The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
LEXINGTON. OKLA., LEADER
School Dress Adorned With Smocking
<tm _ ... mi, mm
Throw Away earth's most lonely spots
NOW that mothers are looking about
for something novel, or at least for
some new touches in school dresses
for little girls, the return to fashion
of smocking will be welcome. Light
dresses of woolen fabrics must be pre-
pared for the cool days of autumn
when the little miss begins another
year in the schoolroom. Smocking is
a form of needlework easily done and
especially appropriate to children's
clothes. By means of it little gar-
ments can be shaped and held In to the
figure at the necessary positions. It is
not adapted to wash fabrics, but is
especially effective on lightweight
woolens.
A little dress 1b pictured here wfell
designed for little girls from eight to
thirteen years old. It is fuller in the
skirt and sleeves than the majority of
dresses designed for such youthful
misses. The fullness is provided by
smocking and tucks laid in the mate-
rial. In addition to these there are
single box plaits outlining a panel in
the back and front, and on the under-
arm seams. These plaits extend to
the band of smocking which heads
tie short skirt. The panels are fin-
ished with a band of smocking at the
neck and another across the breast.
Midway between these two bands a
single row of smocking forms the ma-
terial Into two puffs. These puffs are
further decorated with small French
knots.
The body of the dress is adjusted to
the figure also by parallel tucks on
each side of the panels. They extend
from the shoulder to the normal waist
line. The bottom of the skirt is fin-
ished with a group of narrow tucks,
six in number, above the hem.
The shoulders are long, dropping
over the top of the sleeves. The
sleeves are somewhat longer than
three-quarter length, with their ample
fullness confined at the bottom by a
band of smocking and a plain cuff of
the same fabric as the dress.
With this dress is worn a round col-
lar of val lace and organdie. Small
cuffs to match are placed over the
bands on the sleeves.
There is nothing so appropriate for
decorating children's clothes as needle-
work, and the return to favor of old-
fashioned smocking, which is easily
done, Introduces a welcome new fea-
ture in fall dresses for little girls.
Two Pretty and Popular Neckpieces
4
rHT5 liking for the flaring collar has
resulted In many modifications of
the original design patterned after the
medici collar. Combinations of the
flaring collar and small vestee made
of organdie, lace, or net are endless
in variety. Then there are the com-
binations of the flaring collar and
revers to be worn with blouses or
coats. In many of these only the
back of the collar has been left, the
flare at the sides being dispensed
with. With the advance of the season
this particular development of the
medici collar has Increased Its popu-
larity.
In the picture a neckpiece with the
back flare and revers is Bhown
made of organdie, trimmed with Valen-
ciennes edging. It is decorated with
two rows of hem-stitching, one of
them fastening -the lace to the or-
gandie. The collar Is supported by
four very fine wires at the back, and
the revers show a decoration of tiny
covered buttons at one side. This is
a dainty and easily laundered neck-
piece which will give an up-to-date
touch to the blouBe or little coat with
■which It Is worn.
A vestee of net, finished with
plaited ruffles, one of which forms
the Btandlng collar, is shown in the
second design. It is held in place
about the waist with an elastic band,
and fastens down the front with
clasps concealed under small covered
buttons. The short ruffle designed to
stand up about the neck is supported
,'by collar stays of wire.
This vestee is to be worn under
[blouses of tllk or other material in
one-piece dresses, and is very useful
for the summer tourist for freshening
her traveling gown and supplying a
touch of white at the throat.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
cool and handy garment
Envelope Chemise Has Much to Rec-
ommend, It Especially During
the Hot Weather.
Never was a handler little garment
flesigned than the envelope chemise,
and certainly there was never a bit
of underwear more comfortable. They
are so easily made, too. If you never
made a garment before, you can make
an envelope chemise. Get a simple
paper pattern and you will need no
other guide or advice. You may
either tuck the yoke of the chemise
or embroider it If the chemise is of
white crepe, it 1b well to embroider
it, for the tucks would need ironing,
whereas, with the crepe embroidered,
it is possible to wear the garment
without ironing. If you wish an elab-
orate undergarment, a strip of hand
embroidery can be worked all the
way down the front, but for the sim-
pler garment a spray of some small
flower Is sufficient across the upper
part of the front.
In very hot weather the envelope
chemise will act as drawers, petti-
coat and corset cover, serving as
three garments In one. Besides, the
combination drawer and petticoat
idea ia delightfully cool. In cooler
weather the envelope chemise can be
worn over a knitted union suit
your complexion troubles with your
powder puff — no need of either
when you use pure, harmless
Face
Pomade
"The ALL DAY BEAUTY POWDER" tween England and America In a fort
At all dealers or bf mail ;oc.
Zona Co., Wichita, Kansas.
Islands Where Communication With
th« Great World la at Rare Inter-
val#—Tristan da Cunha.
Though scientific progress has made
It possible to do a double journey be-
night, there remi.ln many Islands with
which It takes years to communicate, j
Off the Scottish coast are the
groups of Islands known as the He
brides, Orkneys and Bhetlands. Of
DEFIANCE STARCH
is constantly growing in favor because it the most isolated Inlands la St.
Does Not Stick to the Iron K!!rta' *m" ^ ®''e"a.nd,tw"
«,! it will not injure the finest fabric. For " ^ The, Inhabitant., lead
laundry purpose sit hat no equ.1. 16 ot llv('" of Kreot loneliness, for It takes
package 10c. 1-3 more starch for same money R month to get to the next Island.
DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Nebraska and the KeR often n™1"'" a y com-
i munlcatlon with St. Hilda Impossible
for months.
The group of eight Phoenix Islands j
in the Pacific has a total population of
only 158, while another little bit of
the British empire Is Fanning islnnd
This Is a landing place for the Pacific 1
submarine cable, and usually there
WITH TRAGEDY IN HIS MIND
Husband Dashed Home In Response
to Telephone Call to Find His
Worst Fears Were Groundless.
Smlthson said a thunderstorm al-
ways reminded him of this absurd In-
cident In his early married life. He
said it happened when their first baby
was only two months old, so he might
be pardoned If his solicitude exceed-
ed his sober Judgment He was at
his office one afternoon when a ter-
rific thunderstorm broke which
crashed enough to frighten anyone,
so when the 'phone rang and his
wife's voice tremulously asked:
"George, dear, can you come home
right away?" he said, "yes," quickly,
nor paused to question, but frantic
with misgivings, grabbed his hat and
almost ran through town to his home.
Arriving all breathless, he found his
wife awaiting him on the porch, her
face the very picture of distress.
Rushing up to her he said anxious-
ly: "Why, darling, what's the mat-
ter?"
Much to his surprise came this re-
ply: "Oh, George, dear, we have
moths!"—Kansas City Star.
And feel your thirst slip
away You'll finish refreshed,
cooled, satisfied.
Uenuml the irmtnr by ton tmnw
Kkkiuusca eucuangc •uhaCiXnftucv.
THE COCA-COLA
ATLANTA.Vi A.
S3
RF« about one hundred people in the jqq pree W|JH H|s comment |
place.
The loneliest of all parts of Rrltlsh j
territory Is the Island of Tristan Da i
Cunha, In the South Atlantic, which }
Is also the smallest Inhabited Island
In the empire. It Is 1,800 miles from |
land, has a population of 74 Scottish
Americans, and the Inhabitants get
news of the outer world usually once
every two years.
PIMPLES ITCHED AND BURNED
Route No. 3, Dadevllle, Ala.—"I was
troubled with a terrible breaking out
between my shoulders and down to
my hips. It came in pimples and my
back looked very red and raw. It
Itched and burned so that sleep and
rest were Impossible and I could not
sleep any hardly for weeks. My
clothes irritated my back till It got
so sore I had to have a soft clotli
pinned to my shirt
"As I heard of Cutlcura Soap and
Ointment for years I bought a cake of
Cutlcura Soap and box of Cuticura
Ointment and to my surprise and joy
my Itching and burning had disap-
peared. My back had been so raw
and inflamed I could not lie on It and
the first application brought relief. I
washed my back twice a day with a
strong lather of Cutlcura Soap and
then applied the Cuticura Ointment
In two weeks X. was sound and well
and have never been troubled since."
(Signed) J. D. Abernatty, Jan. 26,1914
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Bold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post-
card "Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston."—Adv.
A Good Shot.
A San Franciscan, who had been
hunting In the vicinity of Lake Tahoe , , .
without bagging any game, came upon I unK " Ba was
a mountaineer who was feeding a
caged wildcat he had caught the day
before.
"How much will you take for that
beast?" he asked.
The captor said $5, and the money
was paid over.
"Now," said the Nlmrod, "tie one
end of a strong cord to that tree and
another to the cat's neck, and then
open the door of the cage."
| This was finally accomplished and
| the fierce animal stood straining at Its
tether.
The Bportsman, who was watching
the exerciBeB from the interior of the
cabin, leveled bis rifle acroBB the win-
dow sill, took careful aim and blazed
away. The wildcat gave a joyful yell
and disappeared in the forest. The
bullet had cut the rope.
Not to Blame.
"What shall we do, John," said the
farmer's wife, who had retained much
of her Bentiment through 25 years of |
married life, "what shall we do to eel
ebrate our silver wedding?"
"Reckon up where all the silver's
gone to in bringing up our family,"
grumbled he.
"Oh, no, John, it must be something j an^j'
real good and out of the ordinary. I
tell you what. Let us kill the fattest
pig and give a bilnquet."
"Maria," said the husband solemnly,
"I don't see how the unfortunate ani-
mal is to blame for what happened 26
years ago."
Generous Milkman.
When little Bennie brought the milk
tn off the front porch one cold morn-
ing he found a pillar of the frozen
fluid sticking out of the bottle.
"Oh, mamma," he cried, "I like our
liew milkman!"
"Is that so? Why?" asked the
mother.
Showing her the bottle, Bennie ex-
claimed: "Our old milkman barely
filled the bottle, but this one heaps it
up."
DICKEY'S OLD RELIABLE EYE WATER
once used. aJwayi wanted. Doesn't hurt. Adv
Occasionally you meet a man who is
so chivalrous toward women that he Is
actually polite to his own wife.
Cures Old Sore*. Other Remedies Won't Curs.
Th« worst caui, no matter of how long standing,
are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
Porter'a Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves
Pain and Heal* at the same time. 25c, 59c, 91.00.
It is possible to be a man of many
parts by trying to be all the different
kinds of fool at once.
A Piece of Fiction.
"Is this the bookkeper?"
"Yes, sir."
"I'm the head of the firm. I came in
to ask you if you would accept an In-
crease in your salary."
"No sir! I'm getting too much as It
Is. You could get any number of men
to fill my place for half the money."
"But our profits are so great we
don't know what to do with them."
"Sorry; but to encourage me in that
sort of thing would only result In dis-
aster. Besides, If I got more money
my family of nine children might get
enough to eat. And if the practice
should spread, the whole civic fabric
would be upset."
"But I really feel—"
"Go away, sir! I won't listen to
you! Discharge me If you must, but
raise my salary—never!"—Life.
Different Meaning.
One of the principal owners of a
promising gold mine was expatiating
on Its merits to a capitalist and pros-
pective investor. He described the
vein In which the miners were work-
ing, showed him specimens of the ore,
backed up hia statements with the
written opinions of experts.
"Well," admitted the capitalist, "1!
looks as If it might be a good invest-
ment. As my old Uncle Hiram would
say, it has 'p'lntB.' "
"Pints!" exclaimed the owner, car-
ried away perhaps by his over-anx
lety; "why, Bir, we're in quartz right
now!"
Little Incident May Explain Why
Automoblllsts So Often Fall to
Proffer a "Lift."
"I noticed tn a paper the other
day," said the man at the wheel,
"that Bomebody calls automobllists to
account for not being more willing
to ofTer pedestrians a lift. I gave
a pedestrian—an entire stranger—a
lift the other day and he certainly
did make the most of it. The first
'Why don't you
use a tire that lasts? They tell me
there's nothing like Poppleton's
Gumelastlc. And, say, I see you are
using a Pllnker cyclometer. Friend
of mine says he wouldn't take it for a
gift. He has a Hickenlooper.'
"Blamed if the fellow didn't go on
In that strain all the way down town.
And what do you think? When he
got out he Bald: 'Why don't you get
a good ear?"—Cleveland Leader.
Forgetful Vacationist.
The family had gone off for their
holiday iu a taxi. Twenty minutes
later the taxi snorted back up the road.
"Forgotten the tickets?" cried a
neighbor.
"No," said the Irate householder,
"but my wife's just remembered that
she's left a kettle boiling on the gas
stove."
He dived into the hoUBe, and cams
back the next moment with a ghastly
calm on his face.
"All right nowf said the neighbor
cheerily. •
"Right! I'd forgotten that I'd
turned the gas off at the meter—and
now we've two hours and a half to
wait for the next train."
Confident an Enemy Will Appear.
The Irish people are managing to
get some old-fashioned fun out of the
menacing situation in Ulster. The
London Chronicle (which is for hon^e
rule) says that at the moment when
both bands of volunteers were swarm-
ing through on Ulster town a volun-
teer of some kind, in full panoply of
war, was met In the street by a friend.
"So you are going to fight?" Baid
the friend.
"Yes."
'Who are you going to fight, the Na-
tionalists?"
"No, we are not going to fight the
Nationalists."
"Are you going to fight the police?"
"No, 1 do not think we are going to
fight the police?"
"Are you going to fight the English
soldiers?"
"No, I don't think we shall fight the
English soldiers."
"Then who are you going to fight?"
"The Lord will provide."
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOR1A, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Hears the
Signature of |
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
The Stomach's Function.
The teacher was examining the class
in physiology.
"Mary, you tell us," she asked, "what
is the function of the stomach?"
"The function of the stomach," the
little girl answered, "Is to hold up tha
petticoat."
Poor Showing.
"How's your boy getting on In col-
lege?"
"Not well. They batted him out of
the box in the third inning the other
day."
He happy. Use Red Cross Ball Hill#I
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress. All grocers. Adv.
It's when it is too hotheaded thai
love is apt to grow cold.
One Too Many.
The 'bus was rolling up Fifth avenue
In a heavy groundswell, on a murky
night. Perhaps it was only that the
chauffeur and conductor were both
sleepy, or maybe it was only the mug-
gineBB that deceived them.
On the corner at Thirty-fifth street
stood, waiting to cross, a belated de-
livery boy, holding erect by the waist
a dressmaker's dress form. The chauf-
feur thought he detected a fare, and
slowed his craft In to the curb The
conductor looked out through the fog,
shook his head, and rang the bell to
go ahead.
"Room for one only," ho said, and
the 'bus rolled on.—New York Evening
Post.
The Pumps.
Lord Mersey, head of the Empress
of Ireland-Storstad Investigation board,
said to a New York reporter the other
day:
"Much is still left to be desired, but
ships are safer than they used to be."
With a smile the veteran jurist add-
ed;
"We no longer hear of skippers of
ferlng such excuses for slow passages
as the one offered by the skipper of
I the collier, who Baid:
| " Well, gentlemen, no wonder we're
late. We pumped the whole Atlantic
Uncertain.
The secretary of one of the college
classes at Princeton, In sending out
each year a list of questions to be an-
swered by members of the class, in
order that the results may be duly tab-
ulated and set forth in the university
annual, is said always to Include In his
list this question: "Are you engaged?"
It would seem that one of the mem-
bers was cursed with doubt in this re-
spect, for In the blank space given i ,i,_„ „ ,u > .u . v,
' ,, . , , . three times through that ship coming
over to the query mentioned he made ;
! ficrooD.
his return aa follows:
"Do not know. Am awaiting letter." i
f'HINKNE NO-BOTTLE IH.I KINO
Tb® only Hcltmilflcally correct bloclnu 1k>«* not
leave runt In the clothes or settle to the bottom of the
tub. Finr/or kardwoter. Send lUo and urot or's nnmo ,
for supply. Chinese Blueing (Jo., Detroit, Mich. Atlr. ■
Hit Business.
"What is Jake doing now?"
"Anybody he can."—Haltlrnore
American.
The Usual Process.
"They are going to put your reso-
lution on the table."
"I'm not surprised,
be dished."
Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any c**e of Itching,
Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days.
How To Qlvo Quinine To Children
FEBRILINB is the trade-mark name given to an
improved Quinine. It is a Tameless Syrup, pleas-
ant to take and does not disturb the stomach.
Children take it and never know it is Quinine
Also especially adapted to adulta who cannot
take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the bead Try
It the next time you need Quinine for any pur-
pose. Ask for s-ounoe original package. Ths
name FEBRILINB is Hown in bottle- as cents-
If It Is necessary to make enemies,
choose laiy men.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Uver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds op the Whole System. 50 centa
Nothing pleases a homely woman so
much as to have a man compliment
i her figure.
I expected It to The first application gives Ease and Rest. SOo.
Its Kind.
"The fate of war seems to hang by
a hair."
"Yes, a Belgian hare, so to speak "
For Thrush
and Foot
Diseases
k Antiseptic,
Cleansing,
k and
Healing
HARFORD'S
Balsam of Myrrh
For Galls, Wire
Cuts, Lameness,
Strains, Bunches,
Thrush, Old Sores,
Nail Wounds, Foot Rot
Fistula, Bleeding, Etc. Etc.
Made Since 1846.
Price 25c, 50c and $1.00
A II r\ I OR WRITE
All Dealers
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief—Permanent Cun
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS never
faiL Purely vegeta-
ble — act surely
but gently on
the liver.
Stop after
dinner dis-
tress cure .
indigestion,
improve the complexion, brighten the eyes.
SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
Carters
ITTLt
PILLS.
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit.
lieipA to «riuin-at ' dandrnff.
For Restoring Color and
Beauty to Cray or Faded Hair.
6O0. an<l >l. W at Drugglata.
C? _ Granulated Eyelids,
Eyes inflamed by expo-
sure to Sun, Dust and Wind
uicklyrelievedbv Murine
ycdemedy. No Smarting,
just Eye Comfort. At
Your DrURRist's 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye *** 'or. refusing *11 substitute*
SalveioTubes25c.KorDoekollbeCyeFrMask
Druggitts or Nurlns EysBcmedy Co., Chicago I w. N. U., Oklahoma City, No 35-1914,
Eyes 2;
O CA ntDC <>« th • papf r .lc<nr-
rl CnUtrig
advertised in lur
columns shou.d Insist upon having what they
Imitation®*
Death Lurks In A Weak Heart
II Your* ia fluttering or wmk, un RKNOVINB." Mad* by Van Vloal-Mlanaflald Drug Co., Mamphla, Tenn Price SI.OO
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1914, newspaper, August 28, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110636/m1/3/: accessed April 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.