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The Twin City star., 1918-07-27
sasra and sIndbad the Sailor.

In spite Of evidence Of modern in
dustry, Basra Seaport Of MesopO-
tamia) was the port from which Sind
bad set out on his voyages Of trade
and adventure. Sindbad was not a
myth, but a real man with sailors
love for the sights of foreign lands. 1t
must have been a great event when he
sailed away with his fleet of dhOws
and when he returned with treasures
of far-off China and the Eastern is.
lands.
The Basra of today Is mean little
town in a clearing of palm trees two
miles from the river. and at its port,
instead Of the laden dhows, are rusty
tramp steamers with tawdry wares Of
the West.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27

The full trousers have almost thA eff
feet of a narrow skirt and are drawn
in about the ankles in fascinating lace
edged frills. A beading, set in at the
waistline, carries a satin ribbon that
gathers up the necessary width about
the waist.
Trousers on pajamas of crepe de
chine are often banded with silk In a
contrasting color and made very full.
The simplest of slip-over upper gar
ments is bordered with the same col
or as that used in the trousers. These
new sleeping garments will please the
woman who likes distinctive lingerie.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27
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New Faneies.

Some simple jersey dresses are seen
with collar and cuffs Of knitted wool
in bright colors. Crisp and summer
like and lovely are the new collar and
cuff sets. They are Of fine organdie,
not only in white, but in delicate color
ings as well. There is the fashionable
yellow, Alice blue and rose pink. They
are In new shapes and have tiny ruff
asd edges. AS though the gamut Of
color had been run in the separate
vests to be used with the plain tailored
SUIT, we are now shown vests Of black
satin. In the cOlored kind bright or.
candle Is the newest.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27

Many women prefer pajamas to
nightdresses and others acknowledge
their advantages over the nightdress
but are 10th to part company with the
dainty and frilly finishings that pa
jamas lack. For their benefit we have
been furnished, by those who make un-
dermuslins their special study, with a
variety of sleeping garments Of a new
sort. These include separate trous-
ers and coats or jackets and one-piece
garments In which trousers are fas-
tened onto bodice. Besides these
there are full-trousered pajamas worn
under short kir,ono coats and for all
Of them crepe chine has proved as
practical in every way as muslin. 1t is
easily laundered and as filmy and
dainty as batiste.
The figure at the left, in the picture
above, is clad in plain pajamas made
Of sateen. They are very like the
garments worn by men and are devel-
oped in several cotton fabrics, percale
and outing flannel among them, and in
crepe de chine. Occasionally print
fowered silk or mems wear silk shirt
ings are made in this model-the lat
ter recommended to Withstand wear.
The garment at the right is also
classed among pajamas. Just now,
flesh-colored batiste with narrow Val
lace and insertions or fine swiss en-
broideries used for decorations, is the
favorite cotton fabric for these gar
ments, but in the picture the choice
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27
COSTLY FOODS ARE
NOT ALWAYS BEST

The nutritive value of an ar
ticle Of food and its price sell
dom have any relation to each
other. An expensive cut of beef
is not necessarily any more sus-
tanning than a cheap one. 1t
usually tastes better or can be
cooked by easier methods. But
care In cooking and seasoning
will make inexpensive meats at
tractive and much better than
costly ones poorly prepared.
With fruits and vegetables
the price Is often determined
by the season. A vegetable out
of season is much more expen-
sive than one In season, but 1t
Is no more nutritive.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27

There is nothing more elegant THAI
these and they are immensely well
liked for afternoon and evening wear.
There is nothing more durable or
satisfactory than white canvas shoes
for street wear. They are more easily
cleaned than other white shoes and
strong linen canvas will outwear
leather. For midsummer they are the
coolest of shoes and probably the most
economical in the long run.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27

that the sugar Of the beetroot. upon
which the substitute depends for alco-
hol, cannot be spared for beer. Beets.
he says, are badly needed for manufac-
ture of sugar, dilution of jam and max
ing Of coffee substitutes.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27
Barley Saves Wheat.

Not many years ago barley was used
more extensively than wheat for bread
making In many European countries.
Now it is coming into American favor
as a wheat substitute.
Barley flour is very satisfactory fOrt
hot breads. Try this recipe, tested!
by government specialists, for barley
drop biscuits:
2 cupfuls barley cupful Of milk.
-four tablespoonfuls fat,
~ teaspoonfuls Of 8 teaspoonfuls bak-
salt. Ing powder
Baked in sheet this makes good
shortcake.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27
One Of the Immortal Books.

One of the greatest epoch-makine
books Of the world was "Don Quixote." !"
To that artificial age, reared in insipid
extravagances, "Don Quixote" was the
dawn Of a new revelation. Saint
Beuve, the great French critic, called
It "the book Of humanity" Even those
who miss the allegory and are insen.
sible to the satire cannot help but en-
Joy the story, SO fresh Is it with pic
lures of national life and character Of
Spain at the time. Cervantes himself
was amazed at the success Of his book,
which Immediately raised him to fame.
Since that time, nearly 300 years ago,
Don QuixOte" has been the delight
of mankind in degree that no other
book has approached.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27
Can't Even Have "Near- Beer"

Germany's brewers hoped this year
to produce a beer substitute that
should really resemble beer. but the
Prussian minister Of finance has is
sued a decree that puts an end to the
dream of the foaming stein.
A new process has been patented
by which near-beer was to be made
from beetroot, hops, yeast and wa
ter. Many breweries had already in
stalled machinery required under the
patent.
The minister Of finance has decided
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27

Jap lnvents Novel Sprinkler.
A japanese Is the inventor Of
street sprinkler that distributes water
so as to form advertisements @
smooth pavements.
The Twin City star., 1918-07-27

Rashness brines luck to few.
Evening star., 1918-02-03

The Amortization Of immigrant women
will be q large factor in the work OF
the national committee of one hum
dred appointed. upon request. by the
United States commissioner Of educa-
tion, DR.. Phifander p. Claxton. Under
the emergency Of war the america
first" campaign Of the committee has
become intensive and great efforts are
being made to teach English and
patriotism to the 100000 n-English-
speaking people Of the United States.
English teaching will be carried on in
homes. factories and training camps,
as well as in schools.
Mrs Frank II. Bliss of Buffalo. as
sistant to the chairman of the execu-
tive committee, H. II. wheaton. chief of
the division of immigrant education
Of the United States bureau Of
education, has taken up her activi-
ties at the national headquarters of
the committee. In the Washington Loan
and Trust building. Mrs. Bliss haH for
twenty years been identified with the
civic work of New York state. She
was one of the prime movers in the
establishment OF state trades school
for girls initiRted by Sorosis. New York
city. the first woman's club in the
country.
In response to requests from all over
the country the committee il daily
sending out advice and instruction in
Evening star., 1918-02-03
U. S. STARTS PLANT TO
MAKE POWDER FOR WAR
Du Pont Company to Act as Agent
in Manufacture of Smoke
less Product.

WILMINGTON. Del. February 2.-Tbe
United States government has commits
stoned the Du Pont Engineering Com.
pany to act as it's agent in the construc-
ton Of a smokeless powder plant OH the
Cumberland river near Nashville, Tenn
il was announced here tonight. This
plant will be similar TO the one on which
the government began work a month ago
near Charleston, w. Va.
Officials of the Du Pont Company said
they We're not at liberty to discuss either
the cost or capacity of the new plant.
but it was announced at Washington al
the time the first contract was let that
the two plants would have a combined
capaciy of 100000 pounds of powder a
day. The total cost. according to Secre-
tary of War Baker. is to be about $780,
10000
Surveyors are already on the ground.
and it was stated tonight that construc-
ton gangs would soon follow and that
the work would be pushed along rapidly.
Houses will be constructed near the site
of the new plant to take care of the
thousands of skilled artisans needed to
carry on the work
Evening star., 1918-02-03
ARE ASSIGNED

Mai. Charles W. Power and many other
officers of the Ordnance Reserve Corps
have been assigned to duty in this city
at the Office of the chief of ordnance.
Maj Powers associates are:
Capts. Walter Z. Mathewson, Jesse r.
Johnson. Albert G. Stillwell. Daniel E.
Sawyer, Edward J. Mcdonnell. Walter 8.
Bauer and Louis A. Daerr; First Leuts.
Edward Q. Ericsson. Charles ]. Fox. John
E. Bird. Hollyday s. Needs, Harold 8.
Demeritt. Paul =. McConyille, Alfred ].
Carniaux. James H. Rogers, Marcellus II.
P. Hagans, Ralph W. Hills, Herbert g.
Fairbank and John F. Gottron; Second
Lieuts. Everett F. Rea, Paul W. Platter.
James NJ. Mckay, Benton Clement, Ross
10. Fowler Fred l.. Wilkinson. William
y. Reeve. Claypool s. Watson. Louis Toll
ns cil, Charles B. Dunno, Luther l. Kill
lam, Charming E. Harwood, Lee W. Par
bridge, Chauncey II. Durkee, Joseph B.
Keen. William c. Nielsen, Frank A.
Ryan. Herbert S. Lester. Paul NJ. Gold
rick. Jervis B. Webb and George NJ. Kerr.
Other officers ordered to this city for
duty are Maj. Frank Winders. Medical
Reserve Corps, to Walter Reed Cen
eral Hospital: First Lieut.. Adolph
Stuber, Second Lieuts. Henry Leighton
Bangs and Lewis H. Rogers, aviation
section of the Signal Reserve, to the
office of the chief signal officer.
Second Lieut.. John Walker Howard.
aviation section Of the Signal Reserve
Corps, to the science and research di-
vision of the Signal Corps.
Capt. Paul Z. Stevenson. First Lieut..
Willard r. Jones and Second Lieut..
Herbert V. Brook of the Quartermas-
ter Corps of the National Army to the
office of the acting quartermaster gen
eral
Second Lieut. r. B. Richardson. En-
gineer Reserve Corps, to the 30th En-
gineers at Fort Myer, Va.
First Lieut.. Frederick A. Euler. Medi-
cal Reserve Corps. to the Army Medi-
cal School.
First Lieut.. Samuel A. Alexander.
Medical Reserve Corps. to the Walter
Reed General Hospital.
First Lieut.. William A. Clark, Medi-
cal Reserve Corps. and Second Lieut.
Charles Wallach. Sanitary Corps of the
National Army. to the Office of the
surgeon general.
Capt. Robert K. West Engineer Re-
serve Corps. to 43d Engineers at Camp
American University.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
AMERICANIZE IMMIGRANT
WOMEN, IS CLAXTON'S PLAN

methods of teaching English and, pa
triotism and Is urging cooperation of
all agencies. official and private. which
deal directly with the foreign element
public system of education to meet
the needs of this unassimilated portion
of Americas people q strong program
has been worked out. Realizing that
national unity is fundamental in the
evolution of a democracy. the commit
tee of one hundred hopes to achieve it
by five means: "a common use of the
mon understanding and appreciation of
American standards ideals and re-
sponsibillties Of citi1snship: a genuine
allegiance to the United States. whether
the land of the citizens birth or of
adoption; active corporation with fell
low citizens in furthering the common
welfare through government: a univer-
sal consciousness OF our national and
social organization and the impelling
forcefulness of its evolution"
Evening star., 1918-02-03
TOLL IN PARIS AIR RAID
Exact Number Of Dead Placed at
40 and Total Wounded
at POS.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
PARIS. February 1T was officially
announced today that the total number
of deaths resulting from the recent
airplane raid Of the Germans was
forty nine and the total wounded 2O8
n. RauS. prefect Of police. in giving
these figures personally to the Asso-
ciated Press. took cOgnizance of rumOrs
that the administration was concealing
the actual number of casualties due
to the raid. He declared that the fore
going totals of the dead and tho wound
ed may be absolutely relied on. and
there was no disposition on the part
of the authorities to conceal any facts
in regard to the raid which the public
ought TO know. except such details
as might he of military value to the
enemy.
The names and addresses Of nearly
all the persons that We're killed and
about half tine wounded have been pub
Ii ished OF 3S adults killed. IA were
women and II were men. OF 100 adults
wounded. a3 were women and 90 were
men. -Four children were killed and
10 wounded.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
SHOWS TEUTONS' CLAIMS
Do NOT AGREE WITH ACTS

LONDON. February George III.
Roberts. minister Of labor, in an interview
yesterday said that the declarations of
Count Won Hertlng and Count Czernin
that Germany and Austria agreed with
President Wilson in opposing secret
treaties and secret diplomacy did not ac-
cord with their acts
There is the best reason for believing"
he said, mot only that a secret treaty
was ratified before the war between Ger
many and Bulgaria but that as q result
Of the German emperors trip to Constan-
tinople 2 secret treaty was agreed to
Turkey was to retain all the territories in
her hands before the outbreak Of the war.
Germany, Austria and Bulgaria agreed to
do their best to recover for Turkey the
provinces she has lost and to give Turkey
. free hand in dealing with Arabia and
Armenia as she thinks 1T"
Evening star., 1918-02-03

trees with a highly tempered sword;
AN AK would do just as well, and IL 8
hard on the sword.
hut the time will come when the
services Of these splendid medical men
VIII he absolutely invaluable, and in
years to come many q man with wife
and children will have to thank some
surgeon who gave up his limousine for
a hiVver ambulance that he has them
and his home. and is not buried in a
war cemetery somewhere in France.
The names OF many of these man can
be given. and they should be, for their
names are a roll of honor. and they
should he always held in remembrance
by every family that has a soldier in
France. or will have later, for some
day they may save that soldiers life.
With the PREDATORY remark that this
is only partial list. and that other
names that should be on it are not
available. here they are. beginning. with
the New York men: DIR. Samuel Lloyd
and DIR. Mckernon of Post era duate Hos
pital DIR. Charles H. Peck of Roosevelt
Hospital Dr. G. l.. Gibson Of New York
Hospital DIR. George f. Beeven OF Pres
byterian Hospital. DIR. Harry Gushing and
DIR. f. A. Washburn of Boston. DIR. r. A.
Harte of Pennsylvania Hospital: Philadel-
phia: pr II. T. Miller OF Pittsburgh,
pr. George W. Grille of Cleveland, Dr.
F. 4. Besley of Chicago, DIR. Angus Nc
Lean of Detroit, Or. John NJ. Finly
of Johns Hopkins, DIR. f. T. Murphy OF
ST. Louis DIR. NJ. Clinton of Buffalo. DR..
T. r Clark OF Youngstown, DR.. r. v.
Clark OF indianapolis. DR.. Joseph =.
Flynn of Yale Medical School and Dr. B.
r. Shurly.
All these men are working with the sur
geons of the Regular Army in perfect team
work. without jealousy. with the one
great object of saving The health and the
lives of as many-<American soldiers as they
can. They have done much already. as
the records show and when the big test
comes. they will not be wanting. OF that
the soldiers left behind may rest as
Evening star., 1918-02-03
CableKram to The Sunday Star and
York World. Copyright, 1918.

LONDON. February Accommodating on
President Wilson's statement that the war
will be decided by what takes place dur
ing the present year. Lord Robert Cecil,
undersecretary of state for foreign af-
fairs made an important addition to it
in statement to The Star. saying:
Il agree with President Wilson that
what takes place this year will decide the
war. I will go even further and say that
the next three months are the testing
months. will not prognoEticate how long
the war will last. for no one can do that,
but the allies are in a much better posi-
Non to go through these months than are
the central powers. We have future and
can see it. and the enemy has none
Lord Robert Cecil declined to discuss
the Internal situation in Germany. which
Evening star., 1918-02-03
DEMANDED
British Airmen Imprisoned by Ger
mans for Ten Years for Drop
ping Leaflets.

LONDON, February I.-Reprisals are
demanded by the Daily Mail for the ac-
tion of the German military authorities
in sentencing two British airmen to
ten years imprisonment ror dropping
leaflets in Germany. The newspaper,
which features the story to the ex-
clusion of most other news. says:
THE enemy is carrying out the threat
published after the report that q mil
lion copies of President wilson's dec
laration of peace terms would be drop
ped from airplanes In Germany. The
Germans. first began to drop propa-
ganda leabets in the allied lines more
than three years ago. The practice
helped to wreck Russia and cause the
disastrous Italian retreat"
The Daily Mail wants the reprisals to
take the. form of putting German Of
ficers and prisoners on the same ra-
tions and living conditions as British
prisoners undergo In Germany
7, 49, A1n ntnG Il
Evening star., 1918-02-03
Pershing Has Best Hospitals
American Army Provided With the Most
Complete Medical Equipment Ever Known.
PART TWO.
NJ THOMAS ". JOHNSON.
copyright. 1918 All rights reserved)

W'opyTigh u
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. January s.
Pneumonia Army trouble Bronchial pneumonia
bronchitis the only things the medical department worries
inevitable cold winter
amper Americans accustomed to- wet feet
and kindred causes recalled that there considerable
number oi southern Army here also will be that
this surprising
Evening star., 1918-02-03
NEXT THREE MONTHS TESTING
PERIOD OF WAR, CECIL SAYS:
Allies Declared to Be in Much Better Posi-
tion to Go Through Test Than Central
Powers-Discusses Hertling Proposal.

co-incides with the official silence, but his
declaration about the testing months"
Immediately ahead of the bellixerents
leaves no. room for doubt that this row
ernment has knowledge of the internal I
German pressure. as has the government
at Washington.
He did. however. refer TO the Hertling-
Czernin speeches. saying:
Hertiings proposal could not be &C.
ceptable to the allies there was nothing
to show that il was not pan-Ger1nan [
dare say Tirpitz himself could Be said to
want peace, but IL would be on psn-Ger-
man terms. There was a difference In the
tones Of Czernfn. but on all knotty cues
ions he refrained from declaring himself.
such as on questions of Belgium"
Lord Robert Cecil said he had no off,
cial confirmation of the report that the
relations between Spain and GERMANY
We're critical as the result Of the torpedo-
ing OF the Spanish steamship Giraida.
ha IT,
Evening star., 1918-02-03
SUPREME WAR COUNCIL
ENDS GENERAL MEETINGS

VERSAILLES. February 2.-The su-
preme allied war council of pramiers and
generals today closed the present series
OF general meetings. Premier Clemenceau
of France presided at the sitting
Evening star., 1918-02-03
Big Organization Needed.

For all this a big organization is
sseded. and 1t has to do big things.
Tne other day the medical department
paced IN England the largest order for
ugs that ever was known in England.
j is occupied at present in transform
Sig seven big hotels in a French water
the Red Cross. which supplements
when 1t can, the medical department :
supplies. II has supplied clothing, for
Instance. and automobiles. But the
r5aadical department has done well. Last
August it had here supplies enough for
an army of about the size that we have
row in France for a campaign of three
tssontns with 20 per cent casualties. OF
e,urse, it has more supplies now.
For purposes of treatment the organ
fzaticp is divided into eight sections.
Taey are: Surgery. general medicine.
laboratory. X-ray. mental diseases,
read diseases teye. ear. nose. throat.
erthoLedic and venereal diseases Each
~s.ction has its own director. and the
sections work together to obtain CO.
fsrdirated. uniform treatment of cases
from the front line trench back to con-
vaiescent hospital. How this co-ordi-
nation plan works Is well illustrated
by one of the little things that tell
spIirts.
It developed after the Army had been
here a while that there were as many
different varieties of splints in use
rs there were base hospitals in France.
and in fact more. Each surgeon had
his own pet splint. which he was con-
WINGED was the best. OF course, it
would have been impossible to con-
ffnue supplying the Armv with fifty
seven varieties of splints, so board
of/six surgeons sat upon the question
nj their standardization. The result is
mat the Army now uses Just nine diff
pRerent splints, boiled, or perhaps more
&properly whitfield. down from all the
varieties that were presented. The
medical department has published a
pamph1et explaining their use. 1t is
20 good that the British Red Cross has
asked permission to reprint and use it
for it's own service. venereal dis
ease manual is now being prepared on
the same lines.
It has been possible for the medical
department to accomplish so much. and
above all to give to the American SOL
Aier I'm France such excellent treat
ment. largely because the medical de-
partment now has the services of an
array of talent such as would make
the most wonderful hospital staff that
ever was assembled in the worlds his
tory. They come from private prac-
flee, surgeons. specialists. physicians of
an kinds, to do what they can on a
.e15najor's or a captains pay to smooth
fhe path of the American wounded
1man. One of them gave up a prac-
tice of 100000 year to come over
here.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
Have Too Many Experts.

s 1t may sound strange. but as mat
yer Of fact We have too many experts
here now. and for a time the govern
ment has been asked to send over
younger. less experienced. less, SO to
speak, high-priced men. The reason
- that there IL not enough fine work
- 20 around So far We have not had
ne unusual eases, the exceedingly in
trteate cases on which the expert
xhrtves. 1t has been . comparatively
6umdrum affair. where q good doctor
- ~ good ~ an expert. and the ex-
|perts have been rather wasting their
ime- 1t nas been like cutting down
Evening star., 1918-02-03

Peru was the first country TO add In
struction In aviation to its public
school curriculum.
Evening star., 1918-02-03

Prof. R. A. Sampson has been elected
president of the Scottish Meteorolee-
ical Society.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
Medical Departments Big Job.

Possibly by this time the impression
will have accumulated that the medical
department. has a big job on it's hands.
II has. Here are a few facts to prove
1t: For every five men in the Army
there must be one hospital bed always
available. That means for an army of
100000 men. 100000 beds; for an army
Of million, 100000 beds. The average
base hospital has 1000 beds. That
reeans 100 or 200 base hospital organi-
zs.tions. And then there must be room
for expansion to double normal capacity
IS case of emergency. and on, short mo-
sce. Such an emergency would proba-
ny come during the summer, so tents
would do. but that means a good many
tents and extra personnel and extra
supplies, from sheets to hypodermic
needles.
Consider what that would mean, for
instance. at the Massachusetts General
Hospital. which is to be a twenty
thousand bed hospital for GONZALES
cents Suppose il suddenly had to ex-
and to 10000 beds. Then at one single
place We are estab ablishing now a big
evacuation hospital center. which will
not he so very far behind the front
There are assembled already at Buffalo,
Detroit, Indianapolis and Youngstown,
ohio. base hospitals. There will be
1 600 beds there. Suppose those hospi-
tails. amid all the rush of handling
wounded right from the front. operat-
s1g teams working day and night had
tc double to IA 900 beds.