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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
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Fairy Tale
FARMLAND BALL.
/WAARY GRAHAM BONNER

"We're going to have ball." said
Fairy Princess Joy. land l am getting
it up. Will you all come to Fairyland
tomorrow evening at eight o'clock2
We're going to dress in fancy costumes
and we're going to have a great deal
of fun," she said.
And that was the invitation she
took around to everyone.
The very next evening they all ar
rived in plenty of time, and there were
the most remarkable costumes you
have ever seen.
There were gypsies and there were
knights and beautifully gowned ladies
and there We're gnomes and brownies
dressed like animals, and many of the
elves had dressed as birds.
A number of the fairies were miss
ing, however, and everyone wondered
just when they would come and just
what they would wear
In a few minutes after the guests
had arrived. along came old Mr.. Giant.
He wore a huge costume which stuck
out and made him look larger than
ever. :.
His sleeves were the most enormous
things you ever did see.
"Well, old Mr.. Giant" they all said,
''you have joke in mind to tell u.s."
What makes you think so?" asked
Mr. Giant.
"Oh, you have something in the way
of surprise or a joke, for you've got
an expression on your face which says
quite plainly that you've something up
your sleeve"
Something up my sleeve, eh?" asked
Mr.. Giant. pray tell me what that
means"
WELL" said Billie Brownie, when
creatures have some secret they know
or some plan on hand, or something
they mean to spring, they say, you've
something up your sleeve They mean
that there is something hidden either
in the way of a surprise, joke, a
pack of cards anything.
"And so we say that you have some
thing up your sleeve, for you look it.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
GRAY SEEMS TO BE POPULAR
Color Is Used In Furs and Fabrics
New Fur Called SIynx Is
Introduced.

Gray seems to be the most popular
color, both in furs and fabrics. There
is new fur called slynX, an imitation
krimmer, which is very much in the
foreground. Then come mole, beaver,
kolinsky and very little ermine and
seal. The fur is mainly used as facing
for hats of panne velvet or brocaded
satin. The little Cossack turban OF
fur is supplanted by combination tur
bans of fur and ribbon or brocade A
coquettish model of mole skin is be
decked with lustrous, ravelled edge
scarf of taupe moire ribbon. The
small turban or tam is very popular
as to shape The most exclusive shops
are adapting the turban to the
Egyptian outline and are showing the
high, helmetlike front One Paris firm
develops this outstanding, off-the-fact
front into a starfsh shape. The ha
is of black panne velvet and the star
fish is fashioned from jet. Little tam!
made of velvet are very popular whel
trimmed in fur balls.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31

You look as though you had some
thing hidden away. You have a Sc
cret for US, eh, Mr.. Giant"
"Weli, well, well, maybe you're
right" he said.
And as he said so the great enormous
sleeves he wore began to shake and
move, and suddenly they saw many OF
the little fairies running down old Mr..
Giants sleeves and coming out over
his hands and jumping about laughing
with delight.
81 did have something up my sleeve,
ha, ha, that was true enough" said
old Mr.. Giant.
''A good joke" said Billie Brownie.
Just then along came a fairy carry
ing an enormous whistle and a cake
Of soap, towl and basin filed with
water.
"What in the world are you doing,
Fairy? they all asked. "And won't
your water freeze on this cold day?"
''Tm seeing that this whistle lives
up to the reputation it has," said the
fairy. ''They use the expression as
clean as whistle and I must see that
this whistle is no disgrace to the FAM
lily name, and so I'm constantly wash
ing my own face and hands, for want
to be as clean as a whistle, and the
whistle must be clean to keep up its
reputation"
They all laughed loudly, and only
stopped when they heard a sound COM
ing from one of the branches of a fir
tree.
"Who's up there?" they called.
ST am" shouted Fairy Princess Twi-
light Bell. 81 am up tree because I
don't know what to do. 1 was of on
twilight party and didn't have time
to make my frock. So 1 don't know
whether to come to the fancy dress
party as I am, or to stay away because
1 haven't a costume. So I'm up tree,
or in other words, I'm greatly puzzled
about what to do"
"Come down, come down." they call
ed, and Fairy Princess Twilight Bell
came down laughing. "a gay little
joke 1 played on all of you. I acted
out the old, old joke Of being puzzled
or up tree. Ha, ha," she laughed in
her musical voice.
And then from the ground they saw
arising the Fairy Queen. She had
been lying on a bed of snow and she
was dressed in a gown of glistening
snow, with starlike jewels in it.
"And none of you saw what was
right under your noses." she laughed
as she joined the jolly party.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
ONCE EXILED FAMILY OF
BRAZIL NOW HONORED

The visit of Secretary of State
Colby to Rio de Janeiro, and recent
press dispatches stating that Presi-
dent Pessoa of Brazil has signed de-
cree revoking the edict which banished
former Emperor Dom Pedro II and
all his relatives, arouse interest in the
history of these United States of
South America"
Harriet Chalmers Adams, writing to
the National Geographic Society, says:
'There is a movement under way
to build a national pantheon in Rio
de Janeiro and bring to it, at the time
Of the 1922 centenary. the remains Of
Brazil's historical personages, includ-
ing Joao vi, Pedro l, Pedro II and
his consort. To this the Portuguese
government will probably consent, and
it is to be hoped that Princess Isabel,
too, will agree. Dom Pedro II should
return with honor to the land of his
birth. The difficulty hitherto lay in
the fact that neither the princess nor
her sons were permitted to enter the
Republic of Brazil and could no long
er visit the family tomb.
Dom Pedro II died in Paris in
1891. Princess Isabel, who married
the French Comte d'Eu, still lives in
France. In 1908 her elder son re-.
nounced his claim to the throne of
Brazil in favor of his brother Dom
Luiz, whose little son, born in 1909, is
Pedro Ill.
when in Lisbon / visited the Pan
theon, where the rulers of Portugal
lie. Exiled from his country. Dom
Pedro II also found a resting place in
the land of his forefathers. 1 was
most unfavorably impressed with this
Pantheon. 1t altogether lacks the
beauty and dignity of the royal mar-
soleum of the Escorial in Spain. For
The payment of a small fee, the custo-
dian permits you to climb a ladder
and gaze at the embalmed body of the
asst emperor of Brazil This seems
most uniting.
Dom Pedro II is Brazil's biggest
name. He it was who led his country
into the brotherhood Of great nations.
With him wisdom and kindliness
we're pre-eminent. Every inch an em-
peror, he yet was accessible to the
humblest Of his subjects.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
CRIMEA: THE RIVIERA
OF RUSSIA

A proposal that Great Britain and
the United States shall cooperate in
caring for the Russian refugees from
the Crimea again directs world sym
pathy to a land which has already
known suffering.
Hanging down into the Black sea
like butchers cleaver, with its handle
pointed east and the near corner OF
the blade Joined to the mainland OF
Russia, the Crimea, where it was frs
planned to exile the abdicating czar
is about as near to being an island a.
a peninsula well can be, even though
a very narrow strait is the only wa
ter that lies between it and a second
connection with the mainland. On the
one side, to the west. lies the PerekoI
Gulf, and to the east, shut out from
the Black sea by the handle of the
cleaver, is the Sea of Azov.
With an area matching that of New
Hampshire, population equal to thai
of New Hampshire and Vermont to-
gether, and climate that borrows
good features from Florida and south
ern California, and bad ones from
many places, the Crimea is one of
the most fascinating bits of territory
between Portugal and Cochin China
Its population is a congress of races
Its industries range from the grow
ing of subtropical fruits and the hous-
ing of Russia's elite as they flee from
the cold, to the herding Of sheep and
the growing of grains1fIt is a place
of many-sided activit
AS the men of wealth of America
have their winter homes in Florida
and those Of western Europe have
theirs along the Riviera, the people
of Russia have their country seats in
the Crimea. And beautiful places
they are, for in Russia the rich are
very rich. The height of the social
season is from the middle Of August
to the first of November.
The peninsula is occupied by S55, 900
people, according to the last census,
mostly Turkish-speaking Tartars, with
a scattering Of Russians, Greeks, Ger
mans and Jews. Cleanliness and mo-
rality are said to be proverbial traits
of the Crimean Tartars, who have been
undergoing the influence of Russifi-
cation for several generations. They
have taken up vine culture, fruit grow
| ing, and kindred occupations with a
zeal seldom equaled east Of the
Aegean.
The novels of Tolstoy give a graph
| ic picture Of the Crimean war from
| the Russian ewpoint-depicting the
miseries of the march, the anguish of
| the life in the casemates, and the
nerve-destroying ordeal of manning
the lines under shellfire, there to
await the night attack that might OF
| might not come. 1t was in this wal
that Florence Nightingale rendered
service as nurse that made her name
a synonym of ministering angel on the
| worlds battlefields. Then men knew
nothing of the cause of cholera and
such diseases, and the soldiers died
| like flies.
| 1t is estimated that $4,000 British
soldiers lie buried in the cemetery out
side of Sebastopol. Before the pres
ent war this vast city of the dead was
watched over by German who coult
speak no English, but who was proud
of his privilege of guarding the ashes
of those who fell at Balaklava ant
| Inkerman.
When Stephen Graham visited the
cemetery the old keeper told him the!
| had 25 variatioS of olaandor in +b.
cemetery.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
RATS: A COSTLY PEST

AS carriers of the dread bubonic
plague rats are a menace, but that
is only one form of their costly and
dangerous depredations.
Rats are practically omnivorous,
and their depredations cover a wide
range" writes Edward w. Nelson in
a communication to the National Geo.
graphic society.
"They dig up newly planted grain,
destroy it while growing, and also
when in the shock, stack, crib, gran
ary, mill, elevator. warehouse, wharf.
and ships hold, as we'll as in the bin
and feed trough. They eat fruits.
vegetables and meats in the market,
destroying at the same time by pollu-
ton far more than is consumed.
''They destroy enormous numbers of
eggs and poultry, as well as the eggs
and young of song and game birds. In
addition, they invade store and ware
houses and destroy groceries of every
description, as we'll as furs, laces,
silks, carpets and leather goods.
'They cause many disastrous fires
by gnawing matches. by gnawing
through lead pipe near gas meters. or
by cutting the insulation from cleo
tric wires in order to secure material
for nests and by gathering oil-soaked
rags and other inflammable material
in their nests; flood houses by gnaw-
ing through lead water pipes; ruin ar
tifcial ponds and embankments by
burrowing, and damage foundations,
floors, doors and furnishings of dwell
ings.
"As disease carriers they also cause
enormous commercial losses, espec-
cially through the introduction Of bu-
bonic plague the resulting suspen-
sion of commerce. With the introduc-
ton Of plague they become directly
responsible for business disaster as
well as for an appalling mortality.
"Much Of the greater part of losses
from these pests is in fOOdStuffS-
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
Sports Headgear May Be Made Aston
ishingIy Artistic With Aid OF
Yarn Embroidery.

The American woman likes all her
clothes pretty. She likes practical
sport clothes, it is true, but she places
style and beauty first. She likes love-
ly colors, embroideries and perhaps
a few ribbons. All sorts of bright
yarns have come to play very i'm
portant part in our outdoor clothes.
There is no end to the lovely models
that can be achieved from cloth and
worsted.
A plain dark blue cloth hat of a
soft shape may be made astonishingly
artistic with some gray yarn en-
broidery. All the rust shades are at
tractive backgrounds for gray worsted
The beret is more popular than ever
and lends itself to old-fashioned wor-
sted needlework. There is an infinite
variety of designs that may be worked
out in these.
| unnn first thought ribbon does not
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
DO FISHES TALK?
Do fishes talk?

DO HSu6S Idlk
Recent speculation about a monkey
language gives rise to this even more
startling theory, limited at by DR.. Alex
ander Graham Bell, in a communica-
ton to the National Geographic So
ciety.
"Talk," Of course, is used in the
sense Of communication a meaning
which is not extreme since we daily
speak Of talking" over the telephone,
the instrument Of Doctor Bells inven-
tion, though the voice" that is heard
is not that of the speaker, but me-
chanical reproduction Of his utterance.
did you ever put your head under
water and chuck two stones together
to see what the sound is like?" Doctor
Bell writes. eff you have never done
that, try it, and you'll get a new SEN
sation. I did it once, and it sounded
as if man were hammering for all he
was worth at my very ear.
Il then took two tiny little pebbles
and tapped them together quite lightly
under water, and it sounded like a
LAclh hhOOhlhS at IAIC 0OOLs IL was
rather startling to hear such loud
noise from such a slight cause.
"Reiecting upon various expert
ments, the thought occurred to me:
If two little stones tapped together
can be heard under water, why, every
make an audible click. l wonder if
there are creatures in the water that
signal to one another by sound.
"Well, had occasion to try it once.
Bathing in the Grand river in Ontario
great many years ago, put my head
very gently under water and listened,
and, sure enough, tick. tick came
a sound like a grasshopper's chirrup
and a little while after that chirrup
on the other side. There were crea-
lures under the water that were call
ing to one another.
'T don't know whether all fish make
sounds or not, but there are some fish
that certainly do. The drumfish on
our coast drums away in the water so
loudly that you can hear him while
you are walking on the shore.
"It is also significant fact that all
fish have ears. Why should they have
ears if there is nothing for them to
hear?
"Of this we may be certain-that
there is a whole world of sound be-
meath the waves waiting to be ex-
| plored.
"Three-quarters of the earth's sur
| face is under water and has not yet
been explored, at least to any great
doprno''
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
AFGHANISTAN ONCE MORE
FEARS BEARS PAW

The collapse of czardom in Russia
was hailed with acclaim in Afghani-
stan as freeing her from an influence
that often has been embarrassing. But
the menace Of the bears paw is re-
newed with the threatened incursions
Of the Bolsheviki.
To the stranger the Afghan displays
sort of specious and deceptive ori-
entail courtesy. In fact, a national
proverb is that "The man who shuts
his door to stranger is no Afghan"
But the stranger also would do well
to know saying current among the
Hindoos: "God shield you from ven-
geance of the elephant, the cobra and
the Afghan" For many strangers
have found that, upon provocation, to
which the Afghan is extremely sensi
tive, his disposition is vengeful, cruel
and crafty. His desire for pillage,
theft and deception also is apt to get
the best of him.
Your Afghan is a swarthy, swag-
| gering, proud, but withal prepossess-
| ing sort of man, every inch the war
| rior while he keeps his turban on,
but giving faint suggestion of a be-
wigged jurist Of old English days
when he removes 1t to disclose a head
shaven from forehead to crown, with
curly ringlets falling about his shoul-
ders from the unshaven portions.
Occasionally the men are fair, as
/ 80 h. L.s T., a.,
two plaits with colored tassels at the
end, conceivably might call to mind
an American musical comedy chorus
prepared to sing "School Days." were
it not for their flowing oriental robes.
Afghan women, like Turkish women,
are secluded, but they are consider
ably more adventurous than their
Turkish sisters, hence scandal is not
infreQuent even In a land where a
man may have as many wives as he
can support
By Habibullah's father, Abdur Rah-
man, also were enacted measures of
rational defense singularly in keeping
with occidental schemes for conscrip-
ton. He made the boast that he
could throw hundred thousand men
into action In a week to defend one
Of his provinces, and said his entire
domain could raise a million fighting
men to defend her soil. Nor did he
stop at the prediction. He worked
out a system by which each man in
every eight would alternate in taking
military instruction. One had to be
very young, or very decrepit, to es-
cape the amir's draft, for the service
ages were from sixteen to seventy.
So far as barring private munition
makers is concerned, Abdur Rahman,
long before his death in 1901, might
have subscribed to the principle, dis
cussed during the peace conference at
Paris, for he had his own factories
at his capital, Kabul. There are said
to have been produced a dozen or
more rifles and thousands of car
tridges day, and several guns a
week.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
Manuscripts STRANGELY Recovered.

Some valuable manuscripts went
down in a torpedoed ship during the
war. How they were recovered has
been told by the Rev. J. Alston at Sur
biton, England. Preaching at St. Mat
thew's church on behalf Of the British
and Foreign Bible society, he said the
late Archdeacon Dennis, a missionary
in South Nigeria. spent several years
in compiling a dictionary and gram
mar of the Ibo language, comprising
six distinct dialects, to enable the
Bible to be printed and circulated
among the native tribes. When on his
way to England his vessel was tor
pedoed, and he lost his life. Some
months later his manuscripts were
found in a crevice of the rocks on the
Welsh coast, where they had been
washed up by the sea. They are now
awaiting publication.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
Ribbon the Rage.

Ribbon is the rage just now. Rib
bons everywhere! A beautiful dinner
gown is made of cream chantilly lac.
insertions, each band separated from
its neighbor by narrow velvet rib
bon, henna in color. the vivid ton,
contrasting cleverly with the lace.
wide bias of velvet hens the skirt
A veritable cascade of ribbons ripple,
from the belt. This dress is made ovel
a double foundation of henna ant
cream chiffon.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
Chic Frocks Are Plentiful

for the debutante. To be weIl-dressed
even when surrounded by all thu
wealth of her milieu, young girl mus
have modest decol'ete, very shor
sleeves, even transparent, but coverin,
the upper shoulder. A lovely mode
seen on one of ike prettiest buds Ii
made of pale pink satin, draped alon,
Greek lines and completely yelled IL
mauve chiffon. The dress is tied loose
iy at the waist by cord made O
ropes of pale blue, pink and lavende
beads. The blending of these shade,
creates a third one, quite impossible,
to describe but not difficult to visual
iZe.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
TUXEDO SWEATER is SMART
Unbelted Garment Is Attractive
Large PIaids Are New This
Season and in Demand.

Sweaters seem to grow handsome
each season. The unbelted tuxed,
sweater is considered very smart ius
now, and one model in brushed woo
in checker-board effect has the edge
and deep V collar in plain color and i
very attractive. The large plaids ar
new this season and are especially i,
demand.
The public demand for lower price
has had its effect on fashion. TIL
newest models show that the pro
ducers have met this demand b,
eliminating elaborate trimmings an,
embroideries. The new garments shoy
a revision in styles and it is now DOS
sible to buy a dress, coat or suit
minus expensive elaboration in Trim
mtngs-at almost prewar prices.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
The Cloth and Worsted Hal

seem very feasible for headgear de
signed for outdoor games, but tn,
most useful as well as charming hat
are made entirely from it. Some O
them are rather perishable affairs
with their ravelings and fringings
and cannot claim economy as bearfn
any relation to the ribbon sport hat
it is just as extravagant as it can be
but very lovely. There is such a wild
range of shades in ribbons that it i
possible to match any costume an,
bring out any color effect desired,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
IdealiZing Vices

The common feature of the cult Of
all idols is the adoption of an ideal
to the evil instincts of mankind. Man
cultivates the vices which are profit
able to him, but feels the necessity Of
iegitimatizing them being unwilling to
sacrifice them, he must idealize them.
That is why the problem at which be
has never ceased to labor throughout
the centuries has been to harmonize
his ideals with his own mediocrity.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
Foolish 'FreShieS'

Freshies are often seen assuming
the privilege Of familiarity with the
women. That goes with a certain
class Of the female sex who aren't par
may enjoy the spice of your nonsense,
but not a single one in her right mind
would dream Of joining fortunes with
you 'for better or for worse" There
may even be a certain group of women
who are fresh themselves. They dis
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31

profit, it will yet Danish mischief from
thy busted gates. There is a kind of
good angel waiting diligence; that ever
carries a laurel in her hand to crown
her. Fortune, they said Of all, should
not be prayed unto, but with the hands
in motion. The bosomed fist beckons
the approach Of poverty. and leaves
besides the noble head unguarded; but
the lifted arm does frighten want, and
is ever shield to that noble director.
How unworthy was that man OF the
world that never Cid Alright, but only
lived and died-Feltham.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
Moth Like a Bio Bird.

To gain some idea of the splendor of
some of the worlds moths and butter
flies, one should glance over nearly
complete collections of them from the
tropics, to be found in the United
States National museum. There is a
superb species that comes from Africa,
wherein the tails" to the hinder pair
of wings are more than eight inches in
length. Then we have the gorgeous
Atlas moth of the East Indies that
measures a foot acrA-- from tip to tip
Of its upper wings
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31

Ideals have no existence in themselves,
but only through the hopes or expert
ences in themselves which can fill
them. They are either summaries, or
hypothesis; frames for what has been
or will be; convenient or necessary
formula. One cannot live without
them, but the evil is that people make
them into oppressive realities.-Ro-
main ROLAND, in "The IDOLS"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
Hurrah for Cow,

Father had returned from a polit-
ical convention and presented each of
his three youngsters with a badge
bearing a likeness of a candidate and
his name. The two older children
were able to read, so ran out Of the
house cheer 9 for the man whose
name appeared on their badge. Maui
rice was too young to read, but seeing
the seal of Indiana on his badge
(Which is buffalo bounding over the
plain) he shouted, "Hurrah for this
darn cow!''
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31

gust me,s by going more than half way
in everything. They even want to do
- "nurting. True, it takes two to
game right, but the man likes
he's doing it all. Men with
Il take to the timbers at the
tutu of being courted-Grit,