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STEVENS TOIXT DAILY JOURNAL, STEVENS TOINT, WIS. Hats for Every Face MakkvqjfeWw trimmings, unlike any that have gone before. War Authorities Keep Effective Track of All the Soldiers Under Their Control. It is doubtful whether any foreign war office follows with an accuracy greater than that displayed by the United States war department the movements of its officers. The follow ing is an interesting case in point: A young army officer who had seen service in this country and in the East was once with a small scouting; party in Arizona.

After two weeks in the desert his squad came to the rail way near a small station. Within ten minutes a telegram from Washington was brought to htm by the station agent. It asked if the officer wished to be transferred to one of the new artillery regiments then forming. He answered by telegraph that he would be glad to enter either of them. Then with his squad he set off again across the desert.

It was six days later when they again struck the railway, this time 80 miles from the point at which they had previously crossed it, but the of ficer's reply from the war department was awaiting him. It had been telegraphed to every station within two hundred miles. A more striking instance of accu racy occurred after the same officer's transfer to the East. He was travel ing home on leave and. as the regula tions require, had notified the depart ment of the day, hour and probable route of his journey.

After he had been on the train for eight hours at a small station the conductor entered with a telegram, asking if anyone of his name was on board. On oponlne the telegram the officer found that It ordered him to detached duty. Exactness of detail could not be car ried much further. The war depart ment knew the whereabouts of a second lieutenant even when he was traveling on leave of absence. ONE ON THE FLOORWALKER Presumably He Knew Duties of Hit Position, But He Was Not Proficient in Spelling.

The worst thing about the following is that it la true, and what's more, that it happened in eue of Pittsburgh's stores. The girl, stylishly attired, stepped up to the still more stylishly-attired floorwalker and inquired where she would find the chiffon. The floorwalker consulted a notebook. Her surprise came when he gravely told her that they did not keep chiffon. "Why!" she gasped, "you cannot possibly mean that." In her eagerness she stepped closer to the stylishly-attired man than Elea nor Gale says a stylishly-attired woman should, and looked over his shoulder at the notebook.

"Oh! I aee," she said, flatly, as she moved off to ask the girl at the glove counter about the chiffons. The man had been looking under the s's. Baltimore Star. Beauty and Brains. A pretty girl need not necessarily be brainless, but somehow the combination persists.

Did you young fellows ever stop to analyze any of your conversations with that wide-eyed little blonde who always wears pink silk blouses? No, of course you didn't you hardly knew what you were Baying yourself. Trouble with you is that you haven't imagination enough to conceive of a pretiy girl wno could bring up a more interesting talk topic than her own sweet self. You sort of concede that a peach of a girl is three-quarters mush, with a heart of stone. Of course there is such a thing as the pretty girl with brains, but she's either married or else in love with some cuss that doeim't appreciate her, Judge. Peaches In England.

A long time ago someone Bald that an Englishman eats a peach as if he were performing a religious ceremony, No wonder! In the London market a sale of a dozen peaches ranks as a wholesale transaction. And the price! The London Telegraph recently print ed an article on Fruit." In which the statement occurs that "small samples" were worth two or three shillings a dozen, but that the best fruit could be bought at 12 shil lings a dozen. Think of paying a quar- ter for a single peach! But there were some shops that cut the price, and that would sell you a peach for three pence six cents. Youth's Compan ion. Stilt Worse.

"My life has been full of disappoint ments!" said the lank and horse-faced man. "1 hare never been able to achieve my cherished ambitions or obtain the things I most earnestly de sired. Ar-r-r-r-r!" "Huh!" returned the man on whose brow sat despair like a brooding hen on her nest. "I am worse off than that! My rich uncle left me his big gest motor car and nothing for Its up keep! Kansas City Star. "Breaks In" New Shoes A Milwaukee inventor has devised machine which Is Intended to save us the pain and trouble of "breaking In" new shoes.

Leg-like levers, over which an endless belt passes, have suitable foot portions to receive the shoes. When the machine is in opera tion the shoes are acted upon by a walking movement exactly as if the were on a person's feet. KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM In to of to of AN EVENING OFF By LOUISE OLIVER. Prlacilla laid Gerald junior In his crib, tilted the bottle to just the proper angle and Bnatched a soft little handkerchief out of her belt just in time to prevent a very bitter tear from dropping down on to the wee pink cheek on the pillow. Gerald senior had just gone out, Blammtng the door as most males do, considering the same a fitting finale for a marital row.

This was their first quarrel, and Priscilla felt that the earth was shaking under her feet. She slipped Into a kimono and Bat down by the window. It was not quite dark, but the street below was very quiet; bo was the little flat just a soft, contented sound from the crib In the corner. The silence added to her loneliness. Of course little Gerald was the dearest, sweetest, most precious darling in the wide world, but after she had cooed and kissed and patted and rocked all day, to say nothing of the ceremonious bath and airing In the perambulator, she felt it her privilege to associate with people of her own age, after baby had settled himself to Bleep all night; preferably Gerald senior, but and thla was what the trouble was all about he bad a drug store, and no one could be trusted with the precious prescription factory from a.

m. until 11 p. m. daily but himself. Priscilla was left to amuse herself as best she could.

Suddenly someone threw up a win dow in the building next door and, strains of music came floating over to her. She raised her own window iu order to hear better. It was a walu, and, looking up, she caught a glimpse now and then of passing dancers. Gerald junior was sleeping now. She took away the bottle, covered him snugly and then she went to her desk.

Long ago she had tucked away an engraved card somewhere in a pigeonhole. She found it under tha baby's weight chart. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald St'.

Clair STUDIO DANCING Clase Tuesday ami Friday From until 11. Private Dnadomi as Arranged. Neator Building, 1'hiludelpiila. How she had coaxed Gerald to go! He used to love dancing! How marriage changed men! It was different with women. They didn't lose all romance in two ahort years.

Then she thought of something. Why not go to dancing school alone? Many women did! She rolled baby's bed as quietly aa she could to the window and pulled the shade to the top. If she left a bright light burning in the room sh could look over at him after every dance to make sure he was all right In a few minutes she was dressed In a year-old white gown and black slippers and stockings, but she felt like Cinderella In satin and crystal going to her first balL The preliminaries were a little trying to timid Priscilla, but the delight of dancing more than made up for the effort. As she had planned, after every dance she went to the window for a peep at the baby, who lay, as she had left him, sound asleep in his bed close to the window. Priscilla laughed softly to herself.

How splendidly her plan had worked! Two hours of pleasure like this once week would keep her going hun dreds of lonely evenings at homo alone. "What Gerald does not know does not hurt him!" she reflected umlllng. "I'm not doing anyone in the world a bit of harm." The class work on a new one-step took a little longer than usual, and by the time it was over Priscilla waa frantic with anxiety. She made straight for the window and looked down at Baby Gerald's window. She put her hand suddenly to her mouth to stifle a scream.

She was just in time to see two masculine) arms lift baby from bis bed and disappear. She had locked the door and no one else but Gerald had a key. But Gerald bad no pepper-and-salt clothes, and the two arms that held her precious baby were encased in rough tweed! Priscilla ran! Like a flash she was down the stairs, out on the street, then up the stairs of her own building. The door of her apartment was standing open and Gerald junior was gone! She tried to reach the telephone, but the floor was waving and everything was dancing before her eyes. She sat down an instant until things should get steadier then quietly fainted away.

The next morning Gerald senior sat holding one of Prlscllla's hands. Baby Gerald lay cooing In his crib and everything seemed delightfully peaceful and happy to the little woman in bed. "If you don't mind, Gerald, dear, will you please tell me all over again how you rushed home for baby when you got the message your grandmother was passing through; town and wanted to Bee her only greatgrandson?" So he told her again. "Whose coat had you on. dear?" "Sam's, my clerk's.

I had only tea minutes to get to the train and in my rush I got the wrong one." "And you're sure you don't mind my going to dancing school?" "Yes, I do mind! It was a sham a you had to go alone. After this well get Sally to stay Friday nights look after the baby and we'll go foxtrotting together." (Copyright, 1915. by the McClura Newa-puper Syndicate.) mvry The gypsy Is not fond of entertain ment. He is more or less of a grub, eating, Bleeping, and, between times. plying his crafty trade of trying to get something for nothing from folk who have worked honestly for their substance.

The gypsy preserves the same living traits which have characterized him for centuries. It is commonly thought the gypsy originated in Egypt, the country from which he gets his modern name. Students of the races have proved in recent years beyond any question of doubt that the gypsy is of Hindu extraction, and that the first gypsies came into Europe In the train of liati Khan, when that follower of Alexander swamped Russia with his Tartar hordes. The gypsies bear physical resemblance to the low-caste Hindus, having dark eyes, bronzed complexions, black hair and wiry bodies. The tricks of the gypsies, who have specialized In playing upon the weaknesses of superstitious folk, have been handed down for many generations, and it takes little instruction on the part of parents to teach their young the gypsy tricks.

Some of the men are handsome, and some of the young girls are beautiful, although their beauty does not last many years. The gypsies are robust, their outdoor life making them hardy. The mothers give their babies fairly good care, and the babies thrive as a general rule. The compulsory education laws in the different states do not apply to the gypsies, for they do not remain In one place long enough to send their children to school. In handwork, some of the gypsies are well skilled, the women with the needle, and the men with tinkers' tools, which they use in repairing their movable homes.

As blacksmiths some of he gypsies are experts, shoe ing their own horses and, occasional ly, making a business of shoeing farmers' horses. In Europe, the gypsy has been per secuted somewhat, especially in Rou mania, where, for many years he was held in slavery, being forced to do the hardest work and to live in almost naked slovenliness. He has risen out of that state now, but is still held down more or less. All gypsies are fortune tellers, and, over the cards or over palms they rattle off the most arrant "bunk." The American gypsy, as the gyp sies on the other side, has no par ticular tribal food. He is perfectly willing to consume any sort of food others produce.

He is not a particu lar "feeder," and he eats as many cold meals as hot meals when he Is on the road. The women are, experts in roasting or broiling chickens over open fires, for the gypsy men are ex perts in picking up tempting fowls they meet along the road The gypsy is a great bread eater, and he'll stow away a loaf, butterless, as he drives along the highway. Occasionally a gypsy family which is well-to-do and which winters in city tenement houses, will have on the road at camp rather elaborate meals such as have been suggested to them by their white neighbors In the tene ments. It will take many years to drive the thieving traits out of the American gypsies, who have been particularly free from police interference. In some sections of the country, gypslei are still looked upon as kidnapers, and they are feared by many mothers of little children.

There are cases on record In which gypsies have been caught with stolen children, but they are more rare now than they used to be, as the telephone in rural dis tricts has made the gypsies wary of committing flagrant crimes. Being nomads and traveling In the spring summer and fall in districts which are not well policed, it will be years be fore the thieving traits are subdued in the gypsies. Dealing with the United States government in the mat ter of trading in young women, how ever, is likely to prove serious for the greedy gypsies, for Uncle Sam will run down the swarthy violators of the Mann act and not be afraid of the threats of the revengeful tribesmen. rapidly to eat a hole through the stump. The pipe section is gradually fed into the enlarging cavity.

After the fire is well started, ha furnace may be removed, earth banked about the pipe section, and the stump left to Its fate while the worker proceeds to kladle the blaze for the next stump The device is the Invention of Sam uel F. Zysset of Thomas. Ore Experience often a lot of raw material for unnecessary conver sation. picturesque gypsy is finding his road harder than usual, his earnings much less, and his camping grounds more difficult to obtain. The department of justice of the United States, through its agents, has placed a stigma upon the gypsies who travel the highways and byways of this country.

As a race, they have been charged with having been active in the so-called "white slave" trade. There is direct evidence against some of the American tribes, showing that hundreds of the swarthy wanderers have lured away young white girls from towns, villages and farms, and sold them Into captivity. Moreover, there is evidence that the gypsies have Bold their wives and daughters into captivity, indicating that the morals of the gypsies are degenerating. American communities which have become aware of the dangerous white slave practices of the gypsies are looking upon the horse-trading, fortune-telling, thieving gypsies with more suspicion than usual at this time. They are warning young girls to keep away from the camps where formerly they went to have their fortunes told, warning householders to keep gypsy women out of their homes, and warning constables to keep a sharp look-out for the men who promise servant girls chances for good jobs in the large cities.

The gypsy has thrived for many years in the United States, where he is still somewhat of a curiosity. His glib tongue, his skill in handling horses, his persistence and his trickery have enabled him to accumulate much money, which he stores in banks. Picturesque, untidy, fortune-telling gypsy women have ably assisted their lords in accumulating money, for they have a decided faculty for coaxing silver pieces from the pockets of superstitious women, who firmly believe the gypsies have the power of foretelling events. Gypsies have never gone through the crucible which makes Americans out of foeigners. They have steadily, as a race, refused to become Amer icans.

First and last they are gyp sies and highly proud of their Romany extraction. They seldom marry out side of their own race, and, with but few exceptions, they refuse to identify themselves with any nation. The gypsies now traveling the highways of England may be traveling the New England States next year; the gypsies who have made France their traveling ground the past decade may make their camps this summer in Ohio and Indiana, while the Austrian gypsies may choose Michigan and Illinois, or Missouri and Kansas for their next operations. In whatever country they are found the habits and customs of the gypsies are the same. Gypsies, here today and there to morrow, hae operated in the rural districts very much in the same man ner that the black-hand organizations have operated in New York, Chicago.

Pittsburgh and the coal regions of the United States. In order to make farm ers agree to tnetr terms in horse trades, gypsies have boldly stated that, if their terms are not accepted, they will burn down barns, poison stock, or burn haystacks. They have boldly stated, and they still so state to dwellers in rural communities, that, if persons appear against them in court, the vengeance of the tribe will be visited upon such persons, There have been farmers who have defied the threatening gypHles, and such farmrs have had their barns FIRE REMOVES THE STUMPS Invention of Oregon Man That Does the Work in a Thoroughly Systematic Manner, A stump burner that will consume the green and unseasoned wood of fresh stumps, destroy the woody fiber Just below the surface of the ground and even convert the larger roots into ashes has been put to successful tests In Oregon. A hole is first bored Into the stump I In the displays of new millinery that are of paramount Interest Just now women complain that the great variety style and design In new hats Is bewildering. There are bo many shapes choose from! Shall the hat be made of velvet or hatter's plush or felt or velour or fur or selected from among the innumerable combinations these and other fabrics? What Is the wisest choice in a season not domi nated by a few styles? Such a season leaves the Individual her own resources in making a choice.

But It affords her a chance to exercise fine judgment in suiting her millinery to her own particular type. There are few freakish styles, in spite this wonderful variety in hats, and there is a hat for every face. One cannot go wrong in choosing velvet or any of the materials mentioned. Colors are dark and rich, and trimmings correspond. Metallic laces and braids, elaborate beadwork, silk and velvet flowera (and those covered with tinsel), ribbons of high luster, and rich ostrich plumes, are set off by the hats of beautiful and sedate colon that form, the best of backgrounds for them.

Fur and the most elaborate and carefully made fancy feathers, or the peculiar new cut steel ornaments pro vide many novelties in the way of Two Play Frocks Summer or winter, the play and achool frocks of the very small girl are made of materials that can 1)e washed. Durable linen in the natural or in gay colors, wash flannel, pique, gingham, chambray, kindergarten cloth, all present themselves to tho band of the seamstress, in plain plaid and striped designs. Very little trimming is used and little girls' frocks must depend for their style on color, cut and combinations of plaid or striped with plain material. But if good taste prohibits much trimming on the clothes of the little mis it encourages a bit of pretty needlework and oddities In cut. So long as the designer does not depart from simplicity or unbroken lines she may Indulge her fancy for unusual-shaped yokes.

sleevc-B and yoke in one. and quaint effects in finishing touches. The two little frocks pictured here are of the everyday sort that mothers are making up in heavy linens and other wash fabrics. In them the little girl may romp along with her broth era; they are designed for much wear. At the left a plain dress is shown f4i Mil I yp Ami Three of the new patterns are shown in the group pictured here.

The small hat at the top has a coronet of velvet which is wide at the back but narrowed to a small upturned brim at the front. A brilliant corded Bilk covers the crown and the Inside of the coronet, forming a binding about the edge of the hat. Two smart, upstanding plumes at the back, taken with the shape of the hat, suggest a military mode. At the left a wide brlmmed hat with oft crown Is made of velvet. The brim is curved in gentle and graceful lines.

A metallic braid and a large flower, which looks like the airiest of filigree, make up the simple and very effective trimming. At the right a felt hat faced with velvet shows another of the picturesque wide-brimmed models. In this hat the crown is higher. Wide moire ribbon and silver lace adorn the un usual shape. In which the brim la deeply slashed at each side.

Boil the Meat. When making croquettes of left-over meat It la much better to boll the meat until It Is very tender. in Tub Materials made of dark blue linen with collar. cuffs and belt of tan linen. It has a abort opening at the front with eyelets worked In tan floss in a close, even buttonhole stitch on each side, It slips on over the head and fasteni by means of narrow ribbon In black or dark blue laced through the eyelets A bit of needlework appears on the cuffs and collar in a small embroidered disk of the same size as the eyelets.

A dress of striped pique or other atrlped material Is pictured at the right. It 1b made with a aet-on belt, and two plaits appear at each side, in the skirt portion, below the belt. The collar and cuffs in while are edged with a plain buttonhole-stitched seal lop. and this simple edging finishes the plait which covers the front opening. A double row of round buttons is set down the front, and two larger buttons of the same kind fasten through but tonholes In the ends of the belt, which is stitched to the dress only along the upper edge at the sides and back.

This makes It convenient to launder thedresa. JULIA BOTTOMUEY. burned and their cows poisoned and no gypsies have been sent to jail for their crimes. It does not take long for farmers who. have tasted of the vengeance 01 ijp gypsies iney nave .3 (I i I A 1 A 1 ueiieu iu spreap me news mai uie swarthy tricksters mean what they say when they make threats.

The average farmer is helpless against fire, and, therefore, the average, good-natured Yankee farmer meets a gypsy's terms in a horse trade rather than incur a greater loss having some of his valuable property burned to the ground. This may setm weak on the pa of the Yan kee farmer, but the farmer knows the evil-eyed, dark-skinned parasites will not impose upon him two years in succession, and so he trades a fairly good horse for a brokendown nag, saves his stock and crops, and takes par ticular pains in the future to dodge the chicken-stealing tribesmen. While, gypsies are too cautious, as a general rule, to steal horses, especially in western communities, where men would give them chase, they handle horses stolen by gangsters in New York, Philadelphia, Bos ton, Chicago, St. Louis and other large cities in which nags disappear mysteriously, of which no trace can ever be found. It was after the passage of the Mann act by congress and the breaking up of the methods of interstate traffic in women which brought about the passage of the law, that the gypsies were haled into the trade by clever procurers in the large cities, who assured them of big profits.

Gypsies, as has been said, acknowledge no country. In their religion, which is a religion of hate, they have no word for God, soul, or heaven. They have their own king, whom they elect yearly at a seaport in Spain. This king is supposed to be inducted into office by the sacrifice of two white babies. In recent years, the gypsies have found it safer to forego tfje actual sacrifice of the babies, but yearly two white babies are stolen from 'the enemy," appear at the coronation, and are adopted by the king.

Some of the gypsies are men of magnificent physique, and the battles fought for the great honor of being dubbed "king" would make the aver age censored prize fight appear like child's play. The gypsies traveling the United States and now seen camping along the roads are no better educated than the gypsies who travel the European countries. The gypsy literature is preserved chiefly by woVd of mouth. mothers and fathers teaching their young the gypsy traditions, and those tradition are kept as fresh as are the Motner Goose tales of more en lightened people. The gypsy is not devoted in any way to the arts.

Oc casionally, however, a great musician arises from the gypsy tribes. Occa sionally, too, the gypsies turn out an Intellectual light, such as "Gypsy" Smith, the evangelist, who Is a pure blood gypsy, and did not sleep in a bed until he was twelve years old. with an auger and a pipe Inserted in the hole. A furnace body In the form of a U-shaped hood with open bottom and open end is placed against the stump and covered with earth so as to be almost airtight, thus serving to concentrate and localize the heat generated within the furnace, which Is placed over the burning fagots used to kindle the fire. As the fire burns the flames extend Into the auger hole, and by adjusting the damper in the furnace chimney a draft is produced that causes the fire r-v0 vim 1.