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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
THE MAKING OF
A FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable G Compound
Il Prepared For
Woman's Use.

A visit to the laboratory where this
successful remedy II made impresses
even the casual looker-on with the reli.
ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness
which attends the making OF this great
medicine for woman's ills.
Over $50, 900 pounds Of various herbs
are used annually and all have to b
gathered at the season Of the year when
their natural juices and medicinal sub.
stances are at their best.
The most successful solvents are used
70 extract the medicinal properties from
these herbs.
Every utensil and tank that comes %
contact with the medicine is sterilized
and as . final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine IL pasteurized and sealed
In sterile bottles.
It il the wonderful combination OF
roots and herbs, together with the
skill and care used in its props ration
which has made this famous medicine
20 successful In the treatment Of
female ills.
The letters from women who have
been restored to health by the :se Of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound which We are continuall, pub
fshing attest to it, virtue.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
ORNATE HATS ARE FAVORED
Gayety Of the Headgear Instead Of
Size Is Given the First Con-
sideration.

All women do not 60 bareheaded in
the evening, as they have done for sew
eral seasons. Recently they have
adopted the French custom Of wearing
ornate hats, large or small. The gay
ETY. of the headgear is what counts, not
its size. The fashion was brought
about undoubtedly by the renewed
habit Of dining in restaurants and the
partial absence in these places of de-
collete frOcks.
The milliners furthered the fashion.
They saw in it brisk exchange Of
goods for coin and they started the
women in small towns to carrying out
the idea even where restaurant dinners
are not part Of the social program.
There are large swirling hats Of
black thread lace with wired bows of
the material across the back or front,
and a flat ruffle of it dropping from the
edge of the brim to shield the eyes like
a veil. There are scarlet turbans Of
tulle with fountain sprays of black
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
NO BAN ON STYLES
Infinite Variety and None Are
Built Alike.
STRAIGHT and Narrow Most Prominent
With Only Sign Of Any Breadth
at Waistline.

The dresses are the great achieve
ments of season that is still young.
Among them there is an infinite vari-
ETY. and no one is built exactly like
the last one. For general lines they
use these that are straight and narrow,
the only sign Of any breadth being seen
at that unexpected place, the waistline.
The line of the waist has also dropped
perceptibly and no more do we see on
the daytime frOck that waistlfne that
starts from a point somewhere under
the arms.
The coat dress is new-and useful
in the extreme. It Is tailored quite
formally, but it has probabilities for
the insertion of feminine diversions,
that add much to its interest. There
is one, for instance, made of the pOpu-
lar blue serge, that is wrapped about
the form from shoulder to hem. The
only variety it shows is where one
side Of the skirt laps over the other
when there suddenly appears soft
satin lining Of vivid green tone.
Another one is made Of dull green
velOurs, chemise Uncut and with wide
open kimono sleeves. At the waistline.
by way of belt, a narrow piece of
skunk fur is seen, and, to repeat this
note Of black, another bit of the fur is
used at the left side of the standing
collar, where it buttons tightly under
the ear.
Many of the collars on these dresses
are made high and thick in appear
ance. None Of them fit the neck as in
seasons past.
It is almost necessary now to use
two materials in the shaping of mod
ish frock. The idea was started from
a thought of conservation and it sur
wives largely because of its sheer
beauty. For afternoon and dinner
gowns, printed silks and chiffons are
used in combination with plain silks
and chiffOns. Then for more wOrka-
day occasions combinations Of wool
and silk are more usual.
The straight fiat panel is one Of the
successes of the day and is seen in
every possible phase. Usually, though,
It must hang from shoulder to hem at
back, without any interruption as to
waistline. In the front, however, 1t
may be confined or not according to
whim or taste.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

aigrettes playing out from the sides.
There are crowns Of brown or gray fur
with cartwheels of lace around them,
fitting far upon one side and down
the other, like a wheel going around
a curve at a rapid speed.
These hats top one-piece frock that
is a symbol of money, or they go with
a velvet, crepe or satin frOck that has
an elaborate bodice with an open neck.
The fashion which was taken up by
some designers Of making black, seal.
and dull red velveteen frOcks with
deep U-shaped neckline half filled in
with old lace and outlined by collar
that is almost a bertha Of lace or EN-
broidered cream batiste. has given
women chance to wear such frOcks
in the afternoon and then on into the
evening. A fur neckpiece or the COL
lar Of separate wrap hides the decol-
letage, and no one minds a very low
neckline indoors in the afternoon. In
truth, we have never seen such low
gowns in the daytime during this gen.
Grafton.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
NARROW SKIRT, TUNIC BLOUSE
Substitute for TaiIIeur Promises to Be
One Of Seasons Most Popular
Garments.

As a compromise between the coat
suit and the slim frock which many
women choose for autumn street wear
there is a costume which may soon he
overridden by popularity. It consists
of a narrow skirt and tunic blouse
that falls below the hips and is loose
~ girded with monastic cord. The
blouse has no visible fastening. 1t ap-
parently does not open. In truth some
Of them do not open.
They slip over the head and adjust
themselves with the carelessnes Of a
peasants smock. If they were tightly
banded at the waistline with yards of
brilliant material they would be def
nitely Arabian and quite brilliant In
effect. They do not permit a girdle
to touch them.
They have monks cord carelessly
twined below the waistline, knotted
and dropped in tasselled ends at front
or side.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
BEADED NOVELTIES ARE HERE
Woven Chains for Neck Wear Among
the Attractive Trinkets Which
Have Been imported.

Among the trinkets which have been
imported to this country and are sell
ing in various places are chains to be
worn around the neck. To say that
they are woven does not In the least
degree describe the intricacy Of the
patterns and designs.
One, for instance. Of electric blue
and silver beads, Is woven In patches
about an inch and half long by q
half inch wide, strung together by a
dozen or more strands Of the beads, on
straight strings. these strands being,
again, about two inches in length. At
the end, for a pendant, there is a
square, dangling midway between the
throat and waist, woven in an en-.
largement of the pattern displayed in
the other bits Of weaving. The pat
tern is not distinct. It has an elusive
way with 1t, being design in the
silver with background 1T the SHIN
mering blue beads.
This chain. or whatever you Wish to
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
Collars Ana Full.

The new coat collars are all gener-
ously made as to material, whether
they are of fur or Of the cloth of the
coat. A novel collar on new coat is
double, consisting of wide band of
fur fastening closely about the neck
and with an inner collar Of cloth which
turns out over the fur at the back and
sides. Fur collars often cross ends
and fasten near the shoulder of the
coat. If the collar is of the cloth of
the garment, it very often is shirred
into the neck, which causes it to stand
up softly about the chin In chOker
fashion.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

Sentinel and lials0n dogs are Of
greater value. The former goes into
advance posts with his master, and is
trained to give the alarm by a low
growl at the approach Of any hostile
person. These dogs can hear an ad-
vancing man at 400 meters. and are
Of great value at night. The liaison
dog is trained to carry messages from
one of his two masters to the other,
and Is used for dispatching orders. 1t
takes about three months to train
,dOgsk*o travel as far as three kil0-
metaEGa u this. work. Many can hA
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

health as we'll as being a destructive
element to army stores. So nearly
every company has its rat catcher.
Because of this same trench life,
however, the use of the Red Cross
dog has become less important. In
war Of movement the dog who could
find wounded men, trot back with
some article Of clothing. and then
guide help to the disabled soldier, was
useful; but In this stationary warfare
there is not, as a rule, this need for a
search for wounded In out-of- the-way
places.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

taught to go in both directions 4
liaison team consists Of two dogs ana
their two trainers, who ALWAYS wors
together.
Real Poilus they are, too; no embu,.
ques among them! They share all thu
hardships OF front-line life and all the,
dangers. and they share, too -
wooden cross" or military homo.
When their regiment gets the :crofr
de guerre," so do they; and often thev
have been mentioned in dispatches
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
PARTISAN MODES

Passementerie embroidery, which
also has not been used for years, has
come into vogue again. This embroid-
cry, on mOusseline de sole, makes Il
heavy trimming which weighs down
the bottom Of dress. It is also seen
occasionally on coats.
Black laces, Chantilly or Venetian.
are used on many evening dresses, and
also chiffon or tulle on the bottom Of
tunics-the tulle much fuller than the
skirt itself, which is tight and cling
ing beneath its big transparent en-
velope.
Jet, steel and midnight blue beads
are used on tulle or mOusseline de sole
for evening dresses and are made up
into very new sort Of material.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

call 1t, was worn with street gown
of black satin. The gown itself was
entirely without trimming and it had
one of those very popular and beauti-
full neck lines reaching in a straight
line from shoulder to shoulder. This
enabled the chain to show against the
whiteness Of skin for a space, and then
to appear shining against the shiny
blackness of the satin. The effect was
decidedly interesting, and the beads
held ones attention as a beautiful
Jewel might have done.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
WAR DOGS DO REAL WORK
HIVE Been Of Immense Help to tho
French Since the Earliest Days
Of the Great War.

There are four classes Of dogs used
BY the French army-ratters' heo
Cross dogs, sentinels and liaisons'
writes @. Leroy. Baldridge in Scrib-
ner's.
In trench warfare where men have
to live In dirt and filth much OF the
dime. the rat IL q greater danger to
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
Business.

The DeacOn-It is said that the
religion never succeeds.
The Dominie-Well, We'll 60 on pass
ing the plate little longer, anyway.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
Good SUGGESTION.

Invest your Liberty bond coupons in
Thrift stamps and thus get the affable
Mr.. Compound Interest on the Job for
you night and day.-Thrift Magazine.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

quickly disappear with the use Of Wrlghts
Indian Vegetable Pills. Send for trial box
to 372 Pearl St., New York. Adv.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

After a man. succeeds in printing one
kiss upon girls lips it's an easy mat
ter to run off q large edition.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
A Trouble.

1.-THE kaiser has cost Germany lot
of money" Eyes, but are they going
to reseat this Bill?"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
AmpIv Provided.

Il ask you have you anything laid
by for rainy day." II should say so.
I'm in the umbrella business"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

A new and interesting belt is of fur
striped cloth. 1t ties loosely in front
and Is finished with balls of fur.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14
PAPE'S DIAPEPS|N
FOR INDIGESTION
EAT ONE TABLET! NO GASES,
AclDITY, DYSPEPSIA OR ANY
STOMACH MISERY.
Undigested food! Jumps Of pain
belching gas, acids and sOurness. When
your stomach is all upset, here is in
slant relief-NO waiting!

The moment you eat a tablet or two
Of Pape's Diapepsin all the indigestion
pain and dyspepsia distress stops.
Your disordered stomach will feel
f1ne at once.
These pleasant, harmless tablets OF
Pape's Diapepsin never fail and cost
very little at drug stores. Adv.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-14

LINK CORRIGAN looked
from Shelters mOurnful
face to the bundle of pa
pers under the lads arm as
the little fellow turned
from q signbOard at the
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11
A LOYAL CONGRESSMAN.

President Wilson seems to have
rather definitely settled a much moot
ed question by his opposition to the
candidacy for reelection of Congress
man Sayden of Texas, which resulted
in that gentleman withdrawing from
the race. Mr.. Slayden voted for both
the Consumption Bill and the Declara-
ton of War, but had consistent anti
preparedness record and voted against
the Kahn Amendment substituting the
selective draft for the volunteer sys-
TEN in the Conscription Bill.
There has been much discussion as
to whether Congressman's loyalty or
war record should be judged accord
ing to the way he voted on the Dec
laraton of War and has voted since,
or whether his opposition to ante-war
measures looking TO the military eff
cheney of the country should be count
ed against him. President Wilson ap-
pears to have answered the question.
In line with this viewpoint as to the
war fitness Of Congressman the Ma
tional Security Leagues Congressional
Campaign Committee has just issued q
chart giving the record of the votes
of all the members of the House OF
Representatives in the Sixty-fourth
and Sixty-f1fth Congresses on the eight
principal preparedness and war meas
ures, from the McLemore Resolution
to the Kahn Amendment. The Securi-
ty Leagues committee analyses the
chart by individuals and by states. II
shows that of the 374 men who sat in
both Congresses only Al voted right
On all eight measures; that voted
wrong on all eight. % wrong on seven
of the measures, 80 wrong on six and
So wrong on Ave
North Dakota heads the bad record
list with a percentage Of 1915 wrong
votes. Colorado is a close second with
percentage of 1872
These figures clearly indicate that
there Is decided room for improvement
In the present constitution of Con-
gress and make an unanswerable argu-
ment for the support Of the National
Security Leagues campaign for 100
per cent loyal Congress by all patriot
&c citizens, irrespective Of politics.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11
EDITORIAL
REAL REORGANIZATION.

make the United States a One Ian.
guage Nation" is the watchword adopt
ed by the National Security League for
one of the great divisions Of its work,
directed BY q Committee on Foreign
Language and Foreign Press. This
committee is devoting its attention at
the present time toward obtaining the
elimination Of the teaching of German
In the public schools Of the country
and the discontinuance of newspapers
printed In German. The thought back
Of this effort Of the Security League,
however. as set forth by Col. Charles
e. Lydecker, president of the League,
in a recent interview goes far beyond
enemy alien considerations.
at is the duty Of every citizen to
know the English tongue" says Colo
mel Lydecker. '"To refuse to learn 1t is
to fling defiance at the nation. To neg
lect to learn it is voluntarily to remain
zenship. We are justified in expecting
open and loyal conduct. and we claim
the right to insist upon this. Ameri-
canization really means education. II
we educate our people properly we
shall make true Americans of our citi-
zens Of whatever blood, Americans
wise In knowledge Of the principles of
democracy and true In heart for fair
ness and generosity between men.
. Great patience has been exercised in
our efforts to convince the foreigners.
In the case Of those not now convinced
Justice to the cause for which we fight
demands stronger measures. They
must be compelled to convince them
selves Of the value and the justice of
American ideas, and this requires a
knowledge Of the English language"
All the arguments on that so fire.
quently nebulOus term "Americaniza-
ton" would seem to be summed up
here What could be simpler or more
commensurate than that man to
fully appreciate America must know
it's language?
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11
ALEX STEPHENS PRINTS
REPUTATION OF HIS
OPPONENTS CHARGES

ATLANTA, GA, Sept. o.-Alex
Stephens, candidate for Judge of the
state court of appeals, has answered
an attack on his legal standing with a
signed statement showing that mum.
ber of the names of Atlanta citizens
appearing an advertisement by Judge
Frank Harwell were not authorized
by the men in question. but were pub.
lshed without their knowledge OF
consent
Among those signing the repudia-
ton of the Harwell advertisement arc
Clifford L. Anderson. Dan w. ROM.
tree, w. D. Ellis, Jr. George NJ Drwn
Frank E. Galloway, P. H. Brewster
R Wilkinson, Ben J. Conyers, Eugene
James L Key Harvey Hatcher. Nell
M. Mitchell, E. V Garter, J. Carroll
Payne, H. c. Peoples. f. X. Black
and Judge John S. Gambler.
The names of these men appeared
in an advertisement headed. Record
OF A. w. Stephens. What his home
people, among whom he has lived II
years, say about him." The adver-
tise purported to be an extract from
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

An aviation cadet drove his airplane
into pine tree at Triton in a similar
manner to the accident here last week
Seems to be getting quite habit with
the birdmen. Well, there are more
pine trees than aviators anyway.
In the great Stacker round I'D ir
New York City, out of 10000 arrests
l,500 men we're Immediately indicted
into service and $4,000 more adiudpet
delinquents and made liable to i'm.
mediate compulsory service. While
the hot blood of the South runs more
at patriotism than slackerism. there
may be few hundred Georgians will
a tinge of the yellow streak. If dis
cretion IS really the better part O
valor the signs of the times point te
the fact that the better part of dis
cretlon is not to try to bunco YOU,
Uncle Sammy He is a wise ole
gentleman.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11
UNIQUE AL SCHEME
FOR WAR SAVINGS
STAMP CAMPAIGN

ATLANTA, GA, Sept. "a unique
and interesting idea for Window dis
plays to advertise War, Savings
Stamps has been suggested by Hugh
Richardson, state director of the w.
5. ). for Georgia. 1t is this:
Back and forth in horizontal and
perpendicular lines, or criss-cross from
corner to corner in diagonal lines,
paste slips of paper about two inches
in width, and in the window place a
sign explaining that this is the way the
merchants in Paris fix their windows
to prevent shattered glass from in
Juring pedestrians when a bomb is
dropped by an airplane.
Then in CONSPICUOUS places in the
window make displays advertising
War Savings Stamps.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

The logical thing for the eighteen
or nineteen year old boy who can pass
college entrance examination, is to
matriculate next week at the Uni
versity of Georgia, Tech, Mercer, En-
cry or some other southern college in
which the Students Amy Training
Corps has been installed About Oc-
tober 1st he may be voluntarily draft
ed into the United States army with
status of a private but will continue
his studies at the University until he
either ''flunks out" and is sent to a
cantonment a. private or school
for vocational training; or makes good
in an exceptinal way and is appointed
to an Officers Training Camp, or to
non-commissioned officers training
school. If he shows especial talent
in some scientific line he will be con-
tinued for specific length of time
until qualified to take place in the
army as a specialist in that line. While
at college he is given quarters and
uniform by the government and pri-
Yates pay and is under military discip-
line. By entering college and the
5. A. I. c. boy of average intelli-
gence stands a much better chance for
promotion in the army 1t is the
only logical thing for him to, do.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

Recruiting officers all over the
United States are closing up shop and
the officers departing for service else
where. The draft law has ended the
necessity for volunteering and when
every state has a round up of draft
evaders like New York's. people will
know that man in civilian clothing
has darn good reason fo- it.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

"Germany's spirit is breaking saysCo. G. A. Gordon OF
savannah Just back from Red Cross service France.
Gordon of the hardest fighting was turned
back the Earne and while he certain cautions
people that ahead with preparations long war
that is the only which to bring early Which
what leaders dongas registration
1hursday-Tifton Gazette.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

Local politics are warming up in
Cordele, Judge Max Land has an
Announced for Mayor and ]. H. Lamb
for Alderman, G, S. Harris, City
Clerk, has resigned after the city coun-
cilre fused to raise his salary.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

President Wilson has abandoned his
plans for a speech making tour to
boost the 4th Libety Loan drive. The
President seems to think that the peo-
pie are patriotic enough to subscribe
to the great bond issue without more
urging than in the previous three-and
we believe that the President i right,
as usual.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11
NEWS OF INTEREST FROM
FAR AND NEAR

Tech fraternity chapter house wa:
raided by the police last Sunday and
81 students arrested for crap shooting
Moral: Send your son to the Uni.
versity of Georgia
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

John Henry Lott, of Waycross. ha,
been cited for valor and presented the
Distinguished Service Cross for he
rolsm during the last drive Georgia
boys have proven themselves of hero
stuff in every war since the Revolt
ton. The old stock still runs true.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

The letters from the boys uniform telling friend the
T. M. c. A. them of means
sick wounded should be remembered by
friends home We cannot follow them there
home but help with every save those
great Christian institutions which have followed flag
and boys all that mean
Triton
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

The names of 176 persons who dis
regarded the government request to
cut out Sunday driving in Savannah
will be published by the local fuel adj
ministrator in that city. Fitzgerald
people need no such humiliating re-
primand.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-11

a statement appearing in 1912. The
signers Of the letter to Mr.. Stephens
declare they never authorized abe use
OF their names in any such connectiofl.s
either in 1912 or now.