Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 77

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, VELVET AND HAIR IN MATCHING THIS WIDE-BRIMMED CAPELIN WI TRIMMING IS A LARGE AMBE BY MARY MARSHAI ALM BEACH clothes displaved in midwinter used to be some thing that the great majority of women looked at as imper sonally as gowns designed for | presentation the court of St. James —interesting enough, but hav- ing no possible meaning far as thev personally were concerned. They wondered almost as they went hurry ing along icy sidewalks just how the hig merchants and shopkeepers could | afford to give so much space in thelr windows and showcases to frocks which such a very small section of a | very thin upper crust could ever ‘want to biy, Of course they had | their effect, more or less directly. on | the stvles that every one was to wear when Spring really came. They set one thinking longingly of the Spring purchases—put one in a favorable | mood for ordering or selecting Spring clothes rather early. But so far as ever wanting to wear light Spring hats in January, or lingerie frocks in February—parasols, light sport frocks, bathing suits and things like that right in the middle of Winter of course, there was no chance The big change has come ahout perhaps not so suddenly as it seems to many perso Thousands and thousands of Americans have felt the eall of long-dormant nomadie instincts thev have reasserted their right to flee the rigors of a climate that seems too harsh. .And the great | frocks | seems someh D. ¢, DECEMBER P =l 1925—PART 5. esisned for Palm Beach Give SHADE OF BEIGE ARE USED IN TH TURNED-UP BACK. THE ONLY R PIN AT THE RIGHT SIDE. bined with cream or white in clothes for Southern wear. And the Palm Beach picture would apparently not be complete without its touch of red, but a lovely I flowerlike shade of red Iy ap- propriate. here are scarfs white and half red. in two lengthwise stripes: cream-colored hats with & band of red, red parasols, of red satin crepe, worn be neath cream-colored kasha coats facings on white flannel. All shades of pink seem to be play ing an important role. But pink w smarter for and sport r, in frocks made with the utmost simplicity, than for the elaborate evening frock. The French dressmakers planning clothes for the Riviera and other resorts in southern urope have worked much in petal shades of pink. One of them, we hear, has stressed mauve for all man ner of sports wear; hut word has al gone about that mauve is not o much in the picture now as it was last sea- son. There are greens a-plenty phasis on the more vellow greens sophisticated woman will per ofd anything too verdantly this season just because the whole green range has been rather overdone of late. The chartreuse or Lanvin range of greens used this Winter will still remain good, and a green that the French call escarolle named, e, after the salad green wide with em- The has | been spoken of somewhat. | half | red daytime | SHORT PLAID SKIRTS ARE ONE OF THE SMARTEST OF FASHION'S OFFERINGS. PLAID TAFFETA IS S HERE IN TONES “ND WITH THE GREEN JER- SEY JUMPE BOWS OF THE PLAID TAFFETA TI AT NECK AND WRISTS OF THE JUMPER. TO THE RIGHT IS A HAND | PAINTED CREPE DE CHINE JUMP- | ER WITH DESIGNS OF THE MOD- 7 Hint of Spring Fashions majority | Blue seems to be especial ing to the woman of rather tive taste. There is no danger of its gaining undue popularity this year.| _ Meantime some very smart frocks for Southern wear have been made in navy blue, in delft blue. in Normandy sity. Their whole ideas regarding | ppi Pobe O LG L . o | blue that have an air of great dis-| clothes for Winter have been turned upside down. And the makers of|iinction. Gray with blue holds favor women's clothes find themselves every | ity the more discriminaating this vear supplying a larzer and larger | ceason, with slight chance of becom- number of women with lightweight | ing too popular. summery clothes in midwinter. | " Many women choose a suit as part | @ The color of these warm-climate ofetheir Southern rbbed Eon ex clothes sees most important. It is ample: A lightweight brown mixed | by their soft, light colors that you | tweed coat and rt with dull silk know them first. The dressmakers jumper to mate sredominant tone seam to have done much with shades of the tweed. rle, if you can | of red clear, fresh, fragrant reds|afford it, giv touch to the that seem oddly Springlike. Usually | costume. Other women have as little | full ski that look nothing in we speak of reds as warm and glow- | place in their wardrobes for the “suit” | the world &0 much short Mes ing, suitable most of all for \\'|n'0rv‘in! ever. They prefer coats of kasha or | about one’'s hips. <ome of the dress. and there are, indeed, many reds to |tweed or any of the lightweight wool- | makers are stickin to a shorter be found among the smart coats and | en materials of the season and wear | jumper, so that the ness of the Jats and frocks for Winter wear in | them with one-piece or jumper frocks. | skirt is not so stressed: but the best Northern climes. Often red is com- | The jumper frock, of course, takes pre- | usage among dressmakers seems to be | Which Are appeal- onserva- ERNIST SORT. IT IS WORN WITH A WHITE KASHA SKIRT. of these newlv-roused nomads are middle-class folk with middle-class in. ‘comes So it is that the Palm Beach clothes that once seemed so remote 10 MOSt women now seem a neces eminence. Well liked last Summe; undoubtedly is coming to pe of greatest favor this Spring. If find it suitable like it. then by all means have vour fill of it now for you can wear a jumper costume for breakfast, luncheon and dinner here are jumper frocks for every nd sions Yes, we wore jumpers last Summ but somehow the last seaxon’s jumy: doesn’t look quite right now. - There | have been little changes. The most extreme of the new jumpers are quite long and are worn with very short, SMALL GLASS BEADS MINGLED WITH EYELET EMBROIDERY GIVE A TOUCH OF CHARMING DISTINC.- TION TO THE GREEN VOILE FROCK AT THE LEFT. AND. AT THE RIGHT. EMBROIDERY IS SKILLFULLY INTERSPERSED WITH GAY PAINTED DESIGNS ON A RUFFLED FROCK OF WHITE CHIFFON. its od | even gone back te the very short lit-|ered; hut for resort wear these beads |taffeta frock with cream-colored em tle sleeve of weason before last. are not used so heavily as for wear |broldery collars and cuffs—a black taf | For evening and elaborate afternoon | in cool climes and Winter days. For |feta one-piece frock relieved by a | \wear there are many chiffon frocks, | YOUr warm-weather frocks beads and |gilet of ecru mull and lace—these d chiffan ie sometimes mentioned a< | Metal should be used just enough to|should he considered by the woman e of the most promising of materials | make the frock look like a shimmer- | making up her Palm Bsach wardrobe. for resort wear this season. White |Ing flower. The heads should suggest| affeta combines with other mater. chiffon because of its very unservice. | the glisten of dewdrops. |ials. You may select a green jersey bieness has a distinctive charm.| Taffeta recommends itself for re-|jumper and wear it with a plaid taf here is never danger of over sort wear. It has been a bit too crisp |feta flaring skirt—green being a pre- lavization of anything so fr for the scant straight frocks we have |dominant color of the plaid. In cooler Sometimes these chiffon frocks been wearing. but with frocks of a | climes vou #ffay choose a jumper of made quite simply. most without more flaring nature and with gathers | velvet in solid color worn over a skirt trimming: sometimes they are headed. creeping back into the picture, taffeta | of plaid cloth: for resort wear silk jer- and quite frequently they are embel- stands a good chance of gaining |sey over plaid taffeta. It is an inter. shed with multi-colored painti ground. Resides the new taffefas are pretation of the same idex. frocks are also headed and embroid- ' quite soft and pliant. A navy blue (Consright. 1925.) Readers hese jumper skirts from un.| to ress. Sometimes they are the nal little wraparound skirt | seasons. with hardly a bit of Much liked are the jumper skirts with fuliness all confined in very fine pleats. More often than not One thing that be quite settled in these new Southern clothes, ind that at in shail be i tuced well down toward the seems other is t fullness sleeves Sometimes lon are straight: oftener there is a gentle the the jumper skirt is to | increase in contour to the wrist and he found o it “the front. Sun-fthen onfined in a hand or euff of hurst p in_the vicinity of | some sort or else allowed to flare. The each kr ave seen in several cases.|dressmak of distinction seem to there are circular g oid the eccentricities of | sleeve Some of them have a smart vrist sieeves fullness ¢ s o ts— one ts | of ign. Interest at the front of any de . in the world. and why? Things Another Group of Riddles. 1. What's the difference between an old maid and a girl fond of a red- haired Irishman? 2. Why is loaf of bread top of the Eiffel Tower like horse? 3. Why was “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” | not written by a human hand? { 4. Why have chickens no future state of existence? 5. What is the difference between a man going upstairs and one looking up? A T5. Who Killed the greatest number of chickens 7. Why is a field of grass like a person older than vourself? S. Which is the easier to spell— fiddle-de-dee or fiddle-de-dum? 2. When is a silver cup most likely to run? 10. Who are the most wicked people on the a race. 11. What are ths most unsociable things in the world” | 12. When may # man he considered to be really head and ears in 13. What kind of a robbery may be gaid tc he not dangerous? 14. What is the difference between | 100 and 1,0007 15. Why is feeder? 16. When are two apples alike? 17. What is the most warlike na tion? 18, What is that which is length- ened by being cut at both ends® <19, Which tree commands the most respect from its fellow: 3 20. What question is that to which must answer “yes”? What is the hardest aeal with? What is that which Adam never <aw. never possessed, and vet he gave two to each of his children? 23. Why should turtles be pitied? 24, Why should an alwavs wear a watch when he travels in a desert Why is a spendthrift's purse like a thunder-cloud? 26. What is that which every one wishas for and then tries to get rid of? Which travels at greater speed, heat or cold? ’8. Why is the interior of a theater a sad sight 29. How «short” 30. con who lisps ence of young the horse a curious thing to an you make a tall man Why is it impossible for a per- ) helieve in the exist- dies? Answers. 1. One loves a cat and parrots, the other a Pat and carrots. 2. Because it is high bread. 2. Because it was written by Harriet Beecher's toe (Stowe). 4. Fecause they have their necks twirled (next world) in this. the other starlng up the steps. 5. Hamlet's uncle ““did murder most fou 7. Re turage). 3. The former, because it is spelled with more e's 4. When it is chased. 10. Pan makers, because they make 1se it is past your age (pas- people steel pens and tell them m-y| do write, debt? | One is stepping up the stairs and 11. Milestones, because never see two of them togethe: 12. When he owes for his wig. 13. A safe robber) 14. 0 (Naught). 15. Because he eats best when he hasn’t a bit in his mouth. 16. When pared. 17. Vacci-nation, ways in arms. 18. A ditch. 19. The elder. 20. What does y-e-s spell? 21. An old pack of cards. Parents. Recause 24 Because spring in it 25. Because it Is continually light- ening. A good appetite. Heat, because you because it Is al- theirs is a hard case. every watch has a you cold. T tiel 29. Borrow 30. Because ix a myth. e School Yells. Because the seats are all in of him, with him every miss sa Erin Rosh: = in. Tenn. Come on blue! Come on white ! | Come on Shoriridse: PR e Nortridge High School. One. two. four, three. four | Who're vou going to yell for | Nelsonvile ! { We don't like to holler | Wa don't like to hoast. . | But ‘we can melt the (opponent’s name) | Tipon 2 ‘iece of toast! . ~“Nelsonville High School. Nelsonville. Ohio. What do sou think ! What do you think ! We come from the school of dynamite and zine. We don’t give a rin, We don't give a ran. Ceme to Wynne High and get on the map! 1 lee cream. soda water. Ginger ale. oDl Nobiesville High School Alwave on_to —Nebleaville High Sehool. Noblesville, | chute the chutes | TLoon the 100n | (Opponent’s name) inthe #0UD | o anee High School. Twinkle, twinkle, Winnie Winkle. | Ray—team | Raw tomato. Hot potato, Yea. team! —Carthage High School. wo. three. four Ind. high school's It Does. Young Lady—What stare at my nose so? | Reporter—The editor told mie that lif I wanted to be a good reporter I eves on anything makes You | should keep my | that turned up. The First Thing to Learn. | | | | “Do you play golf?" he asked of |Ih0 simple but gushing maiden. “Dear me, no.” she bashfully re- plied: “T don't belleve I'd even know how to hold the caddie.” can catch | BY RAMON COFFMAN. Did you ever wonder why people of olden times used to believe that giants had lived on earth? There are | several explanations. One of these is | the fact that great pleces of upstand- ing stone sometimes seem to have the form of men viewed from a distance. {In the mountains of Scandinavia, there is one whole group of ‘rocks which look like giant men if not seen too closely Perhaps the Norse stol tellers looked at those rocks from afar nimals of Long Ago and imagined them to be giants. Probably the best reason given for this belief is that early men thought at certain huge hones had belonged to giant men. Until a few centurie ago, people did not know about might animals which once roamed over the earth. It was natural for them to suppose that large hones which they discovered must have been left by human beings of tremendous size. Only 200 years ago an American clergyman wrote to a friend: “The Bible savs, ‘There were giants| in those days’, and this is proved the finding of a great human tooth. It weighs four and threefourth pounds.” The tooth of which the mini spoke, as was later proved, had really belonged to a mastodon. 1 speak of the mistake because it was fust like that of many other persons who lived before scientists learned about certain animals. What were these animals? How do we know they live: First, let the earth. it is. Yet changing, mud from gether and into lakes or oceans. make large deltas by and sand at their mouths. about them? Streams hillsides. earry They to Younger ‘Where did us think A moment about It seems solid, and indeed the surface is constantly and to- dirt Jjoin form rivers, which empty They dumping mud often On some parts of the earth's sur- face the land Is sinking. In other A Pony BY DOROTHY DUNSING. ! “Ra shouted Sammy Wilson. “I've got $107" He shook his tin bank | lonce more, but it was light and empty. Ten dollars exactly! He was so tickled | he scarcely knew what to do, so he {1aid the bank on the table and turned | handsprings all around the room. This dcne, he arranged his savings in neat |stacks of dimes. nickels. quarters, |halves and pennies. There was one $2 bill there his Uncle Ben had given him on his visit. but the rest was change. It lnoked like a hundred. I know what I'm going to do with it he said to himself. “I'm going to hiy me a pony:’ Sam knew exactly what pony he | wanted. too, and how to get it. That | afternoon he had his silver changed |into clean new bills. and at 4 o'clock | he was standing in the front row of & |crowd which had gathered for an auc- tion sale at Billing's farmhouse. For a half hour he stood there while the furniture was being sold; then came the pony. “Ten dollars!” cried Sam in a loud ice. This, he thought, would imme- {diately purchase the prize. | “Ten dollars!" called the auctioneer in a booming voice. “Ten dollars! This tanimal is easily worth a hundred. Bid up. please, gentlemen!” “Fifty Sam’'s blood froze with despair. All for Sale. was lost. Ten dollars wasn't | thing. “Fifty-five,” | Sixty! | Sam looked bitterly at the roll of bills in his hand. Ten dollars! What |was 10 beside 55 and 607 He was ‘nlalnlv a disappointed little boy. | “Sixty—sixty—sixty—will no one of- |fer me’ sixty-five?” The auctioneer's | voice was trailing off to a sale. “'Sixty | —going—going——" | “Seventy! said a white-haired old |gentleman who was standing beside Sam “Gone! for $70 to this gentleman in |the front row!" beomed the auctioneer. | Sam turned to go, but a hand on | his shoulder detained him. It was the | white-haired old gentleman. “Do you know of a boy whom 1 jcould get to keep my pony exercised and teach my little boy te ride him?" | he asked. “A bey about vour age and one who loves horses.’ Sam trembled with anxiety. “Wiil 1 do. mister?” he asked in a faint Voice. “Fine!" said the old gentleman. Sam felt like standing on his head, he was €0 happy. Then the two began plan- ning and making arrangements fer the care of the pony, and the old gen- tleman was so kind and Sam 8o eager that in 10 minutes they felt as if they Tad been lifelong friends. And. finest of all, that evening the new groom rode the pony to his atable. any- called a stout farmer. places, the land is rising. These movements are very slow, but they will make a great deal of difference a million vears from now. North America will not have the same shape it has today. Africa, South America and the other continents will have different sizes and shapes. Scientists have proved that the continents have heen changing in shape for many millions of vears. Alaska was joined to Asia. Great Britain was once joined to Europe. Ocean waters, at one time or another, have covered almost every part of ! North America. How do we know all this? How can we tell, for instance, that the State of Kansas or Maryland was once below the sea? The facts have been learned by earnest study. Dig- ging down in Maryland or Kansas, we come to layers of rock which con- tain the bones and shells of creatures of the ocean. We know that these creatures could not have lived in fresh water, so we must decide that Kansas and Maryland were once under the sea. There are other proofs, too. If the continents have been chang- ing down through the ages, it is little wonder that animal life should also have changed. This has indeed been the case. Layers of rock contain the {remains of almost countless animals which onced lived. but which live no | more. The deepest layers contain the bones of the animalis which lived longest ago. The alligator and the lowly lzard are descendents of a group of animals of very different shapes. Mounted in public museums, we can today see the skeletons of dinosaurs. That name means “terrible lizards.” Dinosaurs lived long before there were any people on earth. It is be- lieved that the last members of the tribe died at least 4,000,000 years age. We do not know exactly how they looked—the best we can do is to figure out their forms from their skeletons. Some dinosaurs reached a length of 100 feet. If vou pay a visit to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. veu can see—side by side—the skeletons of two long dinosaurs. They are not the longest of those discovered, but if they could come back to life, they would certainly startle us. Either one might stand on the top of a two-story house and (if he did not break in the roof) put his head down to the grass on one side while his tail hung to the ground on the other. The dinosaurs of which 1 speak had very small heads, long necks, thick heavy bodies, and tails which never seemed to end. In rock formed from hardered mud, traces of the tail which dragged in soft mud have been found. Tracks of the monster’s teet have also been discovered in the mud rock. The long dinosaurs appear not to have fed on other animals. The small size of their jaws and the shape of their teeth lead us to believe that they ate only leaves, twigs and plants. Each one probably made away with a quarter of a ton of such food in a ay. Long dinosaurs are believed to have | spent most of their time in swamps and near lake shores. Their length. necks were a help to them when the; | wanted to plunge their heads down into lake water and bite off seaweed growing at the bottom. Thgse same . long necks anabled them strateh up and munch the leaves of trees.