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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19

Are you going to give a Halloween
party? There is a lot of fun for ev-
erybody in celebrating this feast of
nonsense; it is an indulgence that
takes little time and money. The troop
of spooks, witches, black cats, pump
kins and lanterns that make Hallow-
cen a madly joyous festival for the
youngsters has arrived or schedule
time and all ready to set off the hour
and table.
Some of this years table decorations
are shown in the picture above. They
are made of crepe paper, plain card
board and tissue paper, with a little
help from pen and ink or water color
paints. Fine wire and paste and a
very. narrow ribbon is needed for some
of them and needle and thread for
others.
The witch shown is supported by
wire with a round piece of fiat, white
cardboard at one end for the face.
About this wire others are twisted to
form the arms and legs. The face is
drawn with pen and ink and the hair
made Of white tissue paper cut into a
fine fringe. At this stage Of her ca
reer the unonnny lady may be fastened
to a fiat desk Of cardboard by bending
the wires which are to support her at
the ends and sewing them to the board.
She is clothed in a dress and cape Of
black crepe paper and has a hat made
of plain black paper. The broom is
made of wire, wound with narrow
strips of yellow paper and a fringe of
black paper. Ghosts are made in about
the same way Of white crepe paper.
A small yellow cardboard box to
hold candy or nuts is suspended from
a sunflower Of yellow tissue paper
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
PATRIOTIC MODES.
What War Has Done to Mod
ify Fall Styles For Women.

The government needs all the dark
blue and olive drab wooden material it
can gather together, and therefore it
stands to reason that women shouldn't
try to make these colors fashionable at
the present moment. There seems no
immediate prospect of their doing so.
The smartest color today is brown in
every possible shade and tone.
Woman's patriotism may have some
thing to do with her increasing indie
pendence in the matter of clothes. She
no longer submits to q complete change
in cut and line every six months. 1t is
a fact undeniable that she has demand
ed palmer and more comfortable
clothes-not that Paris has told her to
wear this sort; not that the war has
put the pail of somberness Upon her
soul. Her clothes are not somber, nor
sad, nor plain. They are simply sensi-
BILE, and that they will be from now
on-or the signs of the times are to be
distrusted. This does not mean. as
some cynics would have you believe.
that woman's clothes will not be beau
tiful. 1t means that she refuses alb
s~olutely to be a party to any freak
ishness deliberately planned by some
remote person with an eye only to his
own bank account.
The fad for knitting fell upon the
country with the advent of the war.
and we took it lightly enough to pro-
vide ephemerai cretonne bags to hold
the summers sweater allowance. But
now we are looking at the craze more
seriously, and bags are being done to
match the more elaborate costumes. If
knitting must be INDUCED in at all
times. then certainly it must have its
proper setting at all times.
There are knitting bags of the most
expensive of materials. A black satin
one has a medallion of blue Chinese
embroidery appliqued conspicuously on
it's side. One of black and gold bro
cade has its rings wound with gold
galloon and is adorned with tassels of
gold. A silk one is made from a Poi
ret print colored the gayest of red and
blue and white. There are also tailor
ed ones of velvet and duvetyn, also
those with bright silver and enameled
tops for knitting needles, protectors
for their pointed ends, and devices for
holding the yarn and myriads of other
accessories of knitting.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19

with a cats face pasted over the CEN
ter) by narrow yellow ribbons. A disk
of white cardboard forms the founda-
ton of this piece, with the ends of the
ribbon, the flower petals and cats face
pasted to 1t.
All the small paper dishes for sailed
almonds or CONNECTIONS are made of
yellow crepe paper parted e ready
made foundations. A dish of this kind
may be transformed into O basket by
adding a handle of wire wound with
paper. A little covered candy box is
shown with a small helmeted figure
seated on the lid, holding a spear in
his hand. He is merely a "lolly pop
a stick with a dish of candy on n
end-furnished with arms and legs of
wire and dressed In yellow crepe paper.
The candy is covered with wax paper
whereon his good natured face is made
with pen and ink.
For the Halloween party there are
paper table cloths and napkins that
dress the table appropriately. The best
Of all center pieces is the old-fashioned
jack-o-lantern made of a real pumpkin
followed out and having eyes, nose and
mouth c1t through the rind.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
The Iona Goat.

Much opportunity is given to the I'M
~agination of the designers by the long
coat Of the autumn. For this coat
gives space for most interesting deco
rative treatment. One new model is
bound with fur. The underarm seams
are slashed up almost to the waist.
The fur binding outlines these slashes,
but is not used up the front Of the
coat. Thus a panellike effect is pro-
duced in spite Of the fact that the
coat opens directly down the front.
Although pockets are not so much
used as they were last year, still some
of the new models show huge pockets
IN these long skirt portions Of the
coats.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19

brilliant" Is the word that best fits
the new styles in tailored suits, how
ever sedate the colors may be, in which
these suits are developed. Besides the
glove shades-beige, brown, tan, cas-
tor, taupe-there are rich tones of
wine, Russian green, beet root, and
amethyst, all at their best In the soft
surfaces of fashionable weaves In wool.
1t seems that costumers cannot think
of them without at the same time
thinking of furs; for fur is every
where on tailored suits and put on in
the most original ways.
Everything conspires to make this
seasons formal suit an unqualified sue
cess, because the character of'the new
fabrics, their colors and fashionable
trimmings are so well suited to one
another. Designers appear to revel in
them and have given us creations this
fall that more than justify the loyalty
of American women to the tailored
suit.
Just one of many beautiful new mod
els Is pictured here, but 1t will convince
thC IuliutC Wouldh Va tOddJ Lid Az
best art of the costumes Is at her sery-
ice. 1t is of Russian green broadcloth
trimmed with French seal convertible
collar and buttons and would be
equally rich in amethyst, beet-root,
taupe or wine. 1t is an achievement
to be proud of and a possession to re-
joice In, now that it is fashionable to
be busy and nearly all our days are
spent in street clothes. The skirt Is
quite plain and that term might. also
be used to describe. the coat in which
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
Bottle Skirts Are Shown.

The woman who goes in for the ex-
IRENE will accept the bottle skirt a
few of these were displayed recently
in Paris, some gathered into broad
fur bands around the bottom, others
showed the effect attained by laying
the skirt in fine plaits at intervals and
These skirts measured only two yards
around.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
Business BOOMING.

Druggists Friend-I hear your cash
register ringing a lot. You must be do
ing a fine business? Druggist-I'm do
ing %splendidly. don't know how many
nickel's worth of pennies I've sold this
morning.-Buffalo Express.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
Goat Fur Is k

A new fur is Mongolia, a long-haired
and curly goat fur Ssed by a few Paris
designers on fall costumes. Unplucked
beaver, with hair 2 inches long, lying
fiat on the fur, Is also used, and has
the effect of q dark and unusual fur
trimming.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
The Repeat.

"Is it difficult to borrow money!
mot the first time, The second touch
is what calls for great skill."-Detroit
Free Press.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19

the tailor has relied upon originality
of design and beautiful adjustment to
the figure for the distinction he has
given the finished garment.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
Keep the Dollars
In Town
Reading.

Reading.
Were l to pray for a taste which
should stand me in stead under every
variety of circumstances and be a
source Of happiness and cheerfulness
to me during life and a shield against
ills, however things might go amiss
and the world frown upon mt, it
would be a taste for reading.-Sir John
Herschel.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-10-19
A Bungalow Built

with our shingles as the out
side covering and our lumber
as the inside parts will be both
artistic and lasting. 1t will
be a cheap building too, for it
will not need repairs for a long
time. And as our lumber
costs no more than the ordi-
nary kind you can readily per-
ceive the economy of using it.
The Washington times., 1917-11-03
~ Entertaining Is No
tmcQ.Vb bVQFS Entertainment for
~ VIZ the Entertainer
Copyright 1917 International News Service)

Copyright International News Service)
More Of their desire to
tain society victims by housewoTk
Have stopped think Mrs Married Woman how foolish
for to other people good t simply
that you may enjoy their hospitality now and then?
As matter Of fact what does the whole thing amount to
What compensate for the effort you are Obliged to main
tain to keep what position IN society
You would be cented thoughts and
ons about made the same effort TO please
those at nome that you do to attract society friends
Think What you return for this expenditure OF
social position:
Your friends nothing they like for what they
out Of that is their point of view
than have i'll health
The Washington times., 1917-11-03
By EARL GOODWIN.

Some one is knocked down by an automobile every
DAY IN this city Sometimes it is the fault of the automobile
driver sometimes is the fault of the person knocked down
Sometimes what the coroners jury calls unavoid
able accident"
In every it is painful dangerous or fatal to the ne
destran .
In Paris, when pedestrian blocks traffic by getting
hmsen run run over, they fine the pedestrian.
In Atlanta Georgia, they initiated anti iaywalker
movement, which eliminated in city ordinance If YOU
jay walked you fined. That MEANS if you cut cav
coTnered across the street. deyng all rules of navigation
policeman would arrest you. you walked in the street
instead OF on the sidewalk grinning citizen would
hold up his hand and shouts Hey there you aywak
persons lined in the police court for jaywalkng The
lists were mighty good reading, too for the police
spared none The ch the poor the prominent the obscure
all OF them were made to walk right pay a fine.
Broad white lines were painted on the street intersec
ons Within these lines pedestrians were on their own
ground An automobile driver hitting pedestrian within
those lines was guilty the face of it. pedestrian hit
outside the space marked for him had little chance
Atlanta was merely applying to the street traffic the
prlnclple tnat TWO sono Dodes cannot occupy
the same space simultaneously Unless Washington pedes
TRANS keep upon their ground this city will adopt
aywalking ordinance. Pedestrians who violate traffic
regulations rules will be fined just auomobhsts
fined.
The job of Keeping pedestrians where they belong in
Washington bigger than In many cities because there
many large irregular spaces where many streets and
meet This itself makes walking greater risk than
it should bebut unless revert to the onehorse shay
mend the condition Also it is safer to stay the sidewalk
and arrive home whole than to walk in the middle of the
street and be carried to Emergency Hospital
Washingtonians are great people for walking in the
street Thirty years when there many brick
sidewalks than there are now easier to walk the
concrete the Belgian blocks than the bricks The
bricks stood up end and rumpled up by the roots
Of trees growing beneath them, and made very irregular
pathway That's why everyone walked in the street fol
lowing the line of the gutter carrying market baskets or
pushing baby carriages It's old Washington CUSTOM
bless it. but it's no longer safe
Pedestrians have the right of way only under certain
circumstances. Common demands that walking
N he i
necessary for him to be alive to what going around him
is for automobile driver to have both hands the
steering wheel and his eyes glued to the pathway in front OF
lim careless walker is much of as careless
lriver.
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

We must give our friends some
thing ;nore-a mental stimulation
suggested by good talk or, failing
that, by genius in listening and in
drawing out frank and friendly
talk.
Tc "draw OUT a speaker, TO
make him talk his very best, his
listener must be deeply interested
and must show that interest.
So, when all is said and done,
Harriet, perhaps the quickest way
to charm our friends Is to be sin
cerely charmed by them. 1t is
hard to Withstand such subtle fat
terv as this-and one does so ad-
mire the good taste Of those who
admire onel
But the charm, to be deep, must
be sincere, as the interest must oe
sincere. And with this interest
there should be simplicity, cor
dlality and graciousness.
Sincerity, the Basic Quality Of
Charm, Must Be Unborn.
Interest in ones fellows one can
cultivate. Graciousness Of man
ner. consideration, good breeding
and tact-all elements Of what We
call charm-can also be cultivated.
But the basic quality Of sincerity
must be inborn.
One may say to oneself, 81 will
proceed to be a charming person"
One may cultivate all the recog-
nlzed essentials of charm. One
may try ones power and one may
tall. Under the graciousness and
the suavity, the lack of sincerity
may be recognized.
ana while one marvels over the
failure, very simple little
stranger approaches and smiles and
says few unlmportant words. and
one recognizes the charm in her
the quality that comes straight
from her beautiful heart, and must
always be recognized, and may
never be satisfactorily defined.
But there ls this to remember,
Harriet. The qualities OF fellow
snip. simplicity, sincerity, gracious
ness, consideration and good
breeding are very desirable In
themselves. They are supreme!y
well worth working for. With
them all one cannot lack charm.
Without them one cannot possess
it.
And all individual without charm
Is like flower without perfume
good to look a, perhaps, but I'M
mediately and increasingly dlsap-
pointing at close range.
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

and gracious as she seems. But
whether she is sincere or no.
doesn't matter TO me. The thing
that does matter is that she makes
me feel thoroughly happy and
comfy and self-satisfied every min
ute Of the time that / spend with
her"
Perhaps that is the secret OF
charm-to make the person with
you happy and comfy and self
satisfied" We all know how i'm
portant It is to make our friends
physically comfortable when they
come to see us. We offer them
deep, wide-armed chairs, soft
lights, open fres-if we have them.
Then, when we have done all this.
some OF us consistently rub them
the wrong way"
We irritate them by tactless re-
marks. We broach subjects they
would rather not discuss. We re-
mind them of worries they wish
to forget. And when we do this,
though we may be as beautiful as
Helen OF Troy and as brilliant as
Madame de Stael, to those guests
we certainly lack charm.
We have forgotten, if we ever
knew it, that to make our friends
mentally comfortable in our pres
ence is even more important than
10 make them physically comfort =
able.
On the other hand, it is not
enough to give them mere physical
comfort and a lethargic mental
calm, due to the absence Of an un-
pleasant atmosphere. A cat doz-
ing by the fire enjoys that combi-
nation,
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

DCAh -hlSo JOhDANs
Please write an article on per-
sonal charm. Exactly what is
meant by "charm?" And can one
cultivate II? HARRIET.
FXACTLY what is meant by
charm" Harriet, is thing
very difficult to put into
words. To be charmed" is to be
attracted, to be fascinated, to be
allured. Therefore, a man or
woman who charms us is one who
attracts US, more or less strongly,
according to the degree Of charm
he or she possesses and exercises.
Frequently charm in men and
women is associated with personal
magnetism, a subtle force which
goes deeper than mere charm and
is harder to understand and re-
sist To the influence Of charm"
as rule, one willingly lends one
self. Magnetism one often resists.
II sometimes draws one toward a
personality one does not really
like TO admire.
One Prominent American Who
Has Magnetism TO Burn"
A great editor once gave me an
excellent illustration Of this fact
in speaking Of our eminent Ameri-
can citizen, Mr.. Theodore Roose-
welt.
I'm not an admirer OF Roose-
welt, as II happens" he said,
frankly. "As you know. I've ham
mered him in my newspaper for
years. ! don't approve Of him. |
don't like a lot OF the things he
says and does. But | admit that
when I'm in the same room with
Roosevelt I've got all / can do to
resist his attraction.
"He draws me like a magnet
He seems one of the finest fellows
alive. After I've talked to him five
minutes it takes me about twenty
four hours to get over the effects
of his personal magnetism and to
hammer him again in the good old
wayw
Mr.. Roosevelt, Of course, pos
sesses really extraordinary mag
netism. No public women and
very few public men, except pos
sibly the late James G. Blaine,
have had it in any such degree.
Among public women with mag
netism, DR.. Anna Howard Shaw
stands out ns q good example.
When she is lectrring. her personal
magnetism sweeps over her audi
ence like wave. DR.. Shaw has
great charm, too-witn those she
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

likes. When she is with those she
does not like, she goes inside of
herself. as it were. turns out her
lights and pulls down all the cur
tains.
At such times an extraordinary
change takes place in her appear
ance. Her mobile features seem
to harden, her brilliant eyes grow
almost dim. Suddenly, some one
she likes approaches her, and, be-
hold, Anna Howard Shaw blazes
uD like a municipal Christmas tree.
resplendent and unforgetable. Il
am very fond of her, Harriet,
which is why | feel free to discuss
her SO frankly.)
But to get back to your question.
Charm. we have decided, is the
power OF attracting, of alluring.
Its possessors, as | have said, have
it in varying degrees. Also, a
charming" persons influence on
individuals varies not only accord
ing to its degree, but according to
the individuals willingness to yield
to it.
A few-a very few-disgruntled
human beings are even repelled BY
charm. To them it means artif-
ciality and insincerity. Others, less
disgruntled, doubt the sincerity OF
the always-charming person, yet
lend themselves, open-eyed. to the
charm.
For example, once hard this
comment made on one of the most
charming women ! know:
Maud is too good to be true.
No human being could possibly be,
all tho time aa su,aa, ,zl-.,
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

Commissioner Gardiner fayors
raising the license fee for keeping
dogs from 50 to $40 a year. To ac-
complish this he must go to Con-
gress and ask for a Federal statute.
The same machinery which declared
/ war must he set in motion to in
crease a dog license.
! Isn't that a ridiculous situation?
While we are asking for this dog
tax increase, would II not be advis-
able to ask for one law to give the
| Commissioners simple authority to
control the license question?
There are many antiques to be
found in the District licenses any
how. For instance. a Maryland or
Virginia farmer with five dollars
worth Of produce over and above
his needs cannot come into Washing
ton once a year 20 sell that produce
without taking out a license. He
cannot afford to pay a license fee
for that one sale and the consumers
of Washington fail to get the 5ene-
fit of that produce.
l see that L. E Shriner. OF the
Union Savings Bank, has been made
treasurer of the Adrienne de Lafay-
ette Chocolate Fund. A good choice.
Reverting to the dog tax business,
if Commissioner Gardiner thinks a
dog is a luxury, to be licensed at a
higher rate, how about Colonel
Kroll's rate of one dollar per mar
riage license. II dog is a luxury,
Just think what marriage is.
William Hall has discovered why
the Weather Bureau chose its pres
ent location. You know the stork
brings many a little bundle to the
Columbia Hospital, which is back
of the Weather Bureau. Which
prompts Mr.. Hall to say the fore
caster can open his window and lis
ten to the squalls.
Speaking of Washington, the Lit
tie Rock, Ark, "Daily News" says:
"The attitude of the Government,
which gives to 500, 900 people no vote
or voice in the government, even of
their own affairs, needs to be con-
demned by that democracy of the
world which the soldier boys Of
the United States have taken up
arms to foster and promote"
Isaac Cans becomes q member Of
the Washington executive commit
tee to aid the miserable inhabitants
of Poland and Russia The appoint
hient was made by Henry Morgen-
THAI.
Judge Bundy's proposal to move
the Botanic Garden from the present
site to tie 1T. Hamilton tract in the
The Washington times., 1917-11-03
RD AND SEEN

northeast will, l hope, get some
where. | have no choice Of locations;
but the present Botanic Garden is
relic of the early Victorian age. This
time let US have action on the r.
moval idea.
like TO walk around the streets
and talk to people meet For in
stance. / didn't know Bob Bradshaw
was the secretary OF an important
railroad committee on the Council CT
National Defense unit! ] saw him In
an automobile shop the other dcJ.
He told ne his father is N New York.
Great Scott" said to him. "how
can Washington 80 into another
Presidential campaign without the
elder Bradshaw"
Their there's Charles Ray. no
matter how busy he 10. he's always
smiling. That's the reason he's a
member OF the Firn OF ?arber &
Ross.
Frank, Doremus Joins the Cathe-
dral Heights School ard Community
Association.
Just tell me this: What NoCld
YOUR city OF Detroit do If il had car
service as bad as ours?
Mr.. DoremUs, dear friends, Is n
representative from Michigan. end. as
Sam Blythe says, he has 4 face 30
open and frank that he wclld be
trusted on a pay-aS-you-snter car.
Did you ever try II, Rep. Doremus?
1 remember seeing a soldier de-
tailed to duty in the company otcnen
grumble because he said he didn't
enlist to peel potatoes"
Whereupon his commanding o.
ficer, a Captain Mckinley. u. S. "A,
sat down beside him in the kitchen
and showed him how he lad been
taught to peel potatoes at West
Point. The potato peelings he cut
were as thin as tissue paper.
There's big lesson in that. Two,
in fact. The secoEd one concerns
Washington housekeepers who have
no idea how much potato noIrisr-
ment is thrown away from their
kitchens because their cooks don't
know the gentle art Of peeling.
A great big pea -5ouu color auto
mobile truck from tna Washington
NAVY Yard was rushing up Four
and-a-half street, loaded with an
chors. The anchors are to Oe used
in holding some ship motioniess in
the water. In the middle of the
street, with market baskets ard Sa-
b:es were two women. They had to
fec for their lives from beneath sha
prov OF that big truck.
| wonder what snip is in so great
a hurry TO stand still That anchors
have to be rushed 20 il at killing
pace.
The Washington times., 1917-11-03
Walking in the Street

IL an ancient and honorable CUSTOM dating days
brick sidewalks. But it is dangerous today
The Washington times., 1917-11-03
beth Jordan Writes On personal Charm"I

Make Our Mentally
to Lookt No
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

Judge Bundy's proposal to move
the Botanic Garden from the present .
site to tie 1T. Hamilton tract in the
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

Isaac Cans becomes a member Of
the Washington executive commit
tee to aid the miserable inhabitants
of Poland and Russia. The appoint
hient was made by Henry Morgen-
THAI.
The Washington times., 1917-11-03

Their there's Charles Ray. 10
matter how busy he 10. he's always
smiling. That's the reason he's
member OF the Ffrn OF ?aroer &
Ross.
The Washington times., 1917-11-03
DEAR MISS JORDAN:

DbAR MISS JURDAN:
Please write an article on per-
sonal charm. Exactly what is
meant by "charm?" And can one
cultivate It? HARRIET.