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The Washington herald., 1918-05-24
District ODcers.

Mrs. W. J. Boardman is honorary
chairman Of the District OF Columbia
Chapter Of the American Red Cross.
Rear Admiral 8. A. Staunton, u. q.
N. retired. is chairman, and the
other officers are Mrs. 7. N. Nc
Laughlia. secretary: H. Q. Reside.
treasurer; II. B. r. Macfarland, FIRST
vice chairman, and Dr.. Ralph Jenkins,
second vice chairman.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-24
No Appeal Would Be
Needed Il Americans
Could See Europe 9 Now

Ny friends, n We could sss
for Q moment conditions a. they
exist today In various parts Of
Europe this appeal would bs
unnsesssaxy.
Every man, woman and child
in FREE Ameriea would sivs
quickly ana gladly toward TIE
amount for which the Red
Cross % asking.
We should b profoundly
grateful that We are not called
upon to bs eyewitness to this
= awful carnage, but let us -
member that while It is their
country which 10 being made
an altar Of sacrifice. THE
CAUSE Is AS MUCH OURS
AS THEIRS.
The Red Cross 10 doing a won
derful Wort. II needs your full
support and / am sure 1t will
receive II.
Sincerely yours,
1hy(
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

the office where she worked the old
man sat at his desk and transposed
the notes of her songs from his brain
to the stated paper on his desk.
He dotted in notes here and there,
making changes, adding hint of
technique here and sense of rhythm
there. Each page as it fluttered from
his pen held a dainty score of music
notes that a generation to come would
still be singing. They were exquisite
bits of melody, some for the voice and
others for the violin.
The old man pondered hour upon
hour as to the identity of the girl
whose voice gave to his listening ears
those wonderful notes.
In his own lifetime he had com
posed songs that would live and live
and re-live, and now he was weary.
He had drained his own cup Of in
Spiration to the dregs, and now this
girl In the room above had flung into
his soul snatcfIes Of melody that it
We're "A crime TO have lost.
He wondered from whom she had
Inherited that gift Of original herding
Of notes.
''There has been music somewhere,
everywhere about her, and yet hardly
think she y conscious that she has
composed score or more of wonder
full songs"
And because David Ward was a ro-
mantle old man, with soul filed to
the brlm with fantasy. he pondered on
picturesque way in which to ac-
quaint the girl with her own gift He
had the songs for the voice bound In
one dainty volume, and those for the
violin In another
And while the old man pondered
Mildred. too. was worrying her brain
and becoming wistful-eyed and trou-
bled.
Il just can't stand It any longer"
she told herself, tearfully. II must |
make some money. Everyone else Is |
helping the soldiers, and don't even \
have Eve dollars extra month TO |
help With"
That evening her song was sad. so ,
sad that David Ward swept moisture
from bis eyes az the notes stopped
abruptly In the room above.
Something told him that sobs had
ehoked the songblrds notes.
An hour later. when the sad little
melody was down on paper. David's
door was flung open and his big
nephew bounded 10. wonderful smile
on his face and his shoulders erect
He was wearing Khaki
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

Village school closed on Friday and
Miss Waite has returned to her home
in Weston.
Mrs. w. B. Simonds, who has been
quite i'll for week, is gaining. Mr..
Simonds is quite sick at the present
writing.
w. II. Burroughs was called to
Springfield, Mass, last week by the
sudden illness Of Mrs. Burroughs, who
is spending the winter with their
daughter there News from them a
few days later reported Mrs. Bur
roughs to be much better.
Quite a thaw the past week. The
stage was not able to make its trips
to Manchester on Wednesday nor Fri
day on account of the soft roads. A
herd Of six deer was seen feeding on
G. +. Williams hill and crows were
seen and heard on Thursday.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

Mildred lifted soft air as she
wound her great coils of coppery hair
about her small head. II framed her
oval face like a FURNISHED braid Of old
gold. Her eyes were wistful and her
song dropped, like tiny bird that
flutters YEARLY home TO the nest.
Sometimes the quaint airs that Mil
dred sang were light and happy; then
again they told Of II heavy heart that
longed for rest and yet again there
was tremendous grandeur in her song,
as If some great emotion held her In
its grip.
Mildred could not have repeated the
quaint airs that her heart fashioned
In her brain. They were little snatches
of expression in song that were as
spontaneous as they were tuneful.
She did not realize that her notes
We're herding themselves together In
dainty compositions that were full of
sentiment and harmony.
To the white-halred musician that
sat by his window in the room above
Mildred He drank them into his
music-tuned soul as thirsting animal
laps the sparkling water from noun
tain brook.
The notes dubbed and laughed at
times, and 1t was then that the old
man smiled and his eyes were bright.
And when the voice dropped and the
notes fell heavily on the air, then did
his heart beat duly with an ache that
hurt.
And In the hours that the song bird
was away from her room and down at
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
Help for Bald Heads.

When man loses his hair, his scalp
(having no growing crop to support)
becomes much thinner. and the skin
is so stretched over his skull as 10
acquire a smooth aud polished appear
ance. Nature always regardful Of
the happiness OF her ereatures) pro
yides In this way rink" for flies
that have taste for skating. II Is
hard on the bald-headed man. who de-
serves much more sympathy than he
gets. Nevertheless, contriyance for
his relief has been Invented, notes
writer. The man with the detuded
Uranium, occupying rocking chair
provided with this continuance, may
comfortably rock. while antomatical-
iy. 50 to speak. the tasseled cloth that
waves about his head makes him safe
against fiy-astack,
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
LANDGR0VE

b. +. Beers is hauling logs for NJ
J. Hapgood.
Miss Lucy Waite OF Weston, is Wis.
ting in town.
Better late than never What? or
that January thaw
J. +. Thomson is harvesting his ice
crop at the Longville pond.
s. II. Abbott has had the misfor-
tune to lose the sight of one eye
Carl Westine is helping A. A. Tows-
lee with repair work on his barn
George c. Thomson was given a
pleasant surprise the evening Of Feb
ruary 10th. His friends and neigh
bors met with him TO celebrate his
50th birthday. A very happy time
was enjoyed by all
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
RED CROSS NOTES

The Red Cross benefit show being
arranged by Union Club and others
has some TEXTURES that are brand new,
Something you have not seen before,
/, viii cost you fifty cents 70 see il
and your nifty cents will be bullet
aimed directly Ut the Kaiser through
the medium OF the Red Cross Can.
yasArrs are out with tickets. Buy enc,
on bc:tor. buy several and see that
y,ur ncighbor docs the same. The
RED eros workers Of MANCHESTER arc
helping put Manchester on the map.
They are turning out an amount Of
work equal 70 that Of many places
three times the size Of Manchester.
The people Of Manchester have never
befort given such loyal support TO any
movement. The recent Red eros dane
es have been bowling successes and
have shown the fine spirit Of the Man
chester people. Let's take hold and
run the proceeds Of the show up to
5000 for the encouragement of the
Manchester boys over there and the
dismay of Kaiser Bill. The tickets
sold by the canvassers are good in
exchange for reserved seat when ex-
changed at Young's Shoe Store on or
after Wednesday, Feb. 27th, at 10
a. m.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
Agriculture.

II Il an interesting fact that east
Of the Rocky mountains agriculture Is
fairly well distributed, taking into con-
siderntion the varying areas OF the
states, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
California shows up well because OF
her immense fruit and grain crops.
New England appears TO be tagging.
but all New England IL less In area
than a great many individual states,
and this sterile soil" produces about
as much as Missouri. which has
larger area than combined New Eng
land. Massachusetts produces more
value per acre than any other com
monwealth.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
Sandy of the Engine Room.

THE chief engineer, Scot. +.
Certainly and always! Passenger ship,
freighter, yacht, from here TO Suez
and back again, the man In charge Of
the engine room probably Is a Scot.
There is no special reason for it; 1t
Just happens that way. There Is the
old story, told with zest today by trav-
elers who will swear that they Wit
messed the doings, of an American and
an Englsbnan who beguiled the time
away in Shanghai by waging goodIy
sums on their odd achievements of
knowledge. The Englishman, Of course,
was behind IN the game but finally he
hit upon a brilliant wager; he bet that
every ship making ready 10 sail that
lay carried Scot in the engine room.
So to every engine room door they went
and called SANDY" "Mac.' And ev-
cry engine room gave it's reply. The
story must be as old as the steam en-
CINE. The bet could be won today.
The chief engineer, Scot."-New
York Sun.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
THE HOSIERY
more Apologies)


The socks | mend for thee, dear heart
Mean such pile Of work to me!
| tell them over. every one apart,
Thy hosiery, thy hosiery!
Each sock mate, two mates pair,
To keep thy feet from storm and cold
| tell them over to the end, and find.
I've skipped hole
0 carelessness, this thy reproof!
See how it looms across my sole
| seize that sock, and then, in very
truth
darn that hole! Sweetheart,
| darn that hole!
N. |. II. B., in Philadelphia Ledger
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
ORIENTAL TREND;
seen IN CLOTHES
Appears in Bias Movement OF
Fabrics Which Is Coming
Into Wide Favor.
SASH OF MUCH IMPORTANCE
Often Serves as the Connecting Link
Between a Blouse OF One Material
and Skirt OF Anothcr--Some
Have Bibs.

New York.-Tlnd out where the
bulge is and you find where the fash,
ion is, This was the opinion of an ar
list who studied movement and color
and knew nothing Of the practical side
of apparel Throughout the centuries
of dress" he continued. ''the student
who deals only with the history of
fashions will find that the entire diff
ference rests In the bulge. Its pres.
ence, its absence and It's placement
One could write chapters dealing
with the bulge that has gone through
centuries of fashion. A skirt goes out
at the hips and In al the ankle, out
at the ankle and In AT the hips
sleeves flare at the elbow, the shout
der or the wrist collars rise outward
from the neck, flare over the Shout
ders, roll downward To the collarbone.
The bulge is so all-important that
woman Is hopelessly Sut OF fashion
unless she follows Its movements. She
may wear the wrong coler compr0-
mise on fabric that is slightly out of
fashion or combine materials that were
not intended for each other at their
sources, but she will not put bulge
where bulge should not be. She
Will work overnight, be eXtravagant
and lose her temper merely to avoid
wearing a skirt that goes out In the
wrong place, a sleeve that flares where
1t should not, hipllne that Is con
cave when It ought to be convex.
What In common garden English we
call "the bulge" the French more ele-
gantly term "the movement" II Is in
teresting and puzzlng to those who
go to Paris the first time and hear the
discussion of dress in the ateliers of
those who design and sell clothes. to
hear the two words-"the movement"
-punctuate every sentence.
II the movement Of gown Is right,
or II celebrated designer, through
the hands and the fabric, brings new
movement into an accomplished result,
the whole fashion of the season Is
changed.
The Bias Movement.
The different curves which clothes
have taken during the last two years
are too familiar to women's minds to
recount them. t'"s@a
And these women, who watch the
development Of line In clothes more
than the introduction Of new colors
or fabrics, are now interested in that
oriental movement which is trailing
over the horizon and which we fire.
qucntly call bias.
The world has always accredited the
Orient with the lines that go across
and around the figure. The primitive
peoples are supposed to have wrapped
their clothes about them for centuries, |
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
In the Library.

Newly Rich liostess--You see, I
went TO the best bookseller In town
and ordered all the gems of literature
for our library.
Caus,Ic Guest-You ought TO have
sent for iewaer when you got
them.
n. Il, H.-Why should | send for Il
jeweler for books?
Z G. G.-Because most OF them, no.
tlce, are uncut gems
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
The Hard Part.

The Sporting Reporter suppose
it's hard to get the descriptions of the
women's gown correct?
The Society Reporter No the hard
est part is to write the descriptions
so that each person win consider her
self the best-dresSed woman present
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

Would you say that Glithers, the
capitalist. IL AN honest mani'
I No | wouldn't say he's an honest
man and | wouldn't say he's dishon-
est man"
"What sort ~ fellow is he. then?"
zone OF those persons for whose
benefit legal tcchnicnlities were in
vented"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
Setting Them Right.

This writer says the so-called Ha-
waiian music being played every
where in this country is nothing of the
sort"
I'm glad to hear you say SO" re.
piled the patron Of vaudeville. i've
always had Il kind Of admiration for
the HawaiIans which | was rapidly
losing"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

Recently, the designers have blended
the American Indian silhouette with
that Of OLD Egypt, the Egypt of Thals.
with straight translucent drapcries
and plated skirts that sweep the feet.
Gypsy Sash In Favor.
Everyone knows that the so-called
gypsy sash which has been taken from
the Roumanian yagabonds IL apt To
Increase the size appearance OF tho
hips. and yet L has come into fashion
Us quickly as a thunder.shower comes
up In August.
There is strong belief among the
designers that this Roumnnian hip
girdle, which is MS old MS Nineych and
Tyre, will not prove popular, but all
the designers believe that the bias
movement which is creeping into all
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
A $3.50 Proposition.

$50 she has agreed to be yoursi"
THAT was not exactly the way she
expressed H."
Nor
'She said she would be as much
mine as | would be hers"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
OFFICIAL WAR DIET


Monday
Wheatless day.
Meatless meal
Tuesday
Meatless day.
Wheatless meal.
Wednesday
Wheatless day
Meatless meal.
Thursday
Wheatless meal.
Meatless meal.
Friday
Wheatless meal.
Meatle3s meal.
Saturday
Porkless day.
"a Wheatless meal.
Meatless meal.
Sunday
Whcatless meal.
MeatlesS meal.
Every Day
Economy in use of sugar.
Fat Saving Day
Eliminate rigidly all waste and
unnecessary consumption of all
sort of food stuffs.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

George, dear" said the young wife,
you are growing handsomer every
day
"Yes, darling" replied the wise
George. Its habit | seem to have
JUS, before your birthday arrives"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
One Guess.

John Cornhusk Whadda say yer
boys a.doln up ter the cityi
Cy Taters-B' gosh, he's u conductor
Josh Cornhusk-Srect car. orches-
try or colyum1
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
kone That Old.

First IAwyer-How about old BIZ
yun's WIN;
Second LAwyer-0h he left $4,000
to every unmarried woman Of over
forty years in the country.
First Lawyer-ThereIl be no takers.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

Ibid you hear what Jlnx didr".
"No. whatI"
Went down into the kitchen for a
lunch and In the dim light he ate
bar Of laundry soap In mistake for a
stewed carrot, and never knew the diff
ference until morning"
II don't believe 1t. No carrot ever
tasted that good"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

and the sensuousness Of the East II
supposed 10 be the origin Of this bias
movement Of fabric on the female fig.
ure.
The straight line conceals; the bias
line partly reveals. The American 10.
dian Is probably the only great primi
tive who kept 10 the straight line ir
costumery. as II II were done In ac
cordEnce with the Indian physica
framework.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

so Rnggles is not pro-Germanr
mo. he Is too ego,ls,ic 10 favor an,
land excep, the one with I-boais."
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

Graphophones will soothc the hens;
In this experts all concur.
So we see them In their pens.
Set TO music. as II were
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21

Just one little word would make me
so happy"
"Yes, but where will you find
woman who will stop with one word?"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
keeessary Adjunct

Hello. old man. Hear you're in the
literary game. Selling anythlngY
Yes; life insurance
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-16
Has Two "Mermaids"

J. E. Smith. Spaniard, residing ip Hamilton, Ont., possesses two crea- lures that are probably unique. He considers them to be mermaids. Though these are described as "fab- 'ad" or fictitious" creatures in tho dictionaries, those of Air. Smith have heads shaped like those of human be- ings and bodies that are distinctly fish-like. One 1s much larger than the other. and IS considered to be the mother, and. reckoned to be 300 years old Both have fine hair like human being. and small mustache and Sear1. The head is attached to hu- man-iike Eeck which merges into the fish-like body. and the arMs are like those of monkey, only that the fingers are webbed. It is said that the "mernaids" were found in the wreck Of ship in the Arabian sea
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-16
ARE BITTERLY OPPOSED
 ON PEACE PRGRAM
Strained Situation Exists in Germany on War Aims
 of Teutons.
(Hy Associated Press

Amsterdam, Jan. 15.--Evidences of the strained situation as regards wa: aims continue to appear in the Ger
 man newspapers. The Leipsig Volks Zeitung says meeting of the annexa- tionist fatherland party al Jen: was broken up by the independent Social ists, who, after passing vote for
 "a general peace by understanding" threw out the members of the father
 land party.
 While pan-German positions and resolutions are being rushed to the emperor by the militarists, other cur rents are active. This is instanced by q meeting at Frankfort on Sunday of free citizens committee. which adopt ed a resolution to the effect thai q lasting peace which would really safe guard Germany's vital economic inter- ests would be possible only on the basis of a policy of conciliation in the sense of the peace resolution adopted by the rcichstag.
 The committee expressed the hope that from the negotiations with Russia might result q peace which, by honest adherence to the principle of self-de- terminal ton of peoples, might exclude the danger of new conflicts. At this meeting Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, form- CT secretary of state for the colonies, said that if the fatherland party won the war will be lost. He rejected an-
 nexations and cash indemnitiess and declared Germany was poWerless to enforce long-term payments by install- ments from America and England. An
 nexations in the east. he asserted,
 would be source of constant danger, as they would irritate Russia. Dr
 Dernburg also urged disarmament.
 The Munich Post attacks the father land party and supports the attitude taken by President Wilson in respect of recognition of the demands for
 autonomy on the part of the Slay pop
 ulation of the central empires. "The
 Russian revolution has stirred the na- tionistic feeling among the Slavs of Austria Hungary to the boiling point, I it says. The whole Slav world will
 rise up against us if we attempt to impose humiliating terms on Russia :"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-16
SEED CORN WORST
 IN TWENTY YEARS
Scarcity of Seed Corn Threatens
 1918 Crop.
Do Not Import Seed Unless Absolutely Necessary-Do Not Cut Down Acre. age-Must Have Corn to Pro. duce Meats and Fats for
 Our Soldiers.
By p. G. HOLDEN.

There is nationwide alarm about seed corn. The condition is the most critical experienced in twenty years, The corn belt has suffered tremendous losses. Frost in September killed the corn and prevented it from ripenins and drying out. When the unusually cold freeze of October came great dam age followed.
 AS a result, the first impulse will be to import seed corn. Corn grown from seed brought in from other localities will be inferior in yield and quality and in many cases. total failure will follow. We must not import seed corn unti we have exhausted every resource tC oEtain seed ill our own neighborhOod lR1ther than go without seed import it. but get it from just as near home as possible. Thousands of tests made by experiment stations, tests made in 2$
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-16

states by the government, and the re suits borne out in actual experience show the danger of importing corn. ,
 These facts are not the results O1 pne test, for one year, in one locality but for period of eight years in 3 different counties in Iowa with ovei 6,OOO tests. In not single case did the imported samples equal the home grown seed. The homegrown corn. ii every test, outyielded the importe, corn on an average of 20 bushels t. the acre, and was of better quality.
 Will We ever learn to save seed, We can import potatoes, oats and and expect to get as good results as we would get from corn grown in the immediate neighborhood. It will bs Impossible to measure the loss of land labor food and money to the people of this country if we fail to realize the importance of these facts.
 If you have old corn left over from your 1916 crop, keep 1t for seed and test every ear. Do not conclude too soon that there is no seed corn in your locality. Ask your county agentv write to your agricultural college. '
 Do not let the seed corn situation discourage you. The government is asking for meats and fats for our sol liers, and we must have corn to pro duce them. Regardless of conditions we must grow our usual acreage of corn; don't cut 1t down; don't put of testing; don't import unless absolutely necessary. We. will not have fats and meats without corn. If you have no seed corn, don't wait until planting time, and then expect someone to bring 1t to you.
 Realizing the seriousness of the sit- uation, the Agricultural Extension De pertinent of the International Harvest CT Company, Chicago, will send, free of charge to any farmer, merchant or banker. paper patterns of seed corn germination cloths and rag dolls, with full directions for testing corn.