Evening star., 1918-01-27

! beautifully is to choose Il gown lively
in color and line and suited to oneself.
Having procured such a gown, there
is no reason why it should be changed
every three months. Because of wom-
ems craze for new things the men who
make clothes are compelled to produce
new fashions--usuallv hideous ones
four or five times a year Women waste
hours and hours Shamefully in looking
for clothes. trying them. buying them.
putting them on and off Surely a
woman with a fine, vigorous brain can
use it for something better"
The Oak Park Garden Club is unique
IN many ways, says. the Chicago Herald.
First of all 1t is a
Flowers tn club Of amateur
-, -, flower gardeners be-
Bloom Again. lieving firmly in the
principle that flowers are a very neces-
sary part of life and that they play a
large part in keeping up the harmony
of the home and the high standard of
the community.
Last year many patriotic women,
thinking they must follow the sugges-
,ticnS regarding food conservation to
the point of sacrifice. actually convert
ed their erstwhile beautiful perennial
flower, beds into turnip patches. their
Etanglewood hooks into rows of cab
bageS and their grape arborS into to-
mato racks.
Delphiniun,s and long spurred hybrid
aquiiegias gave place to beans and car
rcts, and front lawns We're plowed up
to accommodate potatoes, caullf1ower,
beetS and cucumberS
I'VE must not have flower gardens
when our allies have not enough to
eat" said one woman: another remark
ed. net a penny will I pay for flower
seed when cur soldiers need food" But
still another quietly demonstrated.
Man may not live by bread alone
This woman, patriotic as the others.
but with vision. carried the day for the
garden club. and now, while knitting
for the soldiers, this particular group
of women is planning for summer of
flowers in the beautiful western suburb.
We have been reminded that we will
need flower gardens to keep us sane
during the coming strenuous months.
that England has calmly gone about
the business of keeping up her flower
gardens in the midst of all her troubles
and regardless of her great food prob
lem. and the members of the garden
club have agreed to cater to the birds
and the flowers during the coming
months; to put the truck gardens back
by the garage. where they belong, and
find peace in the very best place nature
supplied for the purpose-the garden
Of flowers and shrubs.
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Waco society is telling a good-natured
joke on one of its prettiest girls who
has been a great belle
Aristocratic among the officers of the
cantonment. When the
America. troops began pouring
into Waco this daughter of wealth and
southern blue blood haughtily told her
friends that she would not receive in
Productions to any but officers. One
handsome young officer became fre-
ouent dinner guest in her home and was
quite the pet of her parents as well as
in favor with her. He asked if he
might bring friend, private. with
him to call. The young woman refused
other occasions, always meeting with
refusals, even though he sang the
praises of his friend to the uttermost.
Finally one night he had again told
of the friends many fine traits and
asked once more the privilege of intro
ducing him.
II hate to refuse you, but I cannot
change my decision not to receive any
but officers. How do you come to know
him SO intimately?" asked the young
woman.
II was his chauffeur for three years
in Milwaukee" And be 1t to the credit
.her household of the officer was no,
changed because of his frank statement
of the case.