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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
POPULAR FOR HOUSE WEAR

Charmeuse, somewhat ousted from
favor for evening wear, has taken on
a new lease of life for house frOcks,
and d~eservedly, for it is decorative in
an extremely quiet way, and so very
well in accord with prevailing feeling
on the subject. while being light and
thin enough to prove ideally comfor-
table under a fur or other heavy coat.
And charmeuSe in n deep ravens
wing blue vas the material used for a
charming frOck of this persuasion
seen the other day, with just that tint
of greenish-black on the dull surface
Of the silk which no material save
charmeuse could give without any sug-
gestion of the shot effect. which was
quite absent. 1t was more, indeed.
like n bloom on the surface than q
tangible color. Here that aluminium
embroidery already mentioned, very
dull and very heavy, entered proml-
nently into the scheme of things. The
panel-like side pieces, carried up to
the armpits, were a smart feature of
the frock. And very becoming they
were, lending an appearance of height
to the figure, which is welcome enough
in these often 'tubby" days. More
of the embroidery surrounded the
slightly rounded neck left hard and
unbroken, and again bordered the
wide sleeves, of bell-like proportions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
CANAL MAKES NEW RECORD
SauIt Sainte Marie Has Had the Bust
est Year II Has Known Since
Its Construction.

The busiest canal in the world
that of the Sault Sainte Marie-has
made its report for the season. 1t
has carried 91,Sss.219 IONS of freight
since navigation opened last spring.
This breaks All previous records, even
for this waterway, by q little matter OF
20,597. 215 tons.
These figures give some slight idea
Of the benefit we get from our great
lakes. Those inland seas carry more
than the Mediterranean, and
the Sault Sainte Marie alone handles
more freight than all the internal wa
terways of the German empire. Mean
time our rivers. which do almost as
much for us as the lakes, lie idle
while we rnve about freight congestion
and call madly for more box cars.
With the possible exception Of east
ern South America, the inland water
ways OF the United States are the
finest in the world. Some duy, surely,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Two-Eoo Cookies.

One cupful butter, two cupfuls SUI
gar, two eggs, one-half to one cupful
milk, four cupfuls pastry -four or less,
six ~teaspoonfuls baking powder. Cream
butter and add sugar gradually; add
milk according as a rich, crisp or a less
rich and soft cookie is desired. Di-
minish the quantity of flour and bak-
ing powder if less than a full cupful of
liquid be used. Take a little of the
dough upon the board at a time and
handle as little as possible. The
dough should be quite soft. If a cup
full of milk be used, pat into a sheet
and cut into cakes. After placing in
the pan dredge with graduated sugar.
Bake in q quick oven.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27

ment. If these things were true of
Bert Hedstrom it was an unsurmount-
able barrier between them.
June was an attractive girl with fine
eyes and masses of shining brown
hair and it was not long before the
new 1oOrwalker began to find fire.
quent excuses for speaking to her. One
Ievenlng he invited her to the theater,
and the e day she was the envy of
every girl at her counter to say moth
ing of Miss Clay, the buyer.
"Say June, did you have two-dollar
seats?" asked her chum.
"Of course And supper afterwards
at a cafe"
well, that's going some :" put in
THE girl on the other side. Did your
mother see him?'
Certainly. l never go anywhere
with a new acquaintance without
mother first meeting him."
Gee! l dor laughed the girl.
Mother don't care"
well I'd care if she didn't" said
June.
The girl stared uncomprehendingly
June Harris had been trained in an
other social school. She had never
lIHown anything but moderate circum-
stances, but refinement and good
breeding had been her birthright.
still she was young, and the taste of
gay life of the night before was a de-
light which she lived over again all
day, and longed to have again.
Much as she had cared for He'd
Istrom, it vas nevertheless true that
his stock had gone considerably below
par In comparison with the dashing
nnd liberal escort who had given her
such a delightful evening.
Bert was not long In noticing the at
itentions Of the floorwalker; but he
dis mot can to give up the girl he
had begun to love till he was sure his
ease was hopeless. He called 10 see
June. and vas entertained with glow
ing accounts OF the play to which she
had been taken by his rival. June
seemed to make a point of letting him
see her preference for the other man,
and Bert being sensitive as well as
very modest. concluded his visits were
not desired.
Gardner continued to invite June to
various places OF amusement; and
June. simply aware that she was hay
ing some very good times, and enjoy
ing them Immensely, accepted his at.
Mentions, not thinking where IL might
bead.
One day as she took something from
Annie, the little parcel girl, she no.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
RUSH THE SEASONS
Women Are Turning the Calendar
Upside Down.
Straw Hats In the First Month of the
Year One of the l~diosyncrasies
That No Preaching
Will Touch.

Much of the preaching that is
hurled against mt today in the
matter of choosing clothes is their
perverse habit of turning the calen-
dar upside down. This was consid-
cred rather abusing when it began
about a dozen years ago. Straw hats
in February were rarely worn at that
time, but the individuals asked for
them and the milliners needed the
request. After a few experiments,
what had been a caprice, a fantastic
conception of clothes, turned into a
practice aided and furthered by COM
merce for its own dark reasons.
Ii one is going south from any
point of the compass on this planet,
whether 1t means Italy, Egypt, Pana-
ma or Florida, there is every reason
to want a straw hat in January, and
it is TO beguile the people who are
running away from the snow into
spending their pennies on new hats
that the windows blossom out with
straw hats on the day after the new
calendars are hung on the wall.
All of this is sane behavior; but
when the women who remained in the
snow took it into their heads to adopt
the head covering of June, and the
milliners, seeing in this caprice a
chance to make hundreds of dollars in
a dull month, imported from Paris
every manner of h~ot-weather hat, then
the whole world suddenly OOH it into
its head that this was the right thing
to do.
Actually, there is no sense what
ever in rushing the season like this,
by the time May arrives, with its sun
shine in climates that are given over
to cold winters, there is nothing left
that is new or enticing in the way of
hats, and n has the consciousness of
Exploiting straw and roses during the
days when every change in the skies
meant weather that made such a hat
ridiculous.
But-preachings are of no avail. If
women want straw hats in the first
month of the new year, they're going
10 have them, and if they feel that
they would rather wear summer hats
for nine months in the year, though
they are the most perishable form of
%headgear, nothing will stop them from
doing ii. Theirs is the will and theirs
Is the purse, and they find hundreds
of merchants who will encourage them
in this caprice to the extent of bank
ruptcy.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Electricity and Coal Waste.

From coal we chiefly draw the suns
stored energy, which is required to
meet our industrial and commercial
needs. According to statistical rec
ordS, the output in the United States
during an average year is 4SO,O00,O00
tons. In perfect engines this fuel
would be sufficient to develop 100000
900 horsepower steadily for II year,
but the squandering is sc reckless that
we do moi get more than 8 per cent of
its heating value on the average. a
comprehensive electrical plan for min
ing, transporting and using coal could
much reduce this appalling waste.
What is more, inferior grades, billions
of tons of which are being thrown
away, might be turned to profitable
use.-NikOla Tesla, in Golfers Weekly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27

however, has ever been his unclean-
ness. There is no doubt whatever that
John Chinaman and his wife, or wives,
are not to be moved either by evil
smells or ugly surroundings. The won
der always is to see the lovely en-
broideries that are evolved in Chinese
hauntS of disease and dirt.
Whoever speaks of Formosa with
authority tells the same tale. When
Japan took owe the island 20 years
ago Taihoku was nothing but a dirty
Chinese town. And the visitor who
would see something of a genuine Chi
nese old style town and realize the
contrast, should visit Rokko.
City of Darkness.
Rokko seems chiefly to be one long,
almost unfortunately long, street. The
houses that face each other are shaded
from the suns rays by heavy bamboo
roofing that stretches from side to side
of the roadway. Even in that brilliant
tropical sun that seems to burn through
parasol and hat, scarcely a ray of di-
rect sunshine pierces the dimneSs of
Rokho. The result is, of course, cool
ness, but it is also bad smell and air
lessness that suggest the atmosphere
of a medieval prison instead Of a viii
lage in n of the sunniest and richest
islands of the Pacific. How strange
that in a land where sun and green
ness and blue water might have it all
their own way human beings should
choose to create such an environment.
These Chinese houses that face each,
other are all alike in one thing. The
whole front is open so that the interior
is public. and the back wall of every
living has a sacred picture with
one or two vases or ornaments, with
tapers and lanterns that are lit in the
evening. The family shrine is-what-
ever spiritual quality it may or may
not possess-in the center, the back
ground and the heart of the home.
Learn About Sanitation.
They appear to be peaceful, indus
trious folk, and to the casual eye two
thirds of them seemed emaciated
enough to be bad phthisical cases.
The kindly policeman from northern
Japan who piloted us through this
town said that he had little difficulty
now in getting the people to carry out
official orders for cleaning their houses,
but at the beginning they simply did
not understand what was wanted, and
great patience was needed. Rokko has
a bad name of old for pest. The
scourge, which as recently as 1909
claimed 1000 deaths out of 10000
cases of infection, is now supposed to
have been entirely stamped out.
In medical and sanitary matters the
Formosan has been whisked suddenly
from the awful depths of the four
teenth century right up to the era of
what the bacteriologist calls bugs" If
modern civilization is a blessing, then
Japan has blessed the Formosans. With
the benefits of progress there have also
come modern evils, but the evils that
accompany our civilization today are
less gruesome and leprous than those
of the Chinese era in this beautiful
island.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27

"WENTY years ago, when Japan
took it over, FOrmosa was q
haunt of pest and crime. To.
day the island can show a col.
lection of clean, modern, prosperous
towns. The present governor general,
Baron Ando, is a fine looking man
with a clear eye and a kindly manner.
His guests at the palace experience
Japanese hospitality at its best, and
no pain is spared, with the help of in
terpreters and courteous officials, to
show what can be seer of the island
n its workings even in a tour of ten
days. The most favored visitor in such
a short space of time, however, cannot
hope to gain more than a series of in
teresting pictures.
In answer to a question as to the
problem that interested Baron Ando
most keenly regarding the island, he
answered that the problem that always
held him was how best to govern for
the good of the people, says a writer in
the London Times.
The impression gained of TaihOku,
the capital of Formosa, is of a large
clean government city. 1t is situated
in the beautiful northern plain and is
ringed around by hills that would
make an enchanting frame to any me-
trOpolis.
The sky blue, the sun hot, but not
too hot, palm, acacia and banyan trees
in groups, or in avenues, on all sides,
and white roads some inches thick with
fine dust, make a background for the
Formosan people.
Long Period Of Chinese Rule.
There is something appealing in the
faces of these FOrmOsans. Their his
tory is an ugly one. From the begin
ming of time, in the case of the abo-
riginal savages, who are mostly head
hunters, 1t is a series of horrors, blood
shed, plague, murder, sudden death,
battle and exploitation.
The savage tribes preyed on each
other and on the unlucky sailors and
passengers whom terrible storms so fire.
Quently wrecked on the island shores.
Then the settlers from China took re-
NeISc vi lne SdNdBeS WIZ ndue COn-
slant raids on the dwellers of the
plain and the Chinese governors OPP
pressed their own people.
Except for the forty years that
Dutch adventures, while filling their
pockets, returned spiritual for material
favOrs and did excellent educational
and civilizing work among both savage
and Formosan inhabitants-"even edu-
eating the women! !" as a japanese
writer naively puts 1.-THE island has
had an unhappy history. From China's
$50 years of sluggard rule little good
seems to have come.
The FOrmosan Chinese, however,
brought with them that instinct for
work that is their heritage. Neither
i'll usage, violence, oppression nor a V
age incursions have kept the China
man from being industrious. He was
digged and sOwed and planted. He
has woven and spun his garments and
dyed them a beautiful indigo blue, evil
IDENTIFY for the love of the thing. The
great failing of this industrious man,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
WHITE BEST FOR BATHROOM

White paint and white woodwork
are most attractive in the bathroom
unless one is blessed with a luxurious
white-tiled and white-enameled bath
room, such as the modern apartment
houses provide for their occupants.
There should always be a breeze blow
ing the white curtain at the bathroom
window in summer time, and the shad-
ed or an awning let down, is much
more grateful to the warm and weary
seeker of q cool plunge than a room
into which the sun pours blindly.
A growing plant on the window sill
will add to the cool suggestion of the
bathroom, and in summer the floor COW
ering may be taken up and a blue and
white rag rug laid before the tub.
Hand-drawn linen window shades
are charming in bathroom windows.
Such windows are usually small and
set rather high in the wall, so such a
shade need not be very large.
1t may be hung with loops of tape to
an ordinary brass window rod and
should hang fiat against the window
opening, the drawnwOrk or cutwork
border running across the lower edge
above a deep hem.
Northumberland and initiated
towels give a suggestion of luxury and
distinction, and the housekeeper can
do the simple embroidery very easily
and quickly in odd moments. But
whatever the kind of towels be sure
there are always ~a-plenty. There are
few things more m%addening thar to be
all ready to step into a bath and to
discover that one must dress and take
a trip to the linen closet for towels
and wnShclOth
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
PROPER WAY TO SMOKE MEAT
Soft Wood Should Not Be Used In the
Process, for a Reason That viii
Be Apparent.

The proper smoking of cured pork
aids materially its keeping qualities
and improves the flavor of the meat.
Brine-cured meat is ready to be
smoked after it has been in the brine
from five to seven weeks. After the
meat is removed from the brine 1t
should be soaked In lukewarm wa
ter, or In water ut n temperature of
90 degrees, for about "a hours. This
dissolves the salt from the outside of
the meat. If the meat is smoked
without washing a coating of salt is
found on tile outside of the smoked
meat, which detracts materially from
its appearance. After the meat has
soaked for a period of about "a hours
IL should be taken u of the vessel
and hung up on racks where the water
can drain away or evaporate.
When thoroughly dry the meat
should be hung up in the smokehouse,
the pieces neal the ceiling and Mt a
short distance from one another so
that all parts will be uniformly ex.
posed to the smoke.
II StlttlloH VI llle luel Is OF great
Importance. Soft woods should never
be used, as they give off too much
carbon which will be deposited on the
outside of the meat, making it sooty
and giving it a too-dark color. Green
hickory, maple or other hardwoods
should be selected. Corncobs make
an excellent substitute.
A steady smoke for from SO to As
hours is sufficient for mildly smoked
meat. If the meat is to be kept until
late in the summer, it is well to smoke
1t for about three days. The fire
should be kept low so that the mini
mum of heat is given off. When too
much heat is given off the fat on the
meat will melt and run over the meat,
causing it to become streaky. Meat,
when smoked sufficiently, should be of
an amber color.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27

If you have noticed that cream of
tartar has gone up in price it may in
terest you to know that this is due to
the scarcity of argol, from which 1t is
made, and this in turn is due to the
lessened manufacture of wine in
France and Italy in the past year.
Nearly all the argol produced is i'm
ported from those two countries. Ar
gol is a ~crystalized deposit formed on
the inside of casks and other recepta-
Giles in which the juice of grapes is
kept for the manufacture of wine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Searfs of

Scarfs of cretOnne are very neat and
especially attractive for a girls room
The pincushion and nap pillow should
be covered TO match.
A scarf made to fit the top Of the
dresser should be scalloped all around,
but one that hangs at the sides need
have only the ends scalloped. the sides
being hemmed. Rather heavy enbroid-
cry floss should be used for working
the scallops. The heavy floss not only
facilitates the work, but is more In
harmony with the material than a fine
cotton would be.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
The Tin
Bank

BY HOWE
Copyright, by W, C. Chapman.)

isn't he the stingy guy?"
The girls sniff was pronounced as
she indicated to her companion. June
Harris, a young man who had just
passed them. The girls were pouring
out of a large department store at the
closing time. and June looked after
the man, and then at the speaker Ques.
tlOningly.
"Why do you think So?' she asked
Think sol" exclaimed the other,
"why Bert HedStom is the talk Of the
store! They call him the tin bank,
becnuse YOU can't even extract a cop
per"
Maybe you don't know he has a
mother to support, and he thinks the
coppers belong to her" said June.
"Oh, yes, YOU always did stick up
1or him. An | guess he's some gone
on you. But just you wait till you're
married, an he asks you what you did
with that fifteen cents he gave you last
month"
I'm not talking of getting married,
and don't suppose he's thinking of it
either"
mo, he thinks too much of his
money. You just ought to have seen
that new girls face yesterday. He
walked along with her when she went
out, and Of ours she thought he was
going to take her in for a soda. But
nary a treat on little BERTHE. He just
tipped his hat, and left her at the cor
uer."
Maybe he didn't care especially for
her company"
"Well, say now, he's walked home
with you Il few times. Did he ever
treat?'
June had to confess he had not.
An he's getting in the office more
than any Of these chaps on the floor"
the girl persisted. "Oh. he's just n
skin ="
June changed the subject. She had
begun to care for HedStrom. He had
called at her home and her mother
had thought well of him. But a
Stingy man was especially ahhorrent
to her. Her mothers life had been
made unhappy by the parsimony of
lJune's father, and before his death his
savings had been lost in a bad invest
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Leather Trimmings Again.

For a few weeks there has been very
little seen of leather trimming, and al
most none but motoring coats have
been leather trimmed until just now
glossy kid pipings are being used on
two-toned checked sports suits. A coat
Of green and gold velour has all its
edges bound with green patent leather.
but the collar is not leather, o do
fiat pieces appear anywhere which just
saves the coat from the cast iron APP
pearance leather trimmings are SO apt
to impart
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
The American MARRIAGE,

1t has long been automatic that the
American wife felicitates herself on
her superiority to her husband, though
she refrains from telling him so. on
the other hand, the American business
man has ever been accused of sacri-
ficing his wife on the altar of his own
absorption in mOney-making, and of
salving the wounds due to his neglect
with the ointment of unlimited credit.
Robert Grant in %Scribner's.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Bags of the Finest.

Metal hG3dbags or purses for women
have reaclfed the maximum degree of
beauty and elegance. They are of gold,
the mesh of the finest. They are mar
row In shape, longer than they are
wide, and from the center Of the clasp
is the handle, tGking the place Of the
old-time chains at the ends. 1t is finely
woven, a flexible halfInch gold band,
looped to slip on the wrist or to carry
in the hand. These beautiful little
bags are set with diamonds, but deli
cately, with no aggressive effect.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27

Articles of glals. ouch as tumblers,
fruit dishes, lamp ehimneyssglobes and
other similar bric-a-brac. can be mend
ed with a preparation of five parts of
gelatin to n part of a solution of
bichromate Of potash. Cover the broken
edges with this and press together,
then place in direct sunshine for a few
hours.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Living Up to His Reputation.

John had been praised within his
hearing on his ability to keep a secret.
A few days later he was naughty to his
playmate, Adele. Adele wanted her
mother TO tell Johns mother how
naughty he was, but her mother said:
"No, I'll let John do that" Upon be-
ing questioned next day whether he
had told his mother, he replied: mo,
l didn't tell--yOu know I'm the best one
at keeping a secret"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Sunshine Cake,

Three-quarters cupful strained hon
ey, three-quarters cupful sugar, six
eggs, n and a half cupfuls sifted
flour. Boil honey and sugar together
until it will spin a thread from the
tines of a fork. Beat the egg yolks
until light, pour the strip over them,
beating until the mixture is cool. Sift
in the flour last of all, fold in the
stiffly-beaten whites. Pour into an an
gel-cake pan, lined with buttered pa
per, and bake in a slow oven for forty
or fifty minutes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
REGIME for Fish Patties.

Have ready some boiled white fish.
Flake it carefully entirely free from
bones and skin. Have ready some
good melted butter auc made with
milk and enriched with a little butter
and cream or an egg and well sea-
soned, and heat the fish In this. The
mixture should be quite moist-almost
sloppy.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27

The newest thing In beauty patches
are rhinestone mouches that may be
worn in the middle OF the back and
look as though diamonds grew on the
wearer's flesh. She may wear emer-
aids oil sapphlres IL she prefers. Black
velvet heart and creseent-shaped spots
are quite effective under artificial light.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-27
Dried curran.s.

A quick way to clean currants when
making cakes is to put the fruit into a
colRnder with a s~prihkling of fiour and
rub 1t round a few times with your
hands. It is surprising how quickly
the stalks are separated and come
through the small holes.