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where you do see black you see it
combined with terra Gotta reds or
green's or other combinations that we
glibly call Egyptian--because theirs
are few purples-one we'll l-known
actress has set the fashion for flame
color combined with vivid violet
because there are Egyptian or Cleo
patra blues and odd green's that you
cannot name; and because there are
hats here and there with perky trio
Of American beauty roses fastened at
the very edge of the brim.
copyright 1871
Evening star., 1923-04-22

and dropped, shattering it to pieces.
Another photograph exhibited a pile
of rifles as big as q hay-stack, all In
pieces, and others showed the rem
nants of boilers and furnaces and
even smokestacks that were torn
down and crushed. AS I understand
IL, the Germans have not objected to
tho destruction OF the tools and ma
chimes that could be used for no pur-
pose other than warfare, but they are
objecting to the breaking up Of dyna-
mos and all machinery which can be
easily adapted to the industries of
peace and which will have to be re-
placed by new machinery of the same
kind.
Notwithstanding this destruction, It
Ia wonderful how rapidly tho indus
Evening star., 1923-04-22

and Belgium and also ONCE furTli-
ture and iron bedsteads. We make
electric irons, toys and machine tools,
and also emery-paper, canvas and ar
tificial leather and silk. The space
occupied is only a fraction of that
we used during the war and many Of
the buildings are vacant, as we have
not yet been able to buy new peace
machinery to fill them. So far our
exports are small. We are shipping
threshers and other agricultural ma
chinery to South America. We hope
later on to do a good business with
Russia, but all that depends upon
changed political conditions, and just
now raw materials are so high and
must be paid for in gold, SO that we
are unable to buy much of them.
"It is not only the high gold cost
Of raw materials. but 1t is this per-
petual rise and fall of the mark that
makes it almost impossible for US
to do business" continued DR.. Vein
lig. "Our values change every day
and we have no basis for contracts.
What seems to be a mark profit to-
day is a decided loss tomorrow and
we cannot replace the goods at the
prices we sell them for. We shall
have no successful manufacture until
we have a stabilized mark. We are
suffering also from lack Of work.
satisfaction Of the men at their low
wages and the high cost Of living.
Men will not work unless they feel
they are fairly paid, and you can get
no spirit into them under our pres
ent conditions"
'I understand that your ordinary
factory wages are now about twenty
five cents a day."
yes" replied DR.. Weinlig, but
that is not enough for the men to
buy more than their bare food. to
say nothing of clothing. The wages
Of all are pttifully small. Take my
own case. Before the war 1 earned
more In eight days in gold value
than I can now earn in a year:
was then g. millionaire and had a
good income from my investments,
which were in stocks and bonds and
other gilt-edged securities. Today ]
am worth practically nothing. and
really work for my bread. But you
can see something OF our actual sit
uation by going through the works.
You may go where you please and
make photographs and talk with the
workmen, for would like to. have
your people know just what we are
trying to do to get on our feet. -.
X y II X
"A S a. result of this talk I have
~ visited Spandau and driven
about through its buildings and yards,
which are more than twenty miles in
circumference The place made me
think Of some Of the ruins saw in
northern France. Largo buildings
have been entirely demolished and
went through structure after struc-
turs OF enormous size out OF which
all the machinery was taken and
shattered to pieces. I remember one
boiler house covering an acre which
had contained eighteen large boilers.
These were taken out and broken into
bits The steam pipes were torn out
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turned as far as possible to the works
Of peace, but the number of employees
has been greatly cut down owing to
the difficulty of changing the ma
chinery- and to. the destruction done
by the control commission. Still, all
Of the Institutions are more or less
busy. = -
~ n * ~
DURINGs my: talk with DR.. weinlfg
II asked him what sort OF peace
goods they were now. turning out.
He rplied: I'VE have experimented
on more than. ten thousand different
articles and our successful expert
ments include freight cars. automo-
biles, motor cycles, wagons and agri-
cultural Implements We are making
wooden houses for northern France
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ten thOus1no QlnerenI IdCtOrleS anu
more or less destroyed one thousand
OF them. The factories carefully ex-
amined were Of every description.
from those making poisonous gases.
explosives. and big guns. to even
some making tobacco. snun, choco-
late and artificial eyes. Speaking Of
the latter, a former captain of Ger
man war industry said to me: Il
could never understand how they con-
strued glass eyes as war material,
but one commission spent seven days
visiting such an establishment at
Wiesbaden. They did not destroy it,
started a factory to turn out such
eyes for any war Of the future
Indeed, the Germans are sensitive
about the destruction carried on by
the control commission. They claim
that some OF the members. notably
the French and Japanese, have been
stealing their trade secrets, and that
the military destruction has often
been with the idea OF crippling peace
Industries which compete with the
trade of certain of the allies. In
other words. they are charging the
French with carrying on somewhat
tho same policy that they themselves
adopted when they blew up the
French factories and naliciously de-
stroyed their machinery during the
war.
Tho Germans object to tho smash
ing Of field glasseA telescopes and
other optical instruments on the
ground that they might be used in
warfare, and one Of them hoped up
and down in his rage a. he showed
me some bushels of costly lenses that
had been shattered to bits on that
ground. They want to go on making
gas masks. saying that they must
have them for protection against the
sulphur and other poisonous vapors
found In tho mines, and they want
the right to mako any kind of wire-
less telephone or telegraph, notwith-
standing such instruments can Be
used for war.
THEY are especially sore over the
make any airplanes or Zeppelins
~hiCh CAu carry "OT0 In3u 4,tVV
pounds each, nor ascend a. high a.
$4,000 feet nor 60 faster than 11o
miles IN hour. They say, also. that
the control commission has prohib-
tied them from making riding
breeches and uniforms, which pre-
vents their export OF costumes for
the police, porters and chauffeurs OF
South America
In fact, tho work Of the control
commission has been thoroughly
done. One OF tho officials of the
Union Of German Industries tells me
that he has Investigated the destruc-
ton OF 337 factories. and that the loss
In them was some hundreds OF mil
lions Of dollars. All kinds OF ma
chimes for tho making Of munitions
we're destroyed, and the head OF one
of the largest German institutions
said in his establishment alone $4,000
such machines were crushed by
means Of 4 magnetic crane. He has
q photograph showing how a fne
lathe was liftsd forty feet in the air
Evening star., 1923-04-22
By FRANK G. cARPENTER-

~ 9ME years after our civil war
a blind and crippled Union SOL
der leaned against building
- on the corner OF State and
Madison streets. Chicago. The man
had lost both legs and his body rested
on the stumps which were covered
with leather. One arm was badly
manned and with the other no held
out a cup and asked for aims. As
the crowd went back and forth q
man or woman now and then dropped
IN few pennies, a nickel, or per-
haps a dime, but times were hard ana
tho pickings were small. At last
a straight, fine-looking man with
broad -brimmed felt hat and military
air came up He stopped q moment
and then threw a silver dollar into
the cup and started on. AS the big
coin struck the tin the soldier felt 1t
and called out saying. Wont you
stop a moment, sir, and tell who is
so kind to an old Union soldier? It
may be you were in the army and we
fought side by side The giver re-
piled, IT doubt it. The truth Is I was
a. Confederate officer and my chief
reason for giving that dollar was
because you are the only Yank I have
yet seen who has been trimmed up
to my entire satisfaction"
This incident, notwithstanding the
vast amount that has been published
concerning war factories working in
secret and vast stores Of hidden nu-
nitions, might we'll represent the feel
al, nd nfh hAv
of the allies IL they could see the
actual conditions Of the Germans Of
today. The control commission,
which under the treaty of Versailles
was to take over and destroy all the
material and machinery for making
munitions of war belonging to the
Germans. has done a good job. Dur
ing my stay here have gone through
many of the big war factories and
have seen the work OF destruction.
I have talked with the heads Of the
industrial institutions who have,
metaphorically speaking, turned from
tho making of swords to the making
of plowshares. and have before me
some figures showing just what has
been done.
i y y
TYP until October !, 1921, there were
~ destroyed $1,000 big guns, $4,000
trench mortars, $1,000 gun carriages,
10000 machine guns and about
100000 rifles At that time all OF
the military schools had been dis
missed, the fortresses dismantled. and
the commissions Of control had their
STATS Of experts and ofncers watch
ing every large factory. Even now
constant inspection il Goins on in all
tho industrial centers, and It would
seem to me q physical impossibility
that any manufacture OF munitions
of war could be carried on without
their knowledge. The commissions
began their work as soon az the
treaty was signed. There were al
most 1000 members who were grad
ually reduced in number until 1922,
when there we're still several hundred.
During the life OF these commits
.ions they.havs-inspsetsd more than
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in a front panel and three horizontal
tucks appear at the end of the wide,
long sleeves. It is not q suit that
would appeal to the American who
had not gone through q definite CON-
version to the distinctively French In
clothes, but 1t shows which way the
wind is blowing.
EIRST cousin to tucking comes
l. cording. dear to the heart Of the
French dressmaker. These cordings
are fine and are placed close. some
times fashionins an entire shawl COL
lar. wide cuffs to the open sleeves.
and sometimes on a cape or wrap q
wide band around the hem.
F'rocks, hats. accessories worn out
doors at many of the resorts have
been qualified by many an observer
by that stock expression of theirs.
"a riot of color" Perhaps It Is easier
to let It go at that than to try to
trace any definite color trend In the
motley Of shades worn by women OF
varying taste and type. Then, too.
wearing scarlet or bright blue or
even green shoes to match scarlet,
blue or green accessories, perhaps one
Is entitled to spak OF tho color scheme
as riotous.
But there are still we'll dressed
women who cling to their beiges, and
browns, their grays and navy blues,
and even an occasional exemplar of
the truism that black 10 always good.
To be cure. navy blue has regained
much of its old time favor in Paris.
And 1t has regained this rather at
the expense of black and the darker
shades Of brown than OF beige. There
is still something undeniably smart
about gray, which for some reason or
other never seems in any danger of
being tricked into over-populartty.
One hears much of tho greens OF
the season, and often the most strik-
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Smashing of German War Machine Has Doomed Many Plan

and even the concrete floors dug over
to a depth OF four or five feet, 50 that
the whole looked like a garden inside
the bare walls of red brick.
Everywhere about the works are
piles of scrap iron, the pieces ranging
in size from pea to some that weigh
one ton or more. The scraps were
formerly lathes. boring machines
steam engines and dynamos There
are also piles Of broken munitions,
rifles and all sorts OF weapons of war.
The destruction of the machinery was
enormous. The official who went
with me said that something like
twenty thousand machines had been
I taken out and destroyed in this plant
alone, asserting that it would take
eighty million dollars in labor and
material to replace the machinery
and adapt the plant to making peace
goods with an efficiency equal to that
which it had for making munitions.
He objected to the control commits
sion preventing the manufacture OF
shotguns. to which purpose many Of
the old rife machines had been
changed, each machine having been
sure that 1t could never be used for
actual war work again. There are
some hundreds engaged in such work
who will have to be thrown out OF
employment if the making of shot.
guns is prohibited.
But" said I, 1T seems to me the
control commission has q good excuse
for prohibiting the manufacture of
any kind Of guns"
Il suppose 1t has replied the su-
| perintendent. but shotguns cannot be
used in warfare, and the same is true
| os toy pistols. We can adapt our
machinery to making such things and
our workmen have been trained to
| such manufacture. There is one dis
trict in Thuringia where they have
made nothing but these rifles and
shotguns for hunting purposes for
many years. The work was scat
+, tered through hundreds of small
shops and employed thousands OF
men. We need work for these people
| and we do not know what to do with
| them. We can't feed them and we
have not the peace machinery to put
| them to work"
| n X X y
HURING my stay I went through
| II parts of the factory making
motor cycles. agricultural tools and
| other peace goods, stopping here and
| there to talk with the workmen. One
| man in the automobile factory, who
has a similar job to that for which
| thousands in Detroit get wages of Sc
| and upward per day, told me he was
getting a number of marks per hour,
| which Is equal to just cents of our
| money. He works eight hours and
his daily wage Is just under Is CENTS.
| I asked him if he was married. He
| replied: mos have a mother and
| father to support. And. besides. how
| can I get married when to furnish a
| kitchen alone would cost me several
| hundred thousand marks, to say
nothing of furnishing the bedroom
| adjoining which might make my
| home?"
(Cepy right, 1928 by Carpenters World ::
-. 70. Efayels.l - -
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evening. There Is q new green
there always Is a new green when the
spring cloths show themselves, isn't
there?-and this green Is hard to de-
scribe Sometimes it Is spoken of as
a mustard green, but that all depends
Evening star., 1923-04-22

G
TaskTen Times Many Have Been
n From t
Difficulties and Obtaining
Markets
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ing frock or suit you see in a group
of extensively dressed women is
green. Almond green Is still good.
And so is Lanvin green. Jades and
emerald green's are not regarded as
20 suitable for daytime wear as for
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BLACK SATIN WITH EMBROTD-
Erred APRON AND BUSTLE BOW
AT BACK.
a last years evening frock. The plain
stright up-and-down evening frock
that hangs forlorn and neglected in
your wardrobe will yield to the treat
ment. Take off the old girdle, the
festoon Of enormous flowers. or what
ever marks the dividing line between
skirt and bodice. Attach your lace
apron and then cover the juncture OF
the apron at the top with a wide
crushed gird1e. leaving ends long
enough to form a hustle at the back
like the one shown in the sketch.
Very often this girdle and hustle ef-
feet Is produced by six or seven yards
OF very wide ribbon.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1923-06-03

Pure Linen Luncheon Sets
Special at $3.50
Consisting of one 54-inch cloth and
half dozen 16-inch napkins to match; in
plaid designs of blue, gold. red and
green.
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MerceTixed Cotton
Table Napkins
Special, Dozen. Sl.ls

-17-inch size, good
weight and splendid
patterns; h q m m Q d
ready for use.
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Cotton Huck Face
TI

ToWeLs
Each, 25c
Size 1Sx36 inches;
fine quality and very
absorbent; in plain
white or with red
border.
Kann's ~ S tre e t
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Mercerized Cotton
TdbLecl0ths
Each. SI.0S

-72- inch size, fine
quality damask,. In
neat circular designs.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-26

Paris. Sept. 25.-In the midst Of all
this talk, about styles for women, it
is well not TO neglect styles for men,
because in Paris the careful Romeo
sees it that his costume compliments
Juliet's, or at least that it does not
introduce a Earring note.
1t is quite customary for a woman
to announce to her sutton what type
of frock she is going to wear on a
certain occasion, so that his choice Of
color may conform to hers, instead
Of starting an argument.
If she is going in a gray ostume,
he sees TO it that his hat band and
his necktie are as near the same
shade of her frock as it is possible 10
get them.
just an Accessory.
II she is wearing gay colors, he
properly brings her gayety into re-
lief by dressing very soberly himself.
In other words, the gallant French
man regards himself as an accessory,
and dresses accordingly.
In Deauville. where the fashionable
women of the world are vieing with
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-26
LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES.
COTT TO THE GAY LITTLE
MARQUISE, IN CARE THE
SECRET DRAWER.

am, for the first time, sitting here
beside the window in my room. The
balmy air of summer raises the laces
on my breast, laces that flutter about
tiny head, covered with soft golden
brown hair, that is pillowed there.
All, dear little Marquise, am s0r-
ry for you. In that gay and thrilling
life of yours, you never had the emo
ton, never had the thrill, that is
mine.
They tell me that this baby that
my arms are clasping is not blood
of my blood and flesh of my flesh,
but honestly I know no difference.
You see, little Marquise, there were
weeks of which i have no memory
and then this baby was laid in my
arms.
To me it was the baby / had longed
for. To me it was the baby / knew
was coming. 1t means nothing Diff
ferent to me than one of my very
own.
You missed the great primal thing,
little Marquise. You missed the
greatest thing, the most wonderfully
miraculous apd ecstatic thing that
can come to woman. 1t is the one
thing that makes her glad she is a
woman and not a man.
Only to you, little Marquise, who
must always dwell within the shadows
of this locked drawer, may rave on
in this way, for others might think
that / was foolishly happy. Honest
~, ] tell you that ] not only have
the transports and unutterable JOY
of motherhood, but there is always
connected with it a subconscious feel
ing that I am bringing JOY and hap
piness into the life of a little child
who might otherwise have never
known it. feel that have really
given this child more than life.
Jack has been so lovely about it all.
Notwithstanding there might possibly
be another boy in our family, he has
given to this one, this little nameless
waif-this child whose parents he
probably will never know-his own
name.
I would not have dared suggest it,
although I wanted him TO be called
Junior, but Jack said, "Leslie.
wouldn't you like to have him called
after me? He is such a sturdy little
chap that I'm sure you and I will
both be proud of him. Perhaps even
a better man than I was his father"
sBut Jack" / whispered, "some
time in the future you may really
have boy Of your own. Then
wouldn't you feel sorry that this boy
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each other TO create a picturesque Of
feet, it is said women are choosing
their escorts more for their pictorial
value than for the charm of their So
ciety.
The blonde, for instance, who
wishes to emphasize the blue Of her
eyes and the gold of her hair, appears
at the Casino or the races only with
dark-haired man, so that his APP
pearance may offer contrast to her
own, and the woman with the SABLE
locks and midnight eyes selects the
most perfect Saxon of all her ac-
quaintances TO promenade with.
Has a Waist.
Left to his own devices, the French
man dresses with much more imagi-
nation than the Englishman or Amer
lean. At the present time his coat
buttons with only one button. direct
ly atthe waistline. bringing the coat
very tightly about the waist and sug-
costing that the stays abandoned by
women have been adopted by men.
Shirts are highly cOlored and vio-
lently figured and neckties are hectic
enough, when there is no wOman's
costume TO be considered. Shoes Vi
all colors and combinations of color
are tolerated and some Frenchmen
actually Guido women in the number
Of finger rings worn.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-26
FRESH TOMATOES.

Even stewed tomatoes seem to
taste better when made with the
fresh vegetable than the canned. and
the delectable stuffed tomatoes of the
tomato season are Of course out of the
question at any other time.
If the tomatoes are prepared for
stuffing an hour before wanted th,
flesh will remain firmer during the
baking and the vegetable will be
more attractive.
Ramikins are very convenient 10
use for stuffed tomatoes, - .,Iey
make handling for serving unneces-
sary.
To prepare tomatoes for stuffins
Wash and cut a slice from thu
stem end. Scoop out the seeds and
sprinkle the inside with salt. Turn
upside down on plate and let stand
on ice for an hour. The skins will
slip off after baking.
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Variety of Interesting Subjects Discussed for Home Reading

| had been given your name?"
And Jack answered, dear little Mar
quise, Leslie, darling. l already feel
that this boy is mine. l am sure ]
shall know no difference between my
sons if ] have more of them"
And someway l have felt the same
ever since | took this child into my
arms. | know now there is a great
deal of foolishness in that tradition
which has been disseminated, that 4
mother has a different feeling for the
child she has borne than the child
she has adopted when it is very
young and brought up as one of her
own.
1t is the constant living with and
seeing the little bodies and souls and
minds grow that makes a mother
love her own. Nowadays, when n
woman is apt to take narcotic and
,, know very little of birth pains, moth
erhood does not mean just the mat
ter of birth; it means the matter OF
constant care and love with which n
woman surrounds a child that is con-
stantly in her household as well as
in her heart.
TOMORROW-K Karl Whitney to
Mrs. HamiltOn-A report on Alice.
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Stuffed Tomatoes.

-Four medium-sized tomatoes. IL
cup cooked macaroni. IL teaspoon
minced onion, teaspoons grated
cheese, buttered crumbs.
Prepare tomatoes for stuffing. Re
serve pulp ana mix with macaroni
and onion. fill cavities with mix.
ture. sprinkle with buttered crumbs
and arrange in a buttered baking
dish. Add - cup water and l table
spoon butter and bake half an hour
For the list five minutes of bakir
sprinkle Ups with grated cheese
When cheese is melted remove from
oven and Serve.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-26


Copyright. 1923.
Kobe. Sept. 26.-The seriousness of
the alteration between Japan and
Russia over the summary rejection o.
Soviet relief supplies is indicated in
reports received here from Moscow
that all relief fund subscriptions hav.
been halted.
The report says that many Rus
SLAMS, indignant over the japanese re-
fusal to permit soviet vessels to particl-
pate in relief work, are demanding
their money back.
Almost simultaneously with the re-
lection of relief supplies brought t.
Yokohama by the soviet ship Lenine
permission to land in Japan was re.
fused to NJ. Matsokin, a correspondent
of the Rosta News Agency, although
he possessed a certificate from the
Japanese consul at Vladivostok.
The two incidents reveal the dread
Of japanese officials of a possible
spread of radical propaganda during
the present turmoil when the public
mind is much inflamed and confirms
assertions of the correspondent. made
months ago that recognition of the
soviets under the present form of
japanese government was impossible
and absurd.