Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1921, Page 77

N ‘and she BY ANNE RITTEVHOUSE. s chil- linen things for little boys—one could not describe these garments as dress LOTH or trousers—which make us want to IR do not distre dren. distress their |clap the hands in enjoyment. moth The latter have to P do the thinking, planning IT is rather a revolution, this new When ona faces the long hot summer L method of dressing children, and | of America the task is not €asy. it does not scem to an observer as If | No mother cin approach the tasklenough had been made of it. There | saying that thing will do. Thelare many youngsters whe have not| modera child voices its approval OF [yet been Introduced to any of these displeasure in no uncerta and [new clothes, and yet would as- mothers have l¢ ed to ) . suredly delight in them. Children une w Tossibly the hot season will make have an THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Youngsters Are Leading the Summer Fashions for Their Elders LANNING for the Children Is Not an Easy Task—Children Have Uncanny Way of Keeping in Touch With What Is Being Worn, and They Have Their { Own Ideas Regarding Garments—There Is a Wide Variety of Styles to Select From This Season—Fabrics Used for Tiny Frocks—The Shortened Skirt, No Collars and Short Sleeves—Ideas for the Boy. p .0, MAY 15 1921—PART 4. i | | | keeping in t tisD idea more u Ay accepted worn, for it is on to be) then fashion for all these Rrouped w they have and colarful garments will be tribal in ring home ablished in the widest sense. gossip at E they insis s are easily acquired. The upon bein r fellows and are | I of them. Many a in more te touch with the|nother who would dearly like to wear world then the stay-at-home parent.|theso gay and sprightly materials They feel e keenly and are {will have feelinz of satisfaction without philosophy to combat it. andiwhen she can build them into varied much of ridicule that is the wive andifrocks for her little girls. One can take of juvenile life boul man-ipe ever so little and still wear such ners and dress 1Us about all the|garments. They begin in the nurs- younz Life k harsh erv. They do not wait until the sparing. It hes the groups of | school daye. ngsters o keep within the cus- " The colored English prints are toms I costumes of the bes to ccepted. The French put which they belong N or r children the last year swirl away from!of the war and they used much bright when hair grows|red of the kind that we now search replace stocking w hen adult are to be built. There are dozens of tiny flowered de- !'sixns in these prints which resemble the d alico of the south- ern s ou may Know, was brought from England hy the early settlers, and and got it from Calicut, TInd where it was one of old t and most nationalized fabries The south- E ish slang_word for it in the fashion of Queen Eliza- th's time when Raleigh brough her American weed called tobacco, another courtier, wishing to in- ratiate himself, brought her this simply marked but colorful cotton from India. So even when we think we are be- ing davotedly local in wearing the smartly printed and once cheap fab- ric which once served for the huge slave population of the southern states we are only being oriental. Fashions repeat themselves. The checked ginghams are used also for these straight chemise frocks which often do not extend within rea- sonable distance of the knees. The zes of the slip are bound with solid cotton or a row of sharply cut tri- angles are stitched by machine. These FOR PARTIES THE LITTLE GIRL DRESSES HBER HAIR WITH A |(riangles came along with the fash- RANDEAU OF NAREOL ns the adults borrowed from north- YELLOW | orp Africa and which resulted inithe RIBBON, WITH A YELLOW DAISY |slipover frock with its straight slash down the front below the collar, and | the string girdle. | They make a satisfactory trim- . when ruf-|ming. They are used in black on fles give way to h the child ts white gowns quite gonerally this season. cognizant of the ch in fashion | Red ones are preferred for children. nes sooner th Bright blue ones are used for small mother. | at nothing is settled | tumery, that it varies r moth8r's clothes do, 4 has a passionate pride in turning and twisting to adjust her- self to it. Loys. who wear the garment that closely | resembies a child's bathing suit. * K ¥ X OTHER fabrics that have crept into popularity are Chinese silks In white with colors and solid colors, colored organdy with frills at hem and neck, thin taffeta in rose pink, French blue, Nile green, and lilac. The latter color is urusual for chil- dren, but it has made headway this as much as * ok ox % 'ERTAIN things are lafd down for children this season, but the pas- ture where they may browse is wide and rich. More freedom is permitted, more liberties may be taken than seascn. The one color that failed of success is black. In a season ever. It is difficult to tell whether the gTown-ups take more from the nurs- ery than childhood takes from the big wardrobe, but there s a striking eimilarity between the clothes worn by all the ages. The delightful freedom that chil- dren enjoy is the brevity of their clothes, which has a counterpart in adult fashions, without the freedom. Criticistn does not rear its head. Skirts are cut off well above the and whoever speaks of the unu"‘ton-‘ sciousness of children knows not where- { piece frock just to the knees; it must | #scaps them altogether. The more | leg the better is the argument. The observer of modern dress may ln-1 sist that this rule holds good among all women today, except those in the f he speaks. As a rule, they are full f self, small bundles of egoism. | It is not necessary to cut the one- that the straight line may not be broken and there is a narrow girdle on this one made of the material, which does not confine the figure The jacket is a square garment reaching nearly to the knees and not meeting in front. There are revers which are bound with a colored braid to match the other edges The French hildren wear a small red rose pinned on the side of the bodice street suit they wear oxford ties of beige or gray suede with black pa- tent leather trimmings and flat heels. Other serge frocks are braided with soutache in a_ fine pattern. on. that will not overwhelm the little figure With this | il Chainette stitching is preferred be= cause of its so The small boy docs not permit the . small girl to carry away all the hon- ors of this colorful and revolutionary season. He wears tiny breeches and | jackets of beige and blue cloth with felt hats of soft blue. His play suits ness are merely preliminary sketches of what he is t0 wear when he grows taller; they are in blue and scarlet, or white and red One thing is true, that if the world of women intend to clothe themselves in black as an international costume. the youth of the world intends to re- semble a Japanese festival AROUND THE CITY ¥ all the sermons that are Eolng to be preached today could be tacked together like carpet rags the string wou'd beit the world. Here's another one for good measure: If you went to that garden party at Mount Alto last week you had for company every phase of philanthropic socsty, from Mrs. First Lady to the supposedly happy women who have no history, likewise men and umbrellas The object of the gathering was to “bring before the pubiic the work that is being accomplished by the oc- cupational therapy department of the, etc.” which means a sale of articles made by ex-service patients at Mount Alto and other hospitals in the city. The hut was gay with samples of skilled craftsmanship that found ready sale, but, also, there were crude efforts of soldiers as efficient as the next when it came to standing up to be Kkiiled for us—for us, mind you. neighbors—but less progressive in eir tralning to fight that other emy most of us poor dears know about—the one that stands at the door with his white teeth sharpened to catch us it we don't look out. And, naturally, all of us want to sell our wares. In this case. it didn't mean money only, but courage to tackle art stuft for a living when, maybe, at soul, a chap was one of the sons of Martha, made for everyday toil, but, anyhow— A newspaper woman who does big things here and is going to have u lovely time when she dies. only, of course, there won't be any time to have, seeing it will be eternity— but never mind that—this is just to tell that she went to the sale and bought a leftover or two, because she saw behind each fatlyre a tragedy that will never parade in print—and then she selected a basket for a colleague who pegs down things, like this. It is a beautiful basket. just lar, enough to hold a glass for flowers, and while the peg-woman was loving it the newspaper woman kept on with her account of the gar- den party until she came to this “Mrs. Blank was unable to go, but she sent money to buy the ugliest thing in the collection so that the poor fellow who made it wouldn't have his feelinga hurt.” ‘Which—asking everybody's pardon —is as good a sermon as will be preached this day. By anybody. Any- where. * ¥ %% A BOY stood by a desk waiting for copy. A reporter breezed over to ths desk and handed to the editor a page of stuff which she qualified with youth's official adjective: “Here's a gorgeous story! The boy couldn't stand for a break like that. She was a pretty girl, all right, but a fellers got to consider provided there was any way of trans- mitting it. Anyhow, it gave the pretty report- er a good little ory—and a good little story is a good little thing. There are 0 many sad ones' T I{ERES another sample to back 4L Romeo's opinion concerning nam It was given to this column by & person who claimed to have heard it with his own ears, and you can't go back on a gent'man’s word—not when he's 4 newspaper man. The other afternoon near twilight a couple of oldish m were lookKing over the statue of Chief Just.c. Mar- shall Then they stood back 10 con- sider it from a distance, ncither of them satisfled with the surv 11 can say is that it don't look like him—and I've known him for years " “Too big, for one thing—Tom Mar- shall's a small man.” * x % 7OU would love the old songs that have come this way, and it would be a big pleasure to print them, ex- cept that our space would need a lot of extending to give the “concerts” asked for. You sce, the world is 80 crowded with news, with more news hatching every minute of every day, that it might be that just as we were having a lovely old-time sing an editor man might turn the lights out on us for wasting precious para- graphs on ‘“used-to-bes” that are needed for the rushing now. This isn't saying he would, you know; it's just saying he might. But, either way, we can finish up the concert we started—all really fine musicals have an “intermission"—and, besides, you will be glad to meet a singer you knew and loved—not so many years ago: “Dear Nannie Lancaster: Here {8 the old London coster song—all I re- member: Al "round my hat. T vears a veepln' willow. All 'round my bat, & twel-month and a d And, if anybody axes we for the resson vy I vears it 1 tells far away. “My mother used to sing “The Prai- rie Flower'—a lot of verses—and & would bawl it all the way down Cause-Way-End (called Cassy-en’,) in Aberdeen, Scotland, when I would be going along on some errand in the twilight, thinking that by noise I could be courageous. Yours cordially, “JEANNIE WINSTON. “When I return from Baltimore we'll fix vp a Sunday visit and I will sing the things. as I remember them. “JEANNIE." A singer from out of the friendly urknown—name of “Methuselah, jr. —will close our program with the his toric dirge asked for last week: When good King Arthur reigned, He was a gracious king. He bad three sons turned out of court because they could not sing. The first he was a milier, The second he wa it's ‘cos my true love is far, f | | } o ‘ | his paper: aver. knees and legs are not coversd. No jsavage countries. \ o Deper: . | Ana tie thind, he Wtiie tallor boy. 2 3 | “As a child’s legs do not move the| & Ain't it pretty late to be writin' | 1, 1 thirl, he ws Pt attempt 1s made to revive stockings reformers to protest, the only condi- WS \w g up Gordjus, Miss Blank? He's been | Tne miller: bo stiie corms - = @ ‘young: form | tion that stands against the adoption dead & long time now. The weaver. he stole yaru. A . now goes bare. Never were children so briefly clothed, but neither expense nor anxiety is spared by this fashion. Whatever latitude is allowed, the oertain things that stand out in the seasonal output are the straight line, the infinitesimal skirt, the negligible sleeves, the avoidance of any restrain- ing sash or girdle, the use of colors, and the ecarcity of the entirely white frock. Frznce has persuaded us to accept these things. We were quite sure in our own minds that we would con- tinue to dress our children as we had done, and then we found that the very fashions we had ridiculed in Paris as put out by the smart dress- makers had orept in here overnight without asking our leave. They came, they were seen and they conquered. ‘Those who are not aware of their acceptance are shocked at their brevity and feel quite virtuous in an- nouncing that their children will never, never wear such clothes. I wonder? After awhile, after common usage, that which has caused us alarm does not even cause us ex- citement. This is true of every con- dition of life. If familiarity does not breed contempt. it, at least, breeds indifference, and, sometmes, approval. These tiny frocks have much al- lure. They are as colorful as an old- fashioned garden. The monotony of ‘white is apparent now that the rain- bow has flung its arch over the cradle and the schoolroom. There are frocks in green and blue plain linen trimmed with narrow red ribbon that make us forget our staunch adherence to neutrality. There are chemise frocks of red and white dot- ted muslins with huge fichus that make us wonder why we ever thought ruffies £nd sashes were necessary to youth. There are blue and white striped CERISE DOTS. when children take all fashlons away from tneir elders, or the other way around, it is strange that the dom- inant color adopted by the women Ekas been refused by the ohild. The French are not 80 opposed to the use of it as we are, but they have made black artistic, as a rule, whereas we have used it more for economy and for mourning. No mother of the day can give eon- sideration to a skirt of the usual ! TWO INTERESTING USES OF THE ORANGE SHADE ARE REPRO- THE LITTLE GIRL WEARS A NEW FROCK OF BLUE SERGE. THE | length, for if she fails to adopt the brevity of the new garments she puts her child into the class where her conspicuous difference from the squeamish, | beneath the frocks; they are not of | with ruffies. of these revolutionary clothes in the prejudice of the mother. She may be she may consider the fashion has been carrled to absurd lengths. After all, in the most ex- treme of these garments there is very little below the hips. Tiny brecch- es, full and with fine ruffies, are worn white muslin _in the conventio manner, but of the frock material l A gingham garment earries gingham breeches bound with the same solld color as the rest of the costume and flowered silk carries breeches of that | fabric covered with tiny ruffies, some- times picot-edged or run with fine lace. These little bits of under- clothes are attached to a slim pina- fore blouse of muslin. ‘They are merely ornamental loin cloths, going back to first principles, color thrown in for good measure. * % X * 7THE top part of the new garments is cut according to the ruling fashion, the neck line 1is slightly round, the sleeves are flat and short or made Into small puffs finished Often the dressmaker BOY’S COSTUME 1S OF BROWN LINEN WITH TRIMMING OF WHITE AND |attaches a streaming ribbon in some vivid color that catches the attention. It is often longer than the frock. Red, bright and primitive, is the rib- bon most frequently chosen. It is put on the sleeves or at the back of the neck There {8 no attempt to band this others causes her to be self-conscious, Empire frock into the little boy un- RED AND WHITE DOTTED MUSLIN ARE FASHIONED INTO A CHARMING FROOK, SIMPLY TRIMMED WITH WHITE FICHU AND CUFFS. NEXT I8 A CANARY-COLORED ORGANDY FROCK, WITH A SKIRT OF PLEATED FLOUNCES AND A COLLAR MADE THE SAME WAY. THE BOY'S SUIT IS OF BLUE AND WHITE STRIPED LINEN TRIMMED WITH TINY RUFFLES OF ORGANDY AND A RED LEATHER BELT FASTENED AT THE BACK. AT RIGHT—LINEN FROCK OF GREEN AND BLUE PLAID, TRIMMED WITH RUFFLING AND NARROW RED RIBBON. der the arms. The fabric falls in a straight line from start to finish. ‘The tailored frock of the street Is another new invention of the dress- makers for the juvenile. The young- ster is supposed to wear it when she arrives at eight years. It is of blue serge, a fabric which was discarded for children many years since. To- d-{ it is_fashioned into a minlature edition of the pleated chemise frock worn by half the women of Amer- ica. The long walst dissolves Into the straight flat pleating in order Cooling Beverages When ’ WOMEN Hot Weather Comes Along GREAT many women prefer a cup of hot tea to a glass of iced lemonade, even on a Wwarm afternoon. But most of us shift our allegiance from tea to some iced fruit drink when warm weather really comes. And the hostess who has ready al- ways the quick makings of some iced beverage is sure to give an added impression of welcome to her guesta. The whole trick lies in having al- ways the things needed for some of these delicious and refreshini drinks. Be sure the ice is always blentiful. Have a few bottles of charged water always chilled, for this is used in many fruit drinks. Then have some sort of sirup made from fresh fruit ready to mix into a beverage that will ‘bring delight to those who par- take of it. . Here are recipes for some cold drinks for summer, and recipes also for some hot ones. There are chill, damp days of summer when hot chocolate 18 botter than iced tea And there are other times when one's ap- petite makes the chocolate more tempting than that of lemonade. In the following recipes all these times are considercd. Ice tea forms a good foundation | for many Sorts of summer beverages. Keep it on hand in the refrigerator in a covered jug of some sort or in quart or two-quart fruit jar, with screwed-on tops. Lamon juice and sugar can be added to iced tea, rather weak, to make & most refreshing drink. Lemon julce can be squeezed and kept on hand in the refrigerator for two or three days. Slices of lemon, too, can be kept ready to put in a glass of tea or lemonade. Secrub a lemon and then shave it in thin siices without separating them. Wrap the lemon in a piece of waxed paper and put it In the refrigerator. In_ this way the slices will retain their julci- ness and freshness for several days. Iced coffes is a good summer drink. To make it, stir two cups of scalded milk into a quart of strong, hot cof- fee, and sweeten it lightly. Chill it thoroughly. Then put a tablespoon of shaved ice into each glass and nearly fill it with coffee. . DUCED IN THIS SKETCH. THERE IS A FROCK OF BLUE SERGE BORDERED WITH BIAS BANDS OF ORANGE LEATHER, AND A FROCK EMBROIDERED TH-ORSNGE, Mnch waste of ice can he Lat"an"tos stmns 1-uved. - a spoon of whipped ecream. | glass is added a tablespoon of vanilla thought of iced | not cost much and it shaves the ice without breaking it unnecessarily. Fresh fruit juice of any sort adds to the flavor of a tea punch, made with ice tea and lemon julce, sugar and shaved fce. A sprig of fresh mint in each glass further varies its character, or a slice of orange or two or three cubes of ripe peach. Re- member that varlety is much appre- ciated in the cooling_summer drink, and seek variety. . Remember, too, that additional sugar can be used by persons with a sweet tooth, but that sweetness _canmot be extracted from a glass of lemonade or other sum- mer beverage. Therefore, use sugar with a sparing hand. A little brings out the flavor and too much spoils the drink for some persons. Many delicious beverages can be made better with the addition of a little ice cream. Iced coffee, for in- stance. is twice as good if to each ice cream. Iced chocolate is improved with lce cream. And an eEgnog seasoned with nutmeg and served with a tablespoon of ice cream is a truly nourishing as well as refresh- ing, beverage. So if you have ice cream for dinner pack away a little of it to embellish the beverage later on, or else make one of the one-quart freezers full of it when you want some on hand for summer drinks. Every one knows that erange juice is immensely beneficial. And here | are a few ways to make use of | Orange mint” cup calls for dlced oranges. The pulp should be fairly firm, but the white part should be carefully removed. Place a few of the dice in a cup with a little pow- dered sugar. Pour over it equal parts of orange juice, lemon juice and sherry. Sprinkle with chopped mint and serve cold. Orange syrup that {s very nice to have on hand for cold drinks or pud- ding sauce !s made as follows: Strain | two cups of orange julce and add an equal quantity of sugar. the erated peel of two oranges and one lemo and the juice of a lemon. Bol Top with avolded ‘Shis doce | snd thres pints of fifteen minutes, removing scum. Strain and bottle and seal if it is not to be used soon. Orangeade calls for one large cup of strainad juics, two cups of sugar ice wates, in the Public Eye Mrs. Arthur Capper BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Between being a woman Wwho cherishes ambition to accomplish something on her own account and being the wife of a man who aims in the same direction, or has already achieved something worth while, there is a wide difference, in the opin- ion of Mrs. Arthur Capper, wife of the Kansas senator. She has a broad outlook on the subject, being the daughter of Samuel J. Crawford. the civil war governor of the state, an able and successful public servant, and the wife of another equally o, and by a curious coincidence the world war governor of that same commonwealth. Consequently, to ob- tain the ballot fitted neatly into Mrs. Capper's life, and without disturbing her routine an inch. “Everybody knows that one politi- cian is usually sufficient for one fam- ily, and whea the man leans that way. it 18 a wise spouse who bends all her energies toward aiding him. My mother, who had the fine quali- ties of the woman who lived through the sorrows of the civil wr, found it a career to make my father comfort- able and to be his confidante and companton. Now, I belong to an era where the viewpoint has widened, and where we are supposed to have en- joyed advantages and to have pro- gressed-far beyond the old-fashioned standpoint. Yet I have found it an absorbing occupation just to be the wife of a public man and to play my role to strengthen his. When any one asks me what I did toward this move- ment and the other, I am compelled to answer that I did just what came up and what seemed necessary to do. It has required almoat heroic effor: 2o keop a home.golng properly, ast 4 - to mention the other inconveniences of the period through which we have been passing.” Mrs. Capper belongs to a small group of women in the officlal set ‘who were especially congenial be- cause they were the wives of news- paper editors. and in this number was the present first lady. There is also { another congenial group to be found in the wives of former governors of their states, and in this Mrs. Capper | figures also, with @ number of the most brilllant women in Washington. While she modestly discounts any individual achievements, she is in- variably named as the type of woman who makes the backbone of the na- tion—the woman who believes in the entity of the family, who advises every woman, no matter how gifted, how expert and in what direction, to use her talents toward developing the best in her husband, her sons, her brothers, or the men with whom she comes in contact if she has none of her own. If, in pursuit of this, a political career seems imperative, or if it makes a natural appeal, well and good. But it should be the means to accomplish a worthy end and to be sought for that alone, Incidentally, Mrs. Capper Is a splen- did housekeeper, and the care of her home is her chief aim now, though she finds time for clubs, social obli- gations and for the engrossing duties which come in behalf of the visitor | from Kansas, who is almost ever- present in these days. P — Fads and Fashions. Green 18 a good color for dresses. Velvet is very. smart for evening wear. Collars of coats and wraps are small. The circular frock is gaining in favor. Sweaters will show the tuxedo col- 1 ar. Separate coats show the cape In- the popular color of the mo- ment. The new printed materials have small figures. Ribbon flowers are worn with the evening frock. Tan and blue combine well for the street frock. Tailored dresses are extremely sim- ple in design. Spring hats are adorned with crystal trimmings. Embroidery shows a decided oriental influence. A new velvet fabric, audubon, lcvely for negiiges. Linen and cotton veofle in pastel shades are in vogue. * Parasol silk, s may be of cretonne, A new color for evening clothes is a tangerine shada. is satin or even velvet. funeral go by.” Not much to tell about, except that —if humor has a place in the world that is better than this, it is a safe bet that our Gen. Gorgas got a chuc- kle out of the mishap to his name— 1 saw hlll And the littie tailor boy stoie broadcloth enough For to keep these three rogue: ., The miller got drowned i The weaver got hungein his Old Nick ran away Wwith th ‘With the broad: ttle tailor boy h under his arm. NNIE LANCASTER. Jazz in Pre-Historic Peru HAT the Ind!ans of prehis’oric Peru knew the art. or science of “jazs” is apparent from the decorations, representing or- chestras and dancers, found on the ancient pottery and metal objects of the region. Further evidence Is furnished by accounts of early writers and, most convincing, by numbers of the musical instraments which have been recovered from graves and rulns by archeologists. These instru- mwents include drums, bells, cymbals, rattles, pipes, flutes, whistles, trum- pets and an unmistakable ancestor of the oboe. If the activities of an energetic Indian orchestra equipped with some or all of these instruments did not produce something akin to present-day jazz, the writer is gullty of an_error in judgment. Undoubtedly,” early man sang and danosd before he produced instru- mental music. As the most important clement of the song and dance s rhythm, and as in singing and danc- ing a desire for some sound to clearly indicate the rhythm seems to be uni- versal, primitive vocalists and terp- sichoreans everywhere have found assistance in the snapping of fingers, clapping of hands, beating of hips and stamping of feet. Then. prob- ably, the drum was devised—the first musical instrument. The allied in- struments of percussion. as cymbals, rattles and bells, soon followed. Later came the wind instruments, such as musical shells and varieties of pipes and horns. And finally, the more complex stringed Instrument was de- veloped. The greatest single step for- ward in the history of instrumental music was the mechanical production of a musical scale. This came with the pipes. In Peru, evidence is found of the first two types—instruments of percussion dnd wind instruments —but So far nothing has been found to indicate that the prehistoric In- dians of the region knew how to make music from the vibrations of strings. * * X ¥ In the American Museum of Natural History, New York, there is a large collection of prehistoric musical in- struments of Peru. They have been carefully studied by .Charles W. Mead, assistant curator of the de- partment of anthropology, , whose findings have been published in' a short paper. According to Mr. Mead, no drums have been found in ancient Peruvian graves. This may be for the reasom, he believes, either that the drums of the time, being made of perishable material, have all disin- tegrated. or that because of some superstition it was not customary to bury drums with the dead. however, were pictured by the native artists of the time and described by early writers, the evidence showing that they were identical in kind with the drums used today in several parts of Peru. Thely were made of skin stretched over a hoop of wood, or over one end of a short section of a tree trunk, hollowed out to a thim cylinder. Small drums seem to have been the rule. The drumheads were usually made of the skins of deer and other animals common to the country. But sometimes, as among the Huancas, the ins of captured enemies were used, in the belief that the sound of such drums would strike terror into the hearts of living ene- mies. The bells of the Peruvian j; or- chestra were of copper, with pebbles for clappers. There were rattl made of small shells, nuts, seeds, etc., which were weorn attached to the wrists, ankles and other parts of the ody in dancing. Gourds filled with ub‘lu were used as hand rattles. Shells were struck together like cym- bals. The museum collection also contains three small bronse discs, slightly concavo-convex, with per- forated projections by which they |were evidently suspended. When struck with any hard substance they give out a remarkably clear and reso- nant sound. ‘Whereas one of the fads of the day is the ukulele, the Peruvians of “the ®ood old days" delighted in perform. ing on the huayra pjuhura, or pipes. The pipes were open and closed and made of bone or cane, and in one known instance of stone. Musical pipes are still very popular with the Peruvian Indians. Couriers use them to announce their arrival and de- parture, much as the post horn was d by the driver or guard of Eng- lish mail coach days. Flutes of cane, of bone and of gourd were also popular. They were carved in a variety of fantastic shapes. A number of the bone flutes which have been found have stop-holes on the under side, apparently meant to be closed by the thumb. ~They are very primitive instruments, not producing a true or complete scale. That the Peruvians were able to realize their shortcomings to at Jeast some extent appears in the fact that in some in. ruments attempts to correct the scale have been made; the vents | have been plugged with bits of gourd and substituted by other holes. More- over, it is to be remembered that the age and condition of the instruments, especially those of cane, have doubt- less affected the tone qualities. * * x X Ancient Peruvian whistles were usually made of terra cotta or wood, and produced as a rule only one or two tones. They, too, were carved in the likeness of human beings or well known animals or birds. In most cases the grotesque element predom- inated in such representations. The famous double whistling jars of Peru are well represented in the museum’s collection. These consist of two pottery vessels connected near the bottom s0 that the water passes freely from one to the other. Near the top of the first jar (usually sur- mounted by a human or animal fig- ure) is the opening of the whistie. When the jars have been partly filled and are swung backward and for- ward a series of whistling sounds is produced, the rush of the water in- side forcing the air out through the vent. 4 The trumpet, which was in almost universal use in prehistorie times, was known in Peru in two forms— the conch-shell and the manufactured trumpet of terra cotta or of wood. There is still used by a number of tribes in _the Amazon region a plece of cane from twe to five feet long. substance, through which is passed a split quill forming a “reed.”” " This is. of course, a forebear of the oboe. It was undoubtedly this type of instru- ment which constituted the “cornets™ said to have been used by the Inca army at the siege of Cuzco. e Protection From Moths. Bags made of newspaper are fine for keeping furs and wooleas during the summer season. To make one of these bags, take four newapapers, open ito full size, 1ap the ends of two over jeach other and stitch acrosg on the sewing machine, stitch the other two papers the same way, place them to- Eether and stitch around three sides. You will then have & bag about five and a half feet long. These are better than cloth te protect clothing from dust and moths. —_—— Ar lied braids and glased ribbens %' ‘widely used for spring. R Drums, ; With one end closed by some gummy .