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FASHIONS IN CUSHIONS.

THE newest and most popular
cushions are round and several
inches in thickness. The ma
terials chosen for them are usually
plain fabrics. such as corded sin,
satin or velvet. ..r
on examining some OF the handsome
cushions made to order at an interior
decorators studio one notices that
the materials are put on full. top and
bottom. drawn down in tight folds TO
tho centre. and fastened securely under
a button of the material on both sides
of the cushion. on the majority OF the
cushions heavy silk cords matching
in color are put on about six inches
apart and the material Is drawn
tightly around the cushion, fastening
beneath.
Any amount of originality can he
used in designing these cushions and
costly materials may be employed in
their makeup. The fabrics chosen
are usually IN dark. rich shades. hsr-
monizing with the rugs and hangines
of the room Some OF the handsomest
cushions are of velvet in red, bronze
and brown combined with heavy gold
braid or cord, the centre buttons being
carved gilt affairs of generous size
| Brocades OF the rich two toned varte-
ties make attractive cushions. while
| black satin and black velvet are par
| ticularly popular and smart for dec
| orative purposes.
! A long, wide crimson velvet pillow
! has a border Of Oriental embroidery
/ while a yellow houdor is soon to have
n footrest of orange hrocade trimmed
! with gold fringe. Alover tapestry IL
' particularly good for these cushions,
/ though plain satins and velvets are
| considered smarter by some author!-
/ ties
Many OF the newest houdoir cushions
/ Of large proportions are OF soft satin
/ shocked. Some have the little frilla
Of yellowish lace combined with the
shocking giving an elaborate effect.
Perhaps one Of .he attest innova-
tons in the way Of down pillows il
the saddle bag or chair back. This IN
an ohlong case partially flied with
down. making light cushion easily
adjusted and thrown over the top or
a chair TO suit ones comfort. These
cushions are shown in al sorts Of fas-
/ cinatinE coverings.
WITH the revival Of other old tme
bits of house furnishings come the foot
+ pillows or footrcsts. They are long af-
fairs. at least two foot, and about
foot or more wide and Of the sam"
: thickness. They are not soft, Yielding
things of down but are stuffed well
with hair. \ set If these conveuiences
ordered for blue library are ~
heavy. rich blue cloth embroidered
with gold in square designs.
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shirred very full and corded on the
sides. so that the sides would flare
valiantly while the back fell straight
from under the lace Of the jacket
bodice back.
Many cords in the overskirt bottom
a device adopted by other designers
also-added to the flare. The skirt
dipped down in back and front and MP
at the sides. after the fashion Of most
of the new overskirts.
Where taffcta is combined with an
other and softer material the lines of
the frock are often only moderately
Victorian. A very good looking coat
frock Of taffeta and gapartiine had
only the full upper section Of its skirt
in tafeta, while the plain lONsr sAs,-
ton. the fun length sides and the back
were of cloth and fiared but slightly
The deep girdle was OF silk. the simu-
lated coatee of cloth and silken tasseis
were the only trimming. A good
looking model for white serge and
taffeta this would be, though the
original was in dark color ,t,.
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cravat details Of the hack were worth
notice. The full skirt. like many
others, had smooth fitting hip yoke.
and at the bottom was cut In large,
shallow scallops and bound narrowly
in brown velvet.
Stock and sash ends coming from
under the hip yoke and falling in
loops and ends over the skirt back
were of brown velvet ribbon, nd there
was "A little bracelet wristband Of
brown velvet ribbon on each sleeve.
The hip yoke on this model was
deeper at the sides and front than In
the back. and this yoke line is often
suggested even when a separate yoke
Is not applied. the skirt top being
shirred and corded or tucked at sides
and front but not in the middle back.
The resulting line is better than all
around fairness.
one of Callot's models, black
taffeta Of widely narlng overskirt, is
good example Of this treatment. and
the back View Of It given on this page
is interesting. Here the overskirt was
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THREE SEWING HINTS.

TN sewing IN hot weather use an
emery strawberry" frequently.
\ Passing the needle N and ouL
through il removes moisture, all dan
ger OF rust and insurcs much easier
manipulation Never allow a needle to
squeok
Wax tho thread thoroughly bcfu'"
attempting To string beads, or - 10"
them on any material. This makes IA"
work easier as well as stronger and
the thread OF sewing silk will never
knot.
Instead NJ binding OF Telling seams
on lingerie, use narrow lace Insertion,
ono piece on each sid" Of the raw
edges; stitch on both sides with he
sewing machine, Lace hralds, also
the bought ready made lawn folds are
admirable for tn. purpose and are
easy Of manipulation.
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l 1T In Colorado on a farm on the
J banks OF the Arkansas River
thnrn li,os The loadnr Of nna Of

. banks OF the Arkansas River
there lives the leader OF one of
tho most important Of the many move
men.s going on in our country to-day.
Mrs. Belle Van Dorm Harbert Is the
pres dent OF the Internal .onal Con-
gress " Farm Women.
Though the American branch Of this
mos ement among farm women Is only
three years old II now numbers its
members by the tens Of thousands.
At the last annual meeting of the ma
tional congress. held recently at Wich-
tia, twenty States were represented
and national congresses OF twenlr.
eight nations sent greetings. This an
nual meeting lasted four days. with
two well attended sessions each day.
"Our organization Is composed OF
women who know the hardships OF
farm life" said Mrs. Harder. speak
ing OF the Farm Congress. Women
who are willing TO put their should
ers to the wheel and, lift soue OF the
loneliness out OF the life OF women
dwell ng on our farms We are preach
ing the doctrine Of thrift and the king
ship of labor.
The farms all over this country
are looking neglected and run down
for the simple reason that the moving
spirit of the home is discouraged, often
broken. The people who have !nves-
tgated the causes of the disconten,
in the workshops. the mines and thr
factories have not gone deep enough
The hand that rocks the cradle sows
the seeds Of our national discomfort.
I'VE all know that the farm womer
have fallen behind in the march for
ward OF our country. The wome'
themselves know it. They know tha
in the estimation Of the world she II
not considered Of economic Importance
Her advice is never asked except or
questions concerning manual labor OF
when taxes have to be paid. Her eN
lstence is only reCkoned in butter an
eggs and garden vegetables. In otAe'
words the farm woman has deGener
a,ed into a household drudge, often
discorteuted scold. and she rea! Ze'
md doesn't see any way out.
THE object OF the congress - .
helm thes, women out and preNen
others, younger women. from fallinI
into the same rut. We have aske'
for the establishment Of farn
woman's bureau in the Agriculture
Department al Washington. We wan
this work put into the hands OF
practical farm woman, woman "h'
knows tho needs Of the women on th'
farms, not one who theories ana ten
them what they should need
Mrs. Harhert is a practical farmel
of more than twelve years experience
though she h gan life as schoo
teacher. II taught school for years,
She SAYS. TO get money 10 start on
AS farmer ] had tended our CHERRY
orchard for long time, so realll
knew about what | wanted. Whit
teaching had an accident whici
nee, sSitatcd a long stay in a hospital
! "On leaving the hospital | was for
/ h dden 10 return To my sChoolroom.
was then started farming. l. wa
ON a small amount of borrowed capt
tai. n very doubtful beginning, hut TIT
only one open t. me. After a year O
hard work my first harvest paid m!
debt and gave m" SLIGO to my credit
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color-another detail distinctly Victor
ian. Doeullct, for instance, has
dcmurc model of brown and white
check taffeta whose back Is pictured
here because the front was severely
simple and the velvet g!rdie and
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said and done. II is in tho general
character Of many models that one
feels the military influence.
Many of the simple taffctl frocks
in check or stripe are bound or
trimmed in narrow velvet OF plain
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WOMAN HEAD OF
WOMAN FARMERS

Since then I have never seen .
city home that looked the least bit
tempting. I love the country, the
peace. the quiet. the breadth of view
which one who enjoys farm life gets.
On a modern farm one can get, BY
good management. OF course. all the
modern conveniences of city with
out the many disadvantages Of such
life"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-15
UNEMPLOYED NEED JOBS NOW

Now that there seems to be a little better under
standing among the members of the City Commits
sion regarding the proposal to put the unemployed
men of the city at work now on improvements pro-
posed to be made in the coming year it is to be
. hoped that they will speedily reach conclusion
as to how it can best be done the earliest posi-
BILE moment.
We do not believe that the slight friction that ap
peared among the Commissioners when they
celebrating this important question was due TO
any lack of sympathy on the part of any one of
them With the purpose of the general proposition
What differences there were, we believe, were
merely differences of opinion as to how best to
take care of the problem of unemployment with the
least expense to the city. We do not believe that
at any time any Commissioner was actually opposed
to providing work for the men who sorely in
need of jobs at this time. 1t is only question of
the best way to provide the work
We believe that the fairminded citizens of Har-
risburg who desire to see the distress of the unem-
ployed relieved will not object to the Commits
sioners paying more money to have done now such
work as can be done Immediately, even at greater
cost. We believe the taxpayers of the city will
ing that the City should spend few thousand extra
dollars to have Improvements made at this time of
year and relieve the distress rather than postpone
such work for several months when those several
thousands of dollars might be saved.
1t is a commendable spirit the part of the
Commissioners to try to conserve the funds of their
particular departments for they have not much
of a margin to go Perhaps however, it would
be practical for the Commission to appropriate
several hundreds or thousand dollars from the
Citys general contingent fund for the specific pur
pose of meeting the difference between the cost of
making certain contemplated improvements to-day
and the lower cost of making them few months
hence Then each department might also draw to
a more limited extent on its departmental con-
tingent fund. Thus the added expense of making
the improvements would be borne by the City
whole or be equally divided among the depart
ments, and would not be drain against one depart
ment more than against another. Even if such
plan would result in total deficit of several thou
sand dollars in the various contingent funds at the
end of the fiscal year, believe that the taxpayers
of the city, class, would approve of such debt
incurred for the purpose of putting bread in the
mouths of the worthy unemployed who are willing
to work.
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Legislature and an amendment in California to be
put the ballot in the next election for refer
endum vote is proposed by the Peoples Associa-
ton of that state.
The Texans hold that their state is too big for
two senators to manage and it does seem that can
ddates for election to the Senate from Texas
now that such candidates must tell the people all
about it,-are expected to do good deal when it
comes to canvassing their bulky commonwealth.
One sad result of division of Texas would be
that of making impossible all usual comparisons as
to the sizes of foreign countries with reference to
the tremendous area of the state. Not nearly so
large as our own state of Texas alone" would be
happy phrase lost forever.
In California, too, the size is somewhat of an
argument for division, but even more so is the
peculiar situation of the state which stretches
through so many different climates which cause so
great variance in the interests of its people The
suggestion is that the eight counties in the lower
part of the state be made into new common
wealth. If two states to be formed where
one exists now, they would be as widely different
in many respects as are Massachusetts and North
Carolina.
While three new states would put three addi-
tional stars on the flag, they would also supply
three extra capitals for the school children to learn,
thus helping to provide mental discipline necessary
to the well-being of the little ones. The capitals
picked out for the two new divisions of Texas by
the advocates of the scheme are North Texas, Pal
estne, and West Texas, Abilene, South Texas re-
tanning the present capital of Austin. There would
assuredly be swing to a geography lesson dealing
with Palestine, Abilene and AUSTIN which
would have possibilities in bringing out express
sion almost as great as recitation in Eugsh
poetry.
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? The second verse of the same chap

it? The second verse of the same chap
ter tells us that lit shall come to pass
in the last days" etc.
Then I'm the last days" We are to
hear much talk of an epoch OF peace,
tranquility and prosperity; much talk
of regulating all human conduct by di-
vine law; much talk of the church reg
ulating all the affairs of the world:
elimination of war from the activities
of this world. If we had no other proof
that we are living in the last days
present-day facts fulfilling that proph-
ecy would be proof enough. That scrip
ture describes our times, and our times
fulfill that scripture.
Now what Is the truth of the matter? ?
In the same chapter we learn what the
1t portrays condition OF terror IN
Enter into the rock and hide thee
in the dust for fear of the Lord, and
for the glory of his majesty. The
lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
and the haughtiness of men shall be
bowed down, and the Lord alone shall
be exalted in that day. For the day of
the Lord of hosts shall be upon every
one that is proud and lofty, and upon
every one that is lifted up; and he
shall be brought low. Anp they
shall so into the holes of the. rocks and
into the caves of the earth, for fear of
the Lord, and for the glory hi His
majesty. when He ariseth to shake ter
Tidy the eartn. -lS9lan
A very different condition of things Is
this from the condition which many
people" are looking for; but that scrip
ture agrees perfectly with what our
Saviour himself declared would be.
There is no promise there of any
epoch of peace and safety. 1t is time
of distress and perpleXity, and fear, and
terror, and 1t leads right into the COM
ing of the Son of God. the destruction
of the wicked and the reward of the
righteous.
Since Turkey has decided to throw
herself into this fray, there is every
the nations of the world is leading
straight on toward Armageddon. While
Turkey kept out and the war was con-
fined to Europe m Armageddon did not
of the ancient nations is located in Pal
estine, at the foot of Mt. Megiddo, in
the plain of Esdraelon, north of Jeru-
salem. accessible from north and south
gathering place of the hosts of the
nations in the last mighty battles of
this world.
The reason for the assembly of the
when we consider the logical result of
Turkeys entrance into this war. If
she is driven out of Europe and forced
out of western Asia Minor. it would
When Islam and other heather re-
ligionists come to grips with armed
ChriStendom in the Holy Land, we shall
have Armageddon. The door is now
flung wide open for just such a de-
nouement. And will peace follow it?
Nay, verify; and there will be no
battles fought after that, for there will
be no one left to fight them. That
closes the history of this present world.
and leaves the wicked slain upon the
earth and the righteous on their way
with angelic escort to the place of their
reward.
Very sincerely yours,
L. +. SHIPLEY,
SIS Market St, Elder of the Seventh
day Adventist Church.
Feb. Is, 1915.
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Tonaue-End Topics
Wants to Push Death Chair Button

Wants to Push Death Chair Button
john Franeies, warden of the West
ern penitentiary, who is to have charge
of the electroeutious in the death house
at the new penitentiary in Centre coun-
ty. is Just now overwhelmed with appli-
cations from persons who want to see
the first leetrocution-that of man
named Talap, Montgomery county
murderer-which is to take place dur.
ing the week of February %. OF
course Warden Francies cannot permit
anybody TO be present except those
named in the law-the physicians. jury
and representatives of the newspapers
from the county where the condemned
man was convicted-but applications
from the morbidly curious continue to
reach the warden. The other day he
received lerter from a man who is
desirous of pushing the button that
turns on the electric current 10 snuff
cut the murderer s life. The man
wrote:
IL think am we'll qualified for the
place of electrocutioner. for have had
an experience as a butcher for twenty
years. He will not have the grue.
some pleasure of pushing the button.
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THE NEUTER AS PEACE-MAKER

"A Neuter only has room to be Peace-maker, :"
wrote William Penn, for being of neither side, he
has the Means of Mediating a Reconciliation of
both. "
This country is not without advice from great
men of the past in the present crisis when it is
striving earnestly to please and dispease equally
the beigerents in Europe, that it may preserve its
neutrality, remain at peace and ultimately be the
means of bringing about satisfactory reconciliation
Certain words of wisdom coming from George
Washington, time after the production of
Penn S Fruits of Solitude are also peculiarly
appropriate.
In his farewell address in 1896 the Father of His
Country said, after pointing out that the detached
and distant situation of this country should keep
1t from becoming implicated in European diff
culties, that he certain that the United States
had right to take, and was bound in duty and
interest to take neutral position" with respect
to the war then being waged in Europe. The words
which then followed are significant now if ever:
The duty of holding neutral conduct may b.
inferred, without anything more, from the obga-
tion which justice and humanity impose on every
Nation, in in which it is free to act to main
tain inviolate the relations of Peace and Amty to-
wards other nations"
The rights of neutral nations are affected in the
present war to greater extent than in any pre-
vious conflict; yet this country, as neuter has
duties to perform as well rights to uphold, and
the most important, perhaps of these duties is to
remain itself at peace that it may ultimately plav
the peace-maker.
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MORE STATES IN THE UNIoN-MAYBE

If Texas were to be trisected and California BIZ
sected, as has been proposed, and three states
thus added to the Union, the country would not be
any larger any mightier, even though the United
States Senate would be vaster to the extent of six
new members.
The object of the Texans and the Californans in
suggesting that their states be divided is of course
to gain the additional representation in the upper
branch of Congress A joint resolution for an
amendment to the Texas constitution to split the
state in three is under consideration by the
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PEOPLES COLUMN
Tie Star-Independent does not
make itself responsible for opinions
EXPRESSED in this column
APPROACHING ARMAGEDDON
The Meaning of This World War, as
Infernrefed h. Elder l.. Il. ShipIey


Editor of the Star-Independent:
Dear Sir-what is the meaning of this
cataclysm of the nations? What meanS
the beating of this fail Of death on
the ouivering flesh of civilization? Is
1t only step in human evolution? 1t is
the wreck of civilization? sls II the
long expected Armageddon OF Biblical
prophecy?
Yesterday this world was a neigh
borhood. to-day it is a slaughter house,
a charnel. a cyclone, a cemetery. Yes
terday there was comparative peace
and prosperity, confidence. friendly in
tercourse and kindly ministration to-
day there is turmoil and famine, dis
trust, hatred. malevolence, ruin, dis
may, and a mutual desire to injure and
to kill. Does it mean nothing to this
race but the changing of a few rulers
and the making of new boundary lines?
1t means much more. Civilization as
a guarantor of peace has proved itself
a broken reed. The hand that leaned
upon it has been pierced by it; and the
innocent victims of that trust are wat
ering the storm swept soil with their
tears and their blood.
Centuries ago this world was warned
that time would come when the call
to war would go ringing through the
earth. and the nations would respond.
Certain religious leaders have been
teaching the world for years that we
were soon to enter upon millennium OF
peace. They have deluded themselves
and their hearers with the belief that
some OF the WlSneS OF the human neart
are the very oracles of God. They have
wanted wars to cease and have de-
clared that they would cease. God has
recorded their declaration: and then
they have declared that Gods record
of their declaration in this matter was
Gods own declaration to the human
race of what he purposed should be
This utterance from Isaiah they have
thus interpreted
And He (Cod) shall judge among
the nations, and shall rebuke many
| people; and they shall beat theii
swords into plowshares and their spears
! into pruning hooks: nation shall moi
/ lift up sword against nation neither
shall they learn war any more. Isaiah
Pa.
| 1t is essential that we know who Is
! saying this. The verse Immediately pre-.
ceding the one quoted reads:
And many people shall go and say
Come ye and let us go up to the noun
! tain of the Lord, to the house of the
God of Jacob; and He will teach u:
of His ways, and we will walk in His
paths; for out of Zion shall go fortf
the law. and the word of the Lord from
/ Jerusalem"
Who says it? Many people" Ant
they are saying 1t now. And what els,
are they saying? That they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, ans
| their spears into pruning hooks" ant
that nation shall not lift up swort
against nation, neither shall they learr
war any more When are they saying
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Each Life Valued at $500

Reckoning each man as a wealth
producing force equal to a mere $4,000
in capital, the economic waste of halman
life in the present European war on
the basis of a million dead and per-
manently incapacitated, had by Janu-
airy l cost Europe s2,50O,OOO,O0O, ac,
eording to F. w. Hirst, a weH-known
London fnaneier. Addressing the Shelf
field bankers on the political economy
of war, he also said in the first three
months of this war, Britain had actu
ally spent more than in her entire three
years campaign in Crimea, or two and
half years in the 'Boer war.