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Show Woman's Page New Girdle and Trimming About Neck Makes Pretty Change for Evening Dress Looped Up Skirts Made Very Eccentric Ec-centric Dainty Comforts How to Test Your Food for Impurities For Hungry Children. "1 he stars incline, but do not compel" Horoscope Thursday, January 14, 1915. (Copyright, lfn;, b the MeCluie Newspaper Syndicate. Aptrologers find this an unimportant unimport-ant day. 30 far as plahetarj Influences are concerned While Venus and I'ranus are faintly benefic In aspect, .fupiter is slightl) adverse. It is a fairly auspicious time for love affairs, which will multiply during dur-ing the year. The seers foretell such an access of romance and sentiment that even persons of mature years will put to much emphasis upon emotional experiences. This Influence toward romance Will I lie reflected m the theaters which will present costume plays and poetic dramas, it is prophesied. A ne school of literature is prom-Ised prom-Ised within the next few years, when writers will depart from estahlisbed forms of expression and obtain extraordinary ex-traordinary effects, .lust as the star.- j presaged the dancing mania, so now they foreshadow the prevalence of i new ideas in fiction and verse. On this day It is not wise to make investments Bankers, financiers, and brokers should he cautious Again the !'rcign soothsayers predict pre-dict a disaster for Xew York City W hether this is from war or from a cataclysm of nature is not revealed, i Children will demand more atten-1 t.ion this year than ever before. Owing Ow-ing to the war and to other causes the yOU,ng will suffer. Tn this emintrv I cruel poverty and need will be almost i as severe as abroad within small areas. I Farmers are warned to watch their ! live stock as much mortality is predict- cd among sheep and cattle Saturn may cause main dis'urbnn- i ces In cities of the United States, the seers warn. Labor troubles and syndicalistic syn-dicalistic disturbances are foretold for the next few months A terrible shipwreck on the Pacific Coast and disasters in the Ulantic are presaged hy the stars. Severe weather for the next few weeks is prognosticated. The South will suffer. Persons whose hirthdatc it is may have a serene year, hut they should nnt lend money, although they will hear earnest appeals for it. Children, born on this day mav he rather Quick-tempered, but exceedingly exceeding-ly clever, These subjects of Capricorn Capri-corn are usually ambitious, self-re spocting ami Able to make 'he most of their opportunities. oo SIMPLE GIRDLE MAY GIVE NEW LOOK TO AN OLD DRESS Perhaps it would ho a surprise to some to sop what a difference a new girdle makes in the appearance of an old dress. Take a dancing l rock for a young girl. Sin- may have worn it Beveral times and want to modern ize It or change it so it will not look like the same dress, and. In accord with tho style for wearing long girdles gir-dles she makes a girdlo that will give tin- frock an entirely different look Possibly there is an old dress of silk, or mescaline that is past wearing, and she finds enough in ll thai is good enough to make a shirred girdle, in the prevailing long styie. It may ho made to reach well over the hips, shirred in the back and front and either buttoned or hooked in front. If desired there may he a surplice effect with the ends crossing cross-ing in front with the indication of a s;r h in the back. This may be made of black or any favored color and a fold of the same silk for the neck will make a pretty change for a d resa LOOPED UP SKIRTS. In spite of tlii' dominant idea o' flare in the winter skirt and the flare is their most characteristic fea-ture, fea-ture, whether they be fashioned of one layer or of two, tunic wise Lhere are some evening frocks with skirts that are looped up about the hips, almost like bustles, one on eacti side, sava tho San Antnuin Kvnress. Usually these puffs are irregular the one on the right side is higher or lower than that on the left. When j tho frock is made of tulle or lace, I artificial roses are used to accentuate accentu-ate the loop, where they are garlanded under the puff DAINTY COMFORTS. Any of the new flowered silk or silkoline goods make handsome bed comforts, with very little trouble and at small cost. They may be filled with cotton wadding, or old blankets may be used for tho filling in place of the wadding They should be about two ards square. A dainty pink and green flower spray on a white ground is pretty, bound around the edge with plain pink silkoline. Pink zephyr tufting hoids the material together in the center, while the edges are stitched by machlue. A comfort of silkoline in yellow roses and green leaves on a white ground has a border and underside of plain green silkoline. It Is often easier to obtain the exact colors one desires m silkoline than in silk. There is an item ot cost likewise to be considered con-sidered in this fact Tufting with floss often gives a pretty finish. When comforts are made of sill; the border should be placed at the extreme ex-treme edpe of the comfort, because silk does not come as wide as silko line. Japanese silk is especially at tractive for the purpose. Silk muslin both plain and fancy, are much used for bed comforts ABOUT FOOD. Cheese that are well mottled have often been assisted to maturity by being probed with pieces of copper wire. Cheese treat eii in this way is very injurious for much of the green know is a deadly poison. To test for I copper, take a little piece of the sus-I sus-I peeled cheese on a crutch and hold it over the flame of a spirit lamp Coppered cheese will cause the flame to become bright green, but unadulterated unadul-terated cheese will make no difference differ-ence to it It you have an idea that your milk is Being watered or 'chalked " tak a knitting needle, dip it in the milk, then hold it up lor a few seconds. Pure milk will slowly trickle down the steel and form a heavy drop at the end Watered milk will run off quickly quick-ly and drip off in several small drops If you buj butter that arouses your suspicions, put a little bit into a teaspoon and hold it o or a flame Faked "butter" will splutter, but pure Imtter will boil quite quietly Kcc-testins is very simple, and the little wooden shield you need to keep the light of the candle flame from the eyes can be easily made at home, or a square off stiff cardboard with an egg shaped piece taken out will answer the purpose just as well If tho cgK is really new laid the air cell at the larger end should be clearly clear-ly visible, while dark siots in it make it quite unfit for consumption in any shape or form A CASE OF INVOLUNTARY PLAGIARISM. It has been proved as well as charg- ed, and proved beond the possibility of denial, or even of question, thai a largo aJid tthe essentlaJ part of an address delivered as his own production produc-tion by Germany's representative In the United States was taken without with-out credit from an English book The unfortunate diplomat must therefore endure as best he may all tho pains and embarrassments of the exposed I plagiarist. In considering his ense, however, it is well to show a kindly ( harity. befitting the season, to assume as-sume tbat, as Count von Bernstorff does not lack Inlelllgence or education, educa-tion, what he did can hardly be an simple as it seems, and to hope the there is an explanation of the episode, oven though he may not be in a posi tion to offer it. One highly possible theory is suggested sug-gested by the fairly well known fact that hard-worked men in high official places are often obliged to leave tn their secretaries not only the collection collec-tion of material for speeches and articles, but its more or less nearly complete preparation for use. This is not only customan , it is quite legitimate, le-gitimate, for when the principal assumes as-sumes responsibility for the subordinate's subordi-nate's work it becomes his own for all official purposes. He may sign It, too, with perfect proprlel. exeepi in the improbable contingency that only Its literary quality counts. Mi M York Times. FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN When the children return from school and complain of hunger have prepared on the back of the stove a warm drink, cither a cereal or some soup or hot milk, and let each child have a cupful. A warm drink is much more nourishing than bread and butter, but-ter, cold meat, pie or cake |
