Evening star., 1916-07-23
Picked Up Here and There,

their tlIHS anu
Nightcaps for energies in max
ing mufflers and
the heroes of the Marne and the Meuse
or in knitting atrocities for the Bel
gians." as Mr., Francis A. Lewis so
wittily expressed it at the Contempor-
ary Club, Philadelphia. the evening Mrs
John Markoe was so busily engaged
with wool and needles in front of him.
have now found an entirely new out
let for their benevolent energies. says
rthe Public Ledger. They are making
mosquito netting nightcaps for the
American soldiers at the border front.
1t seems that tropical insects are found
to have lurking fondness for the ears
OF American heroes. and with a mean
ness worthy of climate which pro-
duces perennial crops of Villas and Ia
patas and other similar brigand bands
of the Sierra, they find their sneaking
way into the ears of the unsuspecting
sleeper So that now, just as on the
Meuse in France. you will see curiously
masked faces armed against noxious
! gases and looking much like slovenly
, divers just out of the deep, SO on the
! ftfO GfdnQe at n1ght you Will see an
army of men in netting nightcaps
armed not against the murderous sci
ence of the new man, but against the
crudities of old dame Nature. Whether
or not our American youths can, at
first, be brought to wear such safe
guards against the intruding earwig and
the exploring tick remains to be seen.
From my small experience and obser-
vation of the breed, it will take prac-
tical demonstration of the lurking
danger before the ni1hfcan hecOrne9 a
welcome addition to the soldiers kit.
A staff correspondent in writing to
the Chicago Tribune from London gives
a racy interview with the progressive
Countess of Warwick, which runs:
Pigs are so very intelligent. Besides
they eat SO many things that we should
otherwise have to throw away
Men cannot get so much milk from a
COW as the girls can Men have a way
of sending just anybody at all out to
milk, whereas to get good results you
must be on terms with your COW and
get her psychology. The girls have a
way of getting on with them. 1 know
one farm where they have doubled their
supply of milk since girls were given
chance at the work because of the
war.
'Shorthorn bulls are regarded as very
dangerous The men thought of them
as something to run from or to COW by
getting ring through the sensitive
part of their noses and pull them
through it with a long rope. Well. at
one farm there is shorthorn bull and
the girls have had their pictures taken
j., row on his back. They conquered
him.
Il myself knocked up two henhouses
the other afternoon.
.As to the question of women's atti-
tude toward war. If it does not intro
duce too unpleasant a note into this
occasion, think they should never dis
cuss II except to decry 1t under any and
all circumstances.
The battles of the future are eoinxt
to be fought in the secondary schools"
The hostess picked out the invitation |!
on card which she attached to her |!
t visiting |
a Unique Party card by
Punctured With Surprise. s' "a
headed pin. After all had arrived they (
had a contest to see who could put the |
most pins in a paper in ten minutes.
Neatness was counted. The next con-
test was to see who could best make
their initials in small satin pincushions,
which were given as souvenirs; all sorts
of colored-headed pins as well as black
and white ones were provided. Then
plain black hat pins were produced with
SUCKS OF coiofeo Seaung wax and hat pins
were made.
Next a clothesline was stretched across
, the room and each guest was provided
with clothespin bag. which was tied
around her waist, filed with clothespins,
and four minutes were allowed to see who
could pin on the most. This was very
laughable. and prize was awarded Of a
rolling pin for the most successful pin
ner. After this every one made clothes
pin houses with fences, and a paper of
pins was awarded a prize.
When it came to refreshments the
napkins were fastened together with
small gilded clothespns, croQuettes made
long and narrow and bits of macaroni in
each end to make them resemble minia-
ture clothespins. Hot cheese balls with
the salad were perched on the end of new
skewers which the butcher provided to
make them look like hat pins. and the let
tuce was pinned with wee safety pins to
make hollow cup to hold the fruit salad
There were round. fat cakes served with
the ice m.each holding an inexpensive
but good looking stickpin. In a Jack
horner pie the hostess had concealed cum
ming boxes Of hairpins for the girls, at
tached to blue ribbons. and pin balls for
the men. attached to pink ribbons This
Is a very easy party to prepare and
, produces a great deal of fun, SAYS the
Chicago Herald.
visit to the tented city on the hill
northwest Of Columbus. says the Ohio
State Journal. where
Another Cann there are 10000 mon