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fer; <-•" v ' -' <- <S » •*& " MUEKRY PLAINDEALER. MCHENRY, ILL. «* ' ', * „v " ' T"- 11 ' " ' '»" "'"' ' "• ": *• . " 'W'- V "^T'V y,v"t?\ /'u -* v. *y- * ? \ ;»4^: *:;;--' 15 STATE FAIR -%-IT iXCEPTIONALLY LARGE ATTEND- *gK" , ANCE ON THE FINAL DAY "r" exposition. • r^K.-,'" ..fc; "tp^. AUTOMOBILE RACES ARE HELD «W* Visitors at the Annual Show Find fflyeh Intarest in the Winning Ex­ hibit!--CAcsn Pleased Wtth ; This Year's Show. Springfield.--The 1915 Illinois state laii came to a close" with an exception­ ally large "last day" attendance. Avia­ tion and automobile thrlllB were held ; Vtt the closing afternoon. yg- With awards made In all exhibits. r( lair visitors found much to interest s thfcm in looking over tha ginning ex- htbits. The horse and rmile barna at- tracted the interest of thousands of vr; rural visitors and the horticulture and >; fine arts offerings likewise drew the attention of many. A feature of automobile races was a *.'v race between Miss Bunny Thornton of i England and Miss Elfrieda Mais of' Indianapolis for a purse of $1,000. Officials of the state fair are well •>; pleased with this year's big exposition < v and say, that all things-considered, the attendance has been all that could be expected. With the elimination of the showing of cattle, hogs and sheep due the foot-and-mouth disease, the fair lost one of its big features and to' some extent this kept down the usual* ly large attendance from the farming communities of the state. . The offi­ cials, however, put on numerous other attractions to offset this loss and con­ sequently the falling off in rural at­ tendance was not nearly so large as expected. * The exhibits In every other line were exceptionally large this year, par­ ticularly so in the automobile depart­ ment, and all exhibitors were pleased with the attendance. Probably no feature of the fair- at­ tracted so much attention as the "Bet- » ter Babies" contest which was con­ ducted under the direction of Dr. St. Clair Drake; secretary of the state board of health. Hundreds of children were entered and scored during the week and with the awarding of a cup to the "Best Six" under fourteen years of age in one family the contest came to a close? That the "Better Babies" show will be a permanent' feature of the fair now seems assired. "While the attendance has not been up to the average, thv fair this year in an educational way has been great­ er than ever," Secretary B. M. Davison said. "We are all pleased with the yr&y things have gone on and we feel that everyone who had attended the fair has been pleased. "The fair this year has not been marred by any serious accident and the crowds have been handled better than ever before. And just here I want to pay a compliment to the Chi­ cago mounted police who have been patrolling the grounds during the fair. Thet>e men have bandied the work in a most satisfactory manner and the board is more than pleased." Preparing f«r Centennial. The creation of an organisation in each county of the state to hav« charge of a county celebration of the Illinois centennial is ttKbe undertaken by Senator Martin B. Bailey of Dan­ ville. Senator Bailey is a member of the Illinois centennial commission and chairman of the committee thai will arrange for the local celebrations. "The celebration of a century's life for this state should interest evory Citizen," said Senator Bailey, discuss­ ing the centennial plans. "Our older counties are rich in history Which should be presented on a day agreed upon in each of them. There are men ^and^-women in all of them who will glfidly take up the work of researc h and organization, so Chat when the time comes county celebrations may be held which will interest everyone. j "The mere fact that within ' 100 years this state has grown from a re­ gion occupied by thousands of savages and myriads of wild animals into the richest cultivated state of like area in the world, containing a population of 7,000,000 prosperous, educated Ameri­ cans, is of itself the most wonderful transformation In history. "The state's contribution of great ,^men and women has kept p&cerwith her Industrial transformation. Tho wonderful creation of our magic city on Lake ..Michigan aa a commercial marvel is excelled by the !essdn and memory of our immortal Lincoln. "Many are now living whose parents were pioneers here almost ,100 yea *8 ago; from whose lips and writings they know the Old Indlah trails, the salt licks and haunts of wild game in our early days. A few still live who served with Lincoln *in| the Black Hawk war and traveled the judicial circuits of this state with him and 8taff of U. of I. Enlarged. Several appointments have been made to the staff of the University of Illinois, according to an announce­ ment made. Among them are the following: Al­ bert V. Bleininger of the United States bureau of standards, professor of ceramic engineering; William M. Hek- king, associate in free-hand drawing; Carl V. Berger, instructor in architec­ tural drawing; L. C. Dillenback, in­ structor in architectural design; C. Stanley Sale, assistant director of the engineering experimental station, and C. S. Fazel, assistant instructor in physics. Fellows of the engineering experiment station research were named as follows: Harry R. Frits, electrical engineering; Frank A. Kirk- patrick, ceramic engineering depart­ ment; L. J. Larson, department of theoretical and applied mechanics; William A. Manuel, department of chemistry; L. A. Lylius, department of mining engineering; Benito Rene Ordonez, department of railway engi­ neering; Stetfan Fupita Tanabe, de­ partment of theoretical and applied mechanics, and Camillo Weiss, depart­ ment of civil engineering. Illinois Vets Hold Reunion, 8eventy-third regiment Illinois vol­ unteers, Civil war veterans, or as many of them aq was possible, held their twenty-ninth annual reunion in room ten at the statehouse last night. About thirty members were present. James Cunningham of Missouri pre­ sided and James Dudley, now of Kafi- sas, made his appearance after an ab­ sence from the annual meetings since the organization. Governors' Day Celebrated. v Governor's day attracted one of the greatest crowds in the history of Illinois' state fair. The program began when the state board of agriculture tendered a recep­ tion at the office of President Len Small in the Administration building to Gov. Edward F. Dunne, Senator James H. Lewi#, .and other state offi­ cials and members of the supreme court. After the reception the offi­ cials of lhe piata and the supreme judges dined as the guests of the state board. Klfrted on Efficiency Board. The state efficiency and economy commission, created by the Forty- eighth general assembly and continued by the recent legislature, met here and perfected an organization. Senator r.ichard J. Barr of Joliet. a Repub­ lican, was elected chairman, succeed­ ing Senator Walter I. Manny of Mt. Sterling, a Democrat. Representative John P. Devine, Dixon, Democrat, was elected vice-chairman. Representative E. J Smejkal, Chicago, Republican, elected secretary. GREAT CAVE-IN OF THE NEW YORK SUBWAY v. XSX'X* &*** ON&E»^V/OOC> * NEAT BONBON BASKETS NCW IDEA IN TABLE DECORATION IS REAL NOVELTY. other legal giants of the day* J^6fora. the rebellion. "Thousands yet survive that great struggle, and other thousands can tell of the trials and hardships, now al­ most unbelievable, they had to under­ go in leveling,the dense forests and subduing the tough Rrairie sod Into a garden more fertile- and extensive than the famed valley of-the Nile. "We should aid in creating a com­ mittee in each county, especially those counties organized„prior to 1830, to prepare a history and program for the celebration In 1918. If that is done during the coming year, much valuable information will be ready for the use of the commission, and the local interest necessary to a success­ ful statewide celebration will be created." As a refeult of a blast of dynamite in the new subway under Seventh avenue in New York, an entire block of that thoroughfare, from Twenty-fourth to Twenty-fifth street, collapsed. A crttwded street car dropped Into the Shasm. Seven persons were killed and nearly a hundred injured. MEXICANS'FLEEING TO THE UNITED STATES Dunne's Decree Has Fine Result. Gov. Edward F. Dunne declared war on the law of "all work and no play" at the Pontiac reformatory this year. A decree given out by the chief execu­ tive, that all the boys should be grant­ ed a hour's play each day with their Saturday afternoons off for baseball or other sports, has shown its effect in the splendid demonstration made this year of the boy's work in the exhibit at the state fair. "Since that law went Into effect," said an attendant at the reformatory, "the boys have done their work more cheerfully and there has been ten per cent Increase in the efficient of the work." " Work from the printing department manual training section, shoe factory and the sheet metal departments ^m- onstrate the adaptability of boys w' o have become wards of the state be­ cause of misdemeanors. Greatest State Fair in 1918. The greatest state fair and exposi­ tion in the history of Illinois will be held in 1918, if plans now tinder con­ sideration materialize. A conference between members of the Illinois centennial commission and the state board of agriculture will be held, to consider a proposal by the centennial commission to unite the state fair of 1918 and the Illinois cen­ tennial celebration in one grand dem­ onstration that will surpass, In point of attendance, class and scope of ex­ hibit 8, anything of the sort ever held. Final decision by the centennial commission to unite with the board of agriculture in the great demonstration in centennial year was 4nade at a meeting of the commission held in the state historical library. A committee was eppointed, consisting of Senator E. S. iimith of Springfield, president of the commission; Prof. E. B. Greene of the University of Illinois, Senator Martin B. Bailey of Danville and Rep­ resentatives William J. Butler of Spring; field and Thomas A. Boyer of Chicago, to take up the matter with the board o'f agriculture with the hope of working out a satisfactory plan for a joint celebration. Several members of the board of ag­ riculture already have expressed them­ selves as favoring the plan and there appears no likelihood that it will not be agreed upon. If the project is car­ ried out, as expected, it may be planned to continue the celebration through two weeks or longer. In ad­ dition to the regular premiums offered at the state fair, a large number of spoclal centennial prizes will be hung up for Illinois winners in various classes. STATE NEWS BRIEFS Chicago.--Long "hikes" are to be taken by officers drilling with civilians at the military training camp at Fort Sheridan. Carrying the regulation equipment-trifle and a 42-pound knap­ sack--the men will be taken on "hikes" daily and the distance will be increased as they become hardened. The war department, it was an­ nounced, has ordered three officers from the army service school st Fort Leavenworth to attend A# camp as instructors. Aurora.--Waldo Thotf *s of Big Rock won the Wheatland chiicpton- ship plowing contest for the second time in two years. Tl* t mas is the only plowman who has wftr the Wheat­ land and Hfg Rock plowing champion­ ship contests. < Bioomlngton.--After sn exciting chase through ttloomingt*»n and -Nor­ mal three men who attempted a bild confidence game giving names of Frank Mitchell, ^ Frank Purjpell ~~d John Hardy, v|l' cf CkHsco, were cap^ turecL • V • *: , _ J.' .. The long and bloody warfare among the various tactions in Mexico has caused many families who lived near the Texas border to abandon t^eir homes and flee across the Rio Grande to the United States. NEW DOMINICAN MINISTER PROGRESS ON LINCOLN MEMORIAL Intended to Held Salted Almonds or Confections--Expenaive to Buy But Not Difficult to Make at Home. • One of the novelties in table decora­ tion this season is the tiny gilt and lace individual basket designed to hold bonbons, salted almonds, or oth­ er dainty confections. They are the prettiest things imaginable, and though expensive to buy, should not be difficult to make at home. One should make a trial basket first. Get a ten-cent knot of gilt wire and fashion into a basket, weaving the wire in and out in a very large mesh, in any preferred shape. There is the dainty little French basket, also the square shape" fashioned on the crder of the ordinary waste paper basket. Both are popular and also quite easy to follow. The lining is of Valenciennes !ace. The first step is to cut a tiny round of cardboard to fit the bcttom of the basket, square, round or oval, as the case may be, and cover first with silk in a delicate color and then with a scrap of the Valenciennes lace. Next cut a strip of lace edging a little wider than the depth of the basket and long enough to go around it and half as much again. Gather the straight edge of the lace and sew to the piece of covered cardboard. Put in a gathering of the lace, thus creat­ ing a little frill to stand up all around the basket, trim the handles with baby ribbon tied into bows to match the color of the bottom, and the basket is complete. For a Christmas table the baskets could be trimmed with red or holly ribbons. For ordinary use one could ??et a very pretty effect by using a dif­ ferent color for each basket in harle­ quin fashion. In thiB way any scraps of silk or ribbon that slight be on hand could be used up. Val lace at ten cents a yard or less will answer for lining. It should be from three to three and one-half inch as Pretty Bonbon Basket. wide and the scallop not too deep for obvious reasons. As one becomes more skilled In bas­ ket making larger pieces could be at­ tempted, as a catch-all basket for the bedroom or as a centerpiece for a luncheon to hold the favors. TOO TALL OR TOO STOUT After yearB of digging and of cutting and hauling great blocks of stone, the colossal Lincoln Memorial at Washington is taking form. This photo­ graph shows how the work is progressing. HEADS OF G. A. R. AND AUXILIARY BODIES Senor Aroma^io Perez Perdomo. suc­ cessor to Doctor Jiminez as minister from the republic of Santo. Domingo, recently arrived in Washington and presented his credentials. Before his appointment he was secretary of the treasury in his country. Guiding a Future. "What profession are you going to advise your son to study for?" "Haven't made any decision. I'm holding out, hoping hell develop some sure-enough talent and make a high- grade baseball player." /•f' ' ^ Dressmakers' Art Is to Cover the De­ fects in Stature of Their Patrons. Most women, measured by an ideal standard of beauty, are too tall or too thin, too short or too stout; they do not stand well; they walk badly; o^ they have spoiled their complexions by hook or by crook--something is wrong. The dressmaker's art is to cover these defects so far as possible, to draw at­ tention away from defects toward the good points of the figure. The ideally beautiful woman can wear anything from a Greek gown to a peas­ ant costume, and look divine. But with very few exceptions allowec for the perfect woman, designs in dress must be adapted before they can be adopt­ ed to advantage. Fashion plates are drawn upon beautifully tall and fair women to show the proper proportions to be observed in the designs them­ selves, according to the mind of the designing artist Some designs are hopelessly bad at the beginning. Designs, however good in themselves, are not meant to be slavishly copied. A woman six feet tall may wear a dress skirt eight or ten yards wide at the bottom, but the dumpy little woman who Is as broad as she is long will be a ridiculous fig­ ure in the same enormous sweep of skirt.--Belle Armstrong Whitney, in Good Health. Hard to Be Good. Ted--Why are you in such a hurry to get married? Ned--'Before she'd accept me I had to promise to stop drinking and smok­ ing.--Judge. COPIED FROM THE ANIMALST Man Seems Not to Have Evolved Any­ thing "New" In Methods ' of Warfare. "Ipew," "clever" and "original** de­ vices en ployed in ws£r, even the so called "barbarous" methods of war- fare, have been used by nature for millions of years. Poisonous gases smoke Houds and sharp-pointed darts have been used by animals for defense ttuce the aniioal world began. The These are the heads of the Grand Army and the allied societies in con­ vention in Washington. Left to right, seated, are: Mrs. Sarah E. Fulton, national president Woman> Relief Corps; David J. Palmer, commander in chief G. A. R.; Mrs. Mary A. Dennison, national president Ladies of G. A. R. Left to right, standing: Miss Lulu M. Corlan, national president Daughters of Veterans; Charles T. Sherman, commander in chief Sons of Veterans, and Bessie B. Bowser, national president Auxiliary to Sons of Veterans. skunk, the porcupine and the octopus are the most commonly known crea­ tures which eiqfloy, respectively, the en^l poisonous gas, tne dart and the smoke oloud. The.caterpillars of the sawfly and of some moths--as that of the spurge h«iwk-moth--ward off the attacks of ienneumon flies by squirting from their mouths an acrid fluid at the en­ emy. Many beetles, when bandied, ex­ ude a vile-smelling fluid, and birds like the petrels will squirt a pungent oil. when "cornered," for a distance |«f a yard or more. The common toad Is popularly, but quite erroneously, sup­ posed to spit poison. It can, however, when alarmed, eject from a large gland on each side gt the head above the eyes a white, acrid fluid, which will cause a dog to foam at the mouth should he be so rash as to seize one. Not Worrying. "However much other people may dislike me," confessed J. Fuller Gloom. "1 am extremely popular with snf self.*--Kansas City Star. 8mocking for 8k<rta. Smocks have taken the popular fancy this summer, and smocking is employed on many of the thinner ma­ terials. The skirt that is shirred, tiometimes smocked, into a slim sil­ houette at the waist linn and hips is very becoming to the slender woman. WORD ABOUT AUTUMN HATS Turbans of Various Design and Sail­ ors of Medium Brim Are Favorites. A round, bowl-shaped turban of black velvet, with thick frill of black malines from front to back over the crown, is broken by a bunch of pink velvet roses near the front- A round turban wtth one high point on the left has a crown of Ottoman and a brim of velvet. A small round plusb tur­ ban fitting low on the face Is trimmed with a rosette near the left iront. ^Small turbans of silk or velvet finish with a twist like a large wing worn upright and *n front. Taffeta sailors have a round crown and medium brim with a slight roll all around. The large sailor is covered with heavy Georgette c^<pe and a scarf of the times, and tiometimes the crown is covered with silk fringe. Two Figures for Faff. It is said that this autumn will show the two extremes of the straight ud the rounded tfvrq. SEM (TAILORED SUIT x; '11 I <:§< m ^ isl- "•«« 'f-ji -a,.? w wim m The model of this semitaitored suit is of black broadcloth. The skirt reaches to the shoe tops and the coat is double-breasted. The collar, cuffs and coat edging are of black fox. TO USE ODD BITS OF LACE Great Variety of Pretty and Useful Things in Whjch Odd Pieces Can Be Used. Ther* seems to be an endless vartet* of uses to which fillet crochet can be applied. A large square of this crochet could be made into a very charming boudoir cap. A square with a rose pattern would be very pretty, although the extremely conventional designs are equally good. The square should be made with fifty or sixty cod on net, as it will be more attractive if the mesh is not too, fine. A picot edging may be added to the edge of the square, or it can mere­ ly be finished with two rows of the plain mesh. When making this cap a casing te j, stitched around t the inside of the square, forming a circle by eliminat­ ing the corners. An elastic is ran through the casing; then the corners are wired with fine millinery aire, so hen irne and back cor&ers are slightly rolled over the crown. The points of the corners at each side are turned back. The effect is very much the same as a Normandy cap; bht, being made of fillet crochet, it is vary QiuUat apd usual. " I LACING FROM BOOTS TO HATS New Bolero Jacket la Laced to the Figure Snugly--Gloves Alas- Are Laced. As eagerly as the buttoned boot was discarded to replace the laced one la the idea of lacing any two pieces of material that seem in any way to be­ long to each other being introduced and adopted. A costume that has at­ tracted much attention is one of navy blue gaberdine, the bolero jacket of which was laced to fit the figure snug­ ly. The rather large sleeves were laced to fit the lower arm; the col- P lar, too, was laced to the chin. With the new inside lacing of tha boot comes the hat, whose several por- - tlons are joined with lacing. Gloves. * too, are laced on either the inside or : the outside of the arm; in fact, to ba . quite up-to-the-minute one must hav*» ' two parts of the costume laoed gether. . ;i || What Color For Waists. The most radical change in the waist ' styles this season is In the color. Tha dressy waists are eithervdark. so as to match the suit, or sre in some high color, thus contrasting with the suit. On the other hand, the semi-tailored models continue to be mostly in white and in flesh-color, says the Dry Goods - Economist. The new season waiBts of conserva­ tive type are in navy, brown, dark . green, purple, gray or mulberry. Waists of more striking type are Is garnet, light green, rose, royal purple. I French blue and other tones which wtU '. blend harmoniously with the dark suit: - colorings. r'i .1 ^ | - I & ' 4 ® X'i Cleaning White Felt Hats. 3 -jy§ T h e w h i t e f e l t h a t i s m u c h i n m r t * * - S ( dence this summer, but its beauty is If* gone when if becomes soiled. To clean f1 i f it brush it thoroughly with a soft ff clean brush; then take some flour ^ which has-been dried in a slow oven. Jjj mix it with bread crumbs and rub I- " ^ this into the felt with your hands, i-•[, |gjj: When all marks have disappeared | V :M' , .U; brush the hat briskly. A New 811k. There te-u-flSw silk out in deep dark, f blue on which Is a printed border la ^ deep red and a bright tone of bine- * This aids the dressmaker in a most gratifying way to solve the problem of trimming. If we are to wear simple ? lines, and to depend on our original . material for our effects, then we may , often be In despair as to how to fet la our color. " *?. 'I 1 " 1 vli Tulle on Straw. A charming hat shows ui accordkMt plaited tulle ruffle around tfm brtai <rf a straw hat--the straw in coral pink. - m the tulle in turguoise blue. s*t is tnrty detttfcUab Tfe* m *.:/ y.. aw