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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-26
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By THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1918. by T. W. Burgess.)
Farmer Browns Boy Has a
Busy Morning.

Farmer Browns Boy was busy. He
certainly was busy. AS he worked
he whistled. Farmer Browns Boy
always whistles when he works.
From over in the Green Forest he
was bringing boughs of pine and
hemlock. Most OF these were boughs
taken from trees which had been cut
for lumber. Back and forth he
tramped on the icy crust between the
far corner of the Old Orchard and the
Green Forest, which comes almost up
to the Old Orchard.
Down in the far corner of the Old
Orchard Farmer Browns Boy was
building a brush pile. He was very
careful to pile those boughs loosely
in such way that if one were very
small one might creep under easily,
clear to the very middle. At the
same time Farmer Browns Boy was
using boughs which were too big and
heavy to be easily pulled aside by any
one of the size of Reddy Fox. In
fact, as perhaps you have guessed,
Farmer Browns Boy was building a
castle for the Bob Whites.
Bully, the English Sparrow, Watch
ed from a distance and wondered
what it meant. He meant to go over
and investigate it just as soon as
Farmer Browns Boy should leave.
Inc BOD w mites nlQlnS IN the Dram-
ble-tangle not far away wondered
what it all meant. They didn't guess
| that that pile was being built especial
ly for them, but as it grew and grew
Bob made up his mind that it was
just the kind of a place they needed
and he meant to make use of it as
soon as the way was clear. You see,
while the bramble-tangle was a safe
place, it was not a comfortable
place, because there was nothing to
shut out rough Brother North Wind.
There were times when the only way
in which they could keep warm was
by budding close together.
1t took Farmer Browns Boy most
of the morning to get that brush pile
to suit him. When it was finished
he went up to the barn and got some
! grain which he scattered around the
edge of the brush pile.
There now said he, Il guess Bob
White will find that grain and if he
finds that I hope he will have sense
enough to creep in under this brush
He will be safe from everybody except
Shadow the Weasle there, and he will
be comfortable no matter what the
| weather is"
No sooner was Farmer Browns Boy
! gone than Bully, the English Sparrow,
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ZEN. Fayolle Receives the D. S. M.

PARIS. December IS (HavaS)-Gen.
Fayolle of the French army recently
received the American distinguished
service medal. 1t was given him by
col. Bentley Mott. who went to
-Kaiserlauten as Gen. Pershings rep
resentative.
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dainty little party or dancing class
frock for a girl of six or eight
years. This dress would be very
charming made of chiffon in any
preferred shade or of fine net. 1t
could also be developed in dainty
sheer washable material. The dress
is a trifle short-waisted, with skirt
cut straight front and back and with
triple f1ounce or peplum at each side,
giving it a pretty flare.
The severe straight-line frockS are
not popular for girls younger than
twelve years, except when a heavy
material is used, when the dress
takes on tailored lines. Usually ruff
fies and flaring effects are preferred
For serviceable little tub frocks
plaid gingham is the best fabric Sc
lection, and a style note very much
in evidence in the newest models
brought out is the rather wide sash
of self fabric.
Some charming little Bingham
dresses are shown. designed for girls
of six to even sixteen, with gingham
sashes four, five or six inches wide,
tied in crisp, wide bows at the back.
These sashes are always attached in
some way to the frock proper. and
for the older girls the surplice waist,
with ends continued to form the sash.
is favorite.
Rather short-waisted styles are
very much featured for next spring
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also becomingly trimming the collar.
A design in gray and silver was en-
broidered on the wine-colored velvet,
and the coat was lined with gray
brocaded satin.
Very attractive was the model in
kings blue velvet, the full skirt shir-
red and corded and trimmed with gold
frogs. A deep collar of beaver was
quite an asset, and the broad bands
of beaver at the cuffs were desira-
BILE finish. The coat was handsomely
lined with white satin.
A smart little hat of kings blue
velvet to match the coat was trimmed
with two jaunty ostrich feathers in
the same shade, while band of black
panne velvet formed pleasing con-
trast against the hair. This model is
sketched.
The coat suit in the sketch, while
not particularly unusual in any way.
departs enough from the conventional
to be pleasingly original. OF medium
length is the coat of gray peau de
peche trimmed with narrow bands of
gray squirrel and trim rows of small
bone buttons, while the skirt is of
conventional length and breadth and
quite unadorned.
For evening wear two lovely frocks
were seen. The one in the sketch was
of white satin, very rich and heavy in
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FASHIONS

Juvenile social functions and events
were not very seriously interrupted
by the war, SO that a revival of in
terest in party clothes among mem
bers of the younger generation as
the result of peace cannot be truth
fully recorded. Naturally, party
clothes have to be renewed pretty
often, and, inaSmuch as so very little
material is needed to make a dress
for little girl, there seems no just
reason why. if a member of the av-
erage comfortable American family,
she should ever be shabby.
The sketch offers an idea for a
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HOLDS DISCHARGE MERITED.
Soldier Makes Plea for Technically
Trained Men.

From one of about 10000 soldiers at
Franklin cantonment, Md, comes the
plea that the technically trained men
there be demobilized soon, in order
that they may return to civilian work.
This correspondent writes:
Franklin cantonment is Signal
Corps camp and contains men of tech
nical training. We feel that every
minute spent in service at this time is
wrecking our future success"
1t is stated that the Franklin can
Torment has not yet been considered
in the general rehabilitation plans.
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PERUvIANS FLEE FROM CHILE
5000 Fugitives Take Ship for b.
livia and Home Country.

25.-It is estimated that 5000 Peru
VANS have fed from Chile to Peru
and Bolivia during the past month
as a result of the crisis between Chile
and Peru. Every steamer from the
south is bringing scores of fugitives.
A dispatch from lilo. southern Peru,
reports that a Chilean airplane flew
over that port on December 21.
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Millions Use
It For Colds
Because "Papes Cold Compound" relieves cold grippe
misery in few hours-Really wonderful!

relieves sick headache. dulIness,
feverishness, sore throat. sneezing.
soreness and stiffness.
"Pape's Cold Compound" is the
quickest, surest relief known and
costs only a few cents at drug
stores. 1t acts without assistance,
tastes nice, and causes no incon-
venience. Don't accept a substi.
tute. Insist on "Pape's"-nothing
else.
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stuff themselves in the greedy way
which is theirs. 1t began to look as
if Bob White wouldn't get any of
that grain. But he did. Farmer
Browns Boy wasn't out of sight be-
fore the Bob Whites arrived and took
possession Bob knew what that pile
was for and he loved Farmer Browns
Boy more than ever
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Don't STAY stuffed-up!

Don't stay stuffed-up!
Quit blowing and snuffiing! A
dose of "Pape's Cold Compound"
taken every two hours until three
doses are taken will end grippe
misery and break up a severe cold
either in the head, chest, body or
limbs.
1t promptly opens cIogged-up
nostrils and air passages; stops
nasty discharge or nose running;
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William A. Twiss Dies Suddenly.

MAIDEN. Mass, December 26.-Wil-
liam A. Twiss of New Bedford, re-
tired cotton manufacturer, died sud-
denly yesterday at the home of rela-
tives here. With his father, William
H. Twiss, he was active for many years
in the development of the Hathaway
Manufacturing Company at New Bed
ford, He was one of the directors of
the Textile School in that city.
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SEEN IN THE WASHINGTON SHOPS

There is quite an interesting array
of evening wraps on display in the
local shops. The majority of them
follow the new dolman lines-sort of
glorified capes, as it were, and very
smart and becoming. One seen, of
garnet panne velvet, was extraordi-
narily voluminous everywhere. save
at the ankles, where the extreme full
ness vanished to an astonishing Slim
ness of contour. A wide shawl collar
was trimmed with silver fox extend
ing down the front of the coat, and
the scalloped Sits served as arm
holes.
Another seen was of wine-colored
panne velvet combined with gray
panne velvet with admira BILE results.
The full kimono sleeves were cuffed
with bands of moleskin, this same fur
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BOMB WOUNDS sEMENOFF.
Man in Uniform Throws Explosive
in Theater.

HARDIN. Monday. December % (by
the Associated Press).-Gen. Seme-
noff was wounded in the legs and
ten other persons We're injured when
a man wearing a uniform threw
bomb in a theater in Chita recently,
to advices from that city.
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single wide band of silver cloth
formed the simple bodice.
An elaborate frock of violet taffeta
had an odd and extravagantly draped
skirt with many loops at the hips,
and the quaint, tight little bodice
was piped and finished with long,
flowing sleeves of violet chiffon. A
single pink velvet rose was tucked
in at the belt.
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quality, the beautifully draped skirt
falling in sumptuous folds over a mar
row underskirt. The graceful angel
sleeves of white net formed a sort of
drapery that fell almost to the hem of
the skirt. A silver ornament over
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Swift & Company.s Sales of Beef

in Washington. d. c.. for the week
ending Saturday, Dec. q. 1918. aver
aged 1926 cents per pound.-Adver-
tiSement
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Camouhage.
~ oRNEL1Us VANDERBILT t

n ORNELIUS VANDERBILT told a
" camouhage story at Newport.
"At the Grand Central station" he
said. zone youung man was seeing
another off, when three very pretty
girls got in the Pullman.
THE departing young man was smit-
ten by the three girls charms. and so
he muttered to his friend:
LOOK here, to oblige me, you know,
won't you put your head in at the door
just as the train pulls out, and shout
in a loud voice: Then I'll close the
5th avenue house, sir. and store the
silver on the yacht"
"The other chap agreed to do this.
and the one smitter with the girls
sat and waited for the thing to come
to pass, his eyes fixed on their pretty
faces.
"Finally the whistle blew The
obliging chap outside hoped up on
the back platform, stuck his head in
at the door. and yelled:
"Hey. you: tell your boss If that
suit of mine amt home Saturday night
1 won't have it at air"
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the British soldiers. When the order
came in I did not know who Baden
Powell was, and 1 went to the British
consul in Philadelphia to, find whether
1t was safe to fill the order. He re-
piled that the bill would be paid by
the British department of war. A few
months later we received the second
got our money, of course. but I was
rather amused later on to see that the
purchase was criticised by the Scottish
newspapers, whose editors wanted to
know why it was necessary for the
British army to send $3.50 leach to
America for hats when they could buy
hats from Scotland at IS cents"
'Of what material are the soldiers
hats made?" l asked.
1.-THE body of the hat is composed of
the fur of the rabbit. 1t takes about
five pounds of such fur to make one
dozen hats, and 100 skins to supply the
Ave pounds of fur. The rabbit skins
are brought from Australia, England,
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walruses. Trout that tipped the scales
at forty-nine pounds. three ounces.
You know the kind. Mr.. Walton"
Yes" said Walton. Il know-the
kind that never were"
"Ye-es." drawled Charon. I'VE call
EN- the getaway fish down here"
Are they good eating" asked Sir
Walter.
Wal. SEEM as how never ct
none. I KANT exactly say" said Char
on, 'for as told We. ye can't ketch 'em.
and no man yet has ever ct q fish that
hain't been ketched. The trouble with
'em is they haven't any mouths to bite
with. They're all tale. and dinged little
fish with It,"
The old ferryman put his finger to
his lips and. whistling to Cerberus, who
was trying to corner a flea on his back
with all three Of his mouths at once
he fioated of down stream.
Hes sarcastic old boy, isn't he!'
said Walton.
nous cruise. Noah" asked Socrates
No., said Noah. I'VE hadn't any
bait. We only had two worms on
board, and they belonged to the collec-
ton. Besides. it was too wet to fish
The only fish I saw on the whole trim
was a whale. and he was such null
sance we sheered off every time he hove
in sight"
Afraid Of a collision, I suppose?'
said Admiral Nelson. "One good bump
from a whale and your old scow would
have keeled over"
Not She retorted Noah. You
couldn't capsize the Betsy J. The real
trouble was that those COMPOUNDED old
whales would come alongside while the
rain was at Its height and spout their
old geysers all over our decks until IT
nearly swamped us. We had all the
water we could stand without EN-"
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cept Capt. Kidd. The rest were too
scandaliZed to remain.
You pulled it little too strong that
time, Munch,' said Kidd. You might
have got away with the swordfish, but
batting a fishhook with a boa con-
strictor won't go. You'll never hear
the end of that tale"
Neither will they" said Munchausen.
They wouldn't wait for the end of IT..
and I'll never give EN- another chance.
But I don't mind telling you, Kidd,
that when that whale finally bit and
we'd hauled him aboard and cut him
up we found small leather book en-
bedded in his vermiform appendage.
and what do you suppose 1T was
labeled?'
II don't know. MUNICH" said Kidd,
nervously. What was it?'
Jonah: his diary" replied Munchau-
sen. What do you think of that?"
But there was no answer. Capt.
Kidd lay in a swoon on the deck at
Munchausen's feet.
Copyright. 1918. BY Mcclure syndicste)
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tent to which the hat industry Of our
country has grown.
i. =
The American colonists began to
make hats almost as soon as they land
ed They were not satisfied with the
coonskin caps used by the hunters, and
about forty years after the Pilgrims
landed on Plymouth rock the assembly
of Virginia was enacting laws to en-
courage hat making. A premium OF
ten pounds Of tobacco was offered for
every good fur hat made in the colony,
and a little later the expectation of
raccoon furs was forbidden. Long be-
fore the Declaration of Independence
was signed Delaware had offered a
prize Of 40 shillings for the neatest and
best hat manufactured in the lower
counties and Carolina had developed a
flourshing hat industry and was ex-
porting hats - the West Indies. Even
at the American hats which were
brought there to be sold. and the En-
glish manufacturers petitioned parlia-
ment to forbid such importations. The
committee to which this petition was
referred reported that there were ten
matters in the single city of Boston,
one of whom made forty hats a week,
and that 10000 beaver hats were an
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Munchausen. strolling up. Fine day,
amt it. Anybody want to take me on
Nothing doing" growled Omar
Khayyam. when chap who plays
eighteen holes in 433 puts in a card
of SO he passes on and out as far as /
am concerned."-
Munchausen flushed.
You wrong me. Omar" he said. II
was new at the game that day and I
didn't know you counted the misses"
Il don't refer to that game" retorted
Omar Il refer to the one we played
last Saturday."
"Oh-that one" said Munchausen.
'Well-wasn't that all right? thought
we only counted the puts"
Il guess that was 1t. baron" laughed
Omar. But don't care to. play with
you. anyhow can't afford 1t. There's
no beating q man who always has a
good lie ready no matter where his
ball happens to land"
We're not interested in golf anyhow
this morning. Munch," said Walton.
IT'S fish we're putting our minds on
today"
And noble sport it is" said Mum
chausen. "A sport fit for kings.
You've been fisherman in your day,
have you?" queried Ptolemy.
We'll. I should say I have" returned
Munchausen, sitting on the rail. II shall
never in my life forget a marvellous day
] had once in the Dardanelles-a day
very much like this, it was. only trifie
warmer. l was attacked in midstream
by swordfsh. l was swimming from
Constantinople to Port Said on bet
had with a Russo-Turkish friend of
mine-old Abdul Samovar-I don't know
il any of you ever met him. He was
nice old fellow, but great sport. He
bet me Fl 900 couldn't swim from Con-
stantinople to Port Said in four days
without tow"
Some task. should say" said Byron.
latter tackling the Hellespont / know"
Same here" said Leander. II guess
you lost, didn't you, Baron?"
"Yes-I lost" said Munchausen, but
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your life. I, presume" sneered Napo-
leon.
frightened, but didn't want to lose my
bet. ] needed that $1,000 at that time,
so I made myself as inconspicuous as
possible, but to no avail. He caught
sight of me in the water, and in jiHy
he lunged at me. and l realized that |
was in for it. I backed away, treadinS
water like Splinter in 10O-yard dash,
steering myself with my left hand,
nice little Damascus blade that had
been given me by Abdul
"O-indeed." said Leander. You were
swimming from Constantinople to Port
Said with your clothes on and"
x
"Of course" said Munchausen. why
not? Any fool can swim from Constan-
tinople to Port Said with his clothes off.
That's what made the bet interesting.
Why. I even had my army boots and
thing I had. too. for they saved me from
a shark that attacked me at the same
time. I saw the ravenous creature max
ing for me. all ready to bite my legs off,
left foot / ripped him squarely up the
middle with my spurs. But the swordfish
was different. He was an antagonist
worthy of my steel. and 1 want to say
to you that while 1 have fenced with
the best swordsmen of Europe and ia
pan 1 have never encountered a fencer
that was his equal in offense and in
parry. He was quicker than chain light
ming. 1 parted his first lunge, but he
was back on me like a flash. I caught
his point. and served him off to the left,
and would have dispatched him then
and there had not the swiftness of the
tide impeded the action of my sword
arm. Two seconds later he was facing
me again. and feinted..-"
~ don't wonder" said Xerxes. II
think I'd have played the swoon game
myself"
81 don't mean fainted-with an A."
said MuDchausen, Indignantly. II mean
feinted2With an e.
81 tented with my sword" said Mum
chausen. but he was a D'Artagnan at
the business. He parted, f1nessed for
position, and then made a lunge for
my face. Fortunately my mask"
Good Lord" calculated Byron.
Hear him, Leander-he was swimming
from Constantinople to Port Said with
a mask on"
"Of course, was. said Munchausen.
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nually manufactured in New York and
New England. AS result of this evil
dence the English parliament passed
an act that no person was to be all
lowed to make. hats unless he had
served an apprenticeship of seven years.
and that no negro could work at the
business. 1t provided that no hats or
felts, dyed or undyed, finished or I'M
finished. could be put on board any YES
sci for any place within any of the
British plantations with the intent to
be exported thence to any other planta-
ton or thence to any place whatsoever.
It was laws like this that aided in
bringing about our Declaration of In
dependence.
After the revolutionary war the hat
industry thrived. AS soon as the SOL
diers were disbursed there was a de-
mand for new hats. and in 1850 Zadoc
Benedict had started the hat industry
of Danbury, Conn. He was then making
three hats a day, and Danbury has
been noted for it's hats from then until
now. A little later hat manufacture
had become an extensive industry in
Pennsylvania. Two years after the
revolutionary war closed there were
sixty-eight hafters in Philadelphia and
PAT in other parts Of the state. Penn
sylvania was then making $4,000 fur
hats per annum, and at the same time
thousands of hats were being made in
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soft crowned. stiff brimmed headgear
now used by the Army. All fine felt
hats are made of the fur of aquatic and
semi-aquatic animals. The very finest
come from the otter and also the bea-
yer, the fiat tailed animal which is
trapped near its dam in the wilds OF
northwestern America. Hats almost as
fine are made from the nutria which
is a South American animal somewhat
like the beaver. save that 1t is smaller
and has round, sharp, pointed tall.
All such fur is costly, and that for the
hat of the soldier comes from the hare
and the rabbit, which is very much
cheaper.
The general idea as to felt hats is
that they are cut, and made or nodded
out of sheet of felt. The fact is that
the fur goes from, the rabbit skin right
into the hat. The skins come in In
great bales, are carrotted or treated
with nitrate of mercury before they
are removed from the hides. The fur
can be felted because each hair COM
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Scotland or France. Here the fur is
removed and felted as you will see it
done in any hat factory.
why do we have to go abroad for the
skins. What Is the matter with the
American rabbit?'' 1 asked.
''The fur Of the American rabbit will
not make hats. Its fiber has no felting
properties. and for this reason we have
to bring in the skins from other coun-
tries. In fact, 80 per cent of all the
material that goes into a hat comes
from abroad. This is so, not only Of
the fur. but of the raw silk for the
bands, which comes from China. Japan
or Italy; Of the sweat leather, which is
made Of sheepskin from France, and of
the shellac which stiffens the brim, and
which comes from India. This is SO of
all hats. no matter whether they cost
one dollar or ten dollars"
In order to tell you the story Of the
hat Of the soldier, I have gone through
the factory OF the company of which
Col. Cummings is president, following
the fur from the rough skins upon
which tits imported, to its place in the
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posing It consists of barbed Shaft COW
cred with scales or hooks. This can be
seen only by means of a microscope.
When. the hairs are mixed together, the
hooks interlace and interlock forming
the felt. The mercury causes the scales
on the hair to open and fits them for
felting. The skins are then dampened
and run through machine which
causes the fur to flow off from the hide
without the apparent displacement of
the hair. This machine has revolving
knives, which whirl around at the rate
of 1000 revolutions a minute. The pelt
is run into the machine with the fur
side up, and the knife cuts Off the skin
in short strings which look much like
the f1bers of shredded wheat biscuit.
These bits fall below and are saved
to make glue. The fur remains intact,
and it moves along over an endless belt,
in a thick. fluffy sheet. 1t is now as
soft as silk and as light as the finest
Of down. AS 1 watched this process l
was told that something like 100000
skins are cut off in that way in this
factory every year. That equals about