5 UR Re Spiny Ahaha Aha . (Copyright, 1919, by the Me Why This Mad Desire to Glitter and Shimmer? Women Are No Longer Content' Unless They Wear Span- gles, Bugles, Gold, Silver or Jet, and There Are Those Who Say That Tihs is Sign of Decadence. Scene: Any dressmaker's estab- lishment you care to mention, or the evening gown department of shop tnatfcomes 10 your imind. Wats - personae: Any group of men, young or old, who arc. yet youthful enough to or dine out or "doll up" in the evening for any occasion, Dra wo- da Metallic Threads in Use. Enter the dressmaker or one of her representatives, intent on shows ng one of these women "something in evening frocks." If she is a wise Fr Woman-- with x kwowitdge of 1h woman who is flourishing in this year of grace 1919, she will bring a frock that glitters and shimmers like unto tlie moon's wake on the | midnight ecean. She will bring cloth; of gold or silver; metallic lace or net, brocade lamee, spangles, bu- gles, beads, jet or tinsel Only if she is really not anxious to get the customer's order, or if she is pain- fully ignbrint of the wants of the woman oF tedwy, will she bring fab rics that are free from the metallic or the resplendent. For we have gone to the mineral 'kingdom for. the makings of our evening frocks, The humble .silk Worm no longer satisfies our taste for the gorgeous, even though the kill of the finest silk workers is taxed In the making of the brocade or velvet. However gorgeous it is, Its splendour must be added to by something metallic. We are no longer content to be lower-like. Even sthe debutantes want to be like the "glow-worm in. a dell of dew," and each one wants io be the brightest elow-worm in the dell. Once this scintillating type of gown was seldom chosen by women any | | niinded that when Clare Newspaper Synd of real taste, save perhaps by singers {OF women of the stage. 'The woman of recently acquired riutte would have been afraid of be od "nouveau riche" if she wore such a frock; but v--well; there is really {no alterna ive, fou sginiply have to jgo in for the ol unless you ant to be positively eclipsed by the other women who do. ITH 1% It Decadent? For all of which tendency we have been accused of decadence. We are told that only very ve Or very decadent people care r so much glitter in their array. We are re- women are more brilliant in speech and intellect, they give less thought to the brilliance of their dres If our wits were keener our metallic _laces---and spapelest would not have to be so dazzling. This story is told of the Empress Josephine, who was a very scintillat- ing and clever woman, even though she did 'not contrive to hold down her job as empress as long as she would have liked. Once one of her husband's relatives, who were al- Ways trying to stir up petty troubles]: for Josephine, planned to humiliate her by appearing at one of her re- ceptions in a gown that was far more resplendent tham was .the one that Josephine was planning fo wear. It was a gorgeous, shimmering, glitter- ing creation calculated to make Jo- sephine green with envy. Josephine got wind of it, and, be- ing a very wise woman, she immedi- ately changed her own plans. She "discarded the gown she had planned to wear and in its place donned the simplest little white muslin frock, diaphanous enough to reveal enticing bits df flesh tints at' the arms and shoulders, but entirely shimmerless. Moreover, she wore but a single | irock, set a abate, of n Ps D R E S Jor could anyone fess A £ BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE Josephine hove to dei vogue for things Evening gown with metallic-net with _ THE DAILY BRITISH your own house, supervisé the cook- mg of the cooks that come and go, tuen sgme Juvusure Of Lue Crevsi "8 | still due to you, for the uncontest- able fact that American cooking has enormously improved within the last | generation. It is a movement in ef: ficiency in which 'men have had very | little to do. 'It is; because the wo-| men have taken an intelligent inter | est, because they were open-minded | and because they were willing to do! something besides merely study to! make things that their mothers had | ade that this very great improve ment in the American cuisine has | come about. i A few days ago a noted specialist | pointed out the fact that a decade] OF more ago the greatest of all Am-| erican maladies was dyspepsia; It | was an ailment that enormously cur- | tailed the efficiency of thousands and | thousands of Americans. The Ameri- | can was known the world over to be | a dyspeptic. Pick up any volume of | a magazine or newspaper of forty or | fifty years ago. and glance through | the pages, and you will be almost! sure to come upon some allusion to! the fact that there were countless | persons who were victims of bad | cooking and wa improper dietary. | The number of ad for antidotes for | dyspepsia would. be-proof- of this state of affairs. It tormented the individual and baffled doctors. Then the matter began to clear, People | i fashion that did not soon tired ning frocks. ver than 1e present cans Jut we have by nq the metallic | metallic realized .that their troubles were due to bad cooking and an abnormal | taste for heavy, greasy, soggy food. Tons of pies, doughnuts, heavy cakes, hot breads and griddle cakes were consumed in: every household in al year. Meats were friga aud tried in | the most unwholesomte of ways. It| was small wonder that we did not | | thrive on such a @Qietary. But as scou | as we began to realize that there lay the trouble, we went about it to modify our cook books, We bor- rowed | from France and England, Italy and Spain. Even China and Japan taught us valuable thingsabout ---- preparing rice or tea, for instance. ot only did the good housewives | revise their own cook books, but they had to educate prejudiced hus- THE HOUSEHOLD bands and children to realize that the R new, more wholesome dishes were better. And so dyspepsia had prac- 5 1 3 . 'ol Edited by Anne Rittenhouse tically disappeared. The word itself card. tulle sash. piece of jewelry. Then canie the bat- tle, and, of course, Josephine won. Paris was getting tired of glittering things anyway, and the artful Jo- sephine, in her-artless white muslin CONGRATULATE you belongs. the credit; and merely in the capacity of mistress of is rarely ---- v-- YOURSELF.) If you do your own cooking, to 1 There are too many men in the if you, world who are fiot content with wast- ing their own tim& da hy * Is Your Child WHIG LIFT OFF CORNS, MAGIC! NO - PAIN Drop Freezone on a touchy corn then Jift that corn off . 'with fingers i Tiny bottles cost only a few cents. i i ! Drop a little Freezone on an ach ing corn, instantly that corn stop hurting, then you lif it right out. } doesn't pain one bit. Yes, magic! Why wait? Your druggist sells : tiny bottle of Freezone for a fe: cents, sufficient to rid your feet o {every hard corn, soft corn, or con between the 'toes, and callouse: without soreness or irritation. Free gone is the much talked of ether dis covery of a Cincinnati genius. ' ' How Animals Take Their Baths. Human beings pay a good deal of attention to washing, but animals," under natural conditions, seldom wash in the sense in which we under: stand the verb. The contemporary press has come to the conclusion that. broadly speaking, the only creatures which wash themselves in water are: the birds, and many of them---most, in fact--are absolute enthusiasts in the practice, as anyone can see, even in towns, in the case of the sparrow. Some birds, however, much prefer shower-bath to going into water and splashing it over themselves: pigeons love a bath In the rain, and larks and cockatoos se only to bathe in | Gouples to Scotland just as the di- SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 6, 11% OODLE BE ASS saa '§ Gretna Green '$ to be Forgotten Simply say H.P. to your grocer--he will hand you a bottle of the most appetising sauce in the world. But bs sure you DO say boo HOP, because you want RETNA GREEN seems about to revert once more to a fige ure of speech. London de i Spatches tell of thee losing | down of the vast cordite plants built there early in the world war, ! To most Canadians the words may | never have meant much more than {8 nickname for any rendezvous of _§i : { eloping couples, but there is a real | Gretna Green. Twice has it been cone spicuous among English towns, once when its chief industfy was matrie mony and again when, as a Wag re- | marked, it started making & new kind : of high explosive, 2d | Now it is about to sink into ob | scurity, with the end of its war come | tracts, which represented an invests | ment of some $50,000,000 in our! money and the employment of more { i i | than 6,000 workers. Gretna Green is a village in Scot land, tiny except for its munitions | boom, less than a mile from the riy- | or Bark, which marks the Englands | Scotland boundary line in that vicin- i ity, near the Solway Firth, and about | nine miles northwest of Carlisle, Up- on its proximity to the border line | rests its first claim to fame, for the English marriage laws sent eloping in New York City alone from kid- - ney trouble last year. Don't allow yourself to become a victim by neglecting pains and aches. Guard against trouble by taking GOLD MEDAL wiiiNg, | The world's standard.remedy for kidne, ¥s liver, bladder and uric acid troubles, Holland's national remedy since 1696. All druggists, 50c. a box. Guaranteed. for Gold vorce laws of some 47 of the United States make Reno desirable for would-be divorcees. Before 1754 Fleet Prison was the figurative "Gretna Green" of Eng- land, Until that time the English | law recognized marriages as valid 80 | long as they were performed by | clergymen of any denomination, but | it imposed a fine upon clergymen who would perform the ceremony for couples who had not proclaimed their intentions either by banns or license. Suth fines had no terrors, of course, for clergymen imprisoned in Flee} for debt, and some of them undertook to marry couples whe wished to avoid the expense of the | customary public ceremony. Less | scrupulous persons soon took advan! tage of this example, and tavern | keepérs fitted up places where they | X brought couples to be married by the "Fleet parsons," and in some cases i young women of the underworld lur- | 1H ed men there for marriage as an easy | If means of compelling their husband. | victims to pay their debts. These abuses were checked by the famous Hardwicke act of 1764, which made unauthorized marriages voldable, and thereupon Gretna Green bécame the romance spot of the British Isles, All the Scotch law required was that {wo persons should declare their intention to be married in the presence of witnesses: and In Centre of n and Business rick 2% ROOMS EURGPEAN' PTY this way. It might be suggested tha: | the British law then, as now, recog- | the high temperature of birds, which | Bized marriages ds legal so long as about equals fever-heat in man, ac- | they conformed to the lawa in the counts for this love of washing fn | Places they were consummated. : water. The birds, which do not bathe At Gretna Green, as in Fleet Pris- : generally make up for it by dusting | OB: Were persons who exercised cu- themselves. Everybody who keeps | PIdity at the expense of Cupid: and poultry knows, or ought to know, innkeepers, ferrymen and tollhouse | that one of the necessaries of fowl. | tenders xplojjsd the couples wha life is the dust bath, and the custom | 6d to Gretna Green. Any witnesses of using dust instead of water ex. | WOuld have served, but the "profes tends to all the birds of the game | flonal witnesses ,, there, like ihe and poultry family; while some few | Marrying parsons' ot S0me. Amo eight : employ both dust and water, like the | 80 towas, Shean a o og "Pounds . common sparrow, Soup os 0 rid and w an + © rail 32.0 > Finis" Reptiles do Bot wash at all but | Fou tom Jusguw io Can} o Sie 33.5 merely soak; deliberate washing with auing the sta » gi Wn at! 34.5 whter seems to occur only with ele. | Gretna Gre ronged od with : phants. The equine tribe, like the | © ous 'commission men. Under Weight? These Tables Will Show You What Your Child Should Weigh to Be in per Proportion to ; Height--If the Child is Below the "Danger Point" it is Time to Act. Boys Average i. Height | weight for 8. 2 Here's an way to save 59, and | anoy heard of this weil mown plas of makisg cough syrup ny ov the you i k om Bu! have oF ft{ > you do, Jou anderstand why nds of fam over i that thet y hous: 1%, $ and tw it tal hold of a: Y awicdy earn it a permanent place 'your Jus 1 bottle, 2 Duney tof ws as ori] ened Hae bottle, Ne can | the 'bottle, Or, if desir { molasses, honey, or corm syrup instea: i of sugar syrup, Either way, it taste R004, never spoils, snd gives you I+ Sindee of hatter igs or 3 Byer -m EE * howrs how.' y a 24 " oF 36.0 5 A pioneer of this unigue industry game birds, favor a roll in sand, but a 11.5 most of the hoofed animals contrive | W28 John Linton, fo: iy: valet 40.5 'man of fine presence and 1 43.0 Sither dry or wet cleaning. and sncther, 3 Mr. Beattifd wah a they can do all they want by li " ahd 5s such are the cat and the mouse and Pafiars wets gi XH very assiduous both in leking and / 515 : blacksmith shops were favorite moo: 53.5 ° geratehing themselves; and the con cas for eloping couples, but futhotitd 55.5 t . 59.5 ing: 83.0 i 66.0 69.0 72.5 75.5 79.5 83.5 39.0 to keep thelr coats in order without | 2 Sir John Gresham, & 43.5 any supple-bodied animals ad personable parecer at 9% their respective relatives, Bats are According to popular : tegen, tinual seratehing of the monkey tribe is lacking for the stories of smith is not so much a search for para- (sites as a kind of natural curry. ¥ho would I. Jopaline pilin combing. Many famous Aflishmen were mar ried at Gretna Green, among them ' Campione--Republic, . | Lord Eldon and Lord Brougham, There is in Europe a candidate for both of whom later became Lord the position of the world's smallest Chancellor, and Lord Erskine, while | republic. Two square kilometers en- | he was Chancellor; Charles Manner cased In Swiss territory, declaring | Button, Who afterward was Arche themselves Italian politically, intend | bishop of Canterbury, and Lord West. putting forward the claim to be s and Miss Child, the Matter free state, This {3 A da er of the man who founaed sana, Orbe pat three decades when As, who hel ring the three os wi the eathedral of Milan, he Gretna Green flourished there were 0 and the cathe | more than 7,000 marriages recorded Ow the little terri | there, nearly 800 of which were pro- TY Wak originally Italian and 1s now | formed in-1868, the year before Scots in. the midst of Swiss territory is an | land enacted a 3 which made a horses to hel Tor t one 3 i trated reed | ound e a he Horii h cand has boon us for generations foi throat and ailment 0 avoid Sirota ak : ; nd ob cps Fo toa on" n A ancient story and a long one, Cam- | three weeks' residende a requisite to Plone aspired to independence before | marriage, e war, but Juting private conberns Marriage by a tion still is aide she Supported the Iialian | Jogal In Scotland, and it is Interest. cause, giving the Italian army some: note that our own marriage thing like 100 recruits, As ' It will take a little time to restore the 'wasted tissues, but the use of Dr, Chase's Nerve Food will 'very materially aid. Digestion is weak, oantime en. Chase's which go to make up rich, red blood. : . Careful attention should be given to the eating habits of the child. Good, w , not ne rea i TR = Sait, orl # ' ; the Scotch law this respect, status ina parte Sing het rr in Scotland, every state has' m | by The matter, ' "fourt be bi bi rer BeBe BB Ss od will take her place in . blown republis, fT YAREFUL investigation shows that one child in ] every three is under weight as the result of malnutrition. ° 5 3 .. The chances aresone in three that Yes chitd is in this class. The taliles presented here will enable you jo find out. i ie : + Inthe Students' Army Training Corps one in + fre as unfit because of being under weight, while in the adult army the proportion was abot the same. - This condition chuld haverbeen preverited by proper attention during school life, so that these Jonng men wopld ha developed normal, healthy ppétite is fickle. but inthe Nerve Food ' in con- food must have the preference. limited and daily rest is required in cases of exhaustion. A Sk br a i] jal our % the children of over hil | x Fou