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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17

We can achieve smartneSs in coats
that sell at moderate price, If they
are made up in correct lines and in ac-
cordance with accepted styles. This
Is consummation devoutly to be
wished for the mother of the young
girl. No one Is more sure of what she
wants, or harder to change in her con-
victiOns, than the miss in her teens,
but, thanks be, she is not exacting In
the matter of materials. She does not
yearn for ermine or sealskin and will
gladly wear rabbit fur disguised as
either, if only it is made up in the
right way.
For her the coat in the picture has
been designed. 1t possesses all the
style requisites which she can de-
mand, worked out in materials that
are moderate in price-as prices go
Just now. This coat Is evidently an
adaptation of styles with the author
ity of at least two famed Paris houses
behind them. 1t Is of bolivia, heavy
wool cloth, banded with a fur fabric
that has much the effect Of moleskin.
to hem and there is the contest and
smartest of muller collars about the
neck, narrow girdle, with long ends
Of the simplest "throw-ovel" variety,
.s finished with hanging ornaments Of
silk cord On the original model there
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17

If good and of general interest, will
help out, and those of animals or
country life are always interesting, or
those made on trips to places of great
natural beauty of historic interest. The
blank books can be had at the humble
and useful ten-cent stores and the pic
lures pasted in them. There Is really
more interest in this work, if the books
are to be sent to acquaintance who
have joined the army, and it Is not at
all hard to get acquainted with some
soldier boy who may have less atten-
ton from home than his comrades.
One especially nice thing about them
is that they can be passed along and
another is that the work is interesting
in itself.
The pictures and stories should al
ways be cheerful. The boys at the
front have no use for "sob stuff" but
they don't mind being a little senti-
mental. Here Is a chance to be imme-
diately seized, to do something worth
while for Christmas.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17
SOME TRIED WINTER HINTS
BY E. VAN sENTHUYsEN.


When the hanging basket looks
shabby, or Is at standstill, it. is very
likely it has been neglected as regards
watering. Remember it is wholly sur
rounded by air and requires more
water than the potted plants.
Plants will not flourish If they
must breathe gas generated by coal or
wood in stove Or furnace, or escaping
Illuminating gas. Stop the leaking
gas, and give ventilation by raising
and lowering window at some dis
lance from the plants so that the cold
air may get warm before 1t strikes
the plants.
Liquid manure is valuable when
used with caution and good common
sense. Do not make 1t too strong,
and thus injure the plants, and do
not give it to plants that are not grow
ing, or that are taking their annual
rest.
Turn the window plants often
enough to prevent them getting one
sided.
1t Is good idea to water the plants
in the evening so that the moisture
will penetrate thoroughly before the
sun dries it up.
Fuchas like some shade, and plenty
of moisture-just like the pansy.
If the plant appears SICK examine
it's roots. Perhaps you will find that
1t needs reporting. If dead or rotten
leaves are found, remove them. If
for any cause live roots are removed
through design or accident, be sure to
cut back the top to correspond Then
give a smaller pot than the plant pre-
viously had.
Give fresh air literally. Keep the
air moist. See that the plants are
kept clean.
Save the hen manure carefully. If
your soil is heavy, add wood ashes to
the hen manure, but If the soil Is light
and sandy, use leaf-mold or rich loan.
Ornamental trees and shrubs may
be pruned any time during the win
ter If they need it. Bear In mind that
pruning should not destroy the char
acterlstics of growth peculiar to the
tree or shrub. Cut back the too
prominent branches remove those that
grow too closely together. If bloom
Ing shrubs are continually cut at the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17

There is request from hospitals for
scrapbooks made to interest the con-
valescent soldiers when time hangs
heavy on hands forced to be idle. Ger
tainly here is simple and easy task
waiting for those who are anxious to
serve the needs of our soldiers In
some way, but with little time or mon
ey to spare. And convalescents in the
hospital are not the only ones who
will find the scrapbook something to
enjoy and pass along. So, if you are
casting about for something to send
to the Sammies for Christmas, con-
slider the many virtues of clever
scrapbook.
These books are to be filled with pic
lures, cartoons, very short stories, good
and new jokes Especially those origi-
mating in the army. These can be cut
from magazines or papers or gathered
elsewhere. Old files of magazines
might prove good field for explora-
ton in filling them. Kodak pictures,
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17

were no pockets, but pockets are very
practical on winter coats and they
have been added without marring this
design.
Buttons are used for fastening tn.
coat; three large ones, covered with
cloth like the coat, are placed at the
front, one above and two below the
girdle. Three smaller ones manage the
collar and the front of the body. The
bands of fur fabric need not be like
the coat in color: those in black look
well on almost any of the fashionable
colors in wool, bVt the best effects are
not in strong color cor trasts. Dark
brown with brown landings, taupe
with taupe landings, wine or dark
amethyst with black landings are
good comb .ations for coats. All the
neutral or 6: love" colors are to be rec
commended.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17
Medieval Sleeve
N Well Liked Here

New York.-1t is not possible to dl
vide the new gowns into strongly diff
fering sections. No designer has taker
period and copied her gowns from i
with certainty and eXactitude. All o.
the French and American workers have
jumbled their history in way tina
would give the seeker after truth {
brainstorm.
1t is well for the public at large
that the designers do not stick toe
closely to period clothes. When tht
decorators insist that one can iot
have a curtain, vase or a cuSnion
In room that Is drawn from GER
tain period we get beautiful pieces
of Interior decorative work which
should be in a museum, but which have
little relationship to an intimate home
life
1t is wise for every woman to learn,
and 1t would be well if one could only
teach the artists and decorators the
same thing, that exhibition work is
one thing, but the kind of work that
one must live with is another. We
can go TO museums or department
shops and see period rooms and period
dress, but human nature resents the
thought of having such limited waking
and sleeping hours Therefore, we
greet with pleasure the fact that vastly
different periods of history have been
dipped into for the new clothes; but
anachronism Is rife.
CaIIot and the Empire.
The Cabot gowns were the last to
get to this country, and they pre-
scented no new note, except the intro
duction of the First Empire sill
houette. Even when Cabot took the
most symbolic feature of this period,
which is the high waistline that
Slightly girdles the figure just under
the bust, she added medieval sleeves
to 1t that the Empress Josephine
never wore.
The most dominant First Empire
frock that Cabot has sent over is of
brilliant red that Is neither geranlum,
Japanese nor wine. She calls 1t Gin
cendie." 1t has the richness of
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17

This top coat is made of plum-coI-
ored satin with wooden back, brocad-
ed in plum and mauve floss. Collar
and cuffs are Of black sealskin with
edge of Russian fitch. The draw string
allows the coat to be either loose or
tight at waistIine.
ruby In the light and resembles that
jewel to the inexperienced eye more
than the flames from a conflagration.
This gown Is not married by trim
ming. AS the French say it goes
without garnlsh. The neck Is not
low in the way that Callot is apt to
arrange 1t, and the sleeves not only
cover the arms and wrists, but the
back of them hangs to the knees
when the arms are dropped.
When Cabot features new thing.
IT is bound to be significant, and,
therefore, when she puts a modified
angel sleeve In the same gown with
an extreme Josephine waiStline, she
is producing something that will be
widely copied and worn by women of
the most ultrafashionable convictions.
Medieval Sleeve Featured.
Probably the medieval sleeve will
receive more attention from Ameri-
can women than the First Empire
waistllue. This fact is increasingly
evident In the exhibitions Of Ameri-
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17

ends of the branches they will in time
cease to produce flowers.
Watch the aphis and fight it from
the start, else it will destroy your win
ter garden. He assumes several guises
but all yield to tobacco or tea, smoke
or dust. Whale-oil soap and kerosene
emulsion also destroy the pest.
If blight attacks your begonias, cut
off all the leaves having a burnt ap-
pearance and burn them. Sift sui
phur on the plants. 1t will kill the
blight.
Plan now for next summers work.
Go into the garden, notebook In hand.
and decide just what assortment of
flowers you wish in each bed and bor-
der-then order accordingly.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17
CARE OF THE PLANTS

If plant appears sick, examine its
roots. Perhaps you will find that it
needs reporting. If dead or rotten
leaves are found remove them. If for
any cause live roots are removed
through design or accident be sure to
cut back the top to correspond. Then
give smaller pot than the plant previ-
ously had.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17
Avoid Double Chin.

Facial expression is very bad for
beauty. Scowling, frowning, pursuing
the lips are all detrimental and are not
nice to look at. Get your face under
control and always keep it that way.
Express what you wish with your eyes
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17
It's All Over Then.

If girl can get young man to
stand up beside the plano, leaning on
1t with one elbow and looking down
into her face as she plays, she doesn't
have to be much of muNlcjan.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-17
The EUrs Most Used

The furs which appear most often
this season are Hudson seal, nutria.
kolinsky, Russian rat, moufflon and
fox, especially fox dyed in fancy col
ors.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
Oldest Bank In Spain.

England has been the banking nation
of the world for many years, and Lon
don, until very recently, was the worlds
financial center. That honor for more
than a year has devolved upon New
York. The first bank in England was
established by Francis Child, a London
goldsmith, who died October A, lib.
This pioneer financial institution was
opened In 1858, and a number of rival
goldsmiths soon opened similar con-
Germs. The mint In the Tower of Lon
don had. been the depository for the
cash of the merchants until Charles l
seized the money as a loan. Then the
traders began to deposit their cash
with goldsmiths In Lombard street.
The first bank in the world was estab-
lished In Italy In S08 by Lombard Jews.
The Oldest existing bank is the Bank of
Barcelona, Spain, which was founded
in 1401.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07

Miss Miriam, who will be seven
years old soon, knows that little girls
should not fight but she is not a "paci-
fist for all that. A few days ago h
was taken TO task by her mother for
engaging in a pugilistic encounter with
another little girl. swell, mother"
she said, 81 don't know whether she
hit me first, but I know that i'll hit
her she deserved 1t, for that child's
mother never has brought her up prop
erly."
On another occasion she complained
that a small boy of herr acquaintance
had kicked her, but admitted on being
pressed that she had not done much
first, "only pipched and slapped his
face a little" She vas told to tell the
boys father, so the boy might be pun
ished, but to be sure and tell what she
had done, too. The father is still walt
ing for the report.-Indianapolis News.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
Meetings ofrthe Cape May Count.
Board OF Taxation TO Hear
Appeals

Tuesday, November 20, 1917. South Cape
May, borough hall, 10 a. H.. to IL noon.
Tuesday, November 20, 19l7,>Cape May
Point, borough hall, 2 p. M. to 4 p. m.
Wednesday, Novem Der 81, 1917, West Cape
May, borough hall, 10 a. m. to IL noon.
Wednesday,, November 81, 1917, Lower
Township, township hall, 2 p. M. to- p m.
Thursday, November %, 1917, Upper Town
ship, Tuckahoe hotel, 10 a. M. to II noon.
Thursday, November %, 1917, Woodbine,
borough hall, 2 p. m. TO A p. m.
Friday, November %, 1917, Dennis Town
ship, X. of z. hall, Dennisville, 10 a. M. to
IL noon.
S Friday, November %, 1917, Middle Town
ship, tax board room, Court building, Cape
May Court House, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Tuesday, November q, 1917, Cape May City,
city hall, 10 a. m. to B p. m.
Wednesday, November %, 1917, Ocean City,
city hall, 10 a. m. to B p. m.
Tuesday,, December A, 1917. Sea Isle City,
city hall, l0a. M 10 p m.
Wednesday, December 5, 1917, Stone Har-
Dor, borough hall, 10 a. m. to IL noon.
Wednesday, December 5, 1917, Avalon, bor-
ough hall, 2 p, m. to A p. M.
Thursday, December 6, 1917, Wildwood, city
hall, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Friday, December 7, 1917, North Wildwood,
borough hall, 10 a. M. to IL noon.
Friday, December 7, 1917, Wildwood Crest,
borough hall, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Appeals must be made on the forms fur
nished by Gilbert @. Hughes, secretary, Cape
May, N. j.
SAMUEL F. ELDEEDGE,
JAMES M. CHESTER,
OLIVER l. BLACK WELL,
Cape May County Board OF Taxation.
Gilbert G. Hughes, Secretary.
Dated November 8, 1917.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
An unfaiIino Sion.

my dear, this child is going to have
plenty of spirit In his voice."
GLOW can you tell that now?"
Because already 1t shows a tend.
ency to high bawls."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
Useful as a Snake.

Little Peter is a good boy as well as
a boy of great originality in his no.
lions, but he has the serious fault Of
being extremely ~forgetful. One day
after having gone on an errand, and
forgotten what he was sent for, he ex-
claimed bitterly to his sister:
"Oh, dearl I wish / was a snakel'
"You wish you were a snake !" said
his sister, Mortified.
"Yes, and a great long one-as much
as six feet long,"
"Why, what for, PeterT
$50 l could tie knots In myself to
make me remember things."-Pearson
Weekly.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
His Thirteenth
Birdman Dropped
By ALAN HlNSDALE

John Ellison was of the third gen.
Grafton of an Irish reyolutionist who
after the suppression of the revolt in
Ireland found it necessary to emf
crate. Johns grandfather came to
America, married an American wo-
man, and a daughter of his married
William Ellison, an Englishman.
Johnny was sent over to England
to be educated and came back very
enthusiastic over the English people.
The consequence was that when the
great worlds war broke out he went
over to fight under the imperial Brit
ish flag.
The only person toward whom John
felt a real enmity was Elmer Treat,
whose grandfather came from Ger
many. The two as youngsters had been
chums; but, as luck would have 1t,
they split on q girl, and, though neil
ther felt sure he had gained the advan-
tage over the other, the rivalry sepa-
rated them. Whether or not it broke
their friendship this story will tell.
Johnny thought he could serve the
fatherland of his ancestors-he consid-
cred himself an American, and an
American only-in the flying corps. He
therefore went to London and after a
course of instruction that fitted him to
make a bird of himself was sent to
the front for active duty. At first he
was sent up into the air to locate the
enemy's guns and signal their posi-
ton, but after a year at that kind of
service he was made a member Of the
fighting corps.
When Johnny left America for the
war he did So partly because he had
been refused by Alice Weatherby.
This was the girl that he and Elmer
Treat had split upon. Whether Treat
had won where he had failed he did
moi know, but he felt very bitter to-
ward his former friend, because he
presumed that Treat had taken unfair
advantage of him. But was there ever
a rivalry wherein one party did not
consider that the other had used un-
fair means? 1t is the girl who throws
the apple of diseord between them.
One day John Ellison went up to get
his thirteenth aeroplane. He had
brought down twelve and had been
duly decorated by the government.
John set out about 10 o'clock of a
spring morning. AS he rose about the
treetops he heard the birds singing be-
low him and wondered if they were
not jealous Of the invasion of their ele-
ment. On reaching the height he de-
sired he started toward the enemy's
lines. Far in the distance he saw eli
ther an aero7'ane or a bird, but his
practiced eye SOON told him that it was
the former. Nor was it long before
the ~aeroplane appeared to be heading
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
Try Our Cenf-a- Word Column
TO Limit Creditors
EsTATEoFsAMUEL MONROE.

ESTATE OF SAM Ell MUNRUE, DECEASED
Pursuant, to the order OF Edward L.. Rice,
Surrogate OF the County OF Cape May, made
on the oath day of October, A. ID. 1917, on tn
application of the subscriber, xecutor of said
deceased, notice is hereby given TO the credi-
tors OF said deceased to exhibit to the subscri-
Der under oath or affirmation their claims
and demands against the estate of said de-
ceased within niue months from the Path day
OF October, A. ID. 1917, or they will be forever
barred OF any action against the subscriber.
Dated October 9th. A.. ID. 1917.
ROBERT BRIGHT, Executor.
John Bright, Proctor.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
Social Vaudeville.

"Td dearly love to get into society,
but / don't know how to make CONVEX
sation."
conversation? What you want is a
good monologue."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07

When the two came to within a mile
of each other each seemed to realize
that he was singled out for a fight.
They circled about each other, either
for observation or for position, neither
appearing to care to come to quarters
close enough for a fight. John, who
was armed with a long range gun, sent
a shot by way of opening the scrim-
mage, but it either fell short or went
wild. His enemy did not seem ready
for reply.
The combatants were not near enough
to distinguish each others faces, or If
they were they were too much covered
for them to do SO. Presently the
stranger suddenly veered from his
course and, putting On all speed, made
straight for his enemy's machine. John
swerved, and the other passed him on
the flank, both firing at the same time.
Neither man was hurt, but the bodies
of both aeroplanes received several
bullets.
Now as they dashed past each other
Johnny got a view of his enemy, much
as he might see it by a flash of light
ming. There was something about it
that reminded him of his former friend
and subsequent enemy who he had be-
lieved had acted unfairly with refer
ence to Alice Weatherby. Nonsense!
There were a thousand to one chances
against his meeting Elmer Treat any,
where on terra firma in Europe and
a million to one that he would not
meet him a thousand feet up in the
air. Nevertheless that brief glimpse
he had got of the man in the other
machine was ~marvelously suggestive
of Elmer.
But Johnny was fighting for life
and realized fully that all his faculties
should be exercised in taking the life
of the man who was bent on killing
him. Besides, the fact that his enemy
reminded him of the man he believed
had injured him with the woman be
loved did not tend to extinguish in him
the madness of war. Taking adyan-
tage of a turn the other made, in
which he exposed himself favorably
for a shot, Johnny fired at him and
saw him instantly collapse.
'9Thank heaven!' said John. 1--WE
passed my thirteenth"
The enemy's aeroplane began to sink
slowly in a spiral. John could not be
sure whether or not the man in her
had any control over her or not. Slow
ly she circled till she reached an open
space in the rear of the British lines
devoid of troops. John followed,
struck the ground near him and, when
he ceased TO move, alighted and ran
over to the other aeroplane.
He found Elmer Treat dead.
A reyuls1on came over John Ell
lison.
Course my thirteenth he cried bit
terly. Il have~kiued my chum!"
Ellison asked to be transferred from
the flying corps and later was wounded
on terra frma. He was discharged
and returned to America. But he did
not marry Alice Weatherby.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-07
Education Not a Prerequisite.

Charles Darwin was a misft child, q
misit youth, and a misit in young
manhood. He failed miserably in math-
ematics, the classics, and in theology.
He was an Indifferent student of medi-
cine, yet when at last he was guided
into the paths of his natural capaci-
ties he soon became the foremost nat
uralist of his age and probably of any
age before or since.
Emerson was an educational misft,
and so were Froebel and General
Grant, and the list of distinguished
men In all walks of life who were mis-
fits in childhood might easily be ex-
tended almost indefinitely. They prove
c~onclusively that much of what is COM
monty called education is not a prere-
quisite for success In life.
The Dermott news., 1917-03-01
E CHILD GROSS,
 FEVER|SH, SICK
Look, Mother! If tongue is coated, give California
 Syrup of Figs"

Children love this fruit laxative" and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely.
 A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result Is they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish. stomach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat sleep or act naturally, breath is bad, system full of cold, has sore throat stomach-ache or diarrhea. Listen Mother See If tongue Is coated, then give teaspoonful of California Syrup of Figs" and In few hours all the coAstipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the sys' tenn, and you have a well child again
 Millions of mothers give California Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly harmless children love 1t, and It nev. CT falls to act on the stomach, liver and bowels.
 Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle of "Californa Syrup of Figs" which has full directions for babies. children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Dermott news., 1917-03-01
DAIRY COWS RELISH SllA6E
h Feeding Tes, V Per Cent More Milk ard 8 Per Cent More
 Euttsrfst Obtained

Cows feti rattan composed largely If Silagr produced Y per cent more milk and - Dor cent more hutterfat fkaa those given ration consisting mainly ef grain tu e feeding test con. dneted fer i21 days ut the ohio ex. pertinent station The StiaFe ration was ai>a cheaper for milk production
 The eaaS Eained nearly per cent In milk yield when pnf on the silage ration They produced hutterfat at q cost ef l3 cents 8 pannd while the cost ef n pound from ths cows fed mainly grain Was 22 cents There was ltftle difference iu the gains in live weight between the tNe iats
 In addition to 5s pounds nf silage and 6s pounds af hay thr one toi r.4 reivrd only four pounds ef grain een Sl=tine sf eilmcui and hran Tn, grain fed Lot reeeiersl only ia pounsts of corn s'essr and hay but l3 5 pounds of eruiu mixture of ailmeat eorn meal and bran