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BROOKLYN THEATRES.

The Orpheum, which is among
the redecorated theatres, will
start its nineteenth year with
a programme including Emma
Carus, T. Roy Barnes, assisted
by Bessie Crawford, in "A Pack
age of Smiles; Lillian Shaw,
Thomas .Duray and Charles
Irwin. The Kirksmith Sisters
will appear in "A Musical In
terlude," and Pisano will present
cat the italian Front"
Mcintyre and Heath will put
in the week at the Bushwick,
together with Lillian FITZGERALD,
Florence Ames and Adelaide
Winthrop. the De Wolf Girls.
Harry Breen. Jack Pattison and
Loretta Marks, Frankie Wilson
and Ned Norworth.
"The Big Partisan Flirts,"
with ten PRINCIPALS and a chorus
that appears in eighteen numbers,
begins a weeks engagement at
the Etar tomorrow.
Ctilson Ohrman. formerly with
the New York Symphony Or
chestra, will provide number
|, of songs at the performances at
the New Brighton Theatre this
week. Charles B. Maddock's
Comedians, Al and Fanny Sted-
man, Percy Bronson and Winnie
Baldwin are among the enter
tainers.
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in the morning. You will only botch
and bungle 1t IL you sit UP fidgeting
over it. A revised version followed:
Will you please to forgive q woman
for changing her mind7 Tho last two
lines of my verse really did not please
me. In fact they disturbed my slum-
bers last evening, and this morning I
worked out these changes.
We hope the sick baby is well again,
and for more contest entries.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Owing to the Government COM
Wandering all natural color, khaki
and navy blue wool. awardA in future
will be in white wool only. Many pre-
fer this for socks anyway. but II you
knit Identifying stripes you will do
well to save any colored wool you
may have on hand and use 1t only for
that purpose.
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Barbariansi
Clear the soil Of sunny France Of theil
untoward presence!
Drive them to their lair
And may they theresrepent their bar
barous deeds.
Soldiers we.
Who fight for
Liberty:
And when the battles grim are DER
Well rest In honored graves,
Or, honored. homeward turn
And there knit up the ragged sleeve oil
care"
Mrs. Z. L PORTS.
81 Wheeler street, West Orange, N. ]
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awarded third prize, has more Of a
scherzo movement.
A few of the honorable mentions
are particularly interesting:
Miss Leonard, in the following lines
sings Belgium and the Belgian ma
tional fiower--an opportunity so good
that we have been wondering all along
why nobody has seized It:
Forget-me-not. Your <Any bloom
Is Belgiums chosen flower
That once famed strong hold OF the arts,
The ages priceless dover,
Forget-me-not. Can they forget
Their ruined land. a tyrant's rage
The blood Of babes upon his hands.
The foul blot on hlstory's page?
Behold a maniac's senseless greed!
We knit to aid a peoples need.
KATHERINE NJ. LEONARD.
414 Ferry street, Trenton. N. J.
Mr.. Dunlop's meter and rhyming
scheme are as engaging as his philo-
sophy is sound. Considering his verses
as Q Sock Song, however, We have
| our masculine doubts about this knot
concealing business. and consider the
whole idea a bit off the Sock Song
line:
Here a knot ia In the worsted,
See how carefully I hide 1t!
Just 80 carefully tied II
When TO future skill trusted
For concealment OF the knot
That's the way with womans sorrow,
Hidden pain ia half forgot
In the hustle of the morrow
And our lives seem Joyous still,
Though they bury many an III.
salisbury, VT. SAMUEL DUNLOP.
Humorous Over vexations.
Miss Brand Is not the first Sock
Singer to grow quietly humorous over
her own twin vexations with needles
and Tyre. but she does it much better
than any one else has lately:
! knit sock and then I knit its mate.
They're meant to be alike. but unkind
Fate
Has willed 1t otherwise.
And though I count and. measure. when
complete
One socks for pedals slim and one for
hammer feet.
sweater then try. ami think to mt
man OF robust stature. but good night,
When IL is done 'twould At sausage
tight.
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SONG INSPIRATION RUNS TO THE MOTHER THEME

VIII I improve7 Oh. do not Judge too
hard.
may become a knitter, though no bard
Red Bank, M. ENIb NJ BRAND.
Mrs. Potts, II memory serves us
well. is the first contestant to try
blank verse lines Of irregular lengths.
In fact. blank verse has been gem
orally eschewed. although elsewhere
on this page will be found a contribu-
ton In the manner and meter Of "Hia-
watha." Mrs. Potts's lines are con-
siderably effective. She also, how
ever. Is just a little too far afield from
the Sock Song Contest idea.
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THE HIPPODROME.

Charles Dillingham; deserves
all the congratulations he is re-
Ieeiving to-day for having brought
to the big Hippodrome another
spectacular extravaganza.
Everything" is pronounced the
most remarkable production of
his pageants. No finer has ever
been seen on any stage. The
wonder is that it can be done at
the prices of admission, which
remain unchanged this year.
Since the opening night the
spectacle has been SO quickened
in it's presentation that the final
scene is now over at S o'clock in
the afternoon and az II at night,
which hours conform with the
suburban theatre trains de-
parture time. R. H. Burnside has
provided a wider variety of
amusement this year than ever
before.
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lender Idea Difficult to Handle, but
contestants This Week Show Much
Ingenuity and Feeling

oCk Song inspirations seem to
course through the ether in
waves. At any rate. the same
one may bear fruit in a dozen entries
received during an afternoon. Com.
ing from places as FAR apart as Perth
Amooy and Sacramento. all twelve
win variously treat one theme which
may be fairly new one. or one that
mas been neglected for month or 30.
How this happens we cannot imagine.
Maybe it's telepathy.
The ruling theme for to-day was the
soldiers mother knitting ana musins
back to the hours when, as a bride. she
knitted his first tiny boots. It is a
promising theme. but difficult, and will
mold all the tenderness any poet can
put into 1t. while exacting all the deli
cacy Of touch with which he is en-
dowed.
We could not, however. have mag
med many Sock Song contestants even
essaying one-before last weeks mail
brought In eleven. two OF which finally
landed within the black border for Sec
ond and third prizes.
The first prize Sock Song. by Ed.
ward Ten Brock Perlne Of sos st.
Nicholas avenue. New York, ia some
thing Of feat. 1t amounts to a ro-
mantle narrative ballad IN the COM
pass Of eight lines. The lines are
good ones. too. telling the little. story
In just the proper. graceful faAhion.
Interest is added by the dedication,
from which one concludes that the
story is true and a matter Of family
history.
Mrs. Emma A. Langlotx OF Railway,
N. j., adds a second prize to her COM
paratively recent first. with what
musician might call a largo rendering
Of the maternal retrospect motif above
discussed. 1t may become necessary
to rule Mrs. Langlotz hors concours.
which our friend. M. Bollaert. would
say. means, in this case. too able to be
allowed in competition!
The rendering by Mrs. Amy w. Eg.
gleston Of Ulster Park N. Y, that is
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Patriots, knit onl Our soldiers need
cheer,
Warm socks for comfort as winter draws
near.
The Kaiser brought war. rapacious for
gain.
To conquer the world by hypocrisy.
Women and children are tortured and
slain!
Despotism. they call It AUTocRAcY..
Barbarians. these! Our nag bears no
Liberty for all and DEMOCRACY
TO ARMS: All who can. go show them
the light!
Each soul exalted, full conscious Of right I!
MAY THERRY CHRISTIAN.
Elmira, N. Y.
Tries English This Time.
NJ Bollaert, above mentioned, has
tried his hand at a Sock Song in Eng
lish with the following result:
Who'll knit pair of socks for Lady
She who has walked 80 much against the
Hun,
These last four years. from Zeebrugge
to Verdun,
Yea, walked so much that II reads like
romance!
Her feet are bleeding. Yet, to save
her sacred land,
To free the world. she'd walk forever |!
So let the wool you choose be of q last
ing brand,
Which po;thar .t..> - 49,
sever!
And let the glorious sun pour Joy and
radiance
Ger him or her who'll knit for Lady
France!
81 Nassau street. A. BoLLAERr.
Miss Mabel K. Richardson of YER
million, s. D.. which used to be in
the Sioux Indian range Cor perhaps
1t was the Cheyenne) Is the author of
the following bit Of Longfellowship,
with glossary appended:
In the sun before her wigwam
Susie Red Cloud plies her needles,
And IL you should come with questions
She would answer without pausing:
'"Hi-na! l must knit for sSun-ka,
Far across the Big Sea Water
Sun-ka fights beside the Pale Face.
For him there is no returning
Until all men dwell as brothers,
And all nations smoke the Peace Pine.
Great 'He-yo-ka, haste my needles!''
'Hi-na= Dakotah Cor Siouxy friendly
greeting OF surprise.
Sun-ka younger brother.
He-yo-ka=g Of the prairies.
We very much appreciate the keen
interest Of one contestant of whom
honorable mention is made. This is
not her first Sock Song to be printed,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-01
Moulin Rouge Has Many New
Features.

Moulin Rouge Has Many New
Features.
Manager Gaillard T. Boag has added
several new features to his engaging
Revue Intime," which Is the main
entertainment feature in the Domino
Room OF the Moulin Rouge. Topping
the list Is Arthur Madden. an eccentric
dancer OF remarkable ability. who has
already established himself with the
Broadway clientele. Since his APP
pearance with the Moulin Rouge re-
vue Madden has received several fiat
tering offers for new productions, but
he Is determined to fulfil an existing
one with his present manager before
considering any Of them. Among
other favorites who appear in the de-
lightful melange OF mirth and melody
are Martin Culhane. Maybelle Jones,
Lillian Leonora and Mile. Nadia.
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sion OF the stage. as it were. This
unusual diversion has become such a
rad that the Golden Glades Is con-
stantly crowded between the dinner
and midnight shows.
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Inc following contestant 0Oe6nt
seem to have relished the hot spells
more than we did. Perhaps in addi-
ton to his corporeal suferings he also
had a War Garden drying up:
I've been thinking very quietly Of some
socks I knit this year.
with fond hopes some boys In Europe
may consider them most dear,
For sweated good and plenty while
worked-though now l say
That's all right! They'll be the warmer
for a future frosty day.
So, trust those Yanks in Europe. when
they're feeling cold and tired,
May receive double blessing. and con-
clude 1 was inpsired !"
L. GLEN. :
$50 Eighty-first street, Brooklyn.
Soldier. little soldier. fighting hard on
Flanders plain,
Some ones heart Is with you in your
dugout in the rain;
It's sultry here in August. and sad while
you're away.
But some one has been thinking of you
all the livelong day,
Did a country lassie knit these cocks be-
side the farmhouse door,
Or a brighteyed, dainty business maid.
when daily tasks were o'er7
Was It charming idler. in garden cool
and sweet,
Or a tired little working girl. all droop-
in the heat?
Who was it that thought OF you. in love
and loneliness?
Soldier. little soldier, can you guess. can
you guess?
GERALDINE NJ. BACON.
500 West 1920 street
THEN.
The caddy's all ready and Johnny cries
"Fore!"
He handles his brassie and makes a
Jenny sits on the porch and vows It is
shocking,
That she should SO boldly knit John a
golf stockingi
NOW.
John shoulders his gun and says. Wars
beeun!''
He handles a spade without any aid.
And Jenny makes socks and declares It
Is fitting
That every girl now carry on with her
knitting!
Mrs. JOHN H. PATTERSON.
Selkirk, N. Y.
PANACEA
used to knit because it seemed the
proper thing to do.
So great the harvest needed, the laborers
30 few.
Some mothers boy would wear the socks,
and comforted would be.
Thank God mine did not need them he
was safe at home with me.
But he has gone and now I knit to dull
the poignant ache:
II should sit with folded hands my
lonely heart would break.
Oh blessed task that helps my soul to
face the untried way.
With some small need of courage, to
walt and watch and pray;
To hope that till it's over, my share of
Saxon grit
VIII keep my heart from breaking while
i knit, knit. knit.
Mrs. HELEN CoMBEs.
Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled,
321, East Forty-second street.
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SOCK SONG PRIZE WINNERS
IN THIS WEEKS CONTEST
FIRST PRIZE.
Edward Ten Brock Psrns, sos ST. Nicholas Avenue.

FIRST PRIZE.
Edward Ten Brock Psrine sos ST. Nicholas Avenue.
My Aunt's Little Note.
With Loving Memories of Peter and fen
II happered in April or; she pinned within the toe
note that read II hope they 6s-and
Perhaps you'll let know"
Soon soldier boy wrote thankfully and
Then they both more
While she kept that Yank in wooilen socks.
Until the end of the
Four years passed by before they met (now
you'll the doubt;
Gun and needles laid aside. and the
Wedding bells rang
Twas long but the tale is with
Moral for those who knit:
Pine aittie note in the dears.
For perhaps socks fit!
SECOND PRIZE.
Mrs. Emma A. Lanslotz, Railway N J.
When first gish fingers fashioned baby
IL with tenderness-and
And wide expectancy.
Then careless thee.
Oft with furtve tear-or sigh
And deep anxiety.
Now knitting soldier socks for thee. my
My soul is flooded with amending calm
Gods will be done!
THIRD PRIZE PI
When was and twenty
And twenty-five
pair of babys Siiken socks
knit with much ado.
Now you are more than forty
And Tna-not twsnty-one-
And this time the socks worsted
Going soldier
Condition. of the Sock Song Contest.
Everybody welcomed -
Open 10 all patriotic knitsrs male or female
Verses be lines long
Write one side Of tn. paper only. If possible.
Prizes will be announced each Sunday
SUNDAY SUN. Nassau "Wednesday
will considered for following
Names will not be used If requested unless prize.
First prize IS in woo second prize 81 in prize.
in WOOL
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Fay ONeiII
In the Fall Revue.
Hotel Shelburre.
BrisEter, Beach

bill and a miniature musical extrava-
ganza. Starting at p. NJ. the diners
witnessed ten star vaudeville acts
ranging from acrobatic to operate
stars and featuring Mizi\ CHI In Ii
stellar role and coming to a close at
1880 with the "l91S Graphophone
Revue An intermission OF twenty
minutes gives the after theatre crowds
a chance to-be seated and the second
half OF the programme brought out
Gertrude Vanderbilt and Frances Dem
Arrest as the stars OF the evening. Bits
Of burlesque 'sandwiched between the
two parts, one with Vietorio and
Georgette. the upside down boys; Ger.
trude Vanderbilt, vsndevilles favorite,
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and Arthur Aldridge. Englands ace
of tenors, furnishes the foundation Of
this innovation in restaurant enter
tainment.
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wRITEl FIGHT KNIT.
Poet, write!
Soldier. fightl ..
Woman sit
Down, and knit!
writei Fight Knit!
Do your bit.
Writing! Fightingl
Knitting for
Uncle Sam will
WIN THE WAR;
Q Columbus Circle. JORGE GoDor.
The Jasper news., 1918-09-26

Indian reds include light and burnt
orange and amber brown.
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Officers Are Defied and 10000
DeSerterS Are Said to
Be in Berlin.
TROUBLE ALSO IN THE navy
Four Torpedo Boats Are Seized, and
Attempt Is Made to Escape,
but Two Are Sunk by Pur-
suing Battleshlp.

London.-General Generalization Of
Germany's population and widespread
and growing disaffection in the German
army, accompanied by mutiny and de-
sertions, are described in dispatch
to the Daily Telegraph from its Rotter-
dam correspondent.
The correspondent says that infor-
nation reaching him is SO sensational
as to inspire skepticism, but declares
he has received undoubted corrobora-
ton from authoritative sources.
He asserts that the Germany army
Is filled with dependency and seeth-
ing with mutinous spirit, and that
alarming outbreaks have occurred in
several units, principally Bayarian and
Silesian.
One incident on the Arras front
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BOMBING ENEMY'S DUMPS

Behind the British Lines in France.
The British aviation communique
frequently contains brief line to re-
cord that "direct hits were obtained
upon an enemy dump" at some point
behind the German lines. This color
less announcement may seem 10 the
reader in America nothing more than
the record Of dull piece of routine,
but the deed itself is different from its
record.
A British airman, Lieut.. w. A.
Barnes, has given the Associated Press
the following account of a recent 49,
minute raid on a German dump as
characteristic of this form of activity:
ION this particular night there was
not enough moonlight for long raid,
so the target given us was German
ammunition dump.
Dumps are by no means easy tar
gets TO find at night, for they are sell
dom situated near any definite land
marks and are usually well camOu-
tagged, BY the study of maps and pho
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Somewhere in France. - Many
American slldiers are having the
unique opportunity, as well as the
pleasant experience, of learning
French customs and seeing French
homelife by being billeted right in the
houses of their Gallo hosts and host
esses.
In one of the villages Of central
France, high up among the hills,
where one can get a magnificent view
of the surrounding "peaks," the VOL
ley and the winding river below Is
billeted a regiment of American ar
tillery lads. Most of them are from
California, others are from North Da-
kota, Montana, and other states Of the
Northwest.
Coming up the road from the rail-
way station one crosses the mill race
with its ancient stone bridge, passes
the moulin noir" and entering the
village after "recall," sees the soldiers
lolling about in the houses or seated
about the tables in front of the wine
shops talking to their French friends
whose guests they are.
From one Of the village streets
clear through the town the houses
are marked with the number Of
Americans billeted there. One place
may have painted at the side of the
door, "24 men" and another "2 Of
flcers, Ia men," Down In the narrow
side streets are more billets and from
these winding passageways the SOL
diers come in scores after the eve
ming mess to wander along the "main
drag" and visit billets of their friends
In other batteries.
No Formally There.
Life Is very informal In this vii
lage since the Americans came. The
doors and windows of the home-bil-
lets, opening right into the streets,
reveal the soldiers beds made up in
ship-shape military manner, the
floors scrubbed spotlessly clean and
everything as neat and tidy as home
might be expected to be. In many
places, sanitation, crude in most
French towns, at least, from an Amer
leans standpoint, has been improved
and living conditions improved not
only for the soldiers but for the
civilian natives as well.
"How do you like living in billets?"
was asked a raw-boned gunner who
said his home had ben In Idaho.
"All right now" came the response.
1--WE did not think much of 1t at
first; we had to go too far for mess.
The cook shack is away up there on
The hill in . the square behind the
church. And In our billet we had to
climb n ladder to get into the hay
NOW. I'd rather live in tent, es-
pecially in the summer. But we all
say, like the French, 'C'est la guerre'
and let 1t go at that.
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NEW SILHOUETTE
MAY BE ADOPTED

New York.-One approaches the
subject Of q new silhouette these days
with timidity, notes d fashion writer.
One feels the shadow Of the storm
that is about to burst when fashion
writers and designers say to the pub
lie that the lines of women's clothes
have changed, which means that wom-,
ems wardrobes. must change II they
remain in the picture Of the hour.
When we are in the throes Of con-
servatior and economy, the idea Of
new silhouette is not altogether pleas
ing. 1t is snatched up with avidlty
by those who sell apparel, for they
know 1t is lure tc the purse. But
1t is also snatched up by orators, the
reformers, and thousands who ask
women not to change the style of their
clothes during the war. These do not
snatch 1t up with avidity, but jump
upon 1t and try to crush 1t by argu-
ment and vituperation.
Argument has never had the slight
est effect on fashions. The persuasive
tones Of the administration, asking
that our material be spared by civil
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tOgraphs, however, we had pretty we'll
located the position of this one, and
started out on the raid with high hopes
of success.
I'VE flew almost due east from the
nirdrome. At the end of the 80 min
Ites we could just make out the out
line of sheds. This was good, but we
let out parachute flare to light up the
ground, and make sure we were over
the target. This promptly dlspelled all
doubts, for the Hun searchllghts
opened up at once, and hail of ma.
chine gun bullets leaped up from the
ground. Antl-aircraft guns had been
firing for some time, but the shells
were bursting well above us. and CIV
ing no trouble.
"The parachute flare proved real
friend, because both searchlights and
machine guns concentrated upon 1t,
giving us just sufficient time to dive
swiftly, release or bombs, switch on
the engine and start climbing.
which we turned to observe results,
The Jasper news., 1918-09-26
TO USE THE SMALL FEATHERS
Ostrich Tips Now Being Worked Up
AdvantaseousIy on Cunning New
Fall Millinery.

Almost every woman has put away
In her scrap box of millinery odds and
ends a number Of small ostrich tips,
not handsome enough to be used as
a hat trimming In the ordinary way,
but almost too good to be thrown
away. One always plans to have such
feathers made over into something
sometime-and this is Just the time.
One Of the stunning new millinery
models of early autumn is big hat
of black velvet, with large, crushed
velvet crown gathered at one side I'M
der gold rose which seems to hold
the folds of velvet in position. The
wide velvet brim is edged with black
and-gold cord and under the brim is a
facing a pale b'sque georgette. over
whit' satin.
Small black ostrich feathers are ap-
pliqued to this facing, radiating from
the inside (or head size) of the hat,
to the outer edge Of the brim. A num-
Der Of small feathers could be dyed
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TREAT YANKS AS
ONE OF FAMILY

But we're learning a lot about the
French, getting n lot of insight into
their lives which we could not get
otherwise. We're learning to sympa-
thize with them more than ever. I
believe 1t makes. us better soldiers.
1 know for sure that 1t makes us
keener to fight the Germans when we
hear some Of the facts the French
people tell us. Why, in our house
alone the old man and old woman
who live there have lost three sons
In the war and another is prisoner
of the Germans.
"Oh, we get along all right. The
women do our washing and mendlng
and they're always anxious to do a
lot Of extra things for us. We sure
will miss these people when we move
from here. 1t will be like leaving
home again."
Music and Craps.
The black troops are bringing Amer
ica's folk songs to Europe. Whether
The Jasper news., 1918-09-26
black and used in this way with very
good effect.
Good Fitting Corset.

Autumn models In both dresses and
outer garments designed in Paris and
here are on lines which make a good
fitting corset an essential of every
woman's wardrobe, SO do not attempt
to economize in the matter of this
foundation garment. Corsets have of
necessity gone up in price, and fewer
styles, so far as material and trim
ming goes, may be the result OF gov
eminent suggestion. This does not
mean that there will be any excuse for
woman being badly corseted In her
new autumn garments.