THE MELLETTE COUNTY PIONEER. Must Clothe to fmANDArHERMT n Keep Body Warm New York.—The zero hour umy have necessity for wearing something in th« ended for the army, but it sends a house and in the* street that Is more shiver of memory, and prospect protection than a wash shirtwaist. through us. Ileatless houses, ley Ceorgctte crepe, Chinese silk, hand- EPROPr streets and thin clothes served to re- kerchief linen are not ulds to heat in of duce our vitality so seriously last win- the house, though and even we may ter that there are many medical ex- wear coats with our skirts Indoors as People Are perts to rise up and say that the dev- well ns in the open, we like the pro- Passive astation of Influenza was due to these tection of these new padded blouses, causes. that are made of chamois, matelasse, and Unfathomable Yet We wore frozen by nature, fed on quilted satin or brocade, interlined substitutes, made miserable by lack of with flannel. It is only under the fur Their Love of Inde- artificial heat, and our nervous resist- j ance, which was called into intense pendence / activity to withstand these three Promises plagues, has permitted us to fall easy Bright victims to the fourth and the worst 1 plague that leaped upon us from the ocean last autumn. N 1856 Emperor Alexander I of The war is over, hnt the cold ap- Russia wrote to Stelnheit, then proaches. The soldiers need not fear governor general of Finland, In the zero hour, but the American wom- the following terms: “As re- en must fear it, warns a prominent gards the conditions of Finland, fashion correspondent. It may be that my Intention has been to give we will get up cold uml go to bed cold. this people a political existence, We may eat half-warm meals in front so that they may not feel them- of half-hearted tires, and have our be- selves conquered by Russia, but ing in one small room, with a total dis- united to her for their own clear regard of the pleasanter amenities of only advantage; therefore not life that civilization has led us to be- their civil but their political laws must be lieve are permanent. uaintalncd.* Today, a century after those This is not pessimism. It is a retro- words were written, there seems at last spect of actualities. None of us es- good hope that Alexander I’s Intention may caped suffering last year. The rich he permanently fulfilled, writes Rosalind Travers r/ff/iA/exjrr oami s/MjSV&s and the poor went down alike under Hyndman in New York Sun. tho presence of intense cold and lack A The race of Mongolian origin and language, the election of tlie Russian duma and the tem- the friendly demeanor bf the dowager empress. of coal, Just as clean and dirty, weal- “SuomUaJfiet” or people of the fens —were Chris- porary restoration of Finland’s constitution. Yet Naturally this ill-advised policy has had very thy and pauper went down under the tianized very early in the thirteenth century "restored” Is hardly the word, for that restricted, bad results. At the beginning of the war many influenza germ. None were spared t>y the Swedes, who treated them on the cautious ami eminently bourgeois constitution of Finns were in favor of the allies, chietly by reason the presence of danger last year. The whole with equality and justice, and intermarried 18t>” was resurrected into something democratic of their English trade connections and English multimillionaire lived In one room and and With them freely, not, however, allowing the Fin- terrible—a popular government, based upon sympathies. But when Russia’s most powerful tried to heat it with whatever sticks full nish language to be written or spoken to any ex- adult suffrage and proportional representation ind necessary ally forbode to say one word in and stones she could buy or borrow, in with an The result was that in 1808 Russia con- elected house, containing at its first as- hwor of a reasonable treatment of Finland, and the same comfortless way as her sister quered semblage lent. a people who spoke Swedish and regarded lu April, 1907, 80 social democrats out when the English press by its undlscrlmlnntlng of the submerged tenth. British “warm” worn by officers over of a total of gave themselves as Independent Swedes; and although 200. And these were genuine, uncom- pruise of all things Russian actually more Warmth la the Fashion. there, and now adopted by Ameri- the passed promising strength reaction, Finns have through enormous national Marxist social democrats, the outcome to the powers of then the Finns Let us say that it is the fashion to can women for street use. It la of a party changes in the course of the century, Russians of which was first formed in 1599. Since cannot be blamed for looking elsewhere. wear warm clothes, and the Individual made of bright yellow leather and then the the ruling classes could never get it our of their social democratic representation of Fin- Their exiles flocked to Germany In great num- will follow the fashion ns the customs lined with rough, undyed sheep- land steadily heads that Finland desired to belong to Sweden has increased at every election. bers, and it is said that more than 8,000 Finns of a country follow its flag. We move skin. It has capacious pockets and again. From the spring of 1907 to that of 1909 Finland took up their residence there. The Germans art In herds, and all the civilization in the is fastened with big leather but* experienced The governors of Russia, having much vaster "two crowded years of glorious life” further credited with making active propaganda world has not been able to eradicate tons. affairs fn hand, did not realize that the remark- in which the country simply hummed with internal for their cause among the professors and students this primordial Instinct. So when you coat or the short made of leath- able development of Finnish nationalism was di- progress and political development. The old feuds of Finland, but it seems doubtful whether they go Jacket out to buy your winter outfit, say er and sheepskin can rected, first and last, against the Swedish lan- of Svekomnn and Fennoman were taken up with would really have found it worth while, when the that we stand to yourself that warmth is the fashion; the thinness the guage and Flnno-Swedish domination. The Finnish renewed vigor, although the Swedish speaking allies themselves were unconsciously doing so of conventional wash that protection to the body by proper waist, given us the language was spoken only by the remote peas- Finns w’ere now only one-ninth of the population much to spread pro-Gennnn sympathies there. If which has best apparel is smart; that peltry, velours, service for nearly two decades. antry and Finnish names even were not legally and still decreasing. —but no one can say more than if—Finland was quilted linings, high shoes, big neck- The cuirass blouse puts many a sep- recognized. Yet, meanwhile, a great movement We all remember how, In May, 1910, 120 mem- occasionally used as a channel for communi- pieces, muffs for the hands, and even arate skirt into first fashion, and that Was steadily growing up for the revival of Fin- bers of the British parliament signed cation between Germany and the traitorous party a memorial foot warmers for the feet, are the very Is a bit of economy that every woman land's own singularly beautiful tongue. to the duma expressing Russia the allies have only themselves to blame. rich and the apprehension with in height of style. likes to endorse; but more than people began which they regarded the proposal to Fin- this may be, it seems pretty clear that that. The Finnish to think of their deprive However To dress in transparent clothes is to It gives a snug security against the land of her rights, several German ngeneies in more than country as "Suomi,” something utterly distinct constitutional while n large there were show one’s self behind the times. To wind and the mow, as well as the chill from Sweden or Russia, having a language and number of German, French, Italian, Belgian and one part of Finland trying to stir the people up wear negligible costumery that lialf of a slxty-elght-degree sitting room. onward, Dutch deputies formed and armed revolt. literature of Its own. From 1849 when addressed similar to on covers the body at three o’clock, dur- It Is an ornate substitute for the memorials. But all this was vain, reactionary press at one time took Lonnrot published the second edition of the “Kale- in and by July, Since our ing a blizzard, is to show one’s self sweater. 1910, the hill for the discredited vala,” Finland’s national epic, educated Finns were Russification of Finland be- upon itself to repeat the venerable and unobservant of the rules of the game. Service Coats for Women. law. beginning to give up Swedish as a means of com- came cliches about Finland’s desire for independence And not only must we wear warm Those who design clothes are not It was not immediately with Sweden, it Is well to say once munication and learning to use the strange, diffi- and violently put into or for union clothes on the street, but they may be averse to a new output to meet new cult, sonorous language which was their blrth- practice. The landtdng was still assembled at in- more that Finland’s great nationalist movement necessary for the house. In fact, it is fuel laws. They are quite happy to tervals, though against Swedish influence, and fight It had rather less power than‘a was all directed very probable that they will be. There supply women with a variant on the wiiolo Naturally this development soon cleft the coun- municipal council. A number of official dimlssals that there are not five wiseacres in the Is small doubt about it under the new accepted style of winter costumery. place, dream of possibility of try In two. Many Finns urged, not unreasonably, took Russians were given full Finnish country who would the fuel request, which is that every room They have rung so many changes on rights the advocate of that It was hardly practicable for so small a peo- in Finland and the usual series of arrests, such a union. Nor has fiercest shall have a thermometer, and that chiffon and satin, on crepe and serge, imprisonments ever contemplated absolute in- ple to cut themselves off from Scandinavia, from and exilings followed, hut until Finnish freedom not a single thermometer in America that they are willing to go in for ve- press position country and its Russia, from the rest of Europe In fact, “by 1912 the Finnish was only Intermittently dependence. The of the lours and angora, for skirts of heavy climbing on to a language Island*’ In this way. But censored. However, this second series of “bad very small population wholly forbid it. velveteen. They quite endorse the future! iationalism triumphed. In 1863 the “nice little years” was much harder for the Finns than the Surely this tiny nation has a magnificent idea of immense pieces of peltry, worn period of for them, highly trained constitution” granted by Alexander II left the 1899-1906. It may even be possible in the house as well as on the after are, hurry Finns free to govern themselves In all internal Soon the war began Finland was practical- and politically qualified as they to and they exploit new types of ly Intervening stages their economic Jackets matters in a fairly representative manner, and cut off from the civilized world. Russification through the of that protect the body. It means a Europe working from this time the study of Finnish became an set in with full force and the most stringent cen- development and show to the brisk trade to them; it changes tho sorship of press, correspondence co-operative commonwealth. They are Integral part of the general education. the of and of all model of a dullness of autumn into the optimism Mongolians, patient, passive, The use of the 4 revived language of Finland written matter whatever was established. Even in the main secret winter. unfathomable, of grew so fast that Swedish-speaking Finns began the Internal business of the country suffered great- and and their kinsmen in Japan Chief among the new outdoor wraps things. to find themselves In a minority, and In 1894 after ly, and the whole people were put "under hatches,” and China have done equally marvelous that have appeared since the cold racially, a very hot debate the Finnish language was placed as It were, and assuredly on very short rations for Yet alien from us as they are their de- weather made its first approach is a Englishman an an equality with Swedish in the Finland sen- an unlimited time. velopment is so western that no who service coat designed by one of the ate. "Svekomnn” (Swede-Finn) and “Fennoman” One piece of news only came through in the has spent much time In Finland has any sense of leading furriers of France and Amer- war, contrary, seem, uniforms. It Is of nutria, which the Finns were specially and officiallywarned “not felt the charm of Finland is really content till he pation kept strictly to that policy of detachment ts a poor cousin of beaver; it is heav« to build any false hopes of restored liberty” upon sees the Land of Thousand Lakes again. and independence which has always marked them, lly lined, and yet It is not awkward Ini ffhey took no part at all in Russian affairs and Its lines through bulkiness. There is a Sam Brown belt; also a broad waist Showed little interest in those of Scandinavia; PAPER FAMINE IN OLD TIMES. ICE AS A SWEETMEAT. they appeared to Europe generally as self-cen- belt of leather, and the four Immense u colony in the West might pockets, which hold all the packages tered as Chinese be. There was a paper famine in Europe In the Wo Americans eat more ice cream and similar meant to work out her salvation alone. one needs to carry, are fastened with Finland seventh century. In A. D. 640 the Saracens con- frozen desserts than the people of any other na- In literature and art indeed the country was open big leather buttons to match those quered Egypt, and at the same time, by order of tion, but the Japanese have us beaten ns eaters high European influences, for the Finns have ulways down the front. There Is a roll- to Omar, their caliph, the renowned library at Alex- of Ice. According to tne Tokyo Advertiser, one been great travelers, wandering about the conti- Service coat of nutria, with Sam ing collar of leather and nutria com- andria, consisting of 400,000 volumes, was burned. of their favorite dishes Is small cakes of ice bined, up when nent with cold, appraising eyes, selecting and tak- Brown belt and buttons of brown w hich is made to stand The paper supply of the then world was derived broken Into tiny pebbly pieces and eaten with required and fasten under the chin ing back with them such ideas as they considered bark, only sugar lemon, leather. It la modeled after the reg- from the papyrus a reed which grew and or any other mixture that they with a big leather button. Smart wo- likely to be of use. They took political Ideas also Saracens may fancy. The ulation British coat, and is worn by in Egypt. Consequently, when the commonest way of entlng Ice In men who are out in these coats carry from Scandinavia and from Germany, but they paper supply Japan, however, women not in uniform as well as gained possession of the country the Is to shave it into snowy flakes one of the new, short, fashionable um- had no desire to make propaganda for their own and to those in uniform. was cut off. This led to the adoption of a curious swallow it with sweetened water into brellas, that are made to look like offi- Ideas or their own race. papyrus paper which various expedient. The writing on used appetizers, such as fruit Juice or shall go above 68 degrees. Now, you’re cers* sticks. Yet Inevitably they were bound to be a growing which was thus made sweetmeats, been was erased and the paper, have thrown. not used to 68 degrees in the house. The British "Warm." trouble to the Russian government and a stum- brought Into use. An author Ice cream, milk and eggs available, again old shaken with Ice and Many of us are used to 80, and the The American artillery officer who, bling block to'Pan-Slav policy. Obviously a demo- probably owing to this many other kinds of cooling beverages has suggested that are sold In an majority of us will shiver for the first after the first months of winter in cratic and almost self-governing province was out from writers, ever-increasing quantity, but valuable contributions classic Taci- the old style of eat- regulation. France, said all he desired was a Ger- of place among the folds of the vast ing "raw" ice, few weeks under the new autocratic tus, Livy and others, were lost to the world. In what the Japanese call the man helmet and a British “warm,” has rule which covered all the Russlas then. We may take as our only comfort that korimlzu fashion. Is still in the greatest been echoed, as far as the latter part But a far more Important objection was this: Youth's Companion. fact that this temperature is supposed BRITISH REGIMENT. but, of the wish goes, by the American wo- The duchy of Finland, alien In language, FAMOUS to be healthful; mind you, it is character only healthy men, who have discovered that the •md administration, was a complete break In when the body is warm. that guards regiment foot- TATTOOING British “warm” is about the most de- scheme of one vast homogeneous Russia, stretch- The Coldstream is a of ANCIENT CUSTOM. No medical expert, however great, will army forming part of the try lightful bit of covering that has been ing from the Norwegian coast to the Puciflc, one guards In the British to convince you otherwise. brigade. It Is one of the oldest The antiquity of tattooing is Therefore, the clothes invented for an unpleasant spell of iu language, laws, religion and government—that royal household evidenced by Its that are to the British service, dating from almost universal employment among house, weather. A woman brought the first dream of giant unity and monotony which seems regiments of primitive be chosen for the as well as that year General Monk, who, after the peoples. In New Guinea the young street, one to this country, as far as sartorial hove filled the minds of the directors of Russia 1659. In women are those for the must be protec- to Cromwell, took sides with the parlia- tattooed all over their bodies, history tells it, and she sold it to a for 80 and more. There seems little death of their faces being tive. And because of this new ruling, ycjirH doubt army, organized the regiment at similarly treated after marriage. man, who was so excited over it that deposed dynasty cherished this design ment and the which comes through the federal reg- ‘.hat the border town of Berwickshire, Scot- In Islands a girl he tried to get dozens over for other Hohenzollerns did that of “Mlttel-Europa." Coldstream, a the Solomon is not eligible for ulations, there is an entire output of •is the the name of the regiment, and marriage unless she has men. Now the women can buy them a similar huge, dull, magnificent, land, whence been tattooed. The girls new types of house gowns that we It was mischiev- Into England. It has seen service of Borneo are thus adorned over here and wear them With content. idea, trampling even more widely marched with It from waist to knees once thought impossibly old fashioned ous over the campaign of any magnitude, and in most elaborate fashion; They are made of leather and lined of other nations and Intended to produce in every British likewise their hands, for American women. rights on its regimental colors the feet and ankles. with sheepskin in its rough undyed an more dismal uniformity of rule. lms emblazoned Warm Medieval Blouse. even many of the most brilliant victories of In Burinah, under the king, state. The buttons are leather, the So, dispassionately the Finn, names of last every male It is an old story to talk about viewed —and even was required by royal pockets are capacious, and the high considering his misfortunes, British arms. edict to be tattooed from France and the medieval cuirass when own Is emi- waist to knees; and It was collar Is cut on good lines. dispassionate— Russia's customary for the blouse, but it is a rather new story in nently first attack upon PROGRESS. girls to have their tongues (Copyright, 1918. by MoClure Newspaper of Finland In 1809 was Inevitable, SLOW tattooed with charms America. Those who preached this Syndicate.) the liberties a to attract the men. catastrophe of nature. There Is need to doctrine of dress last year were not little Wing me for years, “the bad years" from 1890 to 1906, “You have been t 0 deceive regarded as sincere prophets, and we Turbans of Feathers. recall when tho SUCH AN INQUISITIVE constitution was suspended and the Henry." WOMAN. did not go Into the exploitation of the Feather turn&ns make delightful Finnish coun- my try was placed under tlu rule of a military dicta- “Oh. come now, dear. thick cuirass blouse until this autumn, hats for this time of year and the va- practice makes perfect." Hub —Who is that letter from? tor, General Bobrik off. They form a monotonous “It Is said afte" France had had eight months of riety in shape and coloring la an offset do with me?" Wife —What do you want of press censorship, dismissals of native “What has that to to know for? steaoy usage of the idea. to their undue popularity. The pheas- record thinking that you don't succeed Hub—There you go! illegal and “1 was Just “What do I want to know Now* we are quite enamored of the ant feather toques are smart and nn officials, arrests exile. you you 1905-1900, better now than did when we were first for?" I declare If aren't the most InquUltiv# whole scheme of The necessity extreme model orange-hoed tenth* The great strike of however unsue- «nv I dress. Is of mnrried"—Birmingham Age-Herald. woman ever met.—Boston Transcript _