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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
THE DECLINE OF THE CORSET

THE DECLINE OF THE CORSET
 From reliable statistics, I am in- formed that only five per cent. of the women wear corsets nowadays. Re gently the Corset club of a large Middle Western city, composed of manufacturers, salesnaen and design CTS of eorsets, held what they called g. "saye-the-eorset symposium to dis euss this situation. Quoting Mime. Ala Ripley, President of the Fash ion Art League of America, '.nor and eaere women are gi ing lip cor sets.'' Personally, I know of few young women who wear them at all. If corsets are being eliminated it is because they are no longer nen.ed by the other 95 per cent. Many things have contributed to this corset waning era-the colleges, the wo- man in business, the present days loose fitting, sensible styles. Espe- cially in the colleges, where athletics almost vie with studies, stays are eonsid cred absolutely detrimental to bodily freedom ease and grace of movement. And stays" are equally as bad, and much of a hindranee, for the business woman whose office day usually consists in bending eyer desk. playing the typewriter keys, or stepping over filing cabinets; and whose daily walk to and from the office, or morning and evening dumb bell exercises, constitutes her sole athletic achievements.
 It was not so many years ago that women had to wear corsets because of the weight of their clothes A seven or eleven gored skirt required at least two others under it, to say l nothing of the heavy flannel one for warmth. Today, most women confine themselves to three undergarments. a skirt, knickers, and a ehemise-mere wisps of silk or fine hatiste And the outer garments hang straight and loose.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
FEARS EXPRESSED
 FOR FUTURE OF
 COTTON SPINNING

Tokio. Aug. 2S.-(By the A. P.)- Great interest is being evinced in re- gard to the future of the cotton spin. ming industry in Japan owing to the rise in the cost of production of all the development of cotton spinning in China, says Diamond, a financial newspaper. The remarkable devel- opment of spnning industry in Japan was mainly due to the cheap cost of labor and the demand in China but there factors which have made the cotton spinning industry so prosper ous are fast disappearing and grave fears are expressed in some quarters that the industry is threatened with serious crisis. There are three ways in which the cotton yarn turn ed out of the Japanese spinning mills is disposed of. Thirty to forty per cent. is exported, a portion is manu- faetured into cotton clothes by the spinning mills themselves and ex- ported and a greater portion is con- stunned by the weavers other than the spinning mills.
 The output of yarn has been in- creasing since the withdrawal of the restriction in December last but this has not resulted in an increase 3t
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
Michigan Election
 Attracting Wide
 Interest In Fight

Lansing. Aug. 2s.-By A. P.3- Michigan voters will go to the polls September 12 to name party nominees for United States senator. governor, lieutenant governor, members of Con gress, state legislators and local off cers. overshadowing all other con tests in point of statewide interest is that for the Republican nomination for United States senator.
 There are four candidates in the aeld-senator Charles B. Townsend, State Senator Herbert F. Baker, Con- gressman Patrick H. Kelley and John G. Emery. formerly nationaI com mander of the American Legion. The
 paramount issue in the vigorous campaign they are conducting is ex- cessive campaign expenditures. With Truman H. Newberry, ''Newberry- | ism" has come to be the slogan of the campaign and all other issues have comparatively been lost sight of. ing their campaigns upon denuncia- tion of 'Newberryism." Senator Townsend, in reply. has held stead fastly to the position that his actions in the Senate call for no. apology. He has declared that he lis much against excessive expenditures as any one." In the Newberry case he ad- mits that "too much money was spent put not that any money was Illegally spent"
 Former Governor woedbridge N. Ferris is unopposed for the Democrat 1 lc Senatorial nomination.
 Governor Alex J. Groesbeek is op- posed for Republican renomination by | former State Labor Commissi on CT
 Richard H. Fletcher and Theodore M. Josltn of Adrian. Both Joslin and | Fletcher are asking for votes as 8 protest against alleged excessive ex- penditures in the conduct of the
 states business. They also assert that
 Governor Groesbeck has created an autocracy of which he is the head.
 The governor will go before the voters on his record.
 Of the nine congressman who are
 running for renomination all but two are op posed. The Republican nom
 ination is usually considered equiva- | lent to election. Congressman Earl
 Kitchener is opposed by s. B. Craw- ford of Ypsilanti; J. M. c. Smith
 by Brewster E. Kies, of Hillsdale;
 Carl B. Mapes by Alvah M. Brown of
 Grand Rapids; Louis c. Cramton by James McCar ren, of Port Huron
 Francis O. Lindquist by Bird J. Vim
 cent, of Saginaw William M. Smith of
 St. Johns, and William M. Lash of
 Saginaw; James c. Mclaughlin by State Senator Albert Engel; w
 Frank James by Martin s. McDon-
 ough, of Iron River. John c. Ket-
 cham and Roy O. Woodruff are unop-
 posed for renomination.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.


 Dear Doctor:
 "The following is a schedule of my average day. never have any breakfast and. if possible, no lunch; when impossible, just some green salad with but little dressing and fruit for dessert. I avoid as much as possible foods containing fats and starch. In addition to this, I exer- else a good deal by playing golf, rid ing horseback. dancing, etc But the two main things which do to reduce are:
 1. Smoking at least eight cigarettes every day. inhaling them.
 2. For three days in succession I go on a liQuidless diet; no water, coffee, soup, etc. On the fourth day I drink two glasses of anything I want The fifth day I start once again on the liquidless diet. It IS because of the fact that I sSp not feeling as "peppy' as usual Ahat I am writing for your opinion of my methods. I neglected to say that ] never sleep over six hours a night and never during the day.. Mrs. B. M. .'
 So you are not so poppy" as usual! We'll, well! I do hope thas when you interview St. Peter. which you will do soon, if you continue the course you are following, you will nor tell him that you followed his near namesake's course Of reduction and that that is why you are calling on him prematurely.
 Great Allah, G1rll Where did you get such an ida Of reducing? Ger tatnly not from my course. No wonder you are not feeling as poppy as usual. In the first place, sm oking is harmful enough even when you do not inha1e In the second place. in the course you are following you are not only starv- ing your fat, but you are starving your whole system as we'll. To reduce your fat and your vitality and strength at the same time Is bernie ious You must have some fats and carbohydrates for your energy food and you must have sufficient protein to supply your repair needs. and you must have sufficient liquid to supply your water needs.
 If you missed the instructions that we gave in the column, send a self addressed envelope with four cents in stamps to me, and I will send them.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28

stock owing to an increased amount of export as we'll as the consumption of yarn by the spinners for the man ufacture of cotton cloths for ex- port.
 Exports of yarn dropped from 56s,- 990 bales in 1914 to 292, 260 bales in 1921. Still cotton yarn does not seem to show signs of over supply but it is quite possible that with the extension of producing capacity adopted by many mills and the estab- iishment of new mills, together with the fast increasing output of the spin ming mills in China and the conse- quent falling-off of demand for. Jap- anese yarn time will come, sooner or later when the spinning industry in Japan will suffer from a serious crisis,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
SYNOPSIS


 Kittie Swasher, switchboard operator at the Berood, New York City, receives a request from the occupant of Suite 1913 to come to sec her. Kittie ac- cepts the strange invitation ana meets Miss Maud Smith of Ogai- lala, Nebraska, who IS very much upset because as the result of an advertisement in matr1- monial paper, she is to meet young man, Mile 'Sprogget, m New York, and be married.
 Kittie advises Maud to go through with it. But Maud ballzs. Kittie hits upon plan. Just then the phone rings, Miles Sprogget is announced, and IS shown up to Miss Smiths suite. Kittie Swasher passes herself o11 as Maud, while the real Maud says she is Kittie Swasher, Miles does not appear at all suspicious.
 Maud at once realizes her mis- take and begins to regret her 1n- decision.
 Kittie, gowned in one of Maud's most fetching froclks, at first at terb9ts to initiate the real Maud; but in a few minutes she lapses into her usual slang. At once she begins to make things hum. She reserves table at Swan heimers, a popular restaurant and orders American Beauty roses for the table. She orders a theatre ticket broker to send three tickets at $7 each to the restaurant. Shen she hires limousine for the evening. They leave the hotel and go to the Gold Jazz room at Swanheim- ef'S.
 ''At six-thirty when Sprogget and his ladies arrived the place was just beginning to draw it's crowd. The obsequious head waiter guided them to their ta- ble with a suaye motion of his hand"
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him with a trace of worry on her face until she saw that he had not been harmed.
 Now that the comic interlude is fnished,' he smiled, suppose we continue our chat <en love and mar riage?"
 You had just finished telling me that you approved of our marriage, when the fraeas began. Pm mighty glad You see, I need a wife out there. The oil business is largely luck. So is nnatrimeny. Nothing ven tured, nothing gained.'
 Inveluntarily. Miss Smith voiced
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at his back and Maud Smith lost
 sight of him.
 Sprogget found Kittie at the hub. Her original antagonist had vanished. The battle swirled around her.
 Working around her, shouldertng away those who came too close and mailing others staggering blows with a small, hard fist, was a slim. dapper young chap. He was dapper, even as he walloped. Not hair of his head was turned, not a mark showed on his face. A bit undersized he carried, i nevertheless, an amazingly vicious
 kick in either hand. As Sprogget burst through, the riv-
 eter shot him a piston punch. It landed on the point of the Oklaho- mans chin. bringing with flash of blackness and a quivering tremor of weakness that swept deown to his heels,
 It was no time for speech. Sprog- gett did not resent the blow, Tor he had an impression it was struck in Kitties defense. Under the c1rcum- stances there was only one thing to do and Miles did it. His right, v:o- torious veteran of a secoFe of oil fields combats, cracked on the smooth
 shaven jaw of the bantam. It was a
 concussion that had stopped men twice his size. He buckled and sank, l eyelids futtering.
 A dozen walters pulling at the I fringes of the fight had begun 10 l localize the conf;ct. The house | bouncer with his skull of iron. long l inured to shocks. was thinning the mass. Still. it was no place for a lady. Without apology or explana- .tions, Sprogget's hands closed on Kit | ties slim waist and he lifted her. as l one does a child. to his shoulder. Her
 arms curled about his head, and he wormed his way through the jam. | wild-eyed diner. vainly seeking the l one who had damaged his nose, struck at him with such poor judg- ment of distance that the blow miss 1 ed. Kittie's silk-clad ankle shot up.
 Her set on Sprogget's shoulder gave leverage to the kick. One sharp 1 pointed toe caught the assailant in
 the gulIet His head flew back and he staggered to the rear. coughing, l gulping and out. When they were free, Sprogget sat her down. | "Your arm. Miles, she said loftily. 1 Excepting a single strand of auburn
 hair that waved loosely. she was un- | ruffled and calm. will you escort me to the retiring room, please, until | I arrange my hair?"
 He understood. For the minute Kitt:e was acting the part of gen. tility-that imperturhabIe serenity in great e1inlaxes.
 "Certainly, my dear"
 He matched her in suavity.
 They halted at the door.
 "TlI tell you the truth, Miles, but I'd rather our chaperoon didn't know The lounge lizards divorced wife ob- jected to him going out dancing. She
 2aNed me a huzzy and. like perfect
 lady, slapped her face. Her friends
 joined in and that's the way 1t start
 ed. I hope I have not embarrassed
 your"
 CHAPTER VI.
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what was almost a protest. Do you mean you would take a wife on just luck-alone ?''
 "Certainly. When it comes to love and a woman-well. they both defy all rules. People never really know each other. anyway, until after they are married. It's all chance. tn ought she would be entirely differ ent, but she's got a dozen different sides to her disposition. Some one of 'em is bound to fit in with my life. It's like I safd-you've got to trust your luck"
 Gro Be Continued Tomorrow.) Copyright 1922. Thompson Feature
 SSrvice.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28

So now women keep themselves in condition physically so that their own muscles will hold them up, as they are meant to do. without having to rely on the constructing support of stays" Corsets are for the elderly or the matured. And even they may keep themselves trig and neat looking by wearing the brassier, or b"ndeau as it is now called.
 Reader-The first thing to do when manic curing is to soak the finger tips in hot soapy water. thus softening the cuticle around the nail. With the point of the file loosen all the skin that has grown over the base of tha nail. Next, clip off all this dead skin until there is a well defined line all around the base and side of the nails. A tinted cream Is then rub bed into them until they have taken all they can absorb. Remove the surplus and polish each nail with the cham ois buffer.
 It does not pay to make manicure preparations so little material is consumed in the work and the trade articles do very we'll In giving yourself a manicure, it pays to get one of the many preparations for softening the cuticle, as that is the most tedious part of the work and often impossible to accomplish unless one can manipulate both hands equal 1y well.
 All inquiries addressed to Miss Forbes in care of the Beauty Chats department will be answered in these columns in their turn. This re- quires consid erable time, however, | owing to the great number received. So if a, personal or quicker reply is desired, a stamped and self-address- ed envelope must be enclosed with the question.-The Editor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
Garden Freak Yields
 Salad Growing on Vine

Beaver Falls, Pa., Aug. 28-This is the story of tomato that has adopted a cucumber.
 Tomatoes and cueumbers were planted in the same bed in a garden on the William Tyson farm in South Beaver towA Aship, Beaver County, by John H. Sturgeon, of Beaver Falls a camper there.- Now he has a tomato with cucumber growing through it's center. The cucumber got in the way of the tomato. so the tomato just grew around it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
Wants U. $. To Aid Europe's Recovery

Paris, Aug. 2S.-A Hand disarma- r1ent conference" at Washington should be the logical successor of the Naval Disarmament Conference and should seek to solve all Europe's tangles. according to Anadeo P. Gian- mini. president of the Bank of Italy of San Fransico, interviewed by ln- ternational News Service after study ing financial and industrial condi- tions.
 We in America. have made money out of the war;" said MT. Gianntnt. "We cannot now adopt a policy of total isolation from European affairs. We have a distinct responsibility
 T found in Germany disposition towards a revengeful spirit, but un- limited armament Is not necessary to protect the world against this. Ger many has no more allies. Austria is crushed, her condition is pitiful. The United States may have to have a hand in helping her regain her feet. She will become the debtor of allied nations.
 "As for Russia, she can be isolated by intelligent handling of Germany and Austria. By permitting Germany, or more especially Austria, to drift | towards communism we are only paw | ing the way for dangerous union.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28
l M Dietan Health
 s.ssys1, By Lulu Hunt Peters. MD l .zahor @ Diet and .znih Key to ze Calariss3


 eve have been out of them, but the new supply is ready now.)
 I sincerely hope that this will reach you on this mundane sphere.
 Dear Doctor:
 "Oh, Boy! the joy of finding the help I so much needed in your articles. I started with the first day and I have succeeded beyond my fondest dreams have reduced from 29O to 243-45 pounds-since I
 started about ten weeks ago. I will keep on until have reached my nor
 nal weight. which should be 1b5
 pounds I feel better than have in
 long time. Sleep better and can
 work all day and not be half as tired
 as was before at noon. find I must eat about 1500 Calories daily to re- duce two pounds week. cer- tatnly am another one of your big boosters-Mrs B. B. give this 1otter to show that if you follow a scientific course for re- duction. You do not lose your "pep,'~ but you feel better in every way. How ever, would no. advise such a rapid | loss as this ordinarily. | You see, Mrs. B. B. has 300 CalorieS
 more g. day than we advise for the average person. which shows that she 1 is getting a good deal of active work 1 and does not need to drop as low as l,2OO Galleries a day. She tells us she | sleeps better. Most courses on reduc- l ton advise you to sleep as little as possible. I do not advise that at all. I advise you to sleep all that you needs | to in order to feel well-even to the regulation eight hours. | Write again, Mrs. B., when you get 1 down to 200 pounds. It may be wise l for you to rest week or so from your reduction before you get to that fg- 1 ure. Go back to maintenance diet for two weeks or so. then begin agatn | on your>reduction regime. N Heart Disease. l We have a. supply of the pamphlet 1 on heart disease issued by the New l York Association for the Prevention
 and Relief of Heart Disease. Those l of you who are interested may nave | one of these pamphlets by sending a. 1 stamped. addressed envelope to me l through this paper.
 Copyright 1922. George Matthew Adams.
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The Girl With The Jazz Heart
 BY ROBERT SHANNON

tuck. Here we are-at Swanheim- er's-and the poor boy gone lame We'll"
 She leaned forward on her elbows and gazed at him steadily. Sprogget you trust me. don't you?"
 Why certainly I do." hA laughed.
 "You don't think I'd try to double cross you?"
 Never"
 Well, I was wonderin' If you'd object if I had just one little gallop. Do you suppose they got profes- siona1 dancer here to dance with ladies in cases like this. wnere tEe gentleman with 'em don't? I read in a newspaper they had" There was something chi1dlike in her eagerness. T read the same thing. and it's all right if your chaperon doesn't ob1ect,'' Sprogget told her. That's all wanted to know" Kittie said. ''She won't care, will you?''
 ''I think Miss Smith is capable of taking care of herself under most any circumstances,' the real Miss it."
 Sprogget attracted a waiter. who in turn signaled the professional dancer.
 'I wouldn't do it, Miles, if I thought you minded; really I would mt. Only when I hear jazz music somehow something inside me gets to swayin', and I don't know-I guess
 my brain must be in my feet. I pretty | near gotta dance, that's all" "I can understand" said Sprogge1 symp athetically. l The professional, trim of figure
 and slick of pompadour, bowed at I their table. They watched Kittie dance away with him,
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Advertise Tn The Times.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-28

CHATTER VI.
 A Friend In Need. He found Maud Smith waiting for
, 1922-11-08
WILL STUDY BIG SKY PROBLEM

The Nc Cormick observatory Of the
University of Virginia will take up the
problem Of solving the fundamental posi-
ton of the equator and ecIiptic in the
sky, on which depend the primary CO.
o~rdinates- the astronomers right as
c~ension ? ! decIination. Its rs inch tale-
score il che fourth largest refractor in
the western hemisphere and is one
of the few in the world which car be
utilized for such an important i~nyeSti-
cation. II size it is only exceeded by
Yerkes (40 inches), Lick (36 inches) and
Allegheny go inches) in America. 1t
is equipped for Photographic work and
also has a micrometer for measuring
the position of stars, comets, asteroids
etc. The observatory plans to make a
long investigation to determine the re-
lative brightness of the stars surrounding
the celestial pole. The Pathfinder, Oct.
218t.
, 1922-11-08
POLICE USE PAPER BULLETS.

The Detroit police department pur-
chased a number Of machine-guns to be
used in dispersing mobs, bat the kind
hearted commissioner couldn't bear to
see a crowd of people fired into with
steel-jacketed bullets just because they
happened to be disorderIy. So he sugges-
ted using paper bullets containing minute
charges of fire bird shot. Although this
shot will not cripple a person it is vpry
effective in hreakiOg up an undesirable
; ssembly. Ibid.
, 1922-11-08
PRESS BUTTON AND WORMS AN
SWER

Peter J. O'Keefe, chief storekeeper IF
the Portsmouth navy yard, won a prize
with his device for p4ging earthWOrn5
for poultry and fish bait. His process
consists in pushing TWO brass rods in the
earth. several feet apart, a wire being
attached to each rod and the ends being
connected with an electric current.
When the current is turned on all shapes
and sizes of worms come to the surface.
Tna vibration and t%ingIing eff 9cC OF rn4
snock causes them to do this. bid.
, 1922-11-08
Publication.

1T is hereby brought to public notice
that according 10 the scheme Of NOR
& t~ization for St.. Thomas Harb, 40
Loan of 1910, the drawing by the \ )tary
Public, st. Thomas, of twelve bo' DIS at
Francs 1000 has taken place, resulting
in the drawing Of the following bonds:
, 1922-11-08
Notice Of Auction.
IN TIE MATTEROF THE ESTATE OF
kOSABEL BENNERS, DECEASED.

T the request of A. E. STAKEMANN.
81 administrator Of the above entitled
S' estate anut pursuant team oroer of
the District Court of he Virgin Islands
dated The Z5gH DAY CT SEPTEMBER
1902, The real estate belonging to the de-
cedent's estate, situated in the Town of
Christiansted, Island of st. Croix, Virgin
Islands Of the United StateSAhRown as
No.. Letter Gin Little n Street,
with all a~ppurtenances will be offered for
sac at public auction to be held at the
undersigned Vendue Office in Christians
verns Fort Police Cfice) in the Town Of
ChristianSted on
, 1922-11-08

Contribution to this paper aOjU be glad
Lg received when the same deals NTH mat
ters of general interest, cn& is Gc:ompa-
MED aOjth the authors name, as q quar-
dntee OF good JajM The editor conn0t be
responsible for the vjeWS Of has %correSp0n-
dents nor does he necessarily endorse them
, 1922-11-08

Entered Us 8~ec2n1-cJ1cs matter MHy
25th 1917at the Post Office at Christian
sted, st. Crojr, Y. l. of the U. S. A., IN
der the Act of M~rch g.. 1879.