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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

Fur fabrics have become so hand
some and rich that they associate on
equal terms with real skins. They do
not suffer by this close comparison.
Until the present year coats made of
these fabrics were set off by collar and
cuffs and bands of fur, but now we
find the fabrics and fur dividing hon
ors in the body of as brilliant garments
as any, except those magnificent long
wraps and cloaks of costly skins that
are only the privilege of the very rich.
The time may come when things as
they were will be reversed and the fur
fabrics become a decoration for coats
made of fur.
Among the really impressive coats
that have been brought out for mid
winter wear, there are some very hand
some models in which fur fabrics are
so generously trimmed with fur that
the effect is that or an all-fur garment.
The picture at the head of this article
portrays a coat of castor-colored plush
which looks something like moleskin,
but is more lustrous. 1t is straight
hanging and has a wide girdle of the
fabric, crushed about the figure below
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Night Photographs From Airplane.

An Italian invention which permits
photographs being taken at night has
been submitted to the signal corps of
the United States army. According to
the men who control the new device 1t
will soon be possible to take excellent
pictures of enemy positions from air
planes flying at a low height on o.
light nights. 1t is also claimed that the
invention can be fitted to motion-pic-
ture cameras, which would permit the
photographing for the screen of much
of the fighting in the air, the greater
part of which takes place in the early
morning hours. Up to the present time
the chief obstacles met by the daylight
aerial photographers is that the anti
aircraft guns force the flyers to take
pictures from a great height, and much
of the detail of the enemy lines is
therefore lost. 1t is held, continues
Aviation, that flyers are in little dan
ger from artillery when flying at night.
Scientific American.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
SHIPS IN CONSTANT PERIL
Sailing Without Lights, NavIgators
Can Only Rely on ouIckness Of Per-
ception and Professional Nerve

Even II the Huns are escaped, The
life of a merchant ship man in these
days is far removed from beer and skit-
ties. An example Of what they have
to go through is furnished by the mar
row squeak the Empress of Britain and
the Cardiganshire had one night in the
Aegean sea, Ralph e. Cropley writes
In the Atlantic. Both are big ships,
and they were loaded with troops and
going Mt full speed-zlgzagging-not
a light showing. 1t was n of those
nights when you can hardly see your
hand before you. There were no stars,
no but
to trust to luck and the ears Of the
man on the bridge.
The captain of one of the ships has
told me that, before he knew 1t, there
was a ship, bow on him, dead ahead.
OF urse the first impulse was to shift
his helm; but If he did so, the dan
ger would be of n ship giving the
other a glancing blow. Fortunately,
the other skipper appreciated this also.
Their nerve, In spite of several years
Of war-zone work, was still equal to
the occasion. It all happened in the
twinkling Of an eye, and they passed
safely though there had been less than
50'feet separating the ships, and their
outswung lifeboats nearly scraped. The
captain Of the Cardiganshire, though
he could not see him, heard the cap
tain Of the Empress Of Britain above
the noises of the sea-heard him yell /:
"For Gods sake, old man, don't shift
your helm !" so close were they on their
respective bridges high above the sea.
Instances of this kind, which try
mems souls, nightly occur, and quite
frequently there are collisions and
tragedies in the pitch dark. The only
way that the two ships identified
themselves was ten days later, at Sa-
loniki, when the captain of the Cardi-
ganshlre heard the skipper of the
Empress Of Britain asking a friend If
he knew what ship he nearly bumped
on a certain night. l am sorry 10 re-
port that the captain of the Empress
of Britain lost his life in the Halifax
explosion while doing hospital work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Couldn't Recall Il.

Before sentencing the prisoner the
Judge read a long record Of his Grim
lnal misdoings, dating from early
youth. Then the prisoner asked:
MAY / inquire your ~lordship's
name"
"What do you want to know my
name for?' sternly asked the judge.
"weli." replied the prisoner, "since
your 4ordship so accurately described
my early life. / can't but conclude that
you and / have been friends at some
time. / fail to recall you at the mo-
ment. though-"-Stray Stories
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

the waistline and fastened at the front
with a large buckle. The very deep
border at the bottom is made of three
bands of skunk fur and there is a
splendid collar of this becoming fur.
Ample cuffs of it give character to the
roomy sleeves. Although not in the
same class with the highest priced all
fur coats, these combinations of furs
and fabrics are not found to be mex.
pensive. But both plush of this kind
and skunk fur are good investments.
The skunk is among the most durable
of furs and the plush will outwear it.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

There are some hats that belong to
middle life, or rather that do not be-
long to the youthful. They match up
with the poise, and assurance in style,
of matrOnly wearers who have Guilt
waited the art of dressing. 1t is their
privilege to clothe themselves with
more b~rilliance than belongs to youth.
Rich fur turbans and small hats and
hats made of beautiful plumage are
among those that look best on older
women-youth is not the right back
ground for them. The superb feath-
ers from the peacock's neck and gor-
geous tail, and other iridescent feath-
ers, and those whose markings are
marvels of natures work, are used to
cover shapes either quiet or spirited,
for matronly wearers.
The new %all-feather hats are distin-
guished this season by wing and other
trims that are in one with the hat.
That is, the carefully placed plumage is
simply extended into wing or crest OF
coronet that seems to grow from the
hat as natural as the wings from q
bird. These hats are suited to fall and
| winter wear. Only a few feather hats
anticipate these seasons and these ars
| all-white feather hats that often ap
| pear In August.
The group of hats shown here II
| typical Of the styles, a collection o.
four Of the best that the season hal
brought to us. They include a tricorI
entirely covered with feathers, a ha
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

him he was a sweet is any peach that yer grew"
= ooh, I see; he could spare you better than the others. You'll be out OF
a job first thing you know"
"Eateful thing you'll Say, if you expect me to go o. the street with you
you gotta rub off some of that paint 1 wouldn't be caught dead looking like
you do"
Don't worry, love; you'll never look like me, dead n alive. You gotta
be born to beauty like mne" and the girl who making up laughed out
with the graceless joyousness of a street kid. And the other took her at her
face value.
yourself, can't you kdT"
All Of which would be too foolish to waste print paper on except that 1t
is exactly the way two girls went on the other afternoon.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

man was first on the scene. In hurried words the woman told all she had
SEEN, pointing shakiy to the imocentlOohng handbag resting o. the curbing.
The Waterman was cautious. Were the bomb fends scattering explosives mis-
ceLaneOusly about the streets of Chicago? He must be careful He decided
to await the arrival of the city police.
In due course of time the proper authority appeared in the person of
Sergt Fred Berger policeman on special duty in the loop.
Berger proved a courageous policeman. Taking his life in hand and
the satche in the other, a it were, he carried the treacherous burden to the
First precinct station.
Nervousy the cops gathered around as the bag was opened, to reveal:
One kodak, value about $25,
One set of fishing tackle.
One bulhead, recently deceased.
If the absentlmnded party who lot. this treasure will appear 1t the sta
ton he probably will be able to recover his property.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

having a narrow brim draped with vel
vet and a very beautiful 'p~ocahontas"
band that towers to a considerable
height at the back, a plain turban and
n with a very narrow brim. This
one is covered with plain, tan-colored
feathers at the side. Short, double
wings are extended from the crown, at
each side, The feathers that r used
on these hats show bronze and vivid
green-the predominating colors. They
are contrasted with tan, brown, black,
gray, and there are innumerable tints
that shift about as the light plays on
them. But no one can describe ade-
quately the markings or colorings OF
a beautiful feather. They are more
wonderful than flowers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
GA. 2nmA
Bands Galore.

Bands, bands, bands-the new
dresses have as many as a three
hinged circus. There are bands Of
fur ON both bodices and skirts. There
are bands of velours de laine-white on
a black velvet skirt, for instance-of
which Jenny is particularly fond.
Strips of fuzzy looking angora DIVERSE
fly Jersey frocks. and so on da capo.
Sometimes, too. there is a double bill
playing; and between bands you wiz
e introduced rows OF fringe.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

below the knees. He progressed between n pair If crutches, but there was
hope in those blue eyes and courage IN his soul, the deathless memory OF his
deeds in France, to sustain through life his hating gait The morale IF the
wounded youth is magnificent There is n o whimperlng, no whining.
Many of the wounded men had crossed from Brest to New York in the
great Leviathan, fellow passengers of Mr.. KinchelOe and his congressional
party. They joyfuny stampeded the speaker on crutches and in dressing
gowns TO swap experiences and to display personal trophies of thu wal, and
everybody Joined in singing Justify "GOod Morning, Mr.. Mpp, Zpp' "Over
There and all the rest of the jolly choruses
And such pampered pets as these dear invaEds ael A stream of private
motor cars is constantly before the door, usually with a gentle chauheurete
at the wheel, to take the convalescents driving. Women file to the hospitals
in droves ladened with homemade goodies for the lei and other offerings.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

of Washington. Not a man but wore his
bathrobe, and in the pocket of almost
every negligee reposed a proud souve-
mir of the owners prowess under the
shell fire of the Huns, for the listen
ers were veterans of the war.
A youth from North Carolina
mountains, still shivering from shell
shock, fished up a piece of shrapnel
from his kimono pocket. "They
gouged this out of my hip" he ex-
planned. another piece got me in the
head. / don't reckon I'll eyer be fit
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

to 70 back-wisht 1 could, though" He and many of his slppered comrades
or iauntly the tiny, soft Overseas" trench cap, that readily accommodates
a raj mask, that supersedes the campaign hat as SOC as u mn leave our
shores and is rapidly becoming the only military headgear of u troops
except the steel helmet.
The auditorium thronged with many hundred invalid young soldiers, q
number of whom brought in by their comrades lay around the walls IN cots.
histIed with a tragic forest of crutches. A game young chap with a bandaged
fraction of a foot led the appl. use together with a handsome sportsman
whose case is particularly pathetic who has no legs at all. The latter is
carried tenderly from place to place by comrades less severely stricken.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Snort-Wear Scarfs.

To replace the knitted and woven
scarfs manufacturers r turning
their attention to scarfs of velours ma
terials, in bright colors, for sport
wear. These are straight and have
the popular pockets at the ends.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

earthly are college mates at Creighton university. Marsh is also a student
Driving n roadster, Mccarthy and Marsh went to Blair ut midnight and
held up the proprietor of a confectionery store. They got $685.
Leaving Blair, according ito McCarthys statement, they ranged alongside
a oliver driven by John Kruse. a farmer living near Florence. VIII
Kruse was his brother, Fred. Kruse attempted to escape when lie a mt
of the robbers leaning from the roadster with a revolver in view, ut we'll
directed shots punctured the rear tires of the Kruse machine. The farmers
we're forced to give up 81 and a watch.
The next event and the fatal n of the three robberies was when the
youthful bandits sighted the cal in which Gardner and his friends were
riding. They were bound on a early morning duckshoohng trip.
Not noticing the five shotguns piled in the car, Mccarthy, waving his
revolver ordered the huntsmen to stop. He lined the fve alongside h road
and was about o search the party when Gardner recognized him and said
3d. The hunters we're allowed to leave unsearched. The arrests followed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

tII0 DUE. UI IIG UIe55VI DtIUTG IIIG III
ror in a theater primping room after
the matinee.
''This town must be run away
with Office pets. You are about the
forty-eleventh I've come across and I
haven't been here a month yet. But
you can count me out. 1 got off be-
cause / had a day coming to me
same as you, / guess"
"No such a thingl Two of the
other girls wanted to get off and he
wouldn't lettem. But when I asked
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

mysterious handbag, brought to her
mind the recent bomb explosion at the
federal building. The woman decided
to await developments.
Presently a north-bound a rum
bled toward the crossing. Dropping
his satchel, the mysterious stranger
sprinted toward it, jumped aboard and
was gone before the amateur detective
could think twice. His deSertion of
the suspicious satchel convinced the
onlooker that a foul plot was afoot.
She called for help. A Pinkerton watch
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
For Cushions.

The good parts of Il discarded mat
tress may be used by cutting into
squares, covering with c%retonne or 9th
er cloth and using as chair and win
dow seat cushions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

lace was gnarIed and twisted from
shrapnel wounds. His left arm and
his left eye were shot away. The Huns
had at least left him a pair of stalwart
legs. That man is happy. The I'M
mutllated side of his young face
glowed with inward radiance.
{ Out on the edge of the grounds,
where the goldenrod and the asters
land the bittersweet make a gay au-
1tumn tangle, a blue-eyed veteran of
Cantigny was seeking solitude in which
to try out two artificial legs attached
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

"Any person who tells you that at the close If the wa there will be a
number of unoccupied department buildings In Washington displays gross
Ignorance OF conditions here" said the official referred to. 1.-THE truth is, we
need two more buildings that should be at least equal in size to the annex
washington, as far a necessary public buildings are concerned. was
always about as much unprepared for peace al she has been shown to be
unprepared for war. And now that influenza has spread, conditions have
become unbearable"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

sWered. He turned TO his companions.
"Stuff's off, fellows" he an
nounced. Let this bunch 60" Gard
ner and his four companions were al
lowed to proceed with their automo-
bile.
AS the result of the midnight
recognition between bandit and victim,
William Mccarthy, aged eighteen, and
George Marsh, aged seventeen, are in
the city Jail and are said to have con
fessed to three robberies of which
they are accused. Gardner and Nc
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

McAdoo. The Arlington building and
the treasury annex, both of which will
be ready for occupancy in the winter,
provide 100000 feet Of floor space.
But even with this addition to the
available space the treasury depart
ment will find 1t a million feet short
Of the requirements for normal times.
The work of the treasury department
is done in ffty-ive buildings scattered
over the city. Every building and all
rooms are crowded to "suffocatlon," an
official of the department said.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Departments Have Long Needed More Floor Space

WITH many buildings either requsuoned o erected to accommodate the
w nations war business, floor space to take car of peacedme business is
insumeient This statement was authorized by Secretary of the Treasury
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
How They Welcome Wounded Yanks in New York

NEW YORK; sturdy hero of the scissors drive, who doubtless has a long
~ and useful. life before him, held between his thumb and the one finger
still remaining o bis right hand a cigarette that he smoked enbIngy: His
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Recognized Chum in RObBer Who Held Him Up

OMAHA-With a highwoymans pistol stuck into his face and his own
W hands above his head, Charles Gardner said: "Why, is that you, BnlTs
1t was the robbers turn % look closely. "1eno, Chuck, that your he an
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

At last she sighed and half turned
away, hopeless longing in her eyes;
but rebellion smoldered there, too, and
as she cast a backward glance at the
beauty she loved and vas denied, re-
bellion hardened to determination. She
fumbled in her purse and drew out a
quarter, swung around and entered the
shop.
"How much are them posiesT she
asked huskily. pointing to some faint
ly pink blossoms on the window ledge.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

"Those are fifty cents" The woman studied them a long time. They're
powerful pretty" she murmured resignedly
The girl looked at her keenly. Perhaps 1t is because she loves people a IS
well as flowers that she keeps fresh and sweet through long, hot days.
ayes. they are beautiful; but my favortes are not those blue flowers
she said brightly, pretending to have misunderstood to which flowers the
woman referred. 81 like these pink Ones at twenty cents, best"
"Why, themhs the mes 1 wanted" the woman acclaimed, nj in spite OF
herself her voice rembled. 'Tn take N of them It twenty cents"
The girl smiled Is she wrapped the plant and watched her radiant us
toner nc down the crowded street, the flower held close al something In
nntey precious; and she was still smiling when she dropped thirty centa
from her own pocket into the cash register.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Not a Desperate; Man Was Merely Absent Minded

NHCAGo-A restless Individual paced back and forth neal Madison and
~ LaSane streets lear midnight His actions attracted the attention OF a
woman O ar opposite corner. His apparent nervousness, coupled with the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
With Souvenirs and Memories of the Great Game

TT WAS a strange audience that listened to Representative Kncheloe of
Y. M. c. A. building at the Walter Reed Military hospital o. the outskirts
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
A Woman, a Flower, and a Fib That Was Pure White

" ANSAS CITY-She was large and heavy, with clumsy, workstnened
n fingers and a face networked with ARE. For long minutes she had been
standing in front of a florists window, witt yearntng eyes o tn banked
ferns and delcatly tinted flowers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

ven If messengers are supposed 10 know no hours. The boys were counting
their days earnings. One little fellow displayed SIS, and another told how
he a making $50 n month easy a rolling of a log, ne said.
How to spend it all was the problem.
Some favored going over to "de hotel" and blowing several dollars In
for a real feed, while others thought of the theaters, only to recall that the
theaters are closed O account of the Spanish influenza.
Amid these boys stood a veteran messenger, a frl old man. seemingly,
yet there must be q deep well of life in that old fellow, for he is to be seen
night and day, rain and shine, walking around, delivering messages.
Anybody want to go up to the capitol to get some calsT' cried the mn
at the desk. He named a prominent congressman.
"Naw" spoke up ne youth, pulling his cap over his eyes. 1--WE got too
much ter do from now on ter bother wild i'm"
"Tu 60" said the old fellow.
The boys gave him the "a h" is he shufhed slowly out the door.
He was gone about two hours.
When he came back he brought with him a bundle of kilograms al big az
a trunk.
The congressman had q big constituency
The maj at the desk figured up the commissions"
On the kilograms which the boys had refused that old messenger
made $50.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Just Two Foolish and Frivolous Young Women

G HE is the office pet. She said 20. The other young woman accepted the
y boast with the indifference which you notice usually greets u self
praisements-people are Sc aggravating-and went on dabbing rouge from
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Showing That Sometimes the Late Bird "Gets His"

WAsHNGToN-Yes, the early bird catches the worm. But the late bird
w sometimes catches 1t, too; especially IL he stays up late enough. The
mahn hours have been sung through history, but no one has laid much stress
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

NbOa wv NoAuC vi INT UhuAObOho hOhAc
at the other end of the day.
l have always thought that the
crafty bird which would sit out or
the limb after his fellows had sought
their downy nests would probably
catch more worms than If he had beat
the bugle.
Birds and men-it is all the same.
Messenger boys were gathered in
a room at me of the local telegraph
offices the other night. 1t was late
for this particular shift of messengers,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-28
RECRUITING OFFICERS
SPEAK AT BAGLEY TO
AN AUDIENCE OF 700

When they do things in Bagley,
they do 'em right. That's why there
were nearly 700 out last evening to
hear Corporal Clarence Foucault of
the Bemidji recruiting station, and
Sergeant Page of the Canadian re-
cruiting station, Bemidji, speak on
recruiting and what it means to Am
erica and her allies.
The meeting was held in the spa
cious auditorium of the splendid
Bagley school and it was packed to
suffocation, every chair available be-
ing pressed into service.
AL Kaiser, president of the First
National bank and chairman OF the
Clearwater county Liberty Loan ac-
tivities, presided There we're no
frills about the meeting, but it was
an intensely interested audience that
heard the officers.
r. L. Given, chairman Of the
speakers bureau Of Beltrami county,
accompanied the soldiers.
At the close Of the meeting, Chair
man Kaiser explained that the main
tenance of the recruiting office in
Bemidji was by few patriotic cit
liens, calling attention to the Incl
dental expense. and the Bagley pa
triots contributed $37 to the work.
Three young men enlisted after
the meeting. They are Edward Vince
Ter. Harry Dart and Arthur Peder-
son. They Joined the coast artillery
and will leave next week.