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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01

Wool poplins, gabardines and tweeds
are also serviceable, and make ex-
ceedingly attractive costumes. These
models, often simple in design, per-
NIT of smart touch of some distinc-
tive color or effect, perhaps a motif,
symbolic of the mystic Orient, or of
the more fantastic cut-in-stone relics
of our aborigines, the Indian mound
builders, which have been brought to
view after almost numberless decades.
Details of this kind often close the
high collar, being in the form of
buttons, oddly shaped, or medallions,
serving as buckles, or Stimulating
belts on the dress itself. With these
effective novelties dress or suit may
be rendered unique to a degree and
carry an individual note, difficult to
obtain but very satisfactory to the
wearer, as she may be sure that her
creation is for her wear alone, and
will not be duplicated.
The Use Of Lace and Net for Blouse
or Frock.
Net has once more come into pop
ular use for dainty blouses and frocks,
both for daytime and evening wear;
threadrun nets are especially favored
for the latter purpose. Plain net is
used considerably for blouses in sim
pie designs, tucked here and there
and with tiny frills that fold softly
about the neck, or lend grace to the
sleeve. Chantilly, that charming lace
of web-like texture in almost too deli
cate a weave to be worn, is also used
to fashion many gorgeous creations.
Shadow lace, too, has its part in the
making of the more elaborate dresses,
in combination with soft taffeta or
satin, as trimmings in narrow bands,
for sleeves, or in softly fiaring bret
Giles. Strange as it may seem, vel
vet in vivid colors is often used for
trimming these filmy costumes in
panels and landings, making a Won
derful effect.
Satin or Taffeta as Trimmings.
Narrow pleatings and ruchings of
lace and net seem to be used univer-
sally for trimming the dainty evening
costume; soft satin, too, in the mar
rowest of bands or folds, occasionally
beaded with small pearls. edges the
tiny ruffles and sleeves as we'll as
tunics or flounces which compose the
costume. These tunics are draped
up often with loops of satin folds hav.
ing perhaps an end here and there
weighed down with metallic orna'
ments of various sizes. Fancy braid
and folds of satin are often combined
in applique designs, bow-knots and
similar details on tunics Of lace or net
with charming effect Very often one
finds the underslips Of flouncing EN-
broidered with bows or narrow metal
lie ribbon or braid. either silver Of
gold, or in delicate pastel shades
matching the bodice trimming. Tahie
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01
Delicate Corn Starch.

Heat one pint water, add two table.
,poonfuls corn starch, three table
jpoonfuls sugar, pinch Of salt, mixed
together. Then add well-beaten whites
II two eggs and cook until thick.
custard Sauce for Above.-One pint
lot milk, one teaspoonful corn starch
:hree tablespoonful sugar, mixed to-
Eether. Add to hot milk. Then add
FOLKS Of two eggs, cook until thick and
favor with vanilla.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01
DEFT TOUCHES ON
SUIT AND GOWN
WHICH LEND DISTINCTIVE STYLE WITHOUT DETRACTMG
FROM THE PRACTICAL
THE USE OF NET FOR FRocKs AND BloUsts

ia ribbon with the fascinating picot
edge is also favored for these under.
aounce trimmings, and airily bob up
and down, the weight of the tiny pearl
or cut bead concentrations bringing
it again into place.
Is the Wide Skirt Losing Favor?
At the Fashion Fete held at the Ritz
some time ago, the crinoline effect
was still the most accentuated feat,
ure; there were many dainty, airy
creations, all made with the bouffant
skirt, corded or lightly boned. The
more conservative afternoon, and the
majority of the street costumes, how.
ever, are gradually narrowing down
in width. Many of the street suits
and dresses have an underskirt near
ly as narrow as it was a season OF
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01
Saves q Dry Mon.

Take piece Of outing flannel one.
half yard long. Fold it to make a
bag, sew up seam at bottom and one
side. The fold forms the other side
edge. Turn in open end and make
hem one-half inch wide. Through this
run tape. Place this on your broom,
and for those having no dry mop It
answers the purpose as we'll as gives
1t q polish. Floors around art squares
are easily kept looking well by this
method.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01
creamed Clipped Beef.

Put one tablespoonful butter in the
frying pan. When melted put in one
fourth pound Clipped beef and fry un'
til we'll Drowned, stirring often to
keep from scorching. Add one pint
milk. Wien it begins to boil thicker
with one rounding tablespoonful -four
dissolved in little water. This makes
the gravy little brown. Try it and
zee II the flavor isn't 4stter for fryina
the beef.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01

two back, the width and flare being
confined entirely to the long tunic
or overskirt, which is again much
favored detail. Within short time
it is being whispered the full skirt
will be seen only on dressy afternoon
costumes and evening frocks.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01
The Oven Door Alar,

When broiling steaks or chops, II
the broiling oven door is left open just
a bit, there is no liability of the fat
catching fire; and when making toast
in the oven much better results will
be obtained If the door is left slightly
open. Many Of the newer gas stoves
are made with a sort of openwork ar.
rangement in the door of the broiling
oven, which is quite useful for admit
ting air into this oven-Pictorial Re.
view.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-01-01
TWO AGED CONVERTS.

Rt. Rev. Bishop Schrembs, of Tole-
do, confirmed six converts at Payne, O.,
recently, among them a man aged "a
and q woman aged 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
SEA FOOD CHEAPER.

With Holsters that cost 80 cents
pound two months ago now quoted at
from 25 to 80 cents, while sea bass and
bluefsh have dropped from 80 to II
and Is cents a pound, there ought to
be a good chance to refute the old Bos-
ton theory that New Workers never see
enough fish to know what it's really
like as a regular article of diet, says
the New York World.
It's fact that we don't eat as much
fish as folks around Massachusetts
Bay. One or two varieties of first rate
sea food well known in the Bay state
swordfish for instance-are practically
unheard of in New York. Many a New
Yorker would have to confess that lob
sters, clans and oysters are about the
only kind of fish he ever bankers after.
With the price of beef. mutton and
lamb steadily climbing, the phenom-
email catches of fish brought into the
city daily and sold at astonishingly
low prices come as timely hint which
housekeepers should be quick to make
the most of. If New York were sud
denly to get new taste and go on a
fish diet this summer, there would be
some mighty quick revising of prices
on the part of the meat barons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
GIFT TO POOR.

sThe men who do the most good
with their money In this world are
those who do not wait to distribute
their wealth until they have passed
away" said Colonel Frank P. Holland,
former mayor Of Dallas, Texas, to a
newspaper man.
zone of the best and noblest souls
it has ever been my good fortune to
know, and a man who acts upon this
principle, is Captain James Garitty,
who has been bank president in the
town of Corsicana, Texas, for more
than 40 years. Captain Garitty has
Just made a gift of 100000 to the
poor people of his own county, Ma
varro, and this is only an example OF
the beneficent deeds he has been do
ing all his life. If all rich men and
bank presidents were of his pattern
there would be no enmity of the poor
against the rich. In times of f1nan-
cial distress the captain has used his
banking power to relieve the wants of
the community instead of to make
profits by squeezing people who be-
come temporarily embarrassed. In a
panic some years ago, when many
banks were refusing to let their de-
positors draw out anything except a
moiety of their money, Captain Car
itty never refused to honor a custom
er's paper to the full extent of his
credit, and as result when the panic
was over his own institution was
more popular and had more deposit
tore }bap ovor haforao
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
IMMODEST DRESS
CALLED MENACE BY
CATHOLIC PRIEST

Milwaukee, June 1.-"Immodesty and
indecency in the manner of dress worn
by girls and women" reads a letter
given out yesterday and sent by Arch
bishop Sebastian Messmer to the Cath
Ole clergy of Milwaukee, lis a most
distressing and ill-boding feature of
modern society. 1t becomes the strict
duty of the Catholic clergy to warn the
faithful against this evil, which is a
cause of so much sin and scandal
and to remind Catholic parents of their
duty to restrain the natural vanity of
their daughters"
The letter states that Catholic wom-
en-, immodestly dressed, approaching
the communion table, be refused COM
munion.
Archbishop Messmer in his letter
requests the Catholic clergy to prepare
strong sermons on the sin of scandal,
and to treat in particular of the scan
dial by immodest female dress.
Continuing the letter reads:
Such a sermon, preached at an early
date within two or three weeks in
the Catholic women, young and old
will powerfully help to prevent among
our Catholic girls and women indecent
exposure of naked arms, breasts and
shoulders, which has become particu-
larly ostentatiouS during the warm
summer season.
Remind Catholic parents of their
duty to restrain the natural vanity of
their daughters and tell your people
the catholic women, young and old
who dare to approach the holy table
while indecently attired should be re-
fused holy communion. Let them COW
er their arms and shoulders, at least in
church, as it behooves every Chris
tian woman"
The remainder of the letter was pri-
vate to the priests.
1T is tragic" said Father Foley, G.
e. S. L. Church, that so many really
good girls and women will appear on
the streets in suits and gowns that are
so exposing as to invite insults. Evil
IDENTIFY they do not stop to think of
what they are subjecting themselves
to, or that such mode of apparel is the
cause of making others sin.
1.-THE women who want something
to do might to good advantage use
their time in dress crusade"
Father Foley said the appearance OF
some women on the street today is
enough to make men in general wear
blue glasses; it might even be neces-
sary for them to wear binders.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
AERIAL PREPAREDNESS

Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary,
chairman of the national aerial coast
patrol commission, is strenuously
urging an aerial coast defense system
for the United States, entirely indie
pendent of the aeronautical equipment
of the army and navy. He says the
first essential in an aero defense of
our coasts is to have on hand imme-
diately such number of machines as
will with certainty destroy the maxi
mum number that can be brought here
at one time by a hostile feet and its
transports.
Admiral Peary admits that it is i'm
possible to fix upon this number with
precision, but thinks that not less
than 500 or more than 1000 should be
made the basis of calculation of what
resourceful foreign commander
could accomplish along this line. To
insure the command of the air for the
United States in such an emergency
Admiral Peary feels that we should
have at the very minimum not less
than 1000 seaplanes ready for duty
on the Atlantic coast and an equal
number on the Pacific coast. Five
thousand on each coast, he says, would
be much better.
In Admiral Peary's opinion, what
we need Immediately is several hun
dred young men who know how to
drive an aeroplane. That would be
preparation for an emergency. He
says a thousand daredevil young
fellows who know just enough to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
Warned Against Chinese Loans,

Peking.-Tang Shaggy and many
other revolutionists in Shanghai wired
both to Mr.. Reinsch, the American
minister in Picking, and to the Ameri-
can state department warning Ameri-
cans against making loans to the Yuan
Shi-kaf government, and questioning
the validity OF the loan which Yelling
ton Koo. the Chinese minister at
Washington, negotiated with Lee Hig-
ginson & Company, American bankers
Tang Shoayi- who is the father-in-
law of Wellington Koo, also cablef
10 his son-in-law warning him that
the Peking government is not legally
established at present and is incap-
able Of contracting any loan In the
name OF China 90.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01

handle their machines perfectly are
worth more to us now than 500 highly
trained young officers, though of
course We shall need these as WE'LL
An aero coast defense system, as
contemplated by Admiral Peary,
should consist of coast patrol and a
series OF squadron stations. The pa
troll would comprise line of stations
about 100 miles apart along our en-
tire coasts from PASSPORT to Browns
vile and from San Diego to Cape Flat
terry. Each station would be equipped
with several strong seaplanes, with a
force of several aviators. observers
and mechanicians and faculties for re-
pairs. The chain of stations on each
coast would have wireless communi-
cation with each other and each sta
ton would have wireless communica-
ton with Washington. The squadron
stations would each consist of at least
IUo aeroplanes of different types locat-
ed at suitable places back from the
coast.
As to the cost of such a system Ad-
mlral Peary says that it would be the
equivalent OF the cost of two days
war to Great Britain under present
conditions. This would mean an ex-
penditure of something like $4,000
700 and would be small enough if such
extensive preparation was really nee
essary. There is no question that the
United States must improve its aerial
defense, but it is not improbable that
Admiral Peary has taken an extreme
stand on the question.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
uTALKS1o
William Brady,n.D.
Insanity In the Family.

A case of insanity in ones family
is no more a mark of degeneracy or
inferiority, no more a thing to be
ashamed of, than a case of typhoid
fever, tuberculosis or rheumatism.
The insane person is sick just the
same as the feverish or rheumatic or
anemic or dyspeptic is sick. Because
we can't always assign definite
cause in the case of insanity is no
reason for considering mental aberra
ton a thing apart from physical vul-
nerability. In fact. we don't know
but that the complacent individual
who wilfully keeps his furnished rheu-
matism in these days of prevention
and cure by scientific means is more
to be pitied, as a mental defective,
than the person who goes insane, be-
cause rheumatism is a condition
which really can be prevented in the
individual, whereas the prevention of
insanity may be possible only by
treatment of the family tree a. hun
dred years before the patient is born.
1t is true that the child is blood
of the parents blood. 1t is true that
defective child is born of diseased
or defective parents. At the same
time it is very patent fact that the
great majority Of cases of insanity
are self-made lunatics. Paresis, for
example, Commonly known as
"softening OF the brain") is no fault
of the fathers, but the patients own
affair, the penalty he pays for break
ing the laws of health Alcoholism,
syphilis, narcotic and coal tar drug
habits send a great many victims to
insane hospitals.
The greatest single factor of in
sanity is war, because war removes
from the community the noblest blood
and leaves the weaklings, the de-
| fectives behind to procreate. And war
returns the mobiles, too often, ruined
men.
The second great cause is alcohol
Alcohol is a pretty expensive luxury
when you figure up all the cost Yet
we are still voting upon the question
of license, as though our children
were so many little animals whose
lives concerned us only in a material
way.
No man is wholly sane. There is
a little streak of insanity in every
body. There is no cIear-cut dividing
line between the sane and the insane,
correctly speaking, OF course the law
draws an arbitrary line. which no
physician can accept. unless hired and
paid to testify as an expert.
The only people who cast the first
stone are those who dwell in houses
| OF glass. They cast a stone, and
presently their own house tumbles
about their ears, and We hear no
more OF them.
1t is too bad folks are not all doc
tors. The more you know the less
you feel inclined TO gossip about your
neghhor's weakness. You never can
tell whether a little earache, for in
stance, may not terminate in a brain
ahscess and land you in the hospital
: for the insane. That actually hap
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
RECKLESS MOTORISTS.

The Long Island railroad is doing
everything in its power to prevent mo-
florists from committing suicide by
running past signals at grade cross
ings. The latest move of the officials
OF the road is pictorial campaign for
the education Of the public and this will
be followed by a newspaper campaign
which will reach everyone who reads.
The posters are in five colors and
are so graphic that anyone seeing
them is Immediately struck by the les
son they are intended to convey. Two
are directly applicable to motorists and
show the most common causes of acct
dents. The first carries the words in
large letters, Jail might stop them
we can't" and shows an automobile
dashing madly for crossing with its
headlight Illuminating the sign Look
out for the cars" In the automobile
are five 'ioy-riders," one of whom in
the rear seat points out an onrushing
train. The crossing in this poster has
no gate and is the kind usually found
in country districts with the sign post
as the only protection
The second poster shows the familiar
grade crossing with gates. The motor
lists in their wild dash have ignored
the crossing and have plunged through
the gates into the path of the oncoming
train. This poster carries the words,
How can we save them%'
The Long Island road has+had many
grade crossing accidents but to its
credit let it be said that few railroads
have made a greater effort to prevent
accidents. The other railroads of the
country, where they have not already,
should follow its example along this
line. Only by the most persistent eff
forts on the part of the railroads can
the public be educated to take fewer
chances and only more sensible atti-
tude on the part of the public in gen.
eral can reduce the appalling number
Of grade crossing accidents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
Stop Extavagance OF Youths.

Beriin.-The commandment in Bran
denburg province has followed the ex-
ample OF other military commandments
IN various places in Germany by an
order designed to stop extravaganza
by young spenders. Persons under
eighteen years old will hereafter re-
ceiVe only is marks of their weekly
wage and one-third of any amount in
excess OF that sum. The rest must
be deposited by the employer in city
savings bank to the credit of the own
er, not to be touched until after the
war. Only in cases where il can be
proved that the young wage-earner
family needs all his COR herr wages
Will special exceptions be made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
The Daily Story
The Education of Marriage-By Einor Marsh.

at her friends an night. she sbon,a
have gone home early the next dav
but instead spent the day and the night
with her mother On returning tba
next day she found her home deserted
Here was break between two nor.
sons who. IL they could have been nra.
pared for their parts, might have got
over this early married period, have
gradually become used to each other
and settled down into happy married
life What a contrast between tbis
antagonism and the mutual depend.
ence Of ten or twenty years later,
Jennie made an effort for a reco,.
Citation, but since she did not accom-.
pany it by confession that she. ana
she only, was in the wrong Jim paid
no attention to her pleadings. Then
her mother advised her to let him
alone. II he ever came to realize that
he was giving up that which was pleas
ing and ennobling for bis preconceiyed
notions of what wife should be IN
him he would very likely conquer his
pride and return to her. II not she
| could do no more than she had done
and the matter must adjust itself or
remain unadjusted without any fsr.
| Their action on her part
| For awhile Jim persuaded himself
that he had acted the part Of a strong
man in asserting himself and in 70.
| fusing to live with woman who. as
he expressed it, would take the hit
in her teeth and run away with every.
thing" But he had been very happy
for awhile in his home with his wife.
His mother had taken his part In his
| disa greements with his wife, and he
| went to live with her. But he had
reached an age when a man Graves
his own rooftree and fearthstone, and
he was not satisfied He met with an
accident in his work, and, though his
mother cared for him tenderly. he
pinned for his wife Between her and
him was deathly silence Jennie did
not try to win him back to her He
was man Of strong will and must 60
his own way. Besides, no reunion
could last unless he became satisfied
that his wife had rights as well as
himself
One day Jennie heard click at the
gate and, looking out through a win.
dow, saw her husband coming. With
beaming eyes and smile she went to
meet him.
Jennie" he said, 81 treated you
brutality. VIII you forgive meT'
ut was all my fault" she replied.
you'll have to stand a lot IL you
come back to me. I've bad temper"
''I'n try to correct my faults"
There were quarrels after that be-
tween them. but Jim made a rule that
they must be made up the day they
occurred. In time they came to regard
differences on the same footing as 9TH
er trials and the sooner mended the
better.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
Incipient tuberculosis.

ever knew.
Incipient tuberculosis.
Just what does ''incipient'' tubercul-
osis mean? If no germs are found in
the sputum OF such a patient, is she
likely to transmit the disease to others
who come casually in contact with her?
Can she transmit it under any condi-
tons? Would it be unwise to allow
well person to occupy a room recent
ly used by such a patient if the room
is clean, well aired and lighted, and
the former occupant was scrupulous in
disposing of all expectoration? If not,
what can be done to make the room
safe?
Answer-Incipient means first stage.
II the patient is conscientious in the
disposal of sputum, handkerchiefs,
etc, and If she realizes that she must
never kiss anybody, nor sneeze, nor
cough except in her handkerchief.
there is no danger in casual contact
with her. Only by prolonged init
mate contact would there be a chance
ior transmitting the disease. Assum-
Ing the room was well washed with
soap and water. it is perfectly safe.