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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
SUMMER AMONG FLOWERS
By BESSIE L. PUTNAM.

II the porch box was fully enriched
at planting time with well decayed ma
terial from the COW stable it will prob
ably not require additional fertilizer,
although so many plants blooming in
so contracted a space may prove too
hard a strain.
If the growth becomes less thrifty,
try using liquid manure once every
week or two.
The saliva bed is now in its glory.
If few slips are placed in water in
a sunny window and allowed to take
root they will be fine foundation for
the winter window garden
Plant flowers in the back yard.
Then if the drainage problem has new
er been fully worked out, the plants
may thrive upon the kitchen waste
during the summer months, and there
will be no trouble about cess-pools.
If you have occasion to paint plant
stands or boxes avoid the bright and
conspicuous tints Olive green and
black are both colors which harmonic
well with almost anything else and are
not in themselves conspicuous. Keep
the blossoms closely clipped as soon
as they begin to fade.
Many complained last spring that
seeds did not come up, three success
sive paintings being necessary in some
instances to obtain a show of plants.
Here again, in an adverse season,
or when old seed is used, comes the
advantage of generous sowing.
Then, If the heavy rains come and
wash the ground out, there is still a
chance that enough seeds are left to
make a good showing.
Most flowers will not succeed In a
shady yard. II you have such To-
cation, make the most of it, taking
your pay in pansies, ferns and plenty
of comfort. But the flowers must be
given place in the garden where
they will get sunshine during at least
portion of the day. =
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
JULIA BoTToMLEY.

with a wreath of rose foliage against
background of ribbon with a narrow
border in black Little June roses are
set in the wreath. The ribbon band
is extended into sash ends at the back.
Near the brim little cluster of roses
is tied into the sash with bow. The
coloring is pale pink with the narrow
black border of the ribbon and dark,
natural green of the foliage adding
depth and character. The roses are
shaded and deeper in tone than the
body of the hat
JULIA BoTToMLEY.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03

The jacket is among the modest num-
Der made with normal waist line,
which rises little at the back, where
plaits are depended from the belt. 1t
is cut in points at the front, is longer
than at the back and is shaped by
small plaits laid in at each side. The
belt terminates at these plaits
The shoulders are somewhat long
and so are the plain coat sleeves. The
tlaring turnover collar is cut in three
pieces and unusually well adjusted.
Ball buttons in three sizes are used
for fastening and trimming.
The suit is worn with low shoes and
black cloth CATERS, to be changed to
white for midsummer wear. The sailor
hat, of black taffeta. with collar and
border in black and white stripe, is
trimmed with small pompons of black
feathers with long curving ribs ex-
tending from them White neck rufus
of malines or combinations of white
and black look well with these check
suits.
JULIA BoTToMLEY.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03

Early in the season hats having
transparent brims made their appear
ance. These brims were fiat and
mounted on braid crowns. They were
made of malines, net, chiffon or thin
crepe. Nearly always, embedded be-
tween layers of such airy materials,
flowers, with petals spread fiat, added
touches of lovely color. The effect
is very pretty-and gave the hats
their distinguishing name-that OF
halo hats-the embedded wreaths
encircling the head like halo.
So good an item OF art in millinery
was destined to outlast the early sea-
son and to introduce many transpar-
ent hats for midsummer. The latter
are made, crown and all, of the thin
fabrics, and brims have grown wider.
Flower and feather trimmings but
mostly fowers-are mounted on the
outside OF underbrim instead of being
embedded in the material
A beautiful hat of this character is
shown in the picture. 1t is of black
malines made over a frame of fine
silk wire. The edge wire and one
other are outlined on the underbrim
by filter jet. There is an immense
pompon Of malines at the front with
two long jet ornaments thrust in it.
Nothing could be prettier for midsum-
mer wear than this exquisite piece of
millinery.
Hemp and leghorn hats, with fac
ings Of Grape on the upper or under
brims are among the 1oveliest offer
ings in dress hats. Light pink crepe
is the favorite color and hats of. this
character are among the best de-
signed for bridesmaids at June we'd
dings. One of them is shown in the
illustration. 1t has crown Of hemp
and its upper brim covered with crepe
stretched smoothly over it, leaving
the hemp as facing It is trimmed
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03

Many seeding plants found growing
about the roots of old plants may be
lifted and potted, sinking the pot in
the soil and keeping the young plants
growing until cool nights, when they
Should be brought indoors. gradually
accustoming them to the new condf
tions until cold weather, when they
will give the finishing touches to the
cheer of the living room. The busiest
housewife may have a few plants, and
there is nothing more encouraging
than a bit of thrifty greenery in the
house when the storms are raging on
the outside.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03


Hardly any of the great standard
hymns of the Christian church are
copyrighted; but nearly all of the eff.
fective ones of the present-day revi-
valism are copyrighted and jealousy
guarded. Not because they are valu-
able as music or as poetry, but for
the simple reason that they are lucra-
tive side line of profit for the evan
gelist or his musical director San
keys success, as Moody's musical
coadjutor, pioneered the way for this
financial by-product. Rodeheaver
Billy Sundays aide. is interested in
a publishing company that bears his
name and that prints and sells the
hymn books used exclusively in the
Sunday campaigns. II one may judge
from the well-known cost of producing
such books side by side with the vast
it should be very profitable flyer.
Indeed, one prominent evangelist has
seriously warned his fellow evange-
lists that the commercial aspects and
activities of their campaigns are
bringing not only their office but the
whole cause of religion into disrepute.
And it is not only hymn books. The
writer has very vivid impression of
one mission conducted by the Rev
Reuben A. Torrey, d. D., in which the
sale of his various publications seemed
to bulk more largely than the CONVEX
sion of souls. Joseph II. Odell, n the
Atlantic.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
Queens All In Flames.

Obeying tradition, bonfire was
lighted the other night at the gypsy
camp, Simonsville, and win be kept
until it consumes all the effects OF
Tryphena Mcneil, queen Of the tribe
Of her name, who died in a hospital
here
Fuel has been furnished by coatly
clothing, including a $3.50 fur coat and
everything she owned or handled, val
ued at thousands of dollars.
Mrs. Mcneil was the wife of King
Samuel Her reputation as a seeress
brought many rich clients to her
Waterbury Comm Dispatch to New
York World.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
Dotted Chiffon Gown.

Chiffon figured in large polka dots
of contrasting color is used for some
very smart looking frocks, but mod
els of such pronounced material must
be very graceful and conservative of
line, and utterly without elaboration.
A good example of such treatment is
a frock of sand color chiffon polka
dotted largely In dark blue.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
CLEAN SWEET SCALP
May Be Kept SO by cuticura Soap
and Ointment Trial Free.

To have good hair clear the scalp
OF dandruff and itching with shampoos
OF Cuticura Soap and touches OF Cuti-
cura Ointment to dandruff spots and
itching. Nothing better than these
pure, fragrant, supercreamy emol-
lients for skin and scalp troubles
Sample each free by mail with Skin
Book. Address Cuticura, Dept. ky.
Boston. Sold everywhere.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
Pipe Wood is Used by Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania leads all of the states
in the consumption of wood for use in
the manufacture of pipes. OF the diff
ferent kinds of material employed,
apple wood is in greatest demand, for
it is the principal wood used in max
ing the so-called brier pipe. Genuine
brierwood is purchased at about $3.50
a thousand feet. The other woods
that are used, aside from this and
apple, are red gum, ebony, birch and
olive. The state each year consumes
in pipe making the equivalent of APP
proximately 225,00O board feet of tim
Der, the average price of which
amounts to about $65 a thousand feet.
Popular Mechanics.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
BARRIERS MAGNETIC Home.

A Los Angeles barber has placed an
electromagnetic in the base that sup
ports his home. This holds the blade
of a razor firmly against the stone,
thus keeping it fat, SO that it is honed
at the right angle and nc part of the
edge receives more sharpening than
another.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
Applied Art.

What's your hired man blowing up
your front yard for, Blinks?'
MY daughter has new camera.
and the instruction says to break up
the foreground before taking a picture.
and ! couldn't very well let her do
that hard work"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03

ALIENS FoOT-EAsE ror- the TROOPS
Over 1900 packages of ITEMS Foot-Ease, the
antiseptic powder to shake into your shoes, ara
being used by the German and Allied troops at
the Front because 1t rests the feet, gives In
slant relief to Corns and Bunions, hot, swollen
aching, tender feet, and makes walking easy.
Sold every where, Csc. Try 1t TODAY. DON'T
accept any substitute. Adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
Important to Mothers
The Gentle Hint

May / kiss your hand?" said he.
Wouldn't that be rather out of
placer" quoth she.
And he agreed with her to the s's'-
est extent
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03

Truth may not be stranger than 10
ton. but tia great deal shyer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-11
A CHILD DOESN'T
LAUGH AND PLAY
IF CONSTIPETED
Look, Mother!Is tongue coat.
ed, breath feverish and
stomach sour?
California Syrup of Figs"
can't harm tender stom-
ach, liver, bowels. !

Mother! Your child isn't naturally
cross and peevish. See 81 tongue -
coated; this is a sure sign its little
stomach, liver and bowels need =
When listlesss pale, fevetish, fun of
cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't
eat. sleep, or act naturally has stomach
ache, diarrhoea, remember, n gentle
liver and bowel cleansing should always
be the first treatment given.
Nothing equals California Syrup of
Figs for ehildrens ills; give a tea
spoonful. and in few hours all the,
foul waste, sour bile, and fermentinG
food which Is clogged in the bowels
passes out Of the system, and you have
we'll and playful child again All
children love this harmless. delicious
fruit laxative" and 1t never fails to
effect good inside, cleansing. d.
rections for babies, children OF all ages
and Prown-ups are plainly on the bottle.
Keep II handy In your home. A little
given today saves a sick child toner
| row. but get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for a 50-cent bottle OF Calf
fornia Syrup OF Figs." then look and
! see that it is made by the California
Fig Syrup Company" ,.-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-11

an weeping. She may weep at nome,
but she never shows II abroad
The baron threw his head back
proudly
Proud Of Wounded.
she says, Go, my husband! Go,
my son! Fight for your wife, for
your mother, for your babies. You
are the protector of la belle France.
Don't you dare TO give in, and don't
return to me until you have won or
you are wounded honorably In night"
II know a woman who has thirteen
sons. the youngest nineteen, Six
of them are killed. Yet ! saw her In
a hospital beseeching her youngest.
her baby. to get we'll, so that ne
could 70 back again to his place In
the trenches. The others are just
the same. They are proud of their
wounded men. and they have cour-
age enough to send them out again
to fight with a smile and a new
CRY OF bonnie courage.
"Ah, it is pitiful-yet fine, too. to
see the soldiers who have been
blinded with asphyXiating gases
marching along through the streets
of Paris, arm IN arm with their
wives or mothers. The wife. she
and keeps her eyes on the HELPLESS
soldier as II he were a king TO ne
honored. And he marches-stin. as II
going into the charge. with blind
eyes staring straight ahead ana
1--WE didn't want TO fight-we don't
want to fight" said the baron, sad.
ly. but now that we have started
every Franchman and woman VIII
die fighting. We don't want to XIII;
our love for our own wives ana
children makes us think OF tneir
A
adores his wife next to his God, and
TO him the very name Is sacred.
That Is why we In the army 80 often
take Germans prisoners instead OF
killing them outright when we have
q chance.
All Work Together.
IT am glad to say that there Is
little suffering in Paris, malgTe-
deapite-the terrible life in the
trenches. The money given to the
women is ample to keep them sup
Dlied with food and clothing. 1t Ia
fact that many of them have more
now to live on than they had betore
the war began.
''If any of them were hungry ana
starving. thew would be found, you
nav be sure OF that. Il Is as "
France had put all her money in one
biR bag and divided II up evenly
among her people. We no more
speak of rich and poor. All Of the
women work toRether-all OF them
work for France. The world has
never seen anything like II. War
has not come as close to tina Eng
iish woman. The French woman,
who has heard guns at the very
gates of Paris. knows truly what
war L..
"The French woman does not feel
the poverty of wartime because she
Is SO economical. She Is trained to
save what others throw away. She
does her own cooking. She makes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-11
Mary'S Martyrdom.

They were speaking OF the Beautiful
sex and their kindly conversation in dis
cussing each other a few evenings ago.
when this little incident was recalled:
One afternoon two young women were
talking hats, servants, picture shows,
and things like that. when one of them
casually. referred to certain Mrs.
Smith.
she is a perfect dear, OF course, but
she suffers much for her belief"
Her belief7' responded the first. ques-
tioningly. And what. pray, may that
belief be?"
"She believes" was the soft. cooling
rejoinder OF the second. that she can
wear a No. 8 shoe on a No. foot
London Ttt-Bits.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-11
Handful Of Women Could
Rouse Countrymen to
Stop War, But They Are
True to the State" He
Claims.

/fT + the women OF France today
wanted to start a revolution
against me war, they could
do It. A handful OF them
could rouse their countrywomen to
action, but they won't even try,
They may meet 10 talk things over;
they may protest-to themselves
that the war IL cruel, but never a
word against the state do you hear"
II was with true French pride In
his nation and Its women that the
Paron dc Malaussene voiced his
faith. The baron-he is also an ad1;l-
tant in tho French army--is on a fur
Tough from active service while he
RECEIVERS from wounds received about
six weeks ago He is tall-unusually
so. In fact--but his head sinks deep
on his shoulders. which are prema-
trrely bent His face is rather thin.
careworn. and infinitely sad. yet his
brown eyes speak of courage and
hope that personal losses may din
but never obscure.
AS the wife leads her blind soldier,
so the French woman has always led
the men of her country" he con-
tinued. "A woman, Jeanne dare,
saved our country, centuries ago.
Another woman led the charge on
the Bastille during the revolution.
One Big Family.
France today Is one big family.
Fitch. poor-all are alike. And all are
hghting-the Frenchman at the front
and the French woman at the rear"
The voice OF the speaker tremoled
q. trifle, then went bravely on:
"Ah, but II would break your heart
to sec the little girls, so brave so
hopeful"
The voice quavered and broke, and
the Baron de Malaussene buried his
face in his hands for a moment be-
fore he continued.
THE French soldier you have hon
ored in all your papers, but the
French woman. she. too, is wonderful.
You Of the West have but known
the surface of her nature before.
Now you shall Inow the depths.
when you Americans see a. little
grlsette 60 pat-pattlng Bayly down
the street in Paris, you say, She Is
frivolous This is not the truth.
She is gay. out frivolous-neyer.
Have you ever heard our beautiful
language spoken or sung by our
working girls? Then you do not
know II at its best.
THE French woman Is pal, Sood
companion. She tries to please the
man always. That Is why she Is so
popular. Before the war was thrust
upon us, she did IL by being always
happy-though there was depth to
her that other people never knew.
But the war has changed her
gayety. She Is cheerful-yes, but gay
no longer. And brave? The men are
no drawer. She filings her men into
the fight, speeding them with 'Bonne
courage and Bonnie chance Thou
sands of women have seen sending
their mon out 20 fight. to die. per-
haps. to be wounded almost certain
ly. Never a whimper-never a wom-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-11
Business Woman Needs
To Learn To Direct Her
Energies Toward Success
Green Timber Needs Seasoning, Says Maude Radford
Warren, in Discussing Eligibility of Her SCI
to Fill Higher Positions

to It. Perhaps the straight talk which
the manager gave her Will explain IN
part.
"Giving up marriage and energy and
time isn't enough" he said. You've
got to take hold of your work as man
does. make the sacrifices a man does,
economic your time as a man does
Look at the difference between Belden ;
grasp and YOURS! You thought that to
make good with me you'd have to Know
every last detail of the advertising busi-
ness and you've loaded yoursef uD WIN
a lot of stuff that gets YOU nowhere.
Belden knew that he mad business
sense. financial sense. and that's what
he has been developing. and he's let a
lot of details slide about which he can
ask YOU or a dozen people inferior 10
him when he needs to. Hes put MS
energy where It's needed. The Dig thing
about him is that has watched me. seen
what I was after made himself my
understudy, watched the way the cav
jumped with our whole business not
simply with the. advertising; Hes nVea
for one thing and one thinE. ,only1to
make good IN big way In the ALEXANDER
Sinclair firm, not just to make good
with me. He puts the business ahead
of me. just as ] put It ahead OF myself;
He's kent himself tit mentally ana
physically too. He's cut out late hours
he's gone in for exercise.
Learn From Men.
Ard then this astute HallaGer tolu uNt
also that she wasted her time doing her
own hcusework and thousand and
other little things which the man who
was striving to get to the TOP naturally
eliminated from his round of duties;
Another cause for the green TIMBER,
Mrs Warren has someone say, is That
women will not learn from men.
The won't learn from men. They
come into the offices as green timber
apI q fbpir own fnllt that they 10
not become seasoned timber. They feel
that the office is not their proper en-
.vironment and then don't care to adapt
themselves to 1t more than Is abso-
lutcly necessary. They are willing TO
work far harder in their homes than
ever they do in an office but they dor, I
care to use their minds hard enough
to carry over from the Office TO the
home methods that will help them to be
better partners for their husbands.
They don't want to use their minds
fully: they'd rather not learn more than
they must"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-11
woman still green timber in the
business world?

- woman sui llllbbl III NiAO
business world?
A great many people hold that
she is, and others, qualifying their
rernarks with the hope that she will do
hetter In time. agree that IL not entirely
ireen she is still an unseasohed guam
city.
Maude Radford Warren, in the Satur-
day Evening Post writes story called
Green Timber" in which she makes
The point along with others, that wom-
a will be green timber in the business
world as long as she gets the big head
over the work which she does.
Green timber" is just another way
81 saying that the woman does not gain
~ experience, and that no matter how
GOOD a business woman she may think
hsrself, she Is not considered eligible
lsf the higher positions which require
ihe very broadcast viewpoint and bust
nrss ability.
4 successful business woman in the
n Dry says that the trouble with sue
ceasful business woman is that she gets
ths bighead. She takes herself so much
rsore seriously than a business man
WHO had succeeded would take himself.
ieolk at your Mr.. Sinclair The trou-
bic with women who get bigheaded is
that they not only think they're so com
pssent but they think it so blindly that
fhey lose the chance of making them
selves more competent"
Directing Energies.
The woman OF the story went into
business because she was unhappy at
h0Bne--didn't like her home surround
inGs after her mother had died and
nlsde up her mind to make herself a
homo Of her own. She didn't see any
one or know anyone it seems whom
Ehe wished to marry.
She advanced rapidly to certain
p9int In the advertising world. But
suddenly she stopped. and stuck at the
oh of private secretary. while a young
nan whom she had practically taught
the business was promoted over her
head to be the advertising manager.
she complained over her lot and was
tpid frankly that she had failed-that
abe hadn't gone after her job in the
SgEht spirit. Yet she had given every
0iince OF her time and all of her energy
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1915-12-11
Three-Minute
Journey
By TEMPLE MANNING.
.op2right, 1915, Newspaper Feature Ser

ap'IiBht' lSl0' newspaper Feature service
WUY HEN we think of Egypt it
nv Is often that the Desert of
" Sahara comes into the
mind until one grows UNI
baeonsciOusly to corelate tho two.
But while the desert is a desert
rlace, indeed, much of Egypt is a
nd flowing with milk and honey"
The difference between the 'destinies
oi these two spots of the earth that
are so close together that one sci.
hnm knows where the garden ends
ID the desert begins. is a river
Were it not for this famous
stream, go beneficent that 1t is wor-
shipped as a god by some creeds,
gypt would be a barren place, in
iced. 1t is the overlooking OF the
lie that makes agriculture possible
ong its banks, by renewing the
sarth with its silt, as well as by
listening IT with its fruitful
aters. The men who watched these
pods In the early dawn OF history
acured the knowledge of irrigation
,, when they found that water, be-
des that supplied by the overflow
.g god OF their crops, was sorely
seded, they dipped their gourds in
20 the stream and poured the waters
upon the parched earth.
Very shortly-as years in perspec-
tive seem-after that first irrigation
system was put into operation by
the gourd method, some one grew
tired, put two-forked sticks into the
ground, laid q stick .Jcross them, put
another at right angles to thai. and
tied a bucket to the end nearest the
river, Then, with comparative ease,
he dipped the bucket into the river.
drew II up Drumming. and spilled its
revivifying contents upon his thirsty
crops.
To-day. II YOU go up the Mic YOU
viii zoe this ancient method Of irri-
gatlon stu practiced as It was CEN
'uries ago. Since the first man dipped
the first bucket there has been no
clange. Ills hundredth great grand
child still waters his crops the same
say.