragged and repetitious-
we start sentences that we do not finish,
and we fail often to make ourselves
understood, but in a play every char
acter says simply and compactly what
he has to say, and every other char
acter understands what he has said ex-
actly as he meant it to be understood.
These are all departures from fact, and
we permit them gladly in the playhouse
because they are for our pleasure
Without these departures from the fact,
authorized by convention, by an un.
conscious contract between the author
and the audience, the drama could not
exist. In the theatre we are willing
to "make believe" as we did while
we were playing the games of our child
hood, and if we refuse to make be.
lieve we find ourselves forced to fore
60 the pleasure which the theatre can
provide only by the aid of these neces-
sary conventions. Other conventions
there are not eteInally necessary,
suited to the conditions of the theatre
of a certain time and certain country,
and revealing themselves as incon-
gruous when the conditions are differ
ent. On the Elizabethan platform
stage a character might soliloquize at
will, talking directly at the spectators
and telling them, az Iago does and
Richard III also, how bad a man he is.
On the modern picture-frame stage the
characters must take care not to get
'out of the picture" and, therefore,
the soliloquy has been discovered TO
be incongruous. Temporary and local
conventions disappear as the theatre is
modified through the ages, but there are
certain fundamental conventions which
endure and which will never disappear,
because without them the art of the
playwright is impossible, just as the
arts of the painter and of the sculptor
are impossible unless they also are per-
mitted to depart from the facts in ac-
cord with the essential conventions of
their several arts.-Brander Matthews,
in the April number of the North Amer
lean Review.
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CHINA MAKING HASTE SLOWLY

"A uniform system of public schools in China, by
means of which every citizen may be made capable
OF taking active part in affairs O. government
appears to be the plan of Chinese educators whose
odd-sounding names are immaterial but whose ideas
are visionary enough to attract some attention.
The plan is to pattern the schools after those of
western civilization, with the exception that the
curricula are to include the teachings of China s
wise men of bygone days, teachings which are not
so highly respected in western schools as are vari
Gus other heather products. Any project so enor-
nous as one which provides for the uniform educa-
ton of Chnas complacently ignorant millions
deserves respect because of the daring of the thing
even though the accomplishment of the outlined
purposes appears to be long way off,
1t seems that the complex written language of
the Chinese would retard educational processes to
some extent. The language may not be so very
complex after students have made some progress
IN mastering it, yet for its own advantage it might
be somewhat simpler.
Chinese student in this country has recently
invented typewriter which it is said writes
Chinese very acceptably. Patience would perhaps
be as necessary in operating it as skill in finding
the required characters on the keyboard for it is
still in crude stage of development The inventor
says that something like $4,000 characters can be
made on the machine. Presumably he has counted
them, and knows. His opinions of his native Ian
guage which he may have been tempted to express
while he was struggling with it's intricacies in
arranging the radical characters of the words
for the construction of his machine might be of
value to Chinese educators no less than to students
of philoogy.
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checked worsted have edges bound with
Hercules braid in black, white, tan or
blue. Narrow soutache braid in white
makes another smart finish on blue
serge, placed in four rows around the
skirt above the hem, but if there is
preference it is give nto the new silver
tinsel braid which appears in floral bor-
ders on the bottom Of the serge and
gabardine coats. So quickly did it come
and so smart was the effect, it's popu-
larity was instantaneous-to-day in one
shop, tomorrow in another, and by the
end of week the whole Avenue wears
it. Nor are these borders confined to
the tinsel alone. One of the small spe-
cialty shops shows serge coat with
the border in white silk braid and the
effect is really fetching. There are
other suits, too, with the borders en-
broidered with blue silk floss. Indeed,
variety is endless in these strictly tai
lored suits. Their style is even ae.
centuated by contrast with the silk
models cut on semi-tailored lines.
Distinctly different in purpose and
appearance, the suits with short Zouave
jackets in no wise conflict with the
vogue of the tailored, but are selected
for theatre, afternoon and dress wear.
One of New York's most famous houses
has on display an attractive model in
mouse-gray faille silk, the coat short
and boxy and the skirt laid in soft
pleats. Fine silk corded motifs in the
corners of the jacket and woven buttons
in selftones make rich trimming.
The other day in q theatre party of
four young girls, who braved the un-
certain April weather to wear their best
to the matinee, two had the new short
jacket suits, one a blue taffeta with
silk-covered buttons placed close to-
gether down the closing and the other a
gray silk with frogs of silk-covered
cord. In some of the better shops they
are introducing these short coats in
cloth, but taffeta and faille are used in
the great majority of the models.
1t is like great painting, the suits
forming the central figure and the ac-
Scessories background that makes the
completed picture perfect Neckwear is
unusually alluring. In the stores, we
read small painted plaeards bearing
"Berthas," "Jabots" and "Fichus" and
marvel that such confections of net,
lawn, Val. and filet lace, chiffon and
crepe de Chine can so quickly come to
enhance the beauty of the silk suits,
while high collars with faring turn
overs, dainty fat organdy collars, part
linen collars cut on the Buster Brown
plan grace the counters in grand array
waiting to be claimed for tailored suits.
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Hats equally stunning, appear in tur-
ban and sailor shape, small sizes be-
ing favored. There are round turbans
and tricornes, all straw or satin faced,
ranging from black and emerald green
to the sand and putty shades. Often a
bow, flower or wing adorns the tip top
of the crown and 1 have heard it said,
if one dares to whisper such thing in
a neutral land, that it was copied from
the peak of Germans helmet. Others
are trimmed around the brim. Resting
on the cover of big hat box with a
background of flowers, one store dis
plays a putty-colored turban, the sides
straw and the top satin, edged around
with acorns, oak leaves and roses. An
other shop on side street has whole
window of flower hats, while house,
renowned for its tailored styles. feat
ures turbans and sailors trimmed with
wings and quills and natural leghorns,
embroidered around the crown with
wool in black and emerald green. 1t
would seem, there is a hat for every
face, but when it comes to footwear
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Sculptor Compelled to Sell Wood

Chodzinski, the famous Polish sculp-
tor, whose statues adorn public places
in many of the worlds capitals and
who made the statue of Pulaski in
Washington during the Taft administra.
tion, for which he received $4,000,
has been forced to sell wood to keep
his family, so terrible are conditions
in Poland since the tide of war swept
over it. This information comes from
the sculptor himself in letter to a
New York friend. At the time he
wrote from Eperjes his property was
all destroyed and the country was
made SO desolate from warfare that he
was using his remaining horses for
hauling and selling frewood, as that
was his only means of supporting those
dependent upon him.
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BAHAMA ISLAND SHELLS
Pearly Treasures Of Many Varieties
Line the Beaches

The shores of the Bahama islands
are each day strewn with multitudes of
beautiful seashells, more than fifty va.
rletles OF which have commercial
value In the United States and Europe.
among these are rice shells, SO tiny
IN size as to make one marvel how
sufficient number could be picked up to
NIL a barrel; gold shells, mud shells.
cookies, bleeding tooth; pretty decora.
tive sun shells, eardrop shells. which
are exported to Odessa, Russia, to be
used as ear pendants; Panama or tent
shells, which resemble miniature en-.
campments and sell at $50 a barrel:
black snails, which take high polish;
conchs-king, queen, ivory, pinkiip and
troehus or Turk s cap, locally termed
"whelks. These are but few of tbe
assortment kept in stock at the leading
warehouses at Nassau.
The queen conch, which is especially
adapted for cameo carving on account
OF having a layer of brown with
white top and the pinklip conch, which
has layers of white and pink, are much
sought for. Only the lips of these two
varieties are exported, the demand
coming from New York and from Tore
del Greco, near Naples, Italy.
Ordinary conchs sell at l cent; pink.
lip, whole shells, from cents to %
cents, and queens at 80 cents United
States currency in Nassau. The whelk
or Turks cap is particularly valuable,
as it has portion resembling the best
mother .of-pearl, from which pearl
studs, for instance, could be made.
1t is estimated that million shells
OF this variety could be obtained an
nually in this colony. These shells sell
for L IL cents each. Labor is cheap,
colored women receiving from 25 to so
cents, ordinary laboring men so cents
and white engineers $3.50 a day.-In.
dianapolis News.
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Others Who Were Advanced

Of the State Treasurers, Samuel But
Ter, Chester; NJ. s. Quay, Beaver; Hen
ry X. Boyer, Philadelphia; John W.
Morrison, Allegheny; James s. Bee com,
Westmoreland; Frank G. Harris, Clear
field; John o. Sheath, Philadelphia, and
Robert K. Young, Tioga, all served in
the House, and Mr.. Sheath was after
ward elected to the Senate. Jeremiah
A. Stober, of Lancaster, was elected
State Treasurer at the expiration of his
Senatorial term, but died before he
took Office. OF the Secretaries of In
ternal Affairs, William McCandless and
Aaron X. Dunkel, Philadelphia, served
in the Senate, and Thomas J. Stewart,
Montgomery, and Isaac B. Brown, Erie,
served in the House. OF the Adjutant
Generals, David B. McCreary, of Erie,
served in the Senate, and Thomas J..
Stewart, of Montgomery, in the House.
T. M. j.
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BANISH sCR0FULA
Hoods Sarsaparilla oleanses the Blood,
Skin Troubles Vanish

Scrofula eruptions on the face and
body are both annoying and disfiguring.
Many complexion would be perfect if
they were not present!
This disease shows itself in other
ways, as lunches in the neck, infiamed
eyelids, sore ears, wasting of the
muscles, a form of dyspepsia, and gen.
eral debility.
Ask your druggist for Hoods Sar-
saparilla. This great medicine CON-
pletely eradicates scrofula. 1t purifies
and enriches the blood, removes humors,
and builds up the whole system. 1t has
stood the test of forty years, and has
received thousands of testimonials of
the entire satisfaction it has given.
Scrofula is either inherited or &C.
quired. Better be sure you are quite
free from it. Get Hoods Sarsaparilla
and begin taking it to-day.-Adv.
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we we all must bow to Fashions will fol

we all must bow to Fashions will for
ties or boots are the only choice.
Ties OF black patent leather stand
side by side with ties of white, gray or
tan, and others are shown with the
oiack leather vamp and the upper of
tan' white or gray, while stockings in
hueneed by the styles in shoes come in
matching grays and tans or in vivid
hues for contrast, plain or in MORE eff
fects, with up and down or crosswise
stripes, ribbed or in gay Scotch plaids.
However, the immediate present does
homage to the high boots with heels
curved slightly in French fashion, laced
at the front, side or back, or with no
closing at all.