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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17

in long ends mt the front. The coat
hangs straight and is moderately full.
The front is arranged in long panel
by means OF one deep plait at each
side.
The collar has an inlay of silk In n
contrasting color. and this contrast Is
worked into the girdle. The pocket Is
very large and emphasized by stitching
in narrow stripes. No one could over
look the cuffs, and this type of cuff Is
very promising, having appeared on
several new models.
Let us hope that coats for spring will
be as becoming us those of the pres
ent season. which are enticing enough
to almost make one regret the passing
of winter
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17

youthful affair, in common with the
Bobby" The hair Is waved for II,
parted ut one side and brought down
quite low over the forehead. It pur-
sues its soft and waving way over the
ears, to the nape of the neck, where 1t
Is turned under and pinned close to
the head. The hair on the crown Is
arranged in a cluster of curls. These
curls, instead of hanging down after
the usual manner of curls, turn up
ward and are pinned to place on the
crown. But their soft ends are free
to nod coquettish good evening"
above the top of the wearer's head.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
G.Ax RzszaAz
i Il
The Versatile Negligee.

For general boudoir wear, the slip
over the head idea is as popular in in
door gowns as it Is in the peplUm
blouses and chemise dresses. 1t does
away with the bother of button fGs-
Jennings or placket openings. An en-
circllng girdle sash adjusts the loose
ness of cut to the figure, thus shaping
the gown to The FIGURE.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Seeking Advance information.

Mamma" said little Lola, "fd like
to ask your advice about something
that Is very important"
"Well, dear, what is it?" said
mamma.
"After I get through school," con-
tinued the small miss, "whnt would
you advise me to do while waiting for
some man to proposc?"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Overtioiuo IL.

"You're getting rather thin" re-
marked the floorwalker to the ribbon
counter clerk. "Don't they serve SUBJ
stnntial food at your boarding house?"
"Well, rather" replied the yard-stick
manipulation. "In fact, some of 1t IL so
durable you can't masticate 1t with an
other mans jaws"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17

Wouldn't you smile II you were wear
ing one Of these sood-lookins Frank
sports suits In red cloth striped in
blaek7 Such a happy thought TO
trim the jacket with the insert panels
Of the stripes running horizontally!
And these panels form pockets, for
no regulated sports costume is lack.
ing In these masculine perquisites.
There Is no questioning the belt for
II Is OF black patent leather, wide
and shiny, This suit Is topped by a
generous shade hat as broad Of brim
as the sombreroes and like them OF
heViran straw.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Black and White Shoes.

A pretty pair of house shoes seen
recently were very trinity cut In
white kid with several black ankle
straps drawn together with n single
simple ornament. They were worn
with house dress of black and white
and with white silk stockings.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
A Friendly Hint,

'When I was here last week." said
the restaurant patron, 81 was charged
only so cents for this entire. Now see
it's marked 81"
"rhat's right, boss" answered the
affnble waiter. "An l advise you to
order II today. There amt no tellin'
what it'll cost you mex week."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Real Artist.

'DOes fancy work, Ell? I hate a sissy
young man."
"IIold on. He does fancy work with
his feet"
"Oh"
"Why, that fellow Is the highest
priced cabaret performer we've ever
had In these parts"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
A Bold Statesman,

~ must say that your congressman
seems to have the courage of his con-
yictiOns."
SLOW Is that?"
"IIe dares to speak n good word now
and then for the capitalists of this
country
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Business Ups and Downs.

Junior Partner-YOur wife calied
you up five or six times over the tele-
phone this afternoon.
Senior Partner-Huh! That means
she'll call me down Mt least dozen
times tonight before dinner.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Music of the Spheres.

Mrs. DeGush-Dm't you think my
daughter has heavenly voice?
Mr.. X-Well-er-nOw that you
speak of it, there is something un-
earthly about 1t.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Enough Said.

dad, will you let me have fifty
plunks?'
ado you mean fifty dollars?"
"Yes. II It's all the same to you"
swell, it's all the same to me. You
can't have them"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17

Professor M. J. Dryer, whose splen-
did gymnasium is on the nineteenth
floor of the Continental and CONNER.
cial Bank building, has a great eli.
entage among the solid men of Chi.
cago. Business and professional men
Of standing and fame are among his
best pleased patrons
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
TO HOLD MEMORANDUM SLIPS
Useful Idea That Will at once Appeal
to the Careful and Economical
housekeeper.

VI notepapcr are quite worth saving.
for they make useful memorandum
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
Just Possible.

Were men as smart as they think,
And women as sweet as they deem,
Our sojourn on this duh old ball
Would be like a midsummer dream.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
BUSINESS NOTES

John C. Pau1, the well.known manu-.
facturer of Burnishine, the great metal
polish, has made his wonderful product
a household word.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17

Lady of the House-Is your milk
really pure?
The Milkman (absently)-It ought
to be, ma'am. l just put new filter on
my pump.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17
~

angelo Cortesi, the we'll known tail.
or at the northeast corner of Orleans
and Illinois street, is building up a
fine trade among leading business
and professional men. AS sartorial
artist he has few equals and no SUI.
perior
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-17

~
The Balfour tombstone Civil Serv.
ice and Preparatory School enjoys a
well deserved reputation for thorough.
ness and ability.
~e>
Colonel N. M. Kaufman, Of the Con.
gress Hotel, is one of the most popu-
lar hotel keepers in the United States.
His success attests the fact.
~oA
Joe Roussei, proprietor Of the
French Restaurant at SIS South Wa
bash avenue, caters to the best trade
and his customers always go away
happy and satisfied.
~eSA
The finest bargains in jewelry and
diamonds at Tom Donnelly's, "a N.
Dearborn street.
~
Jones & Jacoby Of 426 Plymouth
court have splendid name in the
business and building world. Their
reputation as plumbers Is like the
work they turn out--first class.
~
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

Gambling is one of the most deep
seated instincts in the human soul.
And naturally so, says science, for
life itself is a gamble. Only those ami
mails which took risks, hoping that
they would succeed, would have sur
vived in the primeval struggle for
existence.
Says a noted psychologist: "Con-
slider the sparrow seeking its food in
the street, consider the sly fox and the
timid hare-in fact, all the undomes-
ticated animals, and you will see what
gamble animal life is. From the
moment of birth on thru childhood the
human being CANDLES with nature for
it's existence, and how very often does
it lose! Later, when the young man
has to choose profession its gam
BILE; when he marries it is still gam
BILE, and so it continues to the end of
his days.
"War is the greatest gamble of all,
and commerce would not be if men
were unwilling to run risks and take
chances. What inventions, think you,
should we have if scientists did not
now and then take a gambling chance
in their experiments The scholar
who writes a book and publisher who
brings it out take chance; the physi-
clan takes chance every day of life;
so does the lawyer, the business man,
the soldier, sailor, miner, policeman,
detective, the bridge builder, the street
cleaner, the fireman, the farmer-the
factory man-indeed, it would be very
difficult to find trade or occupation
in which the element of risk does not
exist.
81 have tried to show in few words
that gambling pervades the warp and
woof of our whole existence; that it
is found among all people. and in all
ages, and that without it in some de-
gree there could be no evolution or
progress. This country, for example,
would still be in the hands of the
Indians if Columbus had not taken a
big gambling chance; nor would it be
larger than New England if the dough-
ty pioneers had not risked their lives
and blazed a way westward and across
the Rockies. But examples are IN
Vulnerable"
And then the psychologist goes. on
to explain why gambling has such
powerful fascination for US, so that we
sometimes leave our homes and busi-
ness and indulge in it for days at
time-why, for example, all the laws
against it, from the Egyptians down,
have often been honored more in the
breach than in the observance:
"In the first place, it is because
gambling is such a deep-rooted in
stinct, and instinct is more powerful
than reason, custom or law" continues
the psychologist. "Our minds are like
sky-scrapers which have been in prog
ress of construction from the begin
ming of time. Each century or two
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
WOMAN COMING INTO HER OWN

backs of the mothers of the race. In
the awful lightning made as death
strikes sharp on life for millions of
sons, the value and rights of daugh-
ters are being discovered by the lords
and masters of the earth. Woman's
labor in the fields feeds the soldiers on
the firing line. Woman's labor in fac
tories and mills feeds the cannon in
the trenches. Woman's labor in shops
and stores feeds the homes of Europe.
Canada, Russia, America and even
England should have an enfranchised
womanhood when this war is over.
But it is in the industrial and economic
field that the world war will mark the
most far-reaching transformation in
the condition of women. From casual
important to trained and essential fac
tors in the economic life of the world,
this will be the effect of the war in
the condition of the working women of
the Western nations.
when we remember that even in
times of peace women were working
in 295 trades and occupations out of
the 3O3 listed by the census, and that
before the war they were serving as
chauffeurs, engineers, Marconi opera
tors and aviators, we can well imagine
what further development of woman's
work and woman's power will be
brought about by the withdrawal of
two million men from American in
dustry.
Because of these facts, trade and
technical training for women is of
the utmost importance. England rec
ognized this by providing such train
ing to her women after the first
months of the war. We must demand
that in the new development of pub
lie school education girls be given the
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
THE WORKER
By BERTON BRALY.

1 have broken my hands on your
granite,
I have broken my strength on your
steel,
I have sweated thru years for your
pleasure,
I have worked like slave for your
veal.
And what is the wage you have paid
me,
You masters and drivers of men?
Enough so come in my hunger
To beg for more labor again?
I have given my manhood to serve you,
have given my gladness of youth;
You have used me, and spent me, and
crushed me,
And thrown me aside without ruth;
You have shut my eyes off from the
sunlight,
My lungs from the untainted air;
You have housed me in horrible places,
Surrounded by squalor and care.
I have built you the world in its beauty
have brought you the glory of spoil;
You have blighted my sons and my
daughters,
You have scourged me again to my
toll.
Yet I suffer it all in my patience,
For somehow dimly have known
That some day the worker will conquer
In a world that was meant for his
own!
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
DIDN'T THINK QUICK ENOUGH.

Before introducing Lieutenant de
Tessan, aid to General Joffre, and Col
onel Gabry, the blue Devil of France" !"
Chairman Spencer, of the st. Louis
entertainment committee, at the NJ.
A. A. breakfast told this anecdote:
"In Washington, Lieutenant de Tes-
san was approached by a pretty Amer
lean girl, who said:
" And did you kill German SOL
dier?'
Yes he replied.
a." With what hand did you do il? ?
she inquired.
" With this right hand he said.
"And then the pretty American girl
seized his right hand and kissed it.
Colonel Fabry stood near by. He
strolled over and said to Lieutenant
de Tessan:
Heavens, man, why didn't you tell
her that you bit him to death kan
sas City Star.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
THE GAMBLING INSTINCT

adds a new story, but the foundation
and the ground floor were built in the
dawn of history, and it is in these
that we spend most of our time. And
what are the foundation and ground
floor of our mental skyscrapers In
stincts. In spite of our boasted civil
ization and culture we are still, to a
large extent, creatures of instinct.
Gambling satisfies our instincts to run
a risk or take chance in the hope of
gain, and because it is generally a
ger for the joys of victory over our
opponents. To compel your opponent
to acknowledge you his master-has
there ever been greater satisfaction?
See the happy, self-satisfied express
sion on the face of the girl who has
won first prize at whist party and
you will get an inkling of what the
gamblers feelings must be.
again, gambling satisfies some old
superstitions about luck which are
stored away in the cellar Of our mental
structure, like ancestral heirlooms.
Try your luckn barks the fakir at the
fair, and, whether he knows it or not,
he is appealing to the oldest propen-
sity in our souls. Who will not spend
a few cents to find out whether he is
lucky, and how many men trusting
in the wheel of fortune, as the Greeks
did in the Delphic oracle, have
launched into business ventures which
they otherwise would have hesitated
to undertake?
"Superstition turks in all of US. We
like to think that we are the favored
ones of fortune, the chosen one of the
gods; but in the gambler these super
stitions become almost religion. A
whole book might be written on the
many absurd things they do in the
belief that it will bring them good
luck. But the gambler has only in
exaggerated form that which exists
in all of US.
"Finally, its greatest charm to many
is that they can thereby acquire
wealth without working. To earn
ones bread by the sweat of the brow
is no disgrace, but there are not many
who would not prefer to earn it in
easier ways, and anything that holds
forth an opportunity to do this will
necessarily be powerfully fascinating"
Such are the motives and impulses
that lead men to gamble. How to
remove these motives and withstand
these impulses are other problems
Tile Layers Journal.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

Following in part is the opening
address by Mrs. Raymond Robins,
president of the Sixth Biennial con-
vention of the National Women's
Trade Union League of America, held
at Kansas City few weeks ago:
Eve meet in supreme hour in the
life of this nation and the world. A
new economic and social order is
emerging in every land. and a new
internationalism is being born from
the blood and suffering of mankind.
With all its terrors and conflict, let
US be glad that we live in this Homeric
age. We are in the midst of the final
test of our three greatest principles
and may share in their vindication in
the crucible of the worlds greatest
war.
The first is democracy. This truth
for which we have labored and suf-
fered-the right of individual free
dom and self-government-this is now
declared to be the whole purpose of
our armies and all those fighting in
the allied cause.
"The second is the worth of labor.
On every side it is acknowledged that
the issues of this titanic struggle will
world. Whether in the trenches or in
shop and mine and field, in blood or
sweat, the workers bear the burdens
of the nations at war.
"The third is the rise of woman.
Wonderful as this hour is for democ-
racy and labor-it is the first hour
in history for the women of the world.
This is the woman's age! At last,
after centuries of disabilities and dis
examinations, women are coming into
the labor and festival of life on equal
terms with men. At last the unfair
burdens are being lifted from the
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
MANY FEEL THAT WAY.

Two negroes were caught in ter
rible thunderstorm in the South and
took refuge in barn, but before they
could enter they, were completely
drenched.
The thunder crashed and pealed be-
tween flashes of lightning and binding
dashes of rain. One of the darkies
thought maybe little strong language
would ease his mind, but his compan-
ion demonstrated with him.
"Look heah, yo' Charles Richard
20, y quit 70 cussin;' Don't yo' know
power jest now?"-Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
WOULDN'T WORK TWICE.

In Canadian camp somewhere in
England a second George Washington
has been found. He, in company with
several others, had been granted four
days leave, and, as usual, wired for
extension. But no hackneyed excuse
was his. In fact, it was so original
that it has been framed and now
hangs in a prominent spot in the bat
TALON orderly-room. 1t ran as fol-
lows:
Nobody dead, nobody i'll; still going
strong, having a good time, and got
plenty of money. Please grant ex-
tension"
And he got itl-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
THAT HOoDOO NUMBER.

"What are you here for, and why,
my misguided friend ?" asked a SYM
pathetic prison parson.
well, you see, I'm the victim of
the unlucky number, 49,"
Tell me all about it-that unlucky
49,"
Yes, sir; twelve jurors and one
Judge"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
FAMILY TRAIT.

At the annual prize day of a GER
tain school, the head boy rose to give
his recitation.
Friends, Romans, countrymen,'
he vociferated, lend me your ears!' 4"
"There," commented the mother of
a defeated pupil, sneeringly, "that's
Mrs. Biggs's boy! He wouldn't be his
mothers son if he didn't want to bor-
row something."-Tit Bits.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
Without Benefit of Physic.

A physician being sent for, and
finding the road scarcely passable,
tho it was the middle of summer, in
quired of his driver, young country
lad, what the people could possibly do
for medical assistance in winter.
"Oh, sir" replied the lad, "in win
ter they die a natural DEATH"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

THE DIFFERENCE
Everybody has his faults" said
Uncle Eben. "De principal difference
in folks is whether dey's sorry for 'em
or proud of em."-Washington Star.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
HOW HE KNEW.

Jack-Do you know that Kitty is an
awfully sharp girl?
Percy-Yes, she cut me on the street
the other day.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-21

If they can learn. we ought to be able
TO do likewise Less than so years have
elapsed since European forces in China
found themselves opposed by troops
armed with long bamboo poles. wooden
shields. and fans. Yes. fans Quite
commonly in those days the Chinese
soldier carried a birdcage in one hand
and a fan in the other But TO inspire
terror in the enemy, he wore n
grOtesqus mask. and, for the same pur-
pose, men IN the ranks made horrid
noises by hammering gongs and blow
ing long brass horns.
Some OF the fighting men. IL is true.
were provided with weapons. such as
bows and arrows and ''gingals.~ A
Eingsl is a species OF musket, 9 or 10
feet long. and weighing a or so
pounds. which Is handled by three men
L is laid along the shoulders OF two or
them. and the third man fires It
GInEaI An Ancient Weapon.
Nobody knows just how ancient the
ginal is- Probably il dates back to the
middle ages and is one OF the oldest Of
guns. The Chinese. with all their new
" gained aspirations to Improvement
m military eIiiciency. nave NOT losl
their faith in this curious weapons
may be judged from the fact that the
great arsenal al Shanghai even now
manufactures steel barrels for gingals.
So likewise does the Marking arsenal:
and 1T the Canton arsenal .wo gingals
are made for every rifle.
In 1851. the Chinese troops defending
Canton placed cannon at one Of the
gates Of the city. where they expected
the French and British to attack. Then
their commanding officers, clad in
flowing silk garments. with embroid
cred "breastplates." and wearing amber
necklaces. seated themselves in chairs
of ceremony. and. with bright colorsd
parasols held over them for protection
against the sun proceeded to await the
arrival of the enemy. But the latter,
oddly enough, chose to enter through
another and undefended gate.
The Manchu general afterwards ex-
cused himself to the authorities at
Pekin by saying that the capture OF
the city vas not his fault. but attrlbut-
able to the cOwardly and unsOldierlike
behavior OF the foreign devils. who
would not face his guns, preferring 70
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-21

w China If IS, she = enters tie the var.
can, with her 4OO.OOo,00O OF
population. furnish an inexhaustible
supply OF men. The latter. when prop
erly trained and differed by japanese
or Europeans, are as good soldiers as
any in the world.
The army Of China at the present
time is hardly bigger than our own
though what there is of it is efficient
and well armed and equipped. thanks
to the help of japanese and other for
elgn military instructors Her navy was
practically wiped out by Japan in the
war OF 1894. But potentially she is a
giant
She has seven first class aNenals-
a Tientsin, Shanghai, Hankow. Nan
king, Foochow. Chingtu, and Canton.
The arsenal a. Shanghai has an enOr-
nous capacity for the production OF
war material its equipment being
equal to that of any similar establish
ment in Europe II manufactures fort
ress guns and Ships guns of all calibers
up TO l2-inch, with disappearing car
riages. 1t turns out excellent maya
zine rifles II has a plant for forging
proiectiles of all sizes; also A cartridge
factory. and a factory for making
smokeless powder.
NapOIeOn-S Forecast.
Napoleon said: "N hen China moves
she will change the face of the world
Hitherto she has been, like ourselves
convinced of the inferiority of Other
nations. and blind 10 her own military
weakness. But since her war with
Japan. and particularly since the Jap
anese got the better of Russia. she has
walked up and has become alert and
progressive
Ten years ago China had begun to
establish a modern army. and had al
ready created one corps of 10000 men
the plan contemplated being to or
ganize and equip ten corps. with the
usual proportion Of cavalry and artil-
lery. making n total OF about 500, 600. 70
compose the national forces. These
troops are, and will be. Differed b-
Japanese and Europeans. and b.