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brilliant and exotic colorings in cottons
for small girls. but it has had little en-
enlargement in this country. although
France does not object to 1t. Calico
sets rather harshly on 4 small body and
takes away whatever fragility there is
in childhood. 1t was brought into being
in Europe during the war. when the
effort to keep light frocks fresh was be-
yond the ability of the mothers. In
France last summer children in certain
open-air quarters in Paris looked for all
the world like pickannies on southern
plantations.
X X x x
Even as the little legs get longer with
age the skirts are not inclined to keep
pace with them. Socks disappear.
stockings arrive. but sandals are re-
tanned and knees are in evidence. There
Is danger just there, for few self-con-
scious young girls desire to look like
newly born colts. Their awkwardness
accentuated by making the figure all
legs.
White stockings should then give way
to soberly colored ones and oxford ties
take the place of sandals.
Girls Of this age. by the way. are
adopting taffeta from the wardrobe OF
the smaller girl. Recent frocks made
for members of wedding parties are OF
opalescent silk. the skirt a series OF
scalloped f1ounces bound with a leepe,
tone of taffeta and the bodice is tight
short-waisted and fastened in the back
there is a sash which proclaims Itself
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conspicuously in the back by bow Of
parts.
Gray is a mature color that has been
y 80 into the young wardrobe along
with orchid and opalescent tones. and
youngsters are fitted out in silver gray
taffeta frocks with ashes of the mate
rial. brimmed gray taffeta hats
trimmed with Chinese blue roses, with
gray stockings and suede slippers
Novelty in this costume. don't you
think?
Juvenility is thoroughly expressed In
the short Chinese jacket which is
worn by children in the east. Its adj
vent here has met success. It goes
years and 1t gives an excuse for some
fragile embroidery that does not over
load the small structure.
This garment has appeared in every
day costumes built Of thin serge. of
Shantung and Of colored silk jersey.
The latter fabric Is particularly good
for h-and-ready usage by growing
girls.
The short skirt is knife pleated by
machinery and the tunic, reaching to
the hips. 10 as slim as straight jack
ct; it fastens down the front with
round silver buttons. has fiat small
collar. square sleeves that just cover
the elbows. and these are faced with
color. Chinese blue silk. for instance.
The embroidery Is done in tones Of
this faint blue. with thread Of sill
yer running through the design. 1t is
possible to make these tunics full Of
color without departing from good
taste.
There is another adult fashion
copied for ten-year- girls in gowns
OF Indian red Georgette crepe built in
a straight slip. accordion pleated in
panels and held in at the hips by a
wide band Of Indian embroidery done
in blue, red and white. There is thin
serge slip beneath which shows at the
hem and through the slashes of the
upper garment at each side AL the
edges Of the latter are overcast with
blue and white silk threads. 1t is
very good gown.
BY ana large, it Is q colorful spring
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Dressrnakers Have Thrown Down a Challenge
to Tradition in the Spring Garments for
Youngsters Simplicity Expressed in White
Muslin Has Vanished-Lace, Ribbons and
En1hr0iderv

tween what we and the children wear.
They should be happy, as they have set
their hearts through the ages on aping
their elders. and the nearer they have
come to wearing what was "the" fash
ion that much nearer were they to all
that spelled content and bliss. Now
they can revel in each dominant idea
that has been incorporated in the ruling
styles for adults.
To outline other clothes is to merely
rehearse the accepted fashions Of the
hour. The apron with the fIifls at the
sides, the long-waisted cuirass bodice,
the wide hip band, the extra short
skirt. the short and shorter sleeve. the
round neck line, even the big bow at the
back which forms hustle. each and all
these tricks belong to children.
The French skirts for little girls are
shorter than anything ever attempted
here. The slip is just a handkerchief
length. it would seem. and the knees
appear half way between hem and
ankles.
Whether or not American youngsters
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will accept such skirts from their
mothers is not easy to foretell. Guided
by the older girls who have taken up
with skirts that are more abbreviated
than womens clothes have ever been,
there is much to expect from children
II women Of thirty wear their hens six
inches below the knees why should small
beings Of eight years not wear their
skirts six inches above the knees? The
relative proportion is not amiss. The
French children wear small full trunks
beneath the skirts and the latter do not
hang much below the former. These
show the legs stretched out at their full
length. uncovered. And these legs are
no longer covered with the inevitable
white sock. Stockings are short, it Is
true, but they are copper brown, dark
and light blue, dull red, bright green.
also striped and plaid. In truth. the legs
are as gayly comparisoned as the rest
Of the body. And, stranger still, FASH
ion has changed concerning the actual
legs as well as their coverings. for they
are no longer thin and long, but stout
and thick set. They are sturdy. not
fragile. and II this transformation goes
forward into the older set, then we shall
have to reconstruct all our American
notions Of what shapely legs are and
conform our opinion Of them to the
French idea.
Sturdy legs on children, however, look
better than thin ones below the new
skirts that often have slight panniers
$ln 10 k,rfN u1le Z
out from the little figure. There is no
kind Of petticoat, to speak Of, worn
under the slim little frock, and one
often sees through the lower part Of the
skirt, after the fashion followed by
adults.
In one particular there Is a difference
between young and old fashions-the
waistlines are not the same.
We, the elders. adopt the hip band,
long a part Of Juvenile style. and chill.
dren abandon it this season. in large
measure. to the empire or natural waist
The change does much. 1t makes the
majority Of young frocks OF the kind
which has been adopted for several
years appear to be bit old fashioned,
as IL they were kept from other days
and insisted upon thorough economy.
Not that this detail will worry
mothers to such an extent that they
will forego economy or discontinue
style that they like: the question is
merely one Of shifting fashion.
Tho empire waist line is especially
fetching on small girls. but has its lImi-
tations through age and height. The
Jack and the -Beanstalk type is con-
sciously awkward in this relic OF the
Empress Josephine. Her type must
have some kind Of waist line. but II it is
not to be at the hips 1t must go where
nature intended.
Small girls have the privilege also OF
adopting the French slip. which for
generations has been the accepted type
Of child's frock over there. It il merely
q pinafore buttoned down the back, II
desired. but usually slipped on over the
head and tied at the neck.
This spring the American children
will wear such slips in georgette crepe,
embroidered with silk or wool flowers,
tiny ones, or trimmed with scailops or
frills Of pastel ribbons.
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to succeed Mrs. Mcvey. resigned.
The announcement was made that
the combined divisions OF the Ancient
Order OF Hibernians and Ladies' Aux
iliariss would attend the O'clock
mass in st. Patrick's Church and re-
ceire holy communion the last Sunday
in May.
Miss Ida Cannon. national chairlady
of Irish history. was present and gave
an interesting talk.
The Irish History Study Club will
be entertained by Divisions and {,
l.. A. to A. o. H.. Tuesday evening.
May IL. in the kidder building. 92O
goth street northwest
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the days Of bare legs are gone. And the
answer today is a strange truth: one Of
those overturned traditions that are
creating q new world. but we hope not
q new heaven. 1t is this: Girls legs are
bare and boys legs are covered.
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VICE PRESIDENT IS CHOSEN.

At the quarterly meeting of the
District board. Ladies' Auxiliary to
A. 0. H., held recently. Mrs. Julia
Dermody was elected vice president,
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09
BLUE STAR
Mrs. Myrtle Conner

Mrs. Earl Gardner and little
son spent Tuesday andWednesday
with relatives in Carthage.
Mrs. M. E. Stockdale spent
Sunday at H. E. Stockdale's
Mr.. Hasbargen and family, Floyd
Joyce and family and Sara and
Jerry Arnold spent the afternoon
there also.
C. A. Arnold and wife visited
Monday with W. B. Houser and
wife.
H. E. Conner and family spent
Tuesday in Carthage with R. G..
Baucom.
Will Holdeman and wife visited
Sunday at James Kauffman's.
VIM Oldham's and Lester Gle
ments' children visited Sunday at
Hollis Stockdale's.
Mrs. Lawless and daughter
Thelma called at the Hasbargen
home Saturday.
John Cones called on Mr.. Has
bargen Monday.
Mr.. Lucas visited one day last
week with Rene Lucas.
Jake Kaderly was a Carthage
visitor Saturday.
Mr. Sprowl and family spent
Sunday at Art Browns.
Mr.. Hasbargen and family were
Golden City visitors Monday.
Mrs. Jake Kaderly and children
visited Saturday and Sunday in
Carthage with her parents, R. A.
Larabee and wife.
Earl Garner was in Carterville
Wednesday.
Mrs. j. E. Hull spent Tuesday
at Jake Kaderly's.
U. H. Brown and family of
Corning. Iowa, spent Sunday
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night at H. E. Coiner's. They
left Blue Star two years ago, and
although they like that state fine
they still have a good word for old
Missouri. They left Monday
morning for their home in Iowa
after a short visit with relatives
in Missouri and Oklahoma.
Sara Arnold spent Tuesday
evening with Monte King.
Mr.. Larabee and daughter Miss
Narka called at Jake Kaderly's
Sunday.
John Evans and Fred Order of
Sedalia are visiting at the Order
home.
Don Bedell and family visited
his parents Sunday.
Mrs. Horn, Mrs. Bluebaugh and
Saylor Neher and wife were visit
ors at H. D. Grim's Sunday.
Grandma Mensor left Saturday
night for Iowa, where she will
visit relatives the coming winter.
Mrs. Bluebaugh and mother
spent Thursday with Mrs. Grim.
Fred Order and John Evans
and wife were Carthage visitors
Sunday evening.
Rene Lucas and Heber Meyer
were callers at the Hasbargen
home Saturday.
Saylor Neher and wife and Mrs
Bluebaugh left Monday morning
for Mcpherson, Kans., for the
winter.
Grandma Armstrong spent Sun
day evening at Mr.. Orders.
Rene Lucas called at H. E.
Coiner's Sunday.
School began Monday with Mrs.
Eva Taggart teacher and an en-
rollment of Is pupils.
Earl Garner and family spent
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09

Swank and Miss Effie Swank and
Miss Olive Lee Spaid and Master
J. w. Spaid called at the A. E.
Armstrong home Friday.
Master j. w. Spaid took dinner
with Theodore Lane Thursday.
Burl Vincent and family were
dinner guests of A. T. Dean and
family Sunday.
Misses Althea and Laura Arm
strong and Mrs. E. W. Swank
and Miss Fife Swank were Car
thage visitors Saturday.
We are glad to state that Miss
Opal Andrews, who has been quite
sick with typhoid fever, is much
better.
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DeLOs McKibben and family
visited at Mrs. Alice Keltner's
Sunday.
Gilbert Keltner and family visit
ed Sunday at A. H. Cline's.
Glenn Buzzard and wife Of Jop-
lin are visiting at Lee Mitchell s.
s. A.. Buzzard called at Lee
Mitchell's Sunday evening.
Mrs. Mary Wood and children
visited Sunday at John Yates.
Henry White and family from
Scammon, Kans., visited Sunday
at Claud Budd's.
Geo. Seal from Opolis Kans. ),
visited Sunday at Fred Gathers.
Geo. Budd and family spent
Thursday at W. w. McPeak's.
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BLUE AND BETHEL
Frances and Mary earns a

Mrs. Lottie Barton from Garth
age, is visiting her sister Mrs Alice
Keltner.
Blue school began Monday with
Miss Frona Talley as teacher.
Eula Pugh spent Saturday night
with Vesta Bennett.
Clarence Ruckel from Arizona
is visiting his sister and mother
Mrs. Keltner and Mrs. Ruckel.
w. w. McPeak and family
visited Sunday at Claud Budd's.
Frank earns and family spent
Sunday at his fathers.
Earl Ruckel and daughter and
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09

Sunday Afternoon at s. P. Kings.
Mr.. Glenn and family called there
in the evening.
Mildred and Helen Glenn spent
Sunday afternoon with Mrs. H.
E. Conner.
Will Law and family spent Sum
day at Mr.. Naples.
w. B. Houser and wife spent
several days last week at c. A.
Arnold's.
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LEBANON AND BORDER
LINE
Miss Althea Armstrong

Robert Lane and family Of Jop-
lin, R. P. Lane and wife and Mrs.
E. w. Swank and daughter Miss
Effie, were guests of W. S. Lane
and wife Sunday.
Miss Eugenia Rex of Kansas
City was the guest of Ernest Rex
and family last week.
Mrs. E. w. Swank and daugh-
ter Miss Effie and Mrs. Anna
Spaid's children were guests at the
Armstrong home last week.
The Misses Armstrong, Mrs.
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DEWEY
Mrs. May Matthews

Ouuudy OCilOOl Wdo uSiASla IhuliJ
entertained at the home of Misses
Augusta and Vena Kyle, Satur-
day night. Fifty or more of the
members and their friends were
present and a splendid time was
reported. The evening was spent
playing lively games, and refresh
ments of ice cream and cake were
served. The young ladies were re-
minded of the fact that this is leap
year and acted accordingly. The
class is carrying on a contest now
for new members. The losing side
will entertain the winners so come
in on the winning side. The class
motto is eve can If l will"
Dick Carter, who has been sick
for two months, was able to ride
Sunday and spend the day with
his brother Jim Carter.
Miss Ethel Simms spent a week
visiting friends in Carthage and
started her school at Carytown
Monday.
Mrs. Mccarthy, Mrs. Surratt
and Miss Harriette Mccarthy
visited at Mrs. John Gresham's
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell and Mrs.
Gaddis from Webb City spent a
couple of days fishing on Dry Fork.
Mrs. John Gaddis entertained
Sunday a number of relatives and
friends.
Miss Bessie Flowers has re-
turned home after a visit inAdrian
with Miss Lorena Estey.
Word has been received from
Mrs. Karls that they are settled
and Glenn is attending M. U.
Charlie Bull has a new car of
his own and as it is leap year he
may not ride alone.
Mrs. Lowenstein and her daugh-
ter from Tulsa, Okla, spent a few
days visiting her brother, Oscar
Follmer. =
Cecil Courtney, Aretha Flowers,
Helen Gaddis and Gladys Rusk
are going to High School in Jasper
this year. Sammy McReynolds
goes to Carthage.
Roy Felske is a new pupil in the
Dewey School. About Is are en-
rolled
Ice cream social on the Salem
lawn Friday night this week.
Mrs.B. Wood, living near Cary
ytown, suffered a stroke of parl-
ysis last Friday and is in a critical
condition. She has partially re-
covered the use Of her right side.
Mrs. Alexander, her sister-in-
law, has been with her.
Miss Pearl Alexander visited
Mrs. Bull and Nathan Rice and
wife and went to the circus with
them.
Several Dewey families went to
the Old Settlers picnic at Moss
Virgie and Cornea Bull visited
relatives here last week.
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in the process of pushing the world
forward, but this is not money that he
has taken from the pockets of others
It is wealth which he has created and
while he is creating it he is filling the
pockets Of thousands of others.
A Rockefeller in China might take a
hundred million for himself, but in the
process of getting it he would put a
billion into the hands of the people of
China.
An Alexander Bell might accumu-
late fortune of million, but his in
vention would add many times that
sum to the wealth of China.
Because an inventor, scientist or
business man has more money than
| have does not mean that he has TAX
en- anything from me. In most cases
he has made two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before-he has
created opportunities for industry
and wealth that did not exist before,
and everybody is better off because of
his success.-John D. Renshler.
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party. The incredible folly of such a
performance is patent to all; after the
event. But it is repeated many times
every day, and is responsible for many
of the tragedies of the road.
On the same day, in the same city,
a hilarious gang of 'joy-riders" in a
big, swift, heavy car ran into small
Ter car and killed its two occupants,
and then fastened away with number
plate concealed or removed to avoid
detection. Ingenuity would be taxed
to devise an excuse for such conduct
that would not leave the perpetrators
under the inputation of wanton and
even Intentional criminality, amply
deserving the extreme penalty of the
law. And there is no error in saying
that q large proportion of the fatal
ties reported in the daily news can be
attributed to such conduct, or conduct
differing from that in degree only
and not in kind.
Fools and criminals We shall doubt
less always have with US. But that
IS no reason why their folly and their
crime should enpoy immunity. IL
other matters of far less importance
we are strict and severe. But there
seems to be strange laxlty and in
difference toward these outrages on
the publis highway Two or three
deaths a day from bubonic plague
would throw New York into a panic,
and emergency action of a stringent
kind would be taken. But that num-
Der of automobile butcheries is passed
over as negligible trifle, or as a mat
ter of course. There is motor mad
ness of folly and crime in the perpe-
tration of the tragedies. There seems
also to be motor madness of indif-
ference if not of actual conformation
of doings which should rouse govern
ment and public to swift, stern action
1t is monstrous that the avenues of
the nations metropolis and the public
highways generally should be infested
with perils greater than those of old
on Hounslow Health.-Harvey's Week
ly.
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They were not a hot-headed group
Of STRIPPING enthusiasts who had not
yet learned to shave. The youngest
among them was a South Carolina
lawyer named Edward Rutledge, not
yet turned 27, and the immediate SEN
ior, Thomas Lynch, Jr., another South
Carolina lawyer, was a month and a
day behind that same milestone. Ell
dest among them all was a benign
statesman well on toward II and who
had begun life as a printer-one Ben
jamin Franklin. The average age Of
all the signers was more than A al
most score of years greater than the
average among Americans sons of
1918.
And the signers were substantial
citizens-men to whom an unequivocal
pledge of their fortunes, in the hard
headed sense of land and money, was
no idle offer. TWenty-siX of them
were lawyers, eight merchants, seven
farmers and planters, six physicians
persons of parts and Of property.
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Death on the Road.

The summer season of motor TRACE
dies has opened in record breaking ia
shion In New York City, which large
ly sets the pace for the whole country,
the number of tragedies on the road
show an increase over last year of
more than 26 per cent. In the month
of June, 1919, fifty-seven persons were
killed by motor vehicles on the streets
of that city. That was an appalling
and most discreditable record. But
| this year, in the first twenty-five days
of the month, no fewer than seventy
two lives were thus lost At that rate
we hesitate for horror to estimate
how many such tragedies occur in the
| whole United States during the year.
A writer in British automobile
journal has recently described the
is impossible to escape pleading gull
ty to the indictment, though not per-
haps in the way in which he meant it.
His reference was to the vast number
of cars in use, and indeed in that cir
cumstances there are not lacking in
dications of insanity. There is far
more truth than poetry in the tales of
families mortgaging their homes in
order to buy cars. Many who never
felt themselves pecuniarily able to
keep horses and carriages now drive
about in cars. Partly because of
desire to keep up with the neighbors"
and partly because of the strong fasci-
nation that there is in motoring, they
run themselves into debt for the sake
OF what is really luxury 1t is no
doubt serious evil
But the motor madness which we
have in mind is far worse. We mean
the madness of reckless driving, to
which we venture to say 80 per cent
Of the accidents are due. This is of
two kinds, the merely foolish and the
wantonly criminal. Of the former
striking example was exhibited in New
York the other day, when a family
went out driving in a high-powered
car, and one of the children, girl of
fifteen, entirely inexpert, was per-
mitted to sit at the wheel and drive.
The natural result was the demolition
of the car, the killing of the girl driy-
er, and the serious, if not fatal, in
juring of two other members of the
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America. Numerically, the man-pow-
er of China is greater. But as far as
physical development is concerned,
China is century behind America.
Why is this? What is the force
that is lacking in China and present in
America?
The answer, as we see it, is that
China has produced no Rockfellers, no
Hills, no Carnegies, no Fultons, no
Harrimans, no Edisons, no Schwabs-
in other words, no leaders of industry.
China is practically without rail
roads, steamboats,, good roads, farm
machinery, or any of the modern de-
vices for multiplying the power of
man. China has muscle-power, but
apparently she has no generals She
has the raw materials, but she has no
men to direct their fabrication into
finished products.
What would any of the men we have
named above be worth to China :?
Would they be worth a million each,
ten million each?
There is just one answer to this
question. These men of foresight and
daring are so rare that their value
cannot be estimated No one can say
in dollars what is the value of the con-
tribution of Mccormick to the farm
ing industry. In single year the
farmer of this country derives more
profits from his reaper than the in
ventor accumulated in a lifetime.
A great inventor, a great discover
er, great organizer, a great devel-
oper may put money into his pockets
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The First Enlistment,

American Legion Weekly: The fiji
ty-six Americans who affixed their
signatures to the document that
brought the United States into being
were not indulging in pretty verbal
camouflage when, in the climactic last
sentence of that stirring manifesto
they pledged to each other their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor
in support of the cause of indepen-
dence
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That first enlistment did not call for
spiral leggins, gas masks or reveille
But it did call for the same essentiel
willingness to bear true faith and a.
legiance to the United States of An
erica which nearly five million otht
Americans were to pledge more thar
one hundred and forty years later
and which, out of uniform though the,
now are their own sacred honor bind.
them to maintain.
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The Democratic Army

The Y. NJ. c. A. hut at back home
camp was crowded with soldiers for
the evenings entertainment. At the
close of the first act the secretary in
charge called from the stage:
rs Abraham FinkeIstein in the
house 2"
A voice in the rear shouted:
mo, he is over with the Knights of
Columbus" Home Sector.
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Why America Leads

Much can be learned by comparing
a backward country, like China, with
a forward country, like America. The
natural resources of China are as
great, if not greater, than those of