New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1918, Page 8

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New Arrivals--New Styles-- , ANOTHER. ‘The Lingo of No Man’s Land.” per—Private in the engineering from “Sap” - meaning the 'f mine shaft or tunnel. work 1is digging the up cnemy fortifica- New Suits--New Coats-- From New York A Special Saturday Sale The following special Saturday offerings are the result of recent visit to New York, where he secured about eight hundred new models in Women's Coats and Suits. KEach one reflecting the very latest style trend an« sure to meet the approval of particular women—-and best of alt the prices are much under regular value. WOM 'S $19.98 STYLISH COATS $15 00 . SATURDAY'S SALE PRICE Coats of all wool poplin and serge, belted and but- ton trimmed. One hundred and twenty-five coats in this assortment and twenty-five different styles to choose from. 3 $14.98 PALM BEACH SUITS, IN $10 00 THIS SATURDAY SALE These are made of Moulford's guaranteed wash- able Palm Beach cloth in the regulation short zoa( style with a graceful belted and button trimmed skirt. $29 TAILOR MADE SUITS, SATUR- $22 50 ! DAY'S SAI/E PRICE Suits of all wool serge in twelve distinctive new | models, one of which is a plaited back style, belted and button trimmed. Choice of navy, tan, gray, clay, taupe, copen and black. $39 TAILOR MADE SUITS IN THIS $27 50 SATURDAY SALE Made of very fine quality men's wear serge, sl Tour storm. nition, a {uently to lose 3 ’éq‘,— !:n all) will nevertheless caus B There is no escape by running, for |ahead faster than the advance of the ! , | R jcussion. The effect i3 a nerve shock: | so skillful are these Indians in the | battery, so that when a new position | ¥R ‘ 5 | soniething seems to bLreak in i use of the Kukri, that a man would | s ken, the guns can be moved for- | Steel Ring—Another peculiar wea- | gerous duties of (1 ner's corp knocked to the ground, literally heads like a fillet. It also has a razor ‘4!0\'1\;1“0\1 is somewhat uncertain, bt do Ta ] 1y H H IS U;;ed hy T()mmy {KINS | ings to kindling wood 1n the path of litted from the head and hurled with | Butcher; with the common meaning Shell Shock— Concussion frequently | away, and would cut a man’s head off Z and months. As a nervous disorder, | transferred to the Mesopotamian bat. | astern League \‘n"“" Vote to Have Sommon s blood trickling froms ears, | thesel weanonsiiazeinot mowi(seenttin | ruieiidesigned Lo) mast the shortags 1| There js shivering and shaking | attacks introduced by the Germans, | playing strenath, was adopted yester. wponding to the English “Tom- the uffers from a mental and phy- |ton fabric, double thickness, soaked | jeague ittalions during operations. employed as a means of arousing in- |can he adjusted in ten seconds time, | June 1. and that any owner releasing ¢rgo a Stff training to giva |the Germans at the battle of the |is‘drawn through the fabric and tha | tion in order to give them opportunits amiliar with the country in which |tack, the British learned to know it |cloth has been saturated. Broath i the preference, #nd so well, they can find their way | then other gasses have been employed |tor is the newer form of gas helmat by British soldiers along with terms ible and not distinguishable, it | tached to the mouth-piece is an elas- Cu!,rans rect command of the Brigadier of the |the trenches and succumb more |ous air as it is breathed in. These talion, who is the official spokesman |to spread rapidly in all. directlons | casions, and whether on drill or in and the Officer Commanding method of shootlng gas from a noz- |jured by shell-fire or is otherwise | 1 1-8 Qt. Bottle Veronica -‘*nflng sumably o corruption of the French | Somectimes, even!so, they suffered |strict that a soldier caught without | $1.00 Father John's Medicine 87c i - S i : WOMEN'S AND MISSES’ $22.50 AND Gival mea “it is finished.” s part of his regular equipment in |tween the traverses. The distance | Resinol Soap for Complexion , 22¢ phrase, “Pushing up the daisles” are | suffocating. with a trench for instanco, the b 50¢ Father John's Medicine 45¢ serges and velours; na¥y, tan, clay, pekin, copen, B e, knowledge of western warfare were |explosive trench-morters is recog. | 90¢ Bottle Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Very newest styles. curved knife of the Gurkhas, the[ Ypres Express—A term common Fine grade poplins, gaberdines, i brain, in the words of the “men who | be beheaded before he had gone ten | ward very rapidly to defend it. Lay- . [ EEE “H-'l\'(- come back™, and they suffer vards in an effort to escape, ing these railroads is one of the dan- | § i*si; | loss of seif-control, If a man is very LKP | hear o large shell, he will not only be | pon of the Indian soldiers v kind of Boche——The familiar epithet of the steel ring, which they carry on their | Allied soldicrs for the German, lts | icrushed to pulp by the same tre- mendoue foree that shatters build- [edge which thickens abruptly to the | probably it comes from the ench | § inner rim. 1In an attack, the ring 1s | word, Bocher or Bochier. meaning | a cyclone. A man may be lifted I- n 1 G & [ high in the air oft a hard dirt read |such skill and force that it will half | “inhuman monster.” N y ()l]VElsa 1011 by the concussion of a shell. bury itself in a tree trunk yards = leads to “Shel] shock” from which the | very neatly and espeditiously. TO HELP ONE soldier does not recover for weeks| As the Indian soldier 7 it makes a man irritable and quarrel- | tle front, on ‘account of the unaccus- | New Rule Concerning Player Limit. some. The first effect and the most | tomed climatic conditions in France, New Haven, May 10.—A new waiver which is nearly always the prelude to | the west. experienced players, and to assist the | ear trouble the remainder of one's Gas Helmets—To combat the gas {weaker teams in building up their in-~The French enlisted man; the eyes have a vague |the British first devised the P-H Gas | day at a special meeting here of the | & e American “Sammy.” onless stare and the whole | Helmet. Tt consists of a hood of cot- directors of the Eastern Baseball | on Officer-—Officer who main- ommunication between batter- | sical lethargy from which it is ver in chemic Glass goggles are fitted The rule provides that each club difficult to rouse it. Music ir often lat the level of the eyes. The hood | must reduce to the player limit by ! pany Runner—Official mos carrying orders and terest in “‘shell-shock™ patients. the loose lower edge being tucked 'in- | a player must notify the other club 1 chosen for this work, Poisonous Gas—First employed by [der the coat collar or shirt. The air | owners 48 hours in advance of his ac physical endurance and speed, | Somme. The first gas used was chlo- | poisonous character of the gas nen to obtain the man if they wish, the 7 must also be thoroughly | rine and after the first surprise at- |tralized by the chemical in which the first application received being given ey are located, so that in any emer- [ by the yellow, low-rolling clouds | exhaled through a collapsed rubber sency they will know the lay of the | sweeping across No Mans Land. Since [tube mouth-piece. The Box Respira- under all circumstances, both sides, the coposition of | It consists of a small hood-like mask At Allemand—From the French word |which is regarded as a military secret. | with nose clamp and mouth-picce and . for German; applied to the Germans employed by the Germans |it is fitted also with goggles, At- our Coat and Suit buyer's ITun and Boche is sald, until the victim falls dead. {tic tube connecting the helmet with O—C-—Abbreviation for oflicer [ Protection against this deadly chemi- |the box containing eharcoal and oth . commanding battalion under the di- | cal is found in the rats which inhabit { chemicals which purify the poison- Division quickly than men to its effects, thus | helmets also carry a tiny record book TOH’IOI‘]"OW S--M--Sergeant Major, the senior |acting as detectors. Gas shells con- |attached in which notation is made ommissioned officer of a bat- [tain various compositions, calculated {of the number of hours worn, the oc- S d between the Adjutant and the Non- jwhen the shell explodes. Thc advan- |active service. A soldier carries both atur ay Commissiontd Officers, as the Adju- |tage of gas shells is more apparent | masks with him all the time he is on tant is Dbetween the Sergeant Major {when it is remembered that the first [active service, so that if one is in- | 15-Oz Liquid Peptonoids . ... fic Na—FPoo—In the familiar parlance |zle, was only possible when the wind | useless, he still has the other ready Water ..... cv.. Bde of the trench, * poo” meavns [ was in the right direction to carry it | for service. The orders in regard to | $1.00 "Nnnqmnnw Alterative . 72¢ “done for”, that is killed. It is pre- |[away from the Huns' own lnes. |this item of the equipment are so .75 Horlick’s Malted Milk $3.30 phrase “ne plus’—mo more—and is | from their own weapon. Both meth- [ his masks on duty, may be court- | $1.50 Maltine with Phosphites . $1.19 used not only with reference to the |ods arc still employed however, and | martialed and heavily punished. 50c Justfood for Nursing Mothers 36¢c death of a comrade, but with the gen- |every soldier must carry gas masks | Bay—The part of the trenches be- | $1-00 Waterbury’s Cod Liver Oil. 72¢ Gon. " another expression | the field. may be long or short, according to M“]K‘}:flhwd llm' Infants A ;—;:j" $25 COATS IN THIS SAT. SALE for death; se, the slang “kicked Gas finhaled destrovs the lung tis- | conditions, but the longest bay fs {51 nopepton, very nutritious 87c e s i 5 e ; & : k ; - ‘e of all wool poplins, French serges, in. These terms together with the |sues, and is both very painful and |ahout 20 feet. On a wall, compared | $1.:50 Dr, Kilmer's Swamp Root, . 87 Cholcetotinll iwoal ot i s the soldier’s common reference terms | Kukri—~When the British brought | would be the space between the but- | $1:30 Scott's Emu ' $1.10 taupe and black. One hundred and fifty coats in all. for the fute that overtales comrades | troops from India to the western bat- | tresses or towers, manned by the do. | $1:00 “;;:)'“‘“]"’0" 10“;‘ Soipen R Fourteen difforant new stylea. and may momentarily overtake them- |tle front, new weapons outside the |fenders. The effectiveness of the high | 12-0% Bot. Leontine Cleanser... 4ic / - St ey e ; el L o ! oot 14 WOMEN'S $290 TO $32.30 COATS Bandoliers—The holdier for ammu~ | brought into use by e Indian sol- | nize rom the statemen hat a di- % = : C . - - e ° cartridge belt. Not infre- fdiers. Chicf among these is ths |rect hit by one of their shells will | 75¢ Scott’s s Ceveeeien. B9 ,SATURDAY'S SALE FRICE arded as simply something | Kukri a fifteen to cighteon’ inch |completely demolish an entire bay. One hundred and forty-two wonderful-soldiers from Nepal. The |earlier in the war, referring to the big i iy i knife has a razor edge which thick- |gun batteries, the rumble of which e AIeR Y, SR copen, % man within range will be knocked |cns toward the back to a quarter of | sounded like an approaching train. Many different coats to select from. serges and velours, pekin, taupe, tan, clay and black. models in the assortment. EGGS—Selected Eggs, Guaranteed Absolutely Yresh, with thick shell for putting down in water glass. Price 50c per Doz, Delivered, THE BERLIN FARMS TELEPHONE 668-4. Concussion—The passage of big shiells displaces air so suddenly, that lined and trimmed with braid and buttons. to the ‘ound by the rush of air. {an inch, The handle which is of Emplacement—Gun platform. 1t different models to choose from. 54 121l shell falling clore to a | wood, is bound with copper wire at {may be of concrete, hard-packed man will have (he same effect, even [distances apart for the fingers to grip | earth or stone and mortar. Some of If it does mot explode. Thus dud- |the wood eastly. It can be used |the hig guns are moved on specially shells (1. e, those that do not explode leither at close quarters or thrown. | constructed railways, which are built DON’'T FORGET That at Rackliffe Bros. Company’s Auto Accessory Store, we are still selling books of Coupons for $9.50 that are good for $10.00 in trade for Gasoline, Oll, or any article in thls department, making a saving to you of 5 per cent. on all your Auto necessities. SATURDAY CASH SPECIALS No-Leak-o Piston Rings The only successful really Leak-proof Ring that we have been able to find at a reasonable price. Prices 7 according to size, and we have a Satisfac- range from 50c to 80c, Gomiplete stock of sizes. tion guaranteed. g Better Parts for Fords 26868030 QaBHEY 5374 POm PO Cang, line of repair parts for Ford Cars is now more complete than ever and all our parts are of the highest grade obtainable, Give this service. a trial and you will never go elsewhere. Mobiloils We have a limited quantity of these high grade oils at before- the-war prices in 5 gallon and 15 gallon steel drums. We can also quote you attrac- tive prices on this oil in barrel lota. ASK US. Greases Anything in the line of greases, you will find stocked here. Transmission and cup greases of various grades, including a com- plete line of Dixon’s Graphite lubricarts. Side Tire Carrier for Ford Cars A good substantial carrier for one or two shoes. Regular price $2.00, special ............. $1.35 Spark Plugs Several odd lots of standard make Spark Plugs. R:gular price 75c to $1.00, special 39c ca. Spark Plug Wires--Ford Regular price 50 set, special Ll ah b brons R9c set. Mirrorscopes One lot of Mirrorscopes of various styles that sold regular- Iy up to $1.50, special 75¢ ea. Cementless Patches A high grade gasoline patch, Regular price 4bc box, special REICE e 2B & box: Marvel Vulcanizers Try this vulcanizer and if it doesn’t exceed your expectations you may return same and we will refund purchase price. Regular price $1.00, special 83c ea. Imperial Tubes A good gyaranteed tube. Special price, $2.25 $2.60 30x3 30x3 1-2 Warner Lenses This is your opportunity to get a high grade Lens at the price of inferior grades. Special 25 per cent. off on all sizes. Bumpers A necessity for every car. We have all styles to fit any make of car. Our Lyons Spring Bumper is collision insurance of the best kind. Horns A reliable warning device is a necessity to every machine. You will find here a complete assortment of hand and electrical- ly operated horns. Spring Clean Up Norwesco THE CHEMICALLY COR- RECT LINE MOHAIR TOP DRESSING It restores the silken sheen to old tops and watsrproofs at the same time. LEATHER and PANTASOTE TOP and UPHOLSTERY DRESSING This dressing softens and pre; serves the material and will not flake, crack or rub off on the clothes when used on upholstery. Utility Black For touching up, this article cannot be beat. Dries in one hour and can be used on any part of the car, including the engine. CKLIFFE BROS. CO,, Inc. 22%¢,

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