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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Hints on Decoration.

1t is very easy to spoil room by
choosing the wrong fabric. The deli
cate outlines of Chippendale chairs
and sofas demand an inconspicuous
upholstering, and the material should
at least suggest silk. Armures and
other small patterned silks are the best
choice, and the material may we'll be
fine, as the quantity needed is so
small Never obscure the beautiful.
back of a Chippendale chair or sofa
with any sort Of cushion. The cane
work of a good piece is as interesting
as carving. The same thing applies
to Jacobean pieces.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

Aside from their Office of furnishing
a decorative finishing touch of dainti-
ness to the apparel. collars are to be
considered from other points Of view,
for this season, at least. With the new
blouses made with high or convertible
collars attached, some means must be
devised to keep the neck and upper
part of the back from becoming too
quickly soiled Wash silk and the
various silk crepes stand Tubing as
we'll as other fabrics. but 1t is hardly
worth while to overdo 1t by washing
the entire blouse because the collar or
shoulders at the back have become
soiled with a single days wear.
The separate collar of lace or EN-.
broidered batiste Is at hand, in mex
haustible variety of styles and pat.
terms, to be worn with all sorts OF
blouses. That portion which slips un.
der the blouse protects 1t from per.
spiration, and the collar lies over the
collar of the blouse and keeps 1t clean
Another Office Of the separate collar
lies in its provision of touch Of white
or cream color on the blouses and
dresses of dark colors. Here It is al
ways good, and no one-unless 1t is
the palest of blondes-can afford to
dispense with white. or pale tint
next the face.
Two collar designs are shown in the
picture. One of them is wired run
of lace, sewed to a small cape Of null
which lies under the blouse. The Wis
ible portion Of the other is Of daintily
embroidered batiste. and contrives to
b high at the back. lower at the sides
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
In Girdle Effects.

The narrow ribbons, usually OF vel
vet, or with crosswise cord, or in
rather heavy grosgrain with picot
edge, are sometimes drawn around the
waist and knotted in little bow and
short ends, or in long loops and very
long ends in the back; but they are
more often used to finish or trim some
other girdle arrangement, or to give
the effect of girdle lines without the
reality.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Make the Most Of
Each Day
By S. MARTINsON. Chicago. III.

Each day what make it Suppose that your salary
that forgotten uncle has left $0O What
the weather then Or suppose the person love dying Unexpectedly
turn for the better The doctor
What If it hotter than Tophe? is good day. great day. happy
day. 1t what think and feel about that makes day
Put down In the notebook of your soul the poet Runbrg thought
Zach day % When the morning throw back your
shoulders take deep breath and the day like Say
YOURSELF "Anoher dayanoher leP For all know may
only day shall ever have Let make the best day
strive to make it day worth while do all the good can get all th
happiness can today.
Right is the only time you control Yesterday record
Tomorrow is a secret Today is yours and mine
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

and altogether absent at the front,
where the throat is uncovered
Many of the new silk blouses are
designed with special references to
these separate collars-or, In other
words, separate collar is part OF
the design, and one of them goes with
the blouse, while extra collars are to
be added when they are needed.
JULIA BOTTOMLE'H
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Gloves Of the Moment.

White and black gloves are thu
gloves of the moment, and the two
tones are combined in dozens Of ways.
One combination that is striking ID
this: A white dressed kid glove, with
black stitching around the edges o.
the fingers, heavy black embroidery
on the backs and wide black stray
across the inside Of the wrists.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Sofa Talk.

would your mother be angry II I
stole kiss?" said the young man on
the sofa.
why don't you look her up and
try IT." said the sweet young thing.
eoyly.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

| am a woman in bust.
ness and have a chance ia
observe a fair average of
the women who are on the
streets of Chicago, and /
must say 1 cannot see any
excuse for all this agitation
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

Things haven't changed
SO very much in the last
1900 years. We have lots
of things now which we con-
slider new, but which are
not. Only today l visited
the museum of the Johns
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

An unseen power has in
tervened to stop what man
would not abolish, wickedly
converting the subhuman
kingdom into food.
Thinking people will rea-
son that the rapidly spread
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

While walking in the
streets one is often greeted
with the cheerful remark {:
"1t's a nice dayp Good
days and bad days exist only
in the mind. The weather
has nothing TO do with it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06

rP.otectsd By The Adams Nsvanaoer sar~in.,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06

some money. enough to set him up, and
I want you to look after Berenlce, give
her a nice wedding and some Of her
grandmother's linen and silver, know
she had lot of 1t, probably right up
in your garnet this minute"
Like enough 1t u.s." murmured Mr..
Crawford stroking his little pointed
beard II amt looked to see. How
pert you look, Bethiah! ! cant get over
It,"
"And you better hire housekeeper
for the children after she's gone, too.
Get q real capable woman for about
ten a month up here in he country, and
your PENSIONS twice that, Tuck. It's
all that's left to us old people, this
watering the flower Of romance, you
know, to keep it sweet and growing. :
After they had said goodby and driv.
en- down the road, the old man stood
watching them, leaning his arms on
the little rusty iron gate. His face
wore a peaceful satisfied smile. He had
promised all Bethiah had asked -
wedding clothes, old silver and linen,
even the housekeeper. AS she said,
whv shouldn't he? Berenice's father
was his only son, and he was nearly
80.
LET em have it and enjoy them
selves" he said. Take about two hun
bred to start with, she said. And got
eight thousand in the bank at Will
mantle and four over in Putnam.
Guess we can give Berenice wedding
like her grandmother had. Watering
a>,ror ~ ropoQnNn -
He sighed. Sixty years back he had
loved Bethiah Newell or was 1t fifty?
Now she stepped into his old garden
and the flower Of romance lifted it's
head at her coming and doomed for
another girl and boy.
He went back up the path smiling
and nodding his head, talking softly to
himself.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
CHAPTER XIII (Continued.)

Once - twice - twenty times they
made that slow circle, and with each
turn they made the old bull turned,
and his breath grew heavier and his
head dropped lower Noon came, and
was followed by the more intense cold
OF the last half of the day. Twenty
circles became hundred - two hun.
dred and more. Under Gray VOLTS
and Kazan's feet the snow grew hard
In the path they made. Under the old
Bulls widespread hoofs the snow was
no longer white - but red. A thous-
and times before this unseen tragedy
Of the wilderness had been enacted. Il
was an epoch of that life where life it.
self means the survival of the f1ttest,
where to live means to kill, and to die
means to perpetuate life. At last In
that steady and deadly circling of Gray
Wolf and Kazan, there came time
when the old bull did not turn-then
a. second, third and a fourth time
and Gray Wolf seemed to know. With
Kazan she drew back from the hard
beaten trail, and they lattened them
selves on their bellies under dwarf
spruce - and waited. For many min
utes the bull stood motionless. his ham
strung quarter sinking lower and low
or. And then with deep blood chok,
cd gasp he sank down.
For long time Kazan and Gray
Wolf did not move, and when at LAST
they returned to the beaten trail the
BULBS heavy head was resting on the
snow. Again they began to circle, and
now the circle narrowed foot by foot,
until only ten yards then nine =
then eight - separated them from
Their prey. Gray Wolf heard the Ell.
fort. She heard him sink back ana
ssuddenly she leaped in swiftly and 81
iently from behind. Her sharp fanss
buried themselves in the bulls nostrils
and with the first instinct OF the
husky, Kazan sprang for throat hold.
This time he was not flung of. 1t was
GRAY VOLTS terrible hold that gave
him time to tear through the half 1nch
hide and to bury his teeth deeper ana
deeper until at last they reached the
iugular A gush Of warm blood squirt
ed into his face. But he did not let 60.
just as he had held to the 1ugular or
his first buck on that moonlight night
long time ago, so he held to the old
bulf now. 1t was Gray Wolf who IN
clamped his jaws. She drew back
shining the air, listening. Then, slow
", she raised her head, and through
the frozen and starving wilderness
theGe went her wailing triumphant cry
- the call to meat.
For them the days OF famine hau
passed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
ELECT OFFICERS
FOR BIG-FOUR ROUTE

Adair, Nov. 4. = At a meeting called
by the Commercial club of Adair, tho
Big-4 Route association was organized
Officers were chosen as follows: c. F..
Hubert of Fontanelle, president j. e.
Kerwin of Audubon, secretary; George
F. Wegner, of Adair, treasurer
The Big-4 route runs from Audubon
to Greenfield, passing through North
Branch, Affair." Candy and Fontanelle.
It is hfty-tive miles in length, and az
fords a cross route from north to south
1t is connecting link In highway
from Sioux City and Spirit Lake to
Creston and south.
The official mark of the new high
way is two foot band of yellow paint
on the telephone poles. The painting
Is being done this week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
CHAPTER XIV.
Tire Rlaht Of Fang.

After the fight Kazan lay down ex
hausted in the blood stained snow
while faithful Gray Wolf, still filled
with the endurance Of her wild vol
breed, tore fiercely at the thick skin
on the bulls neck to lay open the red
flesh. When she had done this she did
not eat, but ran to Kazan's side and
whined softly as she muzzled him with
her nose. After that they feasted,
crouching side by side, at the bulls
neck and tearing at the warm sweet
flesh.
The last pale light Of the northern
day was fading swiftly into night when
they drew back, gorged until there
were no longer hollows in their sides.
The faint wind died away. The clouds
that had hung in the sky during the
day drifted eastward, and the moon
shone brilliant and clear. For an hour
the night continued to grow lighter. To
the brilliance of the moon and the
stars there was added the pale fires
of the aurora borealis, shivering and
flashing owe. the Pole.
Its kissing cracking monotone like
the creaking OF steel sledge RUNNERS
on frost filled r.sow, came family to
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06

skin aglow-such, at least, is youth
as we picture it in our minds. The
mature figure has settled into itself
and acquired flesh in Jumps, the
aging figure has lost or is rapidly
losing, its elasticity.
So it seems, logically, that we will
retain our youthful poise and much
of our immature grace, II we retain
our elasticity.
Have you ever turned q somersault
since you were youngster? Did
you ever turn one as kid? The
questions may seem irrelevant, but
they really apply to our subject. For
you cannot turn a somersault II you
are not elastic, and II you cannot
old as you may be. you had best
learn. Turning somersault will
stretch the muscles from the neck
clear down to the heels, exercise
your arms, send the blood racing
through your veins-and bring you
up from the floor after it, dishev-
eled and laughing, perhaps. but feel
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06

ness tnelr mdSler HAQ QleQ, anu tH6l
had taken to the forests. They still
bore signs of the sledge traces. Abou,
their necks were moosehide collars
The hair was worn short at their
TANKS, and one still dragged afte: him
three feet of corded babiche trace
Their eyes cleaned red and hungry in
the glow of the moon and stars. They
were thin. and gaunt and starved, and
Kazan suddenly turned and trotted
ahead of them to the side Of the dead
bull. Then he fell back and sat proud
iy on his launches beside Gray Wolf
listening to the swapping of jaws and
the rending OF flesh as the starved
pack Toasted.
Gray Wolf skunk closer to Kazan
She muzzled his neck and Kazan gave
her a swift dog like caress of his
tongue, assuring her that all was we'll
She flattened herself in the snow when
the dogs had finished and came up in
their dog way to sniff at her and make
closer acquaintance with Kazan. Ka.
Fan lowered over her. guarding her
One huge red eyed dog who still drag.
ged the bit Of babiche trace muzzled
Gray VOLTS soft neck for fraction OF
q second too long and KaZan uttered a
savage snarl OF warning. The dog
drew back and for moment their
fangs cleaned over GRAY VOLTS blind
face. 1t was the Challenge of the
Breed.
The big husky was the leader Of the
pack. and if one of the other dogs had
snarlee' at him. as KaZan snarled ne
\ - y ~,
in Kazan, standing fierce and half
wild over GRAY Wolf, he recognized
none Of the serfdom of the sledge dogs
It was master facing master: in Kazan
it was more than that for he was Gray
VOLTS mate. In on instant n'ore he
would have leaped over her body to
have fought for her, more than for the
right Of leadership But the biz husky
turned away sullenly, growing, still
snarling and vented his rage by nib
ping fercelv at the flank Of one OF his
sledge mates.
Gray Wolf understood what had hap
pened, though she could not see. She
shrank closer to Kazan. She knew
that the moon and the stars had look
ed down on that thing that always
meant death - the challenge. to the
right OF mate. With her Turing coyness,
whining and softly muzzling his shout
der and neck. she tried to draw Kazan
away from the pad beaten circle IN
which the bull lay. Kazan's answer
was an ominous rolling Of smothered
thunder deep down in his throat He
lay down beside her, licked her blind
face swiftly and faced the stranger
dogs.
The moon sank lower and lower and
at last dropped behind the western
forests. The stars grew paler. One by
one they faded from the sky and after
a. time there followed the cold gray
dawn Of the North. In that dawn the
big husky leader rose from the hole he
had made in the snow and returned to
the bull. Kazan, alert, was on his
feet in an instant and stood close to
the bull. The two circled ominously,
their heads lowered, their crests brist-
ling The husky drew away, and Ka-
IAN crouched at the bulls neck and be-
gan tearing at the frozen flesh. He
was not hungry. But in this way he
showed his right to the flesh. his de-
flance of the right Of the big husky.
(To be continued)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
Euening Story
THE FLOWER OF ROMANCE.
Copyright, 1915, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
BY Kate Conway.

Hes so mean none Of his own folks
will have him. Laura remarked
thoughtfully. "Bernice told me she
wouldn't live in the same house with
him not if he was seven hundred times
her grandfather. And Ramsay says
he'd pinch a penny till the eagle
squealed."
mo more eagles on pennies, child, >
laughed Aunt Bethiah merrily. Ram
says fifty years behind the times.
What else?"
well, he lives In that little old
house all alone and he can't keep a
housekeeper cause no one will stay
with him. And now he's sick and cross
as two sticks. Why, when Tommy
went over for the milk this morning,
he threatened to thrash him with his
cane if he split drop along the side
path, I'm so glad you've come, auntie
for it is really dreadful to have such
a neiehhor."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06

shove with your feet-and go over.
AS daily exercise, 1t would be worth
any number Of the expensive move
ments" professionals may offer to
teach you.
Do not stop with one-do half a
dozen at least. And when you have
mastered the gentle-and Juvenile
art Of somersaulting frontwards, try
doing the same thing over back
wards.
Questions and Answers
Plsdse give me good and hnrmIess
recipe for greasy, shiny 'losc.-R. e.
Reply-If your nose is shiny. imagine
your whole skin has q tendency to be oily
Powdering your nose with a good rice
powder will remove the shine washing
your face twice each day with an oatmeal
soap ana hot water will help overcome the
oily condition.
What oin overcome ringDor,n on the
face f--Redder.
RepIy-A trouble as serious as this
should be taken to doctor rather than a
beauty specialist. Get from him a regular
course OF diet and good blood cleaner
and tonic
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06

more like elusive flashes in the moon
light than things of life. They burrow'
ed under the old bulls body and fed
while he raved and filled his mouth
with snow. Gray Wolf sat placidly on
her launches. The little ermine did
not trouble her, and after time Ka-
zan realized this, and flung himself
down beside her, painting and eX-
hausted.
For long time after that the night
was almost unbroken by sound. Once
in the far distance there came the cry
of wolf, and now and then, to pune
tuate the deathly silence, the snow owl
hcoted in blood curdling protest from
his home in the spruce tops. The
moon was straight above the old bull
when Gray Wolf scented the first real
danger. Instantly she gave the warn
ing to Kazan and faced the bloody
trail, her 1.-the body quivering. her
fangs cleaning in the starlight, snarl-
ing whine in her throat. Only in the
face Of their deadliest enemy, the
lynx - the terrible fighter who had
blinded her long ago in that battle on
the Sun Rock - did she give such
warning as this to Kazan. He sprang
ahead Of her, ready for battle even be-
fore he caught the scent Of the gray
beautiful creature Of death stealing
over the trail.
Then came the interruption. From
a mile away there burst forth single
fierce long drawn howl.
After all, that was the cry of the
true master of the wilderness = the
wolf. 1t was the cry of hunger. 1t was
the cry that sent mems blood running
more swiftly through their veins. that
brought the moose and the deer to
their feet shivering in every limb =
the cry that walled like a note OF
death through swamp and forest and
over the snow smothered ridges until
its faintest echoes reached for miles
into the starlit night.
There was silence and in that awe.
some stiffness Kazan and Gray Wolf
stood shoulder to shoulder facing the
cry. and in response to that cry there
worked within them q strange and
mystic change, for what they had
heard was not warning or menace
hut the call Of Brotherhood. Away OF
there - beyond the lynx and the fox
and the fisher cat. were the creatures
of their kind. the wild wolf pack, to
which the right to all flesh and blood
was common - in which existed that
savage socialism Of the wilderness, the
Brotherhood of the Wolf, And Gray
Wolf, setting back on her launches.
sent forth the response to that cry -
wailing triumphant note that told her
hungry brethren there was feasting at
the end of the trail
And the lynx between those two
cries. sneaked off into the wide and
moonlit spaces of the forest.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
PLAN STATUTE OF
MISS EDITH CAVELL

Paris, Nov. Announcement is
made by a. leading Paris newspaper
that one Of the masters OF contempor-
airy art has. been commissioned to ex-
ecute a large has relief Of the execu-
ton of Miss Edith Cavell, which will
be presented to the city Of Paris.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
RuELow ISSUES DENIAL.

Lucerne, Switzerland, Nov. A.
Prince Won Buelow, former German
chancellor, informed the Associated
Press today that he had not come to
Switzerland on a peace mission.
He declared Germany was resolv-
ed to continue the war to its conclu-
sion, by arms.
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CHAPTER XIV.

A Fight Under the stars.
On their haunhecs Kazan and Gray
Wolf waited. Five minutes passed
! ten fifteen - and Gray Wolf be-
came uneasy. No response had fol
lowed her call Again she howled, with
Kazan quivering and listening beside
her, and again there followed that
dead stiffness of the night. This was
not the way Of the pack She knew
that it had not gone beyond the reach
of her voice and its silence puzzled
her. And then in fash it came to
them both that the pack. or the single
wolf whose cry they had heard. was
very near them. The scent was warm.
A few moments later Kazan saw a
moving object in the moonlight. 1t was
followed by another, and still another,
until there were five slouching In a
half circle about them, seventy yards
away. Then they laid themselves fiat
in the snow and were motionless.
A snarl turned Kazan's eyes to Gray
Wolf. His blind mate had drawn
back. Her white fangs cleaned menac-
tngly In the starlight. Her ears were
fat Kazan was puzzled. Why was
SUG SlSIlAlluE " All1 "hCA IL
was the wolf and not the lynx. out
there in the snow? And why did the
wolves not come In and feast? Slowly
he moved toward them. and Gray Wolf
called to him with her whine. He paid
no attention to her but went on, STEP
ping lightly, his head high In the air,
his spine bristling.
In the scent Of the strangers. Kazan
was catching something now that was
strangely familiar. It drew him toward
them more swiftly and when at last
he stopped twenty yards from where
the little group lay flattened in the
snow, his thick brush waved slightly.
One of the animals sprang up and ap-
preached. The others followed and in
another moment Kazan was In the
midst of them. smelling and smelled,
and wagging his tail. They were dogs
and not wolves.
In some lonely cabin in the wilder
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XXI HEN you come to analyze the
INV various differences between
the youthful and the matured
ar the aging form. you will find that
the chief one is elasticity. Youth Is
.lastic-the body is supple, the mus
lies firm, the contours slender, the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
BY C. A. vOIGHT
Preserving Youth

ing much Of the Joy Of youth again.
Try 1t today-bend over like the
girl in the picture, knees crooked,
arms out, head bent. Then lower
your body till the top Of your head
rests on the floor-you may use q
pillow II you like-give yourself q