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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22

today we have come 10 the conclusion
that the velvet lining is not all that y
should be above the eyes. So we Will
employ satin or crepe in white, cream
and that faint flesh pink that throws
good light on the skin.
Straight Across Brows.
There is another emphatic fashion In
the hats that arc arriving IN such al
lurng groups that they persuade one
to lay aside straw and take up velvet
this fashion is a bit OF the militarisn
that has spread over the planet; 1t II
the straight line across the broys that
governs the placement Of the hat
There is no tilt to the side there Il
no possibility Of showing even tn,
slightest fringe Of hair on the forehead
There !, a soldier like definite air O
attending strictly to business tina
governs the adjustment OF this seasons
hat
The hat in the sketch today is OF pc
,unia velvet with an underbrim o
white satin, and loose top crown o
petunia satin. The lower part OF th'
crown Is made OF velvet and edged will
a band of pale green ribbon. On eacf
side of the crown there is long fla
leaf OF green. Thi, poster effect II
very much liked II Is apt to rur
riot, however, in exactly the same wa,
a, did the Chipese pattern, used II
fabrics
Sometime, women's heads are Gu
from silk, painted in the fashion OF
miniature and flatened. out on tn
velvet crown. An American desisne
who has had success with his hats ha
exploited this fashion Of heads, but !
Is safe to say that II will not max
way among conservative women.
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
SI,]R DRESS T! E!!!S{:.,. !
The loose crown with Q VIDE brin Will
govern the shape Of hats. Velvet ana
poster effects will b In high demand.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2l.--There I, a
belief among expert milliners that
white should be placed next to the face
in q hat built OF somber material
Artists who have long studied the ell
feet Of color on the expression OF the
face have begged all women that they
either wear white or flesh above the
eyes, or refrain from wearing 4 brim
that lets the sunlight through It,
Today milliners and artists Join
hands. This is as il should be. 1t
would be a better world Of DIRE" u a
milliner was always an artist, but
taste and trade are not in'eparable,
Fashion pulls people around by the
nose. |, does not give wide scope IN
the individual adjustment OF clothes to
the figure And il has another sad
trick OF binding a woman to her own
possibilities, and il often turns her INTO
a cartoon. She becomes a caricaturc
through cnslavement Some one once
said that fashion was more OF satyT
than a saint in that il ridicules more
than it saves women.
There are many other things that an
artist could teach milliners IN the way
of fashionable hats, so that a woman
spirit as well as her beauty may be
brought out No portrait painter IS
worth much who cannot tell to the on
looker something OF the soul and splrI'
of the sitter when he puts the figure
and face on canvas
Mr.. Sargent once said, when he stood
before a wonderfully executed portrait
OF an American woman who had come
into the limelight through her hus'
bands great wealth, that it was pity
the artist had not told the onlooke'
that she knew the woman was vulgar
II was a fine point made by Mr.. Sar
gent. II was said further OF him thai
the praise given by a surgeon to one o'
his portraits pleased the painter more
than any technical praise that had beer
given him by critics. This surgeon
looked at Sargcnts portrait of famous
man and said II know little OF art
but that man is going to die soon oi
Bright's disease" The painter had be
come q diagnostician and the surgeon
recognized the verdict.
All this Is far away from fashion
but, the fact is. that the milliner who
could bring out 4 womans spirit, in
tensify II, or, sometimes, conceal It
would be a great addition to the his
tory Of dre"
There Is no gown so perfect but wha'
can he ruined by = hat There Is nc
face 20 ukly but what can be helped b,
hat. There are no features so plair
and insipid but which may be enlivenec
by a hat. Surely, then, the milline
should be an artist II she Is not. !
she thinks more of form than Of spiri,
Of fashion more than character, the
she should not have power over man
women.
IA AT In . Liaing.
| The lining that softens the eyes
the new touch In autumn hats. 1t
only disadvantage Is In its ability 4
soii and its constant need Of cleaning
Once upon . time we wore our velve
hats oil in one piece, as Il we're, bu
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
IHUMbUC CIRCUS
TICKETS READY
Street Parade TO Begin Friday
Afternoon al $50,

Tickets for the great, gorgeous and
gli,,ering Humbug circus which shows
here next Friday are to 90 on sale
this afternoon at local cigar stores,
drug stores and other places OF bust
ness, and so great Is the interest In
the performance that signs have been
placed In all Of them in anticipation
of the rush, These signs enioin ticket
buyers to please stand in line and don't
push,
O'Nsil to Serve.
Arrangements have been made 20
push John ONeil of the Richards
Conover Hardware company into the
giraffe skin to serve as the front lcSs.
He is eminently qualified for the lofty
task. w. T Head will serve ss the
rear limbs Of the beast
While promoters of the enterprise re-
fuse to disclose all details of the show
1t is known that there will be an ex'
traordinary ballet composed OF dane
ing girls" OF strictly local talent
Parade at $50 O'clock.
The gigantic and magnificent stree
parade will begin shortly after S;N
o'clock Friday evening. The parade
will leave the show grounds west o
the county courthouse, travel east o'
Grand to Broadway, thence north I,
Main and west on Main to the grounds
The performance starts promptly at
o'clock.
A charge OF IS Is usually made 70
the parade, but since the city dads sa.
il must be free or "Danceur Mamsell
| Omar" shall no, dance, wort cos
spectators a cent. The circus wagon
will be drawn by the pick Of the eli,
delivery wagons.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
No American Cotton
Reaching Germany

WASHINGTON, Aug 22-Sen.tor
Smith Of South Carolina, speaking In
the senate late today denied reports
that American cotton is finding ity/wsy
into Germany and Austria. He declared
that 100000 bales le" are being ex-
ported from this country to Europe
now than when the war began and In
,toduced figures showing that with but
few exceptions the importation OF cot
ton by European countries Is below
| normal
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
Cuba Turns Over
q Interned Ships

HAVANA, Aug. 22.-At the presi-
Dental palace today. in the presenc.
Of General MART secretary of war and
navy, and William Gonzales, United
States minister to Cuba; Pre.iden,
Menocal signed a decree transferring
to the United States government four
large German steam,hips--the Bavaria
Olivant, Adelheid and Constantia--ol
an aggregate tonnage of approximately
twenty, thousand tons, seized as prizes
of war by Cuba when war was de-
clared aRainit Germany. =.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
Russia Needs Aid;
Red Cross Sends 1t

WASHINGTON, Aug, q, In re-.
sponse to an urgent GABLE from Pc.
trosrad from DR.. Frank Billings, head
of the American Red Crou commission
to Russia the Red Cross announced
tonight that i, would ship Immediately y
q large quantity Of medical and surgi 4.
cal supplies TO meet the urgent need,
Of the Russian military hospitals. 'Thi,
supplements an earlier consignment OF
s1h6OOO worth forwarded when the
commission sailed
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
Plenty of Cooks
for Cantonment

PINE BLUFF, Ark, Aug Nv.
T. Truloek. chairman of 4 committee
of hotel managers appointed to secure
cooks for the national army canton
mcnt at Camp Pike, Little Rock, an.
nounced today that he has secured
more than the required number. he
said New Orleans hotels will furnish
sixty; Greenville, Miss, twenty y-iive,
and Tesarkana, Ark. twenty-five.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
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|(||||I|l|||t SPREAD
|DHScnools
Children Cared For
Washington Building

~ Mamie Franks Of Carthage,
>saeAeer Of the "ungrsded room"
y Washington school, will return to
1nhoqna City two weeks before the
ntag Of school in order to get her
y rounded up.
An unique Position.
Misc Franks occupies an unique po..
3oh IA the Oklahoma City public
ool system. She had made Of the
AnfS6ed room" experiment a success
y yvovsd that such an institution IS
RS9 Of . place in the local eduea-
~ plan.
~ eyssy school are pupils. especially
Cm he fifth to eighth grades, who
y - adjust themselves to the estab'
~ eourss Of study. This may be
~ III health. lack Of opportunity or
~ q ability to keep up with others
II came class. Where no attention
aid to these misfits, they often drop
80 ef school. To fit their needs, the
nessded room was suggested. To /,
~ pupiis are sent and are in a ma,
loejy Of cases reclaimed. Special
~ il made OF each case and care
1aAGn 10 correct the cause Of the de-
ejssv.
q IIlse Yraaks' Success.
y 10 Niss Franks 10 given the credi,
~ seelaiming many boys that had
onsted on the downward path through
II Of interest in school work
y ~ lust naturally makes the lessons
- interesting that the 'misfits' learr
lovs their school work and lose all
lplrs 10 play hockey" said one schoo
|Dlijeial Ungrsded rooms will prob.
~ d established in other schools 7oi
~ citv In the near future.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
CONFEREES PLAN
GREATEST WHEAT
CROP IN HISTORY
Oklahoma Specialists Attend
Kansas City Farley,

KANSAS CITY, Aug. IA corps
OF wheat and rye specialists Of the
department OF agriculture. headed by
Dr.. Raymond A. Pearson, assistant
secretary Of agriculture, was here to-
day for . conference with representa-
tives Of thirteen states at which ways
and means concerning the acreage OF
winter wheat and rye were to be dis
cussed.
Agricultural colleges and schools Of
defense Of Minnesota, Missouri, Kan
sas, Iowa, Nebraska. Arkansas, Texas,
Oklahoma South Dakota, Wyoming.
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona
were represented at the conference,
which is one Of series called by Sec
rotary Of Agriculture Houston. The
departments campaign calls for total
planting this fall Of E,3IOW acres to
wheat and 5,lJl0W acres to rye. The
thirteen states have been asked to plant
a total OF 2J,722,00 acres to wheat
and $4,000 to rye. II is proposed to
raise the total acreage OF the two
products without disturbing the normal
acreage of the 1918 corn and other
crops.
The plan of the department Of agri-
culture, il carried out, means the pro-
duction Of 6720OOO00 bushels of winter
wheat which would be larger than any
ever harvested before in the United
Ststes.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-22
Louisiana Exernptor
Said to Have Made
700 Daily in Fees"

y RATION ROUGE, La. Aug. 1-Ad.
peost General McCrory announced
"a night he was investigating report.
8 Irregularities by Louisiana local
ooeds IN the handling Of exemption
oins. Complaints were received, he
~ fsom two parishes alleging clerks
I'D charging applicants, for exe1np'
~ various small sums for preparing
y Daosrs, the lees in each case total
n 1f.6s. One clerk was said TO have
)Iseted ~ high - $200 on some day'
4 Aac&her@ complaint was that certain
ogoeas had been exempted because o'
"a interest In parish politics. Th'
)uhnt general stated the cases woult
taspsd oyer y the federal authori
y II his SNvsstigatioas showed tn
gguD sesdstd TO be substantisted
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08

Neither lack of cigarettes nor the ban
on drinks can mar the success of the din
ner-dance which the Philadelphia League of
Advertising Women. members of the Ma
tional Association of Advertising Clubs of
the World, give tonight to the Poor Rich
ards at the Hotel Adelphia. The men are
willing 10 come anyway.
one hun ired and nrty acceptanccs have
been received. even though cigarettes and
drinks are taboo
No drinks are to be served on the
menu and none can be ordered ION the
side" while cigarettes will not be passed
and the guests of the occasion are not ex-
pected to use them at the dinner, accord
Ing to the announcement made by members
OF the dinncr-dance committee when telling
OF the plans.
The program arranged for the evening
and the menu are .laborate. Beautiful
programs and attractive souvenirs, candies
, MOVERS and cologne will be given the
guests
Don seitz, of the New York World Ray
mond Hitchcock. who is playing in Betty"
AT the Forrest: Miss Anne G.. Martin
leader or the womens organization of the
National Advertising Clubs of the World
ana reputed to be the highest.paid adver-
tsing woman In the world. with salary
OF $4,000, at the Sperry Hutchinson Stamp
company will be guests of the evening
Dancing specialties will be features of
the entertainment Miss Nina Segal in a
demure Quaker costume, will dance. and
then throw of her Quaker costume and
appear as a Broadway star and dance the
new dances. She will be assisted by Miss
Eva Quirk and six Partisan girls from
keiths. "Majodeh," the Egyptian Temple
danseuse, will give some dances never seen
In this city before. Following the dinner
and entertainment there will be dancing
The committee in charge of the annual
AFFAIR consists of Miss Nellie Quirk. Miss
Ida Turner, Miss Clara Zillessen, Miss
Anna b. Kelley. Miss Sara Black, the act
Ing president; Mrs Macy b. Heacock Miss
Helen Strausser and Miss Anna V. RICHTER
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08

lie tnAt as II may
have not yet met either the British or
French soldier-be he officer Tommy" or
"Poilu'-who bankers for any 1917 peace
unless II be with complete victory to the
Allies. More than this, there Is a keen de-
termination to fight things out TO finish,
Peace? 90 talks OF peace" heard
a 'oCkEey soldier shout At one of the big
London terminals yesterday, I'm back to
the hloomin Sommc and the blasted
trenches and the mud and the cold-and,
so 'elp me, there | sticks till we've won
the war, :"
Loud cheers from the various female rela-
tives who surrounded the departing one
gave him renewed courage to continue.
And every bloomin' soldier IN the British
army backs me up in this ere statement
Who wants to stand up to the waist in
mud and he plugged at all day long by
the 'Orrid 'CnS? who wants to be run
through the body by bighted bayonet?
Who wants to he guessed. poisoned, burnt
torn by barbed wye. chuclSed headtirst into
shell holes filled with corpses? who wants
TO spend nights crawlin through dead
bodies over No Mans Land. with every
now and then face shinin' out in the moon
light that fair makes you sick at the stum-
sch with its twisted grin?
mo none sof MS loves the life But wot
we loves more than anything else is to win
the war And, though il takes us three
more years. by gosh. we will!
| have lately talked with several women
on the peace question. They are even more
insistent on complete and absolute victory.
What? Peace on German terms? And
have the whole war over again in another
ten or fifteen years." they cry. Never
We're having a bad enough struggle at
home to make ends meet, What with the
high cost of food and the scarcity of money.
but we'd go through three times as much
to win this war;"
\ woman in an Fast End slum who Is
struggling along with five small children
declared that she would rather see those
children dead than have them grow up to
fight in another war as horrible as this.
And that's what ud happen il we give
IN before complete victory she concluded.
80 ! says, no talk of peace till the Ger
mans are all back to their own country with
not one bloomin' hope for startin' another
war-not this side of hundred years.
There is some talk at the present time
that France is becoming exhausted under
the terrific strain of the last two and a half
years. No doubt France has felt the strain
tremendously. But she is quite determined
to carry on to triumphant end.
Ask any French soldier what he thinks
ask little madame, his wife, ask even his
little children.
a man who has just returned from Pep
per Ill., near acherauville--recently oc.
cupled by the Germans but now in the hands
of the French-queStiOned the bold 'Poilus
on the peace question.
Only a few hundred yards away were
the German lines At short intervals were
German soldiers, each a darker shadow than
the surrounding darkness.
lie talked of peace with some French SOL
diers loungng in a trench. What did they
think about it?
One of them nodded his head toward the
enemy lines
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
BOY SCOUTS CELEBRATE
SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY
Commemorative Exercises Will Con-
tinue All Week With Varied
Program

The Boy Scouts Of America today cele-
brate the founding their movement in
America. The celebration will last for one
week, beginning today. 1t commemoratea
the seventh anniversary OF the coming of
boy scouts to America and every scout camp
will in some manner carry out numerous
programs for the occasion.
II is the usual custom for all comma na,.
and camps in the United States to muster
their forces tonight and stand at atten-
ton, and just as the clock is at s:l5 they
will reiterate their oath of duty to God
and to their country which, is taken bv
every boy becoming a scout Some OF
the boys in the scout ranks may not be
able to attend their commands tonight hut
at the appointed time IL they be in the
streets or home they will stop for a short
while and repeat the oath to themselves
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
RICH PORTER IS HOST
TO NEGRO FINANCIERS
Harry Ratlif, Who Cooked Morgan's
Chicken, Entertains Fellow Com
pany Directors

Harry Ratlif, among whose claims to
fame is that he waited on j. Perpont Nor
gan and Lord Dunraven. of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad cooking fried chicken and
cream sauce. gave dinner last night at
his home, 1909 Catharne street. in honor
of the ten directors of the Eureka Invest
ment Company, a building and loan. COM
cern. Of which he is now vice president.
Although Ratliff and the ten directors are
negroes, they represent combined wealth
of more than $l5o000. and Ratlin. who is
sxty-nine years old, is the richest of them.
Pennsylvania Railroad porter, became ac-
quainted with such prominent men as James
q. Blaine, President Garfield, General Grant.
President Mckinley. Senator Root. John
Jacob Astor Andrew Carnegie, Harry Paine
whitney and III Hung Chang.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
DIARY OF A WELL-DRESSED GIRL I
A Slip to Wear Under Dance Erock.


(NClIH was born with a golden spoon i'm
" her month c,o, Ia.
iti,o -. 'u 'u'N ioioWs her aoout
snauow and every wish Is granted
""host oetore 1t Is spoken.
In answer TO her Is,ter s.,.,r. ,ha, sbo
was coming on for a se,, a., ,s,si, a.
plorcd the fact that therc would he ro In.
teresting social doinrs" NJ tho limo and
that she would have . s,,,rtd ,in,n Sho
wrote back "Xeycr ca,n ''u,'u ~ ''.r, ' ,'v
not have a good time S,n,ohn", n%ni,ing
things always hannen tn n,o nri - sn,
my heart upon bayina y , ,',,,"
That very afternoon cards can,o Tor the
Ballards' dinner-dance and for Mo- IIvi.
steads engagement lu,cboHr -raa,, t.rSGIa
Jeff dropped in and hoarIn,, 30 ,,io,i,,,s cow.
ing visit, said. "Cissle.s n n,,sb,, o. iii,Io
youngster and I've ncvcr ,i,7o,, ho, , ,oot
party. Make out n ust ,f thnso ,o t,,,i,o
and Wen give a supunr and h,lt ,t tho
hotel. Buy her a new fr-,l Unii, so,',no
thing real handsome ana ,,,,,t - Iii -
me-" '0'" '''' '''' W
Clcily Just dinnIad mud ,,,it,, ,,.,,o,, r
told her about The hail o,l .aIJ "midr.,
| tell Won tha, thtr,,, 1,'u s''u, ", L,lu',
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-08
POILyJS AND TONNES DEAD-SET
AGAINST PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY
Keen Determination for Finish Fight Despite
Optimistic Prediction of Late Nine. de Thebes.
Women in London Clamor for Fall of Enemy
Written for the Ercniro Ledger
BY ELLEN ADAIR

THE Germans are there. aren't they?"
he remarked well. what they've got over
there is mine / never lived tnere am
from the south. But that land over there
is France. Therefore 1t is mine, and the
Germans have 20 go.
Il wonder II the peace-talkers realize
that" he continued "ff they don't, just
tell them for me and from every other man
In the French army that this is our message
on the snbject: not only do the Germans
set out, but they take good beating be-
sides"
NO PEACE on GERMAN TERMS
Yes" he continued, we want peace--but
not today-and never on the German
terms"
From what ] have seen personally OF the
French as a nation, there can be no doubt
that they will go on with tho war no mat
ter what happens, and that there is nothing
big enough or strong enough to stop them
now.
The eminent Professor Melnecke, in a
peace article which he contributes 10 the
Fraukfurter Zctung, laments the overthrow
Of German power at the Battle of the
Marne
our first aim was to conquer France
quickly and force her to make peace. Had
this plan succeeded we couid have turned
instantly and adopted the same tactics to-
ward Russia with every possibility of sue
cess. We could then have concluded the
Anal peace with England. whose forces
would have left the Continent, disarmed."
AS, however, we could not hope TO over
come Englands naval supremacy, this
peace, like that with France. would have
had To be in the nature Of "A compromise
This entire program, brilliantly as IL
was begun, collapsed before the gates of
Paris at the Battle of the Marne--a great
strategic success for the French"
II Is safe to predict there will be no
peace for many IA month to come