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The Pustle of spring strikes a gentle , no‘e this year, as far as decorating is concerned. For the simple reason that there aren‘t so many rustling fabrics in the fashion picture and few things that swish with any proper spirit. Not that such things as chintz and taffeta aren‘t being used; they are of course, especially by the sophisticated decoraâ€" tors, but in the popular market they are bring passed up in favor of softer fabrics and more varied textures. What‘s in a Namt? And that reminds us to remark that a word is missing in the fabric story for spring. There is need for a term to describe the impressive galaxy of cotton prints on the rew textural weaves. These are presented in abunâ€" dantly floral chintzâ€"type patterns, but the weave of the cleth itself is infiniteâ€" ly varied. Some have a barkâ€"like surâ€" face: others are pebbly; still cthers have almost a jacquard quality. On the other hand ticking weaves and sateens are also of great impcriance as are quite plain and sturdy crashâ€"like weaves and the sail cloths, Technically speakâ€" ing these all could be called chintzes if we accept the definition in Webster‘s dictionary: "Chintzâ€"originally, painted or stained calico from India; now, ectton cloth printed with flowers, etc., and often glazed." Eut with a blithe disregard for any such general classiâ€" fication the trade has, by usage, conâ€" fined the term chintz to mean a Crisp smooth weave cotton with a glazed finish. So, we‘ll let that stand. The word cretonne, which Webster desâ€" cribes as "a strong unglazed cotton cloth" might well be used, except that the trade got tired of that word some years back and will have none of it, even after all these years. We warn them though that unless they dig up some cther generic term for the new printed cottons, we‘re going to have to fall tack to the word cretonne in selfâ€"defense. Persounally we‘re fond cf the â€"word as a matter of fact. Well, whatever> there is in a name, these materials are as lovely as they‘re serâ€" viceable. New Beside the cotton prints, there are more ambitious fabrics in the spring news. hcul;her.s are outdoing themselves in presenting supple qualities that can be handleda like fabrics; you‘ll see quilted leather, tucked leather, draped leather pleated leather. _ While even such pompous fabrics as frieze, brocaâ€" telle and damask are stepping out im modern textural effects that look fresh and new and alluring. Satins are lusâ€" trous and elegant; fine novelty fabrics have a hand woven charasoter. â€"The Préettiest Floral stripes, big and dominating in scale, are the prettiest thing on the spring fabric market. And they‘re very effective in ‘use. Some are stripes of fcwer garlands; others are stripes of plain tands entwined with bold overâ€" scale bigssoms that are quite modern. Some such _ fabrics have stripes up to twelve inches in width. Others use the entire width of the fabric with a border motif making a floral stripe at each side with a flower bouquet design in the centre. Some of these are THURSDAY. APRIL 18TH. 1940 â€" Decorating Fabrics in Novelty Texturesâ€"Leathers are Versatileâ€"Floral Stripes are Favoritesâ€"Marble and Tortoise Shell Motifs. TOPâ€"The cverâ€"scale stripes entwined with florals are an important variation among new figured materials, This cne is a sateen and the eclourings are interesting, for the broad stripe is in a dusty mauve color, the boaguet in natural Aocwer tomes. BOTTOMâ€"The ribbbn and flower patterred chintsz picâ€" tured herewith is from an old English document that has continued in favour for cver a hundred years and is one of the most popular revivals of the preâ€" sent season, YARDS AND YARDS OF sSPRING PLEASANT HOMES enormous in scale: cthers are little allâ€"| decorative fabrics sver patterns of colonial and Victorian | _ Mcdern florals | heritage. they‘re decorative The straight stripes are bolder and | traditional setting more cleahâ€"cutâ€"the simple twoâ€"color| design that has a stripe has more style than the shaded |a striking magn! stripeâ€"whether the width is as broad rather as if it ha as awning stripes or narrow as peppetrâ€" air brush, has g mint stripes. Checks and plaids are baroque ancestry seen even in formal places. lfor some very ha The most spectacular .spring prints for decorating are the marbleized motifs, Again, they‘re cverâ€"scale and cftenest on a white ground with the marble veining in dull greens and grey, These are invariably expensive decorâ€" ator such as heavy satin or taffeta so stiff that it practically stands alor> (an exception that proves the rule as far as the rustle of spring fabrics is concerned), Another suave novelty is the tortsise shell design for TOPâ€"This bird on the wing is made of one of the new Cristsâ€"fanetlti cetton printsâ€"a decorative modern design that has a dashing character abcut it and yet a very useable pattern and in colourings that make themselves at home in many places. BOTTOMâ€"A prin little pineapple pattern is this cretonne with a provincial fecling about it yet a certain clean cut style that is rather modern. by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin i Mcdern florals have a fresh look, yet they‘re decorative and useful even in traditional settings. There‘s a big leaf | dosign that has a very new look. And: a striking magnolia pattern, looking rather as if it had been done with an lair bruch, has great style. Scrolls of baroque ancestry form the background for some very handscne florals. | Up and Down the Color Scale ! Colors this spring are charming in a restrained ladyâ€"like sort of way. Dusty | mauve is to be seen in every important i line, and it is a lovely color to combin« lwith pastels and the range of the flower colors (you‘ll also hear it called ashes of roses). There is a soft dull gold that has style importance and is being shown widely in the spring prints. The greyâ€"blues are the thing now; their range is from the most delicate THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO periwinkle to the deeper French blues. The aqua and turquoise shades are still seen but they don‘t look as new now. Lilac is coming in and welcome to it, say we; and plum continues to be popular. There‘s still a lot of pink in the pale to shocking shades but there‘s some indication that coral and pale thrimp may be due for a came back. Grcens range {from the brilliant emerald greens to the dull sage greens. Greys are warmer, pinker, than previously. in deep tones or in cocoa shades are usable and pleasant to live with. Fawn and puity shades are important neutrals. Bolits cf brightness await you, and remember, in planning spring refurâ€" tiching, that they‘re the surest cure for a drocping room. The only probléem will be deciding between . . . there are so many beauties awaiting your selection. (Released by Consolidated News Features, Int.) Ravage of Denmark Reveals Cardinal Principle of Nazis (From Globe and Mail) In ravaging the land Oof the Danes and making it a vassal State, Hitler, by that act alone, has revealed the cardinal principle of the Nazi creed. World sentiment has been outraged ty the invasion of the hospitable, peaceâ€" ful, progressive and highly cultured countries of Scandinavia. The Danes, oldest the Scandinavian family, once roved the seven seas as Vikings. A tradition mellowed with the zenturâ€" ies recalls that interesting chapter in British history when in 1017 Canute the Great, a Dane, formed the Angloâ€" Scandinavian Empire, which included Norway and the lowlands of Scotland. Germany Would Destroy the Civilization of the World. In the most advanced stage of demoâ€". cratic development in the world, Denâ€"‘ mark, an agricultural country possessâ€" ing the world‘s mcdel in coâ€"operation: and with no "tenant problems," has, been outraged and overrun. The Norâ€" wegians, like the Danes, heirs to a‘ similar culture, whose people are thrifty and Godâ€"fearing, are also suffering. But the day is fast approaching, the great avenging day, when retributive justice will overtake the bestial Hun and restore happiness and peace. The Nazis in seeking to destroy the sovereigny of the highest developed deâ€" mocracies seek to enslave all free peoâ€" ple ‘who are striving to develop their cultural heritage. As scon as a nation like Denmark, with the highest average real wages in the world, loses overnight and without provocation the entire legacy of cenâ€" turies, it is time for all democracies to take stock. Recent events should inâ€" dicate ‘to free countries that from the longâ€"term viewpoint one course alont is clear. A new world order must arise from the ashes of the old. The fate of inâ€" iumerable small nations in South America, in Europe and Asia is in the process of testing. National expression and realization can only be attained in an atmosphere of world peace. Pease among the Great Powers must be reâ€" stored through the destruction of totaliâ€" tarianism, a creed inimicable to the integrity and development of weaker nations. A shortâ€"term viewpoint is of no avail; it is the longâ€"term policy alone which can serve the ends and purposes of small nations. That is the will to surâ€" vive, to develop in stature, and in the process cause to evolve a nationality and culture built on the foundations of freedom. . Totalitarianism seeks to upâ€" root the established institutions of demozsracy and to perpetuate their destruction. f With Nazi Germany being forced to face the might of the Allies, the brutal despoilers of the weak are now wilting under the impact of resolute and deâ€" ‘ermined opposition. The democracies of the ‘world should hasten to realize that the sooner nazism is destroyed, the <ocner will the menace to their several nations be permanently removed. The shortâ€"term outlook must yield to ths longâ€"term recognition of the implicaâ€" tions involved. It is not a question of a nation living unto itself on the princziple that "suffiâ€" cient unto the day is the evil thereof." It is, on the contrary, a responsibility to posterity, through the insurance of continued national integrity in a world of peacse. The totalitarian idea is not confined to Eurcpe, it embraces the world in varying degrees. But its growth and influence are dependent on the outccme of the European struggle. Nations reâ€" mo‘e from the scene of action do not have to wait for Hitler and his barbarâ€" ous hordes to cross oceans or continâ€" ents. The germ of destruction and spoliation for its own sake is readily transmitted. The effort to exterminate the way of life, and the free institutions of the maturest civilization in the world, that of the Scandinavian people, well disâ€" posed and seeking only freedom to folâ€" low the paths of peace, should create in all nations the resolve not only to express indignation at this latest Nazi nhorror, but to pledge the ways and means of destroying for all time the menace to enduring peace. Brantford Expositor:â€"And Mr. Tim Buck, Comunist, who nearly got himâ€" self elected to municipal offisce in Toâ€" ronto not so long ago, now has some idea of how low the Red stock has fallen. To get a scant 681 ballots against a total of more than 28,000 for his Hamilton East opponents was ignominious. He can thank his Rusâ€" sian friends® activities in Finland for at least part of his reverse,. Suggests Mustaches as Guard Against Silicosis "Our British correspondent reports that a bit of humor and more than a modicum of good sense recently emanâ€" ated from Victoria when Department of Mines officlals declared themselves in favour of mustaches for minersâ€"preâ€" ferably of the bushy, walrus type. Writing in his column, "Grab Samâ€" ples" in The Northernm Miner, W. J. Gorman has the following item:â€" "They were simply affirming the sugâ€" gestion made by a veteran miner that hard rock workers with shaven lips run greater chances of contracting siliâ€" sosis than do those who have natural dust traps growing below their nostrils. Although bewhiskered miners at the turn o0f the century were not free from the ravages of silicosis, it is asserted that the disease was more prevalent in older men who had spent long years underground. Younger miners, it is said, who followed the fashion of their day with paintâ€"brush mustaches that required special drinking cup accessories, were rarely attacked by the dust disease. "A case in point, was the recollection by William Murray, manager of the Privateer mine, that when he was a youngster the oldâ€"time miners would come out of the mines with their musâ€" taches covered with fine rock dust. It was felt that if the lip covering did nothing else, it prevented a substantial amount of dust entering the lungs. Exponents of the "safety in mustaches" theory at the Department of Mines are said to have declared that "it might be a good thing if miners generally adopted the custom of their fathers in this respect. Nature placed a mustache on the face of man for a purpose, and that purpose appears to have been to filter the air that he breathes." Cochrane School Boards Offers to Test Lignite Public School Board Renews Offer Made to Premier. Coghrane, April 17â€"First organizaâ€" tion cutside the scope of the T. N. O. Railway to offer practical coâ€"operation to tlhie provincial government in its efforts to commercially develop the Onakawana lignite field, the Cochrane How Jim Wilson‘s Wife 701‘ starzted in Rusiness JIM WILSON was hard hit by the depression. For several years, he had an uphill fight to support his wife and two children with meagre carnings from odd jobs. His savings disappeared, and he was finally obliged to seek relief. Early in 1936, Jim secured steady work and promptly began to pay off his accumulated debts. But in less than a year‘s time, Jim Wilson took pneumonia and died. ANOTHER STORY OF LIFE INSURANCE IN ACTION Heartâ€"broken, Jim‘s wife faced the discouraging task of caring for her family. The future was black. Imagine her surprise, therefore, when she learned that Jim had taken out a $5,000 life insurance policy. One of a series of messages sponsored by Life Insurance Companies operaling t (True in every detail, except the names.} Public School Board has advised Preâ€" mier Mitchell F. Hepburn and W. G. Nixon, MPP. for Temiskaming and T. N. O. industrial commissioner, that the heating plant of the modern Ferguson School is available for test purposes. Modern Institution The Ferguson School is Cochrane‘s newest and most modern educational plant. In making the offer, Chairman R. A. Harkness in speaking for the school board drew attention to the fact that the school‘s heating plant is equipped with the most modern type of boilers and should be admirably suited to give lignite a thoroughâ€"going test under practical everyâ€"day conditions. A similar proposition was offered last summer to Col. Mas Lang, then chairâ€" man of the koard of the T. N. 0. Railway, and in renewing the offer, the board addressed itself to both Premier Hepburn and Mr. Nixon, newly apâ€" pointed industrial commissioner for the railroad. J. A. Palangio, pioneer citizen and owner of Palangio Motors and the Emâ€" pire Theatre, declared that he will adâ€" vise the railway‘s industrial commisâ€" sioner that the heating plant of the theatre in Cochrane will also be availâ€" able fot test purposes of the lignite. Premier Hepburn‘s announcemeont that work would proceed as quickly as possible at Onakawana has given new life to the town, a large number of citiâ€" zens being of the opinion that with plenty of cheap fuel available, the noxt industrial step forward for the district will 4s the construction of smelters to Canmore Briquettes, Western Stoker, Iron Fireâ€" man Stoker, Western stove and furnace Coal, Alexo, Pocahontas, Coke, Steam, Welsh, American Blue and Welsh Blower. 86 Spruce South FRANK BYCH FOR GOOD COAL AND SERVICE Coal and Woodyard and Office She sat down and wrote cheques until she had wiped off every debt that Jim had piled up. With the balâ€" ance she started a small business. Did it work out? It most certainly did. Nearly three years have passed since Jim died, but Mrs. Wilson has been able to provide for her family ever since. And all because of Jim‘s life insurance. Every working day, Life Insurâ€" ance in Canada pays out more than to care for families who have lost their breadwinners, or to bring financial security to those whose working days are over, se s # Just Phone 32 for prompt delivery Phone 32 treat iron brought down from the Belcher Island bogs. Favourite pastime here right now, is the choosing of sites for this "dream=~smeliter," The site most favoured is that south of the T. N. 0. station where the old pswer house once stood. A small lake is adjacent and available is a spur track to the main yard of the T. N. O Another idea favoured by many citi«â€" zons is that the town should immedi=â€" ately turn over to the T. N. 0. inâ€" dustrial commission the old agricul«â€" tural grounds at the north end of the municipality, adjacent to the north exâ€" tension of the steel. First Credit Man: "How about Jones of Pigville Centre?" Second ditto: ‘"He always pays cash, so we have no means of finding out how honest he is."â€"Exâ€" change. EFFECTIVE Sunday, April 28, 1940 Canadian Pacific Full Informatison from Agents TIME TABLE CHANGES Hard to Decide Canada Timmins‘