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This indi cstes^tstZs&s--. mind of 'X^e^finaxtciaT safari, -that "the temptation to take a chance In the. hope of mak ing something more'than compound interest Is-again becoming- irresi ihleJ* ... This does not _ prove that spe< niative investments are wise, es pecially 21 .'this time, for as th Stock market advances it is. sub ject to temporary sharps reactions ~'&.ch P7>f^e marginal operations $fcOF9,&n$ more dangerous. It does prove, however, that there h?? been a marked change in the ??ycfcGlogy of business in* the last ?e*y months. Except _ in. ""the two fines'where there are strikes of a ?erious nature, optimism has be come the daily atmosphere. Steel; ??wSMREt, Jewelry, coffee, govern ment "bonds?these are only a few "of"iKe lines in which., there are rises and firm markets and cbeer i'ulnese;.' AT H>EA ABOUT STSSIA The ahrays interesting Phih'p Oibbs has a solution all his own for the Russian problem. He sug gests that the Soviev government tie recognized as a de ftfcto'ijovern ment. Then: "In return lor economic aid in the -tvay of food fox-Jier,-jEUimng_ people, industrial reconstruction smd financial loans on full secun \ t. ties, one condition would be im posed which would reiieve Europe of a, stxjndhrg menace ; and * tm r^cesjsa^; hyut crippling financial hurdaj^-that is, the >demobihza :-h ffen Mtbe^Rcd Array. :Tfcat ^uld lead to the demon-.. iEia&ti?rt of-the Polish army and the generai; relief of France's chief ft*' nan'eial -supporter. Poland. It would, lead to less aggressive policy *f Fraiace in relation to Germany, and so on in a long chain of cause and effect. I venture to say that this scheme of mine fs not only sound, but is the onl>\ policy by which Europe'may get into quick recovery., It is not playing into - the hands of Bolshevism, it is tak ing away the last weapon of the' Bolshevist*." This is, perhaps, as good a plan , .as' any, granting it could be put into application. But it leaves some- | thing undone?It fails to pro-vide for afoy proper government of Rus sia." "Or does Sir Philip assume that ?&h<~?he Rod army gone.' leaders Vvouia arise from within, the Rus sian people to take hold and to; bring and maintain order? Speculation about Russia is pop ular ^ust-iow. A good many people know*'what ought to be done, but nabody but Lloyd George seems to I be "Aping anything. INSECT Blj?K) "Maybe "h-omo sapient;", .is high-, htows like to call man, isn't so ea^dLent as he thinks. Take the mat ter qrra<tI6,^rhe last work in human scieittti'ic.- attainment. . It seems reason enough for the Lord of Cre ation, to plume himself on until a scientist in whom the quest of truth takes precedence-.over lordly pride comes along and announces that the.humble and df\spised ooek fCi&b uiee radio as Mis ordinary means of communication, and has probably done so for millions of year*. ? ' ?? *?? ' Howard Zimmerman, the diseov ewr-of this alleged fact, may not be cae of the -world's leading seien lists; but he :> familiar with radio .4 " \ and vouches for his revelation. He has had much experience with ooclsi-oacb'es in his military ser vice, and always wondered! how it v?s "possible tv>r the whede tribe to appear on the instant whenever one "of the?a, foraging about, hap pened to discover something edible. Finally he tried putnng ? single roach in a sealed glass jar, with 1 ? vv^'^' i food, and found rhat the rest ? flocked around .just the .same as soon as the roach inside found the food. - The conclusion seemed inevitable ^ that the forager communicated ?with his friends ami relativ** by ; means of radio. , and subsequent I conclusions, he says, have corrobo rated this theory-. He says the ! roaches use a wave length of haH ; an inch or so, with very low i frequency, and have the whole ap j paratns built into their own anato jmy. i It -may be so. There are eels Iwith electric batteries in them, jthen why not bugs? And many i kinds of insects mu*r have mysteri ! ous senders and. receivers of some ! sort, for they certainly communi i cate with each other in ways that I man has never been able to under ?stand. So do birds and fishes. jWho has not seen ? whole flock of t birds or school of fishes take alarm, ! and rise or sink or dart in a given I direction, in an instant, with those < farthest away apparently acting as ; promptly and intelligently as those I nearest the point .of danger? i Maybe radio is an old story to the I rest of creation. I FLEXIBLE.GOVKRXMEXT Whatever'may he the final form jof the tariff bill, it seems likely to ! retain the provision giving the.tariff I commission, by authority of .the President, the right to modify du ties, from Time *o time, within rea sonable limits, to suit changing trade conditions. This , plan would be a marked improvement over the oil, inflexible rate schedule, if ad j n\ii\istered ably, without prejudice I or partisanship, and would do much j to make the tariff a matter of na tional business rather than nation i al politics. It may well be asked why a 'simliar policy should not be ap ! plied to immigration. The old way. :MH to let in any number of im * migrants, so thai the country was ; sometimes swamped. The present j way is to admit a number ? which ? I depends on a pereeutage plan that ' I makes it r?lher definite and.arbi itrary. Woul4. it not be far better ^ j tof give the Executive Department, 5 through ah immigration eommis [eion, power" to^regulate thei volume jof immigrate a from year .to year land season to season, according to fthe mdustriai needs of the country? '.Canada does that now. and. as a re j su te., ImisratiotLthere has becomes j controllable, asset, rather than, an, uncontrolled lian?ity. ' ?. i: T)RIFT1^G v r With the steel ^adustry finding jitseJf short of coal. and. coke, pro- ' I duc^on is-* threatened already by the | 1 cdaP^ri&a;, and prices are. going up zrccordingly. Pig iron is costing 20 ! per cent- more: Steel sheets and ? bars have gone "up several dollars j a ton. The effect is being felt 1 throughout the industry, and in 1 evitably the effect is beginning to ; petaMate other industries. That coal strike already is more i serious than anybody expected it to j be. The manufacturers thought i j they had plently of coal stored; and ! I could get plenty more in s;;ite of j Sthe strike, but the walk-out in the i j formerly non-Ufiion fields has up- j [set then- calculations, j' Yet nobody in doing anything j about it. The strike grows in scope day by day: coal reserves ? meh away; prices, of? the neces jsaries of life rise;' wheels, of in-j ! dustry slacken. How; long must I ithis last until'somebody does some- j j thing besides talking?until opera-. J j tors and strikers .get together vol-. I ' untarlly and nettle the controversy i in a sensible way,' or the govern ? ment makes them get together? OUTLAWING WAR To those who put their hopes of peace in the mere machinery of arbitration, Judge Florence E. Al |len, addressing r, Y. W. C. A. con 1 - ? . . . j vention says: j "When, there is no law against ; war, we cannot even begin to en : force the greatest rule of equity be ] tween nations, the law of the sa jcredness of life. Those who rely completely upon a world eourt tor i achieving peace forget that such a court cannot stop war until there j is a law forbidding war. { "It is so in our ordinary courts. ! 1 have before me the most heinous t ?' ? ?*.?*'" , murderer; 1 cannot try him. much less sentence him. until there is a j law defining and providing for the i punishment of murder. j "Any fighting, unless in self-der j fense between individuals, is crim lin&l; and killing, unless in self ! defense, L murder. We have to i make the world agree that ititer | national fighting, unless in self-de ; fense, is. criminal and is murder." jAnd she wants women to take a ] ? ? i prominent part in it. i ; Xone of the efforts yet made to j insure peace have got very far be cause they have stopped short of this logical and necessary step of defining and prescribing interna ' fiOnai murder after the manner in i which ciiivized 'nations treat in jdividual murder. The League of i-Nations, the New World Court es | tablished at the Hague, the limita [tioh of armaments, the proposed truce of 10 -"ears suggested for j Europe by Lloyd George, all re pre jsent mere temporizing with the big i gest problem of civilization instead ! of recognizing realities and doing I what nearly all rational men and ; women know in their hearts should i be done. t'Ol.LKGK IXFI.UF.XCi: j It is easy to exaggerate the in I fluence that any educational system [has on those who pass through it. j j Possibly the influence of colleges j j has been exaggerated; .According to the- -Now York ! I Evening Post, which has been stir- j j veying and analyzing American eol- j j leges, the educational contribution | ! to the life of the average college j graduate is about fas follows: The home provides 75 per cent of the j education, the pubtyc school 20 per I cent and the college, 5 per cent. /It is not 'at all incredible, when j iyou think *rt over,1 in spite of the; lavish claims sometimes made for j [the higher education. College train- ; jing unquestionably is valuable, inj j the big majority of cases, but it is ] j nearly always superimposed on a j [far bigger and more im p on ant j j foundation of instruction laid in | the home, the grammer school and the high school. With some stu- j dents, who have not had fair ad- j vantages to start with, the college : naturally plays a bigger role. With j j many. . its instruction seems to j j leave so little trace that 5 per eent ! wo;ild be too liberal an estimate. GOOD OCT OF EVIL When all i? said, the fact re- j ! mains that what Germany and i Russia did. was to cancel their war j claims against each other, and : agree to'do business with each i other again and hot fight each j ! other any. more, all of which are j i ' ? ? ? ? J desirable aims: The trouble arose less from what | the two outcast governments did j .than- from the way they did it and i the time they chose for it. Con- j "sidered by itself, without relation' j to the Genoa conference, where it j was inopportune and naturally j raised a storm of criticism, the" Russo-German treaty might havej [.been hekl praiseworthy bv the ma- i R j Fjority of mankind. It is so held | by millions of disinterested people ( a*> matters stand. j. The worst thing about the treaty j is the fear it revives of a military | (alliance by which Central and East- [ j ern Europe might eventually men- | j ace Western Europe. That fear should serve to clarifv \ ? ' . ?' j ! the situation rather than make it . more obscure. It seems to be hav ing that very effect, in spurring j Lloyd George to insist on a peace 1 pact binding all the nations of Eu- ?' rope to refrain from 1 aggression ? i1"against each other. His proposal : j amounts to a war moratorium for ; f 10 years. In urging that policy, Lloyd George is proposing that all Europe j shall do for itself one of the things J that Russia and . Germany ; have done for themselves! That would j j-make a big alliance for peace, swal- i i lowing up the lesser one. i From such a beginning, Lloyd j 1 . ! j George and his associated states- ; ! men might proceed to expand the I other two Russo-German policies, j arranging for all the nations of Europe to do business with each j ! other and. as a contribution to that! I end, cancelling war claims and ob- j i iigations that come near balancing j j each other. SPIIHTTALISM AXJ> SUICIDE Several deaths have been report i ed in the wake of Conan Doyle's j progress through the country j j preaching the ease of death, the '. comfort and beauty of the life be- ! yond. The instinctive or early taught fear that keeps many people j from taking their own lives has been removed, apparently; and with it tbe inhibitions have broken down. These suicides have believed that if the reports they read or heard ol the eminent spiritualist's beliefs were tr??e, there was no us?- in j sticking out any longer their pres ent suffering. Alb th?-y had to do j to reach joy was to die. Too much care cannot he taken to make plain that the spiritualistic teaching is directly opposite to this view. For those who condemn it. no explanation is rteeded. Bui for those who are taking it seriously, there should be no halfway learn ing of tbe lesson. .Ml the Spiritual ists, alt the f heosophists. as well ;is all the Christian churches, teach that suicide is one of the greatest of sins, and must be paid for. Cohan Doyle teaches that the spirit <4 the: suicide must-go b'n suffering ^>u the. other side-just the .same, until the time when ?leath'"would have occur red on this plane. He states defi nitely that there is an appointed time, and nothing is gained by has tening jt, but <m the contrary, much is lost. Agencies which save many people from suicide in a year declare that there is usually a point in the de velopment of the suicide idea where the person holding it can be turned to new hope or to sterner courage, and can be brought to hang on and make another start. A wider dif fusion of this knowledge may help to keep some of these unfortunates from making the wrong turn. DETROIT TROLLEYS Detroit is a brave city. At a time when public ownership is under a cloud everywhere else in the United States, the people of Detroit vote five to one for the purchase and operation of the local street rail way system by the city. There are 47 G miles of track and the purchase price is about ?20. 000,000. It may be a bargain, representing, as it does, a big re duction from the price formerly asked by the company owning the property. That remains to be demonstrated. however. The value, of any public utility is what it can earn, and -the capacity of the ciy of Detroit .as a transporta tion concern is an unknown quan tity. It must be said, though, that if any city, under any mayor or mana ger, can get away with so dubious an enterprise, it is probably Detroit under Mayor Couzens. The city has shown rare presisienoe and in telligence in its long course of ne gotiation with the Detroit United Railway, under various heads, and the business ability of the present mayor is unquestioned. All such experiments are use ful, whether they succeed or fail. The public learns from them. Other cities therefore are easily recon ciled to having the experiment tried ?in Detroit. Ukraine Wheat Fields idle. Odessa. April 1.?Fear of star vation in the Ukraine, once re garded as the richest farming country in the world*, has become so acute that thousands of peas ants are abandoning everything they possess and nocking to the cties, where they hope to eke out an existence ttntil ail danger of crop requisition by the Soviet has passed. Hope for better crops this sum-; mer seems to have been lost: Mer chants, here who formerly sold ag-] rieultural machinery in the Ukraine are making no efforts to dispose 1 of their stock. "There will be'moi crops to speak of this year, and 1 next season it will he worse," they \ say. The Ukraine, commonly called the "granary of Europe," produced nearly 20.000.000 tons of wheat and cereals in pre-war years. Its. annual yield of potatoes averaged 6.000.000 tons. In 1014 it market ed 27.000.000 head of horned cat tle, 8.100.000 horses and G.300,000 pigs. It also exported coal, iron ] and manganese, dairy products and i blooded horses. The Ukraine, twice as large as the British Isles ari*d with a pre war population of 40,000,000, is fast becoming a desolate waste, according to the refugees. The only reason it has held together until now. they say. is because of rich j stores of grain accumulated in the . days of prosperity, which were j shielded from the Soviet Oommis- j sars on the plea that they must be used for seed. Now that these) are exhausted, the rich, black earth ? of the Ukraine must lie idle and worthless. Included among those who face starvation are half a million Oer- \ man colonists, descendents of Oer-j mans who settled in the country more than lea years ago by invita tion of Catherine the Great. In the German colony of tiros Lielx-n thal. near Odessa, one city of 10, 000 population is said already to be in the grip of famine. In this section some .10.000 acres of grain was sown annually before the war. Today there is not a sheaf of wheat to be seen. In another section where 80.000 acres formerly were sown, there is now 10o acres un der cultivation. Bennos Aires Wants Lingiwstoi Po licemen. Buenos Aires, March 3.L?Globe trotters who have acquired two or three languages in their wander ings and who would like to settle down to steady jobs will be hearti ly welcomed by the Chief of Police of Buenos Aires. This city lias become so cosmo politan that the police force decid ed to muster in a large number of linguists as patrolmen, but discov ered there w< re not sufficient men here to complete the personnel. De ciding to invite foreigners to ap ply for the jobs, the authorities have specified that applicants must speak two foreign languages and he willing to b< come citizens of A rge rrtina. As part of Iiis uniform, each member of the linguistic squad wears on his sleevr a flaj; of the country whose language he speaks, wiiJi corresponding inscriptions such as "Je parle Crancais." "Ich sprecht Deutsch." "o parlo Italiano" ami "1 speak English." Some of ihe men wear as many as seven placques. ; 1 1 f To-day's Best Jokes ! 1 and Stories - 5 i m 1 .t ? ? ' . i ? ? i, Might Be ; Twu-li.-r: "What happened to I the arms of Venus de Milo?" i Tummy: "I guess she got or Iders from Washington to scrap j threm." Oh every fly that skips our swat ters. Will have five million sons and daughters. And countless first and second cousins; . j Of aunts and uncles, scores and dozens. {And fifty-seven billion nieces: So knock the blame thing all to pieces. ?Walt Mason J A customer came in and said to i Mtv Fitzmaurico: i '*1 was tbld to get a camisole or ja casserole, and 1 forget 'which? lean you help me?" j "Well" said Fitz. "If the chick Jen's a dead one. it's a casserole? [ bur is she's alive, it's a camisole." j We recall to mind a certain, ques tionnaire which was filled in part ly in this fashion: Name?Sam'l Goldstein. J Born?Yes. i Business?Rotten. j An agreeable person is like love j when you're lonesome, a bed when 'you're tired, a breeze when you're I j stifling, food when you're' empty I and ' /money when you're broke. ' {Make love to the world.?Exchange. | j Statisticians claim there is only! j one. hai h tub in France to every ! j 800 inhabitants. Now we knowj 'what they mean by French Dry ? Cleaning.?Exchange. "Don't kick about our cofT* e. j You may be old and weak yourself, j some day."?Sign in a restaurant in Marion, Ohio.?Exchange. - ? . "Oh* I'm in such a perspiration!" ! cried a girl student In a finishing; school, as she fanned herself with a i book. "Miss Frankland." rebuked the ? austere head mistress, "I hope 1 shall re-wer again hear such an i expression. Kindly remember thar oxen sweat, men perspire, but ! I young ladies glow."?Exchange, t _ ; I "Johnny." said his mother se-1 yerely, "some one has taken a big j piece of ginger cake out of the! ? pantry." Johnny blushed guiltily; j and fidgeted around. '. '"Oh, Johnny!" she exclaimed, "It [didn't think it was in you!" "It ain't all," replied Johnny; | "part of it's in Elsie."?Exchange, j j "I don't know whether, to accept; I this testimonial or not." mused the j [hair restorer i.an. "What's the matter with it?" de jmanded the advertising manager, j "Well." exclaimed the boss, "the ? man writes: 'I used to have three; bald spots on the top of my head, j but since using one bott'e of your j hair restorer I have only one."? j Exchange. Mistress?Have you swept under; the carpet? I Maid?Yes. mum! I sweep j everything under the carpet. WIhmi Silence Was Dangerous I 'A merchant was recently per-1 sttaued ro . purchase an excellent' parrot. This one had travelled i far and could jabber in sev- j eral foreign lingoes. He, order e d it sent home. That! same day his wife had ordered a; fresh spring chicken for dinner, j On leaving the house she said to j jthe eook: 'Mary, there's a bird com-; jing for dinner. Wring its neck and 'have it fried hot for Mr. Richards; [when he gets home." I Unfortunately the parrot arrived ? (first and Mary followed instruc-; ti?ns. At dinner he was duly serv ied. ; "What's this?" exclaimed Mr. j 'Richards. Mary told him. j "But. for goodness' sakes. Mary, * ' j he said, "this is awful. That bird , could speak seven languages." : "Then' phwy the divil didn't hej [say something?" asked Mary.? j I Exchange. - j Peas, and PepjM*r J There was a knot of sea captains; [in a store at Honolulu, the keeper j I of which had just bought a barrel; lot" black pepor. Old Captain B. of 1 Salem, Mass., came in. and seeing j the pepper, took up a handful of it. t ? "What do you buy such stuff as that for?" he said to the. store-! (keeper: "it's half peas." "IVas! there isn't a pea in it.", replied the storekeeper. Taking up a handful as he spoke, he appealed (to the company. They all looked' at it and plunged their hands into ; j the barrel and bir a kernel or. [two. and then gave it as their uni iversial opinion that there wasn't aj I pea in it. j j "I tell you there is. and I'll betl la dollar on it." said the old cap tain! again ucooping up a handful, i (Tlie old Boston argument over all, 'the world.) They took him up. 1 "Well, spell that. ' (pointing to the word p-e-p-p-e-r. painted on j the barrel). "If it isn't half p's. than I'm no judge, that's all." Tim bet was paid.?Exchange. -? ? ? I ? [ Sure Cure. i "Judge." said the prisoner, "I'm I ........ e? * . ! deaf." "That may be." s:<id the judge, i "but vou'll get vour hearing in the I * i morning."?Ex. A Good Memory. "Do you know." said Professor j Brown to his bosom friend. "1 can- ; L-n.cn understand how people forget tiie ages of tiodr children. 1 have I no trouble. For example. 5 \v:i-. horn twenty-three hundred years , after Socrates: my wife eighteen . hundred years after th< death of ; [Tiberius Caesar; my sun John, two! thousand years alter Tiberius i Sempronius Gracchus was chosen j tribune of the- people; and our j daughter Amanda.,; fifteen hundred years after the beginning of the! Folk Wandering. It is perfectly simple, you see; Nothing could he; more so."?Ex. Fast Train. "Is this a fast train?" the sales- i man asked the conductor. "Of course it is." was the reply, j "1 thought it was. Would you j mind my getting out to see what it is fast to?"?Sonera Bell. Rushin' Bill was in court charg- j ed with exceeding the auto speed : limit. "What's the matter with I you?" asked the judge. "Didn't you: read the signs along the road?" "Sure:" replied Bill, "theyj read 'Fine for speeding!'"?Ex-: change. Bobbie had been studying his; grandfather's face, which was very wrin kled. i "Well. Bob/' said the old gentle-j man. "do you like my face?" "Yes. grandpa." said Bobbie. "Its an awfully nice face, but why don't you have it ironed?"?Ex-j change. i _ j The champion eater of Sumteri county has been found. A colored man named Nathaniel ('oakley roll- ; < d up a new record at one of the j tili ling stations cm West Liberty j street last night and ineidentally j created good bit of excitement and j interest in his eating feat, which j was attended by a large gathering] of envious eyed brethren. During j the process of assimilation, accord- j ing to the record which was kept on a piece of paste board and hand- j ed to yours truly later, the official J score that Nathaniel devoured and tucked away during the contest: 9 rolls. 3 cups of coffee. 4 Chero j Colas. 4 pieces of pie. r. glasses of! water. 6- dozen doughnuts and 1 Hamburg steak, ahd ended up b> j saying he wished he had been him gry so .he could have eaten some- | thing?as the bill was paid by lhe| audio nee. The Lynara Electric Company is j launching a sale of electrical fix tures starting next Thursday at j their new store on West Liberty street. They are throwing light on! the subject of buying electrical fixtures at home, and the object of! the demonstration is to prove that j these fixtures can he bought asj cheaply right here -in Sumter as j they can elsewhere, to any who are willing to be shown. The Geography of Hats. No sooner have Easter bonnets! emerged than milliners begin their j hunt for new suggestions. The idea, and not the hat. most decidedly is: the thing in women's headgear. Yet the hat itself is as old as history, remarks a bulletin from the Wash-] mgton. D. C, headquarters of the; National Geographic Society. "Perhaps the origin of the hatj was the fillet, which was in almost j universal use among smooth-haired j peoples to keep back their stray i locks. We have made additions I from time to time in both horizon- j tal and vertical directions until the ! creations worn in New York and i Paris haye come about, as well as the picturesque hats and caps worn j with various'national costumes, for fiokle fashion makes her influence j felt wherever people live. B} His. Hat You Shall Know the1 Persian. j ."In Persia the headgear worn! proves very useful to a stranger as j well as to the natives in identify Ing both the residence and the so- j rial standing of the wearer. The j Kurds in that country wear a hat which looks like a huge inverted; black coffee pot bound around with j a gay silk handkerchief. The Bakh- i tiars, who live in the mountains j near the British oil fields, wear a | white felt hat that looks like a i preserving kettle. The peasant or artisan wears a rough felt dome, the merchant or student the black pill box. the porter a skullchap, the police officer a white lamb's wool hat. and the eccleciastic a cushion i like turban. 1 "In the Holy Land, too, the hat j is indicative of the station of the wearer. The Bedouin, the dweller, : in the houses of hair in the desert! to the south, east, and northeast, j wears a large flowing scarf of silk ! or cotton, called the 'kefeeyah*,' bound round his head bv a. twisted : i roi>e of goat's or camel's hair, gen-; eraliy about two inches thick. The j Turkish soldiers of Bagdad during! the World War. thougli they adopt- ', ed a uniform much like that worn ! by British and American soldiers, I retained the kefeeyah, which artists j call the most picturesque headdress j worn by men. The fellah, or farm- ; er of Palestine, wears a turban consisting of four parts, a small j white felt skullcap,' over this an- j COTTON SEED?Highest price! paid for seed in wagon loads or' tar lo s. Sell me what planting! seed you have left over. J. P. Commander. CASH FOR LOGS?We pay the' highest market price for strictly] high class ASM. POPLAR and; CYPRESS logs delivered by rail j or truck to our Sumter hand-mill., Write or ? all for particulars. The Sumter Hardwood <*.,.. Sumter. S. C. UNDERTAKING THE CHERRY CO. IS N.Main Street Motor Equipment KELL BR?NSON Licensed Embalmer. Night Phone 798-L. other skullcap of white cotton,! a tendency ro do away with the which in turn is surmounted by a cloak worn by Turkish women, it red cloth fe? with a large black j is still used to a great extent in the tassel, nnd .-'bout the whole a scarf towns and some Christian women 'or shawl. Mostof the Apostles be- t living in close proximity to Mos longed to this class. ! lems have been forced to adopt Turban Worn By Farmer : Thc attire 'The third class in the Holy "The Bulgarian woman wears a Band, artisans, teachers, scribes,1^10 round ^uilca? covered in and governing officials wear a tur- ~oId hraid *'ith a ]onS fring:? hZn*' ban similar to that worn bv the in" down the back which Khe cov" farmers, except that the scarf isj ers w5lh :i whiT* scarf ?*nbroidei-r larger, cleaner, and of lighter ^ound the egdes and fasten more delicate colors and materials, j <*d 10 the <^p with innumerable ornaments and strings of coins. "An enormous chignon made of; Everyone is familiar with the cut? little white Dutch cap with its be coming little flaps.on the side, and knows the grace with which the of the Ta-Tshang Nunnery of Tibet, which one traveler says lies ig one of the most desolate and wind swept spots imaginable. j Spanish lady wears her mantilla. ? Much of the charm of the Turk-j A Bow of Black Ribbon, oman of Transcaspia is due to his i "The Alsatian woman wears a huge and fantastic cap made of {huge bow of black ribbon on her shaggy sheep's wool, two or three [head. Occasionally you see a red times as large as his head, whichfor a plaid ribbon and sometimes he perches at a characteristically] it is ornamented with large bright rakish and independent angle. ? flowers. The women of the Canali Books Like Football Gear. j valley wear a snowy-white starched "The Arab woman of Oman ' f"?l?. and the' Hcrzegovinian women wears a peculiar headdress that tot? Eagusa wear fascinating long the American mind suggests 'blink ers,' since it fits around her eyes and down her nose from its bridge to its tip after the fashion of foot hall gear. white lace veils attached to tiny, red caps, which they decorate dur ing festivals with bright yellow marigolds. The Sardinian farmer wears an enlarged edition of the "The Hindu woman's dress is|Scotch cap. which serse him not made glorious by the sari, as dis- \ onl>' as a h<iart covering but as- a tinctive a touch in her ait ire as is lunch bag from which he will take the -mantilla of the Spansih lady. ? a h>af of bread at noon, and* on She drapes it about her body for [ which he occasionally sleeps at a skirt, allows its graceful folds to j night. pass over her shoulders and head,' "The Wallachian farmer affects where by a trick of moving it be fore her luminous eyes when the in spiration prompts she makes it a luring instrument of coquetry. a small derby, smaller than Char lie Chaplin's well-known 'lid,' which he often adorns with a {wreath of flowers, The elegant 'The children and young girls of I Saloniki dame wears a flat cov Savoy wear little caps in shape like j red frame that could scarcely be termed a hat. It is usually crown ed with an oval gilt plaque orna mented in seed pearls, and invari-, ably has a fringed tail of dark' green silk, also ornamealed with in which she those an American baby wears, ex cept that the turned back frill stands out over the face at the top. They are made of vivid red and blue or blue and green combina tions and are tied under their chins } a similar plaque with a ribbon. There is just a slight j keeps her hail "But in one particular the peas ant woman of Russia has the ad vantage of all of. us. She * wraps difference in this 'begine' in each village and it soon becor ?s easy to tell just where any peasant comes from. In Mont Rond. for instance, jnoout hcr head one of these soft the stiff part of the begine slopes I beautiful Persian or Cashmere back at a rather acute angle, while I shawls which is generally richer in St. Jean D'Arves the lace of the!in texture and color than any ere begine stands up straight. In St. Sorlin D'Arves the lace in the front of the begine is hem 'own flat and its back is squaror than that of St. Jean D'Arves. When ? 'ains these women put on over these j caps a very large flat felt hat, j which takes the place of our um- J bi-elia. Turkish Women Adopt Hood "When the Osmanli Turkish wo man goes on the streets she wears a garment enveloping her whole person which resembles a scanty double petticoat maxle of any kind of cloth. The upper part is drawn hood wise over her bead and fast ened under., her chin. Her face is then completely hidden by a small square of dark-colored silk or mus lin. Despite- the fact that there is ation of a 5?th Street milliner.** Every bootleg joint seems to be a broadcasting station. A bit of paraphrase. The best study of mankind is man; the best study of womankind is?useless. 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