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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-20

The marriage intentions Of Frank n.
Jordan Of this city and Louise Poolsr
OF Fairfield were filed at the ONCE o:
the city clerk Monday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-20

Miss Abbie Moreau arrived in the
city Monday from Monson and will
visit friends here for a few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-20

Miss Kate Fox has arrived in the
city from California. where she has
been passing the winter months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-20

Earl Palmer Of Hinckley was In the
city on business Monday for the day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-20
The
EVer-WelCOme
Visitor

For over ninety years the Daily
Kennebec Journal has been the
chief spokesman Of Ke.nebec and
surrounding counties.
It's long career of usefulness and
service has had a powerful in
fuence for good on the lives and
characters of it's readers.
The faithfulness with VIII ic h the
news is presented, the sane and
helpful interpretation Of the press
ing problems of troublesome times,
the uplifting word Of encourage
ment for every worthy cause, pub
lic welfare, civic betterment and
community development, h a es-
tablished it as one Of the perr,a-
nent institutions in Maine homes.
Today at least 10000 Maine fami-
lies depend upon it for inspiration,
information, advice and entertain
ment.
In variety and interest of careful
ly sifted news no paper in the State
can surpass it. It's influence makes
for better home life, better bust
ness life, and better community
life.
To be Journal reader is to ldenti-
fy yourself with one of the most
influential and at the same time
one OF the least expensive means
OF self-advancement and self-edu-
cation at your disposal.
I'M
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02
For Cutting Shakespeare

william Archer. in the Review.
1. It Is wrong to mako any ex-
cisions either in the interests OF spec
tacle or because we do not think
such -and-such a speech or passage
worthy Of Shakespeare" Therefore
his shorter plays. which come easily
within the limits of an evenings en-
tertainment, ought to be presented to
all iptents and purposes intact
2. But there are many lines and pas
sages which, owing to the lapse of
time, or to corruption of the text, have
lost all meaning, and can be under.
stood. If at all. only by tho help -
footnctes. These 1t is not only justi-
fable. but highly desirable. to omit
hurtful to the living organism A moro
difficult question arises in the case of
the passages. common in the poets.
later plays. which are so condensed
to be highly obscure. yet are proba sly
not corrupt |hnay be argued that
these ought t0lbe retained at all costs;
but the betArYpinion would seem 70
be that no good purpose is served by
reciting lines which the actor prob
ably does not understand. and which
certainly convey no meaning to the
vast majority even of an intelligent
audience.
3. Some of Shakespeare's plays. even
if very rapidly acted and with no en-
cumtrance from scenery. are far too
long to be brought within the three
hours of a modern theatrical evening".
1t is overwhelmingly probable that the
poet never intended the full text 10
be presented on the stage. At all
events. we are justified in so far e.
ducing such plays as to bring them,
within reasonable time-limit-the
more SO as their dramatic effect is tua
variably found to gain by such COM
densstion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

her cape III order to affect tableau.
French capes, as well as the Amcricatg
ordinations, are fastened at the I.ecY
and well over on one hip, so that one
may dismiss the garment from ones mind
feeling sure that it win stay in place
through its own connivance
There should be little regret in Amer
lea for the passing of the long fur coat
as street garment, for it was never
practical or economical 1t was a gar
ment for an occasion. Even the cold
blooded cnes who shriveled in Indian
summer, found that the fur coat. while
giving the warmth needed. was too fatig-
uing to be worn when walking 1t needed
a motor car
The American climate is not adapted to
the constant usage of thick, heavy gar
ments. and the American woman, who
walks more than she rides, finds that
pounds Of fur hanging from her shoulders
wipe out buoyancy, cheerfulness and the
desire for activity.
If one must have a fur coat, and not
a cape, then the short, ripping coat
that reaches to the hips is offered It is
usually made of two furs, with waist
coat and an immense coachman's collar
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

with the squirrel. the cat with the wolf,
the bison with the beaver. the sable with
the otter, all lying down together in
a magnificent peltry millennium through
which the attitude of the lion and the
lamb becomes merely prelude to this
twentieth century commingling of the
wild things of the woods.
The most common form of mixed peltry
was the combination of monkey and
squirrel The ingenuity of the Paris fur
riers was strikingly exhibited in the
transformation Of these commonplace
peltries into something desirable because
it presented attractive novelty. Per-
haps never before has monkey fur been
ccmbed out into soft. thin fringe like
hair and attached as fringe to large
surfaces OF squirrel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02
NINE. sOREL'S COAT

A few CT the Americans found an ex-
elusive place in Paris where Nine. Sorel,
Sarah Bernhard and other celebrities
went for their fur wraps. Aviotty. the
designer, is cherished as one of the best
artists in peltry that France produces.
A new wrap just finished for Nine.
Sorel. whose clothes are always Of inter-
est in Paris, was of tissue, gold on
black. giving a remarkably rich result
Tie hem as far as the knees was COW
cred with a flower effect of monkey fur
arranged In an unusual manner. Tho
fur seemed to be cut out in immense set
pieces with a circ1ing effect in the mid
die and immense, approaching sprays at
the upper edge.
This movement of ornamentation is dif-
fcult to describe in print, and ono was
constantly confronted with it in Paris
I. was made with ostrich flues, with
Mongolia fur, with cocks feathers 1t re-
minded one of skyrockets.
Aviotty also created young girls wrap
for the theatre which would be wei
chosen by debutante in this country.
1t was of empire green satin made with
three deep puffs of the material at neck
and hem. The borders were edged with
deep white Mongolia, and the wrap was
said to be a close copy of those that pre-
vailed in the second empire.
THE SHAPE OF CAPES
The cape is the dominant garment in
fur. if one must have a wrap of it.
The coat in regulation shape is rarely
seen in Paris There are cloth coats for
motoring that are trimmed with fur or
lined with Mongolia or squirrel. but the
straight coat of sealskin. moleskin or
squirrel had vanished.
There are capes that look like coats
"a trick that has prevailed in Paris for
two years. They have loose sleeves set
into arm holes that are below the elbow,
and the fronts are draped upward to the
waist and held around the figure, follow
ing out the prevailing cape drapery.
Nearly all of these capes are long. The
short dolman shape and the fitted Shout
\ der piece have disappeared The capes
wrap around the figure, and in this move
ment thew delight the French and are the
despair Of the Americans.
Whenever you see French woman
wearing a cape you notice that she is
holding it in place or constantly adjust
ing it with her hands. This is necessary,
The American woman. however, rebels
against putting her hands in bondage like
this She must have them free. She is
not given to poses She does not wear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

7NDIAN summer brings the thought
of fur. Peltry is the high fashion
of the hour. Even those women
who live below Mason and Dixon's line.
that fur is a necessity in their ward
robes.
necessity. European women have held
to this creed for years. The French
women wear fur on a hot August day
because it enhances their appearance.
Women have long ceased to regard
clothes in connection with the climate.
The calendar is marked up for social
engagements, but not for change of
seasons.
When flannel vanished from underwear,
when the thinnest of muslin, crepe and
jersey silk took the place of the red
flannel petticoat and the wooden shirt
with the long sleeves, the doom of warm
clothes In winter and cool ciotheS III
summer was sounded.
This change is put down to the over
heated American houses, but this does not
explain the reason for it in France and
England where the houses are rarely
heated to suit the American.
So much is put down in France to our
oyerheated houses, including the death
rate OF our doughboys in the trenches
from exposure and flu. 1t is quite true
that the French did not have as large a
death rate from the latter disease as the
Americans and the serious doctors con-
s:der that this was due to the inure-
ment of the French to damp, cold wealth
4 or and their century-ol practice of drink
ing Intoxicating wines with their
meals.
But all Of that is question of health
and not fashion-although the doctors as
well as the hygienists insist that women
have gone too far in the elimination of
clothes during winter weather and that
pe.try is an excellent addition to the
wardrobe between Thanksgiving and
Easter, If it is not too heavy or thick.
DESIRE FOR FUR COATS
Tho height of opulence in other days in
America was the possession of seal
PRECIOUS collars and shoulder scarfs OF
peEtry, were not known. Women banked
their hope of social success on fur
coat, and to some extent this strong de-
sire has returned.
Those who possess fur coats know
mat they are often costly possessions
that do not give one-eighth of the service
aurected There are Sometimes entire
winters in America when the fur coat
= too burdensome to Is borne when 9
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02
COMNN GARDEN FgRS MAKE SUNMPTUOUS WINTER GARMENT

Premst did this In coat which had
an enveloping collar OF squirrel that
opened down to the waist The fact that
two rather coarse furs were placed one
on the other did not make the garment
burdensome.
Cheruit liked the use of monkey fur
80 well that 1t was placed on white coats.
on evening gowns and on redingotes of
duvetyn- The house showed one top coat
Of putty white duvtyn opened from neck
was FIR ely edged with deep monkey fur
that was combed into loose, soft fringe.
Another dressmaker used white monkey
fur, combed out to look like ostrich
mlnes, on evening gowns of tulle and
mctallis TISSUE and the best of the mil
liners used the white monkey fur as
means of accentuating PREDETERMINED
black velvet hats. The milliners, how
ever, did not use squirrel as much as
one expected; they left that to the dress
makers.
Lanvin. who added to her pannier col
lection of gowns an equally interesting
one of fifteenth century Italian frocks,
used squirrel in sharply cut Florentine
designs on black velvet or duvetyn. In
some one-piece frocks, mainly of italian
origin, there would be wide, funnel
shaped sleeves that were almost totally
of squirrel.
Next to these two furs came Mongolia,
and it has been widely taken up in
America. We knew it best when it served
for lap robes in baby carriages Now
it has been raised to the level of the
'coon and the 'possum. 1t is long and
curly. it is rather coarse and heavy,
but it is used for cape collars for en-
tire evening coats, for immense coach
mems collars on tailored suits Renee
lined top coat with it, a garment that
appealed strongly to the American buy
erS.
There is no escape from Mongolia.
wherever one goes in French dressmaking
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

So much for the way the dressmakers
have used fur in Paris. They evidently
intend to compete with the furriers and
give a woman the chance to keep warm
through small, additional pieces of peltry
added to her costume rather than through
TIE caring Of large garments which are
only comfortable on certain days, when
the thermometer drops to the freezing
point.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

are no claws or head to this peltry, but
the furriers fashioned it with irregular
edges and tied it across the shoulders
with double-faced narrow satin ribbon
Lanvin used it for her constantly re-
curing coachman's collars which she
made separately from her coat suits.
Double-faced ribbon was used to tie these
collars together at the back, the ends
of the ribbon hanging to the waistline.
Her favorite combination in color was
golden brown. faced with banana yell
low.
She also used cuffs of the moufflon.
Or Mongolia. or squirrel, to match the
collar. These cuffs were quite an inno-
walton. They reached the elbow and were
much larger than the sleeve. but did
not nare.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

circles. Evidently someone secured a
Large corner on it and everyone is help
ing to dispose of it. 1t wears forever;
that's ore good thing to be said about It,
MOUFFLON ANOTHER VARIETY
Moufflon is one of the minor furs that
is offered by the furriers and dressmak-
ers in Paris as trimming and in sepa-
rate pieces for the shoulders 1t was
worn in the summer at the resorts, and
it held its own throughout the early au-l
tlmn- 1t was not warm enough to be un-
comfortable. and it's light brown. or
white, or dull brown surface was quite
attractive over a thin frock.
The neck pieces of it were fashioned
somewhat after the manner of primitive
skins such as our earliest ancestors
threw about their bare shoulders. There
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

France Has Led the Way in Turning Monkey Fur Mon
golan Goat and Squirrel Into the Semblance of Precious
Pelies Capes Are Preferred Coats, Two and Three
Furs Are Combined in One Garment and One of the
Novelties is to Make Fringe of Monkey Fur AS Orna-
mentation to Another Peltry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

scarf about the neck is all the peltry
that the full blooded American can stand.
New York and Chicago have such winters
as well as Georgia and Tennessee. We
do not have an equable climate. We can
Of clothes Our climate is not mapped
outn ito sections of rain, cold, heat, and
snow; they are liable to be mixed up
any month of the year.
1t is this chaotic condition of climate,
this change in the degrees of cold and
heat that make the fur coat doubtful
experiment when one merely considers
comfort.
Women are women, however, and will
remain so till the end land if they want
a fur coat they are quite willing to
forego other sartorial and social enjoy
ments and put all their money into a
thing that may turn out to be white
elephant.
And this season the fur coat is the
fashion. 1t is both short and long, 1t is
wrapped about the figure or hangs
straight from shoulders to hem, 1t is in
the form of sacque or cape, it has
arm holes that touch the wrists or sleeves
that envelop the knuckles, it is made
of one or two furs and sometimes more,
it is supple and gorgeously lined, and
no matter how common the animal from
which the hide was taken, the price
kicks itself against the stars This Is
the way with all clothes this winter; in
truth, with all commodities.
The racoon and the 'possum, the goat
and the rabbit. the squirrel and the back
yard cat may not consider themselves su-
perior animals. They have always been
modest and humble, sinking around the
byways of the world to get food and es-
cape the hand of man: but today they are
animals with a price. In death they
are more glorious than in life. They are
stoned, beaten and hunted while they
breathe, but when they are dead they
adornth naked shoulders of a healthful
woman or envelop the figure of a great
actress, While high-priced mannequins,
chosen for their loneliness, parade them
through the Chinese and Bourbon salons
of those who admit only the prosperous
through their portals.
Imperial Caesar, dead and turned TO
clay is reversed in the endinfg of a
common animal that has a pelt 1t
would take Kipling to say what one of
these animals might think Of his sumpt-
uous reincarnation. The animals which
he feared In life have become his side
companions in death The goat goes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

Above, at right, cape OF
moleshin banded at hem
and at edge of wide sleeves
with a very ornamental
embroidery done in taupe
colored threads directly on
the mOleskin. This is one
of the extravagant new
touches on French fur. At
left, cape of otter trimmed
with thin fringes of black
monkey. These wraps are
designed by the house of
Aviotty.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-16

The Board of Directors have authorized
the broadest publication of the sworn state
ment of the composition of Nuxated Iron,
one of the most widely used tonic, strength
and blood builders in the world, so that the
public may examine it for themselves and
Judge as to its merits.
1t is conservatively estimated that this re-
markable formula is now being used by over
100000 people annually in America alone.
Among those who have used and strongly
endorse it are many physicians formerly con-
nected with well-known hospitals, former
United States Senators, members of Con-
gress, and former Health Officials.
Newspapers everywhere are invited TO
copy this statement for the benefit of their
readers. 1t is suggested that physicians make
a record of it and keep it in their Of
fees so that they may intelligently answer
questions of patients concerning it. Every
body is advised to cut it out and keep it. A
copy of the actual sworn statement will be
sent to anyone who desires such. II is as
follows:
Iron Peptonate Especial specific Staad-
ard) Quantity given below.
Sodium Glycerophosphates U.S.P.
Calcium GlycerophOsphates U.s.P.
P. E. Nux Vomica U.S.P..
Cascarin Bitter
Magnesium Carbonate
Po. Ginger U.S.P
Oil Cassia Cinnamon U.S.P
Calcium Carbonate Precip. U.S.P.
Each dose of two tablets of Nuxated Iron
contains one and one-half grains of organic
iron in the form of iron peptonate of spe-
eial specific standard which in our opinion
possesses superior qualities to any other
known form of iron. By using other makes
of Iron Peptonate we could have put the
same quantity Of actual iron in the tablets
at less than one-fourth the cost to us, and
by using metallic iron we could have accom-"
plshed the same thing at less than one
twelfth the cost; but by so doing we must
have most certainly impaired their therapeu-
tic efficacy. G1ycerophosphates used in Nux-
ated Iron IS one of the most expensive tonic
ingredients known. 1t is especially recon-
Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-16
What NUxated Iron
Is Made From
Sworn Statement Of Composition Of Its Formula
IL increases strength and endurance of delicate nervous
rundown folks in two weeks time i'm many instances.

mended to build up the nerve force and
thereby increase brain power, as glycerophos-
pilates are said to contain PHOSPHORUS in .
state very similar to that in which it 10
found in the nerve and brain cells of man.
As will be seen from the above, two iu1-
portant ingredients of Nuxated Iron (Iron
Peptonate and Glycerophosphates) are very
expesive products as compared with most
other tonics,
Under such circumstances the temptation
to adulteration and substitution by unscru-
pulous persons, is very great and the public
is hereby warned to be careful and see every
bottle is plainly labeled "Nuxated Iron,"
by the Dae Health Laboratories, Paris,
London, and Detroit, U. S. A, as this is the
only genuine article. If you have taken
other forms of iron without success, this
does not prove Nuxated Iron will not help
you. We guarantee satisfaction to every
purchaser or your money will be refunded.
In regard to the value of Nuxated Iron.
Dr. A. ]. Newman, late Police Surgeon of
the City of Chicago, and former House Sur
geon Jefferson Park Hospital, Chicago, says
it has proven through his own tests of it to
excel any preparation he has ever used for
creating red blood, building up the nerves
and strengthening the muscles. DR.. J. W.
Armistead, Grove Hill. Ala, graduate of the
University of Alabama School of Medicine,
Mobile, 1888, says: I'm the cases l used
Nuxated Iron 1 have found more beneficial
results than from any preparation / have
ever used in "a years practice" DIR. X. b.
Baugh, Pollcvilie, Miss, graduate of the
Memphis Hospital College, Memphis, 1893,
says: 'T always prescribe Nuxated Iron
where a reconstructive tonic is indicated
Nuxated Iron often increases the strength
and endurance of delicate, nervous, rundowA
folks in two weeks time.
MASurscrusxss Nor: Tuxated Iron s not secret remedy
but which is well known TO druggists everywhere unhke
products tits easily assimated does
NOT inure the teeth make them black
Nuxated Iron not recommended in Of acute
Illness but only as tonic strength and blood builder ia
cass Of illness always consult your family physician ana %
guided by his adyce II In doubt TO whether ornot You
tonic ask DOCTOR we do not wish 70 se y9s
EuxAted Iron you require IT, If should use
and IL does not help you notify and win return yous
money sold BY all druggists DAA AssAh Laboratories
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Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-16

PAYNE PRESSING & CLEANING Co
PROPRIETORS.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-16
Navy To Pay Cash
For Useable Ideas

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-(By
Associated Press)-The navy will
pay cash reward for usuable ideas
or suggestions submitted by civilian
employees or persons in civil life.
Regulations to carry out the act of
congress authorizing such payments
have been based on the methods
adopted by industrial establishments.
The naval inventions Office will sup
ply forms on request for the sub
mission of suggestions.
The act states that reward is to
be paid when, due to a suggestion or
a series of suggestions, there results
an improvement or economy in man
ufacturing process or plant or naval
material"
The department warns employees