Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1921, Page 47

pt) s—to say nothing of the gift - b of quick thinking, which most of us lack when an_emergency comes alongsT JANUARY 30, 1921—PART 2. attract most attention are used on white AROUND THE CITY. frocks as embroidery, as buttons, as YOUNG man and his wife took | butterballish, were perfectly aware A a walk that warm Sunday aft- cloth application. White linen slips that were once left bare of trimming are RS AT Ay of the jealousy they were causing— you could tell. And why not, seeing ernoon. Out Great Falls way they met up with a rabbit in 3 now touched with rows of bright red 4 - SHORTER AND MORE ORNAMENTAL g o g s RETAINER PAY UNCLAIMED" they had on polo coats and cowls of since the Egyptian era, one thinks. eached T B RO R CL Ll 3 trouble. Burrs! Its fur was tangled | Water and kept them warm as torsty children’s clothes have r e Failure of mnaval reservists to v i thed and there is a belt of red kid or rib- |the bulk of the tiny figure. That the fores unavailable—that it could Jjust | telling what envious longings see says, is responsible® for the failure of: t the line of the hips. only weapon is fleetness! ‘Tain 19, nol - D s It you don’t believe it, ask a cer- acter. All of these were sent to the ral decades, but it has been accen- and the rabbit set free, the afternoon| He had a brown mare—must be postal authorities. The naval allot- : in this country women have contin- ihg feeling that this modesty will the round white legs above them. No |l JUVENILE CLOTHES ARE GROWING buttons and all edges are finished with African triangles in red cloth. Only " take up these ancient forms, but they RFTTENHOUSE. It will not be restricted to chil- “c ile ¢ Naval ress - NY ANEw dren, "1t 13 being fashioned in child- | Bave been in use for juvenlls clothes iyy hite ollcloth that shea the |DvAl Reservists: Forget,Add [HIRE 18- somo” gvidence. that to the hot sands of the south. For| The trick of lining hip sashes with e SO T I e i e Th them it is merely trimmed with a | bright colors will be brought into play |in the sticky things and its runners|gejectedly, but kept walled eyes on i the frreducible pinimum. e red ribbon that hangs to the knees!tms spring. Georgette is a good fabric { 5o matted together—why and where- | his stylish neighbors. And there's no | notify the Navy allotment office of irts of those youngsters from two buttonholes at the neck, | to use. It is soft and does not add to i i s {elling what envious longlngs seeihed | changes in address, Secretary Danicls ere giris and the breeches of bon. | Licr "Tord Fauntieroy sash will be | inch along, and you know what that|where his brain lived and, maybe, those. youngsters who are boys as- meant to a wisp of a creature whose | the thing we call a soul—yes, sir;|many of them to receive their retain- soul! Also brain, ma'am! er pay. It is stated tnat the Navy ' allotment officer in this city now has ol e e The young man must have been|, i, rominent merchant whose fam- | 60.739 unclaimed checks of that char- ashion has prevailed there for sev- twin to Farmer Brown's boy, for he|jly was a business factor in this picked up the terrified thing, and byl town long before most of us Were |addresses given by the men, and in tuated during the last three years and the time the last burr was extracted | bor most cases were returned by the [ €5 having its affect in America. vas over and it time t home. | dead by this time—and, also, he had | ment office has been again instruct-* ed to cut the hems of tiny frocks to the knee line, but there is a grow- soon’ cease. Children are now show- ing their knees. Someare showing one:seems to care how much material ‘or how little material there is below he waist. B ?The-puce of perversity that runs hrough the gamut of fashionable ap- parel - is that youngsters should swathe their necks and uncover their 1egs. Their elder sisters do not swathe the necks. In this especial abstinence they are consistent. Stockings have long ago disappeared from "the legs of the majority of youngsters; or at least they were in danger of doing this when some one handed children the golf stocking. The youngsters saw in it a chance to look quite sportsmanlike when they paraded the streets far from fields of activity, and to have anything but a sursery look is joy indeed. * % % % It is a wonder that the reformers do not get after these fashions which permit a child to go about in icy cold weather with a minimum of clothing covering the lower half of the body. ‘When women began to wear trans- parent blouses, thin stockings and lowr.ghoes on the street there was a howl of Protest that arose with the treggth of a irocco. Dactors threaténed pneumonia to such women and argued that the fu- ture race was to consishof weaklings because women risked their health through vanity. But nothing hap- pened. No woman has been any the worse for her indiscretions I8 clothes. She has merely learned to stand cold as a sailor does. o “The same has been found true WU iMren. - Americans sneered at aa?nm:. because of her racial fear of 2 current of aif, but they did not stop to think how the children were turned loose throughout the winter with bare legs and arms. Finally America accepted this French custom. Stockings were abandoned, woolen clothes ';:ab‘l:rwn into the discard, So the years have slipped by with ut any- serious changes in fashions or. children except the insidious ortening of the skirts. These have come = grotesquely brief here and ere. Such - grotesqueness established a skirt for the conservatives, as is b'l:"’wwt , frocks with & it of colorea em- S mahing. colorfal clothes that had “I was going along when I noticed{ Indigestion Gases Flatulence., real character. Now comes their op- \ a crowd swarming around an ambu- . 3: RS prolific ! lance at the opposite curb. Men and| SOUrNEsS Acidity Palpitation portunity. The midwinter is of mfitydtzlnb\e costumes. They fill the. . windows, they are seen in the parks. they abound in the nursery and schoolroom. ‘There is a strong indication in such clothes of a return to many of capsed this resurrection. Duris tha adopted dark and warm fabrics for ot so much for .protection— as they were reduced to absurd portions—but as a method for reducing laundty work. The fashion remains. It has reached and influenced Americans. of us is 50 young as to forgel o sudden change in the opinions of ‘mothers concerning the advisability of roviding wash garments for children in place of the worsted fabrics that had held ‘since Puritan days. We con- wider the new decision final. This was the accepted fashion to world's end. So do we judge all mass decisions, sud- . denly waking up to find that they, too, are old-fashioned. So it is that wash clothes which ruled the nursery are old-fagshioned this season. They are not even promised for the summer time. Silk and crepe de chine are in full power, Colors are preferred to white. Ornamentation is rampant. Elimina- tioh of material in length of skirt is the only ‘elimination. One cannot fail to put the questiol ‘What are women going to do if the nurs- ery su s in this revolution? The older set has stolen Wevllun;hl ‘nile 1 for three years. e short #kirt, the bobbed hair, the small sleeve, #ocks and sandals, long-waisted bodices without waist line are only a few of the d .dl-olrm-“by m':m mr? n:'n uld n y who sho: .ve_known bef tter. revolution is clothes for the eld theretore. Trom a Juvenile. source. If juvenilea change their fashions will follow suit? women ? The revolution in clothes for the elders, for children not expressed through the conventional wash fabrics, but through the te: of the laundry bills have kept the latter from sleeping. Surely there will “be drastic economy if wash fabrics m to exist in the wardrobes of chil- o $ LR R N 4 SUk is & strong favorite for spring frocks for youngsters, and the man dressmaker who began the exploit: tion of black taffeta slips for yellow- l;fi.‘ youngsters threw & pebble in The circles have rapidly wi Japanese silk is widely used for spring frocks. It is sometimes striped in directoire fashion. Green and gold are colors used in one model. There another gown in & smali-figured design of colors on a dark back- ground, with an introduction of voile pleatings, red ribbon and green bows. Surely imagination can go mno fur- ther. The child who wears it will feel like a May mla = - sre cordings and puffin, -;l-t:::l:fl on thin gowns ?o koe‘; setting to the stand- r? of simplicity that has prevailed. Net and georgette are combined in some frocks Serge PLAID TOPCOAT, TRIMMED WITH NARROW BANDS OF SHINING MADI BLACK LEATHER. THE MUFFLER AND HAT ARE put together, especially in long- waisted frocks. with the serge serv- ing as a pleated skirt. There are organdie slips dropped over colored silk pinafore: and scallops have dropped down from women’s clothes to frequent usage at the edges of small frocks. That is where scallops began, in the nursery, and that is where they return to be bound with bright col- ors as of old. The short, serviceable skirts of blue serge attached to mus. lin bodices are completed py over- Q @»‘753?')‘) AT LEFT—TAN LINEN SMOCK, EMBROIDERED IN RED TROUSERS. CENTER—WHITE LINEN SLIP, FASTENED RED TRIANGLES APPLIED WITH BUTTONHOLE STPTCH. d organdy are BODICE FASTENED WI'I'II#G-EEN BUTTONS. THE EDGE . during the war, E TO MATCH. blouses of wash fabric, with the same kind of scalloped® hem that women have put on the lower edge of even- ing frocks during the winter. These overblouses are fanciful and diverse. In them there is a return to table-cloth cotton in red-and- white or yellow-and-white checks— the kind that was so difficult to get even in France, where it has served as table cover- ing for centuries. Possibly this very demand for it. and its 'scarcity, placed the minds of designers on it. < AND BLUE CONVENTIONAL THE BAOK WITH BRIGHT RED BUTTONS. THE EDGI AT RIGHT—BRIG! RAINY DAY COAT FOR A SMALL BOY. NOTCHED REVERS, LARGE POCKETS AND TIGHT BELT. IT IS OF TAN TWEED WITH THE HAT OF TWEED HAS A RAIN-SHEDDING BRIM. Children will wear the same fabric in a_different way. It will form the overblouse to dark and unwashable skirts. Even where the =traight line is re- tained in every-day frocks, there is an obvious effort to get away from simplicity. Well enough is not let alone. One conspicuous new frock of the season is of tan linen suffi- ciently short to demand trousers on even a modest child, and these tight little bloomers are of bright blue. The embroidery is in red and blue, somewhat resembling a flower pot at the hem. Nothing sedate about this. As_these trousers become more fre- quent one begins to wonder if the nur- sery will influence older women into a revival of pantalettes? It is evident that’the colors which . reinstated seems reasonably certain, but it will be kept from boys and re- stricted to girls. Possibly the self- determination of small youngsters would | prohibit the fashion if it were attempted. | Little boys, by the way, will have _their heart’s delight offered to them in |a mew kind of tweed top coat which permits them to swagger as they wish. 1t is so very grown-up. The fabric is tweed, the color is tan. It is modeled on those Brifish warms that made the trenches livable. Tmere are huge pockets a half tight belt with a buckle, notched revers, and, glory of glories, a hat to match of the rainy-day variety with 4 rakish brim that sheds water. How the possessor of such things wili pray for what he once passionately hated —the long, long day when the sky drips. No aftic, no schoolroom for him. . The open sky and the broad highway. ) J E2.80. DESIGN, AND WORN OVER A PAIR OF BRIGHT BLUE ES ARE FINISHED WITH JHT GREEN WOOL JERSEY, WITH PLEATED SKIRT AND STRAIGHT . % i leaves nd Unless the rabbit, sensing the kind- ness and feeling grateful for it, was saying to itself—and rabbits may be fluent talkers for all we can tel “Do you know what I wish? Well, sir, I wish I could take you two on a Sunday walk once—and explain the secret meanings of the woods and fields, and what we little people know about sunshine and stars and lettuce open your eyes to all the hidden wisdoms that you humans are biind to. That would be a walk worth taking.” But the .chances are the young man didn’t have the first idea that he was blind, or that he was a Farmer Brown boy, or that one long, long ume ago, Some one made a ble to (it his action and called it “The Good Samaritan.” * k x % SHERE are widows and widows. There always have been. There always will be. This one was a bombazine and chin- ribbon relict of the sort that can be relied on to wear weeds until the time comes to put on that other robe of eternal whiteness. And the spry dif- fidence of her, a8 she took in the shop windows of Market space, Some wWay created an impression that her lawful boundary was some way oft—a forgot- ten old street that “used to be fash- ionable,” and that the warm sunshine had enticed her into running away, as a child might, to adventure into the excitement of a downtown esca- pade—just as June seemed to have frolicked into January. Anyhow: ' By the time she got to 7th street her interest was caught by a crowd near the market side of the Avenue, a big crowd that might mean any raw tragedy in the making. No little old bombazine lady would dare to try to cross the Avenue with all those motor cars dancing quadrilles on the asphalt, so she stood at the corner and fairly teetered with excitement until 2 man from across sprinted over: “Pardon me, sir, but has anybody been Killed' “Hadn’t time to look, ma’am,” and he sprinted on. Then a boy flashed curb- ward ,and, naturally, he knew all there was to tell: “Nome; nobody been killed; just the tailbode of a huckster cart come off | an’ spilled a lot of tunnips an’ p'ta- ters an’— ‘The little old lady looked, somehow, as if she had been cheated. She as good as admitted it to another woman who, supposing she was afraid to ven ture over, asked if she could help her across the street. “Thank you, but I was just looking at that crowd over there. I thought it might be a bomb or a hold-up, but it seems it is only some wasted vege- tables. I am glad, of course, but the papers.are so full of crimes and ac- cidents—and as I have never Seen anything of the kind—" “You want to be around when some- thing happens? 1 used to be that way, too, until T took to the movies. Now I am so familiar with sensations that I've sort of lost interest.” The voice that had been plaintively lr;luuismve. now registered virtuous shoc! “Oh, no! I could never go to a ture show. My conscience woul allow me.’ ‘The other woman, whose conscience had been educated to the knowledge that a movie may picture as good 2 sermon as ever was preached. smiled her conventional best in parting, and that was about all, except that: It chalked down another proof that de Maupessant was right in his in- sistence that excitement is as neces- sary as salt, and that if we can’t get it lawfully, we go into our mental kitbags and sneak out that sinister, civilization-smothered characteristic that the Frenchman called the “spirit of the mob.” ic- dn’t EE PEAKING of crowds: A wise man with friendly eyes told this little one on himself: women, all elbows and nudges, were shoving and hedging to get a front view, and as an ambulance may mean any sort of dramatic tragedy, I nat- urally crossed over to find out what the excitement was about. “The driver of the ambulance had gone in a store to have rubber heels put on his shoes.” L I’l‘ had rained all morning, with more frain coming down—zigzag rain} that seemed to be made of something stronger than water. Maybe it was because the cars were jammed and crowded, but, anyhow, a woman was scurrying along a path that squirmed like a wet eel through the Capitol grounds—with not even a sparrow in sight. At a certain point she paused ex- pectantly, though there was only the soppy silence of the grass, and gray skeleton trees with bony arms up- lifted. She took a pecan from the pocket of her raincoat, and: Before it touched the ground a squirrel flashed out from the rainy nowhere, grabbed the nut and settled back on its haunches. /The woman waved a hand and called out: “See you in the morning. The squirrel had no time for ameni- ties. But the woman was entirely satisfied. She knew that the small thing had been expecting her. And that is enough to ask of any squirrel. * kK K HE same rain on the cobbles back of the market house: Two horses hitched to a country wagon were putting on airs. Any- body with the traditional half-eye could tell that much by the ostent: tion with which they flapped ears and nodded arrogant heads at other rain-soaked horses standing stolidly around, especially one pallid Bray that might have been the identical steed that Death used to ride until the poor thing began to show more bones than his share and had to be sold to some huckster for the sum known outside of arithmetic as a song. And_the two horses, brown and Notice ! ! ! TO OUR FRIENDS GENERAL PUBLIC We will be located Feb- ruary Ist 704 7th St. N.W. Still offering special prices on our stock at 432 7th St. N.W. & Zanner i Mother! a hitched to a bug3ly, was Standing ‘before the merchant's home, with the little boy playing in the street. A team of fire horses came tearing around the cormer. The mare lifted the child with her teeth and set him safely on the pavement. The buggy was smashed.. But the boy was saved. 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