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The Silk Jersey Petticoat

Mianese Jersey. One of these petticoats could be drawn through bracelet yet is wide enough to permit good long step.
 Jersey Silk is so comfortable to wear. These in old gold, black tan, taupe, navy blue, green odd shades and combinations. striking and stylish,
 S3.95
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
Bags and Purses

Handbags of moire silk, blue and black, with gray shell frames fitted with change purse and mirror,
 $5.95 Moire Silk, brown taupe and gray, with drop mir rOr 9o'oo Moire Silk made metal frame, blue and black So9o Blue and black More Silk Bags, nicely made,
 Special at $1 .95
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A Beaded Bag


 If your g. cat grandmoth- CT did not hand down an elaborately beaded bag for you to carry, there is no cause for grief or envy. Such a bag can be made. The canvas is ready. The pictures, landscapes, cas- lies and mountains, bou- quets and baskets of flow CTS, all in colors showing just what colored beads 10 use. And the beads are here too. Come and look over the outfit. Fascinat- ing work and & genuine work of art when you have finished the task.
 Art Section, main floor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12

Kayser Knickers of knitted cotton fabric. White or pink, Khaki and black, Nice to wear with narrow skirts.
 $l.00
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
The Patty Comfort" Apron
 for little girls

When Mistress Patty Comfort invented this apron she had idea to youthful feminine taste The Apron itself is of pink cotton crepe with pockets of course but the bib The bib is like rabbits head with big buttons for eyes, funny pink and whiskers. And the fasten the shoulders. 4 fine apron,
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Here's City That Invented II. c. Of l..

barrel, and soap, which is classcd
as an inoNcusable luxury anyway.
brings anything the merchant can
get. many sales at 81 and more per
cake being made 10 foreigners who
Imagine they have to have soap. A
fairly good pair OF shoes may be had
for t25.
II still is possible TO exist pretty
cheaply II one has no objection 10 a
constant diet Of chicken and eggs.
Chickens are produced locally In
great quantities, and almost every
city dweiler has his own fcatherod
flock, SO chickens may be had in the
market for 50 cents each ana eggs for
65 cents a dozen. Sheep, too, are
plentiful and city broke, so mutton
may bs bought for % cents pound.
The sheep producing rural folk md
that II would take Their whole noCks
~ bay shoes for the family So they
go aoCkless and feast on mutton from
sun To sun. The butter Is too much
revered for It's age and power 20 bc
eaten by the prolCtarlJt.
Every thlns Is carried long distances
on donkey back or by Camels, An au-
! tomobile IN the streets Of Teherdn at
! tracts as much attention as would a
| camel train operating on a New York
or Chicago elevated line.
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to commit suicide. but they stopped
me by telling me Americans were
comlng'
Further down the corridor a soldier
with an arm shot fun Of shrapnol
learned during the respite from his
dellrium that American nurses had
come TO treat him. As they moved
toward his cot he murmured:
80 glad you found me! I'm lost,
I'm lost, but the Red Cross il finding
me. So glad" That alone, the aid
in attendance said afterward, was
worth the hurried trip that precluded
sleeping and eating for eighteen
hours.
The organization OF the Flying
Squadrons was managed by Miss Nor
gan, who had the advantage OF her
experience as head of the Social Ser
vice Bureau OF Bellevue Hospital, and
by the chief nurse OF the American Red
Cross. Miss Julia Stimson, who was
] also chief nurse OF the American Ex-
peditionary Force and had been chiei
nurse with the British forces. Miss
Stimson co-operated with DR.. Bur
linghame, acting chief surgeon of the
American Red Cross, and together
they planned the teams
During a terrific push, when men
were brought in virtually in horde9
Emily Cross stayed with a French
surgeon in the operating room OF the
hospital two nights and a day with
out relief. interpreting the nature OF
the wounds described on the medical
cards written by the English and
American doctors. Many other girls
worked without complaint for
stretches OF two days and a night
Dorothy Cheney Mary Hoyt ani
Miss Barclay OF New York all wer-
especially commended by the French
surgeons. At Neuilly. Mrs. George
Munroe and Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt
trained many girls as flying aids.
Not only did the nurses and aids
work with the physicians, but they
stayed in the wards all night. takina
messages from the boys to be sent
to Red Cross Headquarters ans
thence home to their families In tht
States; cooking eggs and chickSr
over solidifed alcohol lamps; pre-.
pairing condensed milk and honey 4
case the throats OF gasscd men who
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AUiatOrs Fought Death in Midair
From Zgnited Bomb in Their Plane
Conscious From Deadly Their Plane PLtngng I'm
to Sape Themselves

floor with the bomb In your arms-i
grabbed it, and over she went--what
saved me was fainting with my head
hanging out
1.-The draught brought you to your
self.
AS To you, you had already gotten
"A Whit of the gas, and what a Whit
But | hadn't time TO look after YOU.
our taxi without a driver was dan
eng around Ike mad aniuNl. A
regular tango! SO | left my seat and
climbed into yours. Curled YOU up
as best ! could. and by the way
never saw such long legs. It's time
you sawed Off foot or two. So then
| tried to get the old thing steady.
but we were pitching down at a great
rate
They sped on safely and with the
coming OF dawn-after Just lodging,
in the fog, some factory chimncys-
made a smooth landing at the shed
from which they started to be met
with special salute Of honor from
their comrades.
The Flying Poilu" is published by
George II. Doran Company.
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~ ARTAGNAN OF the sky, brave
laughing young Frenchman, in
love with the adventure OF
fighting for the fightings sake-tl at
is Chignole. as he appears in The
Flying poilu," one Of the most de
lightful books the war has given us.
It is written by Marcel Nadaud and
translated by Baroness Huard. the
American wife Of Frcnchman, who
has herself written two books OF
personal experiences in the French
theatre OF war.
Chignole had been a slangy street
urchin Of the Montmartrc district in
Paris IN the days before l9lI ana had
graduated from his FIRST jobs IN bi-
cycle and automobile repair shops to
be mechanIcian in the Aviation Corps.
But there was far too little excite
mcnt at that post for his taste, so he
succeeded in pcrsuading the plot
whose machine he cared for TO take
him up as aerial observer,
lie became the pct Of the squadron.
He brought down a German sausage
by the ingenious device OF taking an
antl-aircraft run up in his machine
and pointing it downward at the
captive balloon, while Fokk,rs yainly
pumped lead at HIM.
when all the pilots In the squad
had been given a day of on account OF
bad weather, Chgnole impulsiyely
took up a machine TO charge "a visit
ing Boche plane and drove II off, For
this exploit he received the Mcdaille
Militalre, but because, as an observer,
he had no right to pilot an acroplane
his Captain felt obliged to punish the
breach OF discipline by asking CHG
nolc's transtCrenCc to the infantry
There he oXpiated his fault by re-
ceiying a serious wound in a coura
geous charge, and was promised REIN
statement with his beloved av,ators
on his recovery.
But probably hts most thrilling ex-
which he and his pilot, "Old Charles
/ volunteered. Chgnole desired, as h,
said, to be King Of the Owls ThD
other French machine, which started
at the same time, caught fire and OK
ploded, killing both occupants, al th
very beginning Of the trip.
"It's up 10 us now" Chignole re
minded his companion. Go to II, 'Ol
Charles!' We must"
| Soon they lowered over the GEE
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man plant, lit by the slimmering
lights OF smelling furnaces, which
they had come out 10 destroy. They
let go .hcir bombs, then turned for
home. Came startling discovery.
zone bomb hasn't fallen!"
WHAT"
"Jammed in the slide"
"Push' Push down on II! Quick!
It's ignitcd!"
pull her up then and tip her over
board"
"a searchlght that had been fol-
lowing us for a long time caught us
in its beam" old Charles narrative
continues. by manoeuvrlng brusque-
ly I tried TO avoid II.
"Napors Of nitric acid seized my
throat and chokcd me, The bomb
being already ignltcd, the chemical
reaction OF the liquids which com
posed It had probably begun.
81 turned around in my seat;
ChiEnole had tainted; his head was
hanging out Of the cockpit. while the
proicctilc was clnsped in his arms.
Letting go the wheel, | jumped
over and grabbed the thing from his
embrace. Al the same moment an
air pocket made my machine tip and
fen over into the cockpit The gas
still stifcd me- An invisible hand
seemed to be gripping me by the
throat.
Chgnole! Chignole! Help!'
"The biplane, left to itself, CON
''nued it's course. / was suffocating
my ears rarG, things fitted before my
eyes. quickly, 20 quickly. all seemed
over.
"'Old Charles, Old Charles wake
up, for Gods sake wake up"
"a hand seized me By the collar
jcrkcd me. Gnd finally | found my
self half seated, jammed into a corn
ar between the pilot seat and th'
edge Of the cockpit,
"Quick! quick! take the whse
Steady her Look at the altimctrc
FIFTY yards! Hurry! There is still
/ a chance
/ Mechanically seized tile wheel my
feet found the rudder bar, BY shee
force Of habit and numerous rcGe'
movements | managed to cstablisl
an equilibrium,
I'VE started upwards. Chignol
wcdgcd in beside me spoke in synco
pated phrases.
~ woke up-I saw you on tn
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IT EHERAN. Persia, claims the dis
tinct.on OF having invented the
High Cost OF Living.
II Is alleged that war prices for food
prevailed in this old town before Cain
delivered the FIRST smashing blow in
his surprise attack upon that noted
neutral, Abel 1t must be true, for
there Is no other way OF explaining
the butter. Butter that must have
been boarded away in some ebody's cell
lar back in those days Of the begin
ming of things, Is selling here now for
1925 per pound.
Flour, "Made In Persia" is selling
for {55 a barrel, yet some stores, BY
means OF mystic figuring, manage TO
sell Persian bread for 20 cents a
pound. Coal sells for $50 a ton,
though II IS a local product, being
transported from mines only nifty or
seventy hye miles away, Donkeys
furnish the transport.
Sugar brings 81 per pound, 50 taffy-
pulling parties are not much !ndulgcd
in Fairly good coffee may be bought
for $3.50 a pound, and tea for Sl65
Flour from Europe. from which real
bread may be made. Is held at sl6(
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coughed all night. Often the Ameri-
can nurses brought food 10 those
men in hospitals near the lines
to whom the French rations. espe-
clally the French bread, were dis
tasteful.
When the Germans were nearing
Compiegne, French hospitals were
evacuated hurriedly. Two American
surgeons, however. refused TO go and
insisted upon caring for all the
patients who could be left in their
hospital even though unassisted. Aid
came TO them unasked from a group
OF New York women, calling them
selves Mrs. Days Unit" since Mrs.
George n. DAILY OF New York headed
IT, In the group equipped and par
TALLY financed by tine Red C-oSs were
Mimi Scott and Janet Fish and the
Misses Fowler.
All through the drive they stayed
or at the hospital, stanchly caring
for the wounded. undaunted by the
approach OF the Germans. There was
no delay in decorating the entire unit
when IL was cited for exceptional
bravery.
"In gratitude for the service our
troops and our nurses rendered them.
French army surgeons doubled their
zeal in treating our men I'm their
hospitals declared Miss Morgan. She
received many letters Of commenda-
ton for the Flying Squadrons from
prominent French officials. and many
requests for the permanent service OK
various members OF the squadrons
which flew with the Rcd Cross from
hospital to hospital behind the bat
Ting troops
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bore with them medicines and food
delicacies. but even more valuable, II
less tangible. was their cargo OF good
American smiles and speech to our
wounded men, who, completely sur
, rounded by language they could not
understand, almost feared they were
in Boche hospitals.
AS soon as our armies were bril-
gaded with the French" explained
Miss Morgan. who has just returned
to her New York home in Washing
ton Square, "a difficulty arose which
had been unforeseen. Wounded and
dying American soldiers were being
placed in hospitals which were
strange TO them, and where they were
not understood. Our men could not
speak French. The French stairs
could not talk English. Something
had to he done"
The French Service de Sante ap-
pealed to the American Red Cross.
Alice Fitzgerald, the Edith Caveii
. memorial nurse, and an American
who had lived and travelled much
abroad and understood the French
hospital system, was delcgn ted tc
make a lialson between Commandant
Verdi Kieber OF the Service dc Sant'
and the Paris office Of the Red Cross
Under her direction were about tw1
hundred French-spcaking American
curses and nurses aids. many OF them
we'll known in New York society.
When the supervising physician OF
n French hospital found AmeTco
boys in his wards he would despatch
word 10 Paris, and Immediately d
flying squadron would be sent to him
At the briefest notice the women N
tho squadrons sped to any point In
France, often hurrying from one hos
pitaI 70 another as the need for thou
services at any given point was III
tensified.
NO one but the patients themselves
win ever fully realize the tonic thes'
women were" said Miss Morgan
Men who had gone over the top, wh'
had become unconscious on the batt,'
around and were carried into
French hospital, woke out OF thcl
sick faint fearing they had beer
taken prisoner by the Germans. WheI
they found they could not under
stand the language, they were su"
they had been trapped by the Bochc
When the nying squadrons reassure'
soldiers, they relieved the FrencI
physicians curative task"
As soon as the flying teams az
rived at a hospital Improvement in tn
boys condition was Immediately nC
ticed. In reality it was the cure
a mental condition that these boy
stationed in foreign hospital need
cd, rather than merely medical al
tention, as physicians in all the armi'
have conceded that the french SUI
geons surpass all others.
One nurse and her aid arriving
Belfort were greeted by an America
patient as follows;
my, I'm glad you came!' Then !
added, grimly; 81 thought OF trylr
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good manners will be rated at least
tlon papers OF candidates for matri-
mony.
Far too many intelligent and sup
poscdly houscbroken husbands and
wives are shocNngly careless, " not
rude, I'm their everyday contacts with
each other. and am convinced that
witty and delightful ms Bernard
Shaw's comedies are they are respon-
sIblc for this condition. Shaw has
hal the worst possible effect ON
matrimonial manners as well as on
the relations Of parents and chll-
drcn, young mon and maidens.
Hc has. in fact, corrupted all the
casual obscrvanccs of the motrrn
family. In "The Philandcrcr" and
Man and Superman." "Pygma'ion'
"Misalliance." Getting Married
"Fanny's First Play" In some de
gree In every comedy written ny
shaw, are evidences that the most
teintillating of English dramausts
belle es that men should be enamel
pated from civility and women from
everything else.
If such a condition should come
TO pass, and the times are not with
out Indications that 1t may the
lL,caruc OF Matrimony might as well
shut up shop. For the most difficult
OF social relations has been preserved
so far, neither by law nor morals
but by good manners, sense OF pro
portion and "A sense OF humor.
hate to mention the sense o'
humor, because persons who tam
about II so rarely have any Never
thcless, II Is supersolemn individuals
who provide newspapers and divorce
courts with scandal. Men and women
who know how Ia take joke rarely
call upon the courts 10 solve thcil
domestic difficulties; in fact they are
not likely to have any that require
serious consideration.
! No woman, for example. who nai
ray OF humor in her soul could b'
vampire. For she would burst on
laughing in the midst Of her own en-
, chantmcnts. No man with laughte
in his heart could go through m
pathetic farce Of trying TO rcdiscovo
= with an affinity the platitudes o
. marriage, II may borrow the i'm
! mortal phrase OF Gustavc Flouhort
, And as "a sense OF humor preserve
| him from believing that Miss Twee
3 dledum can add single note TO IN
l scale Of experience sung by Mrs. rwec
+, dledee, 80 a sense Of proportion vii
/ save him from tearing down on
home to build another with prccIscl,
. the same materials and according L
/, the immutdble design OF the sam
70 architect For he tired Of playin
4 with blocks before he lnft the nursery
I Good manners, mutually practlsed
4 Icnable one couple to exist PEACEFUL
even after they wake up from IN
y nnacsthetic OF love. | hayo Away
taken the Bible story about IN
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NokEL cANpoR.

A GRICULTURAL PARISHION-
~ Err (wIshng to ingratiate
himself with the new curate,
who has given a lecture on the pre-
yious evening)-Thank ye, sir. for
your reading to US last night.
New Curate-Glad you liked II.
John. was afraid lest the lecture
might have beeny just a little too
scientific.
Parrshioner-No, bless you, sir. not
bit OF 1t. Why, we in these parts be
just like ducks. We do gobble up
anything, Birmingham (Epgiand)
us-el.. D
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Lords causing Adam to fall into a
deep sleep while Eve was made from
his rib. TO mean merely that Adam
fell In love. and while under the
spell constructed with his imaglna-
tion the creature he later learned 10
distrust az Eve.
Men and women who marry without
love are like those red blooded chill
dren OF nature who insist on having
their teeth pulled without gas. with
the idea that they are being strong
and noble
Their sufforings are their own fault
As for those who do take life with an
anacsthetic. some are made sick and
some are not. hut no person has ever
decided to have another tooth out itist
because the first operation was not a
success, yet we all know individuals
who take new second husbands and
wives after dlvorcing their first
mates.
While under the influence Of love
nearly all husbands and wives have
good manners. II is after they have
cmeraed from the magic spell that
selfishness and Indifference cause a
relaxation OF small coremonials. Some
| day some one viii offer a prize OF
$1,000 or more To he awarded TO the
husband who can allow his wife TO
complete an anecdote without taking
It away from her. and to the wife who
has never been known 20 Interrupt
her husband with the impatient re-
mark! mo, that isn't the way il han
pened. You've got It wrong. Let
me tell It,"
Good manners, when they amount
TO anything, are Involuntary. The
man who has one notion OF behavior
To govern his dCmcanor from ten to
five and another for his uptown life
cannot be said to have manners at all.
Women who encounter such men
downtown feel sincere sympathy for
their wives. Yet they say to each
Iother; III she had brought him up
properly he would not yell at his stem
ographer or talk to women custo-
mers with his hat on" II used 10
mind going IN to talk TO the boss
because he never took his feet from
his desk and used TO blow cigar
smoke IN my face" a woman buyer
said 10 mo last week, but now | feel
sorry for him, know he must have
married the wrong woman"
| "a
women look upon each other as the
custodians OF manners and they holc
wives responsible for a husband,
rudcness.
Yet many married women suffer
from the secret bourIshness Of mer
who appear to be Chesterfelds IL
public. Still more married men ar,
the victims OF wifely belief thai
manners, like compilations, should b,
put on just before leaving tho house
II has been fashionable for som,
years for husbands and wives to bt
rude to each other. II is a fashion
which l hope will pass. since no othe
tendency OF modern life so threatens
the foundations OF domestic happi
ness.
Every wife cannot be beautiful. Blu
she need be neither beautiful nor bril-.
liant II she viii take the pains to b,
courteous, agreeable and charming
for these qualities are rarer to-day
than either brains or beauty and ar,
, more permanently pleasing to men.
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pyramid, from bottom 10 top. |
have counted 2s,92O blocks. Each step
is 2 feet in height so YOU can tell IN n
jiffy Just how high Is the pyramid
How many ieet high is the Great
Pyramid?
AnsIper to Puz=le on the Ice.
John must have skated the mile In
minutes TO James's 10, being two
and a half times as quick, and allow
inK John to win by minutes
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solitary block OF
stone, he solilo-
quized as follows:
From the bot
tom TO the top
ca c h succeeding
step is one block
less in width, on
this side Of the
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Germany GIVES VP|
Potsdam Pirates. Shy On
Bunk, Decide To Call It
End of Imperfect Tag"
SPECIAL TO PILOT
Paris, Nov. 11-Armistice signed at
d, m. Effective at II a. m.

T,IlE Pauac Pilot little but newspaper
by the officers of the United Air
Pauiac France When of the the armsicc
flashed Paua the editors fashion
headineA
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france and establishing lason OF American cheer ana
American spirit between wounded doughboys and
the French hospitals TO which of them were taken
The Flying Squadrons organized year ago
last September by Miss Ruth Morgan, niece of the late
j. p. Morgan and President Of the Colony Club, but
who has been serving in France as Director OF the
Nurses Bureau of the American Red Cross. II was
through her instrumentay that two hundred American
Red Cross nurses and nurses aids were grouped in
teams to be flying France in motor cars
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By Marguerite Mooers Marsh

By % k
feminine Flying Squadrons the
their home where welcome should avail
they the hundred American
Yorkvho half have
speeding the long trail
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EVENING WORLD
PUZZLES.
By Sam Lloyd.
A Puzzling SOlilOQuy.

Lord Chumley reached
NJ the top of the Great Pyramid
w and seated himself on tho
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not quite accept this, am willing to believe that no
league of matrmony be founded beauty
alone. / know too that however complicated and dc.
lghtfu certain human inellecs may be, day must
when realizes has been around every con-
voluon of the brilliant brain thoroughly that
even a vacuum cleaner would not discover anything
in It.
What, then, does last in marriage?
The answer, in my opinion, is good manners.
In the enlightened days OF the future when all wives
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domestic relations
25 marking
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Red Cross Flying Squadrons
Gave 200 American Women
Chance for | Heroic Service

organised in Units by Miss Ruth Morgan for Quick
Despatch to Mobile Military Hospitals Where
Need Was Most Urgent, They Soon ProUed Use
fuiness by Heroically Rising to Erery Emergency
Despite Hardships and Difficulties They're
Winging Their Way Home
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each mobile military American sol
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A SENSE OF HUMOR IS MANDATORY.--NO. VII.
The Man Who Has One Set of Manners for Use
Downtown and Another for the Home Is I'm
cirilized but No More So Than the Woman
Who Applies Her Courtesy as She Does Her
Completion on Ledping the House.
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. ARTAGNAN OF the sky, brave,
J laughing young Frenchman, in
love with the adventure OF
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By Nixola Greeley-Smith

Publishing thu E'snn World
WYE all heard that after FIVE Of marriage does
M happiness whether he has domestcated
w the world the Witch Of Endor WI