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Show BEAVER PRESS NEW WOOLENS ARE ATTRA( Greater Rumania FAVOR TAILORED SHEER by Evelyn Campbell I (Copyright by Evelyn Campbell) WNO Service THE STORY Linda Haverhill's father, diis when she Is seventeen, leaving her to face the world with little money or ne'er-do-we- ll, proe-pect- i a rainy cloud over and the end of day. women, Then you like capricious said Linda thoughtfully. If he did he had ample opportunity month to prove It in the whirlwind knew never Linda that followed, for him until the day after she married not. or whether she cared a Courtney Rotb was of reddish faced man with the sort IT it 1Ur fy. high-heade- Continued CHAPTER II 3 fe1 'tea One of Bucharest's (Prepared by the National Geograpblo Society, Washington, D. C. the latest of the monarchies to change has undergone such great changes In the past dozen years that It has In effect had a bloodless revolution. This period has seen the distribution of 8,500,000 acres of land to more than 1,400,000 peasants. Before the war Rumania was a country of the landed rich and the landless poor. Today the maximum holding permitted to one Individual Is 1,235 acres. King and nobles gave up their estates to fulfill the demands of What Russia, the agrarian reform. Mexico and other countries have done In. the matter of land distribution at the cost of many lives and much money, Rumania accomplished without a shot. But reform was not without cost Uncertainties, lack of organization to meet new conditions, and lack of transportation facilities Increased the cost of borrowed money to 12 and 14 per cent. Credit Is tight In a country where all the money In circulation must pass through the national treasury as taxes three times per year. Greater Rumania is nearly three Rumania. times as large as pre-wa- r The new nation took In Transylvania, the Banat, Bucovina and Bessarabia, and has yet to digest them. Old Rumania was the size of England. Greater Rumania Is larger than England adding to Itself Wales, Scotland and Like the . units of Great Ireland. Britain, each Is different; Bessarabia Is an extension of the Russian biack earth prairie; Bucovina, a forested region; Transylvania an upland notable for Industries as well as agriculture; the Banat a lowland. Farming Comes Firet After the war Rumania saw visions of an Industrial future. The country has ample resources: oil, water power, wood, ore, and a good labor supply. Ten rears have dimmed the vision but have not wined It out Eight out of ten Rumanians still are farmers so the nation has decided to make a good Job of farming before turning to Inhave been ordustry. of peasants find they ganized. Groups can afford to buy American farm maA grain grading law was chinery. passed In 1028. Silk culture starting from nothing has Increased to an enterprise enlisting 4,000 workers and $18,000,000 capital. Since the ' World war Rumanians have turned definitely from wheat to American corn. Greater acreage Is planted In corn than wheat Corn mush displaces bread as a national food. Bessarabia looks like Kansas. But In 1928 a second drought hit the country. The corn crop was a failure and Rumania, a country which has exported cereals for years, had to Import corn. The government acted to forestall famine In some regions. The similarity of parts of Rumania to Kansas extends to sunflowers for which both regions are famous. - In Rumania sunflowers are a standard crop; 304,S.r5 acres were planted In sunflowers last year. Oil pressed from sunflower seeds serves as a constituent of butter substitutes. Four foundation stones snpport life In Rumania; cereals, oil, lumber, and live stock. Production of oil and lumber has progressed vigorously, not enough, however, to offset losses In cereals and live stock. Companies of many nations Including the Tnlted States are working Rumanian oil wells near rioestt, northwest of Bucharest (Bucurcsti). They have Increased production to 4,2(15,194 metric tons of oil per year. Rumania stands sixth, supplying 2.4 of the world production, although Rumanian Oil represents 13 per cent of the Increase In world production. Buys American Automobiles. Despite the depression, and lack of roads, sales of automobiles, most of them American, continue to Increase. In 1928 12.00ft were sold a record. Many of them go to the oil fields where they permit the engineers In charge of outlying wells to get to rioestl occasionally for the enjoyment of companionship In the International club. Automobiles are the biggest Item of American Imports which include accessa ries, films, oil field equipment, radios, phonographs and records, en. gines, Insecticides and electric refrigerators to the amount of $12,(X),0(X. Walnuts and fur skins are Rumania's chief exports to the United States. Among the Improvements to which Rumania looks forward Is the reclamation of vast areas of swamp land. Seven thousand square miles of marsti will afford ample land for the remain- - RUMANIA, 2 Modern Public Buildings. numbering lng landless peasants, about 000,000. The nation has Its own national church, the Orthodox Eastern church. Other churches have numerous members, however, among them the. Unitarian church. Bucharest (Bucurestl), capital of Rumania, has long been known as "The Little Paris of the Balkans." It has muny earmarks of the French capital. One of Its wide tree-line- d Is called the "Little thoroughfares Champs Elysee" and there is an Arc de Triomphe, both of which suggest the atmosphere of Paris. The bridle paths flanking the thoroughfare constantly resound with the thud of hoofs of blooded horses, mounted by smart looking men and women ; and the seemingly endless mass of pedestrians strolls In a gay mood with no apparent destination. Here and on other fine thoroughfares lined with palatial residences and fine church and government buildings a sad countenance Is out of place. However, this portion of the city has no corner on smiles for the doorways of the humblest Bucharest homos In the cobbled byways of the poorer section of the city are filled with smiling, chattering parents while their children boisterously run here and there while playing native games. The meat vendor with whole slaughtered animals swinging on the end of a long pole, vendors of sweet meats, and even some of the multitude of beggars are a cheerful lot. Bucharest Has Fine Shops. Bucharest Impresses the traveler from the time he emerges from one of its modern hotels downtown. Shops as fine as can be found In most capitals of the world line the business streets. Behind large plate glass windows the American traveler finds such familiar articles as American-mad- e flashlights, radios and phonographs. It is not necessary to find an automobile salesman to see American automobiles on display. The streets are full of them. In front of a hotel or business building six to eight of a dozen automobiles are popular American makes and across the street a bIHboard Is plastered with an advertisement of a popular car made In Michigan. The doorways of the large movie or cinema houses display bright colored advertisements with the names of American actresses emblazoned In large letters. Bucharest Is a walled town, without the wall. Crowded, as was the custom when city walls were the main defense, Bucharest drops away from the glitter of the Galea Vlctoriel and Orienthe boulevards to the talism of the outer sections and then abruptly to the empty, dusty plain. Its population has more than doubled In the last decade and houses, as elsewhere In eastern Europe, are at a premium. It requires Influence, persistence and bribery to get Into one of the few hotels, the main attractions of which are the dining rooms, often open to the sky. Surrounded as It is by rich farming country, Bucharest has not lacked for food, and the restaurants are well filled at all times. The Rumanian loves the uniform, and high heels on soft laced boots like those of the French aviators suit the fancy of the young dandles whose perfumed mustaches preserve their dignity by reaching straight out Instead of turning up at the ends. The women are chic. Some Striking Contrasts. The tew fine buildings are mixed In with unassuming structures which would never be at home In Paris or Berlin, and opposite the Imposing War College Tzigane women may be working at noisy power saw which Is reducing crooked poles to firewood. The few main streets are lined with modern buildings and new residence ave- nnes are stretching out toward the periphery of the circular city; but In the crowded center of the town the confusing litter of tiny streets and alleys reminds one of a rabbit warren. In the market place, the traveler gets a glimpse of the rural folk who cluster about stands of vegetables which they bring to the city from the rolling farm land nearby. Here the men seem to display no particular type of costume, most of them wearing European coats and trousers and there are as many derbies as there are caps wooleo and soft hats and head coverings. On the other hand the women folk blaze forth In bright colored shawls which cover the head and shoulders, and aprons with stripes of a half dozen unblendlng colors. Their dresses are Just short enough to reveal Id the summer time that all feet are not shod. run-dow- n d And Linda, seated opposite, forced herself to look back, She had seen him before, lie was her father's best and oldest friend, but then her vision had been childish and distorted t) She saw sweets and French dolls. him now MS a muu, but she conquered what she saw. "It was private," she explained, "by my cousin's' wish.".. It was us though the whole occurrence had beeu managed by the reluctant Mrs. Ralston. lie nodded. His small eyes, abIntelligent, saw through normally everything at once Cousin Amy's engagements and the Impracticality of death ut such a time. "And now. my dear," he said, after all the meaningless words had been spoken, "what can 1 do for you?" The little eyes, searching out the sweet, cold lines of her body under the narrow biack frock, said she could have anything she wanted of him. He had refused to tend Jim Haverhill money, but that was another matter-- no use sending good dollars down a greased Incline. Jim Haverhill's daughter was au- - Investment virgin soil that could not suspect Its own return. But Linda smiled a faint rejection'. She hnd not come tfr borrow. From her black bandhug she took a sheat of stiff papers, aud before they were unfolded he caught the familiar glint of gold leaf and purple a hint of flaming scarlet. "My father left no money," she said slowly, "but there are a groat many of these certificates. If you will tell me how to sell them" The senator was not a humorous man, but he almost smiled at that Sell theml But he put out his cushioned paw and took the papers, managing to touch her fingertip. "Of course, my child," he wheezed, "pretty little girls must have money." Then he asked her what she was going to do, and Linda for the first time looked childish and bewildered. Do? She stammered out that she supposed she would live with Cousin Amy and some day would marry, blushing hatefully as she said it "Ah !" exclaimed the senator delightedly, rolling his tongue. "Marry That shouldn't be difficult my dear, with your attractions." He was on familiar ground now. and edged his great chair closer to hers. Linda got up quickly. "Please sell the bfock for me," she pleaded, and suddenly her poise dropped away and she was a child, young and afraid. The senator was touched. "Too young to bave planned anything," he thought. "There Isn't any man yet-J- ust silly talk. She can have all the money she wants for a year or two." The first week of following September did not find Linda In the city again. At that uncomfortable period of the year site would be with the Ralstons at their Long Island place or with some other distant relative who had a twinge of conscience and a spasmodic desire to do something for the family orphan. She was not unhappy, because she was not penniless. The stocks owned by poor Jim occasionally surprised every one by exhibiting a stir of life. Something would be sold; something would pay an lutlniteslmal dividend, and Linda would have enough to pay ber dressmaker's bill or the expenses of a cabin across. She saw Converse occasloially, tnd he always urged her to have a good time and spend what she wanted; he would chalk It up against her account he promised with a fat laugh. She got over some of her repulsion, but that was because he was wary. He knew that any fema'e thing would be appalled by hira until its wings were broken. Cousin Amy spoke to her husband about the senator. "He Is enormously rich. He has never been married, and It Is very strange that ha should manage so well with all that worthless paper poor Jim left." He agreed He was darn glad he hadn't been expected to handle the stuff, but It was too bad taste to discuss, even for them, and the subject was quickly Ubwt. , Ltndit met Courtney Roth at Cor- onudo. He had run out there to see what It was like, he said, for Europe wasn't what It used to be, but he didn't like California either, he told I.I mln, ten minutes after they met. There wu nothing to California but pavement, a vulgar climate, and picture postcard scenery.. Her attention was claimed. "What Is a vulgnr climate'?" she asked, laughing. "Weather that hos no reserves," he answered Instantly. "Perpetually smll-ln- g skies are like a woman who laughs because she has no sense. She did not like the way he said that There was something cold and bitter In his voice. Men did not usually speak so to her of her own sex. She was both piqued and Interested. "Too mean you like to go about with raincoats and rugs?" He nodded. "Possibly. Bat I like jucertalnty. 1 like to see the sun . 1 are always lookstaring gray eyes that In search of heads ing over people's He was afield. farther something here he was he If never satisfied. thi wanted to be there. If he had fretful-ncs- s not through he wanted that, or greed but because of an unconHe wanted querable oppetite for life. to see everything, to have everything and he was in a hurry about getting both. Such tastes are expensive. His restless expansiveness fed and encouraged something thnt might have lain dormant in Linda If she had marWith Courtney ried another man. Roth a train of venturesomeness was to a lighted in her that was to burn brilliant flare until that part of her that was his was consumed. Even with this attraction it might not have happened but for Mrs. Uals-ton'- s impatience. She could not forget the senator. "You must be sure, my dear," she warned the girl. "With your beauty you ought to go far. And, remember, it is all the same after you have been Courtney is a married six weeks. charming person, hut the senator has Your posibeen a wonderful friend. tion in Washington would be superb." Linda looked at her with dilating eyes. It was not the first time that the senator had been suggested to ber as other than her father's friend, and each time something within her grew colder and shuddered with deeper aversion and a strange prescience that unless she was careful and quick like a bird in the grass this thing might happen to her. Measured by Converse, Courtney Roth became splendid and desirable. Site did not consider love, but only safety and the certainty that now she could afford to forget the other man to whom she seemed to owe some vast and Incomprehensible debt. But even after the engagement they spoke far less of love than of plans for covering ground during the honeymoon. They were going around the world, but Roth was worried about missing the winter sports In Switzerland. "If we were married six weeks sotmer, we could lop off enough mileage to get us there in time," he said anxiously. Linda laughed, but her color came and went. She was amused more than offended that his reason for hurrying the wedding was not herself but a pair of skis. "We'll see what Cousin Amy says." Cousin Amy was not averse to an early wedding, but she wanted to know several things. "Has he money, Linda dear? Of course, there must be some, but la there enough? It takes such a lot to live as he does, ah er skittering about the world, and two of you would be rather frightful." Linda shrugged. She was only twenty, but the world has fallen In a way of treating girls of twenty as If they had the wisdom of their grandmothers. Linda had thought so much about money that she had begun to take ber luck seriously. Money always came." There had been a bad time after her father's death, but that was bridged by the clever financing of the stock certificates. She was so certain she was on safe ground that she neglected to go into the matter thoroughly with her fiance. So Linda, hard bitten with the virus of change, consented to hurry the trousseau and, therefore, please her lover mightily. Courtne;f Roth was In love with her as be would be with a woman. He was always trying effects with her beauty viewing it from different angles. "You need pearls," he said one day, and soon after brought her an exquisite strand. Linda stood perfectly still while he draped the tenderly beautiful tearful circlet upon her smooth neck. She hnd never dreamed of owning such pearls, but once they nestled against her flesh she felt perfectly at borne with them. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 1 f-r- x w V Hi I' woole They are so delightfully colorful and so novel. Their outstanding attraction Is the decorative note g which they sound through and flaking, "thus accenting effective color contrasts. Boucle cloths In which curled yarns play an Important part are given special emphasis. Then there are the new frosted coatings which are Interwoven with other fiber to acquire the glisten of white. We will see much of them In the coming months. Tweeds are smart as ever, but they are "different" their chief attraction being in manner of contrasting most brilliant shades through fancy flecks or nubs or perhaps by interweaving Black tweed woven' with pin dots. vivid color Is one of the promised novelties. In these, brilliant nubs do away with any suggestion of somberness. The picture shows a chic tweed suit In sport manner. It also makes an admirable business costume. The tweed features light brown flecked with bright red. Brilliant red tuck-iblouse adds to Its colorfulness. The brown kid shoes are trimmed witti red and there Is a red leather band about the crown of the hat. One of the chief attractions of the present day cos tumes is that they are worked out In unified color schemes from head to nub-bln- y Air fi n foot the early fabric showings in such rich color combinations as a bright red brown for the ground, with heavy, flat nubs of yellow and rust acquired through a yarn Interweaving. One can readily sense the opportunity offered to achieve color distinction with complementary accessories Including such Among are tweeds Chic Tweed season, nowever, A, has set Perhaps its outstanding success Is due to the fact that women have been feeling the need of hist such, i type of costume that is, a Jacket und skix; or n eoaf-ar- d dress ensemble which, while it is sheer and delightfully cool, Is nt the same time smartly tailored appearance. So it is tli- -t there Is a widespread demand for these thin kind you costumes with a Jacket. Wfciel the mcsf practical of all are those! fashioned of navy or black jreorgette. the vognt hits extended to ensembles tailored of flowery transparent prints for sports und daytime wear, i ter Id Inve- - new and oinai't theme is that of tie tailleur fashioned of gay patiernedoet The sports costume pictured below is; of net printed In a tweedlike pattern which makes it appropriate lor til lered styling. It consists of hich gown ai.d eardigai. Jacket tie like Just Is pocketed and finished suits of heavie- - silk or cloth, oribosi slwie-les- s ' I rtgft,fr:w, "i Tailored Sporti Coetam. . knitted. The pleated nmg as hat, gloves, shoes, pocket-book- , scarf, belt and so on. Weave palternlngs In suitings produce some fascinating effects such us luxurious types of clod, which Interweaves ostrich-feathestrands with wool In deep wine and rose red with fire. knots of Whte scattering through the Startled, the guests would gather entire cloth. around and In amazement watch the Many novel checks and plaids regis-e- r flames vainly lick about the among the advance woolens, coverlet Then the emperor would thru.it In his "ere. too. Intriguing color play adds hand and pull the cloth clear of the test to the fabric mode. blazing cnnla, which had bleached It Tallor-StyleSheer Weave. to whiteness, and return It to the To the genius who conceived the table. A miracle, every one would exIdea of tailoring nets, chiffons, georclaim, and it Is said that even gettes, and other equally us sheer himself wondered N weaves, even lace, fashion owes a York Times. debt of gratitude. 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