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In WOman’s Realm
Fall Modes Show a Conservative and Beautifully Tailored Suit
That Is Becoming to Both Slender and Stout Figures—Slips
of Satin and Taffeta to Be Worn Under Sheer Frocks
of Midsummer Wardrobe.
SERGE STREET SUIT FOR FALL.
The first of the new ready-made
suits for fall are making their appear
ance before "the trade.” That is, mer
chants throughout the country are
looking over the sample lines of manu
facturers. So far there is little change
in the lines of street suits from those
of the passing season. Many of the
new models show an increased length
of skirt, and coats also are somewhat
longer. The inspiration of many smart
models appears to come from the Rus
sian blouse —and this is a matter for
gratitude.
In the conservative and beautifully
tailored suit shown above, a model lias
been evolved that is becoming to botli
slender and stout figures. The coat
Is neatly adjusted over the shoulders
and vague in fit about the waistline
with a full and long peplum. A very
clever management of the underarm
portion gives a trim look to the fig
ure. The sleeves are plain and long.
The skirt is plain with overlapped
seam at the front and plaits at each
side. It is strictly tailored with fault
less machine stitching as a finish. In
harmony with it are the plain belt at
back and front of the waistline and
the large bone buttons that fasten the
coat. Smaller buttons of the same
kind are set in a row of four on each
cuff.
Serge is the favorite material for
fall suits although the other stand
ard weaves of cloth are not neglect
ed. Except for the velvet turn
over on the collar it is the only fab
ric used in the suit shown. There is a
surmise that skirts may be narrower
as the season grows older, but ho one
PETTICOATS FOR SHEER FROCK.
knows. A conservative suit like that
above need not concern itself in the
matter.
There are slips of satin and taffeta —
both washable —to be worn under the
sheer frocks that form so important a
part of the midsummer wardrobe. But
many women prefer slips or petticoats
of muslin, that are exquisitely clean
and fresh-looking with each return
from the laundry. They are thin enough
to be cool and thick enough to provide
sufficient covering. Sometimes a plain
petticoat or slip of net is worn over
them, if the frock is sheer enough to be
transparent. This is merely by way of
making an airy background for lingerie
or other gauzy dresses.
The newest petticoats are cut mod
erately wide in three or four gores
shaped so that there will be little full
ness about the waist They are fin
ished with flounces not too much
trimmed with embroidery or lace. In
many of them, as in the two pictured
above, the flounces are made of batiste,
cambric, organdie or other thin cotton
and shaped with a flare, so that their
fullness is managed in the shaping
rather than by gathers. These flounces
are edged with embroidery or lace and
joined to the petticoat with wide bead
ing' in the usual way. The beading
carries the indispensible ribbon which
has come to stay and adds so much of
charm to the lingerie of today.
Underneath the flounces the bottom
of the petticoat is finished with a plain
or scalloped ruffle or with lace inser
tions and edgings. They are gathered
o-er a tape at the waist. In finishing
the flounce with lace the edge is cut in
scallops and turned under in a very
narrow hem which is stitched down
over tlie lace edging as shown in the
petticoat at the right. But where a
scalloped embroidery is used the scal
lops are cut out, leaving a little of the
plain material to turn under. This edge
is then basted to the edge of the
shaped flounce and stitched down, after
which the flounce is trimmed away
from under the scallops.
New Developments in Tucks.
Crepe and chiffon blouses being de
signed for the autumn openings are
being tucked crosswise back and front
and on the insides of the sleeves. This
gives a becoming fullness across the
bust and provides quite a novel out
line for long sleeves.
Smart Riding Costumes.
Very smart women are wearing for
riding, black and white checked trou-
sers with black coats, and occasionally
one is seen in white trousers with a
black and white shepherd’s-plaid coat
having a bright red vest.
Wide Fringes Used.
Fringe trimmed parasols are being
shown among the new things for
spring, the fringe being of silk or
worsted, fully four inches wide and
in matching or brilliantly contrasting
colors.
Efficacious Massage.
Massage to be efficacious, must be
gentle, firm, regular and accomplished
with a rotary upward motion of the
finger tips, except about the eyes. In
middle life, massage must also be ac
complished with a lump of Ice
Hot Weather Help.
Hand-painted fans are in vogue for
tlie hot days. They are huge pointed
affairs of dyed palm leaves, with a
futuristic design of apples or flower
or birds or just plain futurism co th.
outside.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
MUCH DAMAGE TO
COON ND[COTTON
i.arvae of Beetles Feed on Un
derground Stems of Plants.
WIREWORM AND ITS CONTROL
Several Hundred Kinds of Beetles
Found in Nearly All Parts of
United States—Many Are
Very Destructive.
(By EDMUND H. GIBSON.)
The injury by the corn and cotton
(vi re worms is caused by the feeding of
the wormlike young or larvae of slen
der beetles, known as “click beetles”
or “snapping beetles,” upon the roots,
sprouts and underground stems of
plants, w'hich are thereby weakened
and stunted or killed.
These wireworms have been known
to totally destroy corn throughout
fields of large acreage. However, this
‘s not usually the case and the attack
is most frequently concentrated in
"spots” scattered throughout the field,
the plants in these spots being wholly
destroyed. In other parts of the field
there may be slight injury as shown
by the dwarfed appearance of the
plants, which may later produce 50
per cent or more of a normal yield.
The wireworms are ravenous feed
ers, often cutting off all the roots of a
plant. They are especially destructive
during the two months before they
transform to adults. A single half
grown wireworm is capable of killing
a young corn sprout and severely in
juring a plant from six to eight Inches
in height. Therefore it can be seen
that when there is a concentrated at
tack by many wireworms in one hill
the plants have but small chance of
surviving.
The parent of the corn and cotton
wireworm is a small dark brown click
beetle, or “snapping-beetle,” measur
ing about one-fourth of an inch in
length. The young wireworms, or lar
vae, after hatching from the eggs are
minute, measuring from an eighth to
three-sixteenths of an inch in length.
All stages of the insect are spent in
the ground except the adult or beetle,
which only enters it at the time of egg
deposition.
Reports show that the corn and cot
ton wireworm has been destructive in
the Carolinas, Illinois, Missouri, Ar
kansas and Mississippi. This would
indicate a wide distribution, probably
a wider one than the mere records re
veal, and it is possible that the species
may occur throughout the entire east
ern half of the United States. Its oc
currence is closely related to the dis
tribution of soils of light, sandy type,
as it is known that the immature
stages exist only in such soils. Oeea
ionally an adult has been collected
iveral miles from sandy locations, but
Corn and Cotton Wireworm—a, Adult
Beetle; b, Larva.
its presence there was more than like
ly due to its own flight from the field
of its origin. In some localities this
species is referred to as the “sandy
spot wireworm.”
Corn plants infested by this wire
worm become wilted and stunted, with
leaves of a bluish shade, brown at ihe
tips, which stand out from the stalks
stiffly instead of bending over grace
fully as in a healthy plant. Deprived
of most of the roots through the work
of the larvae of this wireworm, the
plant can be pulled up with little ef
fort. Weak plants soon succumb, leav
ing gaps in the rows, but the more vig
orous plants put forth new roots in
abnormal numbers. These are matted
together and distorted, and although
the plants survive, only “nubbins” are
produced. The infestation is not con
fined to the impoverished areas, for
there may be larvae among the roots
of tall and apparently healthy plants.
Rolling hind infested by this >useet
presents a patchy appearance, the
sandy knolls standing out distinct und
bare, <ilthou b h overgrown later with
weeds, particularly crab grass, briers
and morning glories. For a long time
there was a theory among farmers
that lightning caused the injury to
corn which is now rightly attributed
to this wireworm.
In the case of eoivpeas, the fibrous
roots suffer most, the thicker roots be
ing perforated, so that the plants be
come yellow and dwarfed, and fail to
vine.
Cotton is injured in the early stages
by larvae boring into the seed and in
juring the very young plants, checking
the growth so much that the plant dies
or struggles along only to produce lit
tle or no cotton.
Beetles of the corn and cotton wire
worm are abroad in the fields from
early June until .the last of August.
The eggs, which are laid in groups of
from three to twenty in the soil about
the roots of corn, cowpeas and other
food plants, are deposited, for the
most part, during lute June and July.
These hatch in from eight to eleven
days into the young wireworms or lar
vae, which immediately commence
feeding upon the roots. Each full
grown larva constructs a small earth
en cell in the soil a.ad in this it
changes to a pupa. The pupal stage
averages 12 days in length and during
this time the pupa is almost motion
less apd takes no food. After this it
transforms to the adult or beetle.
The larvae, or wireworms, feed upon
the roots of their food plants through
out the summer months and up to
about the first of October, and during
this time are found within 18 Inches
of the surface of the ground, the depth
depending upon the moisture content
of the top soil. During a hot, dry
spell the wireworms remain from 12
to 18 inches below the surface, but
nfter a rain they can be found within
two inches of the surface.
With the approach of cold weather
they begin a general downward move-
Larvae Likely to Be Mistaken for
Whiteworms— a, False Wireworm; b,
Mealworm; c, Thousand Legger.
ment, which accounts for the farmer’s
inability to locate them during the late
fall and winter months. They have
been found in the sand at the remark
able depth of five feet. From these
facts it will be seen that fall or winter
plowing would be useless as a control
or remedial measure.
As soon as winter breaks up, the lar
vae gradually make their way to with
in two to three feet of the surface. By
the middle of April they are numerous
within six inches of the surface of the
ground. From the time the larvae
travel downward in the fall until they
return to the top soil they eat prac
tically nothing. In laboratory experi
ments, larvae remained alive and
healthy in cages of moist pure sand,
without organic food, for six months.
Late fall and winter plowing as a
method of reducing the numbers of
the pest by turning up and exposing
the larvae to the elements is of no
value, as the wireworms are at this
time at such depths in the soil that
they would not be disturbed by the
plowing. Plowing or cultivating for
this purpose at other times of the year
is of little avail, as the wireworms are
so quick of movement that almost as
soon as exposed they are ugain hidden
in the loosened soil. Even chickens
or turkeys are not sufficiently alert to
catch many.
Any system of crop rotation after
harvesting the corn may be carried
out, and a winter cover crop such as
wheat or rye is advised. Pasturing
this during winter months and turning
it under in the spring is very benefi
cial, since humus is thus added and
the sandy soil is thereby stiffened. An
infested field should not be planted to
corn two years in succession.
If a catch crop of red clover can be
obtained it is an excellent one to come
in the rotation for two or three years.
Such combinations as wheat and clo
ver not only afford two crops a year
from the same field, but also permit
the soil to remain undisturbed during
the period when the female beetles are
laying their eggs.
The manuring of infested areas has
long been recommended as the best
control measure. The theory was ad
vanced, especially by some farmers,
that the manure turned under is ac
tually distasteful to the larvae and
kills them outright. Although this is
not the case, nevertheless the turning
under of manure and cover crops has
the effect of adding humus to the top
soil; and, as it is known that the lar
vae cannot long survive except in
sandy soils, it is well to spread as
much manure as possible on infested
areas and to turn it under.
If it were practicable to allow the
infested fields to lie idle, or “lay out,”
as it is termed, for a period of three
years, this would no doubt prove the
most effective means of getting rid of
the pest, since by leaving the ground
undisturbed a crust would he formed
on the surface through which the ma
jority of adult wireworms could not
emerge. It would also serve to pre
vent the few emerging adults, as well
as those flying in from other fields,
from entering the soil for egg deposi
tion. However, this practice naturally
will not often appeal to the farmer.
CALOMEL H BILIOUS? 1 STOP!
ACTS LIKEJYMITE OS Lie
I Guarantee “Dodson's Liver Tone” Will Give You the Best Liver
and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had—Doesn't Make You Sickl
Stop using calomel! It makes you
sick. Don’t lose a day’s work. If you
feel lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti
pated, listen to me!
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour bile, crashes into it, breaking
it up. This is when you feel that aw
ful nausea and cramping. If you feel
“all knocked out,” if your liver is tor
pid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, if breath is bad or stomach
sour just try a spoonful of harmless
Dodson's Liver Tone.
Here’s my guarantee —Go to any
drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent
bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone. Take a
Conversational Pitfalls.
First Girl —You remember Kitty
Fowler, don’t you?
Second Girl —No.
First Girl—Oh, you must remember
Kitty. She was the plainest girl in
Blankville. But I forgot—that was aft
er you left.
HAVE YOU ASTHMA?
If you have this will interest you. Mr.
and Mrs. 11. Brown wrote us as follows:
“We have a son who had asthma for nine
years, and we spent night after night try
ing to enable him to breathe. We con
sulted physicians and used their prescrip
tions. We also used other famous asthma
remedies, from which he got only tempo
rary relief. We saw an advertisement of
Lung-Vita and have used several bottles.
If he has asthma now we can’t tell it. We
are no longer disturbed and distressed
about his condition. He enjoys life, and
so do we.” Mr. Brown is a member of
the H. Brown Furniture Co. of Nashville,
and lives at 1020 16th avenue, N. Lung-
Vita is for consumption, asthma, whoop
ing cough, colds, grippe and bronchial trou
bles. Get a bottle from your dealer today
or, if he does not have it send us $1 .75
for a thirty day treatment. Nashville Medi
cine Co., Dept J, Nashville, Tenn. Adv.
You Bet Paw Knows.
Little Lemuel —Say, paw, what is
the difference between a statesman
and a politician?
Paw —A statesman, son, is a poli
tician who has made his pile and a
politician is a statesman who is still
poor.
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents.
An Elaborate Dinner.
“Was it much of a dinner?”
“I should say it was. There were
seven different kinds of forks at each
plate."
From a toiler’s point of view a soft
drink is synonymous with hard luck.
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
Is her hair. If yours Is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre
ole” Hair Dressing and change it in
the natural way. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Time’s Revenges.
“The authorities wouldn’t let me
wear my new bathing costume,” said
the queen of musical comedy. “They
said It was too riskuy.”
“And you had to throw it away.”
“Oh, no. I’ll wear it in the show
next season. Then they’ll pay money
to come and see it.”
Somewhat Different.
The honeymoon had slumped the
slumps. “On our wedding day,” she
said. “I was under the impression you
had filled my heart with sunshine.”
“Well?” he queried, after the man
ner of his kind.
“But I find,” she continued, “it was
nothing hut moonshine.”
MOTHER, ATTENTION!
Gold Ring for Baby Free.
Get a 25c Bottle of Baby Ease from
any drug store, mail coupon as di
rected and gold ring (guaranteed),
proper size, mailed you. Baby Ease j
cures Bowel Complaints and Teething j
Troubles of Babies. —Adv.
Candor.
“In one respect she’s like all other
women.”
“Meaning she thinks she’s so differ
ent.”
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few—a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
store it to its former beauty and lus
ter by using “La Creole’’ Hair Dress
ing. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
No Damage.
“Oil. tell me quick, officer, was ray
husband shot in that saloon fight?”
“No, madam, only half shot.”
It is easier for a man to be the archi
tect of his own fortune than to be
the builder.
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spoonful and if it doesn’t straighten
you right up and make you feel tine
and vigorous I want you to go back to
the store and get your money. Dod
son’s Liver Tone is destroying the
sale of calomel because it is real liver
medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore
it cannot salivate or make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson’s Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels of that sour bile and consti
pated waste w’hich is clogging your
system and making you feel miserable.
I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson’3
Liver Tone will keep your entire fam
ily feeling fine for months. Give it to
your children. It is harmless; doesn’t
gripe and they like its pleasant taste.
—Adv.
Accurate Information.
“Is woman really the weaker ves
sel?”
“Only when she is unmanned.”
Spunky.
The Lawyer- -The precedents are
against you, madam.
The Lady—Well, sue them, too, then.
IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on “La Creole” Hair Dressing—
it’s the original. Darkens your hair In
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Making a Start.
Little Louis was a smart boy and
very anxious to forge ahead in the
world. He got a job in the local bank.
A wealthy uncle met him on the street
one morning and said:
“Well, Louis, how are you getting
on in business? I s’pose the first thing
we know you will be president of the
bank?”
“Yes, uncle,” replied the boy. “I’m
draft clerk already.”
“What!” exclaimed the uncle.
“Draft clerk? Why, that’s very sur
prising, but very good.”
“Yes, uncle,” replied the lad. “I
open and shut the windows according
to order, and close the doors when
people leave them open!”—Youth’s
Companion.
Bad handwriting is often used to
cover a lot of poor orthography.
Housework Is a Burden
It’s hard enough to keep house if
in perfect health, but a woman who
is weak, tired and suffering from an
aching back has a heavy burden.
Any woman in this condition has
good cause to suspect kidney trou
ble, especially if the kidney action
seems disordered.
Doan’s Kidney Pills have cured
thousands of suffering women. It’s
tlie best recommended special kid
ney remedy.
A Florida Ca*e
Pu . Mrs. Ella Con
fur. Till, a Hm nors, 22 S. Rues St.,
Sur, Pensacola, Fla.,
o says: “My back
rj—/T N \ 11 was as lame and
/ Adi ft Jt painful as could be
a/jI mornings the
Yj V -XS&Ar trouble was worse.
J nm. 'Te? I I could hardly do
ill an V housework and
1 SC.(y/f had trouble with
mV Xa&II the kidney secre-
H-j YL // tlons. Doan’s Kid
la M // nev Pills made me
VI f) II feel like a different
f H M u person, strengthen
ing my back and removing the other
ailments.”
Got Dns’i at Any Storo, 30c a Boz
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“Hunt’s Cure” is guaranteed t:>
stop and permanently cure that
terrible itching. It is com
pounded for that purpose and f
your money will do promptly W * V
refunded v/lthoat question W i
if Hunt’s Cure falls to cure f / /
Itch. Bciuuia,Tetter, Ring SVorm l /
or any other skin dibease. 60c >| /ft /
the box. V /
For sale by all draff stores
or by mail from the
A. B. Richards Medicine Co., Sherman, Tex.
DR. SALTER’S EYE LOTION
CORE
SORE EYES
Relieves. cure 6 sore, inflamed eyes in 24 to 48 hours.
Helps weak eyes, curing without pain. .Ask druggist
or dealer for SAI/TlCß’S—only from KKFOItM
DISPENSARY,« 8 Rroad, ATLANTA, GA,
‘ Hetvare of Imitations ——
[Every Woman Wants'
ANTISEPTIC POWDER
FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE
Dissolved in water for douches stops
pelvic catarrh, ulceration and inflam
mation. Recommended by Lydia E.
Pinkhxjm Med. Co. for ten years.
A healing wonder for nasal catarrh,
sore throat and sore eyes. EconomicaL
Hu .xUacnknuy clear vine and tenniodal power.
Sample Free. 50c. all dtusguU, or po.tp.id b j
VV. N. U., ATLANTA, NO 35-1916.
Sold for 47 years. For
Malaria, Chilis & Fever.
Also a Fine General
Strengthening Tonic.
60c and SI.OO at ail
Brut Staraa.