CAPE MAY COUFTY TIMES. SEA ISLE CITY. N. i.

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Tree New Frocks for the Tiny Girl

the train, by that time In motion, and dellTered the meuace to the ■t-anlng far out of the window, yelled back "Thank you mlaa, and ; ahell marry me all rt*ht when she sees roe In uniform."

Cap’n Ben’s Spy Glass

Ey JONATHAN BANG

Red Cross Motor Corps Doing Good Work ;TON.—Bine* the Installation of the special telephone connection ihr war department as many as 15 rails a day hare been answered Cross motor corps of the District of Columbia. The District chapter

of the Bed Cross motor corps has been In existence since the United Bute* entered the war. lira. J. Borden Harrtman is the colonel cocnmandlnx. The work of the corps falls. rou«hly. Into two general divisions—ambulance work and transport service. Galls for transport service range from those for national headquarters, the Potomac division, and the District chapter to those for the civilian relief worker* on their errands of mercy, oftentimes far into the country, or to

the taking of convalescent soldiers at Walter Beed hospital out for our ear* are detailed each day for the service of the canteen ily a troop train was getting up steam outside a canteen. One spent his entire rest time trying to get Philadelphia on the teleJurt as he obtained the connection the sergeant announced that It to go aboard. The lad was distressed, and the ev< .--present motor • to his reacne with. “Can't I give the message for your said the soldier. "My name la John Smith, and I want her to before I sail." .... . inusoal proposal was made In great haste by the Bed Cross worker. 1 fTrrT( i,y wear, varied by a reversal of a Philadelphia declined, as far ks the wedding was concerned, but ordfr , n w hlte frocks with collar* meet her hero before be sailed. The motor woman Pished to the BD[] p, color*. Old-fashioned and

**” ‘ simple fancy stitching—the cross-

stitch. feather-stitch, outline-stitch and rat-stltch among others—with (-mocking and simple embroidery, add their pretty, quaint touch to, these gay dresses. French knot* and small button* are among those present In the little company of childish decorations that loving Ungers add to little clothe*. Plain or amaU-striped i-nterial* are preferred over plaids for young children. Organdie In white, with narrow stripe* tn all the light colors are made up for girl* of three or mure, with the simplest sort of finishing In bindings of plain white. These are for her dressup occasions. Swiss organdie, with dainty embroidered edges and figures, appears In the most pretentious of little frock*, like that shown In the rer ter of the group above. At the left yelWw charobray Is shaped at the waist with smocking and has white organdie collar and enff*. The smock-

rrotntng In, the way of an Innovation appears among the display* of frocks for small girls. Plain cottons In light colors with white cuffs aud collars make up the bulk of the stocks for

That One Can Be Mistaken in Judgment pink and white and a trifle coarse like a pork chop. Her fair, fat tineas was harnessed Into whatever contraption it U that women press their too, too solid etcetera into the state of mind they call

‘ In all-over

and a rose sweater ten young for her—or. to be enmake It nine. anybody with half a a eye that she was longing for the > get home and put on

loose.

her was a woman as plain of soap, who was saying this g for the drawbacks of one to listen from behind: ouldn't think of paying such cooks are asking these days Of food cost, *0

re broke up and v

im those frocks is usurliy done wlih heavy mercerised cotton floss In a contrnMlug color, or In white. Tli. frock at the right Is in bine ana has trills of white organdie nnd row* of small white buttons to set off tta

lovely color.

Fur Used Less.

In the new suits for fall the absence of fur trimming* 1* notable. This Is partly on account of the very high price* of furs now and parly because wonuii are at present wearing all sorts of long stole*, cape* and contee# of fur over their suits and dresses. It Is thought this fad will curry Into the coming fall and winter, aud now la these day* of thought for conservation of material*, all these little Items are considered by the manufacturer

Passing through the North station In Boston on my way home one evening lust fall. I caught sight of a striking

figure that I knew at once.

Taller than most men nnd slow In I his movements, his clothe* a rotnblnnI tlnn of nautical and rustic."he stood | out like a i»nc pine tree In n field. He i was the Ideal type of the «ld-fn*lc loned New England shipmaster, with on eye a* blue n* the sky on a summer | day. I recalled how I had first seen Mm at a little town down East where I was spending my aunsmer meat ion. He was standing out on the wharf looking out to sea through n large spyglass. We had got Into conversation, be had tangfat me bow to use the gla*s and I had learned bow greatly he ml ued It nnd had enrried It around th< world with him on several voyage*. Seeing him again now In the crowded station. 1 went up to him at once. "Why. Cap'n Ben.” I exclaimed, “where In the world did you come from and what are you doing In Boston!" “Oh. my daughter Is married to a feller that work* down In the market district and Fve been up here .nnkln* them a visit. I’m goln' hock tonight en the train. Fd rather go down by boat, but they have pulled ’em all off

on account of the war."

“Well, how Is the old spyglassr I sold. “I presume you go down every little while nnd have n look around Just ns you did last summer." Cap’n Ren paused a tnlnuie before he answered nnd then said. “There s quite a little yarn ter spin about that old glass since you last saw her. My train don’t go for an hour nnd If yon have the time and wor. d like to hear

It I'll spin It to yer."

“Well. Captain, a real yam from a real snlldr Isn’t to be heard every day. 1 think that we had better *nke one of these seats and you reel It off to

deiaR* of (lie krslr. bnf after the war la over. I hope to meet you nnd teM you ntMiut It. I would like tn say to addition how much we appreciate having Mich a fine glass i.bnan! and we all feel sure that It will help us in the future t did yesterday. “Yours truly.

"J. It. E,

, “Commanding Destroyer J .* •Thar.” said Cnp’n Bon. “Isn’t that

windnp of quite u yarn? Jb*

think of that old gi»*« saving the lives of so many of our bo}-*! Why, some of them boys on that tnin«|iori might have been from our own village. Whs knows! Do yer know If I hadn't sent them that glass I don’t believe 1 could have looked the women who have *r«

their boys in the face again.

“Well, so long. Son: my train la la. I guess I must be get tin’ aboard. Be sure and come and see us next sum-

mer.”

MY LETTER TO HIM

Draped Hat*.

The draped hat. both in fabrics nnd braids, will lie a prominent millinery feature of the autumn season. Metal

By EDNA H. M’COY of the Vigilantes. Now this I* lbs htter 1 ante him. While my heart la sick with dread: "You are Juat where you should be. «*r Standing staunch, where your duty led. ’At home we are well and happy. And cheerful, and proud of our boy, i wer of the World-laddle-Idler son la a Joy! ’Tour father struts. Juat a little. And *Bis‘ wear* your pin all the wHO*. While 1—-well the Mar on your Scrvtm Fla*. Brlnga to my Up* a smile." And 1 write the little nothing*. Of home, that *ra much, when away. The funny thing* that have happened Throughout my homely day. I go and sit by a window. And look to the rising sun. Where "•over sea ■"—la the trenches— " will light till Dm victory*! woe! Then—going hack to my letter With tear-wet eyes I sign: "With dear iovc from your mother - la glad her boy‘a In line!"

WHOSE BOOTS DO YOU BLACK?

Old Man Did His Bit.

“Ter know." said Cnp’n Ben gftcr being sen ted. “I told yer last summer

soap woman ended her experience with the complacency of c 'focterily solved a country-wide problem. But the woman who wasn't for all her foolish-fine feathers held a different view, s all right. If your husband likes boarding, bet Jim couldn’t live except in hi* own home. And the way I look at It. I ought to keep for nil he does for me, especially ns be thought enough of deed In my nair-e. I do every stitch of my own work, and It’s got *o >uldn*t know what to do with • girl in my kitchen." you do all the work In that big house! Then what are you doing up this time of dayt X should think you would be home getting jr*d*y Is my day out the same as other cooks. I always meet Jim Jte and we go to a cafe for dinner and the movie* afterward. And 1 he rigged out in my best, because be likes his friends to see bow nice dress roe." . . If yon bad been walking behind yon would have felt cheap for talapork chop for trying to look like a bird In fine feathers, igy to find fault. Any mean-aouled thing can do It. What Made Shabby Woman “look Different” LAN waa crossing the cobbles of a street downtown. It was a street ii out In a rasa of Junk shops and clamorously chatty with foreign The woman, herself, bad the saffron akin and glaxeu black hair of another land than ours. Her shabby (rock wan somber enough for chief mourning, except for Us vivid flower on her breast—a red rag of a rose— and her head waa Madonna-covered with a rusty lace shawl full of boles. The traditional thousand of women might have crossed the street without attracting notice. This one was an exception. And It la the exception

that counts.

For one thing, ahe caught the ex Cited Interest of a couple of obvl -ui on the heights of Vanity Fair, who must have been croea-cuttin* to here to account for their being so far from home. Both of the foreign woman, and the one who waa In while china silk made •salon to the one who was In pale bine georgette, could look like that Fd spend the balance of my days bn ^Uck rusty lire. Most be the red flower that makes her look so different e If. a class to herself. wcntnie of the woman’s country Is folded the romantic history of The mystery of Its grace cannot be learned from a fashion page, it taught In Spain. by way of a first lesson, one must be born there.

Between Seasons *and “Calco Hats

ffkhoa m fancy weaves Is another that I thought a powerful lot of that millinerv feature of Interest. glow and I didn’t think that she and

j would ever part company, and now. When Black Add*. | by Jirgo. Fve sold her. or Just as good There Is seldom a white blouse that , as sold her for a dollar. Is m-t improved by a touch of black | *Why. Cnp’n Ben." I exclaimed, "how

did that happen 7"

“Well. Fll tell you." resumed Cap’n

~ “ t in-

's Office Boy Just a Mile Too Truthful such a hard-work!n.’ soldier that the following story wlU serre it* many hoc-* a day be puts in on his Job. For Major Dan director of the draft «- A* District, baa made the sky bis limit when 0 working oo the Job of putregistrants into camp. Day he may Ik found at work— tin- loomin' sending men to ide—late o’ night indnctUg the service. me morning last week he ive overslept himself, because to show up at the office as

isual.

there is in the ofScr a boyheed. truthful boy. J 1* one of the finest things a Ce to. all agree In saying. A boy should be truthful. Still, when t. sort of confidential messenger to a major, he ought to uae er. tact. 1 |(articular boy has been working some months longer than he now a he will learn to aay: “No. air; the major Is In a conference, or the major Isn’t here light now—he has Just stepped out of the office tool do as be did that other morning, when someone called up on bone and asked for the major. bright-fared boy picked up the phone, lor he called. Major Donovan there r a»r." replied the truthful boy. “Major Donovan hasn’t come to work

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(..(. b-.fl. of .arloui -Mon milling, .bd ... WSZb.1. .»» I.b.l'-l -..u™ b...- 1 W (.(-«-.»« .»a lb.t (.»«, tbla w.rtini. t.b. II — bat. ot tortrtu cm*. -=(!» Uf are destined to have to come to calico feta silk. Two <* »*£ "epe nets sra in our millinery It U a consolation «o shown at the top of the ponp. At tta know tbsl l« <wn be made Into such left Is a pretty white model with odd nrettr headwear a* that shown at the ornaments of colored satin nnd emoT/he^dcture above. We must !■ roller;, sftk. and at the right n deep.

me b.1. TbJ. U I.crf wl.b

tTme pose and therefore Miss Fifth black panne velvet and finished with HyrnuTTn^ensde. tn a calico frock. hl*ck French knots and small fl*rur« although** she may be discovered to . mbroldered In black, white and dark

bsee It trimmed with a little real and blue, costly lace. This 1* Inconsistent but the pose Is pretty anyway and the ex-

ample set worth while.

The bat at the lower right Is a , genuine calico affalr-the calico the old. familiar Indlga blue with a white

polka dot. The **?*V^ U *^2 sre soid'for tM cents. In sliver finish. ’ D ™r,^lhr*qu*rr They would, of course, be of use to hnlA . The ^ ^ onl fonu-khakl. or blueore turned U1 ' 1 "" 'wn A blu. end now the summer 1* here, white. : "“ 1 InT tied about tb. Not only would they give admirable ; ll d White Mlk cord is tt ‘ t ln ^.price if a U-boat happened to coma . rtrwu and tarmtoataa nt at M unpropltlous moment, for

^tbe left | the ;rmf r -y roan while swim-

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Gift for Soldier*.

Waterproof match safes for soldiers

mtn* to shore could light a cheering

u. ■ - * ..._ J of ctgorette on the crest of s wave, but in light Pink V* 1 * upturned they would serve a good office at other pmot. there U ro~. when the soldier necesssb,rfc over the ™ oftrD exposed to rainy weather.

> edged with narrow

fringe und a white rilk ror*,un uu. seu provide the trimming The cord I. tied la a how at the front and hack. . . I |laid ginghams have made some I ... bm.1-. b... bl—bib □* i ebbp. 7b.i U. .rtbim* * l b "

; a .bit.

Insertion on Neckwe* .

Insertion 1* used In place of edging naor of the new neckwea. and • l.morw One edge of It gathered, and die other Mralght edge answers quite . well as the more usual scalloped • dg* so fur «' decoratlvoness got*

Ben. “Ever since Uncle Sam this war. Fve felt meaner than skunk that I wa’nt In it. I wrote Washington and to some kind of

(■hipping board here In Boston offerin' my service*, but they wrote bark I was too old. 1 ain’t hut seventy-three at that, nnd then. too. they said that they wanted mm who had experience In steam and as Fd been on a windjammer all the time I went to sea. they didn’t seem ter have any place

for me.

“Well, of course, like everybody else. I was reading In the papers n« bow the submarines were sinking vessels right nnd left nnd how our hors on the destroyers had gone over to help the English ter destroy that special breed lice, and one day I saw a piece saying that the ravy was mighty shy of marine glasses of all kinds, seems that most of them had been made In Germany and we eouldn’t make them here fast enough because we had to have a lot of ’em right away quick, and this article said that If nuybody had a spyglass or a pair of binocular*. If they would send them to the navy department they could u*e them to mighty good advantage; It said that Unde Sam would pay a dollar for the use of them and return them after the war. but If they lest the dollar was to be the purchase price of ’em. It seems that they had to give you the dollar, for there w-a* some kind >.f a law that wouldn’t let you give ’em to the government. “Well. I got to thinking the thing over, nnd I conduded that If they wouldn’t give roe a show, here waa a chance for the old glass to do her Nt. nnd I sent her along. Hy name engraved on It. had that done years ago. and In about a wee’.' I got a letter from this man Bonseveh who Is assistant secret nr; i of the navy, saying

he had received It.

data Saved Thousands of Men. “Of course I missed the old gal a good dec! but I didn’t regret It fer a minute, although 111 admit 1 didn’t hank much on ever seeing her ag’ln. “Well, do you know about three weeks ago I got one of these letters from across that had been opened by the censor; I couldn’t Imagine who It was from, and I looked at It quite a while l»efore I opened It. but when I did I sure got u good surprise. Fve got the letter here In my l-ocket and you can read It for yourself.” He took out a large, old-fashioned w.-llet from an Inside coat pocket and took a letter from Its spacious depths ; tid handi-d It to roe to read.

“Mr. Bi-nJ. F. Buck:

“Dear Sir—I have In my possession, aboard the U. K. torpedo destroyer j . a spyglass on which your name Is engraved. As 1 am aware that a great many patriotic cirisen* have eontrihuted such article* to the U. 8. navy. I take It for granted that you were one of that numlior A* this gla*s was only yesterday probably the mentis of saving the live* of several thousands of our hoys on one of our transports. 1 thought It might Interest y*.u to be acquainted with the fact, or coarse naval regulation* are such :l.at 1 rannol at present give yi

By HARRISON RHODES

of the Vlgilantea.

The bootblack is one of our greatest national Instltutloua. In Europe be is both rare and Incompetent moo the public street*. Here, to alt In a comfortably padded chair on a sunny corner nnd watch the world go by while a strung and willing toller polishes your foot covering* till they reded yotu handsome face in them Is ooe of the American experiences which make* vermge ciUxen feet, temporarily at least, like a god. at ease with the

world and superior to IL

it what about It now? Just bow these strong and willing toiler the bootblacks, helping to win the war against Gennanyl Uot their Job w» necessary! Wouldn’t they, figuring la the front line, or working In the faetorles or toiling in the wheat fields, hr helping America more than by polish-

ing your shoes and mine!

Couldn’t we. In fart, polish our ownl People used to. There were thing* ivcred over with a square of gammy ■lured Brussels carpet, which were illed l>oot blacking boxes, usually every home. And pater famUtas and the U>ys at least shined their own shoes. When they went on trips there was n compart traveling kit which they put Into their bag. Perhaps the boots weren't done quite so welt perhapn they didn’t reflect your handsome face. But which, to put It briefly. Is more Important, to have your boot* polished for you or to whip the Germans! Doe* this sound ludicrously trivtad to you! It Is true that all the boatblacks in the country released for tha rial service* of war time would he hut n little port of our military or dvllian army. But It cannot be aaM too often tlifci nothing Is to- trtvM nowadays to b«. worth paying attew-

-hlnk It over! tfould you t liolish your own boots, or lid Kaiser's when h« get* here!

“THE SNAKY PEACE”—A FABLE

By EUGENE H. BLAKE of the Vigilantes. A snake haring invited a tame aqairrel to play on the ground and eojor the fallen acorns, swallowed the little ml half down before It knew whd had happened. But the squirrel catching its hreatt. twisted around and caught the anakrti ;ci_ “The squirrel attacked me." tta snake managed to say to a man whn had come up with a stick to see what the trouble waa. "Let the man deddc what Is JnsL" the wjulrrel offered, “and we will abide by IL” The snake objected: "I must m things stand today. In the name of tta Serpentine Power, decline this covC as prejudiced.” The squirrel asked what the make would agree to. “An Intimate meeting for dlscusMoB would be the way to remove the a»merous Intentional or unlntenUoaafl misunderstanding*. Ia-1 ua crawl M* this hollow log where we can't be annoyed by outsider* and 1 will cheerfully disgorge and return to the status quo ante." Just a« soon as the belligerents had got out of sight in the log nnd the annke could finish annexing the re* of the squirrel. Its fnng« darted ouLsT a knot-hole nod sank Into the mart foot. Back-fltr: The world had bettv have a look In at the peace coofcrvuea