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blouse that goes with them is called
a MILDLY. but is quite different from
the old-fashioned MILDLY in cut and
line. These we made of dark linen.
Taffeta Gown
Then for all the occasions when
one needs IN informal silk gown we
decided on a taffeta dress trimmed
perkily with organdie-little puffed
sleeves, a wide collar and billowing
pockets. We found out by window
shopping that this combination of
materials is especially good.
Perhaps you'd like to make this
$40 outfit yourself so I've added a
table of materials and prices to let
you know how 1t was done:
Cretonne dress-Three yards
of cretonne. &c inches wide,
at SO cents a yard ....... 5 1.5O
One-half yard ~unbleached
muslin. at 20 cents. for
trimming 10
| Dance frock-Four and one
half yards of 40-inch georg-
cite at $1.45............. 6.53
Taffeta frock - Two and
three-quarters yards of 40
inch taffeta at 2......... $50
| One and one-quarter yards of
40-inch organdie at $1.25.. 1.57
MILDLY and knickersEFour
yards of 3s-inch linen at
rs cents 800
Four patterns ............ 1.S0
Ttoal .................s2O.0o
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-24
FORM NEW SOCIETY

A new society was organized at
the Grace Lutheran church last
night. II will only exist for twenty
months and is called THE Fifteen
Hundred" Forty enrolled the first
meeting and within a week the en-
rollment is expected to reach 200.
The officers elected were: President,
Mrs. Morgan Larson; vice president,
Miss Augusta Sandbeck; secretary,
Miss Nellie Henry; treasurer, Miss
Mamie Thompson; press agent, Miss
Beatrice Knudsen. The officers will
have a meeting at the home of Mrs.
Morgan Larson on June 2.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-24
WOMAN's ILLS MAKE UNHAPPY
HOME

There IS no question but what the Ills
OF women conspire against domestic har-
mony. The husband cannot understand
these troubles and the physician finds ii
hard TO cure them; therefore the over
worked wife and mother continues TO
drag around day in and day out with
headaches and backache. fretful and
nervous.
Such women should be guided by the
experience of women whose letters we
are continually publishing in this paper,
Many of them declare that they have beer
restored to health, strength and conse-
quent happiness by Lydia E. Pinkhan's
Vegetable Compound after doctors ami oil
other medicines had failed to help them,
II will surely pay women who suffer from
such ailments 10 try it.-Adv
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-24
If YOU ARE WELL BRED

You do rot feel 1t necessary to
sing or hum the tun when you at
tend a concert and the orchestra
plays something you know.
You remember that people came
to hear the performers on the stage,
not those in the audience.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-24

My reputation as a SUCCESSFUL
budgeteer was made when l finished
my sisters summer clothes. She Is
sixteen and attractive and thinks
that life would be a dreary waste
without new clothes. Her allow
ance is small. so the obtaining of a
complete summer wardrobe pre-
sents difficulties.
She wanted so many things this
season that we decided they'd have
to be made at home. 1t was a good
solution of the problem, since we
made three dresses n a knicker
costume for only $50!
Putting a summer frock together
Is the simplest sort of task. espe-
cially If it is one of the popular slip
on affairs, We made such a dress
of bright figured cretonne and trim
med it with-what do you think ?
unbleached muslin! All the Gre
tonne slip-on dresses in the shops
were decorated in just hal fashion.
Dancing Frock. Too
We made a dancing frock, of
course, for evening wear. l hesi-
tated between chiffon and georgette
and finally chose the latter. since
the petal pattern we made it from
seemed to need material with slight
ly more body to it than chiffon has.
This was the easiest dress of all
to make, since all the edging is done
with machine hemstitching and there
Is no other trimming at all.
Just as important as the dancing
dress was the sport costume-some-
thing hat would stand a good deal
of hard wear. Knockers, of course,
as the fashions are now. The Ions
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-24

Tomorrow this writer will tel
readers nov she made her small SOL
a summer outfit for SfO.) -.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-24

For only $50 a clever
needlewoman made a COM
plete summer wardrobe for
herself, her younger sister
and her small son. Today,
in her second article she
tells how she made her his
ter's summer garments
for $40.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-24

Irene Delroy. Chicago girl. has been declared physically perfect by
Was Irene born perfect? oh. n she had a good start but she had
handicaps to overcome Just a s you have.
She conquered them by literally climbing over them and hiking her
o beauty, a s she tells you hers elf today.
Read her story and you'll lear n how you, too a achieve grace
charm and beauty.
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HAD TO FALL BACK ON LUNCH
Seemed the Only Thing Left to Which
Host Could Invite His Ar
tistio Friends.

Mr.. Heming tells an amusing little
incident to disprove the general be-
lief that artists are temperamental,
dissipated creatures who thrive on the
white lights. In the ancient days be-
fore prohibition Mr.. HeTning was in
New York to invite American artists
to exhibit in the Canadian national ex-
hibit in Toronto. Gardner Symons, the
weil-lsnowh American artist. invited
Heming and Frederick Waugh, an
other leading artist. to dinner at the
National Arts club. Lets go down
and have cocktail before lunch" said
Symons. 81 never take anything"
said Hemlng. Neither do l." said
Waugh. Symons laughed. That's
funny" he said. Neither do /, but
anyway we'll have some cigars" 81
don't smoke" said Waugh. "And /
don't smoke" said Heming. "Well, this
is a great joke" said Symons. 81
don't smoke, either, but I thought you
fellows would at least take cigar.
Say, you eat, don't you?-because I've
ordered lunch"
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Scraggsy's crushing defeat will
in to spend some o. my profits on tho
deal an blow you to lunch with a
small bottle O. Dago Red thrown In.
How about it, Scraggs?'
''I'm on" Scraggs sought To throw
off his glooin and appear spfightiy.
"What'd you peddle them two cadavers
for, Gib?"
Mr.. Gibney grinned broadly, but did
not answer. In effect. his grin in
formed Scraggs that that was none of
the latter's business and Scraggs as
simulated the hint. "Well, at any rate.
Glib, whatever you soaked him, 1t was
a mighty good sale an | congratulate
you. / think mebbe l might ha' done
a little better myself, but then it
amt every day Teller can turn an
eighteen-dollar trick on a corpse
Comm to lunch with u.s." McGuf-
fey demanded.
"Sure. Wait a minute till I rus
forward an see if the lines is all fast
He stepped out of the cabin and
presently Gibney and McGuffey were
conscious of rapid succession OF
thuds on the deck. Gibney winked at
McGuffey.
Mother new hat gone to hi" MUIR
INJURED McGuffey.
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Panama Hats.

Most of the so-called Panama hats
are made in Ecuador The material
is called paja toquilla and comes from
palm two or three meters high. The
leaves are cut just as they are about
to unfold, the veins taken out and the
fiber remaining is dipped for a few
minutes in boiling water to which a
little lemon juice is added for bleach
ing purposes. Each leaf has approx.
mately 80 strands about So centime-
tiers in length, although the best grade
reaches 80 centimeters. The hats can
be woven only during the part of the
day when the humidity is greatest,
since the straw of the best quality is
not dampened. A man working six
hours day completes an ordinary hat
in six or seven days, but on a very
fine one he spends month and half !;
it is the labor, therefore. which makes
the hats expensive. The most famous
are those Of Monte Cristi; they sur
pass all others in fineness, lightness
and perfection.
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"The job that confronts us
is to get these munitions down
to our friends in Mexico"
(To BE CONTINUED.
MIND HYPNOTIzED BY SIGNS
On. Reason Why City Man Fails to
Familiarize Himself With the
Towns Landmarks.

"Do you know why 1t is so hard to
keep landmarks in your head in tho
city these days?" asked the old
timer.
sit is something that has bothered
me great deal. can remember that
up to ten or twenty years ago ! never
had any trouble remembering that on
such and such corner was three
story building with a wabbly tin
cornice. On another corner was a
yellow warehouse, etc.
"But fellow doesn't, remember
these things any more unless he makes
it duty. / mean that the mind Is
no longer impressed photographically
with the appearance of buildings-or
vacant lots.
''The reason is the advertising signs
that assault the eye wherever one
looks. The letters of the alphabet are
so familiar to the eye that when we
see sign the eye at once begins trac-
ing the letters This doesn't mean
that we read all these signs. Our eye
is Just unconsciously attracted to the
familiar type-and this type is aSout
all it sees on building or vacant
lot.
81 don't refer only TO sign boards.
The merchants nowadays. particularly
the smaller merchants, fill their win
dows with signs of all descriptions.
The names of the stores are lettered
all across buildings. The result Is
we remember neither building nor
sign"
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EN-. | been along the waterfront long
enough T. know that tn lad that picks
up fioater gets reward o. ten dol
lars from III city. You can bet that
Adelbert p. Gibney breaks even on tn
deal, all right"
"Gib, my dear boy" said Captain
Scraggs admlringly. Il apologize for
my actions of f. few minutes ago. /
was unstrung. You're still mate o. tn
American steamer Maggie, an as such,
welcome to tn ship. All ask is that
you nail up your property, Glib, an
remove 1t from tn dinin' room table.
want to remind you, however, Glib,
that as shipmates me an McGuffey
don't stand for you shoulderin' any
loss on them two cases o'-Oriental
goods. We was t. share tn gains, If
any, an likewise TIL losses"
'That's right" said McGuffey, "fair
an square. No bellyachin' between
shipmates. Me an Scraggs each owns
one-third o. them diseased Chinks, an
we each stands one-third O tn loss,
If any"
'But there won't be no loss" pro-
tested Mr.. Gibney.
"Drayage charges, Glib, drayage
charges. We give man dollar TO
tow 'em down T. tn ship"
Forget it," answered Mr.. Gibney
magnanimously, IAN let's go over an
get drink. I'm all shook up
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PecuIarities of Human Body.

A curious instance of the care and
minuteness with which the human
body is now studied, in the effort bet
ter to understand its powers and func-
tons, is noted in paper read at a
meeting of the Royal Society in Lon
don on "The Rapidity of the Nervous
Impulse In Tall and Short Individ-
uals." Even the difference In time
required for NERVE telegram" to
traverse the bodies of different per-
sons is regarded as natter of
scientific Importance. A series of OBJ
servations has shown that the length
of the nerves does affect the velocity
with which an impulse passes be-
tween the brain and the extremities,
and consequently that more time is
needed if the path is long than If it
is short. 1t follows that a short man
should feel step on his corns quicker
than tall man, but the difference is
so slight that the offender has no bet
ter chance to escape. in one case than
In the other.
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CHAPTER vlI-continued.

For an hour Mr.. Gibney sat on the
stern bits and ruminated over a few
advantageous plans that had occurred
to him for the investment of his share
of the deal should Scraggs and Nc
Guffey succeed in landing what Mr.
Gibney termed "the loot" About eleven
o'clock aI express wagon drove in on
the dock, and the mates dreams were
pleasantly interrupted by a gleeful
shout from Captain Scraggs, on the
lookout forward with the driver Nc
Guffey sat on top of the two cases
with his legs dangling over the end
of the wagon. He was the picture of
contentment.
Mr.. Gibney hurried forward, threw
out the gangplank, and assisted Nc
Guffey in carrying both crates aboard
the Maggie and into her little cabin
Captain Scraggs thereupon dismissed
the expressman, and all three part
ners gathered around the dining room
table, upon which the boxes rested.
swell, Scraggsy, old pal, old scout,
old socks, / see you've delivered the
goods" said Mr.. Gibney, batting the
skipper across the cabin with an affec-
tionate slap on the shoulder.
81 did," said Scraggs-and cursed
Mr.. Gibney's demonstrativeness.
Here's the bill O. sale all regular.
McGuffey has the change. That bunch
o. Israelites run tn price up to $1,000
each on these two crates o. ginseng,
| but when they see we're determined
to have 'em an amt interested in
| nothin' else, they lets 'en go to us.
McGuffey, my dear boy, whatever are
you a-doin' there-standin' around
with your teeth in your mouth? Skip
down into tn engine room and bring
up a hammer an a col ciiseI. Wen
open her up an INSPECT tn swag
| Upon McGuffey's return. Mr. Gibney
| took charge. He drove rhe chisel I'M
der the lid of the nearest crate, and
prepared to pry II loose. Suddenly
he paused. A thought had occurred
to him.
Gentlemen" he said (McGuffey
| nodded his head approvingly), this
world is full o. sorrers an disappoint-
ments, an 1t may well be that these
| two cases don't contain even so much
as a Smell O. ginseng after ALL 1t
may be that they are really Oriental
goods. What l want distinctly under
stood is this: no matter what's inside,
| we share equally In the profits. even
| if they turn out TO he losses. That's
understood an agreed to, amt itg'
Captain Scraggs and McGuffey indi-
Gated that it was.
There's element o. mystery about
these two boxes" continued Mr.. Glib
ney, ''that fascinates me. They sets
my Imagination a-workin- an joggIes
up all my sportin' instincts. New,
| just to make it interestin' an add a
spice t. tn grand openin, I'm willin'
to bet again my own best judgment
an lay you even money. Scraggsy
that 1t amt ginseng, but Oriental
goods"
"I1l go you five dollars, just Fl
| ducks" responded Captain Scraggs
heartily. "McGuffey to hold the stakes
an decide the BET"
Done replied Mr.. Gibney. The
! money was placed In McGuffey's
hands, and moment later, with q
mighty effort. Mr.. Chimney pried of
the lss OF the crate. Captain Seragg.
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Lava curios.

The largest volcano In the world Is
that at Kilauea, in the Hawaii
islands. 1t forms one of the princi-
pal attractions to tourists visiting the
islands, and one of their desires is to
procure a lava specimen as me-
mento of their visit.
All kinds of coins. pocket knives.
brooches and other trinkets are
thrown into the lava stream near the
edge of the crater. These quickly be-
come encased In the molten mass.
After remaining there for some min
utes the guide RECEIVERS them with a
long stick, when they are allowed to
cool.
Through the lava the embedded
article can be easily recognized, and
such souvenirs are priced and carried
away as reminder of the visit to the
worlds greatest volcano.
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"oRIENTAL GOODS"

Synopsis. = Captain Phineas p.
Scraggs has grown up around the
docks of San Francisco, and from
mess boy on a river steamer, risen
to the ownership of the steamer
Maggie. Since each annual in
spection promised to be the last of
the old weatherbeaten vessel,
Scraggs naturally has some diff
Guilty in securing a crew. When
the story opens, Adelbert p. Glib
ney, likable, but cratic, a man
whom nobody but Scraggs would
hire, is the skipper, Neils Halvor-
sen, a solemn Swede. constitutes
the forecastle hands, and Bart Nc
Guffey, a wastrel of the Gibney
type, reigns in the engine room.
With this motley crew and his an
cient vessel, Captain Scraggs is
engaged in freighting garden
truck from Halfmocn bay to San
Francisco The inevitable happens,
the Maggie goes ashore in a fog.
A passing vessel halling the wreck,
Mr.. Gibney gets word to towing
company in San Francisco that the
ship ashore is the Yankee Prince,
with promise of rich salvage.
Two tugs succeed in pulling the
Maggie into deep water, and she
slips her tow lines and gets away
in the fog. Furious at the decep-
ton practiced on them, Captains
Hicks and Flaherty. commanding
the two tugboats, ascertain the
identity of the yankee Prince"
and, fearing ridicule should the
facts become known along the wa
ter front, determine on personal
vengeance. Their hostile visit to
the Maggie results in Captain
Scraggs promising to get a new
boiler and make needed repairs to
the steamer. Scraggs refuses to
fulfill his promises and Gibney and
McGuffey Strike" With marvel
GUS luck. Scraggs ships fresh
crew. At the end of few days
of wild conviviality Gibney and
McGuffey are stranded and seek
their old positions on the Maggie.
They are hostilely received, but re-
main. On their way to San Fran
cisco they sight derelict and Glib
ney and McGuffey swim to it. The
dereiict proves to be the Chesa-
peake, richly laden, its entire crew
stricken with scurvy. Scraggs at
tempts to tow her in, but the Mag
gle is unequal to the task and Glib
ney and McGuffey, alone. sail the
ship to San Francisco, their sal
wage money amounting to $1,000
apiece. His crew having deserted
him. Captain Scraggs induces them
to return. At an "old horse sale
the three purchase two mysterious
boxes which they believe to con-
tain smuggled Oriental goods"
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PLAYER FORCED TO PROTEST
London Ladies SO Annoyed Pianist
That He Was Compelled to Voice
His Grievance.

London has been amused by the
publication of the notice that Mr..
Pouishnoff, the Russian pianist now
playing there, has had to paste on his
front door, begging people in general,
and the ladies in particular, to leave
him alone. "Mr. Pouishnoff," the no.
tice runs, "begs politely to inform
these ladies who derive pleasure from
calling unlimited on well-known niu-
sicians that he has no social qualifi-
cations whatever, and that except for
his pianistic art he Is the most unin-
teresting of men. He will be extreme
ly grateful IL he is allowed to live the
peaceful life of bachelor hermit"
1t seems that he Is besieged by peo-
ple-mostly young ladies-who not
only want autographs, but want him
to play for them. Every public man
who has been pestered in this way
will applaud Mr.. Pouishnoff for his
reply: IF you want to hear me play.
my recitals are always open to you."
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a -
Chinatown and consult with his COM
pany. For reasons of his own he was
badly frightened.
Scarce had he departed before the
watehfu, eye of Captain Seraggs OBJ
served Mr. Gibney and McGuffey in
the offing, block away. When they
came aboard they found Captain
Scraggs on top of the house. seated on
an upturned fire bucket, smoking pen
sively and gazing across the bay with
an assumption of lamblike innocence
on his fox face,
He soon departed, but Mr.. Gibney
was suspicious. "He's got his lines
fast somewhere-you can bank on
that" was his comment. while we
was away he rugged up some kind of
deal, Bart. 1t stands to reason it
was mighty profitable deal, too.
My imagination may be bit Off the
course at times, Bart, but in general,
If there's dead whale fioatin' around
the ship can smell it."
what do you make out O. that fat
Chinaman cruisin' down the bulkhead
In an express wagon an another China
man settin' up on the bridge with
him?" McGuffey demanded. Seems
to me they're comm, bows on, for the
Maggie"
'They tell me to deduct somethin',
Bart. Wait minute till we see If
they're comm aboard. If they are"
They're goin' to make a landin',
Glib
then 1 deduct that this body
snatchin' Scraggs-''
They're boardin' us, Glib"
has arranged with yon fat China
man to relieve us o. the unwelcome
presence of his defunct friends. He's
gone an hunted up the relatives an
made 'em come across-that's what
he's done. The dirty, low, schemin'
granddaddy Of all the foxes in Chris
tendon! I'll fish around an see what
figger Scraggs charged him." and Mr..
Gibney stepped to the rail to meet
Gin Seng, for it was indeed he.
"Sow-see, sow-see, hun-gay," Mr..
oiOhOJ odiutCd Tic NllHOh III q
facetious attempt to talk the latter's
language. Hello, there, join China
man. How's your liver? Captain he
allie same get tired; he no waitee.
What's mallah, John. Too long time
you no come. You heap lazy all time
Gin Seng smiled his bland inscruta-
BILE Chinese smile. "You ketchum two
China boy in box?" he queried.
"We have" doomed McGuffey, San
beautiful specimens they be-"
"No money, no China boy" Gibney
added firmly.
money have got. Too muchee mon
ey you wantee. No can do. Me pay
two hundred dollah. Five hundred dol
lab heap muchee. No have got"
"Nothin' doin', John. Five hundred
dollars an not penny less. Put up
the dough or beat it."
Gin Seng expostulated, lied, evaded,
and all but wept. but Mr.. Gibney was
obdurate and eventually the China
man paid over the money and departed
with the remains of his countrymen.
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"Wen fix scrasgsy."

II knew he'd come through, Bart"
Mr.. Gibney declared. "They got to
ship them stiffs to China to rest along
side their ancestors or be in Dutch
with the sperrits o. the departed for
ever after"
do we have to split this swag with
that dirty Scraggs?" McGuffey wanted
to know. "Seein' as how he tried to
give us the double cross"
"We'll fix Scraggsy-all ship-shape
an legal SOS he won't have no come
back"
They had not long to wait. Upon
his arrival at Gin Songs place of bust
ness Captain Scraggs had been in
formed that Gin Seng had gone out
twenty minutes before, and further in
quiry revealed that he had departed
In an express wagon. Consumed with
misgivings of disaster, Scraggs re-
turned to the Maggie as fast as the
cable car and his legs could carry him.
In the cabin he found Mr.. Gibney and
McGuffey playing cribbage. They laid
down their hands as Scraggs entered.
Mr.. Gibney began at once: ITO
show, you what a funny world this Is,
while me an Bart's settin' on deck
a-waitin' for you to come back, along
breezes a fat old Chinaman in an ex-
press wagon an offers to buy them two
cases of Oriental goods. He makes me
! an Mac what we considers a fair
offer. Lemme see, now" he continued,
and got out stub of lead pencil with
which he commenced figuring on the
white oilcloth table cover .we paid
twenty dollars for them two derelicts
an a dollar towage. That's twenty
one dollars, an third O. twenty-one
is seven, an seven dollars from twen-
ty-five leaves eighteen dollars comm
to you Here's your eighteen dollars,
Scraggsy, you lucky old vagabond-
clear profit on neat days work, no
expense, no investment, no back-break-
In interest charges or overhead, an
sold out at your own figger"
Captain Scraggs' face was study
In conflicting emotions as he raked in
the eighteen dollars. Thanks, Glib"
he said frigidly.
"Me an GIBBS goin' ashore for lunch
at the Marigold cafe" McGuffey an
nounced presently, in order to break
the horrible silence that followed
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Worlds Richest Playwright.

The Rockefeller among playwrights
is Franz Molnar, of Budapest, who
is reputed to have more gold than the
Austrian treasury, says the Mentor
Magazine. Molnar is best known In
the United States for his plays, iii
ION" and ''The Devil" The millionaire
playwright is said to be extremely
eccentric. He lives in an obscure ho-
tel on a Danube island, which he
favors because 1t can be reached by
bridge. He mistrusts boats and new
er uses them.
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Universal Facility.

The telephone is the most universal
of modern facilities used on the farms.
Almost 40 per cent Of all farms now
have telephones. and In Iowa the fig
ure runs up to SO per cent. In the
states beginning with Missouri and
Kansas, and extending northward.
where automobiles are most numer-
Gus, 70 per cent of the farms are
equipped with MISUNDERSTANDING
Daily Chronicle.