South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-13
\ Long Felt Want.


"Camoufage that is the word
said and printed read and heard
everywhere; no other age e'er had
50 much camoufiage. "Camoufage"
IS what they say when your bald
spots hid away BIZ a toupe. out OF
sight; and the word is used Alright
when you coax some whiskers thin
10 hide your retreatng chin. Cam
outage" is on our lips when we
look at padded hips, camouflage
means powdered nose. camoufiage
means padded clothes. camoufage
means rouge and paint; things that
look like what they amt are indebt
ed TO the dodge the world knows as
camoufage. False teeth, tight shoes,
tight stays Use cloves 20 hide the
smell Of booze. and you're camou-
daging Well, war is what we have
heard tell Sherman said, but it, be-
dad, gave a word we needed bad
The bolsheviki may give Germany
everything the Kaiser wants, but the
kaiser will find pretty soon that the
bolsheviki have no delivery service.
A clothes limit has been put on in
Germany and a man is not permit
ted TO have more than three shirts,
and everything must be purchased
by card. In this country, the card
system is not needed, so effective is
the price-h'isting plan.
Macmillan Harden declares that
Germany Will be crushed or her
enemies defeated. That's an &C
curate statement; we have clutched
for a finish, and to that end it will
go.
After you have carefully selected
the books you think the soldiers
ought 10 read, isn't il eXasperating
TO find them passing up your selec-
tons and choosing something with
little pepper. ginger and mischief
in it?
The Hon. Jennie Rankin having
attended the last Gridiron dinner in
Washington, we take it that Grid
iron dinners hereafter will not be so
secret as in the past.
I High school officials having put
their taboo on tete-a-tetes among
the girls and boys in the corridors
of the school building, had better
turn over the gymnasium to the
Youngsters.
OF course. if this years styles en-
/ brace a compulsory short skirt,
nothing more can be said about it,
1t is only when a girl wears 'em
short that the matter is interesting.
c. E Luckenbach Of S. Cedar St,
and one Of the big men at the Dodge
company works is a patriot among
patriots. He has just about finish
ed knitting his third regulation
army sweater for the soldier boys
and intends to round out half a doz-
en- before he finishes. His must be a
quiet and peaceful household, as he
succeeded in putting 1910 stitches
into each of them without any dis
turbance whatever.
I II is said Russia may be back in
q the coming spring. Russia will have
/ to come: writing will do no good in
case like this.
4 Our doctor tells us that over
/ heated houses are causing much ill
ness. That's strange when you con-
slider the price of coal.
In London the doctors are warn
ing young people that spotted fever
( contagion turks in the kiss. London
problems are not for us to settle, but
I personally we shall take any risks
that a faithful adherence to mistle-
toe traditions offer.
: We want Hoover TO understand
/ that when we howl he must disre-
gard the agony of it and tighten the
/ pressure. There are some appetites
that have no business running round
unrestrained in a time of war and
we have unfortunately grown to one
Of them as might have been evident
at the Dodge company banquet
/ Thursday evening.
Speaking OF this affair we might
be allowed 20 remark that il was
one Of the most delightful functions
+ Of the kind we ever attended, and
we've been TO a few in our day.
Bert De Vault certainly did him
4 self proud" on this occasion. He
must have had the assistance and
ladvice OF Mike Gill and :. W.
! Schuyler. judging from the elabor-
ate menu that was put on the table
for discussion.
From a Georgia paper: The bur
glar left untouched fun quart of
whisky Huh Maybe the scoun-
drel is trying 10 make burglary pop
ular in Georgia.
What the dispatches call the fall
OF Jerusalem" means the raising up