11 W omen were wondering how military these Lady Duff Gordon fashions could become without being too ultra and with a great deal of newspaper publicity General Cipriano Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, was barred from entrance into the United States on grounds of moral turpitude. In headlong haste people fled from towns in the vicinity of Verdun where the German forces were staging another push and people asked each other if it wasn’t horrible to think of those hundreds of Belgian babies who had been spitted on bayonets. A German sea captain named Koenig, with notable courage, went under the sea in a cargo submarine at Kiel and made a voyage to America; soldiers armed with the latest weapons of warfare moved over European battlefields suppressing one another; and many people suspect

