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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-16

According to II. G. Barker of the
II. G. Barker Co, "spuds amt what
they used to was" He recalls the
potato contest which they conducted
fully 90 years ago, when the prize
winning potatoes, in sets of three.
topped the scales at nine pounds and
four ounces. The potatoes were
raised by George r. Smith of Vassal-
boro, then register of deeds for Ken
nebec county. The II. G. Barker Co.
conducted a contest in which the one
bringing the three biggest potatoes
to the store would be awarded a fur
coat to the value of $25 Ca good coat
in those days.. The story goes that
potatoes were gathered from all
parts of the State, Aroostook county
being called upon to great extent.
But it took humble kennebec county
spuds to carry off the blue ribbon and
the fur coat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-16

assorted cake, doughnuts, nuts and
coffee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-16
"Little Women" Dresses
Showing Today, Adams

This Tuesday will be Little Wo-
mems" day at the D. w. Adams Co.
store, for Nine. Renauld will be pres
ent and will show a full line of these
delightful frocks for every occasion
The Little Women" dresses are fast
becoming very popular among the
women shoppers of the city who find
that the ordinary cut of gown will not
fit them as satisfactorily as they
would. like. Nine. Renauld dresses
are made especially for the women
who are neither stout nor small.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-16
WINDSOR

The Lawrence family of the Au-
gusta Salvation Army will give a
concert Wednesday evening at $50
at the Windsor town hall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-16

LOCAL NOTICE
Usual Dance, Windsor Town Hall,
tonight. Music by Douglas Orches-
ira. octl6dlt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05
How Carrier Pigeons
Find Their Way Home

4 BRITISH royal air force pigeon,
released from a balloon a mile
and a half above the ground, was un-
able to see the earth below on ac-
count of a thick blanket of clouds
After flying around for some little
time the bird gave up all hope OF
finding its way back to its home. some
$50 miles away and settled down
comfortably on the balloon, much as
Noahs dove settled on the ark when
it could find no place to rest on ac-
count of the waters.
The pigeon, however, had better
luck than Noah's dove. After time.
rift appeared in the clouds and the
bird swooped from the balloon
through the gap in the vapor and
two hours later had delivered the
message tied to it's leg.
This incident proves that a pigeon
finds it's way home by sight. not by
instinct. as many have thought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05

surprise than acknowledgements
that a generation OF men and women
could ever have regarded such a sill
houette with complacency.
Almond green. they say. is on the
wane, but IL Chinese colors have the
vogue that has been predicted as a
result of the Bal de la Grande Prix.
then jade green will come back into
prominence. In the meantime a moss
green and a bottle green are gaining
favor, and these are used in light
fabrics as well as in the heavier ma
terials.
THE coolest of all the midsummer
i has sounded the Chinese note so
emphatically in women's clothes,
showed a pageant representing the
Chinese mariners at the court of Louis
XIV in France. This gave opportu-
nifty to show all sorts of Chinese CO.'S
tumery brought up in sharp contrast
to the equally resplendent costume
of the Rococco period in France, with
its white-powdered wigs. its enormous
headdresses, patches. lace and pan
niers. The Chinese costumes are not
expected to have so much influence
as the coloring of the Chinese clothes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
HELSINGFORS, Eng


~IT down with me in the chamber
of the congress of Finland. and
take Il look a the liveliest as
sembly of the new Baltic re-
publics We are in far northern Eu-
rope. in the latitude of Alaska. in the
city of Helsingfors. and within rife
shot of the harbor. The republic is
too new to have a national parlia-
ment house. and for the time congress
is meeting in Il seven-story sky
scraper. sandwiched in between stores.
The front Of the building is all win
dows, being composed of tower that
extends beyond the shops which ad-
Join it, 1t looks like no other capitol
in Europe
There is only one branch of con-
eress, a house of representatives, and
the one chamber consists of 200 mem
bers The hall looks for all the world
like a church. 1t is lighted by mean
descent electric lights in frosted
globes set into the ceiling. The mem
hers sit at little school desks and
seem very crowded. The furniture
is of oak. trimmed with gold. The
CARPET is red. The chamber has
wide gallery running about it, we'll
M near the roof. The speaker sits
at the back. under feroclous
bronze lion. below which stands
statue of justice. There are two
clerks on either side of the speaker,
and beyond them on the left are the
seats of the cabinet ministers.
who have the advantage of our cab
met at Washington in being able to
take part in all legislative discus
sions To the right is the press gal
lery. from which go out daily reports
of the chamber.
AS look down from the gallery
have a good representation under my
eve of the new Finland. The 200
members represent all parts Of
the country. and they are the best
type Of the new Finnish republic.
They look not unlike our congress-
men except that there is a goodly
sprinkling of women among them.
According to the new constitution.
every Finnish citizen, man or wom-
an, has the right to vote after he or
she Is tWenIy-IOuF years VI dse.
Every one of them is eligible to the
house of representatives, and the
terms are for three years instead OF
&wo as with us
The women are a live working part
se the assembly Almost one-tenth
Of the whole body is composed Of
them. They have nineteen Of the
200 seats. and they serve on all
the committees, taking a live part
In making the laws and fixing the
taxes They are not afraid to speak
and they speak well. Looking down
from the gallery, these female states
men are not different in appearance
from our good ordinary American
women. They dress well, and there
are but few short skirted and short
haired ones among them.
The male members have fewer, bald
heads than those of QUE. House OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05

cially makes an excellent frock to wear
when motoring. owing to it's dust -siied
ding propensities. The attached scarf
collar further recommends to the mo-
torist the coat frock Of navy blue satin
shown in one of the sketches. which is
embroidered rather lavishly in pastel
colorings.
Sometimes the coat frock is an invit-
ing substitute for the suit. The coat
frock has many Of the good points of
the suit and the distinct advantage that
it is easier to put on. The smartly
tailored suit has been heralded for
autumn, and we are assured that there
will be a revival of interest in all sorts
of suit accessories - scarfs, jabots,
gloves, waistcoats-that go to give the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05

the world. More than half of the
country is covered with woods. If
you could lift up its stretches of
timber and transport them 10 the
Mississippi valley they would cover
an area larger than Kansas. and you
would find that everywhere the trees
better than ours and it is said they
have even counted the trees. They
have more than 300. 100000, of which
20 per cent are pine. The govern
ment knows just how many big logs
it can furnish. 1t has more than 90
100000 large pines and 30,000.00G
smaller ones fit for railway ties 1t
has fir trees and spruce fit for wood
pulp and paper Nearly all the news
papers of Europe are printed on Fin
nish woodpulp, and trainloads of
news print may be seen moving over
the railroads to the ports The largest
paper-making plant of Europe is To-
Gated here
AS to lumber Finland has about
working factories OF every descrip-
ton. The logging is carefully done,
the trees being sawed of in the win
ter. carried to the waterways on
sledges and RATED down in the spring
The cut in one year is more than 49,
100000 cubic feet or enough TO
plank a motor car road an inch thick
and sufficiently wide to accommodate
twenty cars travelling abreast all the
way from here to the moon
The Firms are a nation of farmers
Although only about one-twelfth OF
the country can be cultivated there
are $4,000 farms. ranging in size
from eight acres to $4,000 acres. The
large estates are comparatively few
and the government is buying them
and selling them out TO small farm
ers on long time. The purcha ser
pays one-ffth down and has forty
years for the balance, at per cent
interest. or he can pay sooner if he
desires The subdivision is popular.
and ii results in the farm formerly
held by one man or a company being
divided into several hundred farms.
each with it's individual owner.
Since ! have come here l have
motored out into the country and
talked with the farmers. The roads
are excellent about Helsingfors and
the land has an air OF prosperity and
thrift. 1 understand that it is even
better in other parts of south Fin
land. The fields are well cultivated.
and the crops seem equal to those
of the good farming regions of our
country. The fields are divided into
long strips separated by bitches for
drainage and the ground is- so moist
that for the making of hay the grass
has to be dried upon racks as in Nor
way and Sweden. The most common
farm vehicle is sled, which is used
for the hauling Of grain. root crops
and fodder. The sled runners do not
sink into the earth and sleds are
used both winter and summer. / see
many women at work in the fields and
the labor goes on from daylight to
dark.
fCarpenter's World rrHvels.. Copyrighted. fss8,
By ErAak G. oarpsa.erl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05
Members Six Political P With
Socialists N With the R'ans-The Lu"r
Der Yard oNh EA Land 100000 Farmers Who Thrive the Latitude Alaska

troops and the Finnish Red guard.
At the end, however. they were able
TO maintain their republic and by
the middle of 1919 they had formed
a new constitution and established
parliament. They now have a presi-
dent and cabinet just as we have and
are making their way along the path
of the nations as a live, up-to-aate
political entity.
The Firms cannot be compared to
the Russians. They look, think and
act differently. and have had diff
ferent experience and civilization.
The Russians are naturally socialists.
For generations the peasants have
lived in villages, where much or the
land was held in common. The Firms
have owned their own farms. they
are individualistS and they have
always had more or less freedom.
They had a congress before the war
and in it they demanded their rights
of the car and of the parliament at
Petrograd. Most of them succeeded
in keeping out of the Russian army
and they were not subject to draft
When the war began it brought COM
mercial prosperity. The Firms manu-
featured supplies for the troops and
they sold timber and wood fuel to
Russia. They shipped in wood pulp
and paper, and their industries were
paying dividends of so per cent and
he lnf an
The Finnish mark did not fall with
the ruble and today it Is on level
with the best of the second-class cur
rencies of Europe. The people are
doing all they can to create a stabia-
lied mark and they are gaining
ground right along. .:
The Finlanders are an interesting
people. Living as they do way UP
here on the roof Of the world, they
with nature has made them one OF
the strongest of races. Their court
try is in just about the same latitude
as Alaska, but while Alaska has less
than $4,000 white citizens. FINLAND
has more than 100000 and it does
manufacturing and commercial
business running into the tens Cd
millions OF dollars a year.
We have Just begun to farm Alaska
Finland has more than quarter OF
a million farms and it is now annually
raising tens of millions of bushels OF
rye, oats and potatoes, and large
quantities of hay. hemp and fax. II
is live stock country. having cattle
sheep and goats by the hundreds OF
thousands, and its dairy cows annu-
ally yield several hundred million
pounds Of butter for export.
The republic IL just about One
Fourth the size Of ALASKA. and II
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| RepFeSe n tatlVeS. They dress much
the same. some having the stateman's
black. and others the pepper and salt
suits of our business men.
X +
EINIAAND has six political parties,
i and each has it's own section of
the house. The socialists, or social
democrats, as they are called, are
grouped at the left. This is the
largest party, numbering eighty mem
bers at the last election. In the
center are the agrarians, or land
owners large and small, who number
forty-two, and off at the right is
the Swedish party Of twenty-five
members representing the Swedish
population, which is only 100000. And
then there is the Finnish progre ssive
party, twenty-six in all. and the
Christian labor party. which is only
two.
Now a member his risen to speak.
He does not address the house from
his seat, as in our halls OF Congress,
but comes to the rostrum, where on
the right or left of the speaker is a
pulpit. in which he stands as though
he were giving a sermon. The pres
ent speaker is reading from manu-
script, looking up now and then as
he does so. He is speaking in Finn
ish. The pure Finlanders are proud
of their native language and Finnish
has been made the official language of
the republic. On the other hand, the
,-L -
speak only in Swedish. All congress
sional papers are printed in the two
languages, and when a Swedish MEM
Der has finished his speech 1t is trans
lated freely by a Finnish interpreter.
The interpreter is one of the officers
of the parliament and he receives a
salary as such. He summarizes the
speech, giving only the principal
points.
Now the Finnish member has finish
ed his reading and the speaker has
comes to the pulpit on the other side
of the house and talks, with the in
terpreter standing beside him. AS
he goes on 1 ask my guide what he
is saying. He replies that the ques-
tion before the house is the union of
| church and state. The social demo-
Gratis want to separate the two and
| the Swedish party demands that the
old conditions, in which the church
is subsidized by the government, be
left as they are. Most of the Fin
landers are Evangelical Lutherans,
| who number more than 100000. AS
to the remainder there are $4,000
Greek Catholics. about 900 Roman
Catholics and $1,000 Baptists-
AS the speaker goes on with his
prosy discussion see. the members
slim king out until at last three-fourths
have gone to the Hobbies. They 60
| more quietly than our members of
Congress and there is no loud talk
| ing or chatting while the speaking
goes ON At the least noise the
speaker brings his gavel down with
a thud and he tries also to prevent
the applause which sometimes breaks
out .
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and Chinese decorations. Doubtless,
too. Chinese decorative motifs will be
brought to the foreground.
y \
Among colors that have made and
kept their mark this summer might be
mentioned various yellows-Susan and
buttercups - green's. including bottle
green and Egyptian-cornfiower blues
and a charming rel known as goose
berry.
Plaits persist, the most recent version
being impressed plaits that would make
you start and stare if you were not
treasured that the lack OF pressing was
intentional and not an oversight.
The smartly-tailored suit is predicted
for the autumn, and women in this
country do not have to be urged long TO
adopt this mode. TwiIls Of various ma
terials will be chosen first, but already
the tailors are getting good results with
certain thinner pile fabrics as medium
for these new suits.
Ribbon has been used in so many
ways within the last few years that one
more way is not surprising. There was
time when ribbon appeared mainly
in the guise Of bows. But now 1t is
used as the fabric Of hats, blouses.
frocks and evening wraps. The newest
thing is slip of wide MORE ribbon, the
strips running round and round the
figure, and narrow ribbon straps finish
ing the shoulders.
X 4 4
THE coolest of all the midsummer
i hats is of pure white straw with
the only trimming a pure white bird
perched on one side of the crown, the
snowy plumage fastened fat against
crown and brim.
One of the big motor coats that
will be worn much when autumn
comes is made of a homespun weave
of heavy threads in a big plaid of
tan and dark blue. The plaid is out
lined with fuzzy threads woven in
with the hard-tWisted homespun-
Rose petal handkerchiefs are in
vogue. And now there is the rose
petal glove. The cuff is formed of
pltS VI hiu W tii0 snap - iSSS
leaves, finished with a picot edge and
fitted about the wrist with enough
fullness to make d fluffy though not
bulky cuff. Sometimes the petal
shaped pieces of kid are lined with
pink georgette.
The combination of black and white
in gloves is always smart. There is
much elaboration in black Stitchery
on the backs and cuffs of short gloves
for street wear with dark frocks.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05
ay ANNE RITTENHoUsE.

TIME coat dress is a sort Of para
site among women's clothes.
Itself not coat, nor suit, nor
frock, 1t borrows from the
designing of all three. Any fashion
development that may appeal to you
in the making OF any of these three
types of garment may be made use
of in the molding of coat dress.
The characteristic of the coat dress
that sets it in a class by itself is that
II shall he sufficiently like a dress In
fit and finish to be worn directly
over a slip or petticoat, while 1t must
be enough like a coat in general ap-
pearance to make it eminently suita-
BILE TO wear in the street without any
other wrap. Even the conservative
woman who has grown up with the
notion that it is not quite good form
TO appear in city streets without some
sort of wrap has no hesitancy to wear
he coat frock
- had its origin in France and has
never lost prestige or popularity
there. To the American woman il has
distinct advantages. The American
woman clines 10 her suit through
thick and thin because OF the blouse
beneath the jacket. To her it is very
important to have something wash
able between her skin and a cloth
sleeve. This is a matter seemingly of
no moment to a French woman. She
is not .cursed--or blessed-with a skin
so sensitive that il shudders at direct
contact with wool or other material
that must be worn repeatedly without
cleaning.
But the American is; so she clings
to the suit even in those years when
French women seem to have forgot
ten that such a thing exists. The
American woman really prefers a
skirt. shirt and jacket of some sort
for golf and tennis to a cloth frock for
the same reason. But for the costume
she is not going to wear every day
and all day she consents to wear the
coat frock because of its excellent
line and the ease with which il can
be adjusted. She has even discovered
that it is a simple enough matter to
have a very thin washable lining of
georgette or China sAk adjusted be-
meath the sleeves and bodice of the
coat frock.
We have thought of the coat frock
as especially desirable for spring and
autumn days. This year we are finding
that it has excellent possibilities as
a warm weather adjunct of the ward
robe, and when made of linen or other
washable material it is as comfor Ia
BILE as any other sort of frock.
Heavy linen is an excellent medium
for the warm W Gather coat dress and
one of the smartest models of the sort
worn this summer shows a side clos
ing on the left. Scant-tiered skirt and
low waist line. There is a single
rever, which. with the long. slightly
ffaring sleeves, is finished with lace
and lingerie. Two large pearl buttons.
one at the belt and the other just be-
meath the single rever, effect the clos
ing.
CREPE de chine, which at first
~ thought might seem too light
fabric for the coat frock. has, in fact,
been used in several charming frocks
Of this description. Sometimes plaitings
are used with the crepe de chine, and
the long, fairly close sleeves that seem
to be an essential OF the coat frock at
present are found here. A charming
model is in rust crepe de chine with
plated ruff1e of white georgette form
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I observe that most of the messen-
gers employed in the chamber are
women A middle-aged brunette lady
kept the door of the gallery where I
came in and two sprightly young
blondes went about with glass pitch
ers and gave drinks to the members.
The liquid was water. and 1 can truly
certify that prohibition prohibits in
these lobbies of congress.
DUT first let me give you a birds
- eye view of this new nation
which. like Minerva from the head of
Jove. has sprung full dedged from the
Uranium of the Russian bear and now
tramps its Independent way rejoicing.
The Firms came from Russia and are
about 700 AID, and a hundred years
later were crowded from there into
Finland. A few centuries after that
they fought with the Swedes and were
conquered and for 500 years were
ruled by them. Later still there were
wars between the Swedes and the
Russians and at the end FINLAND came
under the car, where it remained I'M
til the world war. Tho people. how
ever. were more in sympathy with
the Swedes than with the Russians.
They were nearly all Lutherans and
they objected greatly to the Russifica-
ton attempted BY the authorities at
Petrograd.
This classification began about
twenty years ago. At that time the
officials of the car did what they
could to crush out Finnish business,
culture and religion. They made the
country send it's goods into Russia
free OF duty and charged a high tariff
on all imports from Russia They
sent in missionaries and established
Greek churches. They Ruasianf1ed
the civil service and tried to Russian
ize the schools. They stirred up trou-
BILE between the working people and
the upper classes. They organised a
spy system and many Firms were
illegally arrested and sent off to ST.
IBERIA. Such of the state officials as
objected were put into the prisons of
Petrograd and this continued until the
world war was three years under way.
At that time the Russian troops
tried to create a revolution in Fin
land. They broke into the prisons
and armed the criminals with rfdes.
They were aided by the soldiers OF
the Russian navy and the two looted
the country and pillaged the larger
estates. This continued until the lat
ter part of 1917. when the Firms de-
clared their independence of Russia
and began to fight for their liberty.
They had only edged tools at the
start. but they disarmed the Russian
garrisons and. under the name of the
White army. routed ths Russian