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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19
By NANCY WALBURN

ID ED CROSS service to the woman who
N waits at home! 1t isn't only money
and expert care that is given, but
1riendliness as we'll! A large slice of this
second Red Cross War Fund of 500, 000, 900
IS needed to keep open the Communication
trench OF money and encouragement to the
nome. The national network of Red Cross
home Service and Red Cross Camp Service
must be strengthened in the interests of the
moraie-at home. and abroad
suppose you We're of one. nationality and
your husband of another, speaking common
tongue but each reading and writing only
the one language?
Correspondence through substitute would
he mighty poor channel as far as any real
satisfaction went, wouldn't it? So YOU readily
see what young sailor who recently applied
to the Red Cross Home Service Bureau was
up against! While he was an American his
wife was Bohemian Free to chatter to.
gether as happily as birds, neither read nor
we:sec the language of the other. A nephbor
IN the house promised to do the writing. "But
have no faith in her, said the boy, earnestly.
= mean, ! wouldpt feel sure that she would
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bother to tell exactly what my wife says, word
for word. And you see my wife is so young
and helpless, with our two little kids, that
would bother lot if I didn't know exactly
how things stood at home'
Would the Red Cross undertake the CORE
spondence? l had smiled when I heard the
story. Of course the need was there. but it
did seem such fussy little job for the big
Red Cross, with all it's mighty worldwide bur-
dens and responsibilities! Did they evade it?
Not much! Each week fat, friendly letter
goes to the sailor, full of home gossip and de-
tails, written by Red Cross worker who
regularly visits his wife
The sailor when he applied said that his
wife had always relied absolutely on him in
everything, and before he went away he
wanted the Red Cross to get in touch with her
so that he could feel she had friend to turn
to. And above all, if his money was slow in
coming through, would the Red Cross tide her
over! The babies arrival had eaten up all of
his savings. All this and more the Red Cross
did.
incidentally, the friendly visitor has en-
deared herself to the whole family ''If the
baby coughs at night she calls me up" she
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most doubled. AS antidote, ornate trim
mings are extremely bad taste, and a woman
may invest almost her entire dress allowance
in frst-class materials which will not de-
pend on expensive trimming to speak for
them.
The silks, including foulard, taffeta, china
silk, silk crepe, Georgette and satin, retail at
from $3.50 to So yard. Very few materials
can be bought for less than $1.50, although
many of the more elaborate ones soar far be-
You'd So.
The Scotch and American ginghams have
risen proportionately. A worthwhile bingham
will cost at least so cents yard Many of
the finer ginghams and caicos hover alarm
ingly near the dollar mark Shantung, a cool
and popular summer dress material, is $125
yard and japanese silks are $3.50 or So.
These initial OUTLAWS make the cost of
dress seem staggeringly large Five or six
yards, unless the woman is exceptionally
small, are required for any dress, however
simple. The prices quoted are the standard
prices A woman who watches special sales
will effect very radical savings in buying
dress materials.
How we'll it will wear is the next consider
alton. This is where buying good material
counts. Shower proof foulards, china silk,
crepe de chine and silk crepe have long held
the record for wear. In quiet colors they may
be worn with topcoats far into the winter
Taffeta is somewhat of lottery. If it is
good quality it will outwear many of its sister
silks, but if it is inferior a half dozen ap-
pearances may result in hopeless cuts.
Satin, if it is not of the best, gets "knotty."
and, although it is delightful for spring and
fall, the brittle gloss makes it appear excep~
tionally warm in summer. Georgette and
chiffons for dressy wear are cool and have
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Wear Six for Uncle Sam
In the Afternoon

unexpected wearing qualities for such sheer
materials.
The organdies, voiles and nets which tempt
US on the first warm day also wear well, but
from the standpoint of general utility are not
advisable for the woman who spends larr
part of the summer in the city. She will not
wear out the dress in one season, and with The
first chilly day it will have to be laid away
to rot or to go hopelessly out of style.
Women these days have such varied inter
ests that the fourth question is timely one
War economy demands that they buy fewer
dresses, and their interests lie in SO many
fields that finding two or three frocks suitable
for twenty or thirty different occasions be-
comes a real problem.
Here again do foulards and silks come to
the 'front.' A silk dress, simply made, is not
too dressy for morning shopping or business,
and is always suitable for afternoon, or even
informal evening wear. On the other hand,
cotton materials, bingham or calico are many
times too "summery" Elaborate, perishable
gowns are luxuries in which few women feel
that they can invest. The greatest utility,
then, devolves upon the silk dress, cool, pfsc-
teal, always in good taste and becoming.
The question Of beauty must be left 70
individual taste and STYLE Simple clothes
and the once despised "made-overs" are some
how gloriied by the consideration Of war sac.
rifice. Elaborate dressing has been 'booed
by the masses of Paris and extravagant even
ing dress is prohibited by law.
Will American women need clothes a.
ministrator?
An America buyer. recently returned from
the war-wracked fashion centre, related q
incident in which several of the pafvenu.
the streets in extravagant splendor. in
bourgeoisie had reached the limit of its endu''
ance.
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casions will it be suitable S. Its style and
beauty
The first condition is difficult one. Wool
Of course, is to be used as little as possible
A new substitute is being put on the market
at price little less than the regulation
suitings. 1t looks like wool and feels like
wool, but whether not it will have the
same wearing qualities has not yet been
proved Thoroughly reliable suitings that may
be used instead of wool are cotton homespun
and basket weave cloths.
In cotton the conservation question becomes
even more difficult. Every woman who spends
"a morning a week. at the Red Cross rooms
can testify to its war value. The Red Cross
is the greatest consumer Of cotton fabrics
both for hospital garments and gauze and
muslin bandages.
Aeroplanes for the training schools are
made with wings of fine grade cotton. Linen
is used on the planes for foreign service The
reason for the discrimination is that shot
through linen leaves a clean hole, while cot
ton Immediately rips, and the repairs are
difficult and expensive.
1t would be folly to suggest that every wom-
an select her summer outfit without a single
cotton frock. Muslin might we'll be rejected
but dress of bingham or calico will not, we
are assured, seriously hamper war work.
Silk, from the standpoint of conservation
is the best material to buy. To be sure, raw
silk is used in munition manufacture and in
balloons, but there is still enough to permit
every woman to select her summer clothes
with silk as the first material consideration.
Economy is the next question, and who shall
say that it is not an all-mportant one? Every
experienced women knows that buying cheap
material is not economy. It is extravaganza
The initial cost of dress this summer is al
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for a famous London hostess. It is furnish.a
in rare old Chinese lacquer, which, like ever
thing else in the house, is for sale "for i.
cause" A powdering room, between Won ana
me, is just dressy name for the place whe,s
feminine guests remove their wraps and nov.
der their aristocratic noses.
While all the rooms on these three Aoo,s
are extremely interesting, it is on the fourth
floor that one will find the feature with Il.
popular appeal" This is nothing more !,
less than the model apartment planned for a
war bride. A model apartment, CONSISTING al
Can't you see in your minds eye the pfoces
sion Of happy young things who, notebook +
hand, will pass through those roNans in. Ii.
course Of the week? l am not going tofsT
you one single item of the furnishings. That
would be bad business-you must go and ses
it for yourself.
Another interesting feature on this floor il
and sailors. Letitia's idea of the longing Of Is.
man in the trenches for bright colors h.
its companion in the man who has spent we'd,
or months surrounded by the glaring white
ness of hospital walls. It is hoped that lie
sight of this cheerful, honey place will inspke
convalescent homes where the wounded ara
sent when they leave the hospitals.
Besides these rooms there will be ccuec.
ton Of donated articles which did not fit ipto
any particular room or scheme Of decoration.
but which in themselves have artistic merit, o.
sale at prices far lower than those for which
they could be bought elsewhere. "a Glorihed
Rummage Sale" some one has dubbed this DOT
ton of the exhibition
A nominal fee of SO cents will be asked fu
admission, and as there are no overhead e.
penses the gate receipts, together with The
money from the sale of those beautiful fun.
nishings, ought to insure a total far beyond
the coveted $4,000.
The Red Cross is in dire need of ambu.
Observation-Disclosures mind you, for the use sf
our own boys over there. Let's help the dec.
orators to send two instead of one.
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has been reserved by a very famous person
who is keeping his plans state secret.
The large room at the back Of the second
floor will become real Italian salon under
the direction of one of our most successful
Italian decorators. The two smaller rooms on
this floor will be furnished, one after the style
OF the early days of Victoria's reign and the
other as muslin roon," all in dainty spotted
muslin and taffetas in pastel shades, as bou-
doir for young girl.
On the third floor firm of English decora-
tors will furnish room in Georgian fashion,
''eary Colonial" we should call it. Here, also.
an elaborate bedroom will be fitted UP by a
woman who specializes in this line On this
floor, too, is the celebrated "powdering room,"
a copy Of the original designed by the donor
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members of the committee are sworn to Sc
crecy and will refuse to give any information
as to the source of any article or decorative
idea, which is, of course, quite as it should be.
This arrangement, too, eliminates any profess
sional rivalry and makes the various members
of the profession perfectly willing to work
under one anothers direction and carry out
one another's ideas.
The house is a large one and therefore af-
fords ample opportunities for the exhibition
of all styles of house decoration. Each room
on the three main floors will be furnished in
some particular style Or period under the di-
rect supervision of some one who has made
a speciality of this type Of work.
The front door opens on a large square hall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19
Year Six for Uncle Sam
In the Morning
By ELIZABETH BLAND GETZ

A N ILLUSION which American women
~ have been harboring for generations
has at last been dispelled by the war.
1t is the 81 simply haven't thing to wear"
illusion. The relic Of ante-bellum extrava-
gance who persists in taking her clothes so
seriously is being denounced by womanly
Americans as positive menace to our morale.
Conservation has become an obsession.
Women have already signifed their willing
ness to use what the government can't, and
even that sparingly. What the government
can't! That is almost negligible. Velvet is
about the only material not used, and an en-
tire summer wardrobe Of velvet would rival
the medieval sackcloth in discomfort. How
ever, women have already replaced sweat
ers of precious wool with velvet, sleeveless
jackets, and have been rewarded with dis
covery of their becomingness and utility.
Even an inferior grade of velvet plush does
not escape the ban, for it is used in a GER
tain style of gas mask.
Absolute avoidance of war materials. then,
would be impossible 1t remains for women
to use the least needed materials and those
which boast trinity of virtues to recommend
them utility, comfort and economy.
Mr.. Ziegfeld, with remarkable foresight,
years ago introduced clothes conservation.
Unfortunately, Mr.. Ziegfeld conserved not
wisely but too we'll, and no American woman
need fear being asked to limit her summer
wardrobe to service badge and Red Cross
button. All that she is asked to do is to buy
her clothes with five points in view: /. How
little the material is needed for government
work. 2. How little it will cost. g. How we'll
1t will wear. a. For how many different oc-
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contributions to the hundred million dollars
needed to carry on the glorious work of the
American Red Cross both at home and over
seas
/ felt that it would be almost criminal to
neglect an opportunity to do this, but there
seemed no form of sugar coating with which
TO camoudage my plea, for the plans for this
drive were very like those Of its predecessors
only more so.
Just between ourselves, any appeal for sub
scriptions to this fund seems utterly super
f1uous for never has there been drive that
carried the close personal appeal of this
coming as it does at the moment when so
many of our own are being cared for by the
American Red Cross workers on the Western
front. Think of it, mothers and fathers, Sis
tiers and brothers, wives and sweethearts of
the men on the firing line, your own contribu-
ton to this drive may be the means of bring
ing comfort to that man whose photograph in
khaki stands your table.
Nevertheless, a newspaper story must have
''trimmin's,' and just as was in despair in
came the foreign mail with letter from Lett
tia. That young woman, be it known, months
orator in favor of canteen service in France.
] quote from her letter:
aside from canteen work" she says,
Miss Folsom and have been doing bit of
interior decorating on the side. Don't look so
surprised, my dear We are not furnishing
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They propose to hold, during the week of
the Red Cross drive q bazaar or fair which is
to be particularly unique in character and es-
sentaly typical of their line of work. A
house has been loaned for this purpose, at 5
East Forty eighth Street {readers please take
note) This is to be fitted up by the decora-
tors with attractive furniture and draperies
and so on, all donated by them, and solo, the
proceeds to be given to the Red Cross for an
ambulance and trailer
There are several interesting features in
the undertaking. In the first place, every con-
trbutor, be he big or little, gives anonymous
ly. 1t never be said that this fair was
used, in any way, for advertising purposes by
any man or woman who contributes to it. The
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laughed, in relating how the little wife relied
on her. And as for the sailor husband-well.
he regards the Red Cross as a personal friend
Picture postcards frequently come to the office
from him, and while on his infrequent fur
loughs ne always insists on seeing the friendly
visitor He is splendid boy and so appre-
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[TIE NEW YORK DECORATORS AMBULANCE FUNI)-A r. C
which will be English
in character, wit h
n.on,,;nn old Inonhoan

which will be English
in character, with
genuine old Jacobean
furniture donated by
we'll known collectors.
The easement window
beside the door opens
on a space the size OF
an ordinary hall bed
room, which is raised
from the main floor.
Here there will be an
interesting display of
rare old Venetian
glass and decorations
of the Della Robbia
type.
The room at the
rear will be fitted up
as an Italian break
fast room with gayly
painted peasant fur
niture. This opens on
an inclosed porch,
from which steps lead
to what was once a
barren, ordinary, city
backyard. Now, I'M
der the magic touch
Of two women decora-
tors, both experts in
this line of work, this
has literally bios
somed forth into a
most enchanting gar
den, with white lat
tees, stone furniture,
fountains and quaint
bits of old wrought
iron.
A long window runs
across the front of
the house on the Sec
ond story. and this
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ciative of what the Red Cross has meant 70
his wife We have all grown very fond of
hlm.' And all this warmth of personal in
terest in the office in big, cold New York,
where this sailor is only one of thousands of
in their care!
DO many men in the service come in per-
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Womems Day at the Big lNilk Shoe

20 the DaryF
the
- anGa war slogan OF Milk Instead of Meat" - - ~
with M meat the child the invalid
is the of
should Grand Central
t Up nn 'oo "ahissoh
any eIest national
a" look the
ANNE LEWIS
Institute
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19
BY ELENE FOSTER

T WAS our old friend Letitia
who gave me the cue. l had
searched the town over to find
some new feature of the COM
ing Red Cross drive, one which
would give me an excuse for
making my humble plea for
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near WONDERFUL
reports Of the work which my confreres in
New York are doing for relief. Do write
me the particulars of their plans for the Red
Cross drive"
And so, by way of France, I became ac-
quainted with the fact that the interior dec
orators of New York were to have their own
part in the coming drive, and that's how l
found my story.
1t appears that the four hundred or more
men and women in New York who follow the
calling of "interior decorators have formed
a Decorators War Relief Society, and while
they have been working individually or in
groups at one thing or another since we en-
tered the the present enterprise is the
first in which they have engaged as whole.
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the trenches a Ia
Chinoise, nor are we
demonstrating to the
boys the joys of liv-
ing in an early Vic
torian dugout. We are
merely doing what we
can to bring a little
brightness into this
khaki-colored world.
You have no idea of
the joy that a bit of
bright color gives a
boy who for weeks
has seen nothing but
mud and khaki. /
have seen a man hug
a gay chintz laundry
bag to his heart and
howl for joy.
$50 whenever we
are off duty we take
some brushes and
pots of paint and
steal away to one of
the nearby Y. M. C. A.
huts, and we paint
the dull gray beams
and walls in the most
lurid hues. Our color
schemes are awful,
of course, for moth
ing but the crudest
colors are to be pro-
cured, but we found
that the majority of
the men share Eu-
gene Fields opinion
that any color is good
$50 long as it's red,'
and the result has
been an unqualified
success.
II hear wonderful
reports Of the work
New York are doing fl
me the particulars of |
Cross drive"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-02-14
SEATS ON SALE
For the New D. W. Griffith
Spectacle, Intolerance.

Today at Campbell Coates Drug
store is offered the long-looked for
opportunity to buy seats for 'Intoler-
ance," the new d. w. Griffith spec
tacle due to appear here next Monday,
afternoon and night.
In this amazing production, which
eminent critics, writer's and educators
have praised as the biggest and most
novel stage art-work Of any descrip-
ton ever created, you will see four
parallel stories presented as one, a
form Of dramatic construction invent
ed by Mr.. Griffith, which has been
acknowledged the only new idea in
stage storytelling conceived by man
in the past two thousand years.
Throughout Intolerance" with its
pomp and wickedness Of ancient days,
its laughter and thrills and adventures,
its clash of mighty men when war
was fought with siege towers and
catapults, ba&ering rams and liquid.
fire, you will see love, glorious love,
from the devoted attachment Of the
Dear One and the Boy in the modern
story, and the Romeo and Juliet like
ole of Brown Eyes and Prosper in
the French episode, TO the barbaric
passion Of Belshazzer and Princess
Beloved who die, clinging to each
others lips as mighty Babylon falls.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-02-14
Chain OF Girls.

Poughkeepsie, N. y. Feb. 49,
Fire which broke out at 6:45 o clock
in the east wing Of the main building
at Vassar college last night did $500,
600 damage and for a long time threat
ened to destroy the entire building.
II was not until 8 o'clock that the
blaze was brought under control.
The damage was confined to the din
ing room, assembly hall kitchens and
servants quarters. Earlier in Il
evening 600 students formed in a line
and passed articles from the main
building from hand to hand to anoth-
er dormitory several hundred yards
away.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-02-14
To Stop Loss OF Eggs.

Washington, Feb. l3.-Over l50,-
OO0,0 900 eggs will be lost to the food
supply of the United States il the old
practice of sending hens to market at
this season is continued. Figures
compiled by the poultry specialists of
the United States Department OF Ae-
riculture show that more than 5, 0O0,-
600 laying hens, each capable Of pro-
ducing 30 eggs, are sent to market
from the Southern States in the winter
and early spring.
Every effort, therefore, is being
made to encourage farmers to keep
their hens until after the spring laying
season, thereby getting dividend
for keeping the hen through the win
ter. The specialists point out that
when hen is sold for meat early in
the spring, the farmer gets no egg
return for feeding and keeping her
through the worst months Of the year.
Moreover, the hen is marketable as
poultry after she has produced her
spring eggs. Poultry in May may
bring 2 cents pound less than il
does in February, but, they point out,
the 80 eggs produced by the hen,
largely from wastes, more than offset
any reduction in the price offered for
live poultry.
An energetic egg-saving campaign
to prevent early slaughter Of the hen
that lays the golden egg" is now be-
ing conducted throughout the South
ern States. North Of the Ohio river,
farmers have long appreciated the
advantage OF getting the spring crop
OF eggs and marketing their hens after
the laying season or in the fall. They
believe that adoption Of this plan by
Southern chicken raisers will be
profitable and will materially add to
the food supply Of the nation.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-02-14
On Lowing
Remembrance
OF Zilpha Wright, Born Aug, 9Th 1908
Died Feb 9Th 1918.

In lovely snow white casket
In a robe all spotless and white,
We laid our dear one away 10 rest
And softly we said good night.
In the springtime of her gentle life
Before sin or sorrow could mar,
The Angel came and took her away
And thus added another star.
Yes another star in the Savior's crown
With the colors perfectly blended,
Zilpha we know that you are over
there
Where all pain and sickness are
ended.
We shall always miss our darling
And long for your gentle voice,
But we must give up our treasure
For His is the wisest choice.
So we will not complain or murmur
For the Master babe you come,
But will bow in humble submission
And say Lord Thy will be done. +"
Faerweli till again we greet you
On yonder beautiful golden shore,
We will meet you with our loved ones
And together we live evermore.
Aunt Josie.