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If the lines are right and the fur
trimming has that softly luxurious eff
feet so becoming and desirable, wom-
an is ready to be easily deceived about
the value of skins. That is the one
thing to be particular about-if one
is paying out a deal of money for
furs. Smart lines can be achieved
with the scissors, rich coloring by use
of dyes; but fine, supple, beautifully
dressed skin of perfect quality is Of
utmost importance. Neglect to be
critical about this point and you will
very possibly be annoyed before the
winter is out by sudden unsightly rips
here and there in your fur coat; by
a wearing down of the fur along edges
of collar and sleeve, by a lack of
lustre and dullness in the coat that
should be always Sleek glossy and
rich in texture.
And don't forget that furs must be
occasionally revived" They become
Just as Justified as wooden garments
do, yet when are they ever treated to
a wiskbroom? They hang in steam
heated rooms week in and week out
save for few hours airing each day.
Once in SO often they should be sent
to a cold storage plant to be thor
oughly chilled and cleaned. If they
are good furs they will come home
looking like new, live and rich and
glossy in texture.
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"a o matter how daintily shod is
ones foot, it is hidden under
n the bridge table. No matter
Il how beautifully FURNISHED and
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wish. apply the paste TO them also
and bind soft cloths around the arm.
If hands have a damp, clammy
sickness, very unpleasant when one
touches them, they should be rubbed
briskly with corn meal. and If the
CLEANLINESS persists physician
should be consulted. The hands of a
healthy person are almost always cool
and dry. Hands that are cold. or hot.
or moist usually indicate something
wrong with the circulation.
With the elbows bent and the arms
lifted to the level of the shoulders.
shake the hands as they hang Imply
from the wrists. Do this several times
day when you think of it. The
exercise tends to whiten the hands
and it also gives them more of that
f1exibleness and responsiveness OF
youth that we were speaking of bit
back. If you are to play bridge by
artificial light it will be a harmless
vanity to rub little, very little
cold cream into the hands. wipe it or
thoroughly and then dust the hands
with talcum. This will make them
look whittier and fairer. But beware
of powdering the hands for card
game in broad daylight!
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first, to close the relaxed pores and
dry them briskly. Then proceed with
your morning toilet in the usual way.
Hands kept in a muff and exposed
to the air only indoors, in winter are
apt to grow yellowish in color. The
summer air, sun, and wind bleaches
the skin, though alas tan speedily fol-
lows if one is not careful; but in win
ter the hands must be bleached occa-
sionaIly with some special prepara
ton, to keep them milk white. Lemon
Juice is a wonderful whitener. and
sliced lemon should always be kept
on the washstand. Here Is whiten-
ing paste that has been tried with
excellent results. Beat together into
a soft paste, 2 drains of oil of sweet
almond; one dram of glycerine, /
dram Of rice flour, / ounce of rose
water and 36 drops of tincture of
benzoin. Beat separately the yolk of
a raw egg and stir into the paste,
beating well. Use Immediately,
spreading well over the hands and
draw on loose gloves from which the
fingertips have been clipped. If the
arms are not as white as one could
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15
Cheaper Furs Ffowned On BY
Fashion.
Fall Corsets Show Curved Lines

- HERE is a. new line in the corset
a a decidedly curved line which
gives the feminine figure a. more
rounded suggestion than the straight
IN and down model of the past dec
AIDE. Rnt tba curved line is neither
at front or hack. if comes aft the sides.
From q front mr. hsclx view the waist
line curves inward between bust and
hin b,,t yiewad from the side tbe
effao+ 10 r.tbar s+raigbt and fat with
a sligbtIy bigbar and trimmer contour
~ +ha hrst u,bis "ninned I'M effect
- 49, siaas e .ooor, nlisbo "a Nv a now
49, a,d ~, 49, ,,ear+io,, of e,,ssets
ahoya +ha r,,ois+liro % hac,, and front
- 49, a.sot. ona ,,,i1a +be now
.ao1s ~, +,,,o bigbar 81
~ -, 49, ~ oa,.tain1y IN jnch or
+,uo ~. a,,an ,,,oreN~sborter Of the
80 NJ. ~, 80, correct saon,
80 $3.50 - oor,for+ahlo. ono ;s
ca 49,, 49,. a1ad
aaaa,,",. ,o,,a -, ona nav cit in
oT,ar, ~, tba Noor. or
~, s1-aot,ioe -, so;ssor,
- ~ 4ss .;tt.,,+ 49, Lost dis-
49,
over these ualntily ieiiiiiilhe ooise's
Win tnelr rounded pust anu mp lines
20 silaller Walstilne' Inc new piiia-
- ana Moyenage irochs iali III ioose
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If you would not have your own hand
grow old and sophisticated in sugges-
ton.
And keep the hand in as perfect a
condition as you can every hour of
the week-not occasionally when the
day of the bridge club comes around.
Anybody may buy stunning clothes or
cultivate the grand manner. but an
invariably we'll kept hand Is the sign
manual of innate aristocracy, the in
dex of the true lady, no matter how
shabby may be the dress or the sur
roundings. If you have household
tasks to perform this dainty perfec-
ton of the hands means a good deal
of effort The hands must be washed
many times during the day and unless
the drying process is carefully per
formed each time chapping and
roughening of the skin will surely re-
suit. See that the water in which
they are washed Is neither too cold
or worse still, too hot, and If 1t Is
hard water soften it with a pinch OF
borax. Use only pure soap and
almond meal and each time you wash
your hands use the nail brush. This
habit which soon becomes an uncon-
scious one, keeps the nails IN good
condition and makes the use of orange
stick or nail-file less Imperative. Gull
tivate also. when drying the hands,
carefully, thoroughly. the habit of
pushing down the cuticle around the
nails as the towel is used on each
fingertip in turn. Once week at least;
better still, twice a week have the
nails manicured by good profess
sional. If you do this work for your
self, see that the fingers are held long
enough in the warm water to soften
nails and cuticle, give plenty of time
and utmost attention to trimming and
filing. Apply the rosy polish and
buffer painstakingly. Never hurry the
process-give at least as much time
to it as you would pay fifty cents for
at the manicurist's.
If there is the slightest hint of
roughness or redness in the hands,
sleep in loose gloves, spreading cold
cream we'll over the hands and fingers
before the gloves are donned. In the
morning dash the hands in cold water
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15
HOPE YET FOR THE WRIST
WATCH.

n HE wrist watch is to hold It's
vogue" announces the report of
- recent convention of the Amer
lean National Retail jewelers. Asso-
citation. So the matter is settled for
another year beyond peradventure and
those who do not see how they could
live without the convenient time piece
on their left arm may take heart of
grace-their wrist-watch is not yet to
be taken from them and banished
among other has-beens of fashion. 1t
is hard to believe anyhow. that a lot
of jewellers could get together. and
decide arbitrarily whether so useful
a belonging as the vrist-watch is to
stay or to go; but one knows what
upneavals in fashion a few cou-
touriere banded together may accom-
plish in the twinkling of an eye; -
perhaps those of us who live, move
and keep our several appointments by
wrist-watches should be humbly
thankful that they are to be per-
mitted to us yet another twelve
month. Incidentally, the convention
also decided that bar. screws for the
ears will come into favor rapidly and
that diamond solitaires will be the
fashionable earrings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15

IA Q matter how daintily shod is
~ ones foot, it is hidden under
the bridge table. No matter
II how beautifully FURNISHED and
dressed ones hair, the attention of
ones partner is not on it. But the
hands that hover over the cards, that
flip them into re-shuffled oblong,
that toss them into surely dealt piles,
that gather them UP and assert them,
that draw them in and make them
into neatly overlapping "tricks"-the
hands are omnipresent, persistently
obvious. If they are beautiful. their
beauty will be unacceptable; if they
cruel indeed will be the bridge table
test.
There Is one feature of beauty that
almost any woman may count for her
own; and that is a charming hand
Some hands are charming without the
least trouble to their possessors-na-
ture made them so; but almost any
hand-unless marred by some actual
deformity, or entirely spoiled by
coarse manual labor, may be culti-
waited to the point of charm and love-
illness. But good deal more is need
ed to make the average hand lovely
than refraining from hard work and
visit to the manicure on the morn
ing of card party. A beautiful hand.
means hand that is white-but also
firm; soft-but also slender and shape
ly; with a smooth, satiny surface not
married by protruding veins; with I'm
gers that are flexible, never talon-like
and stiff Have you never noticed
how one woman picks up and puts
down her cards with crooked, firm
fingers unpleasantly suggestive of a
predatory bird and strongly indicative
of a fixed intention to win, while an
other woman's flexible fingers touch
the cards like flower petals, drawing
them toward her with finger tips only
as though winning or losing were a
matter Of complete Indifference?
In thinking about hands-their
smoothness and whiteness, women
overlook the possibilities of fingertips,
save where the purely physical char
acteristic of good manicuring is con-
cerned. The movements of the I'm
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15

~ OR semi-formal evening gowns.
the sort of costumes worn at
y theatre and restaurant and at
bridge parties. there are beaded gar
nitures of splendid color and novel
style. Beaded boleros are especially
handsome; there are bead fringes too,
and shaped bead ornaments to be APP
pliqued to bodices and over the hip
Of the skirt. Jet and crystal beads
are combined and there are wonderful
orchid patterns in mauve and cerise
on backgrounds of jet. Beaded trim
mings in pale green and shrimp pink
are shown for dainty evening frocks
of soiree silk in delicate tone, but the
Indian bead effects, superb on black
tulle evening frocks, excel all others
in distinction of color. Silk stitching
in colors to match the beading is a
clever thought of Madam Mode.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15

the forest, natural mink, Russian or
German fitch, chinchilla kolinsky.
ermine, lynx, Canadian beaver and the
like. All these furs are expensive:
some of them because they come from
far countries; others because the ami
mails are especially difficult to trap:
still others, like ermine and chin
ch1lla, because the skins are so tiny
many dozens must be matched to-
gether to make a single garment.
Skunk. really commonplace skin,
has been lifted to the expensive class
because Fashion has created such a
demand for it that pelts bring pretty
profit to the trapper.
Select Good Furs-It Pays In The
End.
A fur expert can pick up collec-
ton of assorted skins and tell you
exactly the region where the animal
was trapped; and can give fairly
close estimate Of their value, in the
skin as they are and in the garment
as they will be. Furs with the same
name vary greatly in price; much de-
Ponds on the richness of the hair and
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with trimming bands of blue fox. The
contrast between the luxurious fox
border trimming and tbs .llthe, fitted
lines of the coat is strikingly smart
These close-ftting coats following the
curve of the figure encased in feather
boned bodice and girdle are the ultra
style for winter. There are plenty of
good looking loose coats and some
very smart ones in ripple effect but
they. have not the dash of the fitted
coats-like this model of mole and
silvery blue fox of the forest. fitted
style is shown also IN the broadtail
coat with trimming band and cape
of mink. Broadtail and mink was a
combination beloved of the elderly
matron few years ago, but now
even the debutante IS disporting it,
The mink cape does add wonderful
style, one must confess, though fur
cape over a fur coat seems rather
piling on the agony, for the moderate
New York climate Even more costly
than broadtail ana mink, is mink used
alone-in quantity enough to make
whole winter coat, rippled in cut and
with edge falling to the buttoned
walking boot. Superb indeed is the
mink garment pictured-and worth
small fortune, simple as it is with its
graceful lines and broad collar and
cuff of matched skins Such coat
is distinguished enough for evening
wear at the Horse Show; or 1t may
be donned with perfect propriety for
motor trip across-country. 1t covers
up the frock completely and will be
invaluable as a Limousine coat for
wear over afternoon frocks of simple
or formal nature.
One more coat is pictured--a very
picturesque little sport or skating coat
of warm colored leopard skin with
trimming of black fox-natural black
fox and natural leopard, so this fur
sport coat maintains its position as
fit companion of the other costly
models ontoday's page.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15
More Dashlng in Line.

90 UPPOSE someone offered you
M the choice of almost twenty
R thousand dollars. or a fur coat
worth that convincing figure
which would you select? The average
woman, it is quite safe to say, would
choose the very tidy fortune with it's
agreeable yearly income for the rest
of her life; and if fur coat were
absolutely necessary to her happiness,
spend part of the first yearly income
in a perfectly. satisfying sealskin at
perhaps three hundred dollars. And
be it understood, one can have a seal
skin for 1ess-quite considerably less
If ones taste is not fashionably hy-
percritical.
Cheaper Furs Ffowned On BY
Fashion.
It Is only the rich peltry that
Fashion smiles upon. Wolf, bear.
squirrel, fox of the fields, otter, musk
rat are under her ban for luxurious
garments, yet a decade ago these east
ly obtainable furs were worn by the
best dressed women. Now one must
have rare furs, rose or silver fox of
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the depth of color in the pelt. For ex-
ample, natural black fox skin Is
worth several thousand dollars while
a "black fox muff'' may be picked up
in any department store for twelve
or fifteen dollars-the muff made of
course of an inferior fox of the field
skin dyed black Labrador mink is
extremely costly; Arizona mink is one
fifth cheaper in value. Chinchilla
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from South America is almost pro-
hibitive in price, chinchilla from AUS
tralia, called Australian chinchilla,
but really only opossum. Is of mod
crate cost. Hudson seal is an ex-
elusive, high priced fur; French dyed
seal, in other words muskrat is al
most plebeian. So it goes.
Style value is the first thing a wom-
an usually looks at in a fur garment
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gers, the way they are held. the way
they grasp things. the way they
gesture are the very index Of the
spirit and the personality to which
they belong. Watch the fingers of a
very young girl before she has learned
to intrench her spirit behind a mask
of guardedness. Her fingers are SO
flexible and so supple; they do not
cling together, or curl themselves into
fist (the individual who is trying to
deceive you or mislead you almost in
variably closes his hand into a fist
trust and faith are always pictured
by open hands with fexed fingers).
And the fingers of youth respond to
every motion of the hand. curve with
it, bend with it, droop with it. Watch
the hand Of youth and profit thereby
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$4,000 the Price Of One Fur Wrap Just Arrived
FromP Paris Wraps Of Seal and Of Ermime Law
ishly Trimmed With Pelts Whose Price is
Beyond Compare : New Furs Grow
More Dashing in Line.
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INDIAN BEADS GIVE COLOR TO
EVENING GOWNS.

strips of featherbone correctly placed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
-Four Men arrested
in Fire Bombs Plot
Charged Viii Making Explosives
TO put in Sugar Bags on
Steamship Kirk Oswaid.

NEW YORK. April l2.-Four mcr
we're arrested here tonight by agent
Of the Department OF Justice charged
with having made tire bombs" which
steamship Kirk Oswald, ot tho Fabre
Line. on or about May last.
one Of the mcn arrested gayc the
name OF Charles Won kIeist and de
Clarcd hc VAS brothcr-in Law o.
General Won isries.n. OF the ,ierna,
army. killed in battle December, 1919
II. gave his age a, siNty-scvcn Years
The others were. Ernest Becker
thirty-two years old. an electrician or,
til" steamship Kaiser Friedrich der
Crosse: Captain OTTO Woipert. forty
four ycnrs old. superintendent, Of the
MIA" Line steamship piers. and Cap
'"in l.nn" Bodc for,.-nne years of
age. superintendent Of The Hamburg
American Line steamship piers at
Hoboicn, y J.
According to the officers who made
tn" arrest Eodc confessed that he was
The agent Of Captain Franz Won Paper
former military attachc at the German
embassy. lic IL said 10 have asserted
tha' Won papcn sent h.n 10 the pla n,
of tho Agricultural Chemical Company.
in Hoboken. where k!cist was e,n
p!oycd. "tr find fault with the ship
mcnts of lubrica,ing oil which were
being sent TO Germany ~ way Of iIol-
land as fertilizer"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
BERI.I> NAMES Public
FULL TENT or GERMAN NOTI.

BERLIN. Apri! - ,lia London. April
l@I The following rs 'hy ,eA, o. the
German note o. ,hc SUSSEX dated April
10
''Ch" Undersigned Aas The honor TO
MORN Your Exc.llency Ambassador
Gerard, in response 20 communications
% the os;h ana Goth ul,imo and al
instan, regarding the steamers Sus-
sex. :ianchestcr Engineer English
man. Bcrwindv8ic and Eagle Point,
rnat the mentioned cases. IN accordance
"th our notes OF the goth and 3Ist
ujtin" ana tth and ath instant. have
been subjected 10 careful Investigation
b' tho admiral staff OF the navy. which
has l.d 10 the following results
First. y steamer. which was posi-
ply the K"rwindvale was encountered
ou The evening of March Is in sight
of Bui! Rock light. an tho Irish Coast.
by German submarine. The steamer
WAS ordered 10 halt by warning shot
Sh" paid no attention. however. 70 this
waning hu; attempted 10 escape The
vessel was then fred upon until
halted ana without tu,ihc! order.
lowered several boats. After The crew
entered the boats and received enough
time to row away the ship was sunk
Second Tho British steamer Eng
ishinan on March - was called uron
/" halt by German submarine
through two warning shots about
twenty sen miles west of Gslay
IiebcTtdes, The vessel proceeded
CONTINUED on Third ragcD
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
GERMANY ADMITS
HER SUBMARINES
SUNK -FOUR SHIPS
PRESENTS Evidence TO Show
They Were Legally
TOrpedoed.
BERLIN DENIES BLAME
FOR LOSS OF SUSSEX
-orfcsses 10 Attack on Vessel
Near Where Channel Steamer
Went Down.
tErLN TO AMERICAN NOTE
,\planatiun SimpIiHcs Task IN Pre-
pairing for Next Step
in Issue.

rEGLlN hpril - 'hy wireless 10
he Associated press trom u staff cor
c-pondcnt The German rcply 10 The
3Amer,can not" concerning N. dam
iEinr or sinking II n,c steamships
,onia'ns IN" statement that M"
'camo-" F.nGiiahurtn, Eagle Point.
+ianchcstcr Enrirccr and Berwind-
fyale. we're destroyed hy German sub
lnprircs
Evidence was presented - .now ,ha,
nc y"sse!@ we're ;orpcdoeh legally. IN
Ehc"ordauc" with tn" rules OF war.
The ro,c states ,ha: - German sub
marin" torpcd"cd :, steamship in tho
rinity Of the place AZ which the
stcamghip sussex waa
/" 'd"n"c ~ hand indicates that the
".Ascl turpcdoed by the submarine ,ras
rul ~, SUSSEX
s,''es ,ha. only on. German s,lb-
marine was u the vicinity. ANA tina,
~ ,orped"od one steamship. Tn" com
mnndcr of tho submarine made Il
sh.tch NJ 'hc tim" This sketch has
b"cn ,ompar-d witu photograph Of
Tho SUSSEX. aud his hceu found 10 bc
lui," diaaiullar lu build. arrangement,
y tu,hs. c'.. Therefore, IL is pre-
sgm"d mine was Responsible for tin.
damaging oc the SUSSEX. IN the way
u eorrohoration, - - s'at"d tina; Ger
ma" naval forces destroyed twer,y-six
'"ltii.r msIcs on that day
Ncgardi'v: the cases Of the English
mau, Manchester Eugiu"cr Eagle Point
.uh hcrwin'.valc. j, is stated they
tN,r. I.rrJl.d TO r;If, hut disrSp, e6
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
ARTILLERY Is ACTIVE
~ IA NGENI<HiJ> nE,.IoS

PARIS. April l".--Tne Official Wa:
Office communication tonight reads:
I'm Belgium our artillery WAS ac-
;!N" in the region OF Lansemarck
Between the Somm. and the Oisr
our fire shattered trenches west Of
FarN!!lcrs, In the region Of Roye.
In the ArSonne. We exploded four
camouHcts AT IA Ellie Morte Hautc
Chevauchee and Vaquois After grenade
hshiing W" occupied the southern
edges OF the two craters in front OF
our trenches in the sector OF Les
IourteS ChaussccS.
West Of he Mcusc there was q vio-
.ent and continuous bombardnient at
hin le5. in the region OF Esnes ana
l.c Mort H"mme
East ot the Mouse and in the
Woerre the activity OF the artillery
VAS less marked. and no infantry ac-
lion occurred during the DAY"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
GERMANS MAKE USE
OF JI.ANfISI. IIn,-InS

FAIRS, April I2.-Thc German as
sauit on the Vcrdun front west Of The
Aeusc WAS renewed this morning.
Troops advanced on Caurettes wood.
south OF cumicrcs. the War Office an
noumces. using flame projectors. bu,
were repulsed.
East Of the Meuse. in the Douau-
mont-NauX sector, there was only arm!
lcry fighting.
The war Office says it has been con
hrmed that the German losses vester-
day were very heavy.
The statement follows:
On the left bank Of the River
Mcusc the Germans this morning de,
livered an attack on our positions at
the Canrettes wood, between lie Mort
1Iomme and Cumicres, in which they
made use of flaming liquids. They
were everywhere repulsed
"On the right bank of The river there
has been great artillery activity he
tween Douaumont and VauX. bur last
night saw no resumption of the infau.
Try fighting at this point
''Tt has been confirmed that the very
violent offensive action yesterday af
tcrnoon AT o'clock in this sector
which was rcpulscd by us, cost tho
enemy heavy losses
The night passed relatively quiet
on the remainder OF the front"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
AMERICANS PENETRATE
FAR BEYOND PAVRtI Z.

FL FASo. TEN, April i2-~That the
American eNpcditionary force has
penetrated far beyond parrai and is
near. is not actnall! AT, the chihuahua
Durango border line, is indicated in
dispa tchcs received here this afternoon
by private concerns with interests iu
the Parral district.
Making his trail with tho Action
spread broadcast by poems that he had
died OF his wounds, Frnnoisco villa -
thonEht by MexicaH military Officers
IN 'aarcz to be safely hidden away to-
day in the Sierra Madre Mountains,