Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1922, Page 81

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.., DECEMBER 10, 1922—PART 4. o Eyes Disappear, So Does Hair, Under the New Moyen-Age Hats THIS 1S SOREL TO WEAR | NE OF THE FIFTY HATS MADE BY LEWIS FOR MLLE. CECILE | the head back until the chin is in the alr. Have you noticed that new gesture? | It is amazingly interesting to an ob- server. When one woman is not tiit- ing back her head to see her friends, another woman s dipping her head down to look under the helmet. After a half hour of it one thinks that America is started on a new game. As a means of concealment these new hats are better than the masque of | the Venetian ladies of the Cinque- Cento. By the way. that mysterious masque | is now copied by a spotted veil placed across the front of a tricorne or bicorne hat. With the use of Yale blue powder on the eyelids and a mid- night blue or black net veil the modern American woman loses our traditiona] look of candor. She is as mysterious as the east. * ¥k X IT HE helmet of the hour is borrowed | from the moyen age, however. It | {1s dangerously suggestive of the| | hennin which raised a rumpus in the | | middle ages. the noise of which has| not yet died down. The hennin was an ornamental tower built of satin, | HER AMERICAN TRIP. IT IS A HELMET OF | jewels, strands of pearls, of metallic GRAY VELVET WITH AN IMMENSE BOW AT ONE SIDE AND EM. !cloth, It went out and up from the | PHASIZES THE FASHION OF IMMENSE ORNAMENTS. BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. MERICAN women follow French millinars more quickly than they follow French dressmak- | ers. It is not easy to compel | ‘women in mass to change the length | of their skirts the week that Paris does, but ft is easy to persuade them to drop wide hat brims when helmets are in fashion; to put telescope hat- pins in front of the helmet shortly after it appears in the Paris shops: to add a nose-length veil to a visored | brim or an upturned tricorne when | the races in France launch such! styles. | Therefore, this letter from a shrewd | observer In FParis, concerning new | hats, may interest those who feel that the year's departure marks the ¢ have worn since | Longehamps for the last few weeks millinery has been particularly | smart. The hats which have at-| tracted moet attention have invari- | ably been of cloche shape. despite the | fact that modistes have made a des- perate effort to get away from them. The felt or suede cloche, with tiny brim, usually in black, but frequently in brown, with an enormous bow or' bunch of aigrettes or feathers over one ear, is seen everywhere. Those which have not this particuiar trim- ming have scarfs of bright colors! around the crown. “The more formal hats in black panne are frequently of cloche shape also, but they are usually of the pic- | turesque type. with broad brims, giv- | ing ample opportunity to vary the | trimming to make them different. One of Lucle Hamar's newest models | is in black panne., with no trimming | whatever, the shape itself being so perfectly proportioned that its grace- ful lines alone make It attractive.| The broad, drooping brim is faced with brown tulle. pleated in the shape | of Ilittle cylinders, and a straight | piece of tulle which serves as a scarf | around the throat fs attached to the | brim over one ear. { * % ok % € A NOTHER model makes an at-| tempt at breaking the cloche rule with {ts saucy upturned brim. Jt is made of pinkish beige taffeta. with a soft, sheered brim and a band of kolinsky covering the line of | sheering both at the cdge and at the half-brim. Lucie Hamar is making All kinds of turbans. One of her most recent modeis Is a tam in violet vel- vet which would be good for Florida. “Violet is a favorite color. Another | attractive model is a Jockey shape in violet taffeta with three flowers, | each a different shade of the violet, across the front of the crown. Veils are being extensively worn again. A hat for evening wear is made of gold cloth with a brown tulle veil draped Salad Variety. Salads are more and more a part! of the ordinary American dietry. | Perhaps we haven't reached the de- | gree of salad eating that some Eu- ropeans have. In an Armenian restaurant in any of the larger cities here you might see how the people of that part of the world eat salad. They have a whole head set before them—well washed and crisp. They break off two or three leaves at a time, wrap about them a piece of their almost paper-thin bread, dip the ends of the leaves in sour milk—and fall to munching like a rabbit. The whole lettuce disappears with surprising rapldity, and, of course, the concuc-l tion is exceedingly wholesome. Well, maybe we don't go in for lettuce Iike that. but certainly we| do eat many salads—a great deal! of salad. Look at the menu card, in any of our tearooms or cafeterias ' 'across the front, the two lace ends {head to a fantastic height. It was| loosely covered by a net vell, lace | edged, or embroidered with pearls. When France launched the high | moyen age helmet in August it was | of cloth of silver covered with a vell | of white net edged with Venetian | of the veil left to cover the throat. Many day hats are draped with lace veils embroidered in metal threads. Metal laces are frequently used as a ARAAR AN AR AR A AR AR AR A AR AR A AT RAARAAAARAA A AR AR ADAARAAARRANT, An Air of Mystery Is Given—New Gesture From Tilting Face—Crowns of Large Hats Are High and Somewhat Narrow, Presenting a Trying Contour—No Matter What the Hat or the Size of the Brim, Women's Heads Have the Effect of Being Hit With a Battleax From Behind. De!igners Are Bent on Copying the Costumety of Peop]es and Epochs That Reveled in Colors and Fantastic and Emotional Decoration. ' SRR R through it. This type of embroidery leads all others. An Egyptian hat of black velvet folded across the top of head, then downward over the ears, catches the public fancy. The fabric stands straight out from the ears, the edges finished with terra cotta felt or vel- vet, the embroidery in tinsel, old blue, pink and yellow. It is a direct copy in shape—that is, of the headdress— of Egyptian idols. Immense flat circles of velvet or ribbon are placed on hats as their sole decoration. Sometimes there is a buckle of marcassite in the center or the edges of the circle are run with steel stitches. ‘The introduction for sports of heavy white homespun skirts and blouses | decorated with cross-stitch embroid i ery In narrow bands of faded colors | brings into fashion a high-crowned | {white homespun hat with the same embroidery for its crown band. White |suede -hats are also launched along with brown and beige ones. Metal . ban Jet and hammercd steel are put | | around the crown, if one wants orna- | ‘ments. A woman who has a metal ! belt in alluring color and workman- | skip can twist it around the crown of & hat and feel herself in first fashion. | | A helmet of lichen green suede | dotted the shop windows in Novem- ber and suddenly swirled into f: , fon on the heads of those who quickly adopt new things. They are decorated with soft downward plumage at one | side, with metal bands and colored | links, with feather medallions. Again i AND PINKISH PURPLE ARE AROUND THE CROWN HAT FOR THE SOUTH OF MAUVE TAFFETA WITH VISORED BRIM THAT SHADES THE EYES. RIBBON ROSETTES IN PURPLE. MAUVE PLACED AT EVEN INTERVALS The Diary of a Professional Movie Fan BY GLADYS HALL, trimming. A brown velvet hat has a | point. In that hat one saw the signs band of wool lace interwoven with |of the hennin. The observer realized | gold threads flat around the crown,|that broad, folded crowns and wide | and the cloche brim is edged with the | tilting brims would soon belong to a same lace. !day that Is done, although women “Agnes, a modiste who has recently | would continue to wear them despite opened a new establishment in the |the milliners’ verdict. It s well that Rue Saint Florentin, Is using metal | women are obstinate in such things. laces as a trimming on felt hats. She| In fact, Lucle Hamar, who is one favors the felt cloche and makes it of the leaders who dominate Amer- | new by covering it with silver lace, ican millinery, features two cart- drawn tight over both brim and | wheel hats with high crowns that crown, making it appear as if the 'stand in the first row of fashion. A stlver threads were embroidered on |curious feature of the prevailing large the felt. She frequently turns the |hat is its poke effect in front. Wide cloche brim up on one side, which is | brims do not tilt downward as they not more than an inch and & half in|have for decades. They scoop up- width, giving it a new touch, with ward a bit between the cyebrows. imuch the same cffect as the old short- | The line is not altogether becoming brimmed walking hat and derby. to the woman with a large face. “A hat which attracted interested |Spe must rezard herself carcfully In attention at the races last Sunday gne mir was a Lewis model, small. with & | brim in several folds of white felt, a Stift little bow of the white felt over | one ear and a black panne crown. ! 7 she experiments with =z T Cecile Sorel took it to America. An-|it. They wore such brims during the | other Sorel hat seen at the races—a civil war, but a glarce at daguerro- Lewis medel—was of light castor|types of that day does not strengthen ponne, a cloche with a tiny brim and | our love for them. a doorknod feather pompon with &| Crowns of large hats are high and | single ribbon hanging over one ear.” | gomewhat narrow. This is another: Our new hats lend an air of mys- |trying contour. It does not always tery to the face. .They not only con- | go straight into the air like a flower- ceal the hair, but shade the eyes to pot. It is reasonably wide at the such an alarming extent that one is base and shaped upward like a cow- not sure whether one is greeting & boy's hat, modified, of course. There | | they are quite plain, with a band of THIS HAT BY LUCIE HAMAR IS OF PINK BEIGE TAFFETA WITH 5 < onyx and brilliants. Such hats will PLEATED BRIM, THE FACING EDGED WITH BANDS OF KOLINSKY. “Notihng About Anything.” Bert Lytell and I ate honeydew THE CROWN IS HIGH, THE BRIM TURNS UPWARD FROM THE FACE, THE LOWER BAND OF FUR SHADING THE EYES. brim that turns downward llke a visor, but =0 wide that it shades the entire face. The original model is made in beige.- with brown beige feathers rising in a conspicuous panache at one side. The popular felt hat, sometimes with a bow at the side, is made in helmet fashion, large of crown, short and sloping of brim. The bow is an extravagant fantasy of velvet, made with two loops and pleated ends standing out widely in several direc- | tions as though caught in a hurri- SENSATIONAL MIDSEASON HAT BY LEWIS OF PARIS, WHO BUILDS HATS FOR MANY AMER- ICANS. IT IS OF BEIGE WITH BROWN AND BEIGE FEATHERS REARING IN A CONSPICUOUS PENACHE AT ONE SIDE. be a strong feature for sport cos- | tumery when the new vear breaks. Short green suede jumper jackets and overblouses will be worn with them over skirts of white homespun or {thc massed effect of early Italian or |} yo g5 & i Indo-China embroidery. This is done| whatev Do) [vou, :f el Meg snE U Feevo ior ! Whatever one does in new costum- | - sty dbonevs| in small figurations, flat, tight and! : safe sanctuary of the sixty honey g . flat, lery, one is not dull and common-|ge .. ; | ! smooth, of stitchery. There are many | j1ace. We are bent on copying the|3C™: DAVE to write this meeting up,| mingled colors, but the embroidery | ; as it were2® | “oOn, I said, reassuringly, “not pub-! hasino resemblance toiRussian hanal | costumery of peoples and epochs that mblance to Russlan handi- | lors jreveled in colors and fantastic and, 1y, you know. It's just for my pri- | vate diary and nobody, or almost no- work. It is softer in its appeal and | .an one say, “emotional decoration.” a good sprinkling of tinsel runs! (Cpright, 1922.) | body. will ever see 1 “Unless.” he said, gloomily. “you i should become famous. and some one | with an enterprising soul should drag |it forth and publish ft.” | “It will be such a posthumous fame. | 1 said, still in role of com- | | melons together. drank iced tea im| cool weather, and talked about every- | thing under the sun—oh, well, almost everything, then! out on it a riot of color gained by | | Love Letters That Made History BY JOSEPH KAYE. hat you and I will be far be- nd caring about publicity.” ‘Well,” he said, handsomely (he is; “it's a good thing you George Washington and Mrs.[my thoughts have been continually | €0ing to you as to another self. That lonly colorful, interesting persons, are | the ones who are doing things, creat- ing things. The person fired by ideal. ism, how futile eventually, does not matter in the splendor of that person. This is more than true of women. As # man emerges from the high-school stage (I reminded him that he was in the kindergarten) he ceases to be | content with a flip curl, & pretty face. The thing that matters then in a woman is not whether she is physi- cally attractive so much as whether | she is temperamentaily attractive. Te my mind ‘temperamentally attractive' =ums up the whole thing in a phrase. 1 would rather talk to one such woman for a vear than flit from pink tea to pink tea with pink ingenues,, how- ever fascinating. And temperament- ally attractive persons are doers, creators, dreamers of deeds. “Is there any particular thing you don’t want to be?” I asked him. i jusndsomey “Yes. I don't want B Custis. [lll-nawer’ul Providence may keep us : don’t have to print this, because we've | ;401w 1o a1y tolbe'a matines Washington. like Lincoln, Wwas| poth in safety Is the prayer of Your lonly talked thus far about custard r e stricken thrice by love. At four-|fajthful and ever affectionate friend, | pies, and blond ingenuous and me.” teen he became infatuated with his | “G. WASHINGTON e vlowland beauty.” less romantically| o, ¢,y years the first President obligingly. known as Mary Boland. The 8€cond .ng first lady lived in serene happi-| “That won't get you anywhere.” :‘\“’m:":y‘;“':: (‘_;{":}f'l:fi e oo {ness and for forty years Washington| “What will™ quoth I s : |constantly wore on his breast a; *I dont know.” said the Lytell. “I| her name as a pass-word In camp, but! . 0. 0 ¢ nis wite. { have just one conclusion about any- ! Sallie would have none of the young | | : - (Copyright, 1922.) {thing, and that is, that I know abso- | soldier and refused him flatly. Her o e Tencat i refusal was fortunate for the future 2 = : . von | A Dear me,” T said. “Haven't you President, for had she accepted him | Divinity Candy. | even begun to lesrn kindergarten his life might not have been 80| Take five and one-third cupfuls of | grade. so to speak?" fdeally happy as it was with Mn"‘r‘nulated sugar, three cupfuls of *Well,” considered Bert (still hand- Custls, his third love. = = vYoung and | CTeam, two cupfuls of molasses and a | S0Me!Y). “perhaps I am beginning Mrs. Custis was the & - = but only beginning. mind you., to pretty widow of Daniel Parke Custis | few drops of maple flavoring. Boll |jearn something about my work. Col. Washington »rr]\eld.hertv;;hl‘e"’:: until the mixture forms a ball when | And when I get on in that direction, aE x"“;““"‘ e frlend's | tried In cold water. Put the pan into 1 shall be content. because all the Eeiodochy o a pan of cold water. If you like, agd | PO¢!S motwithstanding and all the house. It was a soldierly woolng. | pretty women in the world the same, The engagement was announced in|one pound of nut meats. When cool | work fs the greatest thing in life.! twenty-four hours and a few months|beat with a cake spoon until the| spgolutelr. What is man without | later they were married. |canlly is creamy. Pour into a 108f| work> Stop and think. Work is The following letter is claimed to|pan lined with oiled paper. {the great thing, taken from more be the only one that Washington The candy is hard to beat at first on than the commercial or professional iwrote to his beloved before thelraccount of the sirup. but after a little |angles. It is the great thing, taken | marriage: | beating. the mixture becomes thin: from the social angle.” { “Ft. Cumberland, 20th July, 1758. |and is easy to beat. When it begins “Sccial”" Pietures of humming, | “We have begun our march to the|to get hard again. pour it into the hammering studies, dusty locations, Ohlo. A courier is starting for Wil- ! pan. Instead of all nuts, you can hot in summer and cold in winter, strenuous continuity desks, etc., liamsburg and 1 embrace the oppor- add a fruit and nut mixture, as fol- tunity to send a few words to one lows: One small box of candied cher- | presented themselves to my dreary | whose life is now inseparable from |ries, one slice of chopped candied | mind. { mine. Since that happier hour 'hen|plnenppla and one-fourth pound of | “Social certainty. The only worth- ' we made our pledges to each other!almonds. {while persons in the whole world, th | | (Continued from First Page.) | The “pick-up” man—or woman. for but in reality to secrete about their| = {that matter—weaves a slender hand | persons some of their “spoils.” Women into the forefront of the crowd-|have been known to put on new ed line of purchasers and takes|pieces of clothing in a booth. A f: hold of the object in question. Gen- | orite place to secrete small or fiimsy erally he or she awaits an opportunity |articles is in a woman's hat. Some- to get two things in hand at once.|times a shoplifter has placed articles One of these the picker-up passes just|in a booth while a confederate with to the rear, where the “receiver” s 'a shopping bag waited outside and standing ready to carry out the next|entered tho booth next to carry away step of the relay. | the “pick-ups” in her bag. That is From the receiver the article may |another phase of the relay system. pass to a second receiver, and thence) Occasionally, too, the detective, to the “moving fence,” as the person | sauntering with careless air near a who takes final charge of the spolls ! booth or leaning against it apparently is monickered. The last-named cus- | waiting to make a call, has been able todian generally has some shopping |to listen in on calls which have aided bag into which to place the receipts|in trailing shoplifters. of the mob. Some of the cleverest and most ex- After the pick-up man has passed | perienced shoplifters do not waste his article on, he doesn’t move away | time on small articles. They go after *x ox % from the counter. He lingers until|fur coats. One of the biggest stores in N police circles, however, they speak | sure that he will arouse no suspiclon, | Washington discovered one such at- of the “relay system” of shoplift- {1ays down the second article gently,|tempt. A woman bought an expen- | ing—which applies also to the pick- if he believes he is being watched, | give coat in the morning. The same | pocket's game—with the greatest re- jand moves on, safe from detection |afternoon she went to the same store jspect. This system is used only when jand secure In his knowledge that no{and walked out wearing a coat that stolen goods rest on his person. was the exact duplicate of the one !cut on the inside, into which scores | of small items and a goodly number |of larger ones could be crammed. This cape was hung in such a way that the folds would conceal any bulky-looking object, and it was only after several reported “jobs” had been checked up that suspicion fastened on | ner. !M:rhe inside pockets of the cape were | extended to the bottom of the lining and elastic bands were interlooped at intervals from the top to a short dis- itance from the bottom of the cape. | These bands formed sorts of pockets { which prevented articles which were |plnced in the large pocket from gath- ering in a heap at the bottom of the cape. think you're much more a vil- \lain,” 1 said. with consumate tact. apyrigit, 1922y Prize Chocolate Layer Cake. Cream a heaping tablespoonful of but- ter with one cupful of powdered sugar. add the beaten volks of four eggs, a gill of cream, and two cupfuls of flour that has been sifted together with a heapinc teaspoonful of baking powder. Last of | all fold in lightly the whites of the four eggs beaten very stiff. Bake the cake in laver tine. The chocolate filling: Put one cupful of milk in 2 druble boiler. When it reaches the boiling poifft, stir in three tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate and two teaspoonfuls of cornstarch wet witih two tablespoonfuls of cold milk. Cook. stirring steadily until smooth. then re- move from the fire and pour. a little at a time, upon the volk of an esg that has been beaten light with half a cupfu! of sugar. Return to the saucepan and cook, stirring constantly for about ten minutes, or until the mixture is thick and smooth. When cold spread the | chocolate upon the cake layers. —_— With an annual export of 500.000 pounds, Corpus Christi, Tex., has be- come one of the lcading shrimp marketing centers in the United Stat, 'Tricks of Nimble Shoplifters in Christmas Crowds missing. The clerk hurried to tell the manager while another clerk kept his eye on the lady in the telephone booth, but she came out promptly an1 returned to the counter to finish her shopping. A man with a cane, who had been at the soda fountain, also { went into the telephone booth as the ‘woman came out. When he had fin- ished with his call he walked out of the store. The mystery was explain- ed when an empty cologne botitle was found in the booth. The woman had left it there for the man to empty into his “bootleg™ cane. Not infrequently the shoplifter has an artistic temperament. The pro- prietor of a music store had been missing many sheets of music. A de- tective wi called in and the first person he caught was a man with a brief case who had slipped into it half a dozen or more sheets of music. The next one caught was 2 man who had less expensive paraphernalia for con- cealment. He simply slipped the mu- sic inside a newspaper, which he fold- ed and shoved down into his pocket. or restaurants to prove this point.|frlend or stranger. The mouth and Jook on the table of the averagenose are the only recognisable fea- Amerifcan family for further proof.i ‘Where once lettuce was served occa- sionally with cream or vinegar and sugar, some sort of salad Is now served every day. either at luncheon or dinner, and sometimes at both meals. Here are some good combinations: Ripe pears. skinned. halved. and served with cream cheese in the core cavity on lettuce with French dress. ing. Prunes stuffed with cream cheese, on lettuce, with French dressing. Dates served in the same way. Cream cheese and nut balls, on let- tuce, with mayonnaise or French dressing. Pineapple slices. with cream cheese ball in center, and two strips of pimiento laid across. On lettuce, with French or mayonnaise dressing. Pineapple diced, halved hard grapes, and diced ripe peaches, with may- onnaise on lettuce. Diced apple, diced orange, and broken nut meats, mayennaise and tures of the face. Under these new helmets women's eyes peer out as do the eyes of a sheep dog from a tangle of halr. ‘With the Yale blue powder that women put on their eyelids these days and the dip of the visored helmet, there may come about & new disease of the neck. Half the women are not sure of being abler to see until they tilt Menu for & Day. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit ‘Waffles with Sirup Coftee. LUNCHEON. Sliced Ham and Potato Salad. Cream Che ‘With Green Pep- pers Rolls Tea. Cereal Jam Tarts. DINNER. Carrot Soup Stuffed Shoulder of Roasted Veal Potato_Souffle String Beans Pineapple Salad Raisin and Currant Suet Pudding Coffee. < is another large type of hat with a Fried Vegetables. Vegetables when used raw as a sea- soning give & strong flavor and only a little of each should be used. ¥or flavoring soups, sauces, stews, etC. fried vegetables are far superior to the raw. To prepare them for use, clean and peel or scrape the vegeta- | bles, then cut them into small pieces | and put in a saucepan with butter or sweet fat, allowing two generous tablespoonfuls of butter to a pint of vegetable: Place on a hot part of| the stove and stir until the butter and vegetables become hot. Partially cover the saucepan and set back Where the vegetables, which should be stirred often, will cook slowly for half an hour. At the end of this time place the pan on a hot part of the range and satir the contents until the butter begins to separate from the Vegetables. Drain the butter, sav- ing it with savory drippings, which every housewife should have on hand, and add the vegetables to the dish they are to fiavor. cane. Lewis of Paris invented it In a capricious moment. Modified poke bonnets with wide brims that scoop upward in front are cut off sharply across the nape of neck and finished with a wide flat bow that runs bevond the hat. This is made of grosgrain ribbon or velvet with a heavy selvedge. No matter what the hat, no matter what the size of the brim, women's heads have the effect of being hit with a battle- axe from behind. That's the prevail- ing silhouette. New sport millinery shows that women are expected to take the high- crowned helmet to pleasure places when the snow flies. Some women order six in the same shape, in differ- ent colors. For daily use, there is a band of ribbed ribbon at base of crown, a flat bow at one side and telescope hat- pins In front. A few of these felt hats, too ornamental for sports, have bright-colored quills, variegated, soft and supple, falling at one side. They do not go around the crown. * x X X EN one chooses black velvet for a hat foundation there springs Ithe ctakes are high. The prime requi- o If, however, there appears a favor- site for it is what the police térm a “gpeedy and well organized mob.” able opportunity and the gods of the The “mob"” is the pet police name for | light-fingered smile on his endeavors, he doesn’t wait to return the second a gang of crooks. The system, so far as department stores go, operates|object before moving. He holds it until he meets the receiver or second nerally where small but valuable & z recelver at the next stop In his rou- articles are concerned. The imported perfumery counter is a favorite spot tine—for the journey through the store is always planned well in ad- for the starting of operations. The articles are small. They can be | Vance by the mob—and then rids him- speedily gotten in quantity and self of the evidence. quality. And yet there is sufficlent| ‘“There will not be one block in the downtown sections in which depart- value in a bottle of good imported perfume to repay the mob for a few |Ment stores are located on which there will not be a detective this m{nutes of concentrated effort. Then, S of course, there are other depart-|Year,’ declared Secretary Charles J. ments, such lacework and expen- | Columbus of_ the Merchants and sive embroidery and similar articles. Manufaoturers’ Association. “We are It is generally admitted that the|doing everything possible to break up reason the mob or relay system is not | this chain-gang system of passing goods from one person to another played to a greater extent in shop- lifting s because of the ordinary|and we are sure that the preparations we have made will meet any emer- bulkiness of objects, which would ¥ make the game too hasardous. But|Eency- any good detective will declare that a well organized mob, operating in a department store for a few hours, will be able to clean up much more than could ever be suspected by the lay- man. The system is worked as follows: * ¥ % X N most of the large stores these days a detective lounges around near the telephone booths. Fre- quently shoplifters have been caught when they entered one of the booths, ostensibly te put In telephons calls, | | ! | | N she had bought. The same trick has| In an art store was caught last been used by men, throwing their old overcoat down between piles of new ones as they tried on several coats, perhaps buying one, and then mnon- chalantly putting on another new one and walking out with it. ‘There as those doing shoplifting in a small way who take with them old sales slips, having carefully defaced or obliterated the traces of the pur- chase, and with paper bags, such as provided by stores for small articles, sally forth in quest of various little things that may fall their way. With the hand once on the loot, it is but the work of & second to be adjusting it in the bag, and the casual pulling !torth of the sales slip and glancing | at it give all the earmarks of honesty | to the shoplifter The “bootlegger” canes which have come into vogue within the last cou- ple of years are being used by shop- lifters. After a woman had spent a few minutes at a perfumery counter in one of ti large drug stores she suddenly remembered that she had to telephone her husband where to come to meet her. A pint bottle of expen- sive perfumery was simultaneously week & man who had taken down a picture from the wall, hung the wire cord over a button on the front of his inner coat and buttoned his over- coat over all. The wide-flaring and roomy over- coats are “viewed with suspicion™” by the wise detectives. The first step in j thelr method of discovering if such a’ coat conceals {ll-gotten goods is to [Drfllh carelessly against the wearer to feel for anything that may be hid- den. A woman was “detained” in a Tth street department store after she had been trailed by a chain system of d tectives from F street along Pennsyl- vania avenue and part way up Sth street. In all, she had visited ten | stores and in most of them had picked iup articles. It was discovered that she had a “Christmas list” of gifts she wanted to give her relatives or friends. She was going right through the list—going to mgke her friends happy—no matter that she had mno right to appropriate and distribute the goods out of which local mer- chants were trying to make an homest profit.