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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
Ihe HATS that Come with

It's really quite hard to believe that
the American flapper could have
anything to do with the fall hat
mode as originated in Paris. But it's
so!
This carefree little person with her
short skirts, trig little frocks and
roguish stride has very definitely in
fluenced the French designers OF mil
linery.
The story that is being circulated
around goes something like this: 1t
seems the French modisteS were so
utterly shocked by the flapper's pen
chant for fitting her hat on one side
of her pert little head, that they de-
termined then and there to follow
suit and to cut hats properly for this
purpose.
And so it has come to pass that
the newest hats for fall are very def
nitely cut away over one eye and
turn down smartly over the other
And this holds good for both brimmed
and brimless hats. And the flapper
has scored!
Skull Cap Remains
The skull cap which swept SO COM
pletely and thoroughly into fashions
favor last spring, again seems to be
leading the mode as the season opens.
Many of the skull caps of fall acquire
added heighth, others are much lower
than they we're in the past, with
definite attempts to make them head
fitting.
In the hats that hug the head
closely, pin tucks or incrustations of
felt or velvet are used. Cutting out
felt and insetting velvet is new
idea, which we think very smart, the
silhouette or brim remaining intact.
There is fair amount of large
hats, but in the general scheme of
things, the woman who would be
fashion right, will start the season
with several small, close-fitting hats
and trim them to give either height
or width by drapes or tucks. This
affords great variety of irregular
silhouettes, and the effects tend to-
ward elegance and away from sim
plicity.
Favored Materials
The favored fabrics for the hats
of fall are felt and velvet and we
see hatter's plush and felt combina-
tionS much in evidence. Most of
these hats are in the off-of-face
types
Soleil is another popular hat mate
rial for fall The soft type of hat
that is easily crushable is here for
an indefinite length of time, accord
ing to the fashion authorities, and it
is evident that most types of hats,
no matter what the fabric, are of a
soft pliable nature.
One of the most interesting hats
that we saw was helmet shape a
delicious shade of green velvet. Across
the top of the crown from. ear to ear
was placed a most conventional he'll
met crest and around the back of
the crown quill-like piece of velvet
curved. This was pressed or stamped
in a series of crescentS
Velvet Hat of Interest
Another black velvet hat which
caught our eye as being of the mode
of the moment, was crushed over a
round foundation and twisted into
two large choux or rosettes over the
right ear. Several of the imports in
different shades of blue are thus
trimmed.
We saw a copy Of an Agnes model
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
GERMAN AIR TRAFFIC
SHOWS INCREASE

BERLIN P)-The increase in Ger
man air traffic is illustrated by the
fact Chat during June the aerial serv-
ice carried 14,775 passengers, com
pared to 7135 in June last year.
During the same month 121, ,078
Kilograms of baggage, 99,689 kilo-
grams of freight and 61,479 Kilograms
mails and printed matters were con-
veyed. The distance covered by Ger
man service flights during June, 1927,
totaled 1,15O,0O0 kilometers, or ap-
proximately $4,000 miles.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25

Sales of United States leather in the
highly competitive Italian market are
controlled to some extent by the Ital-
ian desire for colored uppers. Last
year the swing to color decreased
greatly the sale of patent leather, but
exporters hesitate to ship colored
leather to Italy because the colors may
be out of style before the shipment
arrives, American uppers are, never
theless, finding a larger market
Though the offering only of quality
feathers.
You'll find it in DjSnatch Want-adS.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
RACING IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE

Mankind is racing in the heavens above the earth
beneath and the under the earth 1t is race-mad
world Contests in speed appeal to the imagination, espec
aIly they involve skill well strength OF human
muscles machines which the product OF human
ingenuity Long ago. the racing spirit took men into the
air, and they still racing in gasled ballons without
motive power But the airplane really made the amos
phere course and gave birth sport that still in
its early youth. That is growing is shown by the so-caed
aerial Derby from San Francisco Hawaii.
There will probably be more such contests Around
them will be created of rules and regulations Racing
machines will be divided into classes The occasional dash
from point point will become fixed event Fame will
descend upon of the Their names will be
handed down from generation to generation In the annals
of the sport racemad world longer held to earth
1t may aoft and seek its prizes in the skies.
Because the world is thus race-made the world
gains. The flat and the steeplechase and, in this
country the rottng and pacing contests instrumental
in giving the world better horses in the days when horses
we're needed more than they Yacht racing has
played part improving the design of certain classes
of vessels notably the fleet schooners that leave New
England ports for the fishing grounds Racing airplanes
similarly tend the development of flying machines to be
put to prosaic Like the playing field the
has its part the development of character, admit
ting that there are in which it tends to undermine
rather than build APP So let the whenged racers wend
their way the waters while giving the upper reaches
of the air their Derby Day.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
WHERE NEW JERSEY MAKES GAINS

There is discounting the close and amabe relation
ship that exists between Philadelphia and the Jersey shore
In this the Jersey shore is fortunate.
The Jersey shore is also gaining admirers from New
York City. By some, New Jersey and New York City
regarded as one big family.
What helps the helps both This fact recognized
in Jerseys latest action roads,
The State has voted $3OOOOO0O roads the start
of programme for the next six years.
1t is building wider outlets from the Jersey side of the
vehcuar tunnel
And it clearing up the bottle neck Railway which
hitherto has jammed traffic the and to the
Lincoln Highway
All these actions help
But perhaps sensible of all New Workers think,
is New Jerseys decision do away with the States per-
sonal property tax on automobiles.
AT present nearly $l5O,OOOOO0 year is collected in
the United States personal property evies on auto
mobiles.
But Jerseys action marks the recognition on the part
of State authorities that this is not sound tax.
1t is hard collect Ii difficulties in trying
to the value of 1t is sign that legs
laures realizing that motor large part OF
the populations that sound scientific methods be used
in dealing with motoring problems
New Jersey will reap large reward from its pro-
gramme of highway development and its ending of the
personal property tax
II already has a population of 100000 in the
metropolitan area and that number is quickly increasing
The Jersey within>a twenty-me radius OF New
York had adequate for population OF 45OOOOO and
it will be many years before that total will be realized
New Jersey is entertaining visitors. Hundreds
of thousands of these visitors members OF the same
metropolitan family from the river And hosts of
them will visit and stay. 4
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
THE AVERAGE HOME

In points there is difference between
actual conditions in the average American home and the
general impression concerning them. On the whole a
survey conducted by the Eastman Company subsanates
what had been generally believed Bahtubs and sanitary
plumbing everywhere. Thirty-sx towns from Maine
California have submitted scrutiny. 1t is revealed
that in villages and cities standards OF living are
about equal, all being high Americans rightly proud
of the physical comforts and conveniences put into almost
every home by American mechanical ingenuity and
American salesmanshp. is splendid to be able to keep
clean easily talk relative thousand miles away to
prepare guaranteed pure food meal in fifteen minutes
from sanitary cans MOTOR keep house dustles with
electric cleaner But may be missing some OF the
blessings of leisurey day. The pleasures of CONVEX
ation about books people music not catalogued
Perhaps they could be made the subject of scientific
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

net saving of 82.8 acres, or more
than tWo-thirds.
Out Of the 81 fires which occur
red up until July ! of this year,
only four burned an additional area
the second day. Three large fires,
Bass River, Mays Landing and
BENEFITS Mills, which ragged for
over AZ hours, burned 60 per cent
of the total area.
Colonel Coyle states that 1927
shows the best record in the 20
years Of the Forest Fire Service
and gives great credit to the mem
bers of the organization for the
bravery and loyalty they have
shown in the discharge of their
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

During this time 81 fires occurred
in New Jersey and the average
number of fires for the same period
of 1924, 1925 and 1926 has been
878 The average size of a fire
from January l to July l of this
year has been 30.5 acres. Compared
with the same period of the three
proceeding years, in which the
average size of fire was CO.
acres, this shows a net saving of
34.7 acres, or, at least one-half in
the case of each fire.
Compared with the figures Of
from 1914 to 1923, in which the
average size of fires for the first
six months of each year was 1873
acres, the 1927 statistics show a
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

duty. and the effective way they
have carried out their task.
This year, for the first time in
the history of the Fire Service, the
aeroplane and the radio have
played an important part in the
effort to protect New Jerseys
100000 acres of woodland against
forest fires. The plane has been
effective and practical in controI-
ling the situation in the case of
large fires or where a number of
fires are burning at the same time,
and though the courtesy of ATTAIN
tic City's Municipal Radio Station,
WPG, and Station WOR, Banber-
gers, Newark, fire warnings and
messages have been broadcast.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

erful thing in the world. Timber
experts say it is poor policy to
teach children to plant tree on
Arbor day and let them put a tree
in the house on Christmas day.
True enough = reforestation and
Christmas don't work together. But
SO long as there is still sweetness
and love and light in the human
heart Christmas will win. There
are some things that rise above all
practical considerations.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
Living and Loving
~ VR0ihiA LEE ~

It is human nature to Xix e a
change, even if one loses by it.
The only sure way to keep young
is to change with the times.
The people who are really ac-
uuainted with themselves are not
found in the self-satisfied class.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
The Wdy
of the !
World
CONSCIENCE AND
CONVENTiONALiTY
BY GROVE PATTER SON

The old phrase, "let your con-
science be your guide" sets forth a
fallacy. The conscience of one man
or woman may be a sufficient and
trustworthy guide. The conscience
of another may be complete fail
ure as a guide. For conscience can
die, or become so nearly dead that
only the most shocking experiences
can call it back to action. The
standards of conventionality some
of them silly and stupid are new
ertheless of the highest value to
civilization. They represent the ac-
cumulated experience of the race.
There are certain things that can
be done and cannot be done. Con-
ventionality draws the lines. A
sensitive conscience is a great as
set in keeping folks on the right
track-but it is not a 100 per cent
guide.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

may multiply it by 100 to obtain an
idea of the loss of the vast multi
tude Of words that are poured out
upon the people of America day by
day and night by night-words up
on words in fogs, and there is not
one-tenth of one-hundredth of one
per cent of them which makes a
Judgment and amounts to anything
in the minds to which they are adj
dressed"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
AS TO REFORM

1t is the business of reformers to
worry about regulations for the pur-
pose of getting to do things in a
better way. Most of us, as we grow
older, have less and less desire to
make rules for the governing of the
habits of others. OF course the
great problem OF reform is to get
people to want to improve them
selves. Probably no professional
and businesslike organization will
ever quite achieve that task.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
Find Way TO Check Progress
OF Forest Fires In jersey
Number of Fires Same But Acreage Burned Is Reduced One
Half-Efective Methods Employed Include
AerOplane and Radio

Although the number of forest
fires was practically the same, the
New Jersey Forest Fire Service
has cut down the average size OF
fires during the first six months
of 1927 to, at least, one-half of
what it was for the same period
of the three preceding years and
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
OLD TWENTY; YOUNG FORTY
That famous riddle,
How Old Is Ann?

| L Hdb IdEiUuS iiuuiCy
How Old Is Ann?
| Daily grows more enigmatlcal.
For Age is discarding most of
the habilinents by which once 1t
was known.
And Youth wilfully persists in
painting the lily, and in this re-
touching of its freshness Stimulates
maturity oddly deceiving.
The casual onlooker finds it in
creasingly difficult to tell Who's
What among women he meets,
and is apt to assign sophistication
where it does not belong.
No wonder! What has the casual
onlooker to judge from except out
ward appearances? And there is
little in these to give him clue.
Twenty is bobbed. So are Thirty
and Forty. The skirts of each are
short enough to reveal the ubiqui-
tous garter. Curves that used to
mark the way of all flesh is passing
Times milestones have slimly
Strengthened out and no longer be-
tray the years secrets.
! Maid and matron consort to-
! gether to the casual onlooker's con-
fusion. Just Girls" both seem to
him. Wisely, he let's it go at that.
1t takes the close observer to
discover the real disparity that
exists under all this external same
| ness. And it is with something of
shock that he finds out how age
values have shifted
Things are not like they used to
be inside more than out.
The odd woman Of today is the
bored disillusioned, intolerant,
world-wearied person with score,
and not many more, years to her
counting.
Who is it who is truly young?
Fair, not fat, but fascinating Forty!
To her whom public opinion not
SO long ago would have shunted
aside as middle-aged birthdays have
become but reminedrs that a new
/ year lies before her in which to re-
joice and be glad, each day so full
of number of things that she can
not afford to waste moment in
idleness or boredom. The heart
within her leaps for sheer joy of
living, and it is she who keeps
| things stirring with her enthusiasm
and spontaneity.
| Writing in McCall's Magazine,
Mrs. Emily Post, famous authority
on much that pertains to things and
people, declares:-
"The woman of forty. even the
woman of fifty, is, in the big cities,
| at all events, much younger in her
viewpoint and her interest and
sympathes than she was at thirty.
But her daughter is not only older
in every way than her mother WAS
She is older than her mother is
today"
There is good cheer in Mrs. Posts
words for those who deplore youths
sophistication. For the inference
is that even if youth does flame too
brightly and flicker down, there will
be but temporary dimming of its
! flame Later it will flare up again,
this time not fitfully, but to burn
with steady glow.
How old is Ann!
| After all, what does it matter?
There are problems that require
mathematical exactness, but in this
case it seems quite unnecessary.
| Ann is as old as she feels.
This is the modern answer!
- o.
| Blaming others is way some
people have of praising themselves.
The successful man is the one
who does better what the ordinary
person considers good enough.
Ii isn't ones position but ones
disposition that makes hlppy
or unhappy.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

Blaming others is way some
people have of praising themselves.
The successful man is the one
who does better what the ordinary
person considers good enough.
Ii isn't ones position but ones
disposition that makes hpppy
or unhappy.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

Read these lines by Elihu Root
and be silent: 81 think the power
of coal saved in our locomotives is
little less than per cent, and
the loss is 95 per cent If there is
that loss in the power of coal you
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

to more than two-thirds of what it
was for the same period from 1914
to 1923, according to report
made public by Colonel Leonidas
Coyle, state firewarden.
In his report Colonel Coyle states
that the first six months of 1927
have been average for forest fires.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
APPEARANCE DOES COUNT

Experts now say personal ap-
pearance shouldn't count for much
in deciding among applicants for
jobs. Dress and cleanliness are
minimized. The fact remains that
they Do count and ALWAYS WILL
COUNT, whether they should or
not
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30

SENTiM ENTAIL POWER
Sentiment is about the most pow
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
Menus for tie Family
BY SISTER MARY

Breakfast = Stewsd rhubarb, cereal, cream. plain omelet, oven toast, milk, coffee.
 Luncheon-Rice with fish sauce. lettuce sandwiches, chocolate cook. les. lemonade.
 Dinner-Veal pot roast, mashed potatoes, scalloped tomatoes, celery and cabbage salad, caramel custard, milk. coffee.
 Rice With Fish Sauce
 One-half cup rice. 1-2 pound mushrooms, tablespoon butter, ! hard cooked eggs. cup cooked fish, 1 1-2 cups cream. medium sized tomatoes, 1 1-4 cups coarse crumbs, 4 tablespoons grated cheese.
 Boil or steam rice until tender but not mushy. Put into a large covered pan we'll covered with butter, cover closely and keep in warm place until ready to use. Clean mush- rooms and cut in small pieces. Melt butter, add mushrooms. cover and simmer for ten minutes. Add cream, eggs cut in slices. and fish. Season well with salt and pepper and sim- mer a few minutes to be sure fish and eggs are thoroughly heated. Cut tomatoes in halves. scoop out seeds and fill with crumbs. Dot with but ter and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake in a hot oven until cheese Is melted and tops are brown. Put rice on a hot platter, pour over sauce
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
Loves Ennbers Adele Garrison's Absorbing Sequel to
 Revelations of a Wife"
Beginning . New Serial

is more complicated than in the cities. The wealthy families who summer on the coast bring their own staffs Of servants and have regimes of their own. But the native country people who "help out" as they say. do not consider themselves servants. and are very much insulted if you call them so Nor will they permit any formf of address which one neighbor would not give another. Of course, if you wish to let her and her husband and son go, and import servants from the city, that is another matter"
 Miss Lincoln gazed at me incredu- lously, but all the arrogance was gone from her manner.
 DO you mean that she would leave me and take her husband and son with her just for those few words?" she asked.
 Tt wasn't the words,' explained. Tt was your tone and manner which unmistakably reproved her for inn pertinence."
 But it was impertinence." she re- turned. plainly bewildered.
 T agree with you," Dicky inter- posed unexpectedly. He has ideas of his own upon the familiarity Of the Tivers which I do not share.
 Miss Lincoln you agree with me-" she said But I see, nevertheless. that I must revise my ideas-and my conduct. I tried to get servants before coming out here. but they were such rabble. Icould just imagine how they would annoy Aunt Anna. She is not well. and I have to keep her tranquil and quiet Mrs. Ticer is very good to her. and shall remember that"
 "I hope you do," I said to myself skeptically. but aloud I only mur- mured, T am sure you will find her very faithful" and then Mrs. Ticer came back upon the veranda. with fresh tea and mullins and plates of the little cinnamon snaps of which I had spoken. Tor the first time l had the chance to cast quick. furtive glance at the low bookcase upon which Dicky had placed the soiled letter under a wise. But it was no longer there.
 Copyright, 1927. Newspaper
 Feature Service, Incl
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20

when he fell' or when he went l under" as many others did. Madeline shuddered. T wish you wouldn't talk about it." she said. almost petulantly. No. wasn't next to him."
 What ails all the women? 2" ex- claimed Miss Folsom. grimly. Cant bear to hear about anything un- pleasant! I just guess if any one you loved had been stabbed Sou'd-''
 T wouldn't talk about 1t to strnngers." said Madeline. losing her temper at last. and. rising. she went into the hotel.
 Ned Barron at once threw him. self into the breach.
 Please pardon my wife's abrupt ness" he said to Miss Folsom, with his big, r.easant smile. "She is not feeling any too we'll"
 What's the matter with her?" demanded Anastasia, with a fine abruptness of her own.
 "Nothing especially. But I think she is tired of the seashore and she is nervously sensitive about-about your brothers death. You must see, Miss Folsom. that though to you the subject is naturally of the deepest interest, it is nerve -wracking for a woman to have strange man killed almost at her very side"
 Was he an utter stranger?"
 Anastasa Folsom gave Barron long. keen glance from under her heavy eyebrows.
 Surely" he exclaimed. You didn't think they were acquainted, did you? Why, we never saw or heard of MT. Folsom until that 
 NO" said the lady. "I'm glad you appreciate. Mir. Barron. my own deep interest and anxiety, and I do see how it Is a very unpleasant memory for your wife to have in mind. Enough to spoil anybody's simmer vacation.'
 With one of her sudden. abrupt gestures, she turned and walked away.
 Angelica rose, and without a word, even to Robin. disappeared into the hotel.
 Straight to the Barrons' apart ment she went, and. not entirely to her surprise, found Madeline, with her face down on the bed, sobbing.
 (TO Be COntinued)
 Fleming Stone appears on the scene. and things are now in cap- able hands. Read the next chapter.