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Evening star., 1915-03-15
Little Storle,
20 Bedtime
Blacky Tries Another Plan.
Whsn cns plan fails, tust tsy another:
Declare you'll win some way or other.
BY THORNTON ". BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915. by J. G. LLOYD,


People who succeed are those who do
not give up because they fail the nrst
time they try. They are tho ones who
as soon as one plan falls get busy right
away and think Of another plan and
try that. II the thing they are trying
to do is good thing. sooner or later
they succeed. II they are trying to do
IA wrong thing, very likely all their
plans fail. az they should
Now Blacky the Crow knows all
about tho value Of trying and trying.
He isn't easily discouraged Sometimes
1t Is pity that he isn't, because he
plans go much mischief. But the fact
remains that he isn't. and he tries and
tries until he cannot think Of another
plan. and Just has to give up. When he
invited all his relatives to Join him in
tormenting Hooty the Owl ho thought
he had a plan that Just couldn't fall.
He felt sure that Mrs. Hooty would
leave her nest and help Hooty try to
drive away his tormentors. But Mrs.
Hooty didn't do anything Of the kind.
because Hooty was smart enough and
thoughtful enough to lead his torment
ors away from the nest into the dark
est part of tho Green Forest, where
their noise wouldn't bother Mrs. Hooty.
And SO she just settled herself more
comfortably than ever on those eggs
which Blacky had hoped she would
give him a chance to steal. and his fine
plan was quite upset.
Not one of his relatives had noticed
that nest. They had been too busy
teasing Hooty. This was just us Blacky
had hoped. He didn't want them to
know about that nest because he was
selfish and wanted to get those eggs
just for himself alone. But now he
knew that the only way he could get
Mrs. Hooty of of them would be by
teasing her so that she would lose her
temper and try to catch some Of her
tormentors. If she did that there would
Evening star., 1915-03-15
AMERICAN FASHIONS.
BY LILLIAN E. YOUNG.

A hint of coquetry is characteristic
of fashionable mourning. A costume
may be weighted with crepe and OF a
most uncompromising severity, but
there Is something indefina BILE about it,
something distinctive, even perhaps
daring.
The model illustrated is a fair eA-
ample. 1t is plain, unostentatious, al
together suitable, properly demure, yet
who would deny that il asserts itself
in spite of its som mberness? IT may be
made up in crepe de chine, charmeuse
or taffeta, OF will work out we'll in a
com bination of crepe de chine and
English crepe.
The blouse shows a central portion
in front and back, with the sides curv-
ed to disclose shoulders and sleeve tops
OF chiffon or seif-material. Neck and
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sleeve ends are relieved by a collar
and cuff set of white crepe. The girdie
is cut in a point caught up against the
front of the blouse and Is trimmed
through the center with triangular
medallion Of fine black soutache braid
ing II runs up In a point at the back,
too, but it is not braided. A close row
of self-coyered buttons serves for trim
ming as well as fastening there.
The skirt is full mounted at tho top.
with an even line Of gathers. and has
a knee depth facing outlined with a
corded seam. The tunic is uneven, be-
ing quite d bit shorter III front than
III back, is laid in folds about the waist
and deeply faced at the hem. Another
touch of soutache braiding IS intro
duced at the top of the tunic Just at
either side of the open front edges.
If you wish the crepe de chine and
English crepe combination. use the lat
ter for the top of the tunic and skirt
and for the shoulder sections and sleeve
tops. while the former makes tho rest
of the dress
Evening star., 1915-03-15
SOAP is BAD
FOR THE HAIR

Soap should be used very spariag-
II, if at all, If you want to keep
your hair looking its best. Most
soaps and prepared shampoos con-
tain too much alkaH. This dries the
scalp. makes the hair brittle and
ruins tt
The best thing for steady use is
Just ordinary mulsif1ed cocoanut oil
(Which Is pure and greaseless). ts
cheaper and better than soap or
anything else you can use
One Or two teaspooufula will
cleanse the Lair ana scalp thorough
u. simply nois,e1 TIC hair with
water aid rub II in. It makes an
abundance Of rich, creamy lather.
which rirses out easily, removing
every particle of dust. dirt. dandruff
and excessive oil. The hair dries
quickly and evenly. and it leaves
the scalp soft. and the hair hne and
silky. bright. lustrous. fluffy and
easy to manage.
You can get mulsifed coooanut oil
ct any pharmacy. and a few ounces
Will supply every member of the
family for months.
Evening star., 1915-03-15
Salmon Salad.

Wash carefully q nice head OF lettuce,
discarding the outer leaves; remove
the heart and fill with salmon from the
can after 1t has been carefully gone
over to free it from skin and bones.
Add chopped celery according to your
tatse and cover generously with rich
mayonnaise.
Evening star., 1915-03-15
When You Buy a Hat.

& MILLINERY expert advises all
~ women to wear q white dress or
white waist when trying on hats.
She says: The color of a dress may
so greatly detract from the charm of
what would be a becoming hat that
the customer at once asserts the hat
does not suit, whereas it is often be-
coming. We often drape customer s
bodice with white before even attempt
ing to place a hat upon her head. IT
is merely waste of time and patience
to try one color after another for a
woman who is wearing an off-color
oress,"
Evening star., 1915-03-15

be q chance that he might slip in and
get at least one of those eggs. He
would try 1t.
For few minutes he listened to the
noise of his relatives, growing fainter
and fainter as Hooty led them farther
and farther into the Green Forest Then
he opened his mouth.
Cav, cav, cav, caw!' he screamed.
Cav. cav, cav. cav! Come back.
everybody! Here is Mrs. Hooty on her
nest! Cav, cav, cav, cav.
Now as soon as they heard that all
Blackys relatives stopped chasing and
tormenting Hooty and started back as
fast as they could fly. They didn't
like the dark part of the Green For
est into which Hooty was leading them.
Besides. they wanted to see that nest.
So back they came, cawing at the top
of their lungs. for they were very
much excited. Some of them never had
seen a nest Of Hooty's. And anyway,
Evening star., 1915-03-15

Artificial flowers play an important
par, in the designing of the new even
ing gowns. They are introduced in the
gown above as corsage trimming and
in little nosegays dotting the frock
here and there-one of these catching
the end of the long tnlle scarf or end
which falls from the butterfly bow at
the back Orchid tulle is used for this
frock combined with and worn over
self-tone satin. The sides Of the tun1c
are of the satin-the front and skirt
Of trllle, also the rutfle at the foot.
Evening star., 1915-03-15
THE DAILY MENU.
BREAKFAST.

BREAKFAST.
Apple Sauce Cerea
Smelts, Dreaded and Fried
Toast Coffee
LUNCHEON
Tomatoes and Cheese
Celery Salad
Dutch Bread Tea
DINNER
Plauked Shad
Mashed Potatoes New Peas
WatercresS
Strawberries Cake
Coffee
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A Fondu Of Cheese.

Crate cheese and crush broken and
dried bread into the crumbs. There
should be two cupfuls of these TO one
of cheese. Wet the crumbs with two
cupfuls OF milk In which has been dis +
solved a very little soda. Beat two
eggs light. whites and yolks separate
ly: whip tho yolks into the soaked
crumbs with tablespoonful of melted
butter. Season with salt and dust o.
cayenne, add the frothed whites. deftlr
and rapidly: bake in a creased pudding
dish, IN brisk oven, keeping the dish
covered until the fondu has puffed IN
and is crusty on top. Then brown
lightly and serve at once. as IL soon
falls Pass crackers and pickles
with II.
Evening star., 1915-03-15
HARD CHRONIC COUGH
Made Well by Delicious Vinol,

{ Crestline, Ohio.-"I contracted a.
hard, chronic cough, and was weak,
nervous and run down. ! have q }
} small family Of three. and 1t was
} hard for me to do my work. ! took
different medicines without benefit.
Finally I heard about Vinol. and 1t
has restored me to health and
strength. my cough is all gone and
feel fine.
Mrs. r. H. CARLISLE"
J We guarantee Vinol, our delicious
J cod liver and iron tonic without
oil for chronic coughs and colds
! and for all weak, nervous, run
down conditions
ODonnells Pharmacies, 304 i st,
SD and NJ SITS, Sd ST. and Pa. ave,
ed and O SITS. and at other leading
Washington drug stores.
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fashioned in their tight upper part and
loose cuff.
The linen used is exceptionally fine
and sheer, and lends itself we'll to the
valenciennes lace. Those fine pleats at
the hem are significant, because they
are in keeping with a strong fashion
to bring in this method of manipulat-
ing fabric for spring gowns. Every
where one sees pleating in some form
on the new models that will be copied
for our inner clothes; even pleated
skirts, in the old-fashioned sense, have
returned.
What will the dress critics have to
cavil at when wide skirts, normal
waists and pleatings at the ankles are
fully established? Their occupation
will be gone, unless we women discover
something unlike their grandmothers
wore which we can graft on our SEN
sible costumes.
Copyright, 1915.l
Evening star., 1915-03-15

Swift d Company's Sales of Beef In
Washington, D. G.. for the week endins &
Saturday, March 10, averaged as follows
Domestic beef, 1880 cents per pound
Evening star., 1915-03-15

Maltne is to be much used for the
br;ms OF street hats. and evening hats
are of fualine altogether.
Evening star., 1915-03-15
LACE AND pLEATs ON LINEN FROCKs.
BY ANNE RITTENHousE.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, March 13.-The French
have never readily understood the
American desire for linen frocks and
| suits. They agree with US that our
| climate must be met with a painstak-
ing thought OF the best way to be cool.
| but they contend that linen Is too ex-
| travagant fabric for everyday uses
This argument is true. as many wom-
en- can testify who find their ducats
speedily going out for constant IRON
ing. ii not washing: and vet there 1. a
tradition which holds strong for the
daily use of linen. No season passes
without hundreds of suits or frocks In
1t being sold. some for prices 40 low
that they should be a warning to the
buyer.
There is no protection against the
"rihhilns or linen. Each wearing of
II demands the after service of an iron
Ihose who dwell outside the green
neids md such extravaganza more than
ehelr temper or purse can stand. vet
their experience is of small help to the
countless ones who go on feeling that
IN linen costume lies the way to keep
cool. 1t is good way, but a mighty
expensive one.
some seasons ago we learned that by
ouEinS the weave of linen that had
not been treated to q coat of varnish-
glazing. as it is caIled-we could save
lucn irritation. because it did not
show every mark so easily.
The f'renchwoman. rich ones and
those only well-to-do. take up other
ia brics for constant wear, using wash
corduroy. for instance, as separate
skirts in imitation of the peasant class,
but for the trade with US they know
enough to substitute linen tor corduroy
to meet our demand. They still in
sist. however. in treating it in a more
elaborate way than is proper for our
mornings. SO If we follow the models
they send we will use them for after
noon frocks. a choice that is quite sat
lsfactory to the ma jority of our women
Evening star., 1915-03-15

Taffeta is in evidence everywhere.
Evening star., 1915-03-15
Trimmed With Lace.

II is a bit strange that the French
couturieres should waste lace on a
linen frock when it is one Of the most
difficult fabrics to get these days in
Europe. The mills are closed in all the
ce-making towns of Belgium, and
only the mills at Calais are doing
most Of the work for Paris. Yet Agnes
sends over an ornate frock of linen to
the American trade which shows enough
lace to make one believe that she must
have much of 1T stored away.
The sketch OF it shows how full the
skirt is from the knees down, ending
in knife pleating. The snug fitting
yoke has a row of buttons in front to
match those on the blouse, which has
a shoulder drapery of printed mousse
line. The sleeves are certainly old
, 1915-06-23
Censored at Jamaica.l

London, June 22nd.-A Vienna official
statement says "The Russians have been
in general retreat since Sunday morning
along their entire front, after having been
forced from their positions on the Wereszyla
river, a short distance west of Lemberg.
The sound of big guns is audible in the
Galician capital. During seven weeks of
continuous battles the Russians have retreat
ed over one hundred and fifty miles across
Galicia, and the Austro Germans are now
nearer the objective of their campaign than
the Germans were to Paris. The Kaiser is
in supreme command of the Galician cam
paign, with headquarters at Pless, in south
eastern Silesia, being as near the front as
German military men think practicable. The
exodus from the beleaguered capital has be-
gun.
A Berlin official statement says ''The
AustrO-G erman are moving against Lem
berg, both from the north and south of the
city. After capturing Grodek they took the
Russian trenches, one after another, along q
front of almost twenty-four miles north west
of the city, the Russians contesting every foot
of the ground, and the losses on both sides
mounted rapidly. Between the Dneister
marshes and the mouth of the river Stry
the Russians have evacuated the southern
bank of the Dniester."
British experts say that if Lemberg should
fall the Russians can retire to other formi-
dable positions, utilizing rivers, swamps aud
other natural advantages, and endure for
months until France and Britain send men,
and specially munitions, the shortage. of
which is acute.
Hard fighting continues in the Western
arena, where the French and the British
, 1915-06-23
TREATMENT OF SEEDS FOR
PLAN TING.

The following practical suggestions have
been issued by the Jamaica Agricultural
Society in regard to the treatment of 5. els
for planting:-
All corn (maizp), and especially G inca
corn (Sorghum) seeds should be trentet be-
fore planting to prevent them being eaten 5y
mice, l0ts, ants aud birds. When Guinea
corn is planted without airy safeguard it is
usually the case hat ants attack it within n
few Lours of planting, eat out the germ. n,d
few OF the grains grow; then the seed is
blamed.
There are two simple ways of treating
these grains. For Guinea corn we prefer to
tnke q pudding pan half full of WOOD. ashes;
take enough kerosene to damp this, but not
to make u thin paste. Soak the seeds for
two or three hours in water, then put them
in the mixture and shake it through. The
seeds get coated and can then be planted:
some then shake through q sieve to get rid
of the supelhuous wood ashes, but this is
not necessary.
The corn (maize) can also be treated in
this way or by beng coated with tar. Take
coal tar, thin it with kerosene if necessary.
put the corn in a sieve or pudding pan with
holes punched in il, then pour the tar on
and let 1T run through; or the corn can be
put IN a bucket or kerosene tin, the tar
poured on, the tin shaken until all the corn
is treated, aud the supelfuous tar can be
poured off. The tar method is a messy one
but very effective.
We have found it sufficient to soak the
grain IN tar water which is made by keeping
water for some weeks on tar. and stirring
occasionally then draw off enough of the
water to soak the seed for two or three
hours in it.
Although the kerosene and wood-ashes
is the cleanest and easiest.-A qyiculturnz
Ne'os, Nay END.
, 1915-06-23

Ottawa, June 22nd-A despatch from
Windsor, Ontario, states that the large over
all factory of Peabody and Company has
been partially wrecked by q bomb. The
armoury building was saved throu4h the
failure of the fuse cap, attached to a suitcase
full OF dynamite which had been placed
under it's walls, to explode. with sufficient
force to set off the charge. The explosion
of the cap blew off the top of the suitcase.
but the 26 sticks of dynamite therein re-
NAMED intact. Two hundred men slept in
the armoury on Sunday night. The factory
was damaged to the extent of SO, 900. The
Company, following the completion of an
order for 5000 uniforms for the British
soldiers, had just accepted q lnrge order for
army shirts. Mr.. Peabody, head of the
Overall Company, has expressed the bell, f
that the bombs were placed by German SYM
pathizers from Detroit.
New York, June 21st
Flour. Winter Clears per barrel $3.50
Meal, Kindred per barrel So IS $50
New Seasons Pork no quo,ntIon.
Heavy Mess Pork 5000 SOL 90
Crystals per 100 lbs. $3.50
80 test NIolasses Sugar $4.12
Molasses Eng. Islds. per gal.
Liverpool Cotton middling Upland 5 sc. 100
Exchange, New York &London, so DAYS sigLk
nominal.
Exchange New York md London. sigh,S4.7 64
London, June 21st.
Dem. Crystals "a. OIL 28s. o..
Muscovalo, fnntin9 terms IN
Sugar. bond, on89% nominal DO quotation.
German beet SO t O. b. no further
sales during the war
Java Sugar 5000 Gibrnltar or Channel for
orders, floating terms, no quotations now.
Demerara Rum, nominal 3, 81.
Trinidad Cocoa. good 'nlddlIng Red, pr cwt.
IT'S.
Cotton, Medium Fine S. Lat Liverpool, nominal
per h Is. Id
Bank Of England Rate Of discount s.
Consols 661
Three per 'ent Rentes in Paris for cash II 40
All prices subject to correction.
, 1915-06-23

the United States demands that the
submarines are bound to ascertain the
nationality of their victims by a visit and
to safeguard non-combatants by their remov-
al before the sinking of vessels. The news
papers argue that it is impossible thus to
sacrifice the technical superiority Of the sub
marine, and that Germany should retain the
right to stop ammunition intended for the
enemy without any scruple and should cause
every conceivable damage to Great Britain,
even to the sinking of steamships with Anne
rican passengers aboard. An article by
Count Reventlow says "Now is the time
for Germany to inform the world clearly
and sharply that she will not let the limits
and restrictions drawn by other Powers
govern her manner of using her submarines"
The Germans balance the one hundred and
fourteen Americans lost on the "Lusitania"
against their estimate of three hundred thou
sand casualties among their forces caused by
American ammunition, and thus include the
United States i'll their bitterness against the
Allies.
Mr.. Lloyd George has appointed Mr.. D. A.
Thomas, the coal magnate and a survivor of
the "Lusitania" disaster, as supervisor of
British munition contracts in the United
States and Canada, and Sir Thomas Shaugh-
messy, President of the Canadian Pacific
hallway Company, will adjust all questions
between the firm of j. p. Morgan and Com
pany, and the Canadian munition makers.
Colonel Becher, of the Seventh Fusiliera,
commanding the first battalion of the Cana
dian expenditionary force, and Captain Mey-
sey Thompson, heir of Lord Knaresborough.
have been killed. Mr.. Her bert Asquith, who
was wounded at the Dardanelles, has re-
cuperated and is rejoining, aud also Mr..
Arthur Asquith, who has been couval0scing
at Cairo.
The correspondent of the "Daily Chroni-
Gle" at Athens states that Sir Thomas Upton
has arrived at the Piraeus aboard his yacht
erin, invaded by his e~xertions among
the Servians, and has been ordered to rest.
On the centenary of the battle of Water
loo Field Marshal Sir John French visited
the lines and addressed informally tie Tenth
Hussars, the First Life Guards and other
regiments fresh from the trenches, who we're
formed IN a hollow square by brigadea. Sir
John said that they had stood their ground
against the dastardly gas attacks at Ypres
which were contrary to the usages of civilized
warfare and had prevented a disaster, and
he declared that such trench work required
more t~enacity and courage than any charges.
The births in London are 500 weekly
below the average, and the deaths among
children two hundred above the average.
There are similar returns from 100 towns,
the explanation being thatinfants get less care
through the absence of fathers and doctors,
and because mothers are busy industrially.
, 1915-06-23
NOTICE.

ri URING my absence from the
~ Island MR DOUGLAS ARMSTRONG
will represent the Ford Motor Co.
LONGFIELD-SMITH,
agent.
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The Irish Can Farm.

r. +. Maloney, president of the
Maloney Oil company, is one of the
busy men of the Healdton field. His
company has no work to do now on
of market, and he is devoting his
time to the interest of others. He
and his drilling partner, Mr.. Groomer
recently completed the big gas well
in section l. belonging to j. l.. Ha
mon and C. f. Colcord, and will be
gin a second well on the same lease
within a few days. Mr. Maloney
operates a number of teams in the
field when business is good and
when hauling dropped off he sent
his teams to the farm. He is cult
waiting 500 acres in Jefferson and
Carter counties for j. l.. Hamon
The beautiful prairie farm, To-
Gated just north of Ringing, has
been sown to small grain crops. On
the Hamon farms Mr.. Maloney will
cultivate $50 acres of oats, 100 acres
of wheat, and small patches OF can.
and kafir Eighty of the five hun
dred acres of Hamon land lies east
of Wilson a short distance
On. his own ftrm in Comanche
county Mr. Maloney has a forty acre
peach orchard and sixty acre
oat crop and besides these farms, he
also has charge of his fathers farm
near Cushing, the greater portion of
which has been sown to wheat.
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Russians Prayer for His Horse.

The Russians are in the habit OF
using the following prayer for their
horses before going into action: And
for these also, o Lord, the humble
beasts who with us bear the burden
and heat of. the day, and offer their
guileless lives for the well-being OF
their countries, we supplicate thy
great tenderness of heart, for thou
hast promised to save both man and
beast. and great is thy loving kind
ness, o Master, Saviour of the world.
Lord have mercy" Those also who
have travelled over some of the wide
spaces of Russia and Siberia will ap-
preciate the simple trust shown in it,
for Russians have often to face
dangers alone on horseback in their
great country even in times OF peace.
Country Life
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-26
From Quill to Steel.

Writing implements changed consid'
erably for the better during Sir Walter
GilSey's long spell of life Though
Quill pens are still in use he remarks
in his "Recolections of Seventy
Years" 81 remember the time when
one seldom saw any other kind. Steel
pens in their early days were eNpen-
sive and ill made. and few people used
them. The paper We had seventy
years ago may have been partly to
blame; it had neither the substance
nor the surface We take as matter OF
course nowadays. | remember wnen
envelopes came into use, and what a
boon they were considered after the
old system Of closing letters with
waters or wax. Before envelopes were
Invented letters were always written
with an eye to the position of the
wafer or seal, blank space being left
10 correspond with the space where
his would be put on the outside, lest
he written portion should be torn in
opening"
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BRITISH OFFICIAL.
ANNOUNCEMENT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)

In this war area the temperature
remains unusually high for this time
of the year, and the armies are con-
testing every foot of ground under
the mast unfavorable conditions, men,
horses and guns sinking deep into
the mur, which is only occasionally
coated with ice.
The armies in the west are faced
with the same difficulties and as far
$ the allies are concerned, are con-
fning themselves to a bombardment
of the German positions along the
coast and to offensive operations in
the Champagne, the Argonne, on the
heights of the Meuse and in the Vos-
yes. where, on the higher ground they
are not so seriously affected by the
thaw.
There has been further contact be-
tween the Russians and the Turks III
the Caucasus, where both sides claim
to have been successful.