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iiisiiiiifcr, lib. -w,- wx-v*' >.v • > „ ^ R; ^ ! 1 PLA]TNDEA1,I5R. AR£ POWCR- ["NCW RUSSIA iss^psstaw m9M» r3»* - ffi? / ? *- •'*4.--#w .• H.«£ v\-i" .;' * •0MtiM m^M I©SS u/ro&.*zoco W90D -- Wptffl RICH IKTRUDER Cleveland Oil Promoter Kills Man B,Snd?:AtUa<,'% House.' DAUGHTER IS WtikESS Tragedy Occurs When Man Changes His Plans and Returns Horn* Without Informing Wifo of His Early Arrival. <i*' SVV;:.- * }* t 'Si;-:.. V'- By LIEUTENANT NORTON C. TRAVIS In Philadelphia Public Ledger. TTSSIA'S women, alone, stand today R shoulder to shoulder with men. They occupy, indeed, a place higher than that of men of their own nation, for the spotlight of the world is turned upon t-heui. In the scales of blind Justice, where are balanced autocracy or democracy for Russia, It is the Rus­ sian woman who tarns the balance for freedom. V' Russian women soldiers, virtually untrained and nnofficered, drove back i the Germans in their first trial of fire. , For eighteen days I was quartered in the first lfoe of trenches with 2,500 of these Russian women warriors. I studied them at close quarters--there are no more intrepid soldiers in all this world than were those women of a divided and bewildered nation. • . . The Battalion Of Death is nomofet "They were wiped out by German shells and German bayonets, and only four wounded survivors remain of 200 who fought through hell fire to shame the men of Russia into a sense of patriotic duty. To lack of training and of officers is ascribed the annihilation of this first battalion of women warriors in the modern world. They failed in their object--the stimulating of. compatriots to defease of country. " That free Russia fears the power of women is Indicated by the fact that those who were connect­ ed with the imperial eirde of the former court are confined in the prison of Peter and Paul, guarded by barriers of water as well as by walls of stone, while minor offenders have been banished from Petrograd. The Russian woman warrior is the product of outdoor life and simple, wholesome food. In the ranks one finds the majority of soldiers from the upper class of Russian society, and by their sides are serfs and peasants accustomed to working in the fields of Siberia and Russia with the men of their households. Ladies of Russia are noted for their proficiency In outdoor games and sports; they are great walk-, ers, skaters, horseback riders and devotees to sledding, games that require vigor and furnish ex­ citement, and to their summer and winter carni­ vals and pageants, which occur several times a year. At these times it is their pleasure to In­ dulge In native folk dances, and dancing on the Ice is a pastime to which they are devoted, and to which, I believe, they owe much of their muscular develoj>ment and rapidity and ease of action. The life of the Russian woman has bred her to war's service ; she does, not care for afternoon teas or - any form of indoor amusement4dprlug the daytime. ' Instead you will find her engaged in active sports on the frozen Neva, beside the trolley tracks that link icebound towns in a chain of gay activity, even more bustling than when boats ply the river in summer and fetch and carry between Russia's capital and the Neva's outlying villages. And now you will find women at the switches along the shining miles of ice-floored single track of the Neva's winter trolley lines. In singular contrast to the sturdy, muscular build of Russian women, stocky of form and short of stature, are Russian men of the upper class, who, when they acquire refinement and high-breeding, se&n, also, to become weak and effeininate. Not only in trench Work, but in the ordinary avo­ cations of men one now finds Russian women. Street-car conductors and motorwomen handle the traffic with efficiency. Conductors call out the streets, and from, the second belt on the man's coat that tops their blue skirts, they draw checks of varying colors and hand them out in receipt of fares. These colors represent from one to five fares, and also Indicate the distance a passenger expects to travel. One fare now costs fifteen ko­ pecks, or two and a half cents. Under ordinary conditions fifteen kopecks were worth five cents. But two and a half cents is a lot of money in Rus­ sia today. On the other hand, while women fill places on railroads and street cars, there are still to b$ found many men driving motortrucks. Another avocation of women is the drlvlng-'of draskeys--Russian dumpcarts--a fiat, two-wheeled wagon drawn by one or two horses. In the latter case one horse is always harnessed outside the shafts, leaving the burden to be borne by the ^ni- mal inside of them.' This peculiar method of harnessing Is even car­ ried out in ambulances at the front, and a wound­ ed man transported in this fashion usually has the life bounced out of him on his way to the hospital. Sometimes, Indeed, such makeshift ambulances are drawn by men, for life is accounted so cheap in Russia that the Russian will not use horses when men can serve the purpose of draft animals. Not only men, but women, take the place of horses. " They often draw their field kitchens about, and bivouac to cook their good bread, made of wheat and rye flour; their soup, horse meat and vegetables. Russian horse meat is not half bad, and that Is their principal army meat. Horses are plentiful, but very small, and they do not furaish much beef, so that numbers are slaughtered to -obtain m 'Sufficient supply. I should judge that Russian pony skin coats, which have often been so popular in America, ought to be cheaper than ever this season if there has been any way of curing and transporting the skins of these glossy- coated animals of the steppes. Womeii'g army kitchens are adequately sup­ plied with horse meat, and from ladies of rank tc serfs the women soldiers have learned how to prepare palatable food. They have also learned not only to draw their field pieces, but actually curry them. ' All women are enrolled in the infantry division of the army, so that theirs are machine guns, which three or four women can carry together. Some of these guns are light enough to be borne on the shoulders of one woman. While Russians are not good marksmen they are expert at bayonet work, and there is nothing the Germans fear more than a Russian bayonet en­ counter, when the sturdy dwarf of the North not only sticks his enemy through, but has an appal­ ling habit of lifting him up on the bayonet. I saw one victim of this shocking act' slide off tttt keen blade, dead. t ' ' Apd If the Germans fear such attacks of unin­ spired ^Russian men, they dread the savage charge of fiery Russian women, and when they succeeded in capturing three in battle they tortured them to death by way of satisfying spite against, those hundreds of young women who iayslain--martyrs to patriotism. ; . ; I watched women soldiers dig out their own trenches, where ralfj or bombardment had caused them to fall In; pull around their heavy ammuni­ tion wagons and guns, as well as their field kitch­ ens, and set up their barbed-wire entanglements. Many of them were noblewomen and wealthy mem­ bers of the "upper froth" of Russia; quite a num­ ber were wives and mothers whose husbands were fighting hi another sector on the lloe; and every one was a- volunteer. With courage went cheerfulness. In the midst ' of the hardships of trench life--and. they can scarcely be overestimated--these women sang bal­ lads and catchy songs as they worked at the busi­ ness of death. Some played on musical Instru­ ments that they had brought -into the trenches, while most of them found time to attend to the com­ fort of their pets, especially the battalion mascots --a parrot and a cat. All were short of clothing--simple as was their uniform. It consisted of a grayish khaki colored material, like washed-out khaki, made in overalls and juniper, with a tight-fitting high collar and belt. They wore the same boots'as. wtjre used, by men, and some had their feet encas«*l in shoes and puttees. One of the chief difficulties in equipping women has been to fit the! "upper froth" with boots, and to the rigors of trench life has been added the discomfort and, I fancy, pain of dainty feet In coarse, heavy unaccustomed boots; stand­ ing often'in a itflre of mud and water. Women soldiers had shifts of ten days in first- llne Jxenches of the enemy, with four hours on and four hours off duty. At the least unusual noise or sudden skirmish the whole 2,500 women were out and in readiness for battle. Every thirty feet in the women's sector stood a "post," or sentry, who tired without beaslng. It was her duty to call out, on occasion, the soldiers who rested in their malodorous dugouts on shelves that protruded from the walls along each side. Mere children were many of these modern Ama­ zons, for their ages vary from fifteen to thirty-five years, and for ten days on a stretch they had no opportunity to change -or remove their clothing. When not fighting'or on sentry duty the women rest as best they may in their dugouts, where roar of guns does not penetrate very loudly. No ven­ tilation reaches these deep^burrows under the hills except that at the entrance to the trench, and con­ ditions are offensive to every sense of comfort and sanitation. Our Red Cross commission sought to remedy some of the worst features of Russian trench life, but modern war is one of unbelievable horrors, not the least of which is the Insect pesti­ lence of the trenches. Every ten days a section of trench is cleaned up and its occupants are stripped, sprayed with an insect destroyer, brushed down with brooms, given a bath and clean clothes. In singular contrast to the many antiquated methods of battlefield exist­ ence common In the Russian army are comfortable bath trains provided for the soldiers' fortnightly bath. As the world knows, the Battalion of Death was organized by Madame Vera Butchkareff, who lived in a small Cossack settlement in Siberia at the outbreak of the war. When Madame Butchkareff's husband was killed in battle she formed the Legion of Death, mainly to shame Russian men into ac­ tion, and partly to relieve the awful suspense and monotony of village life far from the scene of strife. Therefore, in the original ranks of women warriors were to be found hardy peasants from the vast agricultural region of Siberia, and many such women belong to the present regiments of femi­ nine soldiers. Far different from their once peaceful, remote lives is the terrific action Of the battlefront, where Instead of distant sparks of stars iur quiet skies, they witness clusters of shells shrieking upward, five a minute, and bursting around a moving si* eck in the heavens--some airplane target for great guns. Timed to explode at 5,000 or 6,000 feet, as well as the distance of the plane can be gauged, the shell turns to fall at the designated height and shrapnel sprays the night skies with vivid foun­ tains of flatne. , In the griat Russian upheaval Siberia has deter­ mined to achieve an Independence of Its bwn. I found the people in this vast storehouse of na­ ture's wealth distinct In type from those in any other part Of Russia. They are a mixture of Mon­ gol and Russ; a peculiar young-old folk. Nowhere else In the world have I found as strange looking people. Tlie men have a drawn expression and fixed, staring eyes. Women, too, exhibit this char­ acteristic to a marked degree, and everywhere one finds the form of youth surmounted by the facial appearance of age. I wondered whether this ex­ pression proceeded from the squalor of their meager lives. They are an exceedingly dirty, filthy people; ragged for the most part, and with feet shod in a sort of straw sandal. With a land of rare agricultural, timber and mineral wealth sur­ rounding them, they yet wear an appearance of stolid dejection. HAD A GOOD FATHER. The store was crowded with customers when a child walked in and with an important air ap­ proached the owner of the store, held up a quar­ ter, and remarked In a high treble: "My father said I could buy anything I wanted for my sup­ per." : -- > "Well, you have f good father," said the store­ keeper. * - "Yes," replied tfce kldiet, ••and i?« me that knows It." jDOUGHNUT MAY GO, TOO, TV4 / .. , 7*-- ' The memory" of living man runs not back to the time when doughnuts were not only considered fashionable but likewise a necessity. And now comes the wbrd that doughnuts are to be frowned on, relates the Indianapolis News. They are to be placed on the unfair list because It Is felt that the miking of doughnuts, whether the real thimr 'or the widespread counterfeit, takes too much fats that should be conserved or otherwise used. Dough­ nuts form an essential part of every lunch counter display. Thousands there are'who hop off trains, merely for the purpose of -dashing into some station restaurant to invest in sinkers and a cup of coffee. The shortage In sugar has forced some of them to take their coffee without sweetening. ThiS was bad enough. But when the time comes that they must look in vnln and call, without any chance of being answered, for the time honored doughnut, then things certainly have come to a pretty pass. , !! Turned Down Daddy." Frances was having trouble dressing herself one morning, ller father sug­ gested she let him help her with the buttons. To which she replied: "There are some things, daddy, ths^t gentle­ men don't do tor ladles.?, i.' • U. 8. Molars in Guatemala. Seventy-five per cent of the dentists of Guatemala are graduates of the dental colleges of the United States. All the Central American country's dental supplies are now bought in this country. Before the war Germany and E&gland supplied many of them. ^ A Matter of Course. She--When th^y use war balloons, how do they have their charges fired? He--1 they chutes. •' • * W" Cleveland.--A formal charge of mur­ der has been lodged against Elmer Hupp, wealthy oil promoter of Cleve* land, Q., who shot and killed Charles L. Joyce, also wealthy and connected with a leading clothing firm in New York city, when he found Joyce in the Hupp home at Lakewood, a fashionable Cleveland suburb. Immediately after the shooting Hupp Informed the police and surrendered. He is at liberty undfer $35,000 bail pend­ ing the trial, in which his wife aad thir­ teen-year-old daughter, who witnessed the tragedy, will be important factors. In a statement after his release Hupp said: "Everybody makes mis­ takes. I guess we have made ours. I am now going back to my wife and daughter." Joyce, according to the Cleveland po­ lice, was thirty-five years of age and lived at Bratenthal, a district known in Cleveland as the "millionaire colony," which, although located within the city limits of Cleveland, is a separate mu­ nicipality. Hupp Changed His Mind. According to the story related to the police by Hupp, he left home several days before the tragedy on a business trip to Chicago and Kansas City. Af­ ter reaching Chicago he changed his plans and started for home without in­ forming his wife. On the evening of the tragedy he heard a strange noise soon after entering his house and rushed to his wife's apartments. There, Hupp informed the police, he found Mrs. Hupp and asked if she was alone. She said she was. Hupp told the officers that he heard a noise in the attic and started up the stairs to investigatet when he met i Opened Fire Immediately. Joyce. He opened fire immediately, three bullets taking effect in Joyce's body and causing instant death. Mrs. Hupp is an unusually attractive woman eight years younger than her husbanjj, who is forty years of age. She failed to make any explanation to her husband in an effort to account for the presence of Joyce in their home. PAID HIS DEBT OF HONOR Kansas Lawyer Struggles Nine Year* to Wipe Out Moral Obligation. Fort Scott, Kan.--Attorney J. L Sheppard of this town recently made the last payment on his debt of honor. The law declared the debt legally blotted out years ago, but Sheppard considered it a moral obligation, and paid every cent of It. When the First National bank of Fort Scott failed nine years ago notes totaling $17,500, given by Sheppard were among the bank's papers. Under the receivership the debt was compro­ mised for $3,000 and Sheppard mortgaged his home to pay that amount. He declared at the time that he would pay the balance, even though it had been "legally" paid by court pro­ ceedings. . The first payment, amounting to $7,- 500, was made in 1914. In the follow­ ing year he paid $2,500, and a payment of equal size recently wiped out the obligation. Another Human Ostrich. Shawano, Wis.--When surgeons pelS formed an operation on James Pop- pendorf, a feeble-minded man sent here for treatment, they discovered that his stomach, among other things, contain­ ed a glass tube from a thermometer, a pipe stem and a buttonhook over six inches long. The point of this hook had protruded through the walla of the stomach. Robbed Man of Marriage Funds. Jackson, Tenn.--A highwayman who attacked Norrls Taylor, a railroad brakeman, robbed him of $135 which he had withdrawn from the bank to pay his wedding and honeymoon ex­ penses. Dog Gives Fire Alarm. Neenah, Wis.--When Spot, a pet fox terrier, pulled the sheets off the bed Henry Simmons, a farmer, awoke to find his bedroom filled with smoke He was Ju*>t in time to put out oiused by an overheated stov*. , Woman's A m i ' . ..St.-r1' *. i A New York.--The conservation of wool is an established fact in France and America. It is a fact that will en­ tirely change our conception of ap­ parel. Silk will rule. The world has a sur­ plus of other materials. It would seem, .from statistics, and yet the foundation Stone of conservation will extend throughout the fashionable clothes "for the period of the war." The fundamental idea of saving has so penetrated the consciousness of our *j>eople, the propaganda is 'so wide­ spread and vital, writes Alme Ritten- Jersey frock for young girl. It Is of black and white silk jersey with bands of black velvet embroidered in silver. There are long, loose sleeves. house, that the historian of the future will surely look with extraordinary in­ terest upon the psychological change that took place in 100,000,000 people in eight months. There are changes in a nation that do not create surprise when they are thrust upon it by an invading army in war, but the change in America is one of spirit. There Is money a-plenty, men by the millions, Industries at full speed, and yet, with wealth and re­ sources, 100,000,000 people have turned a somersault in their attitude toward material possessions. The passion for conservation wiped Slim Little Clothes. out of existence the fashion for flow­ ing robes made of plenteous material. Whenever a slim silhouette has been thrust Into the fashions, whenever an extremely short and narrow skirt ha I been offered to women, critics galore have risen in their bickerings and de­ nounced women as immodest, indecent and vain to the uttermost degree. There is no such bickering today, however. The critics of women's clothcs remain silent. A man looks appraisingly at a woman gowned in a conservation costume and nods his head in approval, as though she car­ ried a flag. Coats are short when they belong to suits. Army capes ripple down the figure when warmth is needed. The cape will be exceedingly smart this season, so you who have one of SOME LOVELY WHITE VOILES v--' ,r. " ' * .v • . New Models in 8erge and Jersey Being ; Shewn, Differing 8lightly From Winter Design. There are some lovely white voiles, either plain with an embroidered bor­ der or cross-barred sprinkled with em­ broidered flowers. These are all white. A few new models in serge and Jersey are being shown, but they do not differ materially from the winter output in design. However, one of the best manufacturers has used no satin in the makeup of his new serge models and they depend entirely on line and detail for their distinction. One of the smart shops shows a model in green and white checked velours with a dark green suede belt. There Is a verj interesting fabric being used by one manufacturer. It is a silk and wool grenadine which has a very open weave, even in the finer quality. The coarser weave, which has tiny knots all over its sur­ face, is extremely good-looking and DRESS WELL AT SMALL COST Making Over Garments That Begin to Uiow Wear la the Economical .Sys­ tem Followed by Many* There's many a tilck In being well dressed. It is not Madam Spend-the- niost, but Miss Up-to-date who makes the best appearance. Watch your clothes, keep your eye on the material, follow the styles and as soon as a gar­ ment shows signs of time and wear make it over. For as long as there Is a garment there is a way of remodel­ ing it, declares the Woman's Home Companion. The shabby silk or satin skirt can be covered with a georgette tunic. If your silk or satin skirt has worn threadbare around the hips, match it in georgette and make a full gathered tunic. Of course, since all foundation nkirts are narrow at the hem, you ./ill in ail probability have to take out tfome in tlie width. Did you ever thinlfc of making a coat Jnto a dress? It la itiore down to earth than it may sound, for a coat, jiaussed at the bottom and worn In the f them garments tucked in the ctosefj^ mind It well, for In a" few weeks yo« * may be able to swing it on with th#: bravado adopted by all those womeil who are In war activities or would to be. Capes; and long] waistcoats thai \ reach half way to the knees, are sub- ^ stitutes for coats in the absence o» : suits, although the really smart thing is the Eton or the bolero jacket, as as the American fashions are coo*-" " cerned. > ' > The early French clothes sent to this country before the present exhibi­ tions in Paris showed the short jack^; cut much after the manner of thos|> worn by the French soldiers in A#:; giers, and often supplemented by tha;. brilliant scarlet or yellow sash or alkt^': ^ Immense suede belt pulled through sew>. / eral buckles in front. <. The Eton jacket is not for the womfe O an with hips, however, and unless sh|fj has been able to reduce her figure to. the proportions of a planked shad, it , ' - is wiser for her to look upon other models with more approval. There are short coats that hang straight from the shoulders to a finger length below the waist and are slightly belted in such a manner that the waist­ line is casually defined. Because of its limitations, this short jacket cannot be the ruling fashion. None know that better than the French artists, so they have sent over loose coats of silk poplin, and the American designers have turned out a new cape which reaches to the hips, is slim in outline and fasten^ at the neck with a high rolling collar. The Revival of Lace. Starting out with the foundation stone of the new Paris fashions, which are based on the conservation of other materials than wool, and remembering well that you must not bulge or flare or to provoke discussion as to your extravagance" in the usage of fabric, then it is wise to go on to the minor adjuncts of fashion. ' The revival o{ silk poplin is a bit of news that appeals to the majority of women. You know, this fabric makes admirable coat suits, and with the modern activity of nearly every woman in this country, there will not be such a wide demand as usual for frocks that need constant cleaning and laundering. The late spring and summer will probably usher in a vast array of women dressed in silk poplin. Shan­ tung, the thinnest gaberdine, satin and dark foulard. Vhe tailored suit which is adopted by such numbers of women doing active relief work, has already set its impress upon the fashions, and it is quite probable, despite the talk of the dressmakers, that coat suits of silk poplin in black, beige, brown and! biue will rise to unusual heights of popularity. Let us hope this may come about. Dinner gowns are of black, white and cream lace, and they are elabo­ rately touched up with threads of sil­ ver and gold. Scant lace flounces are draped over slim linings of satin and taffeta. Lace bodices will be returned for usage under coat suits, and blouses that fall below the waist and are gir­ dled with vividly colored ribbons, will be added to suits of white flannel, matelasse and jersey. By the way, white flannel has sidled into the limelight. Palm Beach ap­ proves of it. Smart women say they like it better than Jersey. Once upon a time, It was the accepted summer garb of our leisure millionaire class of men, but we have no such clas# today, and the decks of yachts and other pleasure craft have been placed In the category of things that were. (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspa­ per Syndicate.) several of the models made of this stuff are entirely box-plalted. It comes apparently only In neutral colors, such as gray, castor and g*un» metal, and is invariably braided lav­ ishly In soutache or round braid or in the wide silk braid always of ex­ actly the same shade as the materlaL One model in this collection has a high collar. One of the most pleasing novelties Is a raincoat which is trtlly a sym­ phony In black and white. It Is made in plain rubber cloth, with a cutout leather design on collar and cuffs. H may be had either in white with blacfe leather friwmlngs or in black with white. <:':4 If ̂ Serges are Artistic. The new serges are outdoing them* selves in artistic effects. The very smartest are embroidered and show most effective borders worked In wool, silk or metal' threads. Plaited Skirts. Separate Skirts are Plaited and mads of satin. sleeves and collar, that is no longer fit for a coat, may make a serviceable school dress. With little alteration, the straight-hanging box coat can b« used for a Russian blouse dress. Rl|t the lining and sleeves out, finishing the armhole with a facing, turn a frost} hem and add perhaps a panel of satin in front. Vi Cherry Colored Ribbons at Nook. One bright exception to tlie blacK neck bow is cherry colored ribbons ojt* a charming little blouse of white peiK cale printed in a quaint pattern In cherry red, which M as made with a lit­ tle plaited chemisette vest finished bjr & wide rolling Peter Pan collar an| very wide flaring cuffs to match. Th| chetfry ribbons were of narrow velvet and tied in a little bow at the neck of the collar, with lone. Pying ends. Smart Blouses of Linen. A smart linen blouse of white has ft high stock collar, plaited frills, an<| long bands of rose colored linen nhlc||i are stitched all the way down the ftp# per part of the sleevsw *.*_ V