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wear the co~nVentional evening dress.
The little party did assemble as re-
quested, leaving their 'rickishas at the
entrance and toddling in together.
They found themselves no longer in the
land of sturdy Uncle Sam, but rather
in the Flowery Kingdom of miniature
lakes and tiny hooks as true 10 the
life as Japan itself. All the chandeliers
were concealed beneath great rose and
gold lanterns, while all over the house,
held by threads of electric wire, starred
with many pink chrysanthemums ano
tiny electric bulbs of the lotus and OF
the lily, We're other lanterns of VIVID
hue. electric lighted. Liliputian pools
in the different rooms were approached
by the familiar rustic bridges OF the
japanese print. and upon each impid
water reed mirrored their beauty.
Trellises of wistaria vines shaded
cozy corners, reached by lnfinltesimai
bridges and the apple blossom, the
chrysanthemum and the japanese NY
thrived in many vases and on every
mantelpiece. |
The dinner was served entirely after
the manner of the little brown men,
the guests being seated on cusnlons on
the floor before two rows of tiny
tables, between which the buffers,
dressed as Turks in red and gold,
pushed their well laden tea wagons
and distributed their favors of Japan
ese types and temples. Many wide
INV
great, smoked with pungent incense,
while innuInerable storbs stepped
among the water grasses and flowers
or. like a Japanese color print, flew
from pool to pool.
The menu was as Japanesque as IN
g~enuity could make II. everything be
ing served in bowls and eaten with
chopsticks, and from the lobster soup
to the warm ssaki, in which the toasts
were pledged, the guests found them
selves Japanized ia fact and fancy.
Although the invitations Iold the men
to come in evening dress. when they
arrived each found in the dressing
room d complete japanese costume, ana
to don them amid much excitement was
"a matter of d few moments. The gal,
iants of the evening were designated
as the Hon. So-and-So,' while the
ladies of the party proved to be charm
ing Nine. Ch~rysanthemuln or Lily
blossom. or san Toy, or the like, their
Identity being completely concealed be
meath all this carefully conceived local
color.-Cincinnati Enquirer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
Is Leap Year a
Joke OF a Chance !

making. Let the slogan of the year be
NO laggards in love" and let every
girl seize the opportunity to plant her
dainty foot, securely if tenderly, upon
the neck of a masculine adorer, says
the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat
Leap year is an old institution, but
few have been the maidens whose
hearts were brave enough to WELD the
weapon which the season places in
her hands, for the shackles of custom
and education still bind.
Like tabled Atalanta maidens have
been wont to flee. with more or less
convincing haste. and perhaps a sly
glance now and then, to be sure not
to entirely distance the pursuer, for
what maiden really desires to prove
too feet. if the pursuer be prince
Charming"
Just whether the leap year proposal
is q joke. or an opportunity. was a sub
ject under gleeful discussion last FRI
day, when twelve girls. the acknowl-
edged bellies of the winter, were gath
cred in merry conclave at a pretty lit
tie given by one of their
number. These same girls, be 1t said,
have reigned throughout the win1er.
and each and every one has a goofty
number of scalps to figuratively danEle
at her belt. for which reason their
opinions upon the subject may carry
some interest
The girls left the great subject en-
tirely unsettled, however, and decided
1t was best for each to be a law Tor
herself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

The mill village of Peacedale, r. l.,
wned by the Hazard family, was in
vaded by a brill
Attendants Carried liant company last
Saturday for the
O"SAe'o Va 1soeos' marriage of Miss
Mary h. Hazard. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rowland Gibson Hazard, to MIR.
Wallace Campbell, son of the late Col.
Wallace Campbell of Chicago. and Mrs.
Campbell. The ceremony was at the
village church. a the New York
Herald.
The bride wore heavy white satin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

three or four years. Apparently good
intentions have counted for naueht,
and the late hours that are kept make
Il tremendous strain upon the business
ability of the young men who are
popular at dances and in
their offices. From two to four hours
of sleep seem not quite sufficient even
for the best trained man. and to leave
a ballroom at ; o'clock in the morning
and be at his desk when the Office
opens is an almost impossible task
when the dances go on night after
night.
i ::
a Women's dress reform campaign has
been started by Miss Helen Louise
] o hnson
The Lady Knows and tt
Whereof She Speaks. Economia
Department of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs of New York, of
which she is chairman, says the New
York Times.
The average nan can dress for less
money than the average woman. and at
the same time have the appearance of
being better dressed" Miss Johnson
said recently. The reason is that styles
in mems dress change less than wom-
ems, show less decided tdiosyncrasies.
and the manufacturer gives the man
better goods for his money than he
does women. and garments that viii
look IN style until they are worn OUT
All this was the fault % the women,
Miss Johnson contended. because wom-
en- accept what the manufacturer gives
them.
"C~0mparativelv few years ago" Miss
Johnson said. I'VE bought good tailored
suits for street wear. They We're suit
able, sensible and becoming. They
could be worn two or three years, and
Men did not turn around to look at US.
The street gamin did not poke fun at
US. We were normally dressed.
lat one time we trailed our skirts
through the streets because it was the
thing to do. and now we wear them
short enough for Alpine climbing.
styles for women's garments are so
short-lived and the changes are so
frequent there is risk for the manu-
faCturer in making up the goods. so
poorer workers are employed. poorer
material used and the price put up to
cover the risks
- "
Mrs, Bryan Lathrop has
the generous sum of 1920 as the re-
suit Of the after
Pretty Good for noon at Mrs Pot
One Afternoon. csyo homa wbara
Miss Van Worst spoke on The .Ameri-
can Ambulance in Paris" and former
Ambassador Myron Herrick presided
over the meeting, says the Chicago
Tribune.
x <
The japanese costume dinner given
last week by Mr.. and Mrs. John Moore
Richardson of
Some Trouble to Get Cincinna at
This Party Up. North Crescenf
avenue was carried out to the letter
in the most successful way. They had
asked two dozen friends to dine with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
and Highs
Have a New Club

own words to describe it. This expla-
nation is printed on the slips which
reserve your place at table for you:
The Twilight Club is not a dining
club. 1t is a club where a lively in
teIigent discussion is preceded by d
simple. sane, sanitary meal of unadul-
terated foods.
1.-The only speakers wanted at the
Twilight Club are those who have
something worth saying; who know
bow to say it; who know when TO
stop
lie who needs an introduction to
hold friendly converse with his neigh
Dor at table should be examined by an
alienist"
The Twilight Club evidently k
itself seriously and should, under the
right auspices. be an interesting or
sanization. Among the topics dis
cussed there al a recent dinner were.
preparedness Polite Society" Ma
tionaI Manners wall Street Won
ems Fashions American Husbands"
and "Our College Graduates."-Chicago
Tribune
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
House and Thirty
Acres as Gift.

House and Thirty the current sea
Acres as Gift. SIMS Of money,
glorious Jewels and motors and limou-
sines have been showered by the
wealthy upon their nearest and dear
est; but the recipient of the most ex-
p~ensive Christmas present whereof !
have heard is Mrs. Henry G. Lapham of
Clinton road, Fisher Hill. Brookline,
says a writer in the Boston Post. Mrs:
Lapham's gift comes from her husband
and takes the form of ore OF the love-
lest and most ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in
Brookline-the dignifed Odd Cabot es-
tate on Heath street, near the Century
Club, with some thirty acres OF enclr-
cling grounds. including fine lawns and
splendid old trees.
The Cabot residence, which ls large
and spacious, will undergo many
changes and improvements before MI.
and Mrs. Lapham and Miss Katherine
Iapham take up their abode there.
some months hence. This new home OF
the Laphams is near the Country Cluo'
and in the immediate vicinity are the
homes of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert ". At
kinson. Miss Amy lowell. Mrs. Charles
Eliot and the George c.. Cutters. MISS
Katherine Lapham is nearing her D
tante season, and entertaining for her
on a large scale will be possible. when
she and her parents are domiciled in
their permanent abode.
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tras, while the other. a colored banjo
band, at the other end of the hall, add
ed still further to the black and white
effect. Novel programs were distrib-
uted. resembling he new 1915 auto
mobile licenses of the same color
sheme, which were furnished to each
couple.
A novelty which scored a success was
The One Hundre Club tumble con-
sisting of d combined orchestration OF
a one-step and then a waltz, followed
by a few bars of a popular fox trot.
The confusion produced by this feature
was so great that many encores were
necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
Bride-to-Be Has o
Many Accomplishments. o

and Mrs. Eben D. Jordan of SO Beacon
street, Boston, and Mr.. Monroe Douglas
Robinson of New York, Harvard 'O9. son
Of Mr.. Douglas Robinson, and d nephew
of X President Theodore Roosevelt. says
the Boston Globe. Miss Jordan is famous
throughout the United States as an
amateur solo dancer. and her dancing mas
been among the notable features or the
Vincent Club shows for a number or
years. She has also been an amateur star
attraction at numerous entertainments
that have been given for charity in Bos-
ton and other leading cities Of the coun-
try, especially in New York. where her
exhibitions of terpsichorean art have been
greatly admired by audiences which were
made up of the most representative people
of the metropolis. Miss Jordan has also
made her art useful in social service work.
the North Bennet Street Industrial
School for several years. She is also a
note horsewoman, golfer and tennis
player. Miss Jordan owns a farm at
Wenham, which is within a few miles of
the Rocks, the summer home of her
parents. at Manchester. Her brother is
Mr.. Robert Jordan of So Beacon street.
Mr.. Robinson's father is one of the lead
ing capitalists of New York, and Is a
brother of Mr.. Theodore Douglas Robin
son, active head of the national progress
sive party in New York state, and of Mrs.
Joseph Wright Alsop of Avon, Conn, who
was Miss Corinne d. Robinson. Mr..
Rohinson's grandfather on the paternal
of President James Monroe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
Something New in
Fancy Dress Costumes.

and morning by Miss Mildred rthwe
and her brother, Percy Orthweln at
the Log Cabin Club. says the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Every now and then the countryside
in the vicinity of the Clayton road is
given a great surprise by strangely
dressed persons in motor cars return
ing from some dance in the early dawn
or whatever time it is m get up
to feed the stock. but the sight that
greeted them yesterday morning was
stranger than usual.
Wandering around the country on all
the roads-all roads look alike in a fog
were futurist Pierrettes, Ku Kluxes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
Some Trouble to Get
This Party Up.

avenue was carried out to the letter
in the most successful way. They had
asked two dozen friends to dine with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

\ recent institution in New York that
is quite the vogue among the smart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

An unusually gay ball was given by
the one Hundred Club at Horticultural
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
Pretty Good for
One Afternoon.

Miss Van Worst spoke on THE Ameri-
can Ambulance in Paris and former
Ambassador Myron Herrick presided
over the meeting, says the Chicago
Tribune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

Just think of it, girls. leap year has
dawned, bringing with it the great in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
Picked Up Here and There.

The prospect of a new duchess is an
event. in England eve in the midst of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

The japanese costume dinner given
last week by Mr.. and Mrs. John Moore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

a women's dress reform campaign has
been started by Miss Helen Louis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

The most prominent Of the New Year
eme&ts is that of Miss Dorothy NJ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

1t seems to me that never before have
Christmas gifts been on SO extravagant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

Society lost in a fog at S am. is a
good name for the comedy that follow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

Hal, PhIIadtI-
phia, last week,
says the Public
Ledger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21
The Best Road of All.

| like a road that leads to prospects
white and fair,
A road thai is an ordered road, like a
nuns evening prayer;
But, best OF all, / love a road hat leads
to God knows where.
not seek it out;
It's like a secret still unheard and
never noised about:
But when o see it. one at once is
every lurking doubt.
1t winds beside some rushing stream
where aspens lightly quiver;
1t follows many a broken field by many
a shining river;
1t seems TO lead you on and on, forever
and forever,
You tramp along its dusty way, be-
meath its shadowy trees
hear beside YOU chatterinS birds
or happy booming bees.
And all around you golden sounds. the
green leaves iitanies.
- ~ mere = Il lItl-t anu bilSiC = " ~
and then-strange, sudden turns;
\ dip. a rise. "a little glimpse where the
red sunset burns;
\ bit of sky at evening time, the scent
of hidden ferns.
\ winding road. a lettering road. a
finger mark of God
when the maker OF the world
leaned over ways untrod.
See. Here he smiles his glowing smile,
and 10. the goldenrod'
like a road that wanders straight: the
kings highway is fair,
And lovely are the sheltered lanes that
take You here and there:
But. best of all l love a road that leads
to God knows where.
Charles Hanson Towne.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21
Ripping Rhymes
ey WALT MAsoN
NOTHING 70 SPARE

The hungry children cry for bread.
and | would gladly see them fed; my
bosom bleeds for little ones who have
no doughnuts. pies or buns. and I
would hheip them out, ! wseH, -. ned
my coin for gasolene. In y0nder hut a
human drove 10 gathered round an
empty stove; the father long has had
disease-an influenza In Iii knees-tfe
mothers washed for folks in town until
her health is broken down. Grim FAM
inc In that shack abides, and all The
wretched inmates rides. I'd gladly help
them In their plight, and bring them
food and warmth and light. and make
their empty kettle boil, but need my
coin for gas and oil. As / go taunting
near and far, in my upholstered tour
ing car, + see around me signs of wars
land they disturb my little jaunt. I'd
like to aid h ones who starve, n give
them ducks and hens to carve. With
loaded arms I'd like to go wherever
there is want OF woe. wherever there is
grief or care, and spread some warmth
ard sunshine there! I'd like TO do IL
but. alas, | need my coin for oil and
gas.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21
BOOSTING FOR GREATER IOWA.

The Greater Iowa Association has
been given a certificate of good char
acter. At it's request a special COM
mittee was appointed by the Associat-
ed Dailies of Iowa to examine it's books
and records and report to the public as
to what was found. c.. A. Roberts,
publisher Of the Fort Dodge Messen-
ger; ". F. Muse, publisher Of the Ma
son City Globe-Gazette, and E. P. Ad-
Ter, publisher of the Davenport Times,
were selected to do the investigating
and their signed report Is now on ev-
cry editors desk.
They found nothing more than an
attempt at conducting a commercial
club for Iowa with a salaried secretary.
In three years time the Greater Iowa
Association had collected S19,317, and
had spent SIS, 204. All Of it's receipts
had come from its members who are
grouped in two classes, the charter
members who contribute 800 per year,
mostly men OF wealth. VINO want 10
boost for Iowa, and associate members
of the rank and file who pay 80 per
year.
While the association has boosted
for good roads il mas not presented any
specific plan or proposed particu-
lar material or method and its good
roads propaganda has been only a part
Of it's activities. The committee finds
that the principal and most f~ar-reach-
ing work Of the association has been:
"To f~avorably advertise. particularly
in foreign countries, the manufactured
product and the breeders product or
Iowa cattle, horses and hogs. The
work along this line has been particu-
larry effective especially in South
American countries"
We find the membership OF the as
! ISOLATION is made up entirely Of public
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21
Why 4 FISHING llCeNSE7

E. c. Hinshaw. who wears the title
Of state fish and game warden. has in
augura,ed his biennial campaign for
the enactment of a law compelling
those who fish TO pay an annual license.
He wants the fishermen taxed as hunt
ers are taxed. Mr.. Hinshaw has sue
ceeded in enlisting the aid of a goodly
portion of the state press IN his cause.
He argues that the hunting license is
producing a large revenue which is de-
voted in part TO the propagation and
protection of game fish.
This argument is plausible if super
ticially considered. However, hundreds
of people in Iowa fish who are not
fishermen. Ten men go forth with cane
pole and 1O-cent line to angle for
! carp. suckers and bullheads where one
real fishing sportsman with steel rod,
q%uadruple reel and silk line angles for
the elusive bass, gamy pike or the
voracious pickerel. The man with the
cane pole is after meat as well as rec
reation. Frequently he is equipped with
a half dozen poles, with his brood of
kids holding one of each. Are these
people to be mulcted for the privilege
Of gaining a little fresh air pleasure
and at the same time cutting their
meat bills? The fish they catch, e
they catch any. have neither the pro-
lection nor respect of the law.
On the other hand the more adept
and fastidious fisher is, nine times out
of ten, a periodical hunter and buys a
hunters license. Thus a fishing license
would be a double tax on him and at
the same time a tax on the poor mans
privilege Of enjoying a days outing oa
our streams and getting a a taste of
smoke-free and dust-free air.
The propagation OF game for the
hunters is a joke and a farce. The
hunters; license money is wasted now
for hunting is at an end in a settled
cultivated country like ours. The lie
ense for hunting and fishing ought to
be all in one and the money ought TO
streams with fish and in preserving a
few wild places for parks but not for
game. Game hunting in Iowa is gone.
1t is TIME we were willing to admit it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21
SHIFTING GEARS.

Shifting gears Is a form of outdoor
exercise which calls for q larger outlay
of skill, patience and muscle than
guiding a six mule team thru the loop
district of Chicago.
The automobile which has been paid
for in one lump sum is a priceless pos
session in any home. as 1t ran be start
ed from the front seat whenevert the
storage battery has not died a natural
death. In order to induce an automo-
bile to start off at a smooth, gentle
lope, however, it is necessary to shift
Gears with the right hand and allow
them to sink their teeth into the rear
axle in an easy, gradual manne ! a
fiat mar sitting down in a camp chair.
This is one Of the fine arts, and after a
man has mastered it his a is ready
for a new set Of teeth which are MOI
worn pf down to the gums.
No man Of ordinary intelligence can
sit in his office on a crowded business
| street and listen to the plaintive howl
of the automobile gear shift, as 1t takes
hold in\ it's rude, impassioned way.
| without being convinced that we need
to open night schools for the amateur
and unterriied chauffeur. More money.
Is invested in automobiles in this
country than in all of the barber
schools and dental colleges from
Maine to California, and yet or all
| sides are heard the long-drawn-out
saueal and raucous snort of the tor
tured gear shift. as it worms its way
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21
WHITTIER ARE WE PlUNGlkG7

\ remarkable and unprecedented
movement has taken hold Of the big
| corporations of the country. Granting
| Of voluntary wage increases. straight
bonuses based on yearly wages. en-
larsement of pension funds and more
liberal administration of benefits there
under appear to be epidemic among the
larger industrial and public service
In many instances large numbers Of
toilers are getting something out OF
our boosted national prosperity, many
for the first time. Every day the east
| ern press carries a story of this or
that corporation passing a part Of it's
profits on to it's employees.
This is all very fine. 1t denotes the
| growth of a better feeling towards en-
| ployes on the part of the employers and
will have n tendency to promotes CO.
operation between both. The spirit Of
Christmas is abroad in the lam to an
I Si-P oSSASN. W iAiS SoSk
of living is universally recognized as
an actual condition and capital has rec
osnized that the wage Garner and the
saiaried man are entitled to a larger
share of the growing profits.
But will not this REIMBURSEMENT of
financial relations between employer
and employee prove only temporary?
The manufacturer and the jobber will
ightfully continue TO exact his pro-
fits. The middleman will in turn be
compelled to pay high prices and there
fore must charge accordingly to obtain
his profit, and so on down the line to
the consumer, who will find his in
creased income going back to the or
iginal source. Labor will in time de-
mand more, and the whole process of
readjustment therefore must be re-
peated.
1t appears we have started an end
less chain of high prices, big profits.
high wages and high living and no
one is able to foresee the end unless
the chain breaks from overstrain. Then
what? The inevitable will happen. IN
employment must follow for it is hui
man nature for men to quit work be-
| fore they will accept a cut in wages.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-21

spirited Iowa citizens who are
to be working for the common good OF
ALL
This report is no surprise to those
who appreciate the modern COM
mercial club spirit of organized n
constructive boosting but 1t should set
Tie doubts for many small minds VINO
fear that men who want TO build up
their own state are merely out 20 graft
some advantage for themselves. Many
OF the charter members, no doubt, are
breeders Of fancy live stock and they
obtain some benefit from the general
advertising of Iowa's fine stock. hat
Is why they contribute 500 per year to
the enterprise out this benefit also
comes to all of Iowa. Likewise may a
mans retail business or land holdings
be in line for benefit from better roads
but his boosting for those roads is for
a public Improvement that is to bene-
fit all. Let's all forget the little To-
vans and join the movement for a
greater Iowa.