Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1925, Page 63

3 'THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. JULY 12, 1925-PART 5. 7 Shoes Alone Remain Utterly Frivolous in Days of Dress Reform BY MARY MARSHALL. HE shoes that women wear to- day constitute the last stand of ‘trivolous feminine apparel. To be sure, the frocks and | hats of today achleve all ends that frivolous apparel was ever designed to achieve, From our point of view they are as frivolous as you please. The point of the During the last entury and’ the s thiss vears last early reformers dreamed dreams of A rew fashion in dress—sensible, ~hygienic. thoroughly emancipated from the old order of- thi There should be no more corseted fignres. High. tight collars should go. Skirts should he short more tralns—and they should he scant—no more foolish pet- Hats when worn should not sit foolishly on top of the head. ready challenged by a heavy wind Hat pins were an ahomination. Long halr was foolishness Sn far we have. in spite of our- selves, achieved the dream of these eformers. But there was one more clause—one more tenet fo their redo. Shoes should be flat and road. built as sensibly as a Grecian andal. And here alone we hold back permits such foot covering those- who actually partici- sports. The high heel is al- necessity in achieving what we regard as a smart silhouette. We g0 without staFs, at appearance goes, we bare our necks. we even go gloveless, and petticoat- less, and trains we know not. But we must have our high heels shoes alone remain utterly frivolous and prohably quite unhygienic And it is a pretty safe prophecy to make that so long as we maintain ihe other sensible characteristies of our dress we will cling to this last We are not quite ready um to he incon- sistency for the millenr (0] women fshed This « oxox % SERVERS in Paris seem 10 agree that never in their memory have appeared sa beautitully “fin in their dressing as at present no douht, hecause present- clothes are so easy to wear, sa comfortable—always save the shoes And never hefore. sav the abservers in Paris, have women whe aspire to fashion been so well shod and so well #tockinged. The same comment mizht ythfully be made of women in fash- fonable centers in this country. With ®kirts as short as they are now, shoes and stockings assume paramount im- portance. And women seem to de- light in ving them what they de- mand You cannot make any sort of comment on the clothes worn at Any smart gathering without men- tioning the shoes and stockings This does not mean, as one might | at first suppose, an ideal situation for | the shoemak In fact, next to the barbers—who are dreadfully over. worked albeit more prosperous with hobbed and shingled heads still in the majoritv—the shoemakers and #hoe dealers are the most harassed of all those who contribute to fash ionable feminine apparel Fashions in shoes change as often as fashlons in hats—oftener sometimes—and it is Aan expensive proposition change an entire line of footwear as often as a milliner changes her showing in hats. Sometimes with the very smart | shoemakers in Paris they find that as «80on as they have laid in a complete line of a new style of shoe something quite different has become the fash fonable rage We hear repeatedly that simpler styles i{n shoes are coming into style and we are assured that many of the smartest of women have given up the extremely elaborate types. But deco- | ration still runs riot in the shoe shops and women still wear shoes that are far more ornate than their frocks Gilt leather. bright-colored suede alligator skin, lizard. vari-colored | enamel buckles, hand-painted mother-of-pearl heels, heeis t brilliants and gay-colored stones. satin | in all the fashionable shades, brown kid in various shades. pigskin. ostrich skin, sequins—all these materials and | more form the materials of the fash- | fonahle shoemaker. And once a few staple shades of leather, with a little | .satin. was enough The time may Things to e again when e | vears of the présent. the dress | least so far as | Our AFTERNOON SLIPPERS. -AT TOP, EFFECT. WORN WITH SILK SHADE, AND G GRAY SILK STOCKING WHITE KID WITH MARBLEIZED STOCKINGS IN ATMOSPHERE AY KID PUMPS WORN WITH MOONLIGHT BELOW, BEIGE KID AND BLACK PATENT LEATHER STRAP PUMPS, AND, AT BOTTOM, SUEDE STRAP PUMP, WHICH MAY BE TEL SHAD! smartly dressed women wear simple. iceable shoes with their simple street frocks. It seems (o some women as if good taste demanded it. | But. judging from appearances. this | time has not come, and even the beat dressed women continue to go about in broad daylight in shoes that we | would onee have regarded as slightly extreme for a ballroom. o owow | PERHAPS no one definite change in | footwear fashions is more pro- nounced than the turn in favor of colored or tinted stockings. Flesh- colored stockings are no ' nearer | passee and black stockings are no | heels, | nearer being snatched back from ob- | cate tracery of the plaid. in | livion than they were many months is really amazing. but the colored stocking is com ing into prominence. To be sure, there are some women who never depart | trom flesh-colored or gray-——conserva- | tive choices, we now consider them— and there are women here as well as in Pagis who wear, whenever possible, | r black stockings. Numeri- ago Which Are of ixpert Gives Beginners’ Swimming Lessons:.| BY JACK GIAON (Jack Gihon teaches more than a thousand hoys and girls of Lounisana to swim every Siimmer. ~Mans of hi dents. in pa sears. have developed into champions. The soris he writes here are exactly the sa as the personal instruction he gives. and any boy or girl following them closely can earn to_swim_within a short time on Wil be given young swimmers who write to Mr. Gihon in care of thia paper and inclose 3 “atamped and seif-addressed suveiope’ for Teply. | B swim roundabont are going to plunge water and learn how to swim the crawl, which is the speediest stroke known to swimmers Tt is this stroke that all the champlons use and it is the stroke tha with variations. nsed for practically all races today The first thing is to choose the place where we are going to take our lessons Most pools have a fenced off part for those whaedo not know how to swim If the water here is hetween and 4 feet deep it will be a d place begin Yet even here. we can Bnly go into the water if there are life-savers or other adults who are experienced swimmers clos We will tell them that we are learning how to swim. We will ask them (o keep an eye on us The most Important rule we must remember is this: Never go swimming | JAmmediately after ating Only the ignoramus does this; the good swim mer waite at least an hour after eating to take his plunge If he has eaten a hearty me: he water ix cold. he wi least two hours. ~ Otherwise will | he liable 10 get water, which will doubl awful pain and make him to swim a stroke We will presume. now, that all aur puplls intend to hecome good im- | mers. We will say that we have not | eaten for a couple of hours and that we are going to the shore or the pool to take our first lesson We must have fidence in ter. Swimming, after al! matter of ba ws walking is +a matter of balance bicycie rid 1s a matter of hulan As 800 learn how to balance ouise learn how to swim -but learn that until we have confidence. ANl right—le(’s jump in. 'The waier feels mighiy good. We know nothing can happen to us, hecause we ha already made sure that the is not over heads we spia around for a few minutes, just ta ge used to_it Now that we are in the water, the first part of the lesson is 1o learn ho to breathe. In swimming we breathe just the reverse of the way we do on land—that is, we breathe in through the mouth and out through the nose. Don't forget that—in through the mouth and out through the nose Practice it a few times, taking good, deep breaths, and letting them out| fairly fa Let's duck. now. to teach you going do it right into the how to am means use we it he knows he cramps In the him up in npossible for he wa < mostly a and we will will not We mustn’t hold | qur nose, for only cry babies do that. | However, water will not go in our/| ndse. Decaure we are going fo take a deep breath (in through the mouth) and close our mouth and our eyes. i."} we go down. As we duck our heads, {we let the air out through our nose, and, of course, water cannot come in |as fhe air goes out. Ax soon as the air is out, we lift onr heads, take an-| |other breath and duck again, Let's| practice that about 10 times straight, | ducking every tima we take a breath, | |and lettinz the air out through ollr} noses, under the water Why, that's lots of fun! We have now provea to ourselves that nothing can happen to us, even though we do put our heads under water. We have learned, too, that we | | don't have to hold our nose to keep the water out. If we have learned it well, we are now ready for the next step. The actual swimming stroke is divided into two movements—the arm | | movement and the leg movement We are going to learn the leg move. | ment first, an? we will learn it by | putting our hands on the shore, to| hold on, and letting our body lie straight out fn the water, face down. and the chin just touching the water. | The legs will sink, but we will raise | them by threshing back and forth keeping the knees stiff and mukh!l‘ fthe movement come entirly from the hips. We must use a tast, move. | | ment. making ahout four kfcks to| the second, which is going to take | quite a bit of practice before we are able (o master it | 1t will be tiring at first, but this is | | good exercise for the leg muscles. and they will soon harden so we can do it without effort. The feet should not g0 more than 12 inches apart on the up-and-down threshing movement. and <hould come just to the surface of the water, 8o that they will make a little splash, and churn the water in back of you When we know how to do this, we are half-way swimmers. If we are sure we can do . we will stand up, and put our hands over onr head. as thoiigh In a, pose for diving. Then, taking a br h. we will plunge for- waid, face under the water, and Kick | our legs. the same we 'did when | holding on to the shore Your Name. Does vour name begin with “G" or H”? Then 100k in the list below and see if you can find it. Perhaps your parents didn't know what your name | meant when they gave it to vou, and | You're not one bit like the real mean ing of your name. Boys' Names, Garrett (Tedtonic): firm spear. Geoftrey (Teutonic): joyful. George (Greek): husbandman. Gerald. Gerard (Teutonic): strong with a spear. | Gervals (French): sager for war. Gifford (Gaelic): surmounter, ' Gilbert (Danish): famous. | s (Greek): shield bearer. | odfrey (Teutonic): God's peace. ! Godwin (Teutonic): divine friend. | Gregory (Greek): watchful. GriMith (Latin) reddish. Guy (French): sensible. Hans (Teutonic); singer. Harold (Teutonic): champion, Harrison (Saxon): noble. HAD IN ANY ONE OF THE PAS- cally speaking. of course, black ings are still to be considered. tock They persist as white stockings persisted in | the middle of the last century. when older women, clinging to a fashion of the past, were suspicious of the new- tangled black variety. But in those daye stockings didn’t show, or weren't supposed to, so the peculiarity passed unnoticed Quite recently plaid stockings havé been spoken of as a new fashion gn Paris. But these new plaid stockings are not llke plaid stockings of vore, for the stocking itself i§ so. transpar- ent and so light in te¥turs that the only thing apparent at all iy the deli The effect It is as-if one wore a plald and nothing else. Save for sports wear the Parisian—if she aspires to fashion—wears very, ver: thin stockings, but “‘pour le apor which does not mean actually-partici- pating in outdoor athleties—she wears stockings of heavier weight, English stockings of wool or heavy ‘lisle in ribbed eft. " 7-/2. MORNING SHOES. - ABOVE, SHOE OF OXFORD GUN METAL KID WITH TRIMMING OF ALLIGATOR. A HANDBAG MATCHES THE SHOE. BELOW, ONE-STRAP BLACK PATENT LEATHER. STRAPS DIFFERENT AT ONE | There are French stockings so im paipable that when worn in the eve ning nothing can be seen at all save !the line of rhinestones that follows |the line of the clock at the side. | These stockings, we are told. are far [too fragile to be washed. So to the | Bonaparte, is not used to wearing a | pair of stockings a second time until Very extravagant or most unpleasant. | The ediet to the color acheme of the frock with which they are to he worn must not be taken foo literally. The important thing is that shoes should harmonize {and.” combined with the stockings. { give an effect of unity with the entire costume. One of the shoemakers is making quite a thing of white kid colon slippers with en buckl The buckles sho American woman who, like Napoieon | that shoes must conform | SLIPPER OF BROWN KID OR AND TAN SHOE WITH BROWN | work in red, in blue, in green and in {other colors. With a green frock one would choose transparent green stock ings and green enameled buckles. or with red, the red-trimmed buckles with transparent red stockings. | But despite the tendency toward ,"nlor in footgear the champagne-co! of smart women here and abroad for daytime affairs. Tobacco brown shoes with flesh or transparent tobacco | stockings are likewise smart, and in | this country especially white kid has come Into high favor for wear at the | Summer resorts. With these shoes white stockings are worn, which gain a note of flesh color because of their transparency. The American woman of taste much prefers white to flesh- colored stockings with white shoes. (Copyright. 1925.) | ored kid siipper with gauay stockings | | of the same shade remains the choice | it is washed this fashion seems either | EVENING SLIPPERS. THE STOCKINGS ARE THREE S, T TOP LEFT, BLOND SILK STOCKINGS WITH GOLD EMBROIDERED C AT RIGHT, NUDE SILK STOCKINGS WITH ANKLET EMBROIDERED IN GOLD AND COLORS. LOCLKS: ABOVE DALS FOR EVENING WEAR: AT LEFT, WOVEN GOLD AND SIL- VER KID: IN CENTER, BLOND SATIN EDGED WITH GOLD KID, AND. AT RIGHT, BROCADE AND SILVER KID. AT LOWER RIGHT, DARK ROSE SATIN LIPPER WITH RHINESTONE ACROSS FRONT TO MATCH FAN AND FLOWER. AT LEFT, GREEN SUEDE SLIPPER WITH GOLD STRAPS, WORN WITH EMBROIDERED Interest to Younger In the Pool Where the Swimmers Practice - Harvey (Celtic): bitter. Hastings (Teutonic): swift. Helprich (Teutonic): rich lord. Hendrick - (Danish-Dutch): prince. Henty, Harry (Teutonic): home ruler. Herman (Teutonic): soldier. Hetbert «(Teutonic): glory armye Hilary (Latin): cheertul. Hiram (Hebrew): nobly born. Homer (Greek): security, Horace (Latin): light of the sun. ‘Howzr\i (Saxon): in the right direc- tion. . “Howell (Saxon): sound. whole. Hubert (Teutonic): bright. _Hugh, Hugo (Teutonic): spirited. Girls' Names. Genevieve (French): humble- birth. Georgette (French). . Georgianna, (English), Georgiana (Italian): peasant: woman. noble of the Geraldine (English): princes Gertrude (English): all truth. Ginevra (Itallan): white wave. Gladys (Welsh): lame. Grace (English): favored. Gretchen (Teutonic): pearl. Gwendolin (Celtic): captivating. Hannah (Hebrew): grace. Harriet (Teutonie): noble birth. Helen (Greek), Helena (Latin): light. Heloise (French): noble virtue. Henrletta (English): of noble birth, Hester (Persian): good fortune. Hilda (Teutonic): my support. Hortense (French): gardener. Huldah (Hebrew): worldly. To Mateh. Butcher—Pail? . Mrs. Newlywed—Oh! Does It come ln.shndea? Mrs. Newlywed—I want some lard. | Freshie—There's a in Ohio named after vou. Proud Senior—Yes? name? 3 Freshle—Marblehead. town What's the Not _ There. “Why did Germany and Austrig lose prestige?” I can’t find prestige. Proved It. Just before a wedding cerémony Pat came down the stairs very mich | disheveled. When asked what hap- pened he said: “'T met a man-upstairs and when [ asked him who he was; Ihe said: ‘T am the best man. And ibegorra, he was," “T've looked all over the map and' Correct. “In what battle did Wolfe say, when hearing of victory, ‘I die happy'?” “I think it was his last. v Fine! “The next person:who ‘interrupts the proceedings will be *sent home,"” declared the irate judge. “Hurray!” velled the prisoner. Some Tip. Traveler—Did you find a roll con- taining $50 under my pillow? _ Pullman Porter—Yas, sul Yuh, suh! thank A Man whe hangs himself dies of his own free will and a cord. s TOCKINGS. Readers Novel Games for Summer Parties. “Everybody has been having parties this Summer.” declared Lucile, ‘and I've run completely out of | 1deas for things to do when I ha the bunch over to my house Friday afternoon. It's just to be a porch and vard party Nothing very fancy or dress-up about It at all “I know a game that's fun to play on the porch, Geraldine spoke up. It's very pretty for a prize game Get a wooden barrel hoop and cover it with crepe paper. Then hang it {on a string from the top of the porch Suspend a small bell from the center of the hoop. and your game is fixed | up. except that vou need a bean bag to play with “Get every one lined up a fair | distance away from the hoop, and then give each one a chance to throw |at the bell. The first one to ring the | bell five times gets a prize.” | “That's a good one,” nodded Lu- cile. Can you think of somethi | else—something that's more active only once and it was lots of fun. It's | called ‘human ninepins.’ Line half | of the bunch up against the railing | at one end of the porch. These play |ers must stand on one foot, with | hands behind them the |a 1arge rubber ball at ‘ninepins.’ Itse as flat hole right “What a funny pebble! as anything and has a through the center of if “It's a lucky stone" Cap'n Mathers, looking trom beneath his bushy brows, ‘‘Anybody can green at the seashore if saw one of those before.” “How is it lucky?” Ted wanted to know “You twirl it around on your little finger.” answered the - Captain sol emnly. “and when you get it to whirl- ing fast you suddenly close your eyes [and toss the stone over your ieft | shoulder, making a wish. wish s bound to come true. Shucks | 1t's a wonder you hadn't heard of that | before.” | Ted looked at the little stone in his hand. Then he looked ‘Back at the ola ~€aptain, perched on the over tnrned rowboai on the sand. | what I'd wish, all right.” Ted re- | marked wistfully. But when the Cap | tain_questioned “him, he only his head. He didn't like to admit to {his uncle that he was lonely, pining | tor other boys to play with. He had seen only a few other boys at Lawlor Beach, where he was visiting the Cap- tain, and those few had been inter- ested in each other and had not paid | any attention to him. Ted was not a { boy who made friends easily. ; He wandered slowly down the beach after a while, the stone still in his | hands. He fi sat down, idly, | leaning against a big boulder. 'Then. on a sudden impulse, he started twirl: He replied old up at Ted white eye- tell vou're vou never ing his stone with a hole in it. closed his eves, threw Juickly over his left shoulder, sald to himself. “T wish T might— “‘He,; What's the big idea, throw- “I know | | friend he ever had. " The to keep from being hit | for | touched he hop around and dodge by the ball of them is out. This pins as as one counted soon is keeps up until the last one is down. too i balloon ball. much exercise for nother game that's fun and not a hot day is Divide the gang into | to sides, and give everybody a paper cone, {up a cream | tittle | Toss two madé of wrapping paper rolled nd pasted, so it looks like an ice cone. There should be a hole in the end to blow through up a big balloon between the sides, and then let each side try | to keep the balloon in the other side’s | territ these | touch the balloon not | should be blown with with right ‘A good will been | than top and then be rounded to make } sort ory by cones blowing on it through No one is allowed to ‘The balloon should up very full, and air and not might float be blown gas. Otherwise, it away from the game nd, oh, I'll tell you to serve! I think like it. Make a something your mother plain round " | sponge cake and put on it a mound “Here's a game I've seen played |of bright-colored gelatin which has is a little smaller ahould fit on the molded so it the cake. It Then of mountain effect put some whipped créeam rings around it | This The other half take turns rolling |and it's the best thing ed. a ing self Com is called ‘snow on the mountain you aver tast nd looks awfully pretty. t0o.” Ted Works His Good-Luck Stone. ones at a fellow and hiding vour You just missed me, vou did out of there and fight like a man!" Te d jumped to his feet, to find him self staring into the angry brown eyes of a | sorry a , wish. othe: ucky “Gee, I'm Cause it was was making a boy of his own ag " he explained. stone, and I ounds fishy to me. flashed the r boy, squaring off and clenching | his fists. Bu | Capt | fight And vour | helplessly | was | abou! vou othe Lt | abou a shook o7 |tax yvour memory.” [ak | 1t just then up strolled good oid Mathers ‘“What's this? A he demanded. Ted sxpiained The Captain laughed. 1 just teasing you,” he said. “That t the lucky #tone is all bunk. Now two boys stop glaring at each r and shake hands.™ d declares, though t the Jucky stone wasn't 1, for it brought him that the stary “bunk’ the best Too Much. wish now,” said the lecturer, “to wall from the audience: “Has it come to that?” | A [ sho erow: country gentleman 'is a farmer puts evening clothes on scare: « after 6 o'clock. Temperature on Mars. A FTERNOON temperature in Sum- It mer on Mars is from 10 to 20 the stone | degrees above freezing, according io and | astronomical observers of this coum- after experiments Auring the last ar.