The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. [15], No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1910 Page: 6 of 8
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gne suede cloth, and is a flt-
ncess. tucked under the arms,
of braided cloth trims the low
of princess where the mate-
*Mghtly draped, below this the
irt la plaited, the plaits being
down a few inches. A hand
raiding design surrounds the
• tucked silk, which is also
1 with braid and small buttons
*eve is long, tight fitting, and
1 to match.
ilack beaver, trimmed with
mount.
* required: 6V4 yards cloth
wide, 4 dozen yards braid
?ked silk.
Twenty-Inch Rope of Pearls.
- fashion in length tor a string ot
s Las changed, it was once 14
p. then 16, now tht correct strirg
measure 20 inches.
8hadow Lace.
This is new, and because of its un
obtrusive pattern can be used in great
quantities without fear of overdecora-
tion.
The pattern is woven In such a way
that an uncertain shadowy effect is
produced. It is especially lovely In
black and cream. The black shadow
lace is used over black net and a
white satin underslip. The cream is
effective over pale tints in evening
gowns.
Gobelin Green Again.
The hats of this winter will again
show that entrancing shade of green
known as gobelin. It will be used
in thick, short plumes and thick long
ones, but not in ribbons or moire.
By JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
•••'atuples of mourning hats are pictured here made of the two
favored for mourning wear, crape and silk grenadine. The
< shown in Fig. 1, is a perfect example of the miilin-
*tnisite material as a means of expression. The en-
erape, the brim made of narrow parallel folds. The
ids for its covering also a drapery of crape with a large
as a mounting for the pompon of down feathers and
ited at the left side.
r is graceful and of a kind that will not soon be out of
should be selected for mourning, as good mourning fabrics
and will outlast the accepted periods of mourning, if well
<pe should be chosen, as it is manufactured to withstand
; - to crapes not protected against it. In this particular
~ : excel all other manufacturers and the great modistes who
miming use this crape. It is the most beautiful of the
r mourning.
equally popular, although not universally recognized as
- la much latitude in the selection of fabrics, however,
prefer grenadine to any other. The hat and veil shown In
il fabric. It is also of English manufacture, although
d to various parts of the world—including America—for the
- v to make and dye both crape and grenadine. This mate-
d waterproof. This is very necessary in order that the rain
: spot the grenadine. One can easily test the material by
water. If properly made the dye will not run and the fabric
urged. Crape shoijd be subjected to the came test. The
ted by water and its color remains unchanged.
TING DRESS. I NOW THE RCBIN HOOD HAT
Style That Divides Favor with What
Is Known as the Prairie, of
Felt and Suede.
Millinery is one of the most Impor-
tant features in the toilette of the
woman who wishes to be well dressed,
and to-day the cult of the plain hat Is
as carefully considered as the elabo-
rate, the subject being as inexhaustible
as the budget Itself. The craze for
beaver still continues, but it is safe
to predict that as the winter ap-
proaches black will lead the van,
adorned with cinnamon and royal blue
ostrich plumes for visiting and velvet
for morning wear. The Robin Hood
hat ij the latest shape to make its de-
but carried out in this charming ma-
terial. As will be remembered, the
t at worn by the famous outlaw of this
name was turned up on one side, had
rather a high crown, and was trimmed
with two long quill-like feathers. The
smart mondaine, although retaining
the shape, has substituted a rosette of
tinsel and a tuft of breast plumage
for the feathers. For traveling It will
divide honors with the prairie hat,
which is fashioned ot felt and relieved
with a band of suede of a contrasting
shade.—From the Tatler.
HE Congress of Cold in Paris develops that ice and other
means of producing cold are used for a great many purposes
and play an important economic and social role.
Prof. Yercies of Dijon has shewn that the development of
buds, even when partly opened, can be arrested for a consider-
able period, and that cut flowers, including roses, liliea and
hyacinths, can be kept fresh in cold storage several weeks
without losing their fragrance. When the plants and flowers
which have been treated in this way are brought into the
open air they behave precisely as if they had developed natu-
rally.
For a long time artificial cold has beeji employed to give skaters an
opportunity of practicing their favorite sport in summer. Artificial ice
rings are to be found in many large cities. The finest, perhaps, is the ice
palace in Berlin. Artificial cold is used in many other ways in every
day life. Furs are protected from moths by being kept in cold storage
at a .emperature of about 39 degrees F., at which the eggs of the moth
cannot hatch. Dealers in furs and woollen goods protect their wares
against insects by keeping them exposed to a current of cold, dry air.
Artificial cold is used for the crystallization of sugar and salt, manu-
facture of chemical and pharmaceutical products, glue, gelatine, photo-
graphic plates, India rubber, dye stuffs, explosives, beer, cheese, butter,
candles, soap, perfumes, etc., and in laboratories, observatories and else-
where. It is of inestimable value for the transport and preservation of
freah foods of all kinds. The engineer and promoter finds in artificial
cold a valuable mean-s of boring shafts in soft, wet ground. By refriger-
ating tubes sunk vertically into the ground the whole mass is converted
into a solid, frozen block, in which the shaft can be excavated as in rock.
Cold seems to be the only agency which certainly prevents decompo-
sition and spontaneous explosion of guncotton and like explosives. So the
ammunition rooms of warships are always provided with refrigerating
machines. In a theater in Cologne the temperature is kept below 70
degrees F. on the hottest days in summer by causing rapid evaporation
from moist surfaces by means of a strong current of
dry air, thus utilizing the great absorption of heat
which occurs when water passes from the liquid to the
gaseous state
By the use of powerful blowers it is thus possible
to lower the temperature of large rooms by eight or
ten degrees F. This method of refrigeraton is used
in some large factories in the United States; also in
several large restaurants of Berlin and London. In
several American cities artificial cold is distributed to
houses from a central station as steam is distributed.
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Effect of
High
Prices on
Nation
By. Prof. F. Spoor BoUwa
ftoalea University
A Golden Feather.
It can be made of an old quill from
which the battered feathers have been
stripped.
Gold lace Is sewn as a scant ruffle on
each side, the end being slightly
pointed. I
You have no Idea how effective this
is on a fur turban. From this Idea a
departure into the realms of silver,
bronze or Jeweled lace can be made,
and at iittle cost.
This quill, with a band of braid or
lace to match, will fiirnish sufficient
trimming for a velvet or fur toque.
The recent rise of prices has called
forth loud wails in many quarters. The
public has changed its tune on the price
question in the last decade. Formerly
falling prices were generally execrated as
the source of innumerable ills. During
the eighties and nineties, when gold was
appreciating and prices were tobogganing,
we were told that this downward movement
was bringing widespread disaster in its
train—to manufacturers and farmers,
merchants and dealers, debtors and work-
ers. In recent years, while gold has been
depreciating and prices have been balloon-
ing, the public has been equally emphatic in denouncing the upward move-
ment of values. There is general complaint of the increased cost of liv-
ing and of the growing difficulty of balancing the family budget on the
right side.
Undoubtedly both rising prices and falling prices cause disturbance
and inflict losses. On the other hand, they bring, respectively, various
offsetting advantages.
The recent advance in prices has brought certain gains. Bising prices
stimulate butsiness. As a rule the manufacturer gains when prices
are rising, because he gets more for his products and does not have to
pay proportionately more for material and labor, since the prices of the
latter move upward more slowly than the prices of finished commodities.
The farmer also is a substantial gainer, for he buys comparatively little
and thus does not lose as a purchaser what he gains as a seller during the
period of rising prices. The rise increases his surplus of net income. The
debtor, too, reaps advantage from the rising prices, as the depreciating
currency makes it easier to pay debts. In the long run, however, if the
depreciation is continuous and calculable it is discounted in advance and
interest rates are raised proportionately.
One beneficial result of rising prices is the effect that they have in
averting prolonged industrial depression. An upward tendency of
prices helps greatly to tide over a period of slackened business activity.
Rising prices serve as a fillip to industrial enterprise and prevent a tem-
porary collapse from developing into a confirmed and prolonged depres-
sion. This stimulating influence made itself felt in 1903 and again in
1907, contributing powerully toward
the recovery from the panics of those
years.
HAS A DESPERATE
BATTLE WITH PIGS
LITTLE PECCARIES ARE
FIERCE FIGHTERS.
CAN KILL LARGE ANIMALS
Frighten* Them Away by Firing Gun
in Air—Squeal of Wounded
Pig Means Fight to
the Death.
Fireman’s
Many
Serious
Troubles
The locomotive fireman cannot fin)
evenly and steadily at all times, as the con-
ditions under which he is working are not
the same at all times.
When the engine is not using any steam
he cannot fire, as then the safety valve
would blow and that would be a waste of
fuel.
Alao, he cannot keep steam down by
keeping his fire doors open, as the cold aii
is hard on the boiler and causes leaky flues.
His load changes suddenly at times.
You cannot burn smoke without fire.
There are a thousand and one condi-
tions under which the fireman may not have control. It is with the fire-
man as the driver whose wagon breaks down in a busy street.
Immediately a great crowd gathers around to give him advice, *ut
no one helps him.
It is easy to sit in the sunshir'
By GEORGE W. TUNSBERG
Denver.—In one of bis journeys into
Mexico Edward W. Walton, a mining
expert, had a close call from being
sliced to shreds by the fierce little
South American pigs known as pec-
caries.
“I wished to secure some plumes
from a number of the beautifully plum-
aged birds,” said Mr. Walton. ”1 went
into the jungle and came to a small
opening In which there were dry
leaves, probably a foot in depth, cov-
ering the ground, and hundreds of
beautifully colored tropical birds in
the air and in the trees. I fired at one
of the birds in flight, when it seemed
to me that the whole area of those
dead leaves arose in front of and all
around me.
"Being a stranger, naturally I was
much frightened, especially when i
saw the animals which raised up the
leaves apparently ready for an attack.
The o’der animals opened and closed
their mouths, showing their big, sharp
tusks, formed very much like a dirtt
knife, and some of them started to-
ward me. Impulsively i began firing
my gun in the air and turned around,
which seemed to stop most of them
momentarily, and as I had lots of cart-
ridges I kepi up the shooting and they
tuned and ran away. I found after-
ward "that I had saved my life by so
doing, and by not shooting any of the
anlmnla,
"These animals proved to be the
peccaries, the same species as are In
the inclosures at the city park. Ther
are most ferocious and ▼'ill attack any
animal in existence on the slightest
provocation. When I got back to head-
quarters and told my companions my
experience I was informed that had I
shot one of the animals and made him
squeal the whole bunch would have
been on me and would have torn me
to pieces quickly. They have been
known to kill bear, jaguar, cattle,
hones and any number of dogs. Al-
though in the fight scores of their
number might be killed, they seem to
have no fear when once aroused.
**I was told the peccaries burrow
under the dry leaves to protect them-
selves from mosquitoes and other
winged pests of that hot country. My
friends had many exciting experiences
and tell others what to do.
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Impulsively I Began Firing My Gun In
the Air.
to tel] in regard to these ferocious
little animals. One of this party, while
traveling with a companion in a wag-
on, stopped for luncheon under some
trees and turned the horses out to
grass. While at luncheon a large
bunch of peccaries appeared, and the
party thought it would be rice to shoot
among them and get one or two for
meat, so they fired Into them, wound-
ing several, which began to squeal.
"Then the whole bunch made at-
tack. The men climbed qotckly Into
the wagon and kept on shooting an
long as the ammunition which they
had in their pockets lasted. As they
were opening their bats to get out
more ammunition the peccaries
climbed up the tongue of the wagon
and jumped into it, and the men only
saved themselves by jumping on to
the seat and then on to limbs of the
trees, the peccaries taking possession
of the wagon and tearing things to
pieces. They remained in possession
tor hours, the men watching the*u in
safety In the trees.
The peccary, or South American
wiid boar, is the smallest of his spe-
cies. averaging about three feet long,
nor is the animal possessed of any un-
usual degree of strength.
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