New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1918, Page 8

e e B » 7 MNewDiscoveries W RRITAIN DAT Y e B POPULAR A Nias islander HE gentleman in the picture s a native of the Nias Islands, off the west coast of Sumatra. His beauty is sccentuated by a huge double ear- ring made of gold. The ornament, belng somewhat heavy, has dragged the lobe of his ear quite out of shape, but that is a matter of small importance. He is “4n the style.” Chinese traders, calling at the Nias Islands, buy copra (cocoanut meats) and fruits, and pay for them with merchandise of one kind or another, such as gold earrings made expressly for this trade. Only one earring is customarily worn, but it is usually double and as big as possible. Only a person of importance can afford to wear an earring of the size shown. tiERA THURSDAY, - ~ e SCIEN 1, 1018. NOVEMBER 2 e GE] Copyright. 1915, vy Fublic Ledger Co. Costume Hints for Wise Women Classes in costuming are a part of the modern curricula of the Iowa State College T!n: Towa State College has a de- how Its instruction is based upon that choice of costume is as cookery. partment that teaches womer to dress. the ides much an art as For instance, suppose that a woman is choosing a hat. In the average in- stance she does rot realize that her headgear should be not merely becom- ing to her face, but in harmony with her entire p Hence. it, she should stand off far enough from a long mir- ror to view her entire figure. Always the matter of balance must be considered. If the trimming of the hat be massed on one side, there should be an extra width or turn of the brim to preserve the balance. Every woman’s face looks better th white or cream next to it. Hence on in selecting the almost universal use of white ror neckwear. White intensifies whatever color there is in the face, and is gen- erally becoming. Certain colors bring out the color- of the face if carefully chosen. A blue matching the hue of the eyes will make the eyes seem more blue. A soft pink will sometimes heighten the coloriig of the Red may give a pale face @ green- ish cast, which is obviously undesir able. On the other hand, a pale face on a tint of pink from a green An intense blue gown tends to give allow hue to the face. But these effects are greatly modi- fied by the interposition of white be tween the dress and the face. White intensifies color. If there be a tinge of pirk in the complexion, white brings it out. If of sallowness, white accentuates it. ing cheeks. Color in costume should always be dull enough to serve as a background for the face, if the latter is to show to best advantage. Black should be worn by women who have a good deal of color, because it makes the face look pale. Black and white stand out strongly, causing the outlines of the figure to be plainly observed, and hence should be worn only by womer who possess good figures. Blue, green only nd violet in very dull tones are well adapted for stout fig- ures, as they melt into the general background and do not make outlines conspicuous. Materials with slightly rough or dull surfaces are better for stout fig- ures and more becoming than mate. rials with smooth, shiny finish, such as satin. The latter reflects light and makes the figure seem larger. Ladies, Come Across With Your Jewelry! AVE you more than platinum in your possession? If so, you are liable prosecution under of the Government. Uncle Sam - needs an ounce of to arrest and a new regulation platinum worse Where People Live Like Ants Town of Douirat, NCE, country. Yet, in other quarters, it I you will glance at a map of Africa, you will find that nearly half of that continent is of French ownership. The bulk of tropical Africa is French, including the great Sahara Desert. Morocco belongs to France; so in Europe, is a small covers a large part of the globe. likewise does Tunisia—though war- like border tribes perpetually threaten or indulge in hostilities. Tunisia is one of the least known regions of the world to the every-day traveler. It i 0 one of the hottest, so that the inhabitants largely dwell in caves dug underground, or in houses built especially to be heat- proof, or even in hillside caverns. n southern Tunisia—a “human ant hill” In southern Tunisia is a mountain of which once upon a time was an active considerable size called Douirat, volcano. Bubbles of volcanic gases made it a veritable honeycomb of caves, habited. is a which these days are in- In fact, the whole mountain city—a human anthill, densely populated. in Just a Reminder of Slavery Days N THESE times, when we are fight- ing for the liberties of all mankind, it seems odd to realize that slavery was a recognized and respected insti tution in our own country hardly more than half a century ago. George Washington owned many Who worked his extensive arms in Virginia—a productive area, planted largely in tobacco, which cov- ered several square miles, being many times larger than the Mount Vernon estate of today. His wife, as past slaves, ; of her fortune, brought him more than 100 slaves. Human beings before the Civil War, if of African blood, were merchandise, and were dealt in like any other commodity. The picture shows the establishment of a slave “jobber” in Charleston, S. C. Blave dealer’s shop He have it for the prosecution of the war. It is indispensable not only for the manufacture of than anything else. has got to sulphuric acid, and acid from the air being funda-’ for getting nitric (both of these things the production of explo- other vitally important mental in sives), but for war uses. The Government is spending $100,000,000 to get nitric acid from the air. Its effort in this direction real danger of being held up by lack now is in of platinum, While creased the demand for platinum, the the to about 25 per cent of the the war has enormously in- world’s output of metal has dropped the simple reason that normal, for very little of it is coming from Rus- sia, which hitherto has been the main source of SBODIV. happens be you may pos- If your bratinum o made up into jewelr: sess any quantity of it and still suffer no penalty. It is the unmanufac- tured metal that, over and above an ounce, you must not own. The situation, however, is so emer- gent and critical that pretty soon the Government will almost cer- tainly appeal to the patriotic women of the country to surrender what jewelry they have that is made or partly made 1t will be for them no 1t pecuniary sacri- fice, inasmuch as they will get $105 even of platinum. an ounce for the stuff, plus whatever the gold combined with it may be worth. In 1810 platinum had a market value of only thirty to forty cents an ounce. From 1901 to the year when the great war broke the price fluctuated from $14 to $3€. The sky alone might be the limit of the price today were it not fixed by the Government at $105 an ounce where it will remain until the war ends. By the same edict the price of iridium is fixed at $175 and that of palladium $135. And of these last two metals nobody is now allow- cd to own more than an ounce with out special license, to Iridium is far scarcer than plati num, and, though available for fewer is not less urgently needed for war purposes—its war employment be mainly in connection with elec- trical apparat ing Inidium is a lustrous steel-white metal, about one-sixth heavier than gold. It is the heaviest of all metals with the exception of osmium, which 1s only slightly more weighty. Every gold tipped with an alloy of iridium, to give it durability. pen is Palladium furnishes = substitute for platinum in the dental industry, there- by releasing from use the latter metal. It is nearly as hard as steel, and has the curious property of swallowing hydrogen. A piece of palladium will dium and palladium are regarded as members of the because they are platinum, and by the chemist “platinum group” found associated with are obtained as by-products from the vefining of the latter. Story of the Pie HO It seems Washington pie? have passed away, to return. In these davs of privation a mere description of mouth water. remembers to never food it makes the loug and even an- and Mary- or It was a delicacy ciently familiar in Virginis land. In Baltimore, Washington Richmond one could buy a “hunk” of it, a generation ago, for five cents. Negro mammies sold it in the mar- kets, and a nickel’'s worth was a hearty meal. Think of that! It was a bake! product; and the rcason for its cheapness lay in the fact that it was composed of left- _broken 02ds and ends accumu- manufacture of all kinds pies. Mince, apple, cus; tard, squash, huckleberry, etc., were stirred up together; a m -pan big and deep was filled with the mixture. and the whole was covered over with a nice crisp crust. The m: ‘Washington misfortune. people who it. When it comes to the con: of ple in general, there is supe; ition to the effect originated in New England dian’® The austere religion of the early New Englanders was not in- spired (as some philosophers have suggested) by indigestion due to pie. They brought both religion and pie with them when they came to America. There you have it in a word. Pie was an established institution in Eng land centuries before Columbus dis- covered this country. On this si the water, we have done no more than ove: lated in the of regular disdained was his plenty of appreciate have pie, but that There were how to epicure knew deration popular that it But it modify it. The modification, however, has been considerable. We have flattened out the pie, reducing it to a sort of pan- cake pattern, commonly with a sog- gy undercrust. No such pies are known today, or were ever known, in Great Britain, where pies are baked in a deep dish. In this respect V§ ington pie be sald to hav resented a survival ot European may method—the latter dou} translated the Virginia-Mar region in the days of Cavaller (s ferent from the Puritan) settleme Races are in a way the produy what they eat. Thus the pie historical and ethnologic signific| It stands for something defini human development. The French sad! But in Great Britain the unquestionably antedates the Ng conquest, and very likely the nary to know not pie. invasion. Mince pie in particul an institution of very old Er cookery. It was really quite able invention, when one ¢ to think of it. In the England of the Middle the word was spelled “Lye”; an: is supposed to have been drived the Gaelic “pighe.” There is, in] more than a possibility that the originated in Ireland. But squash ple, custard pie pumpkin pie are Yankee inven Perhaps we may take advanta the war to introduce them ' but up to now the ben peoples of Europe have had no ki edge of these delicactes. The Art of the Tattoo——Ancient and Mode UR will come back from Furope, especially those of strangely with tattooing. It is bound to be so. Sail- ors, and soldiers to a less extent, have curious fad since times fighting men the navy, adorned developed this long prehistoriec. Consider the jack tai for example, One of the first things he learns on ertering the service is that a pig's foot tattooed on his left instep will protect him from drowning. This is more than ordinarily important In these da of submarining. The antiquity of tattooing is evl- denced by its almost universal em- ployment among primitive peoples. In New Guinea the young women are tattooed all ov their bodies, their faces being similarly treated after marriage. In the Solomon Islands a girl is not eligible for marriage unless she has been tattooed. The girls of Borneo are thus adorned from waist to knees in most elaborate fashion; likewise their hands, feet and ankles In Burmah, under the every male was required by royal edict to tattooed from waist to knees; and it was customary for the girls to have their tongues tattooed with charms to attract the men. Widows in the Haws to very recent ye last king. be ian Islands, up rs, had the names of their dead husbands tattooed on their tongues. Egyptian women to- day have their lips pricked blue for becomingness. And in Yezo, the north- ernmost island of the Japanese archi- pelago, the fashion demands that girls shall greatly enlarge the apparent size of their mouths by a tattooing in red about the lips. Most remarkable of all tattooe: however, are the New Zealanders, whose men of rank have always been Tattooed New Zealand chief distinguished by an ornamentation of this king covering the body from head to foot. The face, dug out with gashes inflicted by a sharp shell—ths cuts prevented “rom healing by rub- bing ocher and other colored earths Baskets with false bottoms MOST people are far from realizing the that place during the last twenty-five years trade pr: The ness man has derived a most substan- tial benefit from the checks put upon Trickery has revolution has taken in honest busi- his dishonest competitor. been measurably eliminated. I"ederal, State and municipal ernments have undertaken a most thorough investigation of trade meth- ods. Cheats of all kinds are today severely punishable by law, so that gov- absorb 650 times its own bulk of hy- dishonest persons are afraid to prac- drogen. tice them, Lt Especially to be noted is of including the offi cial regulation measures and weights—this the examina- containers. The la branch of inquiry has earnest attention of the Government Sureau of Standards, whose reports of abuses have brought about the en actment of severe legi-lation. The day has now passed when a grocer would dare to sell a carton of foodstuff filled out with a block of wood to fit the bottom of the package. The bushel basket with a false bottom (reducing its contents by one-fourth) ds en obsolete receptacle. Likewise tion of named engaged the into them—preserts the appea of a carven mask adorned in col pattern with two or more tints. whole effect is that of an elab: ascrollwork, which is supposed § highly ornamental. A Fraudulent oil can the kerosene can with an inuer jd disclose¢. only by rippizg the coat opsn, which detrauced th chaser of 86 per cent of ki ofly