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The Washington times., 1915-02-11
Personals.

Mrs. Thomas r. GaT and her niece,
Miss Helena Elliot, left Washington
yesterday afternoon to spend the rest OF
the week in Boston.
g.
Mrs. stephen II. p. Pell. who has been
the guest of her mother. Mrs. Robert
M. Thompson will return to New York
today.
Colonel Thompson has recovered from
a few guests aboard his house boat,
Everglades, at Miami, Fla.
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Frank V. Robinson, who underwent
an operation the first Of the week. is
recovering rapidly:
Maj; James F.. Hall. Medical Corps.
who has been stationed in Boston. is
In washington on IN !. leave .r
returned from Hattonfeld, N. j., where
they were guests of the New Jersey
state Historical Society at their mid
winter meeting.
Capt. Grayson v. Heidi. U. s. A.. re-
ton for few days, and is stopping at
the Army and Navy Club.
s.
, Mr.. and Mrs. John Bernard Dalghren
have returned to Washington from a
long sojourn In California.
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Chase 8. Osborn, former governor Of
Michigan. and Mrs. Osborn are the
guests of Senator and Mrs. william
Alden Smith. Mr.. Osborn will speak to-
morrow before the Geographic Society.
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Miss Hilda Fletcher will return the
end OF the week from visit in In
d!anapolis.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Congressman and Mrs. James a..
Hughes of West Virginia have an
nounced the engagement of their daugh:.
ter. Tudelle vinson Hughes. to Harold
Henderson Van SAINT. Of Ashland. Ky.
Miss Hughes made her debut in Wash
ington last season and is one Of the
most popular girls Of the Congressional
early autumn at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hughes in Huntington, w. Va.
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A charming wedding took place last
evening. when Miss Lorena Frances
ett Cunningham at the home Of her
mother, Mrs NJ. Brooks Reitz, 1890 Gil
rard street. The house was bower
of white lilacs. sm,lax and pink roses
brides uncle. the Rev. w. S. Brooks. in
the presence Of a small family party.
Later there was large reception at
Rauscher's.
toned satin. made on long. simple lines
and trimmed with a motif of pearls. a
quilting Of chiffon outlined the court
train. Her veil was of tulle, held to
she carried white orchids and lilies OF
the valley.
Her sister. Miss Marion Brooks, her
maid OF honor. wore a gown of peach
colored faille silk, made colonial style,
and carried Killarney roses.
man. The ushers We're Harold Beck
ham. of Oklahoma: Joseph Bailey. Of
Lawrence, Mass, and Jack Wright and
Harry Grant. of this city
The ballroom suite at Rauscher's was
elaborately decorated for the reception
and wedding supper. The mother Of
the bride and the mother of the bride
groom. Mrs. J. II. Cunningham, OF
Franklin. Mass. assisted in receiving.
Th" former. Mrs. NJ. Brooks Reitz,
wore a handsome gown of black crepe
meteor. with an overdress Of jet and
gold lace Mrs. Cunningham wore a
stunning goNn Of turquoise blue crepe
meteor. with an overdress of crystals
shading from white to rich blue in a
! butterfly design.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cunningham will spend
their honeymoon at White Sulphur
| Springs. and will be at home after
March at Fontanet Courts.
The marriage of Miss Marie Jose
phine Woodward, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Harris McParlin Woodward, and
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ing a financial as well as social sue
cess, as all proceeds are to be turned
over to the District branch of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers for their
charitable work.
Among those who have engaged tables
for the bridge and tea dance to be held
at Rauscher's on Tuesday for the bene-
mt of the free wards of Columbia Hos
pital. are Mrs. Fitch. Mrs. F'itzhugh.
Mrs. Charles Spalding. Mrs. Gibbons.
Mrs. Glover, Mrs. RiXey. Mrs. Nathan
iel Wilson. Mrs. Moran. Mrs. Walter
Mclean, Mrs. Wheeler. Mrs. Theodore
Richards, Mrs. Victor Kauffmann. Mrs.
Wharton Lester, and Mrs. Frank An
derson.
At o'clock there will be dancing for
which special tickets have been issued.
The Washington times., 1915-02-11
Women's Csc
Mercerized
Cotton Hose

Women's>F'ine OCo
Cotton Hose, HVN
full fashioned. rein
forced sole. heel and
toe. double garter
tops; black only.
Limit, > pairs to a
buyer.
Main Floor.
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$1.OO Kid
Gloves

2-clasp GIace CSr
Kid Gloves. WV
in white
only; all sizes; $l.O
Equality. &c.
| Limit. l pair to a
buyer
| Main Floor.
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| STOP CATARRH! OPEN
NOSTRlLS AND HEAD
Says Cream Applied in Nostrils
Relieves Head Colds at Once.


If your nostrils are clogged and your
head Is stuffed and you cant breathe
get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm
at any drug store. Apply little of
this fragrant, antiseptic cream into your
nostrils and let It penetrate through
every air passage Of your head, sooth-
ing and healing the inflamed, swollen
mucous membrane and you get instant
relief
All! how good II feels. Your nostrils
are open. your head is clear, no more
hawking. snuffling. blowing; no more
headache. dryness or struggling for
breath. Elys Cream Balm is Just what
sufferers from head colds and catarrh
need. It's a dclight-Advt.
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News and Gossip of Washington Society and Social Events

military attache Of the Russian en-
bassy, Col. Nicholai Golejewski, and
Nine. Golejewski.
The Commissioner Of Patents and
Mrs. Thomas Ewing will give a dinner
tonight. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Nyman enter
tanned at dance last night at their
residence on Sixteenth street.
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Miss Janet eowan. and Miss Jane
Austin are assisting In the dining room.
The Washington times., 1915-02-11
35c Worth
Writing Paper,

Consisting of ON
/ pound Linen L4C
Writing Paper go
sheets) and 2 pkgs.
of Envelopes (4S).
Worth 35c. For the
4c.
Limit. / lot to a
buyer.
Main Floor.
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A Safe Medicine
for COLDS
Father Johns Medicine Best for

Father Johns Medicine is safe for all
the family to take for colds and throat
and lungs. 1t is pure and wholesome
food medicine with more than fifty
years of success. Guaranteed.-Advt.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

When we stop to consider where
withal we are clothed, and count in
everything from top to toe, 1t is agree
ably surprising to find that high per-
centage of our apparel is made of
cotton. Even the blossoms that crown
our millinery are fashioned of special
ly prepared cotton fabrics, woven for
the purpose. Cleanliness and durabil-
ity are the eminent virtues of we'll
woven cotton fabrics-two items that
will forever appeal to civilized hui
mans. Even the sheerest goods stand
Tubing successfully. But these es-
sential virtues are abetted by the
beauty and ever-increasing variety in
weaves Of cotton.
Among the weaves that have been
most successful this season, cotton
crepes, voiles and fine lawns may be
profitably considered for making all
sorts of pretty frocks. Four popular
patterns are shown here, one of satin
striped wolfe, one of wide-striped wolfe,
one Of figured crepe, and one of print
ed lawn. The satin-striped wolfe has
dim floral pattern printed over the
surface. All these fabrics are made
with colors on a white ground.
Stripes, If managed we'll. make the
smartest of frocks. The wide-striped
wolfe will make very effective skirt
by stitching border Of plain blue silk
about the bottom edge and one or two
bands about the body of the skirt.
The fullness at the waist line is laid
in wide, fiat box plaits with the white
stripes folded under. These plaits are
pressed down the entire length from
waist to hem The skirt is worn with
. thin white waist. and drRped
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

From the foothills of the huge noun
tain range, running through its entire
length from east to west, extend to
north and south vast swampy plains
covered with dense forests, intersected
by innumerable streams, and haunted
by the deadliest Of fevers.
Thus it comes about that German
New Guinea is practically an unknown
land, except for a narrow strip along
the coast, while the portion hitherto
held by Great Britain has been ex-
plored only in part, and what is known
Of the Dutch half of the island was
ascertained mainly by an English ex-
petition undertaken in 1910.
This expedition, headed by Capt Ce-
Gil G.. Rawling, which penetrated some
distance into the interior and made
considerable surveys, came across
tribes of hitherto unknown pygmies,
the men barely reaching feet inches
in height. 1t is presumed that the
women are proportionately smaller,
but no brides or other persuasions
could induce these little folk to pro-
duce any Of their females for inspec-
tion-lest, as seemed to be feared, they
might be captured and carried off. APP
parently the pygmies are of the same
dwarf race, evidently very ancient,
that is found in the Philippines, in the
Andaman islands and in equatorial
Africa
The savages along the coast, on the
other hand, are good-sized people, re-
markedly muscular and with a great
development of chest. The men are
sooty black, the women being slightly
fairer. Among them are occasional
albinos, with dirty reddish hair, their
pink skins blotched unpleasantly with
darker color. Both sexes go nearly
naked, the women wearing either a
short grass petticoat or a strip of
bark cloth passed between the legs
and held in place by a string tied
around the waist. For the man a
gourd similarly attached in front often
serves the purpose of raiment.
Native Village One Long Room.
A native village is one long room,
which may extend to any length, the
newest member Of such a community
building his hut on the end of the
row, without any partition. Thus
there is no attempt at privacy, though
each family has its own doorway and
its own fireplace. The floor is of sand
fresh from the seashore and covered
with grass mats, and the only furni-
ture consists of deliberately carved
wooden pillows, most uncomfortable,
as one would think, for sleeping pur-
poses. Dangling from the roof, and
much blackened by smoke, are human
skulls and bones. formerly belonging
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

to defunct relatives, the bones being
sometimes contained in woven grass
bags.
The price Of wife among these
primitive people may be anything
from yard of calico to an ak head,
according to the physical attractions
and domestic accomplishments of the
woman.
The savage warriors of New Guinea
adorn themselves with crowns of par
adise feathers, which are held in place
by band of plated grass encircling
the head. Sometimes they wear a
sort of halo, the rays of which are
many pieces of cane plated into the
hair and standing out at right angles
to the scalp. Such headdress, which
is not disturbed or remade for months,
must be rather uncomfortable to sleep
in.
To lend fierce expression to the
face the beak of the hornbill split in
two is worn through a hole in the
septum of the nose, in such a way
that the two thin white blades, each
five or six inches long, curve up at the
ends like Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache.
In Perpetual Strife.
Captain Rawling, in his book, "The
Land Of the New Guinea Pygmies,"
says that the natives are engaged in
perpetual strife and drunken brawls-
their favorite intoxicant being fer
mented liquor obtained from the sugar
palm. Just outside each family door
way stand the owners spears and
stone clubs, which are used in domes-
tic quarrels or to fight with enemies.
Violent temper seems to be char
acteristic of these savages, and with
hardly moments warning the peace
full village is converted into scene
of turmoil and strife. Spears whizz;
clubs are welded Unfortunately and
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

Just to be beautiful is the aim of
these lacy and flowery head cover
ings in which women delight to honor
midsummer days and all that they
bring of pleasure. All sorts of fabrics,
airy or gay, engage the fancy Of de-
signers Of millinery for the midsum-
mer season. Matter-of-fact utility need
not restrain the artistic instinct for
the beautiful in composition, and 1t Is
allowed free play in color. Therefore
we have such fascinating hats as those
pictured here.
Increasing width of brim is the rule
for the picturesque things that easily
find favor with women this season, but
the first hat pictured Is something Of
an exception to this. 1t is as much
bonnet as hat, and is one of the many
inspirations drawn from the poke bon
net of long ago. The brim is of fine
leghorn, wired on the underside, near
the edge, with silk-covered wire match
ing the straw in color. 1t is set on to
a crown Of heavy, handmade lace, In
q BattenDerg pattern, In which fancy
braid forms the flower motifs. The
crown is lined with malines in three
thicknesses.
A sash of blue velvet RIBBON is fold.
ed about the crown and finished with
bow and long ends at the back. All
this makes a lovely background for
the wreath of blackberries, set in
small rose foliage, in which the Der.
ries are shown in gradations of color
as they look when ripening on the
bush. A few pink roses like those
that pay tribute to midsummer in old.
fashioned gardens, are set in this dark
wreath.
A wide-brimmed hat of open-meshed
shadow lace is second in the group. II
is shirred over wire frame and edged
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

with murderous intent, and the place
resounds with ferocious yells:
At intervals raids are undertaken
to procure heads as trophies and hu.
man flesh for food. There are no
fiercer cannibals, judging from all &C.
counts, than those of New Guinea In
1858 a vessel was wrecked off the
coast of British New Guinea, and 300
men on board Of her, all of them Chi
nese, were marooned on a small is
land. There they were fed and sys.
tematically fattened by the natives,
no escape being possible, and at inter-
walls, as required, two or three Of them
at time were taken to the mainland,
boiled in a spring of hot water and
eaten.
Women have no rights among the
natives of New Guinea. They are
treated as slaves, worked almost to
death and savagely beaten when their
owners happen to be in a bad humor.
which Is often. 1t is their business to
cultivate the fields Of banana and rice,
while their lords and masters attend
to the fighting and hunting. If man
chooses to murder his wife, nobody in
terferes, and nothing much seems to
be thought of it,
New Guinea is for naturalists an
unexplored wonderland. 1t has many
species of birds that are as yet un-
known to science. The forests are full
of parrots and other feathered crea-
lures of brilliant plumage, and among
the marine curiosities along the coast
are fishes that climb trees. The
swamps swarm with the deadliest
snakes. AS for the mammals of the
island, nearly all of them are, like
those of nearby Australia, marsupi.
ais.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

sleeveless bodice of the wolfe is worn
over this, having a girdle of silk like
that on the skirt
Satin-striped voiles may be well
managed by plating them in side
plaits with the satin stripes overlaid
and pressed down the length Of the
skirt. Inserts of lace or cotton en-
broidery take the place of silk bands,
or bands of narrow ribbon lin the
lightest weaves) may be stitched to
the material.
The figured crepes and printed
lawns are made up effectively in 80
many ways that it is hard to make a
choice of design. Now that wide and
flaring skirts are so fashionable very
quaint and fascinating ones are made
of these flowery and airy fabrics by
setting one wide ruffle on another.
Four or five flounces, each made with
narrow standing ruffle at the top.
will make the required length of skirt
and right proportion in width of fiounO-
ing.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08
WHEAT LOSS is NOT so BIG
Kansas Crops Survived the Heavy
Rains, Says a Recent Report by
Secretary Mohler.

There were two big surprises in the
Kansas crop report recently Issued
by j. C. Mohler, secretary of the
Board of Agriculture. One was the
tremendous wheat acreage and the
other was the high yield indicated.
The figures of the county assessor in
just one-half the counties of the state
have been reported to the board, and
these show an increase of per cent
over the acreage of year ago, which
was the record acreage in the state.
For two weeks crop killing reports
have been going from Kansas because
of the tremendous rains in certain
sections. But these rains did not af-
feet the big wheat counties of the
state. Edwards county is the only
one in the wheat belt that shows a
heavy loss, while the other big losses
are in Eastern Kansas counties with
small acreages.
Last week Mr.. Mohler was asked
what the heavy rains had done. He
replied his reports indicated heavy
losses along the valleys of some
streams, but these areas were so
small that the total yield in Kansas
would not be affected materially.
That interview brought to Mohler
thousands of letters and kilograms
telling him he was too optimistic.
Because of this the annual harvest
report was made more elaborate than
ever before. The blanks were sent
to more farmers than ever before and
more than sixteen hundred replied,
giving their actual belief as to the
area abandoned, the probable yield for
each acre and the actual condition of
the crop. When the replies came in
Mr. Mohler struck out and refused to
consider many of the replies because
they seemed too high and took only
the most conservative figures report
ed from each county.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

with narrow val lace. Big half-blown
pink roses and daisies of white chif.
fon, with rose foliage, make up the
wreath. There is bow and hanging
ends Of narrow black velvet ribbon
perched at the edge of the upturned
back brim. The ends are not essential
to the beauty of the design and may
be omitted.
The third hat IL made of malineS
shirred over wire frame. 1t has q
wide border Of leghorn, and a narrow
strip Of this braid outlines a stay-wir0
on the underbrim. A butterfly bow OF
wired black velvet ribbon is poised
at the back and wreath of azalias fin
ishes the design, which may be car
ried out in any Of the pale colors but
is shown here in the lightest of pinA
tints. No one should begrudge the
milliner a liberal price for work which
requires 30 much skill as Ia evident In
the making of these hats.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08

A serious effort is being made to
reproduce motion pictures in color, but
as yet little success has been obtained,
and the pictures in color which have
been show in recent years have been
painted. Attempts to adapt three
color photography, by using simultane-
ously three films, each with sort OF
light Of appropriate color, and combin.
ing the three images on the screen,
have to overcome great difficulties In
regard to maintenance of register, be.
cause very minute errors of adjustment
between the pictures on the films are
magnified to an intolerable extent by
projection. In a process devised by
G. A. Smith, the results Of which we're
exhibited at the Society Of Arts Of
London, in December, 1908, the mum.
bersof colors recorded was reduced 70
two
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08
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wv RHEN the Australian troops
AAN took the German part of
WV New Guinea early in the war,
w Great Britain became the
possessor of fully half of the
largest island in the world, for Aus
tralia and Greenland are properly
small continents The other half be-
longs to Holland.
New Guinea surpasses Madagascar
in size, its length being 200 miles
greater than the distance from New
York to Chicago, says Rene Bache in
the Boston Herald. Its area is equal
to that of France and the British Isles
combined. But what renders it most
interesting is that it is today the least
known portion of the habitable world,
fully nine-tenths of the island being
as yet unexplored.
This may well seem surprising when
1t is considered that New Guinea is
separated from the north coast of
Australia only by a broad strait. A
glance at a map of the world will
snow that 1t Is In reality the largest
member Of the great archipelago in
the eastern seas, which includes the
Philippine islands on the north and
Borneo and Sumatra on the west. The
line Of the equator runs almost direct
ly through 1t.
Ferocious Black cannlbaIs.
New Guinea is inhabited by tribes Of
ferocious black people, with great
mops Of woolly hair, who evince ut
most hostility toward all intruders.
When vessels have been wrecked up
on their inhospitable shores they have
in number of known instances cap
tured the unfortunate mariners and
eaten them. But if the island is to so
great an extent terra incognita to-
day 1t is not mainly on this account,
but because of its unhealthful climate.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08
Care Of Crochet Lace.

Articles made of crochet may b
kept in shape by this method. Wash
carefully and rinse thoroughly, then
dip in a basin of warm water in which
teaspoonful Of sugar has been dis
solved. Next place in dry cloth and
squeeze, after which pull into shape
and pin upon a cushion. Be careful to
fasten down each part Of the articles
and they will dry satisfactorily.
To cut crochet lace, put small
piece of lawn or organdie under the
lace where you wish to cut it, ther
make two rows of machine stitching
across the lace about an eighth of an
inch apart. Cut between these rows
Trim off all edges of lawn and the lace
will not ravel.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-08
JULIA 6oTToMLEY.
Fans as centerpleces.

Dining table electric fans are the
latest summer comfort. These fans
revolve horizontally instead of YER
tically, as do the familiar ones. and
the air is thrown off at a tangent
from the revolving blades. The mech
anism is mounted on small pedestal.
so that such a fan, placed on the
dining-room table as centerpiece
throws a continuous current of air
to the faces of all the people sittiA0
round the table. - Saturday EyentN
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