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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
CLOTHING BUDGETlS
OF BIG IMPORTANCE
Purchase and Upkeep of Clothes
Is Made Much Easier.
WelI-PIanned and InteIIigently Fol-
lowed, Should Enable Men and
Women to Be Better Dressed
for a Given Amount.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Economy in purchase and upkeep of
clothing is easier when expenditures
are planned in advance. The woman
who so plans and classifies her expen-
ditures will set aside a sum for cloth
ing based on the clothing she has on
hand and the use she can make of it,
on her known needs, and on her in
come. The clothing budget should be
her guide when she buys. Even II she
does not do just what she has planned
she will be more likely to avoid mis-
takes than she would If she acted
without giving the purchase careful
consideration with respect to her ex-
penditures in general. Budgets well
planned and intelligently followed
should enable men and women-for
the budget system is equally valuable
for both-to be better dressed for a
given sum than when purchases are
made haphazard, and frequently saw
ings are possible, In the opinion Of
department of agriculture home eco
nomics experts.
A budget
Shows the relative amount which
should be spent for clothing as COM
pared with other needs and the rela-
ton Of the probable purchases to what
one has on hand.
Should prevent unwise spending. for
instance, at reduction sales" since i,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
:
GOWNS and HATS
SHOWN IN PARIS
Black CharmeuSe Dress Is a Type
Every Woman Needs in
Her Wardrobe.
EARLY SPRING FLORAL ToQUE
Headgear That Is Real Joy to Eyes
Wearied by Sight of Gray,
Dreary Days and
Evenings.

This week is sketched a distinct
novelty, which would certainly prove
very useful for afternoon wear. 1t is
black charmeuse dress which takes
the form of an Hltralong tunic, thrown
over straight fourreau of black and
white broche silk. The dress is ex-
actly the same back and front and it
is in reality throw-on dress, invisibly
attached to the broche fourreau on the
shoulders by pressure buttons.
The dress buttons right down the
back, and down the front from the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
One thing drilled day after day into
the boys who are coming back from
camps or overseas is Schedule" a
time for everything and each thing
done at that time. Housewives need
that drill.
The argument will come up, "But
woman's work is never done 1t can
not be put in the same class with q
soldiers life at ALL"
Woman's work is full of many tasks,
1t is true, but that is just why she
should work by a schedule. Do you
remember the day when you were a
little girl that your mother told you
you might go to Mary's to play if you
finished washing the dishes by 80 and
washed them we'll? You finished at
1 20, while the day before it had taken
you much longer, and vet you had
washed no more dishes. 1t was simply
because you had an aim in your work
and you concentrated on what you
were doing. A judicious sprinkling of
leisure-hour treats, if you do your work
quickly and well, might have the same
result now.
Wasted Time Saved.
But more than that, making plan
of work or a schedule causes the
"head to save the heels" 1t always
pays and it makes a woman watch
her step" much more closely. 1t will
avoid waste time and such calamities
as having the cleaning of the dining
room coincide with the meal hour BY
It's aid housekeeping is put on bust
nesslike basis.
"But what a hopeless task it is TIC
foresee all the tasks in a day." dis
senting voice says.
If you cannot remember all the
work you do, watch yourself. See
what duties there are that present
themselves necessarily and what come
from poor planning and mismanage-
ment.
Are you one of those women who
get cleaning spasms on days when the
larder is low, and "iust feel like bak-
ing on the days when you don't need
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
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| Housewife.

Salt fish can be used in chowder.
Cauliflower makes an excellent
soup.
Orange jelly is excellent to put into
layer cake.
Dried fruits and cereal may be
cooked together.
Before oiling floor, be sure it is
absolutely clean.
Bedsprings should be painted with
aluminium paint to save from rust.
Good gored aprons can be made
from old skirts, especially white linen
ones.
Save all pieces of clean imprinted
paper that come to the hal,se-tha
small children can use THETA for tir:...--
ing or for their pay.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
European W0s- News

A Weimar dispatch says the German
delegates to the peace conference will
be Count Won BrOckdOrff- the
foreign minister; Dr. Eduard David.
majority socialist and first president
Of the national assembly; Dr. Adolpn
Warburg DR.. Adolph Muller, minister
TO Switzerland; Prof. Walther NJ. A.
Schuecking of Marburg university, and
Herr Geisberg, minister of posts and
telegraph in the Prussian ministry
A London dispatch says a mixed
naval and military commission will
soon proceed to the Dardanelles and
report officially regarding the Turkish
defenseS as they stood in 1915 during
the allied operations on the Gallipoli
peninsula, and on other matters relat-
ing to the Gallipoli campaign.
Estimates so far received at Paris
from Latin-American governments of
damages incurred in the war Indicate
that the total bill for Preparations from
those countries will be approximately
81 ,0000O0,00O.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

any baked products? On still another
Gay do you puzzle as to why you are
SO tired and then remember that the
day before you had felt so energetic
that you both washed and ironed, just
for the fun of it? If you are guilty,
then Schedule" is what you need.
Making Weekly Schedules.
WOman'S work is scheduled most
easily by the week because of the num-
Der of weekly tasks. These must be
taken into account as well as the daily
ones. Some which do not come as
often as once a week must be taken
care of, too, in the budget of time.
Each woman has different things she
must attend to, so any schedule or
budget of time will have to be worked
over or used only as a pattern to be
altered when necessary. Every day
housekeeper has these tasks:
1. Preparation of three meals.
2. Dish washing.
3. Care of beds.
4. Light cleaning of used parts of the
house
At least once a week she has these
tasks:
l. Laundry
2. Marketing.
8. Special cooking.
4. Sewing or repairing.
5. Thorough cleaning of house.
s. Cleaning of windows, silver, or fit
tings
Z. Cleaning of refrigerator.
If there are children in the family
more tasks must be put in each of the
lists.
The Daily Schedule.
The list made, the next question is
how to arrange the days work. That
will depend on the housekeeper her
self, but she should have a definite
preference and stay by it in order that
her work may become efficient.
Such a schedule will make the cas-
ual observer appreciate the multitude
of tasks that come up in the daily life
Of a housekeeper. 1t will increase her
own self-respect to see the list of
things she is doing each day, but more
than that it will increase her interest
in housekeeping. To work by schedule
will make her commander of these
duties rather than their slave.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

dresses will not come right into fash
lon until peace is really signed. All
the same we are dancing sally along
the road with leads to such frivoI.
tiles.
Mirror velvet and panne NAV be
said to be the favorite materials of
the present moment for afternoon
dresses of elaborate order, and both
these materials are mixed with silk
jersey-cloth and with bands of hand
some fur. Nearly all the more ex-
pensive models have rich embroideries
on corsage or side-panel, and these
embroideries are achieved in metallic
threads, glittering beads, brilliant
silks and chenille.
I have often seen all these COM
bined on a single length of embroid-
cry. Worth is showing some lovely
velvet princess robes which have rich
II embroidered, very high collars and
cleverly arranged draperies of fine silk
jersey cloth which fall heavy and
straight at the sides of the robe. One
model which specially pleased me was
in mOle-gray velvet, with mole-gray
silk jersey cloth side draperies and
superb embroideries worked in silver
threads and steel beads. There was
a high Medici collar, covered with
embroidery and bordered with mole
skin and the petal sleeves were very
similar to those shown in our sketch.
This was one of those elegant, digni-
fed toilettes which are eminently suit
able for women of certain age;;'' soft,
rich dresses, which look so lovely
when combined with pure white hair,
carefully arranged.
The Gay Floral Tcque.
Once again we have floral toques in
our midst. This is the best of good
news, for the floral toque in early
spring, is q thing of beauty and a
real joy to eyes wearied by the sight
of gray, rather dreary, days and eve
nings. And then the floral toque is al
most universally becoming. The lead
ing milliners in Paris are showing
these toques in several different
forms; but personally l award the
palm for beauty to the close-fitting
Russian turban shape which / have
sketched.
On young and pretty girl, or
woman, this is an ideal toque for early
spring wear. 1t may be covered with
any small flat flower, but roses, vio-
let's, hyacin shs or scarlet japonica
blossoms are perhaps the best of all.
The model was covered with dull pink
Banlzsia roses, and very lovely it was.
Quite plain and simple, but full of rich
and varied color, for the little roses
were shaded-here and there dark.
This style of toque must be pressed
close down on the head so that the
hair at the back is almost covered.
No fringe shows on the forehead, but
coquettish curls are allowed to strag-
gle forward over the ears. A toque
of this kind made entirely of dark
purple violets would be lovely; or of
Parma violets mixed with dull blue
hyacinths; or again with moss roses
and soft green rose leaves.
For Correct Combination.
The correct thing to combine with
such toque as this is large square
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
HERE'S A SAMPLE MONDAY MORNING PROGRAM.

considers ones needs as distinguished
from the temptation of purchasing at
bargain" prices something one can
do without.
Promotes saving, since a systematic
study of what we have and what we
must buy necessarily implies acting
after due consideration rather than
upon impulse.
Helps one to consider quality in re-
lation to price, since this is one of
the fundamentals of good buying, and
economy does not mean getting the
most in the way of temporary appear
ance for as little money as possible,
regardless of the character or SUITABLE
ity of the goods.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
Neck EriIlinn Anain.

Frilling by the yard was the stand
ard neck-and-sleeve finish at one time.
Now it is quite prominent again on
the neclSwear counters, being used for
the round-necked. collarless dress or
waist. It comes in white, maize and
other soft tones. With fold of some
suitable color it is worn as a fichu.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

American marines have raided the
Japanese concession lit TientSin fore
ing their way into the Japanese con-
sulate, according to dispatches re-
ceived at Picking. The trouble is said
to have been caused by the rough
treatment given American soldiers
who became disorderly in the japanese
quarter of the city. Japanese soldiers
drove out the Americans, with fixed
bayonets, it is said, wounding two of
them quite seriously.
Emile Coffin, who recently made an
attempt upon the life of Premier
Georges Clemenceau, was sentenced to
death by the court-martial which was
trying him in Paris. The verdict of
the court-martial was unanimous.
Fighting is still going on in Berlin
with great fury, according to undated
reports received in Copenhagen. Wit
nesses of the fighting say that both the
Spartacans and government soldiers
acted like wild beasts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

point Of the deep V opening, and the
outline is quite original The ceinture
is made of white skunk and the same
fur borders the high Medici collar
and petal cuffs.
This is the type of dress, writes q
Paris correspondent, that all elegant
women need in their wardrobes. 1t
is sufficiently ornate to wear at a
fashionable wedding, and yet it might
with perfect propriety be worn at a
restaurant tea, or for ordinary visit
ing. This idea of throwing on a pic
tureSque satin dress over a brOcaded
or striped princess robe is very popu-
lar in Paris just now.
We are in the midst of gaiety of
one kind or another. Your splendid
president has been in our midst and
visits, of a ceremonious order, were
the order of the day. Now for such
visits this is the kind of costume that
our Smartest women wore. Something
original, dresSy without being eccen-
trio and rich withal. The cOmbina-
silk is immensely popular.
Materials Are Favored.
Worth is using these two materials
with the best effects; so is Nine. Pa
quin and so is Doucet. I saw. re-
Gently, in Doucet's showrOomS n
model dress very similar to that
Sketched, which was made of deep
purple panne over gray and black bro
caded silk, the latter material being
traced over with silver threads. On
the neck and sleeves there were mar
row borders of sable.
There was long cape-wrap to ac-
company the dress end this was also
made of purple panne, with an inn
mense sable collar and lining of sill
YER gray peau de soie-a truly regal
toilette. The Parisiennes fell in love
with Mrs. Wilson. Everywhere one
heard of her slovely smile" and-for
French women place great faith~in a
correct taste in dress-of her excel
lent taste in sartorial matters.
I heard a well-known leader of
Partisan society eXclaim: Mime. Will
son puts on her hats quite perfectly -
Greater praise than this could not be
given-by Parisienne. For the pres
idential entertainments many lovely
afternoon and evening dresses were
ordered in the rue de la PaiX.
Amongst these / noticed several lace
gowns, set in f1ounces from waist to
hem and, worn with tight-fitting satin
or embroidered tulle cOrsage which
recalls the outline of days gone by.
Lace dresses are becoming quite a
craze in Paris; black lace. cream lace
and the two combined We are drift
ing toward revival of fussy evening
dresses; elaborate gowns trimmed
with fiounces and with intricate drap-
cries and loops or ribbon. We are in
for reaction in dress matters.
For a long time back we have been
satisfied with evening dresses of Sc
we're outline, which one could hardly
call evening gowns at all.
Await the Final Peace.
Now we are rapidly blOssoming out.
Is If by magic the big "Maisons" have
suddenly produced exquisite and elab-
crate evening toilettes. though the Pa
risiennes insist that really decOIlete
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

throw-over veil made of taupe gray
Russian net, with the border embroid-
cred in silver threads. These taupe-
colored wells are extremely becoming
to bright compilations. They look re-
markably smart when worn with an
all-black hat or toque.
For early spring wear Lewis is al
ready showing very large fat-brimmed
hats made entirely of satin and
trimmed with flat bows of velvet rib
bon, the latter being placed at one
side near the back. Everyone says
that the spring season will open ex-
ceptionally early this year of 1919. 1t
is to be hoped that the clerk of the
weather will remember that we shall
badly need great deal of brilliant
sunshine. What is fete without sun
shine? And this year Paris will enjoy
one long, long fete.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers

lNUHlRNlHlTHIINITIiiiiIiiiiTTITiiITHTTTHHIH11

A Washington dispatch says Italys
loans from the United States were in
creased to $1,421, 100000 by a new
credit of $16,500,OOO. This made total
credits for all allies $S,S57.157 900.
Satisfactory health conditions in
army camps at home, with a decided
decline in the number of Influenza and
pneumonia cases, is noted in the report
OF the surgeon general for the week
ending March Z, made public at the
war department at Washington.
The Victory Liberty loan campaign
will open Monday, April 81, and end
Saturday night, May 10, according to
an announcement by Secretary of
Treasury Glass at Washington.
Decision to proceed with deporta-
ton Of 81 Of the 43 aliens now held
at Ellis island has been reached by
Secretary Wilson at Washington aft
er conference with immigration Off
Gals and attorneys for the aliens had
asked review of the proceedings.
Thus far the largest single income
tax payment made in New York city is
$2O,OOO0O0. The payment by check
was made by an unnamed corporation.
An indication that prices of build
ing materials will not be reduced
greatly at present was seen by labor
department officials at Washington in
reports that building activities were
increasing this month without waiting
for reductions.
Spokesman for about 100000 rail-
road shop employees presented argu-
ments to the board OF railway wages
and working conditions at Washington
in support of their demand for a gen
eral wage increase from the basic rate
of 68 cents per hour.
Letters were addressed to the may
ors of all principal cities by Arthur
Woods, special assistant to the secre-
tary Of war at Washington asking CO.
operation in efforts to safeguard the
economic welfare of soldiers.
= +
The food administration at Wash
ington announces it has repealed it's
regulations prohibiting licensees from
selling, delivering or having in their
possession food commodities in excess
Of a reasonable 60 days supply. By
previous orders these regulations had
been removed from all foodstuffs ex-
cept meats.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph said he understands the
supreme war council has decided to
grant Poland's claim to Danzig.
Singing revolutionary songs, 200
Spartacist prisoners were marched to
their death through the Inter Den
Linden in Berlin. They were a be-
draggled crew, with their wrists,
handcuffed together behind their
backs.
If Germany does not get quite large
food supplies during April literal
starvation will result, says a Reuters
dispatch from Berlin.
The courtyard of Moabit prison in
Berlin is a SHAMELESS as a result of the
execution by machine guns of 200
Sp8rtaciSts chained in couples and
lined up in column formation.
The Berlin insurrection may be con-
siIered as suppressed, Gustave Noske,
the minister of defense, announced in
the national assembly at Weimar, a
German dispatch reports.
A serious riot took place in London
in which American soldiers and sail
ors, Canadian and Australian troops
made common cause against the Brit
ish police. Policeman P. G. Field is
=
skull. Four other policemen are suf-
fering from scalp wounds. Five Amer
lean soldiers and sailors are nursing
wounds at Lancaster Gate Red Cross
hospital The trouble started when a
policeman raided a sailors scrap"
game.
A Berlin dispatch says Spartacan
forces, under pressure from govern
ment troops using artillery and mine
throwers, have abandoned their posi-
tons in Lichtenberg.
The steamer George Washington
with President Wilson on board en-
tered the harbor of Brest at 7:45
o'clock Thursday evening.
A white paper has been issued at
London showing the national debt on
March 81, 1913, was $29, 1905, ATE, O95,
compared with $3.50, 77O,55O at the
corresponding date in 1914.
The bolshevik general staff at Mos
COW claims that during January and
February the bolshevik army occupied
territory the size Of France, having
1855 miles of railroad under its con-
troll, and declares that the soviet
troops will reach Archangel by May 1,
according to Helsingfors dispatch to
the London Mail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
Jet and Velvet Hats for Late Winter

For late winter wear there arc some
very attractive little hats of jet and
velvet. The jet sequins are spangled
all over with velvet, which is then con-
cocted into becoming little hat with
a pulled crown and a narrow brim.
Some Of these hats are cut with
mitered crown, like bishops cap.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
Personal

Martin A. Morrison of Indiana and
George r. Wales of Vermont were ap-
pointed to the civil service commits
sion at Washington by President Will
son, succeeding John A. McIlhenny and
Herman w. Craven.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
Domestic

One hundred and twenty-three Uni
versity of Michigan men lost their
lives in the war, according to figures
compiled by Doctor Sensemann of the
University of Michigan alumni.
John Martin Kantor, Mayor Thomp-
sons political lieutenant and former
city real estate expert of Chicago, was
held to the federal grand jury in $780,
600 bond by Judge Lands on charges
of perjury.
Fire destroyed the steel plant and
the stone works at the United States
penitentiary at Fort LeavenWOrth,
Kan, entailing loss estimated at not
less than 100000.
Declaring that the influenza cpl
demic is as serious as it has ever been
and that the public seems quite I'M
concerned, the Madison (WiS) board
of health announced restrictions on
amusements and public meetings.
About 1,0O0 railroad clerks EN-
ployed on all lines entering Atlanta,
Ga, walked out in a general strike in
sympathy with the striking clerks of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis railroad.
Seventy per cent of the New York
harbor strikers are back at work I'M
der agreements satisfactory to the
marine workers utilization. according
to an announcement made by Thomas
L. Delahunty, president of the or
ganization.
Charges Of being 'avowed anar-
chists" were preferred by the police
against three men and one woman, the
only persons held after raid on a
building in East Fifteenth street. New
Vnplx
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
Peace Notes

The commission on international la
Dor legislation at Paris has refused to
consider various proposals, such as
adoption of universal eight-hour laws,
affecting child labor and woman labor
and the Observation-Disclosures of labor.
A Paris special dispatch says the
aerial terms of the German disarma-
ment as adopted by the supreme war
council provide that airplanes and
dirigibles shall no longer be used for
military purposes.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle says the allies have
agreed to limit the German fleet to six
battleships, five cruisers, II 80O-ton
destroyers and &c smaller destroyers.
Recommendation that the navigation
of the Rhine be opened to all nations
without discrimination was made in a
report to the peace conference at Paris
by the commission on the international
regime of waterways, railways and
ports.
An invitation has been sent to all
the neutral nations in Europe, Asia
and South America asking them to at
tend a private and unofficial confer
ence at Paris on Thursday, March 20,
with the object of giving neutrals an
opportunity to express their views on
the league of nations.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19

A novel black charmeuse frock open
ing at back and front over straight
fourreau of black and white b. che
silk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-19
Foreign

The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph said he understands the
supreme war council has decided to
grant Poland's claim to Danzig.