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THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1918. PART II. diminish, in theie important accessories of street attire. Why He Smiles. THE NEW.

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Is the top-spinning season still on In Russa? NOVELTIES, IDEAS AND TRVC-' TIC'AL SUGGESTIONS. Oh, well, the defeated candidates had a pleasant day for it. I By Olive Gray. Hurry up, Germany, or you will have nothing to surrender. The express Is not running on the line from Berlin to Bagdad these Bays.

l'p-to-Datest: The panel used In dress, to elongate the tunic, giving an effect of the long-Una gilhou- ette, while, at the same time, saving the expenditure of much cloth tha panel used unnn th. bImv. and allnwad Emperor Charles of Austria says he Is determined to quit That makes It unanimous. to fall low upon tha skirt, in 1 a sort of mandarin slmulance; the panel fore and aft upon J. the blouse, to disguise tha waist Una.

or to nrecluda na- I We cannot name a homely woman in Los Angeles and we have too much gumption to try to. TITE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. Maybe when President Wilson long ago said "politics is adjourned" he now wishes he bad let It (or them) stay adjourned. The result of Tuesday's election, which can be looked upon In no other way than an overwhelming confidence in the Republican party, which the President asked to be repudiated, reflects the safety that the great mass of people feel In Republican Ideas of practical reconstruction. President Wilson will have more loyal backing from-a Republican Congress in his war and programme than be ever bad from the wobbling Democratic majority.

From Maine to California the people re-enacted their faith in Republican doctrine; they pledged anew their belief In the substantial principles of the G.O.P., and Into the web and woof of political overthrows are written the following down-to-the-min-ute chapters: Senator Jim Ham Lewis, the pink-whiskered whip of the Senate and the mouthpiece of the administration, was beaten by a Republican In Illinois. Senator Saulsbury, president pro tem. of the Senate, was beaten by a Republican in Delaware. And bo It goes through the glittering galaxy of States. Into most of the States and Congressional districts where the President ent his Insistent appeals for Democratic votes there came a resentment that found Its full being In the election of Republicans.

The House is Republican again by a safe majority. Latest returns Indicate that the Republicans will have a majority of twenty-five In the House. This means a complete overthrow of the existing Democratic' majority and heavy gains where the publio conscience was thoroughly aroused. The closeness of the result In some States does not insure at this moment a certain Republican control of the Senate, EVKKV M0KX1XU IV TIIK YEAR. Iny and 8nnd Tlmra and lUnrtratad Maaaalne br rarrfc'ri Yearly.

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1ST. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE8S. The AMoclatrd Prraa I rxeltMlraljr entlllad ta ttta for republication or all newn aradlted It ir nut atherwlne credited In thla pa par aad the loeal irn nnblUhed ben-ln. cesslty of choice between nor- With about three million men under arms, wouldn't this be a sweet time for Mexico to start something? mal and high or low. The skirt of ankle length, 1 as the mora general choice of That much short- er, choice of smart Parlslennes.

The "pull-back" skirt, which is In extremis, but which may be herald of that which is to comat Ttv nt ntraHn tha eon- The Kaiser is practising a new side step for its future practioe before the Grand Council at Versailles. ft Fur Saves Wool. It la not the cost of a material which at present guides its use and proclaims it as a war-time material, but the fact of its conservation of fabrics needed by our boys. This Is, without doubt, one reason for the popularity of fur. Fur, afford great warmth, and even a tiuy neck pleco acta aa a protection against chill, ond at the same time, it precludes the necessity for using woolen in our clothing'.

The rlrst quentlon to he answered In our conservation Is: Are we saving something useful to our soldier boys?" and If the mswer Is In the attlrmatlve, we are doing right In adopting the materia), foodstuff or implement In Fashion's Foremost Ranks. Sheer blouses are sometimes fastened along tha shoulder with mall satin-covered buttons. A black velvet coat has its hem slashed six time just to show it ha an ecrue satin lining. Evening cloaks are made in dull hues ao that they may also be worn for afternoon occasions. Velvet gowns have frivolous lace petticoats which peep from under the irregularly hemmed skirt A white vent goes a long way to make a dark dress smart, especially If it is one of tullo and Bhirred.

An evening gown of terra cotta erepe de chine in draped with band Of silver brocaded in terra cotta. A dark blue silk jersey made up with a monk's collar- and kimona sleeves is sure to be successful. Excellent are those hems which turn up and usa embroidery as a recompense for facing the world. Instead of buttoning or hooking, some coats employ, as fasteners, pretty ribbon bows and streamers. The newer capes match the frocks and are perceptibly ehorter than those of last season.

For fall, trimmings of fur give these capes a aub. stantial air and the belted-in waistcoat makes them much warmer. Panels and tunica are still seen, but to be in correct etyla some modifications must be made. A panel which starts from Just abovo the waist Una is preferred to-the one from the shoulder, and tunics are distinguished by fastening them in at the. sides, leaving the front of the dress perfectly plain.

Very well liked are the new sleeves with an exaggeratedly Ions and straight armhole and a looso sleeve which suddenly becomes very narrow at the wrist. Sometimes the loose kimono is cut in one with tho waist and is somewhat like a bat' wing. Blouses are at last showing a little originality in design. Tho Chi-nese-shaped Jacket, falling outside the skirt, accounts for some of the novelty, and the wide armhole, outlined with buttons or embroidery, Is another new note. 4 Italy Is celebrating the victories of the Allies and the- Romans In Rome are doing as the Romans do.

tji. tlnued popularity of beads, thaJ The Sultan of Turkey Is complaining of that tired feeling. Give him a dose of Dr. Foch's celebrated sleeva completed with an inner bracelet of wooden beads, thla bracelet attached to the upper sleeve by Invisible elastics, somewhat "as our grand dames attached the his BROTHERS ALL. Some of these people who (peak of Japan as a heathen nation might have a hard time In proving It.

wT; CONGRESS Haw rILl a' What has become of the old-fashioned newsboy who used to cry out, "All about the downfall of the German toric it i ivtvl rE LAST STRAW. The German bankers are anxious to quit. When money Is ready to surrender there Isn't very much loft tor the Now la the time to buy: The useful Christmas gift. That Another thing we can get along without is the Russian Imperial Ballet and Nordkln, with his stage of whirling dervishes. gift shop within a store has printed Majority.

PLACING THE BLAME. They seem to be having the Influenza pretty much the wide world over. Guest well have to blame the germs on the Germans after all. No doubt Germany has relinquished the desire for a place in the sun. She will be satisfied with a place on the map.

Is there anything more uninteresting than the pictures of candidates in the windows and on the dead walls after the election? OVER THE OCEAN. So far as the American women are concerned the greatest aftor-the-war problem will be the French girls. It's going to be mighty hard to demobilize soma of the boys who are now In France. an illustrated list of practical ana ai th same beautiful gifts obtainable there. A perusal at homo of this enlightening list will serve the Christmas purpose as few such lists have done.

By its use, on may shop at home, selecting from tho printed picture which Is correct the article desired. From nested tables, practical both by reason of space saving and of readiness to serve emergency needs; nut bowls for this home-side board, to bring forth during the winter evenings; book ends of so wide a range in design that every need may be fulfilled, from those for this simplest homa to those most ornate: floor lamps intended to not only give light, but to add beauty to the living-room; candle sticks for every candle-stick purpose imaginable fascinating as only candle sticks knew how to be when artistic thought is expended wpon their nj then nh then there With the coming on of the wet season many of the home tires will be kept from busting. "With apologies to the well-known song. but Indications point to the fact that the O.O.P. will be once more In the Baddle In the upper house of Congress on March 4 next The Republicans will elect the Speaker of the House next March when the new Congress convenes; the Republicans will dominate the chairmanships and the memberships of the various committees, and It may not be beyond the range of possibility that Mr.

Kahn of California, the militant member of the Military Affaire Committee, shall win the chairmanship of that Important institution. The ponderous tread of the elephant once more reverberates through the land. He is toting his load of sanity back to the afflicted areas which have for a short spell been misrepresented by the barnyard chorus of the donkey and the rooBter. The eagle once more screams over the dome of the Capitol. The "Peace by Victory" slogan of the G.O.P.

will be the theme of the Kaiser's recessional, and the everlasting, triumphant cry of a nation that has set Its determined heart behind an after-the-war reconstruction that spells peace and prosperity to all the world. The President of the United States will have the loyal, faithful support of the Republican party ns he has had It all through the war. The return of the old party to power insures the resumption of peace under sound doctrines that are tried and tested. CRYING FOR THE MOO. When the Kaiser Quits the King- of Bavaria claims the succession to the German throne.

When be hears fully from Gen. Foch maybe he won't care so much about It. Much good may It do him anyhow. Offhand, we should say that the man throne would be worth about two-bits at a Broadway auction. We are of the opinion that the Chemln des Dames was no place for a lady, and it is well that it has been cleared of the Germans.

I SOCIETY. HY VIRGINIA WOODS. By Mrs. Krebs. The royal house of Austria no doubt now feels like a Republican candidate for Congress making a race in one of the Southern State districts.

are other gifty things, illustrated or Mrs. L. Krebs, wife of MaJ. (Dr.) Krebs of Sierra Madre, was hostess at a luncheon party given at the Red Cross street in Pasadena She entertained sixteen guests, among them being Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond and Mrs.

3. A. pictured only by means oi woraa. Why, don't you know where this gift shop within a big shop is lo-cated? At that store not so black as its name la painted that store far south on Broadway, where ev-nrvthins' la nf the best and where How things do change? Here Is Secretary Newton before the declaration of war a pacifist of the most ultra type, being lionized as a war hero. the gifty section occupies an entire TITHE SHORTY FALLEN.

1 Delmonlco's Is In the hands of a receiver. A couple of generations back this was the foremost fodder foundry on thti western hemisphere and represented the last word in gastronomical luxury. It was so much of an Institution that novelists and magazine writers mentioned It much as they would the capital the Old Booth church. It didn't need the advertising and so had plenty of It Just like Henry Ford. It was In Delmonlco's that that first western miner who wanted ten dollars' worth of ham and 'eggs was located.

But Delmonlco's has been far surpassed in splendor and epicurean eminence and there are now lobster palaces wherein a man who merely want ten dollars' worth of ham and eggs would be set down as a piker. No longer Is Delmonlco's the show place of Manhattan. The loans to the Allied nations by the United States now total almost eight billion dollars. The prodigal son might take a lesson from Secretary McAdoo. A.

Osgood. Mrs. Bond has Just returned from an extended trip to Chicago. For Mrs. Nugent.

Mrs. E. P. Nugent, who motored over to Santa Barbara the first of the Week, was honor guest yesterday at a bridge luncheon at which Mrs. P.

Bennett assembled a group athe Potter Hotel, has pursued an absolutely Irreproachable course. It has done all that was asked of it and remained honorably within the prescribed limits. If Japan has any claims to make she has reserved them for less troublous times, carefully avoiding intruding them to the discomfort of her allies. Japan has, Indeed, been "the perfect gentleman" and not from weakness, but from strength. Japan will "press nothing that will not be agreeable to her allies" but there is no doubt that, under the circumstances, the voice of Japan will be heard with unqualified respect at that Council of Nations at the peace table.

The mellifluous gobble of the Thanksgiving turkey Is plainly heard by those who have tho price. But at SO cents a pound the bird has a more aristocratic setting man ever before. Reception Postponed. The November reception to have been given for the Milts College Club by Miss Norma Wheeler has been postponed until further notice. It is proposed to raise pawpaws in This will be sad news to former easterners who left that section for a variety of reasons and one was that pawpaws were not raised in California.

The Germans are protesting against the dropping of bombs intq their cities and towns. When they were doing the same hellish work it was all right. In any event the Allies are sparing the hospitals and Red Cross headquarters. THE TWO-FOOT RULE. One of the comedies of the influenza season Is the two-foot rule aa practiced In Pasadena.

In the Crown City it Is permitted for church congregations to assemble and for other gatherings to be held in the open air or a public park provided those present are seated at least two feet apart. If the authorities have their way, even the disciples of Mary Baker Eddy will have to buy two-foot rules in order to regulate their association. It is a great system for those who like to hold themselves a bit aloof. Such a one may pre-empt a comfortable seat and should a chatty person approach, pull out the relentless two-foot rule and naughtily exclaim: "Keep your distance, please." A fat man can throw himself In the midst of a five-foot bench and hog the whole thing. On the first Sabbath the order was In effect lots of hopeless worshipers were caught unprepared.

They had no two-foot rule on the premises and the neighbors were using theirs. So they had to guess at It Sometimes when the stern officer of the law came around with his Implacable yard-stick they would be found seated only twenty-three inches apart. It Is hard to be shot at sunrise for this apparently harmless offense, but order and discipline must be In other cases they might be twenty-seven or twenty-eight inches apart and then the conservationists would denounce them tor extravagance and waste of room. They would be held up as slackers. So there was a rush for two-foot rules, and now almost everyone 1b found prepared.

When a young man calls upon his adored one the first question she asks is: "Have you brought your two-foot rule with you?" If he has she adjusts her gauze mask and the conversation may proceed. In one of the stores a beauteous young woman was overheard to complain of her sweetheart or was It a boost? She exclaimed: "My I but Jack Is a bold one. He got within eighteen Inches of me last night and he almoBt blew a kiss my way. That man ain't afraid of anything!" If you are going Pasadena way don't forget your two-foot rule. You may need it MEN OF GOD.

Gen. Pershing wanted the best ministers he could get as army chaplains. He considered these stations as among the most important positions In the world. Their capacity for service and inluence was stupendous and their own higli character and powers would be reflected In the men of the regiment One of the chaplains now In France left a regular congregation of 2300 members that he might be with the hoys In the trenches, and there are several pulpit orators who were receiving salaries of from 15000 to $10,000 a year. The pay of the chaplain, however, Is better than fliat of the average minister In the country church.

Most of them are commissioned as first lieutenants and receive about $2000 a year. It Is possible for them i to rank as high as majors, at about $3000 per annum, but that Is the limitation. There are at least two bishops In service as chaplains and they have the rank of captains in the church militant. It is a vast and responsible field for service that will bear fruit In succeeding generations. If the prevailing influenza meant for every victim complete Isolation and quarantine for days, as in smallpox, ye have a suspicion the number of reported cases would have an amazing fall.

But this is not to say that every precaution should not be taken. i That loud guffaw we hear from the banks of the River Styx is merely Prince Bismarck indulging in a hoarse and uncanny laugh. He remembers when the present German Emperor dropped the pilot that made Germany a nation and one of the first powers of the world. floor and ia presmea over oy mo original aift shop girl nd I mean original In a double sense! a Among the Monkish. The cowl collars, worn at first upon frocks and blouses but always attached thereto, have blossomed forth aa individual neckwear, separate from all garments and purchasable at so much per cowl.

These are. In fact, among late arrivals in the neckwear sections at soveral of the downtown stores and shops. Stay-at-Homery. Many women who have scarcely had time to sea their own homes, so engaged have they been with war work, are now taking inventory, and in looking about are deciding upon the best arrangements for winter. Getting acquainted, after long expending but an occasional cursory glance, they are quick to see that come Improvements, may be made-by the addition of a new chair or davenport, by the rearrangement of ruga or draperies, and often that an entire change In tha" appearance of the living-room may ba achieved by the purchase of a few Judiciously-selected pieces of tasteful furniture.

The home should be interesting, in order to give the genuine satisfaction which a real horn should afford. "Atmosphere" that indefinable, but never unreoognlzablejaome-thing which spells success the home, Is a thing of earnest study, and only she who gives it her best attention can distill this precious quality. a Lightening Black Velvet Black velvet, which Is a present vraza in gowns and aulta, is something more and something other than the black velvet of yore, which was considered and waa in fact quits too formal, far too stately for th youthful wearer. The back tel-vet costume of today Is likely to-be lightened by embroidery of white, angora wool, lnterset with Jet. The soft luxuriance of the angora so ermine-like In ffect-and the glean of 'Jet, removes black velvet to another class than that of empresses and stately dames, so long espoused to it.

hite Broadcloth. With the high cost of wool, all woolen materials have become precious. Hence It Is that white broadcloth, once recklessly employed in the making suit and frocks, has become a trimming, or la incorporated Into the waistcoat merely to enhance the values in a darker suit or frock. White broadcloth has become, in fact, an aristocrat among fabrications, and as such has attained to a distinction not heretofore associated with this material. White broadcloth of really fine weave is difficult to find, in fact, and that of a grade quite inferior to the one-time regulation texture has become a thing of price.

Hence, no doubt, Its ascent in the scale of makery to the place of trimming. EloiibPS Talllcur. More and more restrained grow the suit blouse that which it to be worn with the tailored suit. Whatever the material or immaterial of this hloiiae, it is likely to be almost without trimming, or to have at most ornate, but a aimple bit of bead embroidery or a band-etitrh of the simplest sort. The enactions, however.

In the way of excellence In workmanship, Increase rather than TnE GOSPEL OF THE "DON'T." One of the remarkable achievements of the war as related to the stay-at-home population has been the docility with which we have accepted the many and arbitrary dictates of the government. We have understood, of course, ttmt the central authority must be trusted and that ours was not to wonder why, but just to do and die, or, in most cases, to do without and live. Before we adopted the cast-iron helmet as a bit of fashionable military millinery the quickest way in the world to get a rise out of the average American was to tell him that he "must not" Not that he is not a law-abiding biped, but the very Idea of being crossed In the way he sweetens his coffee or butters his bread would have been as a crimson sunset to a Jersey bull. Yet, because of the emergency and "for the good of the order" he has become amenable to the strictest discipline, some of which has not always been of a character that aided mightily in the winning of battles. The "flu" has given an admirable opportunity to test the new system locally.

We mustn't kiss our own wife or anybody's wife; we mustn't shake hands with our best friend; we mustn't look at a bulletin board If anybody else Is In the same block; we mustn't listen to a bit of cheery music In a restaurant, though how in heaven's name a flat can stir up a nest of growling bacilli is something even Dr. Woods Hutchinson has not yet found out, we mustn't enter a well-disinfected theater to witness a performance that might be mental counter-irritant to the wicked germ; we may not even pray God for help except In the solitude of our own chamber; we may not enjoy the sunshine and the pure fresh air unless we seek a lodge In some vast wilderness; we may not greet our trade If it comes faster than a corporal's guard at a time; we may not even go to our mother-in-law's funeral without treading the forbidden grass. Of course we all want the war to end and of course we all want the "flu" to fly, but talented kindergarteners tell us that the gospel of the "Dont" Is poor fodder upon which to bring up a child, If his self-reliant self-determination Is to lie highly developed. Don't, Your Royal Majesties, don't "don't" us any more than our systems can assimilate or, perchance, we may bust JAPAN'S GENTLE WAT. Japan, the picturesque; Japan, the artistic; Japan, the ever-courteous.

True, her industries bare nourished amazingly since her war with Russia, in which the fruits of her victory were so ruthlessly modified at the peace conference. True, she has a mighty efficient army and navy, and glistens with progress at every turn. But in all her progress, in all her hustling commercialism, in all her growing might, Japan never loses her calm courtesy; Japan 1b ever the gentleman. And Japan is no Insignificant ally in this war, will play no silent part at the peace table. Her voice will be gentle, her manners above reproach, but In a score of ways she has silently, courteously laid the Allies under peculiar obligations to her.

Take, for instance, the question of Australia the difficult question of the transport of her troops, nigh upon a month's Journey across the seas. Before the war Australia, under a labor government, was quite emphatically anti-Japanese. The Sydney Bulletin led a virulent campaign against tbem, and exclusion laws were a favorite indoor sport Yet without hint of reproach, it was Japan's navy that convoyed the Australian troopships across the perilous seas, so faithfully that never a mishap was recorded and with exquisite generous courtesy declined all recompense. And there Is a well-authenticated story anent the Emdcn, which Is accepted In Australia, without contradiction. It will bo remembered that the Emden, the German pirate ship that spread terror In the Pacific, was finally brought to book and captured by the Australian ship M.

S. Sydney." But, according to the accredited story, It was a Japanese man-of-war that sighted the Emden, that drove It Into its Island trap and that gracefully signaled the Sydney and handed over tire eclat of capture. It Is no secret that It Is the Japanese navy which has made the United States shipping on the Pacific safe and protected. Silently, unostentatiously, courteously. Yet it was California and the Pacific Coast States, Including British Columbia, that had so recently been crying out for Japanese exclusion.

The very safety of our troops sent to Vladivostok was dependent upon the Japanese navy, but there have been no braggart reminders of the obligation. Japan, It would seem, tndeed practices the Christian principle of "turning the other cheek," of "returning good for evil," and quite obviously believes In that "soft word which turneth away wrath." When the Japanese emissary was asked about Japan's attitude on exclusion laws the answer was replete with gentlemanly, consideration. "Japan will press nothing that Is not agreeable to the he said, with a sphinx-like smile. This, then. Is the record -of the country which the Kahier was the first to designate "The Yellow Peril." It has mRde of courtesy, consideration, tact Its arch-dlplomaey.

It retains Its quiet dignity, smiling blandly, taking all sting out of the indignities once offered them, with a gracious Indifference. It Is a strong and mighty weapon. It has piled np Allied obligations hi Its favor. It Mrs. Grady.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grady (Lucretla del Valle) and their wee son are domiciled at the Cairo apartments in Washington for the winter, where they hope to meet their California friends, passing through the national capital or there Indefinitely for reasons of war. Engagement Announced. Mrs.

H. L. Lyon of No. 17 "West Forty-third place announced the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie S.

Rubendall, to Prof. A. Rlcker of New York. Prof. Bicker recently retired from teaching and came to California to reside.

Miss Thompson. After a year passed with her girlhood friend, Misa Gertrude Gopdlng and her mother, Mrs. Henry Clay Gooding of No. 10 South Westmoreland avenue, Miss Kate Thompson will return to her homo In Evans-vllle, Ind on Saturday. Her stay here has been moat delightful, her hostesses and other friends leaving nothing undone to give her Mrs.

Gooding entertained the young women at the Hotel del Coronado and at the U. 8. Grant Hotel, San Diego, nearly all summer. Personals. Mr.

and Mrs. F. Newport have returned from a few days trip to Big Bear Lake, where they passed the time fishing and hunting. Mr. and Mrs, Frederick W.

Matthleseen, are at home at their ranch comfortably established with their full household retinue. The probate of the Frederick W. Matthlessen estate in Illinois compels frequent trips to La Salle, but upon the final distribution the family will spend all thatr time at home. Prof, and Mrs. Gilbert Ellis Bailey of tho University of Southern California, with Mrs.

Bailey, is spending the moifth at Arrowhead Springs while the university ta closed. Prof. Charles G. Anthony, Mrs. Anthony and their daughter are also there for a week.

Mr. and Mrs. Sim W. Crablll and Mlsa Hazel Crablll have been there for a short visit Mrs, C. W.

Hlnchcllffe Is homa after a week passed in Pasadena with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meier, who have Just returned from their summer home In St. Louis. Mrs.

Flerpont Davis has gone to La Jolla to stay during the three weeks that her husband will be in quarantine. He went to the officers training school on Tuesday. PFRGT. CONDFE IS WOUNDED. Mrs.

G. H. Condee, No. 1855 west Twenty-first street, received a letter yesterday from their son, Surgt. Hary A.

Condee, stating that he had been wounded Septem Speaking of the conservation of grain so popular at this time, read up on Ezeklel "Take thou also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and fltchod and put them in one vessel and make the bread thereof." There must have been a Hoover In that day. There will be no brighter page In the history of the war than those telling of the heroic self-sacrifices of the nurses in the great contest What they have been doing toward the winning of the war Is Incalculable. The world owes them a debt of gratitude that cannot be paid in this generation. THE MAKING OF BOOKS. It seems that most of what may be called "classics" are reprinted for those who are expected to have an appreciation of a book's content and none whatever for Its appearancev The whole of Montaigne is crowded into a fat 12mo; Disraeli's "Curiosities" are "complete" in one volume; Milton is compressed until a magnifying glass i is a necessity.

There Is probably In exist-eneo 'not more than three reasonably attractive editions of Browning's complete works, and one of those Is priced at $60 and the other two are out of print. Re-. cently an American publisher undertook to reprint Browning In a readable edition, something vastly different from those one-volume monstrosities good tor little else than reference. He selected a large type, 'I good type and slapped It onto pages that crowded the margin In all directions. The value of the type is also minimized by being set "solid." The book appears attractive at the first glance, but soon becomes difficult, then exasperating.

And to make attractive books Is a matter of commonplace simplicity. But there are so few of them made to contain reprint classics. Why? Publishers should know that an at-; tractive format will sell far more quickly and steadily; and the amount expended to reach beyond the Ineffectual end attain the delightful Is too small to be Important. Novels, common 1 ordinary novels, foredoomed at best scarcely to more than a ilx months' sale, are readably put together. Why can't the "classics" be? Largely because the publisher has an idea that the i public doesn't know the difference then the publisher wonders why "classics" don't tell better than thav C'est La Guerre.

We've made an end of petty strife, Put bootless bickerings by; For we are brothers "neath the knife. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. True Christianity Is as deep as charity Is high. Cruelty requires no other motive than opportunity. Beauty ig nature's temporary gift to the fair sex.

Old maids are all charming because they are matchless. A charger may be either a horse or the liveryman who owns him. Some men are almost quarrelsome enough to provoke a pugilist into a fight. After kissing a girl for the first time a young man always regrets the opportunities be has wasted. A woman believes everything a fortuneteller says, provided she isn't told that her boy will tot amount to anything.ChIcago News.

SMOOTHING IT OVER. Young Man In Khaki (at the concert:) Did you ever hear such a horribly discordant, ear-splitting Old Gentleman: Sir! that's my eldest danghter singing! Young Man in Khaki: I waa about to say, sir, such an ear-splitting clatter as those idiots behind us are making. Why, I can't hear a single word of the song! NEVER MIND THE PULMOTOR. The Kaiser's "last breath" speech Is full of hysterical gasps. The undertaker Is just around the corner.

Philadelphia Record. Pledged in the deepest dye. For dog and cat and rat and mouse, And pig and polecat, foo. Have come to lodge within one house. As brothers pught to do.

No longer swells the feline tall. No longer squeaks the mouse; The polecat leaves np sachet trail, No cats the dogs arouse. Nor Gyp nor Jerry's In the pound, And Tom from home does fare, But at milady's throat they're found Ttnna lntn Sabli rare. It Is a pity the American people while they were electing a few Republicans here and there had no opportunity to register their feelings about that great fiction writer end Socialist, George Creel Gone from the United States Sonate the pink whiskers of Jimham Lewis, the best press agonted troupe of whiskers la polities. ber 27 and is now In a Hrltlsh ho- pltaL Mr.

and Mrs, Condee have two more Hon In the service. th9 i belt, Lieut Albert K. Condee, Eighteenth Ftld Artillery, and Km- met Condee, who Is at Antral Island, KATHLEEN.