Teasdale
SARA (MRS. ERNST B.
FILSINGER), an American author, born at St. Louis, Mo., 1884. She was educated at private schools in St. Louis, and is a member of the Poetry Society of America and the St. Louis Artists' Guild.
Her works include: "Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems"; "Helen of Troy, and Other Poems"; "Rivers to the Sea"; of "The Answering Voice" and "One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women." She use, "Love Songs." She has also been editor received the Columbia University-Poetry Society of America prize awarded in 1917 to "Love Songs." us. 1917 to "Love Songs."
About 150 species are known, natives of the temperate parts of the Old World and of America. This order con- World and of America. This order conogenous plants with opposite or whorled leaves and flowers in heads. The only valuable species of the order, D. fullon leaves and flowers in heads. The only bracts hooked, the flowers oval, pale purple or whitish. It is probably only a vabracts hooked, the flowers oval, pale pura stiff loam. The crooked awns or chaffs are fixed around the circumference of large broad wheels or cylinders, and woolen cloth is held against them. They raise a nap on it which is afterward cut level. A piece of fine broadcloth requires 1,500 or 2,000 of them to bring out raise a nap on it which is afterward cut broken and useless. Steel substitutes quires 1,500 or 2,000 of them to bring out the nap, after which the teasels are and tear the fine fibers of the cloth. Also in mechanics and cloth manufacture, any contrivance used as a substitute for teasels in the dressing of woolen cloth.