Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1917, Page 6

- t “ Se FOR THE SMALL GIRL AND BOY Fashion’s Change in Clothes Worn by Fortunate Young- sters of Today. NO LONGER ALL IN WHITE Velvet in Gay Colors Now Adorns Youngsters of Both Sexes—Coats for the Street, Trimmed With Fur, Are Extremely Smart and Popular. New York.—Emerson may call con- sistency the vice of small minds, and if this is true, designing minds that gov- ern clothes are free from vice, be- cause they are full of inconsistency. They present absurd juxtapositions in children’s apparel, as well as in that for women. For instance, a fur coat that Is warm enough for the poles ‘eaves uncovered bare legs below it yat belong in the tropics. The theory ! health that has run like a thread rough the wrap and woof of our re- on these little figures; but the fash- ions have materially changed in this respect, and after children are eight years old, it appears to be fashion- able to dress them in colors and in ma- terials that are not washable. This does not mean that the plaid worsted frock with its little brass but- tons, which has seen many genera- tions of children through their school- days, has any chance of a fashionable reviva!; but velvet and taffeta are dis- creetly used for gay occasions. The velvet is permissible for gowns; the taffeta for capricious little bodices. Velvet Adorns Boys. Velvet is not held for girls only; it is being advocated for jaunty jack- ets for small boys, when ornamented with large buttons. Don't shudder with a sickening reminiscence of Ittle Lord Fauntleroy, with his long curls, scarlet sash and nauseating sweet- ness. There was a day and generation which took this feminine bit of em- bryo masculinity—if there can be such a thing in the scale of humans— as a model for youngsters’ clothes, and it is probable that half the home trou- bles between mother and boy began with this enforced costumery. The little Jackets of today are cut very short, show n loose, frilled, mus- lin shirt and are worn over extra short white linen trousers. When velvet is made up for a little girl’s frock it Is in scarlet or blue trimmed with fur and ornamented with Coat for a Smart, Small Girl. It Is Golden Brown Velvet, Trimmed With Fur, and a Slight Embroidery of Gold Threads. Brown Brocade Rib- bon Is Used on the Sleeves and at the Collar. cent activities is that one can harden any part of the body by constant ex- posure and, therefore, free the mind from any thought of danger there, Women who ure accustomed to the low evening gown are no more sufferers from colds than women who do not in- dulge in this practice. The children, therefore, do not consider It dangerous to leave thelr bodies exposed from the knees down. Starting out with this fundamental fashion, there is an immense varlety elsewhere, They must contribute their mite of inconsistency to the ple- ture and having done so, they are free to » along the orthodox lines, Follow Medieval Styles. Children have adopted medieval clothes, but this is net announcing a revolution, for they have insisted up- on straight Hines for years. The real revolution is that they have taken up colors and do not put all their attention on white. Time was when even the mother who was perplexed at the thought of paying a large laundry bill, still insisted upon dressing her youngsters tn wash clothes. She looked with hygienic hor- ror at the thought of worsted stuffs OS eee stitchery. One party frock for a ten- year-old girl is of dark blue velvet made in two pl with a corded seam below the waist. The machine stitching ts done with red thread, and at the hem of the skirt, the collar and the cufis there are narrow bands of brown fur, although white peltry ls better. Street Coats. There are street coats of velvet trimmed with fur 1 brocade ribboo that are exceetlingly effective. Gold- en brown velvet is the fashionable choice, with golden brown brocade rib- bon to make shoulder pleces and imil- tation pocket flaps. Paris tells us that women's skirts are growing longer and the American dressmakers are at last following this persuasion; but youngsters’ skirts are growing shorter. There are little linen slips for tiny children that make no pretence of reaching the knees, and there are vel- vet frocks for afternoon parties that appear to be slightly elongated jack- ets, pulled down to meet extra long gcings. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspa- ber Syndicate.) IDEAL COVERING FOR BED|CHARMING FANCY OF FASHION Those Who Are Fond of Sleeping Out- doors Will Find This a Comfort in Cold Weather. One of the finest, lightest, warmest, and in all ways most satisfactory cov- erings for use on outdoor beds in very cold weather is a light-weight feather bed with removable, washable cover. ‘This is not a new idea, since feather beds were used in the old country years ago for coverings. The cold, crisp outdcor air puts a buoyancy into the feathers that 1s delightful. You do not feel any welght, as when the bed is loaded down with covers, and are not hampered as in a sleeping bag, but can turn with ease. The feathers follow the curves of the body, no cold air is let In, and one feels as com- fortable as if in a sort of thermos com- partment. For children dress weights may be sewed In the corners to hold .the bed ia place. A Baby’s Bath Set. Extremely good-looking and possess- ing the added quality of needing very little work, is the bath set consisting of three pleces—a bath blanket, a towel and a washcloth. The ornamen- tation ie very unique. Two storks in black outline stitch hold up a back clothesline from which is suspended by means of tiny black clothespins the words, “Baby's, Bath,” “Baby's Towel,” and on the cloth merely the word “Baby.” The words cre worked in white. A crocheted edge in pink or blue finishes the edges. Decorations of Bluebirds and Swal- lows Have Become Popular Enough to Be Seen Everywhere. Blue birds and swallows have so taken the fancy of fashion that one sees them now on every side. It is now quite possible to furnish a whole bedroom with bluebird or swal- low furnishings. You can buy various china and glass pieces decorated wilh these charming birds of cheerfulness. You can buy sheets and pillow cases embroidered with them. You can buy bureau scarfs and table covers and cushions showing them. And you can buy embroidery transfer patterns and stencil patterns for them and with these you can deco- rate white enameled furniture and scrim, silk or linen window curtains. Transparent Ideas. The transparent idea in the making of clothes ceems to be eyen more in favor than last year. There are serge dresses trimmed with bands of mousse- line de sole or georgianna crepe. These bands graduate in width and are preferably the same color as the serge, although there ls once more room for individuality here, as they may be either lighter or darker. Lack of ironclad rules of fashion was never more apparent than In mi- lady's boots and shoes, In style they range from something that Is barely more than a piece of sole leather tied on to the foot to the skyscraper shoes of the summer, rn HAS GREATEST RECORD OF ANY LEADER IN WAR Genera! Joffre Will Rank in His- tory With the Ablest of Soldiers. YOUNGER MAN IN HIS PLACE Hero of the Battle of the Marne Is Succeeded by General Nivelle, but Hie Great Talents Will Still Be at Service of Allies as War Council Head. Paris.—General Joffre has been su- perseded. The active command of the French armies in the field has been placed in the hands of a younger men, General Nivelle, the hero of Verdun. General Joffre has been made head of the allied war council, Unprejudiced observers agree he has today the grent- est military record of any of the lead- ers In the present war. He will rank in history with Napoleon I, Hannibal, Caesar and George Washington. He wor the battle of the Marne, where defeat would have meant com- plete German success in the conflict. He won it twice—first, by directing French preparations in the critical years, 1911 to 1914, and, second, by leading the armies of the Republic in that fateful month of September, 1914, on the field of battl Joffre has commanded the armies of a warring nation longer than any other man in this war. Hindenburg's victo- ries in the two battles of East Prussia Involved smaller numbers of men and smaller responsibilities by far than those which the idol of the French peo- ple has borne through more than two years of heart-wracking strife. The Old Man of the Lakes follows von Falkenhayn and von Moltke as supreme military leader—under the kalser—of Germany. Who knows how long he will last? In the British lana forces Sir Douglas Haig has superseded French; in Russia the Grand Duke Nicholas has given place to the czar, and General Alexieff sharing highest command; in Austria-Hungary the leadership has shifted and finally been given almost entirely into alien hands; while Italy’s troops, although always under General Count Cadorna, have not been fighting so long as those of the other great powers. Age His Only Fault. The slowing-up of the battle of the Somme without a distinguished allied success, has been a great disappoint- ment to France. But few Frenchmen blame Joffre for this. Criticism of him usa to find comfort in the fact that he is old, that he fought in the Franco- Prussian war, and that his driving force theoretically should be exceeded by that of a younger man. He !s one of a group of French leaders w training in the 1 Germany. The others of the group include the armed hero, General Pau, and General Foch, who has been in direct command of the Somme op- erations, The present war has brought to the fore certain younger officers. Men who were only colonels or less when the Struggle commenced a now com- manding army groups. is politi- cians of the intriguing sort have been demanding for «ome time that the old- er leaders step aside and let the young- sters show what they can do. But nothing that may happen can dim the great glory of Joffre. It is safe to say that a vote by either the soldiers the civilians of France would continue him in the post he has held since 1911. In that yenr the archaic French mill- tary organization started toward re- form. The army was to have its first real commander in chief in many yea! Cabinet, army leaders and the people alike united in the demand that this position go to General Pan. But Pau, the patriot, stapding in a great council, declined the honor. Pointing to Joffre, he said: “There stands the only possible man.” So Joffre was selected, because Pau wanted him as his superior. The choice was a disappointment to the public, to whom Joifre was little known, In many ways Joffre is more Ger- man than Parisian. Sober, simple in habits, industrious, rising at five and going to bed at ten, and making no great public appearance, he was not the figure to strike the French imag- ination at first view. Strong for Efficiency. His career had already been marked by several acts of gallantry, but it was as an efficlency man, an engineer, a systematizer and organizer, who was not too proud to learn from the kais- er’s great general staff, that he had impressed Pau and Castelnau and oth- ers, who now became his immediate. instruments in regenerating the French great their earlier 1 struggle with Joffre is not the Frenchman of Paris, but the hard-working peasant type which made France great. He was born in Riversaltes, in the East Pyre- nees, and loves today to talk the Cata- lan dialect with his old friends there. He was the third of eieven children— no race suicide, one may deduct. ‘The family were traditionally coopers, and none of them had had military careers, There ‘s some Spanish blood in Joffre’s 4s boy he was modest, gentle and nr en pert THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE sweet-tempered. He was even looked down upoe by certain mrsezitave szir- its in school—this boy who was to be- come the man of tron and direct fif- teen millfon soldiers. At fiftzen he astounded his parents and friends by announcing he intend- ed to compete for the Polytechnic school in Paris, the great training place for artillery officers. He passed fourteenth in his entrance examina- tions among 132, and would Lave stood much higher had his German not been rather weak on points of grammar, a failing of his in which the French people now take a certain delight. Before he could finish his course the Franco-Prussian war began and Joffre became a sub-lieutenant in a Paris fort. Here Ke got little chance to distinguish himself, but the hor- rors of the siege left a great impres- sion on his mind and heightened his patriotism. Directly after the conclusion of peace he was employed In reconstruct- ing the Paris fortifications. His work s0 pleased Marshal McMahon when he came to Inspect it that he made the lleutenant a captain On the spot. First Came Into Fame. In 1885 he went to Indo-China, where he built the defenses of Haut- Tonkin. He constructed a railroad in Senegal and the defenses of Diego- Suarez In Madagascar. In 1887 he became a professor of fortifications in the army school at Fontainebleau, and afterward he was director of engineering for the minis- try. As an army corps commander at Lille and Amiens he gained intimate knowledge of the country where fighting is now going on. Almost his only blast of fame came in 18% He was commander of a na- tive column in Africa. Colonel Bon- nier, who commanded the main lHne, had encountered disaster. Thirteen of his officers and Bonnier himself had been killed. Joffre had been ordered to ascend the left bank of the Niger from Segu to Timbuctoo and take pos- session of the Iand which still re mained independent of France. He went about the expedition in his usual methodical fashion, studying the country and its method of warfare, and after Bonnier’s death he made a march of 500 miles under great diffi- culties and planted the tricolor over Timbuctoo for the first time. When tn 1914 the great call came Joffre was a member of the higher council of war, a body of 11 men, from whom the commander In chief in time of war would be selected. He was known as “Joffre the Monk,” partly be- cause of the decency of his private life and partly becafise of his abstem- fous daily regime. He could do only one thing better than work, it is said, and that was sleep. The night fol- lowing the disheartening reverse at Charleroi he slumbered for a few hours as peacefully as a baby. He has no nerves. Joffre, Millerand, minister of war, and Poincare, premier and later presi- dent, were the triumvirate which cre- nied the France that stopped Germany at the Marne. The first thing Joffre did as com- mander in chief was to stop civilian spying on army officers to discover whether they attended mass. The sec- ond was to dismiss five of the show- lest generals In the French army-~be- cause they betrayed incompetence in maneuvers. Made Many Reforms. His reforms were almost countless. He specialized in the new departments —telephones, telegraphs, automobiles and airplanes—and brought his army to a technical efficiency second to none. He had a targe part in bringing about the three-year army service law, by which France raised her standing army from 485,000 to 600,000 men, and so had enough to meet the onslaught of Germany's 820,000. Then came the great war, the story of which is fresh in every mind, Jof- fre had seen it coming, and with the English field marshal, Roberts, bad warned against it. His brain and per- sonality stood the test of actual strug- gle as well as it had met the problems of preparedness. He found time from his work in the field to meet and van- quish the infamous pence cabal of Cail- laux. Following the battle of the Marne his power increased, rather than di- minished. In January, 1916, it was announced that the government had decided to interfere with military op- erations in no way from that time forth. The commander in chief was supreme. A further honor and responsibility came to him after the great counctl of all the allies, when supreme mili- tary direction was resolved upofh and placed in Joffre’s hands. Since then he has directed the masses of the czur as well as the new drmies of Great Britain. Only on the sea, where the British hold sway, was the direc- tion of the war out of his hands. At the age of sixty-four—he was born January 12, 1852—he may well look back on his life work with as much satisfaction as Kitchener and face whatever changes fate may have in store for him with equanimity. GERMAN “TANKS” OUTRUN CAVALRY Are Faster and Harder to De- stroy Than the British Monster. PLAYS HAVOC WITH INFANTRY Machine Guns Can Be Operated in “Almost Any Direction Through Narrow Slits—One Machine Kills 300 Men. At General von Falkenhayn's Hend- quarters In Roumania—One of the most Interesting features of the Rou- manian campaign, from a German standpoint, has been the spectacular work of the new armored automobiles evolved soon after the advent of the Sritish “tanks” on the Somme front, but which the developments in Rou- mania have shown to be a vast im- provement in efficiency over the Brit- ish machines. Even in the brief tests it has had since the Germans crossed the moun- tuins into the Roumanian plains the new German armored car has shown itself an efficient auxiliary to the cav- in patrol work, as it frequently can inflict infinitely more damage than a whole squadron, and Is far more dif- ficult to destroy than the English ma- chine. Its achievements so far in- clude an attack on Roumanian infantry in which 300 Roumanians were killed. Like a Motor Truck. The cars are 25 feet In length, with wheels a foot wide and incased in solid rubber. They carry a crew of ten men, including the machine-gun operators, the chauffeur and one sub- stitute and one officer, The machine guns can be operated in almost any direction through nar- row slits. At one end, under the cus- tomary hood, {s a 100-horse-power mo- tor, and at the other end, under a sim- {lar hood, is the gasoline tank. Each man in the crew is an expert me chanic amt chauffeur, so if a bullct bursts through * 2 slit through which the operator looks In driving there are others ready and competent to take the injured mun’s Place. The automobile_engine is both alr and water-cooled. The car shell is impervious to machine gun and rifle fire. When no opponent is in sight the top of the turret can be opened so that a man can get his shoulders out and make observations. When the turret is closed periscopes are placed In position, which permit a view of the surrounding landscape from all angles. There have been many odd, expert- ences with these automobiles In Rouw- mania. On one of the first trips a car entered a village not yet captured, where the officer and his crew were ¢ ENROLL FRENCH WOMEN Paris.—A woman's committee presided over by Mme. Boutroux, wife of the celebrated philoso- pher, has been organized to en- roll woman volunteers in the service of the country. It is ap- Pealing to all women to tnscribe their names, with a statement of thelr aptitudes and the time they will be able to devote to work in different categories when their services may be needed. Enrolling offices will be opened soon and a comprehensive effort will be made to enlist all the women of France in the service of the nation. ees taken for Russians, because the Ger- mans were not supposed to have arm- ored cars. Just as the crew was being enthusi- asfically greeted three Roumanian lo- comotive drivers tried to get their en- gizes away, but the automobile was toe swift for them. The machine raced ahead, the crew destroyed a por- tion of the track and the automobile received the engines with a withering fire, which forced their surrender after they had been disabled. On the return to the village the crew wos again greeted by the population, but this time with white flags of sur- render. Routs Roumanian Infantry. On another occasion an automobile encountered a force of Roumanian in- fantry and opened fire before the troops could seek shelter. The Rou- manians fled after 60 seconds of firing from the car, leaving 300 dead and 50 wounded. The great usefulness of the auto- mobiles has been most apparent in Roumania, where the character of the warfare makes it possible to slip be- hind the opponent's lines. On a re- cent exploit of this kind the com- mander worked his way to the rear of a body of Roumanian infantry which was intrenching, and almost before the Roumanians were aware of the car's presence it had swept the trenches with machine gun fire and driven the defenders out in disorder, None of the German automobiles of this type used in Rouniania has as yet been disabled or destroyed by oppo- nents. The bullets thus far encoun- tered have hardly dented the shells of the machine. The chief advantage of the new auto- mobile, in contrast with the British chine, is that it can run at an aver- age speed of 25 miles an hour, as con- trasted with the snall-like pace of the entente cars. Its speed frequently en- ables {t to scout even ahead of. the cavalry, and it can make its way over any road or even a field. A “Fowl” Robbery. New York.—A fowl robbery was com- mitted when thieves entered Valentine Loeach’s bird store and stole 650 pigeons and 180 canaries, valued Why Thai Lame Back ? Morning lameness, sharp twinges sleep and exercise and so we are fast becoming a nation of kidney sufferers. 72% more deaths than fn 1890 is the 1910 census story. Use Doan’s Kidney Pilla, Tnou- for any length of time a sharp, ontiing: pain seized me and it also came on when I stooped. n’s Kid- ney Pills the only medicine that ever gave me any notice- able relief and I con- tinued using them un- til cured. e trouble q has never returned.” Get Doan’s at Any Store, 50c a Box DOAN'S Shee URN CO.. BUFFALO, N. Y. Practicaliy all the 25,000 tons of pa- per manufactured daily In this coun- try is made from wood pulp. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle ot CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of 7 dk In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Switzerland, in proportion to its pop- ulation, spends more on poor relief than does any other country, THICK, GLOSSY HAIR FREE FROM DANDRUFF Girls! Try It! Hair gets soft, fluffy and beautiful—Get a 25 cent bottle of Danderine, If you care for heavy hair that gis tens with beauty and 1s radiant with life; has an incomparable softness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine, Jast one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides it imme- diately dissolves every particle of dandruff. You can not have nice heavy, healthy hair if you have dandruff. This destructive scurf robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome it produces a feverishness and itching of the scalp; the hair roots famish, loosen and die; then the hair falls out fast. Surely get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton’s Danderine from any drug store and just try it—Adv. The People’s Physique. Some consideration should be gtver to the effect that the change in loco- motion will make upon the physique of the people; for even the farmers ure now using the automobile, and the horse ig used for little but draft pur- poses. Will not the race become lax and nerveless that lolls upon soft cush- ions, protected in every way from the hard joltings of the road? More and more, machinery is brought into sery- ice, and less and less physical exertion is required in the carrying on of open- air occupations, Man touches a but- ton, and a gas engine does the rest. This makes things easier; but the question is whether it confers an actual benefit in the end.—Mobile Register. Rat Gave Danger Signal. A strange story In counection witb the sinking of the Connemara in the Irish sea was related at Greenore. P: rick Killen, one of the cattlemen, w coming ashore from the Conner when a large rat jumped from a haw per he was carrying. ashore, “That's a bad sign for the crew,” he observed to a Greenore railway- man, “and it is time for us all to leave the ship.” The incident impressed him so mucl that he had to be coaxed to go back »Soard.—London Globe, No News. Teactter—Your daugther, a fine carrying voice. 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