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Evening star., 1923-09-09


In a few models milliners have
overdone the big hat merely to draw
attention to it,, A few. of these. are
so sweeping and majestic, they sug-
gest the romantic cavalier.
Possibly the recrudescence Of the
huge plume will suggest to some mil
liner the revival. Of the Spanish hat
of the seventeenth century of the
kind worn by the buccaneer heroes
that Rafael. Sabatini has given to u.s.
But what a pity for a woman to wear
such a hat and not be able to sweep
1t with a magnificent gesture from
head to floor as did that rollicking
Peter Blood, the gentleman-pirate
There's another new hat that could
have been borrowed from the pages
of Sabatini's The ea-Hawk." It's
a high metallic turban with a bright
plume or crescent of emeralds such
as the English corsair wore when he
sailed out from Algiers to kill and
rob, when the Virgin Queen ruled
England, made him knight and for
got he was a pirate. Clever woman!
The attempts at reviving immense
hats with pictorial atmosphere are
more apt to succeed because they are
oppressed in black velvet. A color
might have frightened folk. The
woman who wears, for example. such
hat as any one of the three NOUS
quetaires wore, would feel shockingly
conspicuous when cheek by jowl with
! some one who shingled her sleek hair
and surmounted 1t by a speck of a
turban. But black velvet gives dig
nifty and lends poise.
| X X. X
! II ANVIN of Paris puts out an adap-
IL tation OF the coolie hat to go with
the mandarin Jackets which she adds
Evening star., 1923-09-09

to her tailored street skirts. Her ex-
ample will be quickly and enthusias-
tieally followed, If the future initiates
the past. You. may remember her
Russian tiara hat, also the velvet one
trimmed with snail shells and the
Venetian .veiled one? Luck trod on
her heels. Therefore, it is on the
books that We are to wear the coolie
hat.
One model-is built of black satin
for satin has returned to fashion
and over the brim. dropping from the
peak of the crown, is a thick tassel of
many silken threads in lacquered red.
It's a hat the novelty seeker will like.
Not every face can stand it. The
French make up their faces to permit
the wearing of whatever they like.
but we are content to leave nature
alone or to use one set and one meth
ciently dramatic to arrange our faces
to go with our hats. So we have to
go the other way about.
What with coolie hats. Chinese la
dies headdresses of seed pearls, sleek
short locks. bangs. mandarin coats
nah jongg gowns and lacquered um-
brellas, we may soon be carrying our
pet birds out for a walk on our fin
ger. Why not? A fiapper came into
an afternoon dance place with a
Florida coon on a leash and 1t was
sufficiently frightened to scare most
of the dancers out of their compos-
ure. Surely a singing bird on fin
ger is more soothing to the nerves,
more grateful to the eyes
If Reboux OF Paris is an authority
and she is-and if our buyers go by
what is worn at Deauvi1le-and thAy
Evening star., 1923-09-09

spotted the estate. each forming the
center of a little farmstead, marked
by the house and matched barns or
sheds adjoining.
We motored over the estate and
talked with the farmers. The ordi-
nary cabin has from two to five
rooms. The logs, which come from
the forests nearby. are all hewn, and
the houses are more tastefully built
than were those of our pioneers.
Some have roofs of thatch and others
OF shingles, while a few are rooted
with splints of the thickness of those
used for peach baskets The rooms
are square and the chimney. made Of
bricks or stone. is built up so that It
forms q cookstove and oven and
heater as well. The kitchen stove is
often a low ledge built in from the
wall of the adjoining room. one CHM
ney sufficfng for both. Many floors
are of the fat stone Of the country,
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shades of brown it will be generally
regarded as safe and sane for most
costumes. Those who like satin bet
ter have the permission OF fashion
makers to wear it AS a midseason
hat 1t is admirable.
Metallic ribbon is twisted into
turbans or used to trim any kind OF
hat. Its rival is the feather. Full
length ostrich plumes are used as
generously as though the milliners
had not treated them with contempt
for a span of years. They are
streaked as though they were Easter
eggM showing a mixed medley of
colory. They are brilliant red or
green, unashamed of their size.
Peacocks again lend theiH glory OF
their feathers to hats, but not until
they are burnt out of their beauty.
Cocks feathers are twisted into pin
wheels of color. needing only flames to
turn them into fireworks.
1t seems true that the outgoing
straw hat will take the crepe de
chine one with 1t.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-09-09

consists Of chalk-like rock built up
IN thin strata as regularly as IL laid
by a mason. Much of the rock is good
building material. Farther back from
the sea the soil improves. There is
good pasture and the land grows
large crops of potatoes and grain.
This farmer seemed to be content and
he was sanguine as to his future.
About twenty miles farther on we
left the main road and entered one of
the great estates which are now being
divided. 1t contained about 5000
acres, much of it in very large fields.
surrounding a mansion where the
owner lived in about the same style
as our rich southern planters of slav-
cry days. The man was q Baltic
baron who had cast In his lot with
the Germans during the war. and for
that reason he was declared traitor
and the estate was confiscated. The
house was magnificent 1nclosing 1t
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do--the colored felt hat is not to be
shelved this autumn. Whether it lasts
| through the winter is q matter of lit
tie consequence at this hour. We no
longer buy our headgear for eight
months ahead. :.
Reboux, however, is giving the mil
liners on this side OF the water some
thing to do with ornamentation. She
does not let the plain hat shift for
itself. She has come to see the virtue
of adornment.. but whether she can
persuade the European women to ac-.
cept her change of heart or method
is not easy to foretell. One thing is
certain, they have not accepted the
strenuous struggles of several dress
makers to reinstate the founced skirt,
the crinoline, the curving contour.
They look as slim as lances in their
clothes, just as they have throughout
the spring and summer.
The dressmakers have said: "The
straight, narrow path in frocks is not
the fashion"
Very we'll" answers the woman
of the smart world. I'VE will make
1t So" And they do it. What will we,
the American. do?
| 4 4 ~
| ~ IATURAI1LY those in the trade do
~ not like this answering allegi-
ance by fashionable women to the
| straight frock and suit and the
| speck OF a. hat. Their hope is that
there is a sufficient number of con-
trary-minded women to buy some
thing else. If a woman looks her
best in hat with a brim, she should
wear 1t. That's not only the advice
of the milliner, but OF the fashion
experts and kindly friends. Let us
thankful for brims
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But few of the new cabins have
any plaster as yet. Many Of them
have no furniture. and the family
sleeps on the floor. The farmers /
talked with seemed to be intelligent.
and all were enthusiastic as to their
independence and future prosperity:
The lands are allotted with the un-
derstanding that the peasant shall
Immediately build, and the govern
ment advances money on long time
for such construction. The man who
builds four or five room house gets
about $4,000 marks, or $140. and is
allowed twenty-eight years to repay
his loan. One settler whose house
cost him about s400 told me that one
fourth of the sum came from the state.
The size and length OF the loan are
graded by the character Of the house,
and the man who builds Of stone Is
given forty years to pay back the
money.
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were beautiful grounds laid out with
a view to landscape effect. It had
gardens and orchards and extensive
lawns. 1t is now used as a post office
for the country about, and the post
master took me over 1t, up stairs and
down. There were perhaps a dozen
large rooms well fitted for entertain
ing, and a wide entrance hall, from
which a carved staircase led by easy
flights to the floor overhead. Most
of the heating was by proclaim
stoves. The floors were of hardwood.
and could imagine the great dances
which were frequently held.
Near this house were the Jog huts
OF the peasants, and not>far away the
huge barns of brick. where the crops
and machinery were stored.
AS stood on the portico could see
log cabins going up in every direc-
ton. This country is more than half
forest and wood is cheap. The cabins
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Copyright, 1921

'Tt did not come from the Balts," re-
piled Mr.. Pip. THE desire for edu-
cation among the Esthonians was
planted by the Swedes who held the
country for zoo years and at that
time kept the Baltic barons in check.
That was the Golden Age of Esthonia.
The Swedes tried to elevate the
peasants and with that in view they
founded the Dorpat University, which
at first was attended by only a. few
hundreds but soon had more than
1000 students. 1t attracted 1000
students from Russia and all parts
of Europe. The Balts feared that
the education Of the peasants might
questioned, and they did not object
to the shutting up of the college by
the car, which was done for a time
when he attempted our classification"
X Y x
T FIND that the leading Esthonians
have but little sympathy with
Russia. They realize that their pros
perity depends On their independence.
and also that it is to come from
the economic development of Russia
to which those republics are the
gateway. They are halfway stations
between the countries of western
Europe and the great frontier of the
east, and they hope to have a large
part of the manufacturing and hand
ling of the imports of the Russia of
the future. Each republic will prob
ably have its free port into which
goods can be sent aud held until
needed by the lands farther east.
They say the development OF Russia
must come from the outside, and they
hope to be called in as experts along
commercial, financial and economic
lines.
The several republics of Finland,
now a fairly good understanding
among themselves, and IL they can
have an alliance, offensive and de-
fensive, 1t will be a. long time before
Russia can again swallow them in her
Gargantuan NAV.
Said g. member of the Esthonian
government to me today:
"I am not afraid of Russia She is
like Humpty-Dumpty and will never
again take her seat on the wall Of
the nations. Her political organiza-
tion has been destroyed. her economic
organization has vanished, and the
is now a collection OF several score
of races and peoples, each working
for it's own interests and independent
of the others. She is the chief
pauper among the nations. and to
operate at all she must have the
financial assistance of other powers.
who will never permit her to wipe
out our Baltic independence.
'"The Russians, Per sc, are not
world builders. They can handle
small things but not great. In the
past they have had to call in out
siders to rule them, and even now
those who are running the govern
ment are men of other nationalities.
Trotsky is a Jew and Lenin has
Tartar blood in his veins.
'I see that one of your Journals,
in writing about our two republics
of Esthonia and Latvia, says they are
only two little oysters which Russia
will soon gobbIe down at one gulp.
AS to that, / have only to say that IL
are poisoned and will have a severe
case of ptomaine to cure"
Copyright. 1928, BY Carpenters World Trayeis.A
Evening star., 1923-09-09

ID ETURNING to Reval have had a
N talk with Mr.. Anton Pip, the
minister of foreign affairs. as to this
land reform and other matters con-
nected with the new Esthonia. Mr.
Pip was educated at the University
of st. Petersburg and for a time was
professor of international law at the
University of Dorpat. He has rep
resented his country in London and is
a man OF wide travel and culture. He
speaks English and we had no trouble
in getting to the bottom of things.
Said he: I'VE are glad to have
Americans visit Esthonia We feel
grateful to you for your Red Cross
and relief work, which saved the lives
of thousands of our children when we
began to create this republic. You
have given US new ideas, and espe-
cially that of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association. a branch of which
was founded here. The institution
still exists. and is of great benefit to
our young men,"
Speaking of the division of lands,
Mr.. Pip said: 1t was a political and
economic necessity and there g moral
right is also involved. Land reform
is not confined to thss state. 1t is
going on throughout all eastern Europe
and from Finland to the Black sea.
You will find it in Latvia, Lithuania
and Poland, also in Czechoslovakia,
Rumania and Bulgaria. We think Of
will result in an increased food sup
ply for Esthonia. We expect great
agricultural development based on the
intensive cultivation of the soil by
those who own it. we are already
raising more grain than the Baltic
barons. We are Introducing coop
erative methods and are planning our
farms somewhat after those of Den
mark. We now have cooperative
dairies, cooperative egg-selling as
operative stores. We are buying our
agricultural machinery in common,
and the farmers are combining to in
troduce new breeding stock. The
farm machinery is growing in guam
tity and quality. It may surprise
you to know the extent of our market
in that respect. We have now about
160, 900 steel plows, 10000 harrows
and thousands of cultivators. We
have more than 5000 mowers. 5000
reapers and 1900 steam sthreshing
machines. We are introducing trac-
tors and potato diggers and peelers.
We have hundreds Of cream separators
and butter-making machines. We are
establishing agricultural colleges and
farm experiment stations and are
preparing to make five blades of
grass grow where only one grew be-
fore. We are, in fact, getting on our
feet. Our currency has been stabiliz-
ed and business is good.
How about your cultural develop
| ment2'
I'VE feel that we are growing edu-
cationaily as well as economically
Before the car attempted to Russify
us, along about fifty years ago, there
was scarcely a man, woman or child
in Esthonia who could not read or
write, and today our percentage Of
illiteracy is low. All children be-
tween six and fourteen are compelled
to go to school, and a great desire
for education is springing up among
our young people. Our schools are
good and I should like to see an In
terchange of professorships and lectur-
ers between our colleges and yours"
'sYou speak of all of your people
being able TO read and write fifty
years ago. How could that be under
the alleged oppression OF the Baltic
barons 3"
Evening star., 1923-09-09
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.


I have just returned from a motor
car ride through northern Esthonia.
My car was a Minerva, Belgian
limousine, furnished by the minister
of agriculture, and some of the lead
ing officials Of that department went
along to show me- the big estates
which the government has taken from
the Baltic barops and divided out
among the peasants. This little re-
public, half as big. as the state of
New York, with a population equal to
that Of Kansas, has for more than
500 years been controlled by big land
owners. It has been owned by the
decendants of the German knights
who conquered the country during
the middle ages, enslaving the
peasants and taking those farms.
AS time went on the people got
some land and more and more free
dom, but when the Russian revolu-
ton occurred more than so per cent
of the territory still belonged to the
descendants of the German crusaders,
and 1,100 of them owned about 5000
ing, the average being about 5000
acres. The rest of the land was
held by small farmers, who had on
the average about eighty acres each,
and in addition there were hundreds
of thousands who had no land at ALL
They worked on the big estates and
on others owned by the churches and
the towns, and by the Bank of Agri-
culture and the crown. p
The division OF the estates was
demanded by the people. For hun
dreds of years they have been op-
pressed by the German balts, who
were their masters under the Rus
SLAMS. When the revolution occurred.
in order to get the people to fight
for their Independence, the Esthonian
revolutionists promised that the land
should be taken away from the mobiles
and divided among the peasants.
They were forced to do this not only
by the popular outcry. but from the
fact that the bolshevik army which
was fighting the revolutionists had
sent out proclamations that every
Esthonian who came to its support
should have a farm of his own. The
cry of the rebels was that they were
aRhtings for their own lands, and the
government has carried out its prom
rees in taking over the estates and
apportioning them among the people.
AS q result. Esthonia is practically
a new country, held by new owners,
and with tens of thousands Of small
farmers scattered over the great
estates of the past. might call it
a pioneer country, for the estates
are now in small holdings of 1875
acres or so, some smaller, some
larger, and every man has to fence
In his allotment and build log cabin,
or shack, or some other home in
which to live. r'
tT<HE old buildings on the estates
have been taken over and some of
the large brick barns are now oc-.
cupied by the new land holders
awaiting the time when. they can
build individual barns of their own.
In most cases a. small tract of land
has been left to the former rich own
err and this often contains the man.
) sion where he lived like a. prince.
entertaining his friends!
IN thinking of Esthonia as a
pioneer country, however. one must
dismiss all ideas OF our pioneer days.
America virgin and-coyeredeyath
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conducted with so little prejudice on
the part of the observers.
The milliners, in advocating larse
shapes, merely try to persuade women
to buy more hats than one. In doing
SO, they are altruistic in fact If not
in spirit They make it possible for
hundreds of women to appear less
grotesque. less ugly than they have
done in the -brimmed helmet.
Evening star., 1923-09-09
by ANNE R1TrENHoUsE.

N the very beginning of any story
on fashionable heads, the wise
thing is to leap into the fight be-
tween large and small hats. No
one cares who will win. That's the
trouble. A woman can take either
side she likes Or she can take both.
Surely, one loses interest in a fight
Evening star., 1923-09-09

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Days in his Country
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-19
La Tienda Esta Serrada AL PublicO

La enda Esa Serrada Al Pubico Hasta E Viernes Dec q
Preparandonos Para Esta Gigauesca Venta
Monos ocupadas esan deas puertas seada surendO ru
endo precos aendo mercan preparandO los auOs
ara ac inspection vena Toda la merana de e rene de la
enda hasta mo rbaada de preco e cua han
vsto antes Este aqu dane la gran venta seguidad
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-19
Vendera a Precios Lo Mas Bao Que Sc Visto :
| SurtidO De Blacks Dc
$500 EN- MERCANCIA

I
las prmeras 500 que enren esta enda en-
de ae Sc les dara paquete vao
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gratis NADIA empranO untese geno entire Ia
tenda los prmeros e dara paquee absoutamene
GRATIS Este aq tarde que las $3.50 ell Venes
Las puertas Sc abren las 900 en- puntO.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-23
L'ANSE TAVERN WILL
BE READY MAY |.

"The LAnse Tavern" is the name
by which L'Anse's new hotel will be
known. This hostelry will assist
materially in taking care Of the tran
siert and resort business, which this
town will be crowded with from now
On. The Smith home has been taken
ever and will be completely remod-
cled, painted, repaired and decorated
and the building facing Main street,
which will be known as the Annex.
will be fixed up, giving room to ac-
commodate thirty-five guests.
The property consists of ten lots
located in the northern section iof
L'Anse on the hill facing the bay, the
grounds being park covered with
large naples, pines and a number Of
fruit bearing trees. It is the hand
soonest spot in L'Anse and it is an
ideal spot for tavern and fitting
resting place for its patrons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew j. Wilson Of
Iron Mountain will conduct this new
hcstelry. Mr.. Wilson for years has
had charge of the st. Paul diner run
ming between L'Anse and Iron Noun
tain, having resumed the position this
week after several months absence.
They have placed their order for fur
niture and fixtures and expect to be
ready to cater to the public by May
1st. Contractors will be put to work
at once to make the many repairs and
alterations.
Thomas A. Boivin is associated
with Mr.. Wilson in this venture.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-23
NINE FAMILIES TO
LEAVE BUTTERVILLE'

The Ford Motor Company has noti-
fed its tenants residing in the houses
in the Buttersville location that they
must vacate by the first of April to
make way for the railroad which will
be built through that section. The
company contemplates tearing down
the nine buildings now occupied by
the following families: Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Streeter, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Hyde, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Jentoft,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Racine, Mr.. and
Mrs. George McEwen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Leselius, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stone
and Mr.. and Mrs. John st. German.
With the present shortage of homes
in LAnse it will be impossible for
these families to secure dwellings to
live in, there not being vacant home
in town and it will be impossible to
build home in such short time. Eff
forts are being made to have the COM
pany move the buildings so that these
families may have temporary homes
until they can build.
The housing problem in L'Anse is
getting very acute and unless some
effort is made to relieve the situation
it will work a severe hardship on
many of our future people.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-23
REVIVAL MEETINGS

Mission services to last one week
will be held at the L'Anse and Pc
quaming Methodist churches begin
ming next Sunday. The pastor Of
these churches is 70 be assisted by a
gospel delegation Of two young men
from Albion College, Clark Philips
and Alfred Landon. Mr.. Landon is
a Senior at Albion, which is the
Methodist school for Michigan.
These college delegations do lot
of good visiting nearby churches.
Every Sunday during the spring va
cation they spend all their time as
sisting pastors in evangelistic work.
We are fortunate in having these
young men all the way from Albion
with us for week here at L'Anse
and Pequanling. Surely our people
of all ages will be out to hear these
young men fresh from one of Mich
igan's largest Christian colleges.
The first service will be at L'Anse
Sunday morning at 1890 and at Pc
quaming in the evening, service to
commence at 7:00 o'clock. II is ex-
pected that the Rev. Mr.. Stanford Of
Baraga and the Rev. E. E. Fowler OF
the Sidnaw parish will be present at
some of the services and will assist.
Everybody is invited to attend
these services. No better place tc
spent the evenings of Passion Weel
than in church. Rev. Rule
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-23
SOPHOMORE NOTES

The English ii class is to have a
series of debates. The class has been
divided into four groups, each of
which will be required to debate three
times.
The number of the groups and the
days which they will debate are as
follows:
March 21-Groups and 3.
March 22-Groups and A.
March 26-Grours 4 and 2.
March 27-Groups and /.
April 2-Groups 3 and a.
April 3-Groups and 2.
The team winning most of the ar
guments and losing the least will be
the. winning team.
These debates win be Of great ben
eft to the students especially in
teaching them how to state fact
and prove it in an appropriate man.
ner.
Christopher Lough returned to
school Monday after an absence Of
two weeks. During his absence he
worked in Camp One and we have
no doubt but that he is beginning to
learn the lumber business from TIE
bottom Of the ladder.
Viola had good reason for stay
ing out Of school last Friday after
noon. There was to be an examina-
Ition on the French Revolution.
The Juniors who think they are
superior to the other classes, espec-
tally the Sopbomores, didn't put any
thing over on them on their return
trip from Houghton. Ask one Of the
members of the Sophomore class.
Geography teacher-How can
drinking water be purified? Clari-
bel--Brew it.