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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

say. of our Japanese allies. In point
of fact, one has to visit Japan to find
children who appear to make the most
of life. They laugh all day and every
day, and they never seem to find any
thing worth crying over Yet it must
not be supposed that, because the
Chinese child works at an age when
our children can do little more than
toddle, life for them is one of gloom.
In their W way, they are perfectly
happy while they are working, and
one doubts whether they would be
anything like so c%ontented If they
were set to play as we know play. The
same holds of the wife Of the peasant.
Day after day she is forced to work,
and very often the burdens she is
forced to carry are ~disgracefully
heavy for a woman. But what else
is there for her to do? She has 70
homework to perform. She cannot
read. She is not educated, and she
has not been taught to think.
Every writer on Chinese matters
makes mention of the flial respect dis
pldlGu ny OuluGoS yOuhS PCOliIs ACb
it simply does not exist. They are
misled by the fact that ancestors are
worshiped and old people revered. 1t
has to be said of the Chinese peasant
that he never allows his old father or
his old mother to starve so long as he
has a handful of rice to share. There
are no poorhouses for old people in
China. They are not needed. But be-
tween child and parent there is no
sign of respect. Men and women in
China are not respected until they are
either dead or approaching death.
They they become tremendously i'm
portant.
Man Without Sympathy.
One characteristic of the Chinese
peasant is his indifference to pain. He
may be badly smashed up, yet he will
cling to life with a ~tenacity that pulls
him through where a European would
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
MOST FEMININE OF TREES
Both in the Summer and Winter the
Birch Delights in Theatrical
Effects.

The birch. above all our American
trees, delights in theatrical effects.
And If hat sentence is objected to on
the ground of pathetic ~fallacy," we
will commit the whole sin at once and
add that il is the most feminine of
trees.
In earliest spring. when the hepat-
icas are pushing up last years leaves
and u Berkshire m~ountainsides are
donning their frail. delicate wells of
color, the young birches are c%onspicu-
GUS for the startling brightness of their
new foliage. a green so much lighter
and more vivid than all the other
greens that it would arrest attention
even II 1t we're not borne On a snow
white stem. Walter Prichard Eaton
writes in the Century.
Your young birch has all the daring
OF a debutante.
Later. when the summer thunder
storms come. the birch has another
trick up its sleeve. Some afternoon
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

go under. | saw a mar the other day
who fell thirty feet down the hold of
a ship. One side of his face was ter
ribly battered. Two of his ribs were
broken and one arm was badly dam
aged. A European would have been
carried instantly to hospital. His one
anxiety was to be allowed to return to
work and his description of those who
would not allow him to do so lacked
nothing in point and directness and
was sufficiently comprehensive to in
clude their ancestors, existing rela-
tions and heirs forever. He simply
could not understand what all the
bother vas about.
From this Indifference to pain,
again, springs a want of sympathy
with another sufferer. A man may die
on the roadside without the slightest
notice being taken of him. Let his
relatives take care of him. If he is
dying, why trouble with him? 1t is
the business of the authorities to cart
away the corpse. Why should anyon
worry over him? For the matter of
that, of course, if the case is one of
plague, say in Hongkong where the
laboring class is only a little better
than the peasant class in China), a
dying man will be taken into the
street and left there. If that cannot
be managed the body will later be
slipped out quietly and left some dis
lance away. If it is kept in the house
the authorities will come round with
brushes and pals and -disinfectants
and other foolish things. and clean the
house and fumigate it, and generally
annoy the inmates. The Idea of an
noyIng living people because of a man
who is dead is %ridiculousl
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Feminine Fads

Emerald green checks on a white
ground are seen among the latest nov
city cloths.
A one-sleeved Spanish cloak Of sa-
BILE is one of the fashions favored
abroad.
Mandarin yellow velours trimmed
with ermine is a favorite combination
for theater cloaks.
The ermine furs are usually
small straight choker collars and small
rounded muffs.
Bright colored silk fringed sashes
are a pretty and dainty finish to many
light tulle and lace dancing frocks.
The gay scarfs of fiber silk are
among the prettiest of the season.
though lacking the coy look of the
wool scarfs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Two Wells Needed.

Twb wells are needed for protection
from strenuous winter breezes. One
veil ia a face veil of fine hexagon
mesh, the other is a draped veil which
floats over tho hat. New wells of the
latter sort are called plateau wells.
They are of open fladora mesh with a
deep, effective border at either end.
The veil is thrown across a small hat
so that the bordered ends fall at the
sides. just below the shoulders, and
the hne face veil is draped closely
over the hat and face in usual fash
ION.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Kinu HAMBURGER.

Put n cupful Of rice on to boil in
double boiler, salt to taste. When
done remove from fire. put into deep
pudding dish. Take one pound ham
burg steak, add salt, pepper, half onion
chopped fine (onion can be omitted),
put on top of rice in dish, then add
n a tomatoes. Put in oven, bake
one-half to n hour. Delicious and
very economical.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

a dark, gunmetal thunder head will
mass behind the crest of a hill and
suddenly an old birch on the summit
will leap into startling prominence.
SO that it focuses the entire attention,
like a single splendid streak of chalk
white lightning.
Again. in m~idwinter. when the birch
by rights should be protectively col
ored and inconspicuous. it is the other
trees we do not notice. and the birch
which rises by the edge of the frozen
stream, perhaps, or against the dark
wall of the pines and displays all its
snowy limbs to the best advantage
against evergreen or sky.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
What Is Fame2

DR.. e. M. Perdue of Kansas City.
studying pellagra in collaboration
with the Institute of Experimental Hy-
giene of the University of Rome, was
in New York and dropped into a
Broadway vaudeville house to pass
away an hour Dr. SO. Az he approached
the box Office a long. lanky gentleman
ahead of him said; Whats going on
here tonight?" Leslie Carter is here
in pictures" was the.feply. "shucks.-
said the stranger Veen him.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

reared his family, to have the mem
bers of it married as we'll. And be-
cause marriage is the beginning and
end of the existence of a Chinese peas
ant the matter is taken with quite
tremendous seriousness. He marries
young. Rather, he is married young,
for the contracting parties are not the
two most Immediately concerned, but
their parents.
The contract is drawn up long be-
fore the young people are of a mar
~riageable age, and past it the young
people cannot go if they wish. But
they seldom wish. The young man is
content with the choice made by his
mother. One girl is as good as anoth-
er to him, SO always she can rear a
family. What think in China
matters nothing tn any one: among
the peasant class, that is to say. Yet
for all his passion to get married, the
young man seldom dreams of provid-
ing a home for his bride. He is con
tent to take her to his fathers house,
and to real his children there. The
time will come, of course, when the
little home will become too small, but
it serves him for a very long time
first.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Everyone a Worker.

From this custom of two or three
generations living together springs the
fact that everyone, from the young
est to the oldest, does some kind of
work to help. A little tot of three may
be seen gathering bits of stick; the
tottering old grandmother is generally
found trying to weave OF spin. Chi
nese youngsters appear to have no real
childhood. They do not laugh as do
our children, or as do the children,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

Topla and the steamer heads directly
for Castelnuovo, leaving on the left
the Sutomia, a portion of Ragusan ter
ritory coded to Turkey in 1899 to form
a buffer between herself and Venice.
The town was founded in 1873 by the
Bosnian King Tvarko |. ~Kokomanovic.
In 1888 the Spaniards built the fort
browning the hill to the north, now
split up a good deal, but the splits are
partly concealed by ivy. 1t was the
only part Of Dalmatia held by the
Spaniards.
Perasto the Faithful.
Six miles from Cattaro is Perasto,
the one city which remained faithful
to Venice, even after Campo Formio.
When the Austrian troops anne to
take possession it is touching to record
that the gonfalon, only consigned to
the army in maritime and land en-
terprises in the Levant, was buried
beneath the altar of S. Nicolo with a
solemn requiem, as if for the burial
of a father. 1t had been confided to
the Perastines by the republic almost
four centuries before for their faithful
services, when Venice distinguished
the city with the title of "fedelissima
gonfaloniera."
In the early morning the sardine
boats may be .seen coming in. At
night they produce a. most brilliant
light with a strange apparatus on the
bow, served by acetylene. Along the
coast roads red and white o~leanders
mingle; orange and lemon trees, an
cient figs and chestnuts, olives, pome-
granates and many beautiful flowers,
lovely in form and color and strange
to the English eye. On both sides of
the water the road runs a little way
back from the shore, dipping occasion
| ally into masses of olive or edged with
lovely pale mauve irises. Dobruta.
on the left, has a bastion ~encroaching
on the left, has a bastion ~encroach.
ing on the road, with church and cam.
panile just behind it. and opposite,
Perzagno picturesquely occupies a
promontory, with unfinished domed
church and huddled houses. The
lofty Lovchen towers above Cattaro
to the height of $40 feet.
Cattaro lies at the extreme south
of the "Bocche," thirteen miles from
the entrance between the Punta dos
tro and the Punta d'Arza. Both of
these are fortified, and the channel
has been further defended since 1897
by the little Fort Mamola upon the
rock Rondoni in the channel. The
town has about 1000 inhabitants,
many of whom are Italian immigrants,
part are Albanians and Montenegrins,
and subalterns who have married and
settled here are OF Austrian nation
atty. 1t is surrounded by walls which
ascend the hill in zigzags, and is en-
tered by gates which me cannot think
likely to be of much use in modern
warfare. OF course, the varied cos.
tunes, some very fine, some in all de-
grees of d~ilapidation, add much pic
t~uresqueness to the scene. To reach
Montenegro, one has to ascend a road
with no fewer than sixty-tive zlg-zags
cut in the face Of the rock, so steep as
to look in places almost as if one
could drop a stone into the sea thou
sands of feet below. On the road
Montenegrins are met, the man on
%muleback. the woman on foot carry.
ing a load, and neither of them would
onsen to change their positions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Apple Johnny Cake.

One pint of white meal, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, one-half teaspoon
full of salt, one-half teaspoonful of
soda, n teaspoonful of cream of tar
tar, milk enough TO make soft batter.
three apples pared and sliced. Mix in
the order given and bake in q cake
pan 80 minutes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Manicure Nails by Machine Now.

Milady may nov manicure her nails
In less time than 1t takes to comb her
hair. A Los Angeles woman has de-
signed an electric m~anicuring machine
which operates in much the same
manner as a dentists drill-but, she
promises, it can be used with much
less discomfort to the patient. The
machine is comprised of a small mo
tor to which is attached a flexible
shafting. by which the various instru-
ments are made to do their work. No
trimming, cleaning or polishing is
done with knives or scissors, as all
the tools are made In dish form.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Cranberry Shortcake.

Make a nice biscuit dough and cut
1t with a round biscuit cutter. When
baked split the number you need, but
ter them and put a tablespoonful of
made cranberry sauce on the under
half and a tablespoonful of whipped
cream. Cover with the other half, put
sauce on that and cover with whipped
cream. Use the remaining biscuits
some other time by warming between
two pans.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

Procure a piece of round steak, the
desired mount. Fry it a good brown;
then pour owe it a can of tomatoes,
season with salt, pepper and a small
onion. Cook 1t slowly for a couple of
hours. If you use a f~ireless cooker,
you will fnd this a very satisfactory
dish.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
New ANGEL Food.

Sift together four times one cupful
of sugar, one cupful of pastry flour,
three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
and a little salt; add to this mixture
n cupful of scalding hot milk, then
cut and fold in the beaten whites of
two eggs. Turn into an unoiled tin
and bake in a moderate oven 40 min
utes. Any fiavoring desired may be
used.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
In the World Of Dress.

Long yelled sleeves of tulle are a ia
vorite style for the demi-toilette worn
when dining in a restaurant.
The paradise plume is sometimes
used as the crown of a hat which has
practically nothing otherwise except a
turban brim.
Never were such rich all-over pat
the present year.
Real laces, especially point Venise,
are always in fashion.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

increasing steadily. till by the time
the chair is reached a state of tension
has been attained that precludes the
possibility of letting ourselves g
dead" But, says a well-known neu.
rologist, one can drop all this by a lit.
tie effort, and say to himself, 81 will
not cry till l I'M hurt" In fact, he
cannot only acquire the ability to be.
come a dead weight in the chair but
Will finally give no more thought to
the dentists appointment than to a
date at the golf club.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

Mince six cold boiled onions nm
make a thick sauce Of one teaspoon III
flour, one tablespoonful butter and
two-thirds of a cupful of milk. To this
add the minced onion and finely
mashed yolks Of two hard-boiled eggs,
n tablespoonful chopped parsley and
a seasoning of salt and paprika. But
ter scallop shells. fill with the mixture,
sprinkle with breadcrumbs and brown.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Plated Skirts.

Plated skirts are not alone fashion
able. they are very generally becom.
ing. One is so arranged as to give
the effect of a plain panel at the front
n N at the back. also it is cut off
at about the hip line and finished with
q peplum prettily shaped yoke.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

A serge gown done up recently had
the last seasons bodice remodeled In.
to a bolero arranged over an under.
vest made of a piece of rich silk
picked up at a sale and sold of be-
cause this winters patterns will not
be brought out again for another sea.
son.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
WILL BE EXTENSIVELY USED
THIS SEASON.
Employed Chiefly to Give Fullness to
Skirts-sleeves to Stand Out From
the Arm-capes Bid Fair to
Be General.

Ruffles are used all over a skirt to
give it fullness, which is a much pref.
tier method than obtaining width by
a plain circular cut which Says at it's
different points and is apt to look as
ragged as the skirt of a gypsy before
a month is over.
The deep Spanish rume will come in
with the other Spanish fashions. The
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

- ATTARO, the last city in Dali
malta, is a quaint medieval
walled town. Formerly it was
the southernmost of all Aus
tria's Adriatic possessions, which eX-
tend almost $50 miles down the east
ern shore from Grade, just above
Trieste, to the ancient fortress and
modern naval base on the Bocche di
Cattaro, famous alike for it's wonder
full harbors and wild beauty, unriv-
aled even by the finest of the fjords
of Norway.
The city of Cattaro is situated on
the innermost of the chain of five lit
tie lakes or bays of the Bocche, and
on three sides it is inclosed with an
a~mpitheater of rock, formed by the
mountains which almost encircle it.
1t is a very ancient stronghold and
eve in the days of Constantine-Por-
ph%yrogenetus the city was described
by him as being "the city where the
u never shines except in midsum-
mer." 1t is actually true that the old
town covering at the very feet of the
great mountains which soar into the
sky just behind it is as somber and
shut in as an alpine village in a mar
row mountain pass, but although
shaded from the sun by the soaring
rocks it is insufferably hot in summer.
The city walls are enormously nigh
and thick and keep out any stray
breeze from the water, while the
streets of the town are so crooked and
narrow that they remind one of the
dark little CALI of Venice, with here
and there a small paved campo or
court, surrounded by low stone dwell
ings with tiny Sits for windows, which
add to the somberness and gloom of
the breathless city, which for cen
turtles has been the scene of such per-
petual conflicts that the dwellings are
miniature forts, the tiny windows be-
ing apertures through which to shoot
rather than openings to admit light
and air.
Gate to Montenegro.
The little strip of ~alluvial land on
which Cattaro lies has been formed by
the rains of centuries having washed
the soil from the gaunt sides Of the
bleak mountains of rock towering
above it. The Montenegro legend
states that at the creation, st. Peter
was flying with a great bag of rocks.
The bag broke and the rocks falling
made Montenegro. 1t is to the credit
of King Nicholas warriors hat no 9TH
er land as desolate, rocky and hope
Iessly sterile has aver been so re-
vered for centuries by its dauntless
sons, who, in its defense, have watered
its crags with their blood.
Cattaro has been long known as the
gateway of Montenegro, and years be-
fore the famous road was hewn out
of the sides of the rocks the Monte
negrins made their way down into Cat
taro from their little stony farms on
the bleak heights above. by the rough
goat track which for ages followed
the bed of a mountain stream.
The cathedral of st. Trifen, or the
duomo, as it is called, is one of the
oldest and finest buildings in Cattaro.
The Bocche consists of several mar
row canals of water, surrounded by
lofty mountains rising almost directly
from the waters edge. between which
lie broad expenses of water, produc-
ing very fine scenery. The first of
the narrows leads into the bay of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Embroidery In eI.ek.

One of the effective new petticoats
is made of white net with rufies EN-
broidered in tiny pink ivy leaves.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Rnudnlr Iacketa

Boudoir Jackets are tighter; they
even follow the lines Of the old-fash-
Toned basque.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-20
LABOR LEADERS TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS
 BEFORE COUNTRY
Eight-Hou Law and the Exploitation of Women Workers Will Come to
 Front This Week

Baltimore, November 19.-The S-hour law and labor problems to be met after the European war will be brought to the front this week in the American Federation of Labor convention in ses- sion here. The heads of the four rail- road brotherhoods are expected to ad- dress the convention tomorrow or Tues day on the Adamson act. A resolution from the Illinois federation setting forth that in the Warning countries "enormous numbers of underpaid women, morgan ized and voteless have taken mems places and predicting grave danger that women will be exploited everywhere to lower wages will be considered.
 .It is understood a favorable report will be made tomorrow on resolution instructing the federation executive council to take such steps as may be necessary to obtain action by federal au- thorities ito the end that the printing industry may be rescued from the clutches of the conspiracies which are successfully manipulating the prices and supplies of print paper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-20
ON U-BOAT
 NOT TO DELAY TRIP
Another Damage Suit Will Be Filed
 Today Against Deutschland

New London, November 19-Repairs to the German submarine Deutschland. which was damaged when she sank a tug conveying her last Friday, will be completed within few days. it was said tonight. The craft is expected to start her second homeward voyage the latter part of the week.
 Another suit for damages, making five in all, will be started tomorrow. The latest action, which is for s25,000 will be brought by the family of Edward Jackson, fireman of the tug T. A. Scott. Jr., who was one of the five men Crowned when the submarine ran the vessel down The total damages asked is $lS7,0ao.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-20
Summary of the News
GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS l-Allfed armies capture MOnastir on anniversary of Servian victory. Nails and Brooks will be taken to Huntsville.
 President Wilson faces diplomatic crisis with calm. Office holders to suffer shake-up. "A wide open town," cry of evan gelist. Secretary Lane is backed up by President.
 American nonstop flight record is broken. S-Tidal wave on the Mediterranean wrecks many ships. ROOsevelt's talk used to defeat
 LOCAL NEWS -Entire membership admitted by letter. 5-Uses his logic to show reality of the Great Creator. Crisp weather of yesterday called many out of doors. sermon on "Faith' at Baptist Plans to locate nitrate plant dis- cussed.
 Travellers to aid in sale of Red Cross stamps. Exodus of negroes has not stopped. Civilians fin the army. S-Bessemer to have new Masonic '-Vandy's victory is feature of past Eastern eIevens in upheavaI of the Charlie Schmidt bought by Chicks. Gridiron echoes.
 FEATURES 4--Editorial comment.