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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
FRINGE ON Wells
Seasons Vogue Provides for the
Popular Trimming.
Arrangement Of Border Sometimes
Covers Mouth and Chin Of Wearer
Some Popular CoIors.

The present seasons vogue for
fringe has extended even to wells.
Some of these wells are slip-Over af-
fairs. That is, the yelling is sewed
together and an elastic band arranged
at one edge, so that 1t may be held
20 the hat. Others are finished at the
lower edge and two ends with the
fringe, and an elastic band may be
used to secure the veil to the hat, or
1t may be merely draped and pinned.
Fall and winter millinery fashions
would, at mere glance, seem to dis
courage the wearing of wells. Hats
are frequently so oddly shaped and
trimmed that draping veil over one
of them would seem to be rather a
difficult task. Wells, however, are Of
generous proportions, and they ore
so uniformly becoming that women
simply will not abandon them. re-
CARELESS Of hat shape or size.
The harem veil is one of the nov
elites Of the season. one-half Of it
being f1lmy net or chiffon, while the
other half is comparatively heavy,
and when draped over the face the
lower half of the face Is barely visi-
BILE.
Shetland veilings, always service
able, are shown this season heavily
embroidered in wool. Sometimes the
wool embroidery is arranged as a
border, covering mouth and chin Of
the wearer, and again one or two
striking flowers are embroidered In
wool on the open Shetland mesh.
Navy, taupe, brown and purple are
popular veil shades for fall and win
ter wear
The new hats for fall feature feath-
ers, either fancy feathers Of one kind
or another, or ostrich as first favor
ties In the lineup of trimmings, with
bows or self-fabric arranged wind
mill or airplane fashion; second, and
from present indications one of the
most popular millinery colOrs of the
fall and winter season is to be
brownish red, or reddish brown,
christened "henna." The windows of
the smart shops are. filled with hats
featuring this shade, and it also ap-
pears frequently as trimming touch
on smart frOcks.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
CLOSE HOLES IN MACARONI
uncle Sam Must Save Cargo Space
and That's Reason for
Innovation.

New York.-They've gone and abol-
lshed the hole in macaroni in order to
save cargo space. They've gone and
done 1t! This startling report has
just leaked back from France, and it
explains the recent strained ways of
the great city's macaroni, vermicelli
and spaghetti makers.
However, Uncle Sam must save
cubic miles of room on his stupendous
transportation undertaking. Spaghetti,
without the vent, the hole, is just as
good, tastes even more solid and saves,
the diameters Of its former air spacing
reckoned in great bulk, many cubic
DOCKS OF room. In the A. E. F. it
goes under the name of "wiggles."
What will New York's hard-pressed,
unconventional and temperamental
element do If veteran doughboys i'm
port a vogue on their triumphant re-
turn OF "wiggles," without holes, into
al the city's places Of red ink and
this slippery SAVIOR?
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
BIG u. S. NAVY BASE

standing personnel of officers and men
in these districts, with some eighty
ships-destroyers, repair ships, con-
verified yachts, mine-sweepers and
naval tugs.
Naval headquarters is in constant
wireless touch with the whole range
of this naval activity, along the 800
miles of front and far out to sea.
where the conveys are steadily NOV
ing in and out.
1t is huge work this big establish
ment Is carrying on. On the strictly
naval side are the defensive and Of
fensive observation-disclosures of Ameri-
can and other allied shipping across
the Atlantic, and offensive in the war
of determination being made against
enemy submarines.
Outside of the naval operations there
is the steady march of vast naval
construction at all the ports along this
800 miles of sea front, repair plants,
fuel stations, oil tanks, water works
and all the requirements Of great
naval establishment which is constant
ly expanding.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
A Cape and Coat Race.

There seems to be quite close and
spirited race between wOmen's capeS
end coats for the first place In popu-
lar favor. Each has made concessions
to the desirability of the other, the
cape taking the form Of the cape-coat,
the coat employing loose. baggy sleeves
and shirring in back just below the
shoulders to produce something of a
cope effect. Though getting closer to
each other in design, they are still dis
tinctly different and both have their
ardent followers among well-dressed
VI omen. Both are selling readily Mt
retail as well as at wholesale. and
though in some quarters it is said that
cape-coats are now in the lead, only
time will tell which will finally come
out ahead.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
HATS MUST BE PRACTICAL
eecomingness, serviceabiIity, Individ-
uality, Always Figure Prominent
" in All Headgear.

War has not robbed woman of her
natural desire to please, but 1t has
taught her that discrimination Is far
better part than display.
At present no hat stands ghost of
a chance of success unless it is practi-
cal as well as smart.
The woman with taste and tai
ent for dress realizes that hat, no
matter how beautiful or how expen-
sive it may be, is worth to her only
Its measure Of becomingness.
Sc the autumn hat is a combina-
ton "bunnit" of chic, serviceability
and individuality-just such a COM
bination as will delight the feminine
heart.
II is worth noting that velvet is
the vogue for all the hours of the day
and night, but 1t is developed in 30
many ways and allied to such a va
riety of things that it never fails.
1t does not now matter half so much
what hat one wears as how one wears
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

American Naval Base, France
Here on this rugged Breton coast there
is an American naval establishment
which is a sort of composite of the
busy activity of the navy department
at Washington and one Of the big
navy yards on the American seaboard.
Vice Admiral Wilson, commanding
the American naval forces in French
waters, has his headquarters here,
with an executive staff quartered In
one of the largest buildings of the city,
fronting the Place President Wilson.
American bluejackets are on guard at
all the entrances, and steady files OF
American naval officers and sailors
crowd the corridors on their various
duties.
Besides the rush of the port itself,
this is the naval administration CEN
ter for 800 miles of the French coast,
divided into three districts. with a
number of the chief ports into which
Aside from the American transport
the masses of American men and ma
terial are pouring.
fleet which comes and goes, there is q
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
FOE CUTS FLYERS
PARACHUTEROPE

Paris.-An act Of refined German
~ruelty 1000 feet above certain bat
tlef1eld was related to me ut the great
hospital at Neuilly, near Paris, by an
American ballOonist, whose name can
not be mentioned because he is not yet
listed as a casualty. This American
was descending in parachute when
German aviator deliberately cut the
parachute ropes. Here is his story:
another lieutenant observer and
myself were up in sausage. We
were not worried, because the German
aviators had been very quiet lately.
''Suddenly German pursuit plane
dropped out of the clouds overhead
in a straight nose dive toward our bal
loon, firing explosive bullets. We i'm
mediately took to our parachutes. The
blazing balloon collapsed and plunged
20 feet away from us, the fire scorch-
ing us as 1t fell.
II did not see the German aviator
until about minute after my para
chute had opened. Then he drove
past me, firing not at me but at the
parachute ropes. l saw tracer bullets
overhead had cut two ropes. The
parachute began to -wobble and threat
ened to collapse.
II tried to use my revolver, hoping
I could land one bullet before plung-
ing, but was hampered by the har-
ness. The coward deliberately grinned
at my first shot. Then he fred again
at the ropes.
Imagine my sensation, swinging
helplessly in the air, watching the rope
the parting of which would plunge
me! Well. the parachute collapsed
about thirty feet above forest. Here
I am. and my only hope is to get back
and get chance at that German avi-
ator. remember his plane number
yes, got his number"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
YANKS NOT LENIENT

dashed up to the German who had
shot him. The Hun cried for mercy.
He was on his knees.
Kamerad! repeated the Yank.
You get no mercy from me. I'm 60
ing to run this bayOnet through you,
turn you on your back, and then put
your helmet on the gun-stock. That's
the only monument you'll get, you
dirty - Hun
1.-THE German pleaded for mercy
again, while the boy held the bayonet
against him.
"Then there was seconds suspense.
Then came the grunt as the bayonet
went home and the Hun was bowled
over on his back. Then the boy said
to me:
Lieutenant, if l lose this gun will
1t be charged up against meg"
Not -- bit, go ahead told
him.
Then he showed the gun until the
muzzle went through the Germans
chest, the bayonet deep into the
ground. Then he calmly took the
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

d"rhilt, who was so Old before he
turned to railrOading that his family
and his advisers importuned him to
let well enough alone and not to en-
ter an entirely new field at his time
Of life.
This readiness of brainy giants to
take NJ new things and to throw their
whole selves into them is really one
OF the principal reasons why the
United States has led the world in so
many lines Of endeavOr Wealthy
Europeans. as rule, avoid the new.
avoid untried paths; they are inclined
10 worship precedent.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
DOWN PLANE WITH RIFLE
Remarkable Feat Of Workmanship
Described by American
Newspaper Man.

Atlanta, Ga.-How a German air.
plane was brought down by a squad of
American infantrymen armed only
with rifles is graphically described in
a letter from Harl H. Coffee, we'll
known to newspaper men Of the South
through his former connection with the
Western Newspaper Union. and WHO
Is now serving in France with the
Eighty-ninth division.
A small squad of American soldiers,
among them Mr.. Coffee, was resting
by the side of a road, when a German
plane, flying very low, passed over and
began dropping hand grenades. The
Americans opened fire with their rifles
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

Camping agreed with him after that
| Fishing was the most wonderful sport
In the world when one had compan.
ion like Cynthia. he decided after two
weeks Of glorious days Nerves? Why
he had forgotten he had such things
They would have still stayed out of
his mind had it not been that a rainy
day broke in on them. 1t made it
necessary to stay in his tent and try
and spend the day reading, wondering
| all the while what Cynthia was doing.
Making fun Of him, most likely-the
thought came to him quickly and left
him staggering. Perhaps she was.
Perhaps she had spent all those days
with him just to have something to
tell the fourth-year girls when she
went back to college. He would have
to resign.
1t would be just like Cynthia to do
it-but would it? This new Cynthia
was not bit like the old Cynthia who
had made his life miserable. But as
the rain kept up his mind became
more unsettled, and before the night
was over he had made up his mind that
Cynthia had been making fool of
him.
The next day he still thought it.
When Cynthia appeared he hardly
spoke. She saw at once her presence
was not welcome With Il toss of her
head she started up the bank and ford
Ell the stream some way up. After
fishing alone for some time Horace
realized that he had been a cad. Gym
thia was too fine girl to be insulted
like that. He would find her and make
amends. He started in the direction
she had taken and attempted to ford
the stream where he imagined she had
crossed. The spot he chose appeared
quite shallow from the bank, but as
he reached the center, he stepped into
u deep hole and sank out of sight.
Cynthia looked up just in time and
with cry jumped into the water and
made for the spot. When he came up
for the first time she was there to
clutch him and Il couple of strokes took
them to safety. His body remained
limp in her grasp, and as she dragged
him over to the bank and placed him
on the grass, the pallOr Of his cheeks
alarmed her. He lay quite still. She
placed her ears to his breast and then
cried out with fright, Hes dead"
Madly she tried to shake him back to
life. and then she seemed to lose her
senses. ....
Come back, Horace :" she cried. ooh.
Horace, don't die. There is so much
1 want to ask forgiveness for 1 was
just beginning to know you and like
you, Horace-like you so much. Hor-
ace. Please open your eyes. I have
been such wretch to tease you. Oh,
dearest Horace. open your eyes.'
And Horace did. He could not sham
any longer after being called dearest
Horace"
Cynthia's hysteria vanished when
she discovered he was alive. She was
very angry at first when he confessed
he had not been hurt at all and was
conscious all the time, but her sense
Of humOr came to the rescue and she
joined in his laugh.
'Please call me dearest Horace
again." he said as he reached out for
her hand. But Cynthia would not I'M
til he had told her how much he loved
her and how miserable he would bo
without her.
Dear old pest" he said just before
the kiss that sealed their engagement
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
Black Hats outnumber Others.

WHY is it that wOmankind loves the
black hat? It must be that, after all
is said and done, we really look better
in black hats than in cOlOred hats.
Even the woman who looks sad and
disconsOlate in street costume, or
dull and pale in q black evening frock,
looks well usually in black hat. Then,
of course, there Is the fact to he consid-
cred that the black hat looks well with
al, colors, so that with whatever frock
or suit it may be worn it Immediately
becomes part Of the picture. Prob
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
Importance Of the Past.

To think of ourselves as masters of
our habits is to bait a trap for our
own moral death. What we are ut
TINS moment, what we can do at this
moment. depends not only upon MAX
ing up our minds at the time being
out also upon how we have made up
our minds countless other times ~
thousands of minutes already gone NY
ana now out Of our control. The enc
tmng we cannot control is the past ;
It may, however, control us for good or
evil.-Youth's COMPANION.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
M0DISH NOTES

Some Of the newest nightgOwns have
pockets In them.
Many gowns of black satin have col
lars of pink satin.
The waistcOats Of the new tailored
suits are often of fur.
A toque Of brilliant jet beads may
be worn with any costume.
An exquisite evening gown is Of
blue satin, most artistically trimmed
with crystal embroidery as panel on
the skirt and to outline the low. round
neck
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
ones lap, will remove them instantly
Tho hr,,S1, hnS a ShOrt h1Nck handle

ones lap, will remove them instantly
The brush has a short black handle.
decorated with bright cOlOred flowers
Very useful for the knitter are the
small tape measures which wind back
on a spool the moment the end is re-
leased. Ordinary tape measures ara
bulky things for the knitting bag and
are likely to become snarled with the
wool; wooden measuring rules are
even more bulky for a small knitting
bag, but the tiny, self-winding tape
lines take up no more room than 90
cent piece, and the moment four
inch purling or six-inch space OF
plain knitting on a sock foot is meas
ured off back flies the tiny tape into
its nickel cover.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
CAPTAIN Knew His Men.

Chicago.-Questioned rs to his abil-
ity to take a hill which threatened
troops to the right, an Illinois captain
in the Chateau hierry region replied !:
my men will follow me to hell-if so
ordered" The order was given-nOt
to hell, but to victory-and the boys
went. Senator James Hamilton Lewis
of Illinois vOuched for the story.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

and a chance shot struck the pilot in
the head, killing him instantly and
bringing the machine to the ground
reported where an airplane has been
brought down with rifles, and it is not
likely to be duplicated again unless
some exceptionally good marksman
gets chance shot home.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
INDIAN PRINCESS GOES
TO SING FOR SOLDIERS

Denver, ColO.-Princess Isl
ANNA, daughter Of a Muskogee
Indian chief and widely known
throughout the West as Il tall
ented mezzO-sOpranO, is Ell route
to Europe to sing for American
soldiers. Thomas Evans, half
brother of the princess, recent
ly was killed in the battle Of
st. Mihiel.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
Cave DweIlers In France.

In prehistoric times, when man had
to fight with wild beasts not only Tor
food but for life, he found welcome
refuge in grottoes and caverns. but
rs soon as humanity had achieved some
degree of progress in civilization our
ancestors forsook these primitive nat
ural shelters for more comfortaDie
dwellings. Our readers, therefore, r.
marks the Scientific American. DOUBT.
less imagine that the troglodyte ceased
to exist many centuries ago, at any
rate In Europe. Yet even today there
may he found Frenchmen who live un
dergrcund only few hundred kllo'
IfeterS from Paris.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
His Prayers Heard.

Macon, Ga.-Sandy Patton, an aged
negro inmate of the Macon county in
Urinary for many years, will not be
buried ION the county," For years the
aged negro has lived in horror of this
and says he has prayed to be spared
the disgrace. He knew of no one who
would pay the funeral expenses. When
the will of Mrs. John H. Griffin was
filed for probate a few days ago, it
was found she had provided a salu Of
money for his burial. Sandy, form
er slave, wept with JOY at the news.
He has no fear Of death now.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
FIaupoie Ss6 Feet Hiuh,

Camp Lewis, Nash.-The tallest
flagpole in the world, measuring 34G
feet, has been erected here and from
it's peak flies the Stars and Stripes.
The flag is GO by 80 feet. The pole is
set in II feet of concrete.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
BRUSH FOR BUSY KNITTERS
New Continuance for the Bag Is Used
to Remove Scraps Of Worsted
From the Skirt.

For the knitting bag there is a d.
minutive clothes brush for removing
scraps of wOrsted from milady's skirt.
It is not always convenient to wear an
apron when knitting. and tiny shreds
Of worsted are apt to cling to tailored
suit: the little brush, whisked over
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
Hard to Explain.

Has it ever been fully explained
why it is that a man on a cold. raw
day will sit four hours uncomrlain-
ingly on a hard board in rOwboat
and hold fish pole, yet squirm and
fidget and fume if he is asked to sit
more than an hour and fifteen minutes
on a cushioned seat in well-warme,l
church?
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
Not Slaves to Precedent.

Were one to analyze the careers OF
200 or 800 of our leading men OF
finance and industry it would probably
develop that not half Of them contln-
ned in the line Of business In "hlcn
they started, but struck boldly 'ut IN
the direction where they saw til Dig
gest opportunities and where their
inclination lay.
One Of the earliest and most Ii saDie
Instances of this was O0mmodor1 van
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

it, and the head must fit way up into
the crown and the hat must dr0op
down well over the eyes If one would
not be hopelessly out Of the prevailing
style.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

ably these reasons explain why the
black hat is much more in demand
than the hat of any other one color
this season. To be sure, there arc
many lovely cOlored hats in the shops,
many lovely ones on the heads Of
smartly dressed women but still black
hats outnumber those Of other colOrs.
both in the shops and on our heads.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

The United States annual produc-
ton of sulphur in a dozen years has
increased from a few more than 800
tons to more thaa $4,000 tons.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOOLS LOAN statesmen;
JANITOR TAKES $500

Kansas City, Mo.-"What's the
smallest amount I can give?'
asked John Boylan, u janitor
at the Commerce building, of a
team of Liberty loan workers.
Fifty dollars" replied the
team captain, "but we hope you
will"
"See you after dinner when I
talk to my wife," Boylan replied.
Three hours later, when the
team returned, Boylan handed
them a sack saying:
THAT'S all we can invest
now"
In 1t was 5000.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23
CARE OF SILVER GRAY HAIR
Tonic Containing GIycerin Should Not
Be UsedHOrnaments Detract
More Than They Add.

Gray hair, more than hair Of any
other color, should be beautifully ar
ranged. The hairtlress is three-fOurths
of the trick of an admirable cOiffure>
The length, thickness, color and tex
ture of the hair, notes a correspondent.
do not matter so much. if it is beau
tifully undulated and becOmingly
coiffed. What the hairtlressers now
adays can do with skinny little
thatch Of thought dome roofing Ia
something marvellous. And they will
teach you tricks Of which you may
we'll be proud.
To gray hair only certain tonicS
should be applied. Any tonic contain
ing glycerin will discOlOr the silver
sheen.
AS rule, hair ornaments detract
more than they add. Brilliant orna-
ments or any elaborate couture fresco
effects are suitable only for the grand
hope-to-die social occasions. Shell
pins are out of style. This is the day
of the simple effect, of good lines and
a deletion Of everything that has neith-
er meaning nor place. Hence, beauti-
full hair is considered sufficient unto
itself. without any of the claptrap. fuss
stuff for which in times agOne we used
to exchange our good cash, coin,
spending change.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-23

Huns helmet, placed it on top Of the
gun and said:
"That's your monument, you -
Hum"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-21
THE BISMARCK BANK.

The Bismarck Bank, the Oldest bank
of the city, is ready to help you, to
save. Throughout all the years it has
been in existence, it has helped hun
ldreds to save their money until now
they are in comfortable circum-
stances. 1t will and can do the same
for you. Do not let the new year be-
gin before you have started savings
account with the Bismarck Bank. It's
officials will be glad to explain the
proposition to you and will assist you
in every possible way to get started
correctly lin habits of saving. BY it's
saving plan, you will be able to lay
aside a small sum each week or
month. You will not feel it, but at
the end of the year, you will be sur
prised and gratified over the result of
the first year of your savings. Mr. /.
P. Baker is vice president and Mr. E.
M. Thompson is cashier of the bank.
Both men are we'll known in financial
and business circles of Bismarck for
their integrity and excellent judgment
and give TO the Bismarck Bank in
creased standing for safety and
soundness.