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The Washington times., 1916-09-18
= AUL sERoEvITCH was a Rus
y sian noble who had disgraced
himself by drunkenness and

- AUL SER0EVITCH was Rus
- sian noble who had disgraced
himself by drunkenness and
dueling and gambling and by
every known vice. The Car. by way
OF punishment, exiled Paul to the lat
ter's estate in Lithuania.
There. shut or from all the gayeties
he loved, the banished man spent his
days In hunting and his nights In
brandy swisging. His wife died. He
drank the harder. 80.
His little SON Alexis and his baby
daughter Katrina shared his exile
The two children were looked after
Ss.S me 70 .Ssr S indeed
gave no special heed to anything ex-
cept brandy and hunting. The man
agement of his family and of his
estate was left to Michal. his old
valet.
one day Michal reported in terror
to his master that a large snow.
white wolf was ravaging the district
and. that the brute had slain many
wayfarers. eating only the hearts Of
Michai believed the monster was g
werewolf "a human being who has
the power to change into wolO.
Paul led a party of peasants into
the forest in search Of the marauder
T THE ss aSsR the nnS 'saes siToi.
around the thicket. the peasants pre-
pared to set fre to the underground
and to smoke out the lurking crea-
ture.
The Woman in White.
Just then a gloriously beautiful
woman stepped forth from the thick
ct. She was clad in a white fui
m. ntIa aud her eyea shone like Ore.
Introducing herself to Paul as
fugitive from the Russian political
police, she said she had hidden In the
bushes on her flight through the for
| est, fearing lest the peasants were .
added that, as she hid there. a sreat
white wolf had dashed past her:
Paul at once fell In love S with m IN ;,
honor him by a visit TO his castle. de-
ciaring she wound be safe there from
| the police. She accepted the invita-,
ton, When the enamored Paul asket
her name. she babe him cah mel
Old Michai, from the first. hated and
suspected his masters lovely guest
40 ala little Alexis. But Katrina was
] Fascinated by her beauty,
| Alexis, too. was griev0usly disap
pointed at his fathers rshure w 10 hI ",
declared loudly that he himself wal
EoInE 10 be a wolf hunter as soon al
he should grow up. In the mean tim'
he got hold Of q rusty; OLD BRASS
| Armed with this awkward weapon
| the child used TO creep around fht
castle Garden. at night, pretending III
was hunting the white wolf;
One evening Ravina told Paul sh'
must leave the castle on the morrow
The Washington times., 1916-09-18
TT REASON!
This hat is NOT black


= velvet.
Instead IL is q dainty turban
Of a soft shade Of taube velvet,
cleverly folded and draped, and
adorned with but one large en-
broidered rose.
As a matter Of fact the black
velvet hat IL not . decree this
year. Other materials, in colors,
or tones Of gray may be used.
Neither is the shape Of q hat
necessarily sailor.
This model 10 q turban II there
ever was one, and has the
chameleon like blessing Of being
a different hat at every angle.
Unlike the sailor, which says
that the hair must be arranged
one way, and one only when
worn, this revolutionary relief is
just as happy il the hair Is
worn cup" rs it Is when the
hair is worn "down."
This for the simple reason
that It is convertible and ad-
justible from more than one
angle. A slight bending Of the
brim, a twist Of the folds, and
transposition Of the rose brings
about another hat, amenable to
various dispositions Of the Golf
fure.
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The Beginning of
Chinaware
TT is to the Chinese alone that the
world owes the creation OF china

TT Is, to the Chinese alone that the
world owes the creation Of china
ware.
While the Greeks. who have per-
sistently laid claim to the invention Of
this article of modern everyday use.
were making experiments with terra
Gotta. the Chinese had already COM
pleted the manufacture of porcelain.
pottery was made in the Chinese, en-
pire as far back as 300 b. C. are open
to considerable question. 1t Is a matter
OF indisputable record, however. that
porcelain was extensively produced in
From that period the art was de-
veloped and perfected through the
centuries, the center Of the industry
being King-le-Chin. where porcelain
eighteenth century this town possessed
no fewer than 5000 furnaces. OF all
Chinese porcelain. the most priced, even
at this day, Is the old blue ware. imi-
tated by the Delft manufacturers.
China Taught Japan.
From China to Japan the knowledge
OF the production Of porcelain was car
ried on In "a B. C. Seven hundred years
later the first company of porcelain
makers was established at Tokyo. 1t is
however, rather in the production of
pottery than OF porcelain that the Jap
Tse Ts rseord Of sn
OF porcelain ware In Europe Is In 1887
when Lorenzo de Medici received from
the Sultan of Egypt a present of blue
Chinese porcelain. The appearance OF
chinaware in Europe led to strenuous
and intermittent efforts at imitation
the earliest European porcelain Of
which any examples exist being thai
made In 1880 by Francis de Medici ii
grand duke of Tuscany. this attempt
however, ceasing seven years later
From time to time the industry appears
to have been revived in France, but 4
was not until 1913 that porcelain max
ing took firm root at st. Cloud, to b,
further developed fifty years later a
Vincennes.
National Works at Sevres.
In 1866 the center of the industr.
was finally transferred to Sevres
while in 1860. at the direction of Loui
XIV, the works became the pottery
of the nation, surviving the mael
Ing. In spite of all changes Of govern
ment, until the present day. Twenty
Eve years earlier Boctcher had estab
lished the famous works of Nielsen
near Dresden, Saxony.
In Great Britain manufacturer
nave at all times centered their atten
ton on the making of soft porcelain
of the kind used in the every day Gu
and saucer The works at Cheslea
Derby and Worcester were started re
spectively in 17I5 and n5l. hard porce
lain making being begun by ROBBED
Cookworthy at Plymouth In 1858, an
continued by Richard Champlin a
ABristol until 1881. -. ..
Copyright 1910. e
The Washington times., 1916-09-18
Times Pattern Service

A VERY choice design in dress
"A is this one, on smart, simple,
and youthful lines. 1t is a back-but-
toned model, fulled at the waist
line, has low, flat collar finishing
the neck and full-length sleeves
neatly cuffed. The skirt, with
straight gathered fiounce, joins
the waist under a belt of material.
Banding is prominently featured,
as fashion directs. Silk and crepe,
silk and fine serge, silk and wolfe,
and like combinations are desir-
able for developing, and the pat
tern is easy to follow.
Cut in sizes Ia to 20 years.
To make in size 16 will require
434 yards 36-inch silk, 81 yard 40
inch crepe, and 37s yards banding.
In all one material, 81 yards.
To obtain this pattern fill out the cou-
pom and enclose 10 cents in stamps or
! coin. Address Pattern Department,
Washington Times, Munsey Building,
D. c.
The Washington Times guarantees
the delivery Of all patterns sent through
this service. No patterns can be OBJ
tanned in person.
One week is needed for the filling Of
pattern orders. II patterns do not come
within that time, notify this Office for
adjustment.
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Bachelor Girls
Reflections
BY HELEN ROWLAND.

Dy AAAA~@$@" 80 "
n MANS mind Ia like non-refill-
70 n able bottle-once he has received
~ the impression that you are in
With him the only way to get the
idea out OF his head Is to extract the
whole brain.
Hope Is a chain OF iron which holds
a man to a woman's side-gratitude a
silken thread a million miles long which
permits him to wander at will.
Alas! no man can be full OF romance
and hay fever at the same time.
Most men select q wife for about the
same reason as Adam did-simply be-
cause they happen to be lonely and
bored and she happens to be the only
woman at hand.
The man who extracts the full mea-
sure of 10y out OF life Ii the one who
always gives more than he expects;
sometimes spends more than he can
afford and occasionally loves more than
Ia wise.
The Modern Girls Slogan: Let me
sign my own checks and care not who
may sign a wedding certificate.
Copyright. 1870.
The Washington times., 1916-09-18
The Chaperon

Dear Chaperon--I am staying
with some women with whom
] wish to get along peaceably.
They are gossips and vain:
try to be nice to them, but
something always seems 10
turn them against me.
What can I dot
ONTINUE to be faultiess in
your behavior toward them.
~ IL will be hard. In the face
of their lack Of courtesy. but It's
the only way you can salve your
conscience.
Can you not take them to the
motion pictures some evening. or
show your anxiety to please them
in some other Inexpensive way?
Dear Chaperon--I have been
going with n young man for
four years and think he likes
ME. but / can't understand his
behavior sometimes. Occasion
ally I have to remind him when
in the street to assist me up or
down the curb and in many
other ways he shows that he
thinks OF himself first.
When In motion picture
theater, instead of standing
back and waiting. for me to
pass out ahead Of him he rushes
on up the aisle and leaves me
behind. When going In a door
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Taube Velvet Distinguishes
This Revolutionary Cha
peau From the Popular
Black Model So Often
Seen-And 1t Doesn't
Take Much Imagination
On Behalf of a Clever
Woman To Twist This
Shape Into a Thousand
Angles.
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superstition with q sane idea behind.
The fact IL that those who have skins
unused to the cold are usually those
who live in stuffy. warm rooms The
instant air q little cooler sweeps
across the room and strikes the
coddied skin IL becomes chilled ana
the pure, fresh breeze gets the
blame, which rightfuily should be
laid at the door Of the victim HIM
Copyright iss Newspaper Feature SERVES,
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A Different" Interpretation
Of the Velvet Hat For Fall Wear

Although One Might Think 1t
a Crime To Wear Any
thing But Black Velvet
This Fall, Nothing Will
Happen To the Timorous
Woman Who Dares To
Make a Copy of This
Model and Wear II Abroad
Far and Wide.
The Washington times., 1916-09-18
"A Litter Of
MoDing Day
Perplexities
A Few of the Little Problems
With Which the House
keeper Has To Cope In the
Fall On the Day of Days.
: How To Feed a Husband,
Make a Sideboard Fit a
Wall, and Put the Baby To
7. Sleep.

TT Is moving day. The weather isl
forget and haven't time to waste
on the weather anyhow. am to
have everything ready by the time
Edgar comes home.
We go from a tight. narrow-chested
cage to a fve-room mansion in the
effete n. W.
A. least that Is the way I looked at It
during the summer
But today. with everything torn up, and
deposited in the {. r. mansion;
with the baby crying and the maid
looking like Lucretia Borgia prior to
the time when she killed her parents
And all the furniture looking as lone
some as a ifteen-year-old boy in q
ten-year-old suit: 50
with my bones aching with such inten-
sity that am able to count all Of
them without looking in Gray's
Anatomy;
with foodless dinner at hand. and q
'bedless sleep on the horizon:
And with a hungry husband as bound
to come home to dinner on THIS
night as is rain to fall on q picnic
day.
with all Of these things present. I begin
to think
That tho narrow-chested cage was
really
Merely COY,
And that the (. r. mansion Is .
Big. bare barn.
Il IN moving day. and I am 70 have
everything ready
~ the time Edgar comes homo!
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The Neatest Girl.
Tho neatest girl in our SGT
In Capitola Flynn;
She never hurried in her life
And never used a pynn.
-Euphemis.
The neatest girl In our set
10 Miss Florina Muttons;
Her monther spends her idle hours,
In sewing on of buttons.
-Tsh.
From different poles them verses CANT
The authors no one knows;
But both agree the Neatestb Girl
She neither rips or sews;
She goes about with stately tread
One thing she counts a sin
No matter whose or what the work
She'll never use a pin!
Street Car Snapshots.
First One-T can't endure those bIaol
pelvet tdms."
Second one-T bought ono Of them
First 0ne-"oh but toIth you it's DIR.
fsrent. You toouId look toeII IN one l
thtnk you see" etc. etc eto.
Atavism.
With all the best maves Whine whoEgr
But, oh. I would make you cry,
To hear her oft e-nun-ciate
"Oh, no! Just you and l."
\ THE CONDUCTOR.
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hind.
He watches every girl who
passes him everywhere we 40
and tries to flirt with them.
DO you think we could marry
on $50 a month? He wants 10
wait until he gets $50.
why does he not show more
courtesy regarding me? He
does, not want to come to see
me any oftener than possible.
X. ID. B.
7 CANNOT understand the youna
mans actions toward you. Ii
goes not seem possible that he
could pehave 50 IL he really cared
about your feelings and your COM
tort Do you think II II because
ne does not know any better? He
may nave never known that Il Is
considered right for a young man
to help a girl up and down curb
stones or to see that she 10 com
Iortably fixed in the theater be-
fore he thinks of himself.
he must be so used to seeing you
everywhere with him that he
takes you for granted. Isn't this
so! Can you not show him that
you feel his behavior keenly? II
he loves you truly, It should be a
pleasure for him to enjoy your
think It would be better for you
10 wait until he earns the $50 a
month. That's $40 a year additional.
You must remember.
Watch him carefully and do not let
him think that he can neglect you
gagged.
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What They Say
About Us
Thoughtless Miss Paul.

Rather thoughtless was Miss Alice
Paul in warning President Wilson to
call special session of Congress to
pass a national woman suffrage
amendment before the November
election. Evidently Miss Paul doesn't
know how hard II IL to get Congress-
TO adjourn once II Is In session.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
A woman's ideal Of a perfect
home Is one with six closets in
every room.-Macon News.
Sometimes when trying to smoke
some brands of cigars we don't
blame mother for starting the Kitchen
FIRE with Kerosene Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Less than II per cent OF the regis
tered women voters in Chicago voted
at the primary election on Wednes-
day. A fact that speaks more con-
vincingly than nights OF oratory and
tons OF literature.
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Dear Chaperon-I am a girl OF
seventeen and have been keeping
company with a young man OF
twenty-one. We are tentatively
engaged. My friend does not APP
prove OF my going out with any
young men. What perplexes me
Ia that he works at night, and
doesn't have very much time TO
spend with me.
viii you advise me what to do,
as / get very lonely at times, but
would not like to give him up.
Do you think he is acting reason
ably? ROXY.
TN a way, yes I should not like Ia
think that a fiancee OF mine
were going around with other
boys, IL l were a young man.
II you marry him you will have Ia
give up your boy friends. Why not
now? The situation Is unusual,
will admit. but you knew that HI
was doing night work when you be-
came engaged to him.
II YOU find the effort Of being true
to him too much for you, break your
engagement.
The Washington times., 1916-09-18
Answers to Health
Questions

Frank T.-what are the constituents
or q good peroxide cream
You may obtain q splendid cream
from this combination:
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BY CLIFFORD LEON SHERMAN.

Dinner being over and bed time still
an hour away. Tommy crawled up on
his fathers knee TO learn more OF tho
life on the Mexican border.
IT suppose" said he, that You didn't
hear much shooting. going on down
Don't you worry about the shoot
Ing, replied his father, There was
near one Of the outpnats one evening
when heard shot and q minute altar
The Washington times., 1916-09-18
Why Coddling Makes
You Susceptible To
Annoying Fall Colds
By DIR. LEONARD KEENE HrRsHBERG.

w THAT 10 . coidI or one thing
NM you are certain. Il 10 not
" health. You are more or less
The Washington times., 1916-09-18

(sIzE MUST BE p UT ON coUPoN3
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13

Captain C. L. Peabody well known mining and transportation man of AL aska. who is in Seattle with his f1nan- ciai associates believes he has dis covered near Valdez, body of copper ore, which will rank with the great Cordova Latouche and Ellamar prop critics. It lies in a direct line with those producing mines. and mining men In Valdez believe it to be an ex
 tension of the same ore body penetrat- ed by them. It Is just across the di
 vide from the big Granby copper mine and Is about fifteen miles from Valdez. The Peabody Alaska Copper Corpora ton, of which Thomas H. Pickford, a capitalist, of Washington, D. C.; A. ". Brauer, of the Great Lakes Steamship
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13
100 TONS OF BRAZILIAN BEEF
 SHIPPED TO NEW YORK

ting this new branch of commerce un- der way,
 Whatever effect Brazilian beef may have on prices in North America will not be felt until after the war.A year ago Argentine beef was coming into this country at the rate of $500 tons a month. Since then, on account of the demand in Europe. tho quantity has diminished. Should Brazil be able to develop a considerable trade within a short time, 1t Is believed that much of the meat would necessarily go abroad Beef production, on account of the excessive demands of the war, is falling behind consumption. Between 5 and 10 per cent of the American beef supply Is now obtained from South America or Australia.
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of nature Almost all the snow on the mountain tops netrr Valdez was melted by warm weather last spring and summer, he says and this barred the outcropping copper Large lodges of chalco-pyrite and malachite ore were discovered a few weeks ago. Capt Peabody says the chalco -pyrite will run about g a ton and the mala- chite about s7O The B claims
 lie along the face of mountain The ore lies on the surface and Capt Pea body says 1t can be mined cheaply be cause it will not require the sinking of any shafts II will practically be a surface mine Contracts have been let for some tunnel work.-P.-I.
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.uay have made shipments.

quay have made shipments.
 Capital is said to be scarce in Rio de Janeiro. and the new enterprise in Sac Paulso is credited to American interests Chicago beef packers have already established themselves firmly in the Argentine, the Armour corpora ton, for example, opening on July 9 the Frigorifco Armour de la Plata This establishment Is ono of the larg- est of the kind in tho world having a capacity of 1900 cattle, 2.0OO hogs and 2,5O0 sheep daily. The plant at Sac Paulso Is not so large. but 1t is equip ped to do considerable business. and Brazilian stock growers hope that a satisfactory trade can be built up. The American consul general at Rio de Jeneiro has been instrumental in get
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13
CAPTAIN PEABODY MAKES
 IMMENSE COPPER DISCOVERY Y

Company. and several other eastern men are the officers, owns the prop 4rty on which the discovery was made
 The property consists of thirty-three claims on Sulphlde creek We did not know when we took over the prop critics Just what they were" said Capt. Peabody yesterday. Now that we nave discovered these large and yer accessible ore bodies, the corporation stands ready 10 go ahead We are already in communication F it.
 York firm to get estimates on the cost of tramway from the mine to Valdez, distance of fifteen miles. It prob ably will cost $10,OOO a mile" Capt. Peabody attributes the discovery of the immense copper deposits to a freak
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13
HARVESTING THE SEA

of potash Steps were immediately taken for the organizing of the indus try to utilize the kelp for this purpose. Now comes q story that one of the
 great powder manufacturers of the country has decided to spend $5,000, 900 in this enterprise toward obtaining chloride of potash to fill war orders. II has been difficult to harvest the crop of kelp. but American genius in the person of George H. Markell, sec retary and general manager of the Her sules Powder Company. Is reported to
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13
Indianapolis News )

The ultimate consumer may find some encouragement in the fact that there arrived In New York the other day consignment of 100 tons of Bra gillian beer. The meat came from an abattoir in Sac Paulso, was shipped by rail to Santos, and thence by re- frigerator steamer to Now York. The consignment was from the Continen- tai Products Company, of Santos. tc the National City bank, of New York
 This is said to have been the first shipment of beef ever received from Brazil. Up to the present time, the Argentine has been the only beef ex- porting country of importance In South America, though Uruguay and Para
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lul times.
 But curious as this item of the rec ord may seem how many as they affix their attention to It, will consider for a moment what it must mean to the permanent fertility of the richest plains of Europe, which have suffered such an enormous upturning of barren subsolls.
 Those who have had occasion to note the slow degree by which our Iowa clays. left In the process of surface drainage, take on Q cultivated and civilized appearance will be able to form some notion Of what Is ahead of
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13
SUPERVISION TELLS OF
 GREAT PRESSURE RIDGES

Earth Feathers to read something profitable when one circumstance or another keeps me In camp.
 "I cannot find the reference now. but 1 think you speak somewhere of Nansens statement that pressure ridges of sea ice are never over 30 feet high-at any rate, 1 remember he says so in his Fartherest North
 II have seen many pressure ridges 60 feet high. l have a photograph of a man on top of a single piece thai
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13
(Des Moines Register.)

It is q matter of curious interest to know that twice as much dirt has been moved on the western line of the war by the French and German soldiers in preparing the trench warfare, as was taken from the Panama canal.
 For more than 500 miles from Swift zerland to the channel, four, five and six trenches have been dug on either side of the dead line, each trench av- eraglng five and one-half feet in depth, dug by private soldiers, with little war spades. an expenditure of human effort almost without parallel in peace
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Clos Angeles Times)

When the war broke out and Eng
 land fettered the seven seas against German commerce, the United States was cut off from a great many valua
 ble materials used in manufactures. Among these was potash, used In fer tilizing and also for the manufacture attention was called to the immense kelp crop growing spontaneously in the ocean off California coasts as a certain source for an unlimited amount
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oil a letter came to Prof. w. H. Hobbs, of the University of Michigan from Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explor- CT from his camp on the southeast coast of Banks land, in about 73 de- rrees north latitude.
 lis letter was written January 13 last and was remalled in Ottawa on october IA.
 On a little trip during the absence of the sun, 1 have with me your
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13
TIE COST OF
 DIGGING IN

France when the work of restoration begins. It will be years before the farmer will harvest even half crop on the acres of this trench warfare
 If there were nothing else 10 condemn the insane exhibition of folly In Eu- rope it would be the energy that has been spent in destroying the fertility of France. If anything could be more hopelessly and criminally ridiculous than living in ditches like rats. it would he the waste of energy expend- ed in digging the ditehes.
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Calling Cards at the Nugget office.
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calling Cards al the Nugget office
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have constructed submarine reaper. This reaper will cut the kelp in six inch lengths and these will be sucked up by d pump into q big wire basket. The kelp thus prepared is taken ashore and placed in a roasting vat, the need ed chemical substance being afterward extracted. It is said that chloride of potash, formerly obtainable in the gen. eral market at $35 a ton, Is now sell ing at about $2O0 a ton.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-01-13

Calling cards printed at Nugget ofce