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When the Doll Was Arbiter.

Ones imagination went back to days
when the French doll arrived in Amer
lea. via a sailing ship from England,
and women on the Battery and Bowl
ing Green in New York, out near Pitts
burgh, up through the fortress homes
of the Mohawk valley and down on the
James river in Virginia, asked eagerly
of the new fashions from France. and
treated those who had seen the doll
with the eager curiosity accorded those
who have just touched a conqueror.
There We're great days when Rose
Bertin, milliner to Marie Antoinette,
and, incidentally, the woman who
shared in the infiamed public mind the
ignominy. if not the guillotine, with
the best dressed woman in Europe, sent
her doll all over the world. On its cos
tune We're modelled the clothes of the
fashionable world of this planet; the
Poupee de la Rue Saint-Honore, as it
was called, was sent from Paris each
month to London, and from there it
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Taffeta Cloth of Jet, Silk Fabrics and Coat
Suits in Deep Green Are Among
DEGREES of Fashion.

~ 0E4E things have arrived from
IN\l Paris out of the storm and
II Nj stress of war. The American
q " dressmakers have handled. ap-
proved or disapproved, sold and copied
them already and now breathe a bit
easier than when the middle of De-
cember arrived and found the French
gowns not delivered.
At the houses in New York to which
the new frocks had been assigned
there was as much commotion as in
the foreign war offices when piece
of news comes in. l was caught in the
rush OF the first days excitement there
tboth foreign war office and dress
making place, by the way) and sat
back in sheer amuse ment at the scene.
1t was important, vastly so. to those
who sell clothes And in this furry
for new gowns which indicates new
styles there was more reason for eX-
element and congratulation than ap-
peared on the surface to those who
had not been behind the scenes. 1t
meant q chance to garner ShekelS out
of a reluctant season. to keep the sal
ary list where it was, to go home at
night feeling that Mary and Jessie and
old Mrs. Jones would not have to
be dropped because there was no buy
ing and selling of womens raiment.
Oh, the pressure here mas been terrible,
and there have been worried and anX-
ious hearts in every department
where apparel has been the source of
income.
Twenty-Five hundred women asking
for employment at Christmas time in
New York was a significant symptom
OF the disaster that has come to thou
sands here among US because of this
war. Each woman and little girl clings
on to even the merest pittance of a
position in order to keep her body and
soul together
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Roast Saddle of Mutton.

The saddle of mutton or lamb is SIM
ply the loins cut off before the carcass
is split open down the back. If a large
saddle is used the tail is left on. and it
will require about two hours to roast.
If medium sized it will roast in an hour
and half. Take the skin from the
top of the fat and kidneys from the
under side. Cut the suet on top in
points and raise a little to make d dec
GRAFTON. Roll the flaps under and tie
in IA well rounded shape. Set in a very
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Apple Dumplings.

Put one and one-haif cups of sugar.
two cups of water and a. piece of but
ter in baking dish and place on stove,
where it will boil; take one and one:
half cups of flour, one teaspoonful OF
baking powder and one teaspoonful of
lard, mix thoroughly, roll out thin,
cut in pieces and fill with sliced tart
apple. pinch edges together and put in
hot sirup. Bake for about twenty min
utes, when they will be coated with a
rich, delicious sirup. These are easy to
serve, as the sauce is all ready.
EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD.
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and belted in about two inches below
the normal, which is not an especially
new trick, but usually acceptable.
In top coats for afternoon wear over
the better class of one-piece frocks,
there was an admirable velvet coat
from Cheruit with shaped fu1lness
from the shoulders and immense
pocket flaps at the sides of the waist
line in the fashion of Louis XIV. This
is significant because one sees so many
fashions combining today that are
taken from the epoch of the last two
French kings. A marked one is the
decollete which is high at the back
and curves outward across the 'front.'
and is outlined with white tulle or
lace handkerchief 1t is gathered up
| under the bust and finished with a
decolletage in the paintings of Marie
Antoinette and the Princess Lamballe
Probably one is more familiar with the
fashion as shown in the eighteenth
century English paintings of ladies OF
quality.
Gowns Copied From Paintings.
Arnold has sent over two admira BILE
gowns that are copied from paintings
| that hang in Versailles, and were there
when the Germans made their other
raid on Paris and settled in the palace,
and from there turned the King of
Prussia into a German emperor
One of these frocks is of yellow taf-
feta showing wheels of gold embroid- =
cry. The skirt is widely circular and
much shorter in front than in back.
1t is mounted on a fitted. pleated yoke
of yellow chiffon.
The bodice is of tinted lace in a
square open pattern with a battle
mented edge, which is used finish
to the top. This lace is arranged in
a most alluring way; single piece is
handled for the low bodice over a tight
lining of the yellow silk This piece
is more than two yards long, is gath
cred into the waist and is caught up
at each side, under the arm. to go over
the shoulder and form kind of loose
sleeve which is merely graceful bit
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Golden Fingers.

TAKE any stale cake you have, or
= plain stale bread, and cut into
neat fingers. Moisten with sweetened
milk. Fry in deep fat, drain, arrange
in a dish and keep hot. Pour one gill
of maple sirup into a pan. add little
lemon juice and make very hot. Pour
over and round the fingers and serve
Very hot
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fit. sew and design in order that the
industrial life of Paris may be taken
up for a few weeks SO American cop
pers may flow into the commercial
channels of France and help ease the
government from it's task of support
ing the women and children left be-
hind.
And one sparkling day the ships come
up the harbor, the cuStomhouSe sends
word that the clothes are waiting for
adjustment. and in another day or so
the cases are delivered at the places
that had the foresight and courage to
go after them in war-riGden France.
Excitement Begins.
Then begins rapid telephoning, and
to hundred or more homes goes the
message that Paris, sartorial1y speak
ing. is again within the gate. Women
of fashion as we'll as those who are in
the business for their bread and but
ter are eager to see what gospel Of
clothes will now be preached in this
dull time when the world had begun to
turn its eyes away from the Rue de la
PaiX, so they telescope other engage
ments to make time.
Then the excitement begins. AT one
place it looked like bargain day in a
department shop fashionaoies ana
dressrna kers from many cities, artists
in search of sketches for papers and
magazines who were crying out for
copy" actresses who want the last
thing for new play, brldes-elect
searching for smart frockS for Palm
Teach honeymooning, all looking as
thrilled as though the curtain was
going up on a melodrama.
The doors of the fitting rooms were
wildly swinging to and fro: secrecy
was sought for the exploitation of
something really wonderful for the
customer who had stood by the house
for many sea sons. or whose purse was
full of the gold that made life smoother
for many when it flowed freely. Every
one looked happy for the first day in
month. And the frocks from France
were very. very attractive,
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Rich Colors in Silk Cloths.

Coat suits are in deep green as well
as in a warm living tone of rose also
in putty color. The coats are short,
even neglecting to cover the waist
line in some models. The body part
remains almost tight fitting, and when
there is material below the waist it
is made to flare out at the sides and
quite often it flares in the front Cal
lot started this trick last August, but
then 1t looked too queer, but now it
may be accepted. We get accustomed
to certain exaggerations in line of COL
oring, and cease to see anything &C.
centric in them.
However, it is wiser for all women
to look from afar on the coat that
| flares out in front like "A vcritable
| Persian tunic unless they are Young
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made its rounds of the great fashion
centers, including the seraSlio, II we
may believe one historian.
In this connection it is quite inter-
esting that 500 of these dolls have
been sent to America this winter by
the sewing women of Paris, the sale
of which helped the destitute in France
among those vast establishments that
give work to women.
Today the science of transportation
allows US to bring over to this coun-
try the fashion costume itself, life
size and it is greeted with the same
excitement and curiosity as of old,
and the boundaries of its fame have
spread like running water. The vast
machinery that America has perfected
to turn out the clothes from France Is
so far-reaching that the girl working
for $40 a week is apt to know all about
it before it's fashion has even paled,
and is able TO buy 1t at a price within
her income.
She, too, is the one who wants the
last thing from Paris. Your woman OF
high fashion and full purse may strive
to follow the maXirns laid down by the
great Marquise de Crequi, who once
said I'VE must be like the others, and
avoid appearing peculiar and singular
this I admit; but We may at the same
time try to be neat in our simplicity,
noble in our tastes, and modest IN our
fashions" Yet the girl who buys
cheaply and often is not guided by
such rules or beliefs. 1t is to suit her
. tastes that the mills grind out the
newest thing from Paris by the thou
sands
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What Are These New Fashions?

And what did the ships bring from
the field of battle? What did those
industrial heroines invent as their
hearts were turned toward Flanders.
the Argonne Forest? Did they lay es
pecial stress on the military movement
in fashions &hich we see expressed
here, or did they content themselves
with working out new combinations
on accepted lines?
Probably the latter method would
come nearer describing the new clothes
of the month Their value lies in this
as well as in the fact that none of
them repeats the styles of last August,
which is all America has had since the
opening of the season, and which are
as well known today as those of two
seasons ago. The trade is thoroughly
tired of them even if the public is not,
and those who live in the great centers
and who have the chance to see them
repeated in a vast variety of shapes
and colors every day are naturally
glad TO see an entirely new treatment
of the old theme.
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SUNDAY MENU.

SUNDAY MENU.
BREAKFAST
Stewed Prunes with Lemon.
Cereal.
Crisped Bacon. Poached Eggs on Toast.
Date Gems.
Coffee.
DINNER.
Black Bean Soup with Croutons.
Homemade Pickles. Apple Jelly.
Haricot of Mutton. Carrots. Peas, Potatoes.
Tomato Sauce
Cabbage Salad.
Baked Apples and Nuts.
SUPER.
Spanish Rice.
Baked Potatoes.
Sliced Oranges and Bananas.
Cookies.
Cocoa.
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RECIPES FOR JANUARY

not oven until well Drowned: then sea-
son with salt and pepper, haste fire.
quently with its own drippings and
cook rare. In carving cut slices the
length of the saddle and parallel to the
backbone; then slip the knife under
and separate from the ribs. After
carving the top turn and cut the ten
derloin in the same way. Serve with
red or black currant jelly.
Crown Roast of Lamb
Buy two pieces of the rack and have
the rib bones cut and half the chops
trimmed clean. The two pieces are
formed into a circle, the trimmed bones
standing upright Your butcher will
trim and skewer this into shape If you
do not understand. Press a cup into
the center to keep the cavity hollow,
and tie little strips of fat salt pork
about each chop bone. Dust with salt
and pepper, place in a small drip pan
and put in a very hot oven to brown
quickly. This forms a crust and holds
in the meat juices. After the meat is
well Drowned reduce the heat and baste
frequently, first with hot water, then
with the gravy that flows from the
meat. five-pound roast will require
about an hour and a half to roast it.
Put the meat on a hot platter take
pork and trim each bone with a paper
potato or green peas or asparagus tips
in butter sauce, or even glazed chest
nuts. Serve with mint sauce or mint
Jelly.
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Currant Jelly Sauce.

This sauce is delightful for roast
venison or mutton. Cook together in
small saucepan one tablespoonful of
butter and one teaspoonful of onion.
At the end of five minutes add one tea
spoonful of flour and stir until smooth.
Gradually add one gill of stock. STIR
ring all the time. When the sauce
boils up add half teaspoonful of salt,
an eighth teaspoonful of pepper. a tea
spoonful of vinegar, a small bay leaf,
a Glove and a tablespoonful of currant
jelly. Simmer five minutes, strain and
serve hot
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Irish Stew in a Fireless Cooker.

Cut about two pounds of mutton from
the neck or ribs into neat pieces and
put into an iron saucepan wAth about
half cup of hot Water. AS this boils
away, brown the meat in its own fat,
together with four small onions sliced.
Season with salt and pepper, then add
three pints boiling water, put in the
regular cooker saucepan. bring to
boil and put in the cooker. Let it re-
main there about four hours; two
hours before serving remove, bring to
the boiling point add half cup each
of celery, turnip and carrot, cut in
even slices. Cook ten minutes, add two
cups potato sliced, and then return to
the cooker for an hour and half or
two hours. Take up and thicken with
-four to the desired consistency and
ribbons of green peppers or parsley
minced fine, cook a moment, season to
taste and serve
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Date Gems.

Beat to a cream two tablespoonsful
butter or good drippings and one-Quar-
ter cup sugar. Add two well beaten
eggs, then two cups flour, sifted with a.
little salt and two teaspoonfuls bak-
ing powder. alternating with one cup
milk and one cup dates chopped. Bake
in a hot oven.
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Mint Jelly.

| Pour two cups boiling water over a
| bunch of carefully washed and bruised
mint leaves, then simmer gently for fif-
teen or twenty minutes. Strain, and to
a pint of liquid add one package of
currant lemon any of the patent
jellies, ora half package of gelatin
| that has been soaked for twenty minutes
in little cold water reserved from the
original amount measured out Add
sugar to sweeten and currant or lemon
juice to make a pleasing acid. Stir the
softened gelatin until dissolved. and
set away to cool. AS it begins to
capers: Mold in tiny individual molds
or one large one, and garnish with tiny
sprigs of mint. This is nice to serve
with any form of roast lamb or NUT
ton.
Lamb Fricassee With Dumplings.
This is made of lamb left over from
roast or boiled leg of mutton Cut
up enough of the cold lamb to make
d quart of diced meat. Season with salt
and pepper. put into deep baking dish
and pour over it sauce made in this
way: Put a tablespoon of butter in the
frying pan, pour in gradually one
scant pint of hot water, or hot water
and gravy.
AS soon as 1t bollS up, season with
salt, pepper and little minced parsley
and pour over the meat. Set the dish in
the oven to get hot while you make the
dumplings.- Mix together in a sieve one
pint unsifted flour. one-half teaspoonful
of salt, "a teaspoonful of sugar and a
teaSpoonful and half OF baking pow
der, and sift Add a half tablespoonful
of butter. Wet with one small cup of
milk roll out on a Toured board ana cut
n
cults on the meat, bake fifteen or twenty
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Haricot Mutton.

~UT three pounds lamb or mutton
II into inch pieces, trimming Off the
" fat Season with salt and pepper.
Put a tablespoonful butter or drippings
in a saucepan over the fire and when
hot add a finely minced onion and a
half Glove of garlic. Cook two or three
minutes, add the meat, toss until just
tinged with color, cover and COOK
twenty minutes, stirring frequently
Add half cup Of boiling water and
simmer gently until the meat is tender
Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a
saucepan add two tablespoonfuls OF
flour, and when blended add quart
of meat broth made from the bones,
a bouquet of herbs and a half dozen
small onions. Cook ten minutes, add
to the meat, cover and cook half an
hour longer. When ready to serve re-
move the bouquet and every particle
of fat, put the meat in the center of a
hot platter and dress with pint each
cooked string and lima beans and
cooked diced carrots Peas may be
added or substituted for either of the
ntbar yepeta bleS
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07

however yexatious these Incidents may
be and however grieyous the loss both
to the owners and to Lloyd's. we may
console ourselves by the reflection thai,
since q submarine cannot keep the sea
for more than ten days without refit-
ting and since the base has been cap
tured. there must come a speedy end
to these depredations."
So much for the Courier's account of
our proceedings. Another small para.
graph was, however, more eloquent.
THE price OF wheat" 1t said. which
stood at So shillings u week before the
declaration OF war. was quoted yes
terday on the Baltic at 81. aize has
gone from q to 81, barley from 10 to
35, sugar foreign graduated, from II
shillings and t~hreepence to 10 shillings
and ~sixpeDce."
Good. my lads!' said l when read
it to the crew. 81 can assure you that
those few lines will prove to mean
more than the whole page about the
fall of Blankenberg. Now let us get
down channel and send those prices
up a little higher"
All traffic had stopped for London
not so bad for the little lota-and we
did not see a steamer that was worth
q torpedo between Dungeness and the
Isle OF Wight. There called Stephan
up by wireless, and by I O'Clock we
were actually lying side by side in a
smooth, rolling sea-Hengistbury head
bearing N. N. w. ~andsabout Eve miles
distant. The two crews clustered on
the whalebacks and shouted their joy
at seeing friendly faces once more.
| Stephan had done extraordinarily well.
| had. of course. read in the London
paper of his four ships on Tuesday.
but he had sunk no fewer than seven
since. for many of those which should
have come to the Thames had tried to
make Southampton. or the seven, one
was of 10000 tons, q grain ship from
/ America; a second was a grain ship
from the Black sea, and two others
were great liners from South Africa.
l congratulated Stephan with all my
heart upon his splendid achievement.
Then. as we had been seen by a destroy
er which was approaching at a great
pace. we both dived. coming up again
Off the Needles. where we spent the
night in company. We could not visit
each other since we had no boat, but
we lay so nearly alongside that we
! were able. Stephan and l. to talk from
hatch to hatch and so make our plans.
He had shot away more than half
his torpedoes, and SO had l. and yet we
were very ayerse from returning to
our base SO long as our oil held out.
| told him OF my experience with the
Boston steamer. and we mutually
agreed to sink the ships by gunire in
future so far as possible. remember
old Horli saying. What use is a
gun aboard a submarineg" We were
about TO show. read the English pa
per L Stephan by the light Of my cleo
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07

force upon the continent, but until
then it might just as well not exist SO
far as Europe is concerned. My own
country. therefore, was in good care
and had nothing to fear. Great Brit
ain. however, was already feeling my
grip upon her throat. AS in normal
times four-ffths of her food is i'm
ported. prices were rising by leaps and
bounds. The supplies in the country
were beginning to show signs of de-
pletion, while little was coming in to
replace them. The insurance at Lloyd's
had risen to a figure which made the
price of food prohibitive to the mass
Of the people by the time it had reach
ed the market. The loaf, which under
ordinary circumstances stood at five
pence, was already at one and two
pence. Beef was 3 shillings and four.
pence a pound and mutton 2 shillings
and ninepence. Everything else was
in proportion. The government had
acted with energy and offered q big
bounty for corn to be planted at once.
It could only be reaped five months
hence, however. and long before then,
as the papers pointed out, half the Is
land would be dead from starvation.
CONTINUED Mex Weekly
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07
BURNING or TOWN.

DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY.s FLEET
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07

There is more Catarrh IN this section of
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incErable. For a grear
many years doctors pronounced 1t a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing TO cure with local
ence has proven Catarrh to be q consti-
~tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by r. ], Cheney G.
Co. Toledo, Ohio. is the only CoTstitu-
Itional cure on the market. 1t is taken in-
lternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
falls to cure. Send for circulars n tes-
t%inonia1s.
Address: r. j. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, {.
Sold by DRUGGISTS, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07
wise to Him.

81 think two "a live as cheaply as
one, sir"
"You can't edge into my family on
that theory, young man. I'm willing
to keep on supporting my daughter,
but you'll have to pay board"
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07
Continued From Last week.)

BY this time ! was becoming rather
anxious. as you can imagine, to know
what was going on In the world and
what England was thinking about 1t
all. | ran alongside a fishing boat,
therefore, and ordered them to give up
their papers. Unfortunately they had
none except a rag OF an evening paper.
which was full of nothing but betting
news. In a second attempt ! came
alongside a small yachting party from
Enstbourne, who were frightened to
death ct u sudden appearance out OF
the depths. From them we were
lucky enough to get the London Chron-
icie Of that very morning.
1t was interesting reading-so inter
esting that | had to 0 1t all to
the crew. OF course You know the
British style of headline, which gives
yon I'LL the news at a glance. 1t SEEM
ed to me that the whole paper was
headlines. 1t wis In such a state of eI
element. Hardly a word about me
and my fiotilla. We were on the sec
ond page. The FIRST one began some.
thing like this:
CAPTURE OF BLANKENBERGi
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