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® EW BRUJALY, HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Pronetctors d dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m.. at Herald Bulldin Church St aterea at the Post DMce at Mew Britata as Bocond Clasa Mail Matter livered Dy carrfe: to any rart of the ctry for 16 Centr a Week. §5 Uents a Montb. ibscriptions for paper to e sent by mait payeble in advance, €0 Cents a ontn $7.90 a Year. only profitabla advertistng mcdwm 1r the oity. Circulation books and preas Toom alwavs open to aavertisers Herald will be rouna on sale at Hoca- ling’s New Stand, 42nd 5t. and Broad- ey, New York City; Roard Walk At laatic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONT CAL ainess Ofice ..... Sitortal Rnoms SUPPLY AND DEMAND. here is a principle of economics of which has never questioned, and that is the law By this are When the demand is and the supply limited, prices When, on the other hand, the demand he soundness en and supply demand. ices fixe bavy ar is bounteaus and the It is as simple Pply cuger, prices topple. two If there is more than the to more supply 1nd two. nation g0 than the demand that ough food in Found 1ls e prices of foodstuffs are moderate, the may reach to bights unknown. That is about what happening now, that is what he ought about the high cost of living The the is tong. beginning of the for. it necessarily follows the demand is greater than pply, the pric supply is short, European ost of living taok a turn for worst That the supply of odstuffs was at once cut down while greater. Where zed they once ¢t the is, e demand jillions of ult grew men once cnga ral pursuits, where svided support for themselves and then took ta the more of waging war. Where depended, upon its own s for a vast majority of Its com- dities it then turned to America for pplies ship load of food that t diminished the pply here so much, and there was 1y in from read. The fering better prices than the milies, they ilitant task irope once o Ever; this country actic nothing coming European nations offered d are o and consequently zh enough to get America bid hi vers in rica must to jeat. ch sneering and snick- orators on this the political sre and much of the blame for this ndition of the t th \ffairs is laid at the door government. As a matter of government can do nothing t sce that no dishonesty is practised, trust is doing business, that illegal blockade of food- and the government has The Congress, true, has the to fix the tariff so that all the aries of life may be brought in bm abroad at a minimum cost or na t at all. It will be remembered t when the Underwood tariff was hmed common foodstuffs from other antries were allowed to come inta e United States free of tax. Be- se of the large number of men who id been deserting the farms in nerica this was thought a good ing, and it probably wes the only lution of the problem that could be prked out by a legislative body. ht when the Huropean war out off ports the remedy fell by the way- fle. When the tariff commission is to work em this problem, and er the war is over, there should be noticeable drop in the high cost of ng. no no this 4 TREATED FATRLY. There are some things in a political paign thet might as well be left said, unmentioned. One of these is issue that is brought to the fore in prtford, but which so far has played b part in other cities throughout the pte. It is the question of negro em- oves in the government service at lashington. The other night there hs recited the pitiful story of William Lewls, a prominent ver of Boston, who, under the Taft ministration, was one of the numer- assistants to the Attorney-General United St Lewis who negro the obably expected an appointment in e Wil cabinet as Attorney-Gen- hat disappointed at Wil- the Hartford papers defense, and tells how nt Wilson and those of treated the the Crow’ ave cms that “Jim Washington offices as and enjoy- those of the Wwilson fol t the negrocs if not is hardly any of tr h Lewis, course t retained his bérth in the Depart- Justice and that makes some j#head of the candidate. better, | difference to him. colored men in \Was doing b ne at the they occupied for man W years. journey will all minist to wshington prove doubtful Thoma that this ad- wion has not been very severe the i colored from This s on its rethren South aks volumes in its praise, too, hecause there are very few in the of them That also is a well known fact. negroes Democratic majority Republicans And are when a party keeps in office such a large gathering of other political faith there should be some credit given for that. The whole thing will and should die out in a day. Nothing good can come of this attack on the Presi- dent because of supposed judice. least. Particularly when it is known that no one can get into the White House at any public reception without first passing a_giant negro, six feet and over, one of the flnest specimens of his race In the country. This door- racial pre- keeper himself would probably take the | handed out by his friendly newspaper defender in Hartford. The men are getting along swimmingly at Washington, otherwise the city would never have “the some exceptions to statements colored been christened Negro’s Paradise. HURRAH FOR THE COLONEL. It takes Colonel Roosevelt to deal with hecklers, If Charles Evans Hughes would adopt the same remedy that the Colonel there would probably not be much trouble It at railroad man uses so was Gallup, N. M., that a endeavored to elicit some information from the Colonel. This man wanted to know something about what caused the panic in 1907 when Roasevelt wag president. Immediately the Colonel let loose Battery B. You are “‘a fool and a coward,” he shouted, and then, as If that was not enough to shame the man, the Colonel threw in this 'beautiful sentence: “Go home and sober up.” Later fn his speech the Colonel told the rest of the workingmen in Gallup why they were working. He put it in this fashion, in the form of a now well known platitude: ‘‘Yes, and the reason you're working is that the war offset the effects of the Demacratic tariff.” Whereupon a lusty lunged worker shouted: “But we was not working in 1907 and 1908, when you were in.” Did that question dismay the Colonel? No. He was quite ready for the emergency, and he did not have to win this verbal tilt by the use cf invective. He did not this questioner vile names, he dtd not tell him to “go home and sober up.” On the contrary, he called the man friend. Addressing the heckler the sald: “Friend, I never in life asked you to vote for me on the ground that I would keep your belly full. I have no claim on the man who puts his belly before his soul.” Good for the Colonel. He has struck a new tangent and one that should meet with the approval of Penrose, Crane and Co. The wircless should get in working order now and promptly inform Mr. Hughes that he must not devote so much attention to temporary prosperity, or call Colonel my any pros- perity that comes befare the welfare of the soul. The campaign, from this moment, should be run on high moral grounds. The hecklers and kickers should be easily downed. Colonel Roosevelt deals with them in two ways. First, by telling them to ga home and sober up, and then by ap- pealing to their spiritual side. The Colonel indeed knows the valuo of handling the situations ds they arise. “Roosevelt Then—and Taft Now’ might be the title a perfec honest Republican campaign bro- chure—but it is not likely that it will be. At present, the busy circulating copies of v s are Colonel Me Tour years Republics of Roosevelt’s speech at Lewiston, in support of Hughes, 880, the same Republicans were ju of Mr Mooso as busy aistributing capies Annie Riley” “Bull Trails,” which revealed the Colonel in the light of “The Great Imposter.” Charles D. Hilles, the Republican Na- Chairman, Mrs. Hale the morning after the election of 1912 that her book “helped to kill the Bull Moose and the (Roosevelt) book, tional told defeat three-term government, but it was our misfortune that, when they got pulled w Wi y from Roosevelt, they went to son, instead of Taft.” the the without brisk over When last place was chilly and midnight hour struck night city streets were no It A ana | hea el | racmbers of the police force, for some to be an overcoat. in the open. the clty order. sharp wind drove wraps were in were not allowed Instead, the all the rezson ar another, te wear their overcoats. men doing duty on the streets nizht long were forced to wena their beats them way throughout with protect from but regulation What is the explanation? notning to the biting wind summer uniforms. to | It is not good taste, to say the | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FACTS AND FANCIES. of it side least 1y, “the is Sing Sing way.—Star Soine my IR Hope. I leads thi of An the devotion the Amer coming who doubt middle v hus got New Yorl | of 1o revelation Sun ting 5 { him. told the reporter saloon and dis of newspape: Blade. After a has a lie he | cusses th with the man goes unreliability bartender.—Toledo itlon of a good many of our ! campaign orators seems these aren’t hard times | be—Ohio State Jour- into a The po! impassioned to be that if they ought to nal. With all of the notables in both po- litical parties changing from one side to the other, it is no wonder the or- dinary voter is willing to keep quiet until election day—Mliddletown Press. Mr. Hughes made thirteen speeches and lost his voice. That is the best thing that has happened for the re- publican party during the campaign. —Columbia (8. C.) Record, One trouble with the movies lles i1 the fact that most of our most en- thuslastic feminine dlsrobers seem to have pre-empted tha front of the ple- ture to the exclusion of the story.— Indiana Times. A winter shortage of coal is in prospect in New York. Well, having lived through the threat of a milk shortage and a general strike, the metropolis will probably not worry itself to death over this latest menace. Providence Journal. Ever find grandmother in her chim- rey corner nowadays? Indeed No, for she’s out joy-riding in the softest spot in the tonneau.- Get this: when all excuses for owning an auto fail, bring on grandmother. It words as easy as taking Tommy to the circus—FPat- erson Press Guardian. Up to Oct. 11, 8,134 Canadian sol- dlers had Dbeen killed In action, and other deaths brought the mortality up to 13,000. The number creeps up and up day by day. A good many aaple trees will be needed to mark the area where Canada’s sons have fallen.—Toronto Mail and Express. President Elliott of the New Ha- ven railroad talks of the need of a raise In passenger rates to 2 3-4 cents a mile and complains in his annual report of an overcrush of busines Then the purpose of the higher pas- senger rates must be to drive away busine: and they might casily do it. —New York Wolrd. What's this about the women put- ting dignity and decency into cam- paigning, when they have secured the ballot? Here is a chance meeting of Ilughes and Wilson women campaign- ers in Seattle during which they fell upon one another with loud words and vicious slaps and fought accord- ing to manly custom until separated by a conciliatory citizen—Fall River Herald. If the bakers of the United States who are taking advantage of every excuse to increase the price of bread can persuade a considerable element of the population that an embargo on wheat and flour s necessary, it will not be long before we shall have a ¢emand for similar restrictions upon the exportation of other commodities. There {s more than one w: to de- feat neutrality, and the influence now at work upon the baking industry is full of resource.—New York World Not the Way They Look. (Capper’s Weckly.) An Ttalian who speaks correct | English was asked which language his children learned to write more readily, Ttallan or English, “Itallan,” sald he. rour English words don't sound the way they look.” To show what this poor man had in mind his questioner will quote some suggestions glven to him by one of the most famous scholars, philoso- phers and professio men in America. They show what a curlicue Janguage English is: If daughter cquals slaughter cquals slawte hter eq tor dawter and | r, why Aoes not | | Ana The Battle of Blenheim. By Robert Southey a summer spar’s It was evening,— ol work was done, And he before his cottage-door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round, Which he beside the rivulet, In playing there, had found; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And, with an natural sigh,— “’Tis some poor fellow’s skul he, “Who fell satd In the great victory. “I find them in the garden, For there’s many hereabout; often, when I go to plough, The ploughshare turns them out; For many thousand men,” said he, “Were slain in that great victory.” “Now tell us what 'twas all about,” Young Peterkin he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting c3 “Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each for.” other “It was the English,” Kaspar cried, “Who put the French to rout; But what they fought each other for I could not well make out; But everybody said,” quoth he, “That 'twas a famous victory. “My father lived at Blenhelm then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forced to fly; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head. “With fire round Was wasted far and wide; And many a childing mother then, And new-born baby died; But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. and sword the country “They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won,— For many thousand bodles here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. “Great praise the Duke of Marlbro- won, And our good prince Fugene. “Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!” Said little Wilhelmine. “Nay, nay, my little girl!”” quoth he, “It was a famous victory. “And everybody praised the duke Who this great fight did win.” “But what good came of it at Quoth little Peteridn. “Why, that T cannot tell,” said he; “But ’twas a famous victor last?” Too Big a War for Literature. Rudyard Kipling has turned hand to a description in verse of the Jutland sea fight, based action. and his prose ° on admiralty reports of the No doubt his Is as competent practicad s to e the ta can do to hand as there and what a poet report and from Tenny Brigade,” and a Sure- a routine official we know of the Light vivify make it glow son’s “Charge Cowper’s “Toll for the Brave' handred other stirring pocIs. ly England’s greatest battle sine Trafalgar omething to inspire cven a dull muse! Yet Kipling’s account of it, speets at least the first instalment, is disappointing. The verses which in- troduce it lack distinetion and the prose narrative commonplace. It is sonscivable that the war should be too much for the poets. It is on too vast a scale for them to visualize thelr imagination is benumbed by events so graphic in thcmselves that the deed itself shames the fancy. What can a poet say to heighten the effect on the human mind of a death «truzgle of acroplanes aloft or of a death-blow to a at senger .hip or water? “”"I]‘hu prose writers have had the better of the poets in this matter, but they in turn have had to yield the Lulm to the reporters, who have merely deseribed wh they without T torieal shu en as re- and gr embel Put it vice versa, and if lan lafter, why is not daughter laughter slafter? nough enaff, cuff. However, If shouldn’t enough be enawf? Plough is pronounced plow bough is bow, but cough Is not Moreover, a little Ttalian that cough is pronounced liahle to spell the cup of beverage coughphee. hter er and but cough cough s is is ot cawf, ana knowin, coff i morning Heckles (Hartford T It is an old trick for a political speaker conscious of his own inability to hold an au enc: to endcavor to awaken new interest and perhaps gain the sympathy of his hearers, to plant a disturber in the meeting, one who will ask « carefully-rehearsed ques- tion, for whicn the speaker has pre- pared a carefully considered answer, the spontaneity of which will inspire crthusiasm. Such a strategist should avold the pitfall that the speaker encountered, when, having properly disposed of his questioner, and with the plaudits of the owd still sounding’ sweetly in his ears, he stepped forward to the front of the platform, and look- ing in the direction of his supposedly crushed accomplice in the rear of the hall, said: “Have you sk of me?” No," came {h s the only Ymes.) any more questions to answer one you promptly, told me to ! Of course this little tale should not be applied to any happenings on the speech-making tour of the republican nominee, The facts have spoken for thems 1 the highest interest has lain the plain unvy shea { Ing of a trench or of a ¢ Tortified hill identificd sumber. The war has Whole libravies of official white, Dlue and yellow {ities of fletion and matter of all it. But of lite censo relating to it and of a quality to f it it, there has been none at ail s been too big for the human in- tcllect to comprelhend while it has been in progress, and it will long tax the capacity of the historians after it and ar only prodi docuraents, ature in the out 1t is ove Renaming the United States. (Christlan Seilence Monitor). “Unistatia” is a name now proposem calléd the for the nation at present United States of North order that comport Mexico, AL, Argentina, divisions of the ern continents. It has two recom- mendations, at least: IWirst, it is a very good condensation of the longer term, and, it is euphonious. “T am a Unistation,” would he an im- provement on “I am an American,” in so far as it would indicate more clearly w part of America the speaker claimed as hls country. Of course, there are obstacles In the way of the adoption of the designation, there would be to any nge, but they are not insuperable. As to any difficulty In getting to the new name, it is only necessary to point to the ease with which the world accepted Petrograd for St, Petersburg. Ameri; in with Can- and west- it may ada, B other national second, is MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1916. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of | questions as discussed In ex- | changes that coms to tho || flernid Ofice. timely The Society Editor. (Chicago Herald.) . Willlam Makepeace Thackeray was perhaps the most illustrious society editor of his day. “Vanity Fair” is | still considered a very good plece of | imaginative reporting. Bulwer-Lyt- | ton was another. The picture he drew of English soclety in ‘“‘Pelham’ | nues to attract its readers. | George Meredith retains his suprem- | acy, as witness “Richard Feverel.” Disraeli, too, had fame in this now reviled fleld, but the great states- man lacked the immortal cunning of | his greater contemporary and so his stories are being forgotten. Albert Smith had a great name in his day. His society reports are sold now only i1 second-hand book stores, and there merely because ‘Phiz’ was his illus- trator. Anthony Trollope once seemed to be Thackeray's legitimate successor. His narratives, however, are so faith- ful to society that they have become the exclusive property of students in college English courses and of curlous scholars concerned in the history of manners and ‘customs. Nor has tho tradition of the literary soclety edi- tor perished. Arthur Schnitzler in Vienna, Ber- nard Shaw in his own manner in London, George Meredith, Henry James while he was vet altve, William Dean Howells in America, even the great Ibsen, all these master minds have concerned themselves to de- scribe intimately the behavior, the dress, the fine affairs, the thought, the conversations, sometimes the sordid- ness, of the world’s grandees. The business of soclety reporting thus has its traditions, its technique, its great names, and Its permanent achlevements. The soclety editor Is limited mainly by her own limitations. The same remark naturally applies to the magazine critic of soclety edl- tors, who Incidentally, seems to take her own successful entry into the magazine fleld rather too seriously. Her contempt for society reporting is akin to the proverbial literary dis- like—once expressed effectively by Stevenson—for all daily journalism. The society editor is the reporter, the observer, the laboratory worker. Her immediate function is too feed a real appetite for information about the pageants of the rich, who are ever the great. Her dally routine does not include muckraking, scandal mon- gering. character analysis, novel writ- ing, playmaking, nor any of the “higher” literary activities. But apart from her socfety col- umns she may and often does In- dulge in all of these actlvities. She may attain the excellence of an Edith Wharten or the soclological vision of an Blsle Clews Parsons. She has an unparalleled opportunity. She may be as stupld as a museum grind or as wise as a Fabre or a Darwin. Her niaterial is boundless. Her achieve- ment is her own. ‘“Bang.” With a Punch in (New York Sun.) The first night had not of a success. It. been much And the next morning brought a cold douche in the shape of several unfavorable reviews. One critic said that the new play “Bang!” was a tiresome rehasing of an old them Since time began (he wrote) we have been treated to these dramas in which a poor deserving clerk is made use of by a rich and scoundrelly The thefts aro always dis- covered and the clerk is aiw victed of thelr commission; hls wife always sets out to avenge herself by becoming stenographer to the real criminal. Always she gets the proots of his guilt and confronts him in a thrilling scenc. When she has threat- cned to scream for help and he has smashed the metal waste hasket, or dented it badly, he gives in. Always by the time you reach the lobby to ask to have your money refunded the box office is Reading thi combined the vith a perfect seidom found producer wi when he author of dividual “Oh, piece. T the Afternoc superi closed. bitter comment, which severity of diatribe freedom of expression outside soliloquies, the slightly down t. But showed the critique to the the play “Bang!” that in- merely said: he doesn’t understand have taken two columns 1 Observer. e ibited a printer’s proof. vy black letters the pre: Zent 1d the name of the drama. There were several paragraphs in large type, tollow readers a the in In as Afternoon Oh- interested in problems. “Bang!” deals in a forceful way with most of the prob- lems of modern business—cotton fu- tures, the perils of pyramiding on an insufflcient margin, speculation in dye- stuffs, gambling if you will have it s0; the menace of submarine activity to the structure of international law, prison reform, the ethics of life in- surance loans, ete. But “Bang!” Is not a problem play. 1t is a gripping, wholesome drama for those who can still thrill to the clemental. It is not a thin attenuated | refinement of rarity, but a red blood- | ed call to men and women in whom | the call of romance still sounds like | a bugle announcing the approach of | the 90 horse-power motor of Life, | | | | the men, of re busin vital whose throbbing explosion is “Bang! The producer of “Bang!” said nothing. For flve nights the audiences were scant. Then the drama began | to play to crowded houses. Eventually seats had to be placed on sale eight | weeks ahead. ‘“Bang!" was the suc- s of the New York scason. Onme | ¢ the producer snid to the author: | ‘By the way, that advertisement of vours in the Afternoon Observer | must have been the start of all this.” | “Tmn?" replied the author, absent- mindedly. Then rousing himse “No, not the first one. That fell flat. You remember we were all the first week getting a crowd. After a @ | wrong and changed the | ‘Bang!” was a play | —swallowing it without the few days I figured out what was advertise- | ment.. I had left out the most im- | portant thing.” “I didn’t notice the change. What | was it?” asked the producer. | “Why, Jjust a line,” the author told him, “I had forgotten to say that | with a punch in | w2 | Domestic Virtues in the Army. (Waterbury American). The Indianapolls News tells young wife who went to visit her National Guard husband at camb. She had expected to find him march- ing or shooting. Instead, she found him peeling potatoes and stirring a meat stew, with a lot of dishes piled up to wash. This made a “hit” with the wife. She remembered with keen interest that her husband had an insuperable aversion to washing dishes, that he could never under any circumstances be persuaded to peel potatoes in his own kitchen, and that he not only hated to do any form of cooking but had absolutely refused to learn throughout their married life. And here he was, installed as cook for his company, and getting away with the job fairly well, considering his natural limitations—and more marvellous still, doing it cheerfully! She laughed and laughed at the embarrassed cook, and yet was proud of him. The incldent suggests that there are excelent things other than fighting that a man learns in a military or- ganization. There might be less op- position on the part of women to their men-folks embarking on mill- tary careers it they realized that the men would probably learn something about housekeeping during their term of service. Every man ought to be able to cook simple dishes, anvhow; the lack of such ability Is a serious defect In practical education. The man who admits, or even boasts, that he can’t cook a meal, or wash dishes, or to do the marketing, or make a bed is in the same class as the woman who never reads the papers and hasn’t the slightest understanding of her husband’s business. Order Is another thing that a soldler or guardsman learns. Most women will readily agree that it will make amends for a good deal of feminine sacrifice to have a husband or son acquire the habit of keeping his own things In order and refrain- ing from messing up other people's things. Army life may be crude and primitive in some ways; but In these respects, at least, it's a civilizer. of a False Philosophy. (New Haven Journal-Courder.) Nothing could be more ridiculous than to advance the argument that a man should not be elected to high political office because he has an clastic mind and permits it ta do its work. Bqually absurd is it to contend that a self-centered man is the sort of political Moses the people need to lead them out of the wilderness.’ The truth is that a nation needs a man as its leader wha is not afraid to think, to constantly re-examine his conclusions and to correct false esti- mates. Mr. Edison was right when he sald of Mr. Wilson that he has blun- dered, but that he keeps blundering in the right direction. One would think from the cansideration of thls false conception of an individual's metal cperations that the able men in con- tiol of the major affairs of life are men who never make mistakes of judg- ment and therefore never have occa- sion to correct them, or that men of large wealth always make wise Invest- ments and therefore never suffer from consequent losses. The man wha rover makes a blunder is a man with- out imagination, without initiative end without instinct. .He is proto- plasm. One’s attention is constantly called to men who blundered from following the wrong course in action only to recover by the abandonment of that course and the substitution of another. Progress is secured by ex- periment and in its wake are to be found blunders of huge proportions. The secret history of the late Mr. Morgan wauld show that his blunders rrobably equalled his successes In number, and that it was not until he had barked his shins in varlous quarters that the stralght course re- vealed itself. BEvery responsible business man knows this to be true. The only differcnce between the business blun- derer and the political blunderer is that the former blunders in private, the Iatter in public. The impartant thing to know about either is whether he is blundering in the right directfon and in the final analysis whether the balance is In the right side of the lcdger. The philosophy of the rock- | ing chair leaders adds immensely to | the gafety of life, but it leads no- where. The oritic is useful; the per- former essential. It Is well to keep {hese things in mind when estimating the usefulness of other people. Drinking Water at Meals. (News Notes.) Ocoasionally one hears conflicting assertions in regard to the wholesome- ness of drinking water at meal time. Somewhat recent physiological studles indicate that while the drinking of water with meals has no apparent effect upon the utilizing of the fats, sugars and starches, lts coplous use does result in the better digestion and absorption of the digested prateln— that tissue building constituent which is the most abundant of the solids in ment, eggs and cheeso, and that ituent which also characterizes certain other foods, The canclusion is that the use of water as a beverage, with meals, Is a | desirable practice. It may be added | that drinking gencrous quantities of | water during the course .of the day is | | an important health measure in the upkeep of the general health of the hody. An unfortunate eating habit is that of depending upon water as an aid to swallowing food. If one has not learned to thoroughly masticate food aid of | a beverage—then it would seem wise | to subsecribe to the creed of the “dry caters.” | New Britain’s McMILLAN’S" Busy Big Store— “Always Reliable.” FALL mo WINTER SEASONS New Dress Goods: Suitings and Coatings Our showing is remarkably inter- esting. Many novelties are being shown as well as the staple weaves. Our Dress Goods and Suitings are all sponged and shrunk. TARTAN VELOUR CHECKS 56 inches wide, the helght of nov- elty. Price $1.95 yard. AUTO POPLINS All wool 62 inches wide, a $2 value. At $1.50 yard. ...(Special for this week only.)... FRENCH SERGES 44 Inches wide Price $1.25 yard. WOOL POPLINS 46 inches wide Price $1.25 yard. WOOL EPONGES in all the wanted shades, 42 inch, value $1.25. Speclal for this week only Price $1.00 yard. STORM SERGE Special value for this week only. Price 79c yard. CHIFFON BROADOLOTH 64 inches wide, value $2, Price $1.69 Yard TWENTY PIROES DRESS GOODS AND SUITINGS 36 to 42 inches wide. Special this week Price 58c Values 69c to 7bc, plaids, mixtures, etc. Extra Heavy, All Wool, Price $1.89 yard plain colory, | ENGLISH COATINGS 60 inches wide, all wool mixtures Price $2.75 yard FUR TRIMMINGS 250 to $1.48 yard For trimming coats and suits. 7 SILK TRIMMINGS Black and colors, in bandings and edgings, all widths, 150 to $1:50 yard b MILITARY SILK BRAIDS Black and Colors GEORGETTE CREPES $1.65, $1.75, $1.98 yard In a big range of colors, including the much wanted shades of purple, wisterla, African brown, navy, mid- night blue, Copenhagen, black, white, 2lso all the wanted evening shades. AGENT FOR STANDARD PAT- HERNS November number of the Designer now ready. Price 100 Copy STANDARD QUARTERLY Illustrating three hundred new Fall and Winter Styles Price 25c, with any Standard Pattern Free. D. McMILLAN 199-201-208 MAIN STREET. Better Books. (Waterbury Republican.) According to the Publishers’ Week- ly, the autumn output of books for 1916 is forty per cent. less than that for 1918. With this decrease in num- ber comes a corresponding incease in quality. That seerns to be one good work due to high prices. The publisher to- day scans a new manuscript longer and more carefully than usual De- cause it costs him more to publish a book and he doesn’t want to go through the expensive processfor one that isn't worth while. It is sald to bd’ working the same way with short stories. They are fewer and better. This is cheering news for the maga- zine reader. Perhaps the reader him- self has had something to do with this improvement in quality of the literature that is being put before him, for he too has improved. From the bookshops and libraries come reports to the effect that more * people are reading good and thought- ful books than in years past. More people are buying books, a few at a time or whole sets A fair share of the nation’s prosperity seems to"be furnishing public and private li- brarfes. Altogether, it promises to he a good season for good literature. If pesple continued to act after m age as they did during court- ship we would require fewer lawyers, —Chicago News.

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