1 Keep Body Warm

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.

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