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Prudery.

From the Sheridan (Wyo.) Enterprise.
Nothing Is more ominous In the LIE
of a people than the coming Into pow
er of the prude. Prudery is generally
the travelling companion Of darkest cor
ruption and is q sort of moral intoxtca-
tion stiking blindly at whatever raises
its head-or its skirts.
1t will be recalled that when the state
of Pennsylvania was sinking TO the
very depths of political rottenness some
prudes got together and passed through
the legislature bill which required
that the figures Of the graceful nude
statues on the capitol grounds be
clothed. AS a result still. ridiculous
marble pants and dresses were designed
to keep the innocent from looking upon
nudity--sven In marble. Under such a
system Venus do Milo would look like
a wild ballet dancer and the Dying
Gladiator" would resemble q little boy
dressed In his Sunday stiRest and suf-
ferinE from . stomach ache-
Fortunately Pennsylvania was saved
the humiliation of having marble union
suits and dresses made for tte works oe
art. But the outburst Of pfudefy res
vealed the mipds Of many people.
Incidentally u called attention to thA
fact that state could tolerate shv.
al-million-dol1ar steal. but that it
dreaded to have its youth gaze upcR
human hesuty 40 preserved In lasting
form.
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monial occasions. It is not the kind of
hat to wear on the street in the morn
ing on a windy day. 1t may be worn
indoors for any day affair, and it has
been adopted by smart women with
half-low gowns for dinners and sup
pers at restaurants.
The milliners are enchanted over the
prospect of selling more hats through
the new custom, which calls for a COW
ering on the head, no matter how low
the gown, for evening usage in req
taurants.
This fashion has played hide-and-g
seek through the decades. It is in. 1t Is
out, and it takes a spry woman to avoid
being caught mapping.
Long ago. we banished hats at the
play. to a large extent. although it is
not possible to ask the woman who
travels to the theater from long dis
tances on trains and trolieys to forego
the hat. If she will stand the punish
ment of guarding 1t throughout an
for the public to cavil at the practice.
The new fashion of adding an orna-
mental hat to a distinguished gown
when one dimes in public has been
taken from the French, who have worn
hats in the evening for a century, re-
gardless of the English habit of uncov-
ering the head and shoulders the mo-
ment the clock strikes Z.
These restaurant hats are quite fea-
ture of new millinery, and with the ex-
ception of the sumptuous oriental tur-
ban they are so broad of brim that they
suggest the days of the merry widow.
Usually they are of black velvet. al
though satin has an accepted place. The
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wherever the milliners hardened to the
appeal Of the hairdressers the result
was co1dly received.
There is no limit to the variety of
hats when one refers to shape. but
there is little variety when 1t comes to
startling inspiration. The immense
oriental turban is the novelty. and is
worn by women who care to preserve
the eastern look in their costumery
whenever the occasion permits it.
The original turban is Of black satin
with a black paradise in front and a
crystal buckle to hold the spreading
feather It is worn low on the head.
showing not a flicker Of hair. except
a tab on each ear to fill in the hiatus
between the brim of the hat and the
pearl earrings.
Even this shape is an echo OF the Rus
sian ballet, for the men wore this kind
of hat In Scfenerezade as it was cos
TUNED by Bakst, and 1t is symbol to
MANY minds of the Arabian Nights.
There are women who have tried the
shape in amethyst and orange velvet.
clineing to the black paradise. and
using black jet buckle in
stead OF 4 colored crystal one, but such
women are daring and their followers
should be few.
one thing should be well fixed in the
mind regarding this oriental headgear,
which is that it should be kept for cere-
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used art and nature to continue TINS
facial attraction, but she left the choice
of her clothes. the lines OF her inquire
and the making of her corset to chance.
Today. 1t is not in the least necessary
for her to be horn with . trace OF
beauty to commend herself to far
hung public and be considered woman
Of striking appearance.
The silhouette Is the thing.
This Is accentuated. or probably, 1t 1:
better to say, 1t 10 nearly embodied in
the hat. The woman who does not
strike the top note clear and strong
might az well consider herseii out OF
the running In fashion and In attrac-
tiveness Of personal appearances.
If women in mass could only be made
cognixant of the truth concerning hats
the milliuers would talk less and wom-
on would look better. It Is the ignor-
Ance of the majority of women a. to
what kind Of hat they should wear that
gives the milliner who must sell hats
4 chance to mar a face that might be
made attractive and ruin = gown that
has been admirably executed.
A half hour in the millinery SHOPS OF
one town would convince an 6nlooker
that the majority OF those who sell
headgear have borrowed much Of their
trained to cajole the public into getting
what II does not want. In the ma
jority Of millinery shops there should
be put up the sign: These hats must
be sold. regardless OF faces" the latter
word as substitute for prices"
Probably. 1t is asking too much of
human nature for o saleSwoman with Q
persuasive manner to- keep the APPLE
faced woman from buying the drum
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I'm simple little phrases, such as one
uses who has repeated the same
q thing over and over again, the
woman In mourning was telling her
story to q neighbor during the inter-
mission at the moving picture show.
In these war times one makes acquafnt-
ances very easily. Any one individuals
sufrerings are but part and parcel OF
the sufferings of the community at
large.
Eyes, madam, lost my husband two
years ago. He was killed at once
at the very beginning of the war"
"Tf he had to go, 1t was better that
he shouldn't have suffered the hard
ships of the trenches for a couple Of
years."
perhaps, yes; perhaps. no. For. at
least, we should have seen him again.
and he would have written. While this
way My little son here, who is
nearly seven years old--he hardly re-
members his father. Think of it! My
husband was mobilized among the very
first. He was not yet twenty-six. AL
ready for eight days he had told me:
1t will be war. You will see. But, like
SO many others wouldn't snia1 believe fr"re It his
office, he said to me: 1T has come. 1
am of tonight I wanted to make him
up a bundle of clothing, with some
linen. But he wouldn't wait. He
scarcely listened to me. At such .
time one could almost believe that
nothing counts any longer with man!
had Just put the little one to bed. He
kissed the boy, he kissed me and then
the street he turned to wave me good
by and then jumped into cab. It was
the 3fst Of July. Since then I have
heard no new. of him. Without doubt
know neither where nor how. nor
even whether they were able to find and
bury him. Not one thing"
Perhaps he is q prisoner! How can
who have gotten news after many
months"
"ohI no longer have any hope. 1t
u more than two years. remember.
Well. that was to be my fate. At any
to live. Poor little fellow! A child
hood like his is not very cheerful. To
see always about the house a sad figure,
with Redeemed eyes! Until recently
didn't care to go cut. Then I decided
order to amuse him. The picture show
is not like the theater. One can go to
1t, even II one is In mourning"
The electric bell sounded. The peo-
pie took their places again. A soldier
passed by. He wore a military medal,
the creix de Guerra. The child, lean
ing over te his mother. asked:
IS 7. he . NE nat ,s N.Y. my pa sptt,w
Eyes, my dear"
with medals like that, too"
For q child q brave soldier ought al
ways to have medals. The mother an
swered:
Eyes, DEAR"
VIA &c asss tusRea. sis AAaAa IN Ass
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have reason to feel that they have been
more content than they. SHOULD be with
the situation as it has existed for four
years. They projected the Russian tur-
ban over the horizon Of dress a year
ago, and 1t had a remarkable success in
certain sections OF America, but 1t was
too difficult shape for the average
woman to accept.
Two years ago they exploited the 1910
hat, but it had less success than any of
the new shapes. There was also q strong
effort made to bring back the Dresden
plateau in miniature form. with the
brim tipped over the eyebrows, the back
filled in with curls or flowers. and a rib
bon about the chin and over the top
of the hat. But this experiment met
with failure.
The hairdressers made m appeal to
the milliners for aid in asking them to
design hats that would compel women
to have their hair dressed and curled
and pulled out with false hair, but
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of New Books

clares that France rsnounees in favor
Of tho German empire all rights and
titles to the territories situated east OF
the frontier designated bslow. .. the
territories forever. in full sovereignty
and ownership" Beyond this point.
the writer gives a historic survey Of
Alsace-Lorrsine prior to the Franco
the book IL compact and authentic
story of this territory under German
rule. Ono gathers In unmtstakable
terms here the really French charac.
Of sturdy service In every French
cause. and through Z steadfast and FREE
quent protest against German absorp-
tion and domination. This account
quarters. that the grievance Of the
people Of Alsace-Lorraine was merely
q political grievance over the lack of
any appPeciable share in the political
is socially and industrially. they were
quite content with the findings Of the
this ls. By Incident a>d Implication.
,ne Sssis "a aE sa h Sid tss
people voice their protsst.-'.Modsrn
Europe cannot allow o people to be
seized like q herd Of cattle" and cit
i:sns. possessed Of souls ana Of intel
ligence, are not merchandise to be
traded. and therefore 1t is not lawful
to make them the subject of contract"
The writer gives particular attention
TO the methods employed in the Prus-
the effects Of these methods upon the
people. It is an admirable study.
clear of statement. impartial in atti-
tude. and devoted to the essentials Of
historic consideration.
IN THESE LATTER DAYS. BY Hubert
Howe Bancroft, author Of "The New
Pacific" etc. Chicago: The Blake
iy-oswald Company.
A collection of brilliant and stimulat-
ing essays, in which the primary inter
ests Of the United States are examined
through the perspective OF history On
the one hand, and on the other through
that of an ordered and reasoned fore
sight. These primary interests include
both material and spiritual issues. In
dustry. commerce. politics, government.
T. ssa t hsas sss ssd ~
struments OF idealism-edpcation. re-
ligion. patriotism. the national aim
also come under the shfewd and dis
Ths1s are ,s . nis T Tstssi
sardonic in theif frank cynicism. that
eoEtain; nevertheless. solid material
for serious attention. Not q particu-
tssi It Is an . 1 .timuIat a sn set
% Views upon great many question
that are paramount to the American
people and the cause Of Amsricanism.
oUa Square AND THE PEOPLE IN
1T. By Samuel Hopkins Adams,
author Of "The Clarion" etc. IL
lustrations by T. Scett Williams
Boston: Houghten Mifnin Company
walled in by slums stands our
square. valiant gresn space. far on
the flank Of the Great City. Ours Is an
inglorious little world. but we are pa
tient of our obscurity. We live our
quiet lives. . community syficient unto
itself. Few come into Our Square ex-
cept Of necessity, Few 60 out hut I'M
asr tbs s4me sterr isapulsien. Here
kind, hearts, tbs trua hearth tha4 loved the
place Of eld.' And ef all, thssy y no trusr
shrswd ana nsighborly Ola dominic
through whose lips I tell these tales.
the real historian Of the folk whom I.
too, hsye hneyn and lived IN oar
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! mothers hand. the child gazed eagerly
at the soldier.
The lights went out and a picture
title appeared on the screen.
THE War in 1914"
Are we going to see the war; asked
the child.
Yes. my dear. Look"
AT first. streets were shown chaos
of demolished houses. beams
smashed. walls shattered. a mass Of
black ruins almost without form:
What is that?" asked the child.
"A village"
THAT a village? There is nothing
there"
But dog ran about among the ruins
and little boy also. who stunt Ied
over the stones. Then came a wide
holes in it and along the road as far
as the eye could reach-even to the
horizon, where heavy clouds of smoke
gathered and then dissolved-one could
see only the big trees. RACED almost to
the ground. tumbied right and left
among the fields. On the trunks, al
ready dead, some leaves still f1uttered
in the wind.
And that? What is that?" asked
the child.
The country, my dear,
is that the country? There is moth
ing there"
TT was beautiful once" said the
mother, trembling. THE Germans have
destroyed everything
The boy gave sidelong glance at
the soldier.
But already, in another flm. troops
denied. In heavy rain cavAlrymen
trotted along the roads bordered by
ruins. field artillery guns were drag
plunging into and rising out of the
ruts. In passing one saw the artillery
men laugh and the officers lift their
arms. turning in their saddles.
What is that?" asked the boy.
The pursuit. my DEAR" murmured
her.
Are they running after the boches
to capture them?
yes. my dear"
And behind the cavalrymen appeared
the infantrymen. spattered with mud,
their shoulders saggfng under their
heavy packs.
Are they going to nghtr' the child
asked.
Yes. dear"
To her all the soldiers were like her
poor, missing husband. In their ranks,
under each helmet. in each movement,
1t was he whom she saw. And the lit
tie fellow, more collected, more grave
asked in an almost inaudible voice:
Was papa like that?"
Then when all-artiilerymen, cav
dlTymen ana lnfantrymen-had passed,
long file of prisoners appeared One
saw them first fleeing under the fire of
their own cannon to our lines. then in
the camps, then in huddled groups
about the coffee kettle. Some were very
young and others were old. some with
stupehed faces and . melancholy bear
ing. others with an air of incidence.
Still others lay on the ground. q mIry
horde, conquered. disarmed. The
mother sighed.
'see them. Look at them well. my
son. They are bocnes."
And the Aim unroiied their story.
They were neither presentable nor brill
liant. They we're no longer swag-
gerers. Famished. gesticuiating, JOS
Ting one another. they crowded about
French soldier. who was distributing
rations, and as they got their allow
ance they scattered to eat 1t. shame-
facedly and apart.
Are they soldiers." asked the child.
But the mother was weeping too
much to answer.
Suddenly among those downcast hgr
ures q bestiai and Joyous figure ape
peared. He was a clean-shaven troop
er. his cap over his ear. who. in the
face Of the public, alone on the screen,
cynieeily, Ais syea ha*te4 Aie aAsehe
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suf,icient character to go ones own way
in the choosing Of hats is the only road
to safety. You may buy what 10 fash
lonable or what Is commonplace. but II
its silhouette enhances the value OF
YOUR features, brings our the best there
IL in your expression and corresponds
with the silhouette Of your shoulders
and hips, then you are well hated.
It IL the miiliner's business to sell you
the newest hat in order to get It out of
the stock; it Is your business to combat
whatever tendency may be shown to
put you at your worst. Lacking In this
strength Of character and knowledge
YOU will come up against a stone wall
some day and bitterly wonder why
women with faces palmer than yours
should be considered lovely and have
all the dash and spirit that the age
commands
The miiliners have not drawn from as
many climes and ages this season as
the dressmakers have done. One might
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE HEART OF ISABEL CARLETON.
BY Margaret Ashmun. author of
Isabel Cartoons Year" illustrated
by Edward c. Caswell. New York
The Macmillan Company.
RIyDwEED. BY Gabrielle vallings.
New York: Dodd. Mead q Co.
THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE, The Return
Of Arsene Lupin; BY. By Maurice Lee e,
Mystery" etc. New York: The
Macaulay Company.
HIS DEAR UNATTENDED. BY J.
Breckenridge Ellis, author of
Fran" etc. New York: The Mac
aulay Company.
THE NORTH AMERICAN IDEA. BY
James A. Macdonald. Ill. D.. New
York: Fleming II. Revsll Company.
THE GRIM 10, Short Stories by Thir-
teen Authors OF Standing. Edited by
Frederick Stuart Greene. With an
introduction by Edward J. O'Brien,
editor Of ''The Best Short Stories of
1918" New York: Dodd, Mead &
Co. Washington: Brentano's.
THE VENGEANCE OF JEFFERSON
GAWNE. BY Charles Alden Seltxer.
cago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
Graham, author of "Thc Way of
Martha and the Way of Mary" etc.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
WOLF BREED. BY Jackson Gregory,
author of THE Outlaw" etc. Front
ispiece in color by Frank Tenney
johnson. New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co.
THE BLUE STREAK. BY Jack Hines.
author of 'Seegar and Cigarette"
etc. New York: George H. Doran
Company.
THE SHINING ADVENTURE. BY
Dana Burnet. New York, Harper
& Bros.
THE DEsERTER. BY Richard Harding
Davis. with an introduction by
Charles Scribner's Sons.
LINE. BY Capt. Gilbert Nobbs (late
L. r. b.. illustrated. New York:
Charles 6cribner's Sons.
A CASTLE TO LET. BY Mrs. Baillie
Reynolds, author Of The Daughter
Pays" etc. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
OUT or THEIR OWN MOUTHS, Ut
teranses ~ German Rulers, states
men. savants. Publicists, JolTpel-
lists. Poets, Business Men, RaTty
Leaders and Soldiers. New York;
D. Appleton & Co.
E4TRICATING OBADIAH. BY Joseph
c. Lincoln. author OF "Mary-'Gusta."
etc. illustrated by Walt Louder
back. New York: D. Appleton &
Co.
4 MAID OF OLD MANHATTAN. BY
Emtiie Benson knips and Alden Arr
thur Knipe, authors Of "A Maid Of
u.s." Illustrated by Emile Benson
knipe. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
THE BLAND oF APPLEDoRE, A
Story for Boys BY Adair Aldon.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
gEIGHDOI~ BY Florence Morse
Assslok Rtssf d NFhe TTsasdsa
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majors hat, when the girls living de-
ponds on the amount Of sales made dur
ing the day, and as human nature IL
thus constituted. 1t is much wiser Tor
the individual to learn what hat she
must avoid, what hat she should buy,
and override through authority and
knowledge whatever persuasfyeness Is
poured into her ear.
1t is not possible to lay down laws
Tor the buying Of hats. The tilt OF .
nose, the droop Of an eyebrow, would
smash every rule conceived and ex-
pressed. II a woman cannot learn how
to buy a hat she should take up the
study until she is letter perfect, and
she will save time. vitality, temper and
quartet that Is sorely needed
for more serious affairs in these days.
tF
It 10 also quite useless to tell people
to determine their choice Of hat by
their ages. There are women OF nifty
who can wear the broad-brimmed sailor
made for the girl of twenty. and there
are women of thirty who should really
be put into bonnet and strings. Age
has little to do with dressing today,
probably less SO than ever before. No
one objects to a grandmother dressing
like her granddaughter. IL she really
looks like her granddaughter. Two
women Of the same age might md 1t
Impossible to wear each others clothes.
while the daughter of one could wear
The clothes of the other.
Absolute knowledge Of ones type and
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uration of Miss Phflura," etc. New
York: Dodd. Mead & Co.
CONQUEST. BY Olive wadsley, author
of Possession" etc. Illustrated by
J. Henry Breaker. New York: Dodd.
Mead & Co.
THE VILLAGE PEST; A Story of
David. BY Montgomery Rollins. IL
Lothrop. Lee z Shepard Company.
Isham, author of aladdin from
Broadway" etc. Illustrated by Han
son Booth. Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
THE OTHER BROWN. BY Adele
Luehrmann, author OF THE Curious
Case Of Marie du Pont." etc. Illus
trated by Lucius w. Hitchcock.
New York: The Century Company.
THE LITTLE GODS LAUGH. BY Louise
Maunsell Field. illustrated by John
Newton. Hewitt. Boston: Little.
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, A Story for
author of 1.-THE Sapphire Signet,"
etc. illustrated by c. NJ. Relyea.
New York: The Century Company.
TURN ABOUT ELEANOR. BY Ethel N.
Kelley. illustrated by F. Graham
Cootes. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Mer-
rill Company.
THE AMATEUR. BY Charles q. Nor
ris. New York: George H. Doran
Company.
OUT OF A CLEAR sky, A Novel. BY
Maria Thompson Daviess, author of
"Over Paradise RIDGE" etc. New
York: Harper & Bros.
DOLORES OF. THE SIERRA, And
Other One-act Plays. BY Harriet
Ca
Paul Elder & Co.
MY WIFE. BY Edward Burke. New
York: Z. P. Dutton & Co.
WHY THE WORLD FoRGor,A Double
Romance Of the East and West. BY
1.-THE West Wind etc. illustrated
by Clarence F. Underwood. Chi
cago: A. c. McClurg 4 Co.
THE SIN THAT WAS HIS. BY Frank
L. Packard. author Of .'rhe Ad-
ventures Of Jimmy Dale" etc. IL
Illustrated by Frances Rogers. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
THE OPTIMIsT. BY Susan Taber,
author of Unexpected Afinities."
etc. New York: DuffiAld a Co.
BEST O. LUCK, How rfsAtins Ksn-
tuckian Won the Thnnks ef Britain's
King. By, alexander Meciintock.
II. y. M, ialc scEEcdHt ottn obt-
TALON, Canadian Grenadier Guards,
now member of U. 8. A. Reserve
Corps. New York: George A. Doran
Company.
MARNsDUKE. BY Flora Annie Steel.
author of "On the Face Of the
Waters" etc. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes Company.
THE WHITE LADIES OF wORCES-
TER, A Romance Of the 18th Gem
tury, BY Florence L. Barclay, au-
thor of "The Rosary" etc. New
York: q. r. PutnsFn's Sons.
UNeONQUERED, A nsmance. BY
Maude Diver. author of Captain
Desmond. v. c." etc. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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cited interest as to its outcome. But
when the matter flattens out to a mere
bucolic romance one of the girls
changed. in the twinkling of an eye, to
a paragon Of domestic virtue-a mere
submissive work-a-day wife-why.
then. one comes to in the realization
that. the day OF miracles past. this Is
not a story. Rather Is it more in the
nature of gold brick.
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At tine Movies - By Maurice Level

protruding. consumed with huge bites
his piece of bread.
"Oh. mamma" said the child.
Mamma see how ugly that one is"
And the mother, having looked up
through her tears, gave q cry-a ter
rible. heart-rending cry.
For that German glutton. that man
who laughed at the hate Of q whole
hallful of people, was her husband
her husband. who. she believed, had
died in our ranks. :
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The Difference.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
'Fhe knight of old begged his lady
love for her glove"
aAnd the modern lovsr hegs his girl
net to hand him the mitten."
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His Marin.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
MY broker told me must give him
something to put up on this deal"
We'll did YOU put up anythingr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09
by WILLIAM [. MCPHERSON.

Translated by WILLIAM L. MCPHERSON.
Another vivid story by Maurice Level.
This author has keen appreciation OF
the many -sidedness OF the tragedy Of the
war. He seises upon some vagrant or
obscure incident-rsome mere aside in
the war drama-and with few vital
strokes relates it to the great common
experience of suffering. endurance, hero
ism and sacrifice. No reaction OF the
war can now be dismissed as insignif-
cant, for, as N. Level justly says. ANY
one individuals sufferings are but part
and parcel Of the surerings Of the com
munity at large"
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On tie witness Stand.

From Efe.
.Judge-Are yeu positive tie priseAse
n the man who stole the horsA
. Witpese-I was. yeuf honoy, IN tho4
lsWFef croes-exemfqed M. He'B mnt8