The News-Courant from Strong City, Kansas • 6

THE NEWS-COURANT, STRONG CITY, KANSAS OF NEW FASHIONS Paris Insists on Detached Trains of Velvet for the Frocks for Evening Wear. AGAIN THE PLAITED SKIRT de a Favorite Worn With Long-Waisted Straight Bodice of Metal Embroidered Net--Draped Collars Will Be Largely Worn This Winter--Footwear. New the French clothes of importance have arrived. From now on, the decision for failure or success will be left to the public. The new gowns have detached trains of embroidered velvet lined with a contrasting color of satin, and sometimes partly lined with fur, in medleval fashion.

Douillet has an immense By attractive evening frock of oxidized gray net, heavily embroidered with tarnished silver roses dropped over flesh pink satin, with a part of the bodice and the sides and back of the skirt which extends into a long train anade of dahlia red velvet. The balance of dignity in the new fashions is thrown on the side of the long evening skirt with the train, but a remnant of the present fashion is in a short line across the exact front of the skirt. No French designer seems to have considered whether the skirt was long or moderately short, however, In placing a train on it. When there is so much uniformity of opinion among the French houses as is shown in this, it is only fair to believe that America will accept skirts with trains. Skirts Laid in Fine Plaits.

-Not only Callot, but several others of the designers have indorsed with en- but will be pulled up to the brim of the hat in the back, and up and across the chin in front. To see just such a collar at a smart fashion opening is like regarding a lightning-change artist. It hangs to the waist, it mounts to the crown of the head, it is thrown around the neck twice like a muffler, and it is sharply pointed at each ear and sedately drawn across the breast to form a ker- chief. Winter Footwear. The shops are well supplied with footwear and, on the whole, it is a most satisfactory sort of stock, that is shown.

It is not very much different from that of last year. The better sort of shoe dealers is not showing freakish models and there are few of the eccentricities, such as back lacings and openwork over the instep, that marked some of last winter's footwear. On the whole, though, those oddities did not find favor with the betterdressed woman. For her, there is not much change in the footwear outlook. High boots, between seven and eight inches high, and about the same in height as those of last year, will be used for street wear, although pumps and spats will be worn to some extent.

The high boots will be largely buttoned, for dress wear, but, of course, for skating and other sports laced boots will be the rule. The Flat Heel. There is a new heel, and, although high heels for dress will be usual, the new heel, which is only a little over an inch high, is used on many street shoes. It is an admirable heel for walking and doubtless we have the rage for sports clothes to thank for its appearance. It is used on shoes daintily cut, so that now It is no longer necessary to wear.a rough, huge boot If we would get a low, straight heel.

Just as sweaters are now made of silk and sports frocks of chiffon, SO straight, low heels are put on boots with dainty toes and ankles. As for the high heels, the incurved Louise heel to which we have become so, accustomed, is used on all evening shoes and slippers, and on The figure on the left shows a French gown with a plaited satin skirt and a long cuirass blouse of velvet covered with ecclesiastical embroidery, and girdled with a narrow belt of black velvet ending in jet balls. The figure on the right shows the newest and most amazing scarf of moleskin, which is wrapped around the figure fect. All the edges are heavily banded The two hats show the extremes in thusiasm the gown with the finely plaited skirt; above it is a long-waisted, straight bodice made of metal-embroldered net. One of the best models built in this manner is of pearl gray satin cloth, the entire skirt of which is laid in eight-inch plaits and a glittering culrass bodice made of gray net, heavily embroidered in silver threads and gray alik floss.

Mme. Paquin has herself created an exceedingly good-looking street suit of velour, in that rich, warm tone once known as dregs of wine. The skirt is laid in two-inch plaits with a flatly ornamented hem, and the Jacket 18 nipped in sharply in two places at the back to allow the material to sag over it: the wide right front is carried well across the figure at neck and waist. This cont does not extend more than three or four inches below the normal waistline, and the top of it is finished with one of those new collars thnt wrap around the neck like a muffler; it is made of a bright, warm tone of red velvet edged with gray rabbit. The New Draped Collars.

This story of clothes is too far advanced to go deeply into the subject of the draped collars of the hour, but Just a word to put you on the sharp lookout for them. The American designers call them Guardsmen's capes; the French designers name them after Revolution, but on neither contivent have they ever been as they will be worn this winter. They will DO longer remain over the shoulders, DINED COMPANY A Returned Troops Entertained by Relatives and Friends in Kansas City, Kan. WELCOMED HOME BY MAYOR Governor Capper Also Made An Address Complimenting the State's Soldiers--Capt. Rupert Talks.

Sixty two young men who have been living on bacon and fried potatoes served on tin plates from a camp mess kitchen since July sat down at Kansas City recently to a turkey dinner, home cooked, with oysters, cranberries, pie, ice cream, flowers on the table and an orchestra playing operatic and patriotic airs. They were the members of Company Kansas National Guard. The dinner was given by friends as a welcome home. Besides the boys, their mothers, fathers, sweethearts and friends to the number of four hundred gathered around the tables in the banquet hall of the Scottish Rite Temple, while the members of Mendias Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, served the banquet. The boys were all in uniform and answered from various parts of the hall as P.

S. Hoyt, sergeant, called the company roll just as he had in the sand hills at Eagle Pass. Mayor Green welcomed the troops home and Governor Capper told how proud Kansas was of its soldiers. John Howard Payne, toastmaster, introduced Capt. A.

K. Rupert of the company. After telling of their adventures on the 180-mile hike from San Antonio to Austin and return, in which the Kansas troops won the name of "grasshoppers" because they kept the schedule set for them, he commented on the expedition as a lesson in preparedness. "When we went to Texas, we thought we were soldiers," he said. "We soon found we were not.

We would have been of little use the first few days in the sandy cactus covered country. We know now the need of military training. We know how badly an untrained army would be at the mercy of a trained one. "There is not a boy who went out with us who does not know that every young man should have at least a year of military training. To send an army untrained men out to meet a force of trained ones means that the untrained will be wiped out." Troop Train troop train carrying members of the First Kansas Infantry was wrecked near Emporia recently and four were hurt.

Fireman A. M. Burge of Garnett suffered 8. wrenched back; Sergeant W. D.

Thompson of Garnett, ankle broken; Private Omar Dillman, Yates Center, broken leg; Private Robert Adams, Garnett, broken leg. The soldiers were in a baggage car where they had been detailed to watch machine guns and ammunition. Find Body on The body of R. Bassett, a mine foreman, was found under an interurban car north of Pittsburg the other night. The officers believe that Bassett was murdered and his body put on the track.

His shoes were found some distance away. Woman Injured by -Mrs. Frank Philamalee was struck by a Burlington work train near Atchison the other morning. One arm 1 was crushed and her head severely injured. She has a chance for recovery but her arm probably will be permanently crippled.

Welcomes Its -Company First Kansas Regiment, K. N. returned to Fredonia recently and recelved a hearty welcome. The city was decorated with banners and bunting and the company met at the depot, headed by a brass band, marched to the court house park, where an address of welcome was made, Kansas Attorney C. Dyer, a widely known attorney of Kinsley, died recently at -Battle Creek, where he had gone for medical treatment.

Greeted K. U. of Kansas students and faculty mobllized at Lawrence to greet Company First Kansas Infantry, mustered out of the federal service at Fort Riley. Company is composed of University of Kansas students. Chancellor Frank Strong issued orders that all classes be dismissed at the "sound of the whistle." The university band led a long procession of K.

men, co-eds and "profs" to the train to greet the student soldier boys. Mother of Furteen Dies. Mrs. Sarah Arthur, 82 years old, a resident of Atchison county for forty-five years, is dead at her home near there. Mrs.

Arthur was the mother of fourteen children, all of whom, with her husband, Samuel Arthur, survive her. Bishop -Bishop Sheldon F. Griswold of the Salina diocese of the Episcopal church has received formal notification of his appointment as suffragan bishop of the Chicago diocese. Friends of the bishop believe that he will accept the offer. MURDER SUSPECT A SUICIDE Richard Clark of Louisburg Had Been Accused by His Neighbors of Patterson Killing.

Because he was unable to bear the suspicion of murder Richard Clark, 69 years old, of Loulsburg, shot himself in the head with a revolver recently. Rumor had it that Clark was the mysterious assailant of William H. Patterson, wealthy bachelor, who was killed while reading a newspaper in the kitchen of his home, one and one-half miles northwest of Louisburg, October 18. According to the story told by. neighbors of the slain man, Clark and Patterson, 52 years old, had been warm friends since they homesteaded near Louisburg years ago.

Two years ago a quarrel led to a cessation of the friendship between them. Since then they had not spoken to each other. At 7:30 o'clock the evening of October 18 Patterson was shot in the neck with a shotgun fired through an open window. When his sister, Miss Mary Patterson, a trained nurse, attempted to telephone for a doctor she discovered the telephone wires leading to the house had been cut. Clark's wife and two children heard a shot in the barn lot of their home in the outskirts of Louisburg.

They ran into the back yard to find Clark lying on the ground, dying. A bullet had passed through his brain. He had fallen on his arm and in the hand crumpled beneath his body was his revolver. It was said here that Clark had a severe nervous attack and called a doctor. In the morning he paid for the treatment and then went home.

It also was said that before he shot himself he had denied to his relatives that he had anything to do with the murder. SELECTING THE SEED CORN State Agricultural College Instructor Gives Some Timely Suggestions on This Important Subject. The most satisfactory method of selecting seed corn at this season of the year is to choose the corn as it is being gathered in the field, according to R. K. Bonnett, instructor in farm crops in the Kansas State Agricultural college.

"The seed may be placed in a box on the side of the wagon," said Mr. Bonnett, "and thus be kept separate from the other carn. The main things to consider in choosing an ear for seed are length, diameter, depth of kernel, color, and conformity to type. "Ears should be uniformly large and well proportioned. The color should be uniform and the indentation typical of the variety.

The cob should be as small as possible and still permit a maximum growth of the kernel. Corn for seed should not be chosen from stalks advantageously located, and about twice as many ears as are needed for planting should be selected. It requires 15 ears to plant an acre." The corn for seed should be stored in such a manner that it permits of free circulation of air around the ears so as to dry them readily, points out Mr. Bonnett. If they are not well dried before being subjected to freezing temperatures, the germination may be injured.

A vacant room in the house that allows free circulation of air is an ideal place to store seed corn, but an attic, if well ventilated and dry, will serve the purpose almost as well. Seed houses have reguTar drying rooms but for the farmer this is not practical. Higher Price for milk strike is threatened at Hutchinson as the result of a meeting of producers at which it was decided to demand an increase of 3 cents a gallon on milk. The farmers now receive 15 cents. They say everything else has gone up and they are entitled to their bit.

Aged Hiawatha Man Dies.Boone Elkin, 76 years old, of tha, died the other night at the home of his son, James A. Elkin, in Kansas City, where he was visiting. Motor Accident Proves Fatal. bert Simpson, who was injured by a Santa Fe engine at Wichita when it hit his motor car, died later in a local hospital. Feed Roaches and powdered sweet chocolate in equal parts make an effective cockroach killer, says Prof.

S. J. Hunter, head of the department of entomology in the University of Kansas. Sprinkle the mixture on the cupboards and shelves where the pests run. Professor Hunter recommends this simple pest eradicant after making experlments that proved its effectiveness.

Pioneer Woman Amos L. Lingard, 65 years old, and a resident of Franklin County since 1854, is dead at Ottawa. The husband, five daughters and two sons survive. Real Estate Dealer telegram was received at Independence from Rochester, announcing the death of H. O.

Calvert, for twenty years one of the leading real estate dealers of the city. He is survived by his widow and two sons. Combination Train Santa Fe combination train running between Cherryvale and Coffeyville was wrecked three miles south of the city limits recently. Four cars left the tracks. J.

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Odd Viewpoint. One woman in the audience had her own ideas about Julian Eltinge, the famous impersonator of feminine types. "Wouldn't it be great fun to be married to a man like that?" she said to her husband. "You mean because he is good lookIng?" "No, you are good looking, enough to suit me." "Then what do you mean?" "Think what a novelty it would be to be able to dress in the Paris gowns your own husband wears to Telegram. CUTICURA COMFORTS BABY Suffering From Itching, Burning Rashes, Eczema, etc.

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Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Boston. Sold Nature's Great Hoodoo Temple. In the Hoodoo basin of western Wyoming are curious formations which resemble Punch and Judy heads, grim savages, simpering old maids, monkeys, rabbits, birds and animals in every grotesque and exaggerated shape imaginable, and in every possible position.

There are 50 different shapes of heads; over 40 different animal and human faces have been counted. The rock out of which the hoodoos have been carved by Dame Nature is what is known as volcante Science Monthly. IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money the imitation has not the worth of the original. Insist on "La Creole" Hair Dressingit's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye.

Price Phoney Fortune, "My wife played a great trick on 8 Gypsy the other day." The fat plumber was the speaker. "What did she do?" asked the thin carpenter. "The Gypsy wanted to tell her fortune with some coffee grounds." "Yes." "And after she was through my wife asked her if the coffee grounds possessed some peculiar charms for fortune telling." "What did the Gypsy say?" "She said they did." "Then what?" "Then my wife gave her the laugh and refused to pay her." "Because the sediment in the cup wasn't coffee grounds at all. We use 8 Telegram. Hid the View.

"Do I understand you to say," sild the lawyer, looking hard at the principal witness, "that upon hearing 8 noise in the hall you rose quickly, lit candle, and went to the head of the stairs, that a burglar was at the toot of the stairs, and you did not see him? Are you blind?" "Must I tell the truth?" stammered the witness, blushing to the roots of his hair. "The whole truth," was the stern reply. replied the witness, brushing aside damp, clinging locks and wiping the perspiration from his clammy brow, "my wife was in front of me." Bald heads don't always generate bare facts. GOT HEMLOCK SEED CHEAP Englishman's Shrewd Scheme for Procuring Drug That Commanded Good Price on Market. Mr.

Pickwick's valet and all-around servant, Samuel Weller, whose limited acquatutance with physicians and apothecaries did not hamper his festive Imagination in the relation of medical novelties which were heard with wonder and amazement by Mr. Pickwick and his friends, should have had in his repertoire the following from the London Garden: Every autumn A man used to bring to a wholesale drug house in London a quantity of hemlock seed which he sold at half the market price. The curiosity of a member of the house at last becoming aroused he asked the man how he could afford to sell the drug so cheaply. After being promised that nothing would be done to interfere with his business he described his method. Every spring he filled his pockets with the seed and went out into the country.

Wherever he saw a good wide hedgerow he sowed the seed broadcast. Then he went his way and worried no more over his crop until the fall, when he revisited the scene of his labors. He would then call the farmer's attention to the "weeds" in his hedge, offering to cut them down for a shilling a hedge, an offer which the farmer gladly accepted. Thus was the ground furnished free and he was paid to cut the harvest. His Efficacious Way.

Jurd Sprawl of Peewee was telling of the style prevailing at his cousin's house in Kansas City. "Why, dadburn It, they ett diner at six o'clock at night," said he. "And at every plate there were six forks and-" "Gee!" cackled his younger brother. "How'd you know which one to use?" "Hoh! That didn't bother me none. I just grabbed my knife and salled right -Kansas City Star.

Cause for Confidence. to form a cape and an overskirt in ef. with ermine flecked with black new shapes. many for afternoon. But there 18 also a high Cuban heel on dress boots and shoes.

So those who roamed the shoe shops disconsolately last winter looking for a sensible heel will not be disappointed this year. The straight, high Cuban and the low, straight sports heel will both satisfy them. Colored Shoes. Although the highly elaborate shoe of last year has died a deserved death, shoes are by no means plain. We have grown fond of combinations of leather, of different colors and of novel effects in our footgear.

So, of course, we get these things from the shoe manufacturers. The bright colors, however, are no longer used. Brown, tan, gray, black and white are all much used, and they are often strikingly combined. The patent-leather vamp of black is smartly applied to the gray or tan cloth top. Heavy tan calves' skin is used with a washable tan kid top, and cloth tops of gray and tan suede tops and buckskin tops are all used with glazed kid vamps.

As for the evening slippers, brocade is to be the smartest material for them. And its characteristic mark of smartness will be a silver thread running through all its wealth of colors. Plain silver slippers, too, without other color, will be used, and both black and white satin slippers will also be worn. (Copyright, 1916, per by the Syndicate.) McClure Newspa What establishes more confidence in the average institute lecturer's address to farmers is to see him milking five cows at home night and morning.Milwaukee News. A Growing Custom! The custom of placing Grape-Nuts on the table at all meals is growing in American homes.

Both children and grown- ups help themselves to this delicious food as often as they like. It contains the entire nutriment of wheat and barley, digests quickly, and is wonderfully energizing. Every table should have its daily ration of Grape-Nuts a Reason".