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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
Boys Leg Is Broken
By Scissors Grinder

William J. Jones, today reported
to the police that his five-yearold son,
while on his way home from school
yesterday afternoon. was knocked
down by a scissors grinder in Fairfield
avenue, tn, latter pushing his ma
chine in front Of him on the sidewalk
and striking the boy with it, breaking
his left leg, in Newf1eld avenue
The grinder fled and the boy was
carri to his home, SCI Newfield ave-
nue., and thence to the hospital, to
have the bone set.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
BREAK WITH AUSTRIA CERTAIN

Feb 20, via Paris-Ausras reply to the United
States defining position in the submarine is known in
Berlin according Frankurer Zeitung, which predicts
relations between Washington and Vienna
inevitable The papers Berlin correspondent says:
which President Wilson has sent to the
leaves doubt that the breach OF relations
between and Germany will be followed
with Austria Hungary President Wilson wishes to
clearly told whether the has
withdrawn its earlier declaration regarding the conduct OF sub
warfare Really ought to think that the explanation
by Hungary at the beginning of the unrestricted
the effect that from Feb all ocean raf
in will be prevented with all
should capable Of misconceptions But in his dealings
with the Central powers President Wilson always painfully
exact es*8ss
at true that heard that he sent cautions
let alone warnings the Entente for topedong Austrian
without warming but when Germany Austria
the thing Wilson his voice In the
of humanity civilization The Austro Hungarian govern
ment President Wilson's memorandum and what
this will be is known Mr. Wilson Will be able TO draw
his conclusions thererom will break off relations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
OUT OF JAIL TWO
WEEKS HE rs BACKN
FOR 60 DAYS MORE

John Tracy, an offender who has a
habit of wandering into houses where
he~ doesn't belong and absent-mind-
edly taking whatever is loose, opened
a door in a Park avenue house yes
terday and when asked what he want
ed replied that he had potatoes to
sell. He didn't get away with 1t how
ever, and was pinched. This morning
he went back to Jail for 60 days. He
has been out Of Jail about two weeks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
GERARD's PARTY ARRIVES in SPAIN

Madrid Feb. 22-James w. Gerard, former American am
bassador Berlin and his party arrived here this morning
their ay to the United States The Americans at the
of the foreign office and by Joseph
E. Willard the American ambassador and his staff a
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
AMERICAN FREIGHTERs BRAVE U-BOATs

NevYork Feb 2-Two American freight steamships
sailed from this port today bound for European ports They
oil tanker Communpaw and the Pearl She'll which
red general cargo Other saings foreign registry
steamers.
Ships arriving ports in addition to the Amer
lean passenger liner Philadelphia two British freghers
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
BUSINESS MEN WILL
BANQUET MARCH f3

The annual dinner of the Business
Mems association will be held at The
stratheld. Tuesday. March 13.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
YARROWDALEs PRISONERS ARE FREED

Amsterdam, Feb 22, London 1920 p. ma dispatch
received here from Berlin that the American sailors who
taken Germany the steamer Yarowdale have been
released
The Americans released the dispatch after the
German government informed officially that
ships America had not been conscaed and that their
had not been interned.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
SWEDISH VESSEL, CARRYING FIVE AMERICANS,
IS SUNK; ALL ON BOARD ARE REPORTED SAFE;
GERMANY RELEASES YARROWDAIE PRISONERS

State Department Investigating Report From Com
sui at Barcelona That Steamer With u. S. Citi.
zens in Crew Has Been Destroyed-Five En-
tente and Neutral Vessels Are Sunk-Berlin
Reports Freeing of American Prisoners After
Assurances That German Ships Here Have
Not Been Seized.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22

A through passenger service, Wash
ington to Boston, will be instituted
March Is.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22

Washington Feb. 22-Sinking by German or
the Swedish steamer Skygand which had five Americans
aboard after the had been given 10 minutes
boats reported by Consul General Hurst Barcelona
SPAIN today to the state department.
injured and the landed safely at Torragona Spain
The Skygland of 1897 tons net sailed Norfolk jan
&c. for Bagno Italy Consul General Hurst his dispatch
said there 26 in her crew. five of whom
citizenship He gives their Braner BROOKLYN
" Leo Carrgh Portsmouth, N. H.; Jack Burke Brooklyn
N y Jay Lewis Uniontown Joseph Brown Elizabeth
N j. ~
The Skygland stopped in the Mediterranean by
marine six miles south of Tarragona Spain, at 49,
Consul General Hurst reported and the given 40
utes to take to their boats AS the left ship sailors
from the submarine went aboard placed bomb which
exploded and destroyed the ship The Tara
gona after seventeen hours in their boats.
The Skygland undoubtedly the vessel that re-
ported from Paris yesterday the Skogand which
tined having been sunk Feb. 49, There is Norwegian
steamer Skogand which sailed from New York
wall.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
PARIS REPORTS FOUR SHIPS SUNK

Paris. Feb. 22-Officia announcement was made today
the sinking Feb q of the Dutch steamer Abon 359S TO
gross, and of q British trawler.
The sinking of the Norwegian steamer Alice, 100 tons,
Russian steamer Sgrd of TONS also
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
BRITISH STEAMER CORsO TORPEDOED

London Feb 22-uoyds that the British steamer
Corso has been sunk
was 3343 tons. She reported
ing passed through the Red Sea- eastbound Jan. T.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
SLIM HIPS STILL In VOGUE
Barrel Skirt, Hung Low, Permits No
Voluptuous Curves in These
Models.

1t has been thought that the loose
hip model which is now called the bar
rel skirt demands a specially curved
corset, but this is not true. Corsets
cut according to the latest designs are
more than ever snug below the waist
over the hips as well as in the back and
front. The backs and fronts are liter
ally fiat and even when this effect is
only achieved by widening the waist
three or four inches it is done in order
to produce the proper outline.
Anything but a snug hip treatment
would make the new skirts look decid-
eddy frowsy, and since the draping usu-
ally begins six or eight inches below
the waist, and that is set low, there
must be definite line from which to
expand. Also most of the arrange
mentS are so devised that from one
angle at least a smooth, unbrQken line
is given. Sometimes two draped scarfs
are applied to the sides of the skirt and
these leave a slender hip panel plainly
visible, sometimes the flare is produced
by a straight piece of material drawn
across the front of the skirt or shirred
into a belt and then left 20 hang in
graceful cascades at the sides. In this
arrangement the back of the skirt is
treated in a similar manner or is left
perfectly plain. In either case the ac-
tual hip line is not obliterated nor al
lowed anything but the slightest curve.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
WOMAN COULD
HARDLY STAND
p..,ored to Health by Lydia
UP F, JPinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

'"Why will women
Fulton 3,ba ii. money for treatment ana
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
a Different Pillow.

1t is hard to ring in any changes in
the embrOidering of cushion tops, but
one seen recently was most unique.
The pillow top was made of a coarse
quality of ivory-white linen which was
heavy and pliable. A large spray of
flowers was embroidered diagOnally
on the cushion. The flower petals and
leaves were outlined with coarse
twisted cotton, green for the leaves
and rose color for the flowers. A
lighter shade of the rose was used
for the lines on the petals. The CEN
ter of the flower was worked with
stranded cotton and tiny flower
shaped spot of yellow worked from the
center out in five little petals had
one French knot of black in the mid
Gle of it and radiating from it were
lines of black ending in satin dots of
yellow. After thesfloral part is COM
pleted, an effective background in
squares can be formed by crossing
lines of brown.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
Two Tones in Everything.

The seasons agog with two-tone eff
fects, lettuce green and gold, beige
and wistaria, rose and silver, and
among the others every now and then
is black over white. 1t never occurs
the other way, however. Some OF the
very prettiest blouses are of white
rather heavy crepe or chiffon yelled
in very thin black gauZe and some
women have discovered that while the
one thickness transparent sleeves are
very unbecoming, making their arms
look anpleasantly bare, an inner lin
ing of white tulle achieves perfection.
A most becoming blouse is of white
georgette yelled in black, box-plaited
so that the effect is that of stripe.
The neck is cut squire finished with
a mitered band lightly embroidered In
rhinestones and the sleeves are incred-
IDLY full, rot only box-plaited but gath
cred as well so that they bulge at the
elbows and droop at the wrist most
gracefully into a wristband of EN-
broidery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
MANY RIBBON HATS
All Seem to Be Made on Same
General Model.
Ribbon May Be Used Dozen Different
Ways on Millinery and Very Pretty
and Becoming Effects Are
Easily Produced.

There are great number of ribbon
hats about now, and it seems strange
that they are all made on the same
model with ribbon which varies only in
color or the fraction of an inch in
width. As a matter of fact ribbon may
be used in a dozen different ways in
millinery and at any of the ribbon
counters enough scraps Of lovely rib
bon may be bought for little to make
hat and a bag, too, if ingenuity is
used.
For fresh young face nothing could
be more becoming than a hat made
upon a small, tight-ftting crown of
plain blue panne around the upper
crown Of which is plated one edge of
an eight-inch-wide Persian ribbon. The
other edge is gathered and fastened to
the crown about an inch from the edge,
forming thus wide puff or tam crown.
The bag to match is made melon shape,
the lower half blue panne, the upper
Persian ribbon.
A plain foundation of net may be
covered smoothly with narrow strips of
black and white ribbons laid on in rays.
The crown may be all black or all
white, finished with a contrasting tas-
sci or merely topped by curious ORR
entail ornament.
Powered ribbon hats will probably
be worn this year in place of the Gre
tonne and chintZ ones of other seasons.
There is something peculiarly attrac-
tive about fine fabrics for headgear,
and after the first novelty of these cot
ton and wooden hats wore off they soon
lost favor. AS soon as lovely shaded
ribbons, ribbons of gold and silver
brocade and those bearing clusters and
garlands of exquisite Misunderstanding
flowers began to be offered for mod
crate prices, as is the case now, the
cheaper materials could not fairly COM
pete.
A hat, bag and sash of some lovely
ribbon win transform the simplest
summer frock into something distinc-
tive, and if a sash does not fit in well
with the dress design, collar and cuffs
may be made of the ribbon. These
are often rendered still more lovely by
being yelled in organdie or null edged
with quillings of fine lace and inser-
ton, too, if possible. Some of the most
attractive hats being worn in the South
are of ribbon completely covered by
fine net or organdie.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
PROPER SOIL FOR POTATOES !
Value of Crop Is Generally GEeater
Than Any Other-Practce of Ro-
tation Favored.

The best soil you have on your farm
should be given to the potato, both be-
cause it is more exActing in its de-
mands on the soil than any of the
other staple crops and also because
the value of the crop per acre is gen.
orally greater.
The crop that precedes the potato
is also important. A clover, alfalfa,
peas or cOwpeas-any legume-is
first rate preparation for a good crop
of spuds. Rye or buckwheat plowed
under is good. If you had sod on
your farm plant corn first and then
potatoes; this is a first rate rotation.
Oats, then peas, then potatoes is an
other.
Another good rotation is fall wheat,
in which clover is seeded in the
spring; second year, clover, plowed
under in the fall or early winter; the
third year potatoes. However, if you
have plenty of land it is best to grow
potatoes only one or two years in sue
cession on any ground; thus you avoid
diseases.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
Feminine Fripperies.

Jabors are back in favor. But they
are never the skinny jabots Of yester-
day. They are of cascade variety, de-
signed especially to be worn with a
suit of the IncrOyable order.
There are some very effective gloves
for street wear of heavy cream kid,
bound with brown ard stitched with
brown.
The paisley rage has extended TO
handbags. And the newest ones are
made either with a metallic clasp or
drawn up in a shirring of silken cords.
Stencil patterns pursue US still.
They have just made their way into
the realm of bagdom. Bags of silk
are shown in many sorts of stencilcd
patterns and these are usually mount
ed on metallic frames.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
PLAN FOR BREAKING A HORSE
Most Successful Method for Preventing
Animal From Pulling at Hal
ter Is Outlined.

The most successful method of
breaking horse from pulling at the
halter is as follows: Secure new
half-inch rope about Is feet long
make loop in one end. In tying,
throw Topped end over animal around
the chest or TANKS and run other end
of rope through the loop, between the
fore legs, through a neck strap or the
nose piece of the halter and tie Sc
curely to a strong manger or other OBJ
ject. When the horse pulls back the
rope runs through the loop and tight
ems up on the body, and after a few
trials the animal soon gives up the
habit of pulling. Tie in this manner
at all times until the animal has been
broken thoroughly of the habit. Then
use a good strong halter or neck strap
that will not break under ordinary
strains.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
WINTER HINTS OF CHICKENS
Repository Diseases Result From
Drafts-FowIs Should Not Be
crowded-Use Straw Litter.

Colds, roup and similar repository
diseases largely result from drafts in
the poultry house. 1t will pay the
poultry keeper, therefore, to make
draft-proOf any cracks in the back, side
and roof of the houses. =
The fowls should not be crowded in
the house and from two to five square
feet of floor space is needed per bird.
The exact ratio depends upon the breed
and the extent of the yarding. AS a
rule, it will be found advisable to allow
four square feet and floor space for the
lighter breeds such as the Leghorn.
About five or six inches of straw lit
ter should be placed on the floor. Grain
which is fed in this will make
the birds exercise continually. Clean
nesting material is needed in the nest
boxes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
DETERMINE ACIDlTY OF CORN
Improved Apparatus Developed by
Members of Staff of Plant Bureau;
Time Is Lessened.

The fest to determine the acidity
of corn, which previously required 16
to IS hours, can be made in less than
one hour by the use of improved ap-
paratus developed by II. J. Besley and
G. H. Baston of the officer of grain
standardization, bureau of plant indus
try. Under the new method an cleo
trio mechanism, similar to those seen
on soda fountains, is used to mix
finely ground corn and alcohol Thirty
minutes of mixing it is found will ex-
tract from the corn an amount of acid
reacting substances comparable to the
amount extracted through digestion in
80 per cent alcohol at room tempera-
ture for Is hours.
The methods for making acidity de-
Examinations of corn with this ap-
paratus are described In detail in
Circular 6S. office of the secretary
recently published by the United
States department of agriculture.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
The Limit.

THAT'S the way with women. They
never love us when we are short"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
GET RIGHT KIND OF CORSET
Matter of the Highest Importance,
Though Many Women Are Care
less in the Matter.

The kind Of corsets women wear Is
as essential to health as the kind OF
food they eat, and should no more be
dictated by fashion than should their
bread and butter. The history Of the
varying shapes and proportions OF cor
sets is found in the history of the cos
tunes fashionable at the different
periods -described-the corset designed
for the fashion, not the fashion for
the corset.
This is the opinion of Emma L.
Goodwin. who is an authority on cor
sets and who has given her time and
talents to the consideration Of cQrsets
IN their relation TO health for many
years.
Never has the designer Of fashion
ebIe corsets taken into consideration
The physiological fact that constric-
ion of the flesh Of the body around
one portion wiz result in an increase
ct the point where pressure ceases;
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
The Coat Blouse Remains.

With the predictions of the skeptl,s
all to the contrary, it now seems as If
the peplum, or perhaps it should be
called the coat blouse. is here to stay
for the spring and summer months, at
least as far as sports wear is concern
ed. And certainly with separate skirts
promising so well for the coming sea-
son, there is every reason for belieF-
ing that this may be the case. They
DO give a more finished appearance to
an uncoated woman, and no one can
deny that they allow a great deal of
freedom in athletics.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20

hence the bullying shoulder flesh and
protrudIng abdomen Of the waist con-
strictlng corset and the widening thigh
muscles Of the fat hip corset Of the
present mode.
What corsets should and should not
be are both clearly and uniformly de-
fined in the writings of many medi-
cal and physiological authorities
Broadly stated, the CORSET should be
constructed primarily for support, not
compression. It should assist, not pre-
vent, normal bodily development. 1t
should permit, not restrict, free breath
ing, heart action, digestion, circuia'
ton and muscular activity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
Doll Caricatures.

Dolls resembling in form and feature
persons who desire to hand down to
posterity as faithful portrait of them
selves as possible have become great
fad in Paris. 1t began with the carl
caturing of celebrities in the form of
dolls with heads formed to accentuate
the characteristic features of the or
iginal. Now all sorts of people are
having themselves portrayed in this
new fashion. The facial resemblance
is not only reproduced as perfectly as
possible, but the dolls are dressed in
material approaching as nearly as pos
sible that of the originals clothing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
A Blouse SUGGESTION.

Beads on the georgette blouse Ore
now about as common as sands on the
seashore, but none the less attractive
because SO generally used. Until the
bead vogue. started, georgette was
clasSed as q wash fabric, but anyone
who has tried TO wash her beaded
blouse will find it not only a difficujf
matter, but a dangerous one, as the
beads are apt to rip off or Pull the
material.
Instead of sewing the beads directly
TO the blouse, sew them on bands or
plastrons or medallions, and then
haste these with firm stitches TO the
blouse. A pull OF the knotted basting
and the band can be removed in two
seconds before washing the blouse. II
is a practical hint, if you must have
beads and a wash blouse at the same
time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
GOOD SIRE VERY ESSENTIAL
of Any Kind of Live Stock Is
Through Best Males.

Whether the live stock is cattle,
hogs, sheep or horses, the good ones
are appreciated when sold, and conse-
quently bring higher prices and nor
mally yield greater returns.
The most practical means of inn
provement is through the use of good
sires, for the male may become the
parent of from 40 TO 100 animals each
year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
With the Fingers!
Says COrns Lift Out
Without Any Pain
...............,...-.-s-,-.--.s-s-....-.....

Sore corns. hard cOrns, soft corns or
any kind Of q corn can shortly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
will apply on The corn a few drops OF
freezone. says a Cincinnati authority.
AtUttIe cost one can get a small bot
lie Of frcezone at any drug store, which
will positively rid ones feet of every
corn or callus without pain or sore
ness or the danger Of'infectiOn.
This new drug is an ether compound,
and dries the moment it is applied and
does not inhame or even irritate the
surrounding skin. Just think! You
can lift off your cOrns and calluses
now without a bit of pain or soreness.
# your druggist hasn't freezone he can
easily get a small bottle for you from
his wholesale drug hOuse.-adv.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
svrboIiesl coats Of chinese Liked.

Interest IS being revived in man.
DARN coats. At .iany Of the s7nartest
social functions ladies are wearing
these and II is taken to betoken & re-.
vived interest in the history and ara
Of China
These coats include ivory while,
dark blue, imperial yellow. jade ans
black and they have the typical ern-
broideries done IN dragons, medal
lions, waves Of eternity. lotus and 9th.
er more symbolical motifs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20

hand, drafts are likely to cause roup
and other trouble.
Many farmers, i'm feeding their
birds, overlook the fact that beef scrap
or some similar feed is very essential
during the winter months If good
supply of eggs is to be obtained. A
convenient method of feeding beef
parts cornmeal and one part each of
wheat bran, wheat middlings, and beef
scrap. Skim milk or buttermilk
may be used in place of the beef
scrap,
Feeding Beef Scrap.
In experiments conducted by the de-
partment it was found that for the
first four months pullets fed a ration
containing beef scrap produced, on an
average, 41.5 eggs, while those fed
the same ration without the scrap pro-
duced only 1871, The cost of feeding
the latter birds was % cents higher
for every dozen eggs produced than
in the case of the pullets fed beef
scrap.
The birds should have plenty to eat,
but they also should always be eager
for each meal. If one-third of the
scratch grain furnished them is fed
in the morning and two-thirds at
night, the birds will take more exer-
else than if they received all the grain
they desire in the morning. Good
scratch mixtures may be made of
equal parts by weight of cracked corn,
wheat, and oats, or of two parts of
cracked corn and one part each of
wheat and oats.
Other directions for the winter care
of birds are contained in new pub
LEGATION of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, Circular II. Office
of the Secretary, Winter Egg Produc-
ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
New Use for Link Buttons.

Link buttons are used in the front of
a Russian blouse holding the opening,
especially when the blouse is pulled
over the head. More sparingly they
can also be seen holding the fullneSs at
the sides or back of the waiStline. A
smart woman wore a gaberdine dress,
the sleeves of which were slit almost
TO the elbow and held by means OF
link buttons. In another case a velour
one-piece dress was fastened in front
with such buttons, and the hat, made
of the same velour, showed three such
buttons in front on the cufflike brim.