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GOWNS for brides
are in limelight
More Conventional Attire,
Free of Extravagance,
Is Favored.
It Is a fortunate day in which we
live and enjoy such a wealth of art
£D d beauty and comfort in things de
eped for women’s wear. There are,
notes a fashion writer in the New York
Times, more than ever before, di ess
creations of every sort, meeting the
desire and need for every possible oc
casion, and this season these are of
fered in attractive forms at prices
wiiich are considerate of the woman
of slender income as well as of her
that holds the strings of a long purse.
This becomes more gratifyingiy ap
parent as tiie days pass, and obviously
fjie response to tfil's opportunity is
spontaneous, so that one who is moved
by common sense will not delay, but
will' avail herself of the first offerings
and the best selections In models.
They are, this season, a notable
achievement for the artists in Paris
who direct our ways in dress; the de
signs are original and artistic, the ma
terials are beautiful and the colors en
chanting.
First In the thought of everyone are
the spring wedding and the brides’
trousseau tiiat provide a thrill to
women of every age and station. Wed
ding gowns have never been lovelier or
more picturesque than they are now.
There is a feeling for the more con
ventional wedding dress, free of the
extravagances and eccentricities that
are expressed in gowns for other occa
sions.
A few years ago there was evident
In some of the most Important models
a tendency toward the ultra modern,
the extreme, the theatrical In the cos
tume of a bride. But the best design
Green and White Used
in This Sports Outfit
mk.
ln<? 6en ' lannel features this charm-
J°" e - piece sports dress. It Is worn
at and scarf of green and white. 1
Some Suggestions on Adjustment of Skirta
Many people still prefer their skirts
‘ a belt at the regulation waist line.
“ en ,a ia Is done, writes a clothing
midlist la the Colorado Agricultural
a piece of belting about two
wide Is prepared to fit the
u ‘ st ’ and fastened with hooks and
( .’p S ' I!ie skirt Is pinned to this with
, u [ ,per ® of the skirt extending
f n ; !' J a * >ove tfie *°P of the belt. In
— j .iiig the skirt may be turned over
or ! aJd fl!Ce<l down with bias tope,
l 16 raw a dge may be turned under
(i * aen tlie belt und the skirt with
•‘folded edge extending slightly
cf 1 e ttie l>elt ’ an d stitched by ma-
A tber method of adjusting a skirt
hI wal Is to fit the belt at the
I v ne or below the regulation waist
fin > 31 ? <i then as above. Skirts
tm. v ln tllls "’ay look well with
OrM 3 ' oases of the sports or tall
urea type.
f -J ■ ''ear with overblouses skirts
* 9la ;' J ' e attached to a long under*
‘ or nnderbody. It Is not nee
to shape this nnderbody. In
ers now keep close to custom, with de
ference toward the dignity and beauty
possible to express with wedding satin,
orange blossoms and tulle, and they
created this season costumes of great
art value for the bride and her brides
maids.
A few couturieres have gone In for
revivals in the styles of wedding
gowns, using the quaint models of ear
lier days, when skirts were wide and
bodices tight, and when rare old lace
was much In evidence.
This type of dress is definitely suited
to some brides, and when it Is well
Gay Silk Frock Chic
for Young Girls’ Wear
✓ \ .v**’> v *Vv
Just as sweet as a stick of candy is
this “peppermint stripe" silk frock de
signed for misses’ summer wear.
done and worn it is a charming and
engaging variant of the formally con
ventional wedding gown.
One delightful feature that prevails
is an entire absence of fussy detail
and of complexity in composition. The
straight-line, one-piece dress is most
popular and gives the most felicitous
opportunity for arrangement of the
veil.
Next to tills, the princess gown, en
train, with a slight suggestion of drap
ery, Is much liked, and is illustrated
in some very successful models —
notably from the house of Worth.
A trousseau Is necessarily a Joy to
select. There must be gowns and
wraps, negligees and exquisite lingerie,
and all the intriguing accessories.
Unique Accessories
Silver, ivory and rare enamels all
have a place In the fittings of the
dressing table, hut the woman who
wishes to be a bit unique will choose
instead a set made of Venetian glass
i a color. They come In shades of ap
ple green, bright blue and pink and the
stoppers of the perfume bottles and
handles of the powder boxes are
flower-shaped.
stead take an easy hip measure, also
the measure from the underarm to the
hips, allowing for a hem or casing for
ribbon at the top. Cut a straight
piece of material according to tills
measure and Join the ends. If the
material Is narrow it may he fully ns
easy to have a seam on each side, or
o lengthwise strip of the material with
one seam may be used, but tills will
be more apt to stretch as the weight
of the skirt will then come on the
crosswise or filling threads
Finish the seams with n French
seam and make a hem and casing at
the top and also shoulder straps. Turn
under the lower edge and pin over the
top edge of the skirt. Try on, then
baste a.id stitch to poDtlon, overcast
ing the raw edge of the skirt under
neath or facing with a thin straight
strip of the waist material.
Moire hats are newer than felts
satin or straws and are capably oi
being worn with almost any type of
frock.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA,
“So here you are, Bloodroot,” said
jiille Brownie to the Bloodroot flow
ers.
''' "Here we are,"
they whispered, lr
their flower fash
now and we fee.’
like putting out
white heads forth
and seeing the
“When we first
came our leaves
saw that we did
They wound them
selves around us,
for the only over
coats we have are
“Here We Are,- leaves.
T ANARUS, ..... ’ “You know we
They Whispered. m orange .
red sap in our stems and in olden times
the Indians used this for war paint
and for decorating themselves for
great festivals.
“That is why we have the name of
Bloodroot."
“Oh, I’m so glad to know,” said Bil
lie Brownie.
“We come out during the day, but
by night we’re all tired out.”
Billie Brownie called on some Bluets
next.
“You seem to be white to me," said
Billie Brownie, “and yet you tell me
your name is Bluet.”
“Yes,” the little Bluets said, “we
have the family name of Bluet.
“Seeing us as you do now It is no
wonder you are surprised at our name.
You see us all over this field and not
one of us seems to be blue.
“But much earlier we were blue.
“Yes, when first we peep about to
look at the springtime we are of a
light shade of blue, but after we’ve
been out for a while our color changes
to white and the later ones you see ara
always white.’’
“Well, I’m glad to know that,’’ said
Billie Brownie, “for it is something
that has always puzzled me.”
Then he called on the Rue Anemone
(lowers and they talked to him in their
sweet, gentle way, and as they talked
(hey moved their heads about and
their perfume and sweetness seemed
to fill the whole air.
He called on the Heputiea flowers,
but most of the family were gone. It
was late for them, as they.had arrived
early.
“We have to come early,” said a few
flowers still blooming where the spring
was very late. "We can t keep from
getting started when there is the
slightest thought of springtime being
near. That is why we come when
spring is scarcely her
“We notice you are going all about,
Billie Brownie."
“Yes,” said Billie Brownie, “for in
many places all of the spring flowers
l iave gone. I’ve come where the season
is a good deal later so I could see you
all around here."
The Hepatlca flowers smiled at Bil
lie Brownie. He loved their beautiful
blue faces and he loved them, too, for
their devotion to the woods and their
loyalty to the brown leaves about
them.
The brown leaves had kept the
plants warm all through the winter
and had given the heputiea flowers
good nourishment and the hepatlca
flowers had not forgotten their first
friends.
They did not look down upon them
now that they were all dressed In
their beautiful blue frocks, and looked
so much better. No, they were loyal
and true.
lie called on the Wild Ginger flow
ers, with their funny little brown
faces so close to
the earth and
their leaves
shaped like hearts
and dark green in "l
He goo^'
went through l/Jjk
some rocky parts
of the woods and
lie waved his hand ■> jyjfll
Marsh Marigold ||M|f X,
flowers, so bright,
bright a yellow. Xhe Hepatlca
And as he went Flowers Smiled
by Jack - in - the - at B j||| e ,
Pulpit, Jack tried
to stop him and preach his little ser
mon, but Billie Brownie said:
“Not today, Jack; another time. I've
still promised to call on the Yellow
Violets and the Purple Violets and the
Star flowers.”
Fairij Tate
jy -TAARY • GRAHAM. • BONNER
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CALLS ON FLOWERS
Wide Variance in
Cost of Potatoes
Study Carried on by Depart
ment of Agriculture in Big
Producing States!
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.*
Yield per acre Is the principal cause
of variation in the cost of producing
potatoes, the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture points out in a
cost study lu Important potato pro
ducing sections of Minnesota, Wis
consin, Michigan, New York, and
Maine. The survey dealt with costs lu
1919, but (lie conclusions drawn are
generally applicable to other years.
Farmers who received better thun
130 bushels of potatoes per acre pro
duced them at an average of 72 cents
while those who lind a yield of less
than 70 bushels had an average cost
per bushel of $1.49. The cost per
bushel of potatoes grown on 401 farms
ranged from 80 cents tc $2.45, with
most farms producing at a cost of
$1 or less per bushel.
Important Cost Items.
Man and horse labor were the most
important items of cost In areas
studied in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Michigan, and New York, whereas
commercial fertilizer was the largest
item of cost in Aroostook county,
Maine. In Aroostook county the
fertilizer cost was larger per acre
tliau the combined cost of man and
horse labor.
The cost per acre was lowest In
Clay county, Minnesota, being $78.-
09, and higher in Aroostook county,
Maine, where the acre cost was $219.-
60. The yield per ucre in Clay coun
ty, Minnesota, was 103 bushels, muk
ing the cost per bushel 76 cents, while
n yield of 278 bushels in Aroostook,
Maine, resulted in an average cost
per bushel of 79 cents.
Potatoes fitted Into n fairly definite
crop rotation In nil areas except in
Clay county, Minnesota, where wheat
and oats were not grown in any
definite rotation with potatoes. In
the other areas hay, potatoes, corn,
(where corn is grown) and n small
grain seeded to grass constituted the
rotation. The per cent of fnrm re
ceipts coming through the sale of po
tatoes varied from 41.5 per cent in
Barron county, Wisconsin, to 04.5 per
cent in Aroostook, Maine.
Man and Horse Labor.
In areas where none of the picking
labor was contracted for nnd as a
result the hours of picking up po
tatoes were Included, the total hours
Most Farm Cooperatives
in North Central West
More than 45 per cent of the 10,1*10
farmers’ business organizations report
ing to the United States Department
of Agriculture up to April 1 are In
the seven west North Central states
including Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota, lowa, Missouri, Ne
braska, and Kansas. Over 25 per cent
of the associations are in the five east
North Central states, including Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon
sin, and more than 8 pey cent are in
the three Pacific Coast states.
Minnesota leads in number of asso
ciations, 1,330 organizations being re
ported from that state. Other states
with numerous farmers’ business or
ganizations are lowa with 1,030; Wis
consin, 871); Illinois, flit), and Nebras
ka. 477. Seven hundred and seventeen
co-operatives are engaged in retailing.
These are mostly stores and a large
percentage of them are located In the
following states: Minnesota, 80; Ne
braska, 80; lowa, 84; Kansas, 08; Wis
consin. 40.
CANDLE EGGS CAREFULLY
BEFORE SHIPMENT, IS URGED
Plan Will Eliminate Bad
Ones or Those Dirty.
(Prepared by lh United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Eggs shipped in interstate commerce
should be carefmly candled by ship
pers, in order to eliminate those that
are had or that may spoil en route, soy
officials of the bureau of chemistry,
United States Department of Agricul
ture, who are charged with the en
forcement of the federal food and
drugs act. Shipments containing eggs
which have yolks stuck to the shell,
moldy eggs, black spots, addled eggs,
any any other eggs which are filthy,
decomposed or putrid are in violation
of the law.
Federal food inspectors have been
Instructed to give particular attention
to shipments of eggs during the warm
months of spring and summer to see
that the channels of Interstate com
of man lnbor expended In raising an
acre of potatoes varied from 63.7
hours In Anoka county, Minnesota,
to 92.7 hours per acre In Barron coun
ty, Wisconsin. The hours of horse
work used per acre were the lowest
or 65.7 In Clny county, Minnesota,
nnd highest in Monroe county, New
York, where 116.0 hours were used.
Commercial fertilizer was applied at
the rate of 1,980 pounds per acre
upon potato land In Aroostook county,
Maine. None of the other areas
studied approached this quantity of
commercial fertilizer application.
The amount of man labor and horse
work, together with the cultural prac
tices for each area, are given in de
tail in Department Bulletin 1188, Cost
and Farm Practices in Producing Po
tatoes, copies of which may he ob
tained free upon request to the De
partment of Agriculture, Washington.
and. a
Materials and Methods
for Efficient Spraying
In “Some Sidelights on Dusting and
Spraying Practices,'’ Prot. P. J. Par
rott, entomologist at the Geneva ex
periment station, snld:
“The past summer was notable for
the destructive work of the codling
moth. Worm holes In apples were sec
ond In Importance to apple scab, both
being chiefly responsible for the large
numbers of Inferior apples produced
in many orchards. Unusual abundance
of side-wormy npples In carefully
sprayed orchards proved that methods
and materials which have been reason
ably efficient in the past did not give
us good control ns usual.”
Speaking of the double benefits,
Professor Parrott said It was well te
keep In mind the fuct thnt customary
treatment given to prevent wormy ap
ples serve two objects, thnt of keeping
the npples free from worms and of re
ducing the extent of the carry-over of
the pest In the orchard which largely
determines the degree of Infestatloa
during the following year.
Cattle-Tick Eradication
Now Possible Anywhere
Experience shows that It Is possible
to eradicate cattle-fever ticks any
where, even on swampy, brushy, free
range land, asserts tlie United States
Department of Agriculture in an ex
hibit panel recently prepared for dis
play in tick-infested localities.
To convince the skeptical observer,
the department shows n picture of
such land, where eradication was ac
complished and which has been free
from ticks ever since. The average
observer might think it futile to at
tempt tick eradication In a region such
as pictured. The grass often swarms
with young ticks.
Dipping cuttle, however, kills the
ticks before they develop to the repro
ductive stage, and ticks that do not
get on cattle die In a few months.
Tlius the onttle-fever tick becomes ex
tinct In one senson in localities that
conduct thorough systematic dipping.
New Crop of Chicks
Practical poultry raisers and farm
ers are relying upon the large hntch
cries more and more each year as a
source of supply for their new crop
of chicks. In other words, each year
sees fewer and fewer chicks hatched
under hens, and the mammoth hatch
eries are taking the place, to a cer
tain extent, of the smaller incubators
which are commonly operated ou
farms.
Mow weeds off of pastures every
two weeks.
merce are kept ns free ns possible
from eggs that do not comply with the
law. Shipments of eggs that are la
violation of the law may be seized and
the Individuals responsible for tie In
terstate shipment prosecuted under the
federal food and drugg act, say the
officials.
Careful candling before shipment
will enable deulers to eliminate the
bad eggs. The elimination of the
spoiled eggs before shipment not only
removes the hazard of violating fed
eral and state food laws, but It is eco
nomical in that it saves shipping
charges on eggs likely to be rejected at
place of receipt.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has a bulletin on the best
methods and equipment for candling
eggs. This bulletin may he obtained
without cost upon application to the
department at Washington. Ask tor
Department Bulletin WIG, “How to
Candle Eggs.”