Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 93

. t Ry MARY MARSHALL. ATITUDE has much to do with color fashions. And because the center for women's fash 4 fons for all of what we call the civilized world is located along the banks of the Seine in the 48th de- Erea of northern latitude the fashion for hright colors can never remain a permament thing. If history had been such as to make Madrid, not Paris, the hub of feminine styles the canvas of fashions would doubtless be spread with more brilliant_colo For Ma drid {8 in the 40th degree of lati tude, So is New York for that matter— and there is a general tendency here to interpret French fashions with a more. colorful brush than that used by the originators—that “is, so far as daytime clothes to be worn in the city are concerned. It really s a matter of latitude—a matter of the in tensity of the sunlight—that affects our taste for color, rather than a mat ter of #mperature—for New York and most of our other large American cities are much more like Paris than Madrid so far as temperature is con cerned. In the Summer observers spoke of the vogue for bright colors that pre viiled in Paris as something that Might be permanent. The era of dull grays, somber bla musty browns &nd unobtrusive dark blues seemed to some to have passed away. In their places had come verdant greens, Impid Dblues, vibrant reds and yel lows ‘and intoxicating purples. ~So long as the perfect weather of the Grande Semaine lasted in Parls, these rainbow colors lasted. Neyer before ad out of doors, But when gray davs came as Sum mer advanced and as the gayeties of the early part of the immer left Paris for seashore res €, these bril isians worn such bright colors | liant colors became less and less evi- | dent. Close-fitting tailor-mades soon took the place of airy frocks and flimsy cloaks and capes of radiant hues. But it is only for dayvtime outdoor wear that the brilliant colors have passed. The bright %olors remain in fashion for evening In rooms bright Iy lighted, artificially heated, deco vated with flowers and palms, every evening of the fashionabl woman’s life even in Winter becomes a little interval of tropical existence where one may still wear the light frocks the soft. thin fabrics and luminous colors that bloomed at the races and garden parties for a brief week or 80 in early Summer. SO with the coming of autumnal weather it seems to the French-| woman that the only occasions for wearing bright clothes come in th evening. are brighter in Autumn than theirs and because we actually do live elght degrees nearer to the Equator we are more inclined to wear bright street | clothes than are Frenchwomen. In fact, American women have not in. frequently been critici; ern Europeans for this primitive taste in colors that evening clothes as they are now shown for evening are more colorful than they have been for many years hefore—so many years before that the observer does not hesitate to say | that they have never been so colorful before. One thing that may have struck you on seeing and being present in a gathering of women in lovely eve. ning dresses is that words of descrip- tion really do fail to give an ade quate impression. Simply to name the colors used in an evening frock does not convey the right color im- pression nor describe the effect upon the beholder of the subtle blending of the colors mentioned. Rose-col- ored georgette is one thing when it is folded on the shelf {n the dry goods store and quite another when it is combined by an artist with metallic lace, beads, brocade and other rich fabric, posed in skillful drapery over the body of an exquisite woman and worn at some evening assemblage where the rhythm of music, the scent of flow- ers and subtle perfume mingle against the background of well furnished rooms So it is that descriptions of the ew evening frocks fail to carry a Perhaps because our skies | hum of voices and the | Z v __ ORNAMENT OVER GOLD LAC right impression to any but the most imaginative reader. To feel the thrilling color of them through mere force of words Is not always easy. But the truth is that evening clothes as they have been devised by French and American designers for this Au- tumn and Winter are lovely beyond all precedent, and this loveliness is in_considerable measure due to their color. ok ok NDOUBTEDLY blue should be mentioned first among the colors for the Autumn. It seems almost as if makers of fabrics had discovered shades never known before. They bave reproduced all the varying shades of sapphire, from the lightest ’,’ , FROCK AT LEFT OF MAUVE TAFFETA, WITH FULL SKIRT AND MOLDED BODICE, TRIMMED WITH VIOLINE LACE. AND AT RIGHT, DRAPED SATIN BODICE FASTENING IN FRONT WITH . SKIRT. crystal through the cornflower range down to the really dark indigo shades that are sometimes found in the less valuable specimens of this precious stone. Flower gardens” and green- houses, fields and woods, have been traverses for blue flowers that might contribute a new shade of this color. So we have hydrangea blue and peri. winkle blue and cornflower blue. The deep opaque blue that we sometimes call pencil blue and that is spoken of as a leading color for Autumn day- time wear is found here and there in an evening frock, sometimes in combination with black, but it does not lend itself especially well to the requirements of evening wear. The new turquolse blue, which has a good deal of green in fits make-up, is a AT LEFT, ABOVE, FLESH TAFFETA AND TULLE EVENING FROCK WITH GOLD EMBROIDERY FOR TRIMMING. FLOWERS AT THE FRONT OF THE WAIST. NEXT, BLACK VELVET WITH FULLNESS AT BACK AND SIDES OVER GOLD AND RED THE VELVET IS GOLD EMBROIDERED. THEN A FROCK OF YELLOWISH-GREEN CHIFFON ALL EMBROIDERED WITH CRYSTAL BEADS. AT RIGHT, BROWN VELVET FROCK WITH LIKE CONFETTL THIS FROCK IS MADE WITH NORMAL WAIST LINE. LAME SLIP. \ good selection for the new evening [vibrant green that is almost a jade. frock. All the flower tones have been car- There are many greens—all the way [ried over from Summer to the realm from pale chartreuse green to a rich, |of evening frocks for the Autumn and = Things Which Are of Interest to Younge With the Puzzle Editor. To behead means to take off the first letter; to curtail means to take off the last. Now see if you can work these puzzles A word meaning to crawl in a great hurry; behead twice and have a long walk; behead once and have a slow, undecided pace; curtail three times and have a form of “‘to be"; curtail and have the indefinite article. Begin with something that happens when vou do not get enough air; be- head and have your best friend: be- head again and have not this; behead and curtail and have the definite article. Regin with the place whers angels live; curtail and have a lifting; behead and have a part of the roof; behead ngain and have a word used often in Latin hymns. Regin with a hillside; behead and have a horse's stride; curtail and have to cut hastily; curtail and have a word used often in the Bible and meaning the same as look. Take something found fn the Ameri- can flag; curtail and have a long, nar- row plece; behead and have a journey: behead again and have a place where thread has become unsewed; add what vou first curtailed and have what the sun makes fruit. Take & word meaning to strike heavily; behead and have a very small particle, best known in connection with a widow; curtall and have a large glove; behead and have neuter gender. Begin with a pleasant word mean- ing thin; behead and have a pawn- broker; behead once and curtail twice and have one opposite of beginning. Start with a word meaning to journey; behead and have a verb meaning to fray: curtail and have what a maniac does; behead and have & Latin chant. Begin with a word meaning not deep; behead and have a verb signify- ing to keep holy; behead and have to permit; curtail twice and have the whole. Take a bend or an ugly curl; behead and have a place to skate; behead again and have a writing fluid; curtail and have a preposition Take a common design for dress behead and have past tense of ;! behead again and have help; curtail twice and have the indefinite article. Begin with a word which might be used to describe a miser; curtail and have & sharp bite; behead and cur- tall and have a metal common in the kitchen; behead again and have a preposition; curtail and have a per- sonal pronoun referring to vourself. If you couldn't do that one, try this: ~ First is a roundish, hard ob- ject found along the edge of a brook; behead and have part of the voice; behead again and have a digit; curtail and have a preposition. > For the next, begin with a word meaning a place to keep a horse; be- head and have a description of height; behead again and have everything; curtail and have a boy's nickname; curtail and have the indefinite article. ANSWERS. Scramble, ramble, amble, am, Smother, mother, other, the. Heaven, heave, eave, ave. Slope, lope, lop, lo. Stripe, strip, trip, rip, ripe. Smite, mite, mit, it. Slender, lender, end. Travel, ravel, rave, ave. Shallow, hallow, allow, all. Crink, rink, ink, in. Plaid, Jaid, aid, a. Stingy, sting, tin, in, L Stone, tone, one. on. Stall, tall, all, Al, a Here'’s Something My Dog Does— ©'Play dead! I say to my dog, and e Hes down on the floor and doesn't move except to breathe,” says Caroline Emory. Caroline doesn’t say so, but we’ll bet he keeps one eve on Caroline. “He is a mixture of fox terrier and bulldog,” she adds, “and is brown and black d white with a white space Yetwvean Lis when she tells him? If your dog can do something just as smart and you would like to have his picture printed on this page, write and tell us about some of his stunts. Be sure and in- clude a description, too, so that our artist will know just what sort of a picture to draw. Address letters to v_Page, fare oL The s LDED FUR AND APPLIQUED DISKS OF RED, THERE ARE ARTIFICIAL EEN AND GOLD KID, | she can well manage ay Colors to Continue in Favor for This Season’s Evening Wear Cleopatra could ever have' had any more gorgeous costumes thar of the new jeweled and beaded gowns for evening. The beads aure used rather differently now from what they were formerly—the effect is one of massing the by here or there in heavy incrustations. Some of the new gowns are fairly covered with beads making the weight of the gown al most_burdenseme. But then the total eight of what a woman wears in the evening nowadays is so small that to carry around with her several pounds of beads: Her lingerfe is scant and light of weight, her stockings thinner than a spider'’s web and zs light, and usu- ally she doesn’t even carry the weight of hair pins The neckline was for many years one of the chief marks of distinction of the evening gown, and it is one that always needs 10 be considered in connection with a dance or dinner gown. Interestingly enough in this age when critics accuse us of having cast modesty aside and dared evers extreme of dr the extremely low cut evening gown s not very often found among those offered for our consideration by the great dress makers. Quite often there is round neckline scarcely lower than that of a daytime frock. The so-called bateau neck, falrly high at the front- touching the collar bone—and cut al most to the shoulders at the side, has, despite all predictions to the contra survived another season. It 1s a neck- line that especially recommends itself to the American woman of discretion in matters of dres A deep and rathe line is of course fa sometimes high at the back and some times V-shaped there. There i same tendency on the part of makers to make necks that are rather high at the front quite low at back, and those that are low & front fairly high at the back. ® ox % x LEEVELESSNESS for seems to remain the conservative, smart cholce—or if yo 1 not go sleeveless vou ma are actually long and Sleeves of this sort appear once while in a metall lace frock d of the heavi chiffon run with metal threads Various sorts of velvet brocaded chiffon are looming large in the realm of evening frocks. Of course, there is nothing positively new about these chiffons, but they are not quite. like any fabrics of the sort ave had before. The f ¢ that expressed fitself in printed crepes of e Summer see to have been carried over to these brocades, for many of them show la figures and s n contrasting colors. And these rich materials lend themselves well to the present sil houette, slightly flaring, and with a tendency to show closer conformity some narrow V neck newer, and this is dress evening | to the figure than was the case with | the sheath frocks of a year a Sometimes the richest brocades are further embellished with beading, metallic embroidery, lace and other | ornamentation, but the most pleasing effects are gained when they are used alone or in combination with plain chiffon to match the background of the brocade. These new brocades, like the metal laces and other new fabrics of the season, are so expensive that somc one has said the fashion for short fairly scant skirts will have to con tinue. The only thing that makes it possible to have clothe: all wit fabrics so precious is we nee only a very few a dress. (Copyright. 1028.) Finds a Fortune. A MINING pioneer of Vancouver Charles F. Shaw, has di: a deposit of chrome iron containing a large percentage of platinum. The ¢ posit is on the banks of the Tulaman River, British Columbia, and the news of the discoevery h excited such in terest that over a hundred claims have been staked already. Platinum from overed Winter. Among these you find the pinks, blues and mauves of the sweet pea and the morning glory, the rich reds of the fuchsia, the biues, pinks and violets of the aster, the yellows and yellowish rose tones of the snap- dragon. Nelther the Queen of Sheba nor Tulaman is not a new development; over 20,000 ounces have been won from other deposits in this region. Mr Shaw's deposit, however, is the rich- est vet discovered there. | lace ruffied clothing. Here are three dainty handkerchief corners which you can make very easily. When finished, they make lovely birthday gifts, or are pretty worn in your own packet with just the design sticking out. | To make the first, applique a square |inch of white linen on a rose colored | handkie with satin stitch all around | in violet. A group of lemon yellow | French knots forms the center and a yellow-green sprig of leaf leads out from each side. | Second is a quaint little miss with Use a acrap of Handkerchief Corners to Embroider inch wide for the skirt. Outline the. rest in black or a color to match the Bem. Last is a basket, appliqued. It can be of any contrasting color which goes well with the color of the hand- kerchief. rambler stitch with lazy daisy trallers to fill it. The handkerchief is pretty done in white with sand-colored basket, blue-green leaves and roses in_coral pinks. These designs may be traced from the pictures above since they are ust _the Embrolder tiny roses in’ r R A fisherman strangs was “0ld Duck.” Aud a queer cateh his fly-line once struck. This rule's seldom taught: In the person with * A lovely September breeze blew in from the cool, clear lake and stirred the curls on Esther’s forehead as she finished drylng her last plate and hung up her dish towel. “Now I can take the boat out,” she sald happily. In a corner of the big kitchen were her rod and reel. She picked them up and was soon down at the boat landing. Esther was helping out at the big hotel in the woods the season for hunters and fisher- men, 8o extra help was needed. and Esther, who lived with her family on a small farm nearby, needed money, #0 she hadn't started to school yet Esther rowed with firm, quick strokes across the lake to a little in- let, where she anchored her boat. Then she began to cast. Another boat came along. Esther, glancing up, saw that the man in the the other fishermen had named ‘‘the old duck.” He always went around by himself, had a shabby looking outfit, and never spoke to any one. He was casting also. Esther noticed September was | boat was a queer old fellow some of | eaders “Old Duck” Made a Catch. proudly that he wasn’t nearlywas good as she. He was coming along pretty close. Evidently he did not see her, was about to call out to him, that moment she thought she felt something strike at her bait and that took her attention. Zing! Something struck the thick igle of ther's curls. She screamed. “Don’t move,” rang out a frightened voice. “li—it didn’t get in your scalp, did it?" “No—o—o,” choked Esther, realiz- {ing that a fishing plug with its sharp hooks was imbedded in her hair, and trembling at the thought of tow serious it might have been The old man climbed from his boat |into hers. Hea got the hooks out, but a bunch of the curls came with them My granddaughter has curls just like this,”” he 1d “My, how she'd hate losing them!” Esther was a good sport about it, but she lost her taste for fishing. A week later the *old duck” left. Then oné morning there came & note for Esther, and in it was a check that took her breath away. The prominen: name attached to the check puzzled; her, until she read the brief note at tached: “In payment for a bunch of Bove and Girls' Page. care of Star, Rickity, rickety rim ’ Come.out of-the woods and paper your { chin, | Beat 'em early, beat 'em late |Bondville high School's surs to ratet ~Bondvilio High Scboely 9 | 1 Save Her, Somebody! Bob—What do you think of political parties? Bobbed—T don’t know, I nsver-went to any. - Very Good. \ Teacher—Give us a._sentence wistngl these words: Defeat, defense and de: tail. Pupll—~De feet went over da-fence’ before de tall. ——— Help! Stude—What makes you think that Mr. Jones won't give you a flubk in our exam? ¥ Another—I know he, can't, T hands d in an anonymous pape 8.0-U-P, Boup! C-0-U-P Soup! §.0-U-P C-O-U-P (Opponent’s name) Splash? —Englewood High School. Georgetown 'High ool Ray (Opponent’s name) Yea, ‘ Both high schools—Play! Thank you!