Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1921, Page 20

Not for many seasons have we been Treated to a visitation of hand-held elothes. The last we had of them were the trains that went out some fifteen years ago. In the first decade of the | century college girls left their classes holding their books in one hand and | their trains in the other. Nuise-| maids, or mothers who reared chil- dren without nursemaids, struggled with the proposition of wheeling a| baby carriage and holding up a train. ! while it was one of the arts that every dcbutante had to acquire to. be able to waltz and carry a train with- out showing more than an occasional at the same &lim| of the ankles time. Another tvpe of clothes that necded to be hand held were shawls. You( . shawl and carry horse at the same could not wear a tundles or drive a time. Sleeves That Trailed. The medicval siceves that grew so | long that they trailed on the ground | had to be held up or swung back | over the and the toga of old was not a xarment that could he worn | by the man who toiled with his hands. ; for to keep it in place one had to} hold his right arm in a fixed posi-| tion. i TUndoubtedly the very thing that has | and-held clothes | fact that, recommended these to other generations is the they seem esnecially designed for the fdle hand. with its association of lux- nd ury. ease wealth Of late —with the war espe- | cially—we have be stting over our | prejudice against using our hands. Still the hand-held costume has re- appeared in a guise that may appeal | to you and may not. Held on the Hip. Here vou see it in Lelong's design— the jacket sans fastening that must} be held in place by the left hand. To hold it propneris cquires seemingly | no little concentration. for it must he Theld tight around the hips in order to produce the effect of swathed hips | that the designer intended the suit to . possess. It is quite conceivable that | an American woman being taken by the novelty of this frock might wear it as designed for an occasion or o and then take it to the importer where | she bought it to beg for a snap or so. | or a button and huttonhole at the left hip. to do the work that was becom- ing irksome to the left hand. It is developed here rone of the red and blue combinations so much worn in Paris. The frock and cape facket are in red embroidered in blue and the lining of the cape, which is generously revealed. is also of blue. The Cape Jacket. This_is not the first season that Paris has shown cape jackets. but it is mot a fashion that is likely to re- ceive great following here. especially for spring suits. This is due as much to climate as to taste. Our between seasons are short. In most parts of the country we are transported from the days when we can wear fur coats 1o the days when we wish to wear no coats at all in a very few weeks. The woman who must buy clothes to wear many weeks selects a spring suit that is light in weight, easily worn. She RED CLOTH_FROC! WITH BLUE knows that the cape with its material BROIDERY AND FACING, COM- in the back might be comfortable i D WITH A CAPE JACKET. enough for a few ““eeks in early! “ITHOLT FASTEN! THAT 18| spring. but would burdensome! HELD SNUGLY AROUN: THE ‘when ' HIPS. BY M. JESSIE LEITCH. HOME NURSING .AND HEALTH HINTi{ badly dressed girl with colorless hair and hard, red hands. But there was authority in her voice. And some An Infected Finger. The noon whistles had just blown !, Don’t let your hair stay lifeless, It won't do any good to go home” the sick girl said. “You just show me where you live, and TNl doctor this finger ‘for: you. Look at that red line on ydur arm. It's going up. The infection. ls your arm sore at the !huulder”' “A little, under my arm.’ “I thought so. along with me.” And so the new' girl took the girl with the infected finger home. And | boiled water. and dropped a few drops | of carbolic acid into a bowl of boil- ing water, and as soon as it had | cooled sufficiently to be borne she “soaked” the painful finger in it. Not for a few minutes, but for an hour— two hours—two hours and a half. She made a pitcher of carbolic solution. | adding one teaspoonful of carbol acid to two quarts of boiling water. | and as the solution cooled in- the bowl she replenished it. The sick girl fell asleep. All the Pain Disappears. And softly. without waking her, the | little self-appointed ministrator took the hand out of the bowl, put a moist dressing on it, and bandaged it loose- | 1y. Just as she gently placed a pillow under the hand'to raise it up the girl | wakened and murmured drowsily: | “The pain is all gone. feel it throbbing.” “You go to sleep, and T'll make vou | some hot chocolate. And after awhile we will soak the finger again, and | perhaps it will begin to drain itself.” | Which was exactly what happened. And the new girl nodc v she said the next da finger just in time. been a lot worse.” And she managed to impart a little advice to the grate- ful girl at the same time about in- fections. and using public towels, and several other littlo things, such as | the inadvisability of eating onefs | Junch in washrooms. Which we sin- cerely hope she followed. A cape-like collar is caught under | the girdle in back. 1t might have Immediately after a “Danderine” massage, your hair takes on new life, luster and wondrous béauty, appearing twice as heavy and plen- tiful, because each hair seems to fluff and thicken. colorless, plain or scraggly. You, and in the washroom of a large fac- ‘tory the office girls had congregated. One took down her hair and combed it idly; another, removing combs and pins, loosened her tawny curls and stripped the rings from her fingers. Cheap little Tings they were, and very tawdry, but the little girl regarded them rather lovingly, then devoted herself assiduously to remewing the ymake-up on her face. Carefully she -po'dered and rouge touching up her lips with carmine, drenching her little rose-colored wisp of a silk Bandkerchief with scent from the tiny bottle. she carried in her hand- one obeyed her. The door was opened and the fresh spring air revived the fainting firl almost at once. Prop- ping her head on a folded coat that some one had thrust at her, the new girl said: New Girl Gives Advice. “It's her finger. I'm sure it's in- fected. And the pain and the lack of sleep and everything.” Her voice trailed away non-committally as she removed the wrapping from the finger and examined it carefully. There was a red, angry mass at the side of the finger, a scarlet thread running up the girl's arm, and all around the na’:} of the finger there was a line of w “Its infected all right. She should g0 to a doctor and have it opened up. Those chills she's having and that sick feeling and all—they mean that her finger is infected, and she is absorbing it, t00." “What do you mean — infected? Blood poisoning?’ There was awe in e z ! the voice of the little crepe de chine and ill-looking. She had shadows of | girl as she approached the girl who sleeplessness under her eves, and her | had opened her eyes and was moan- mouth was set in lines of pain. ing fatatly. - : v ure. That's just what T mean. o CEmmel Wleew: Comuas b et “If you won't go to a doctor you'll How's your finger?" asked the girl | sugt have to soak this finger. That's who had just wiped her lips on the|qj] there is to it.” And very decided- Toller towel, after eating her lunch,{ly the little drab girl looked about moving aside for the little, sick-100k- | h dng girl. who was evidently her friend. “It's worse. I'm about fed up with ft. I haven't had any sleep for a ‘week. By brain feels just like it wa.i Another girl unwrapped her lunch and bit into a thick sandwich of bread and pickles, spearing a big sugary doughnut on her finger the while. Then she wiped her lips on the roller towel that hung behind the door—unpleasantly soiled and thoroughly inadequate towel. Then came a little girl who was pale Some one had better go and report this girl sick. I'll take her home.” “There’s no one at home. Just my dad and me. And he's away all day. ;on fire. I can't eat. 1 can’t work. And {3 feel 80 cold all down my spine, 'Just like as if I had been a-swim- I ming.” As she spoke the girl unwrapped the handkerchief which covered her finger and regarded it anxiously. Then she squeezed it a little, wiped the discharge off on the towel which hung bebind the door. “Father says {1t should be opened. It throbs a lot, and he wants me 1o go to a doctor. But 1 hate doctors. They always charge so much for a little advice, t00. And I need all my extra money for a new suit And the girl winced a little as she wrapped the finger up again in the| handkerchief, which was not alto- gether clean. For the finger was ex- cructatingly painful Perhaps it was the girl who was dressing her hair at the mirror, or it might haxe been the one who pinning her thin little georget blouss a little lower on the shoulders. No one quite knew how it happened. but some one jostled azainst the little girl with the sore finger. and her hand struck the wall. She slumped into a Mmp little heap, and slid to the floor. “She has fained. Open the door Don’t step on her hand.” The speak- er was » new girl. a drab-looking, FINAL WEEK | OF SPECIAL . MARCH DISCOUNT On All Sizes and | Styles of Guaranteed 1212 F St. Shop 20% Discount On our entire stock pring Suits Sales Department lIIIIIIIIJ"IIIIIIII(IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|II||I|II|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||II|II||I|IIII|||II|||IIIII|IIIIIIIIII|I||II|I|I|I|I | Tank Water Heaters “California Syrup of Figs” For a Child’s Liver and Bowels Say “California,” then you will Wother! directions for babies who are constipated, g They don’t know wha of course. Now’s the time to offer a Special March Discount. After a small cash payment, you can pay the balance monthly. Washington Gas Light Co. 419 10th Street N.W. 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If LISTEN, WORLD! BY ELSIE ROBINSON. i T'm going to arise and state with vells that I don’t like this new art stuff. 1 don't like it or understand it, and T'd as soon have a coyote sit- ting on my mantlepiece as any of that bric-a-bric. The thing that started this revolt of mine is an exhibition of “in- ational messages” in oils, which I've just seen. They're supposed to be the very “latest” thing and I'm ready to admit that they are. They're so very late, in fact, that they don't get there at all as far as I'm con- cerned. Now I'll allow that I'm not much This sensational bargain olden Golden Oak T Enamel Bed. an extremely Thursday. special price too, want lots of long, strong hair, glistening with beauty. A 35-cent bottle of delightful “Danderine” freshens your scalp, checks dandruff and falling hair. This stimulating “beauty-tonic” gives to thin, dull, fading hair that youthful brightness and abundant thickness. 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