Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1926, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 21, 1926—PART 5. Countless Little Details of New Fashions ‘Which Are Important UPPERMOST OF THE PARASOL AND SCARE TO MATC I3 A RED PARASOL EMBROIDERED AND TRIY THER PARROTS; TO THE R = TRIMMED WITH OSTRICH ) IS PAINTED WITH GREEN DOTS. ABOVE GROUP Is A PRINTED CHIFFON H. JUST BELOW TO THE LEFT MED WITH GREEN IGHT A GREEN TAFFETA PAR- FRINGE. THE WOODEN HAN. AT THE LOWER RIGHT. HAND CORNER 1S ONE OF THE NEW STRAW PARASOLS PASTEL STRIPES; LEFT OF IT A PARASOL FOR THE BEACE LARGE GILDED HANDI PARASOLS COVERED WITH ORA 1, AND AT THE . THAT APPEARS O! A LINEN-AND-PAPER JAPANESE XTREME LEFT THE ONE OF THE NEW NGE TAFFETA. Things Which Between Winter and Summer. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. Three months ago the sun, after swinging southward for six months in its yearly journey, reached the most distant point in its cycle, and again began to move toward the nerth, Now the half-way point on its return trip has been reached. and we call this point the vernal or Spring cyuinox. Of course, the scientists would tell vou that the sun really does not move at all. That it ball of fire from which comes all the earth's heat and light rests stationary in the midst of all the solar system, while the planets, including our earth, move around it. The earth’s path around | the sun is in the form of a huge llipse, or oval. Now, as the earth moves about the sup only balf of it can receive lisht at one tivs2. However, besides the movement around the sun, the earth, as you know, also rotates on its axis, which causes us to have day and night. When our side of the world is exposed to the sun it is day, and when our side moves around into the shadow it §s night. I the axis of the earth, on which | rotates, were exactly vertical, all | our days and nights would be of the ! same length. You remember that a | few months ago we had daylight only | for about eight hours a day. Since | then the days have gradually be- come longer, and you know that xt Summer it will be daylight for 16 hours of the d This > in the length of the day is caused by the fact that the axis of the earth |s tipped, and as the earth moves around the sun the rays of the sun strike it at different angles. Thus in Midsummer the rays come from almost directly overhead, and the weather is hot. In December and January the rays come from a great ungle, and are therefore not as powerful. That is the reason that it is so cold in Winter. In Mareh and in October the earth is in such a position in relation to the sun that we receive light for just half of the 24 hours. Scientists call these times the Spring equinox and the Au- tumn equinox. “Equinox” comes from two Latin words meaning equal and night. The Spring equinox oe- curs about the 21st of March, and is supposed to mark the begin- ning of Spring. From now on the days will get longer and warmer, until in June and July the longest, hot- test days of the year will come. March, the month of the Spring equinox, is the stormiest, most blustery month of the year. The old Romans named this month March after Mars, the god of war, because it was symbolic to strife and conflict. Mars was the son of Jupiter and June. and always dressed in a fine coat of armor and a plumed helmet, and carried a wicked spear. Bellona was the goddess of war, and drove Mars’ chariot when he went into battle, There is an interesting legend about Mars. He fell in love with Ilia, one of the followers of Vesta, the goddess of fire. They were married and had twin sons, Romulus and Remus. The BY MARY MARSHALL. JARPS, shawls and silk squares, gloves with elaborate cuffs and simple gloves _that ~pull on, bracelets, “armlets, necklaces, necklets and neck chains, brooches, rings, diad bandeaus and ornamental combs, high collars, low collare, cuffs, gllets, gorgets and jabots, belts, girdles, parasols, um- brellas, handkerchlefs—such are just @ fsw of the accessories that con- tribute to the happinesa it not to the smartness of the fashionable woman of_today. Incidentally these innumerable and unnumhered little objects are the things that make dressing doubly dif- ficult for many wemen. They keep thelr heads while they select frocks and wraps and even hatg. In simple trock and hat these wemen look well dressed. But by the time they have fitted themselves out with handbag and gloves, an accessory collar and belt, scarf and other up-to-date gew- gaws the result {8 enough to make the dressmaker weep—that is, {f dressmakers had not all become hard: ened to such happeninga. You and a friend of yours may both select a tweed suit with a emall hat for early Spring wear, but you will wear glovea of one shade and she of another—and you will earry a plain handkerchief of fine white linen whila she will select a colarful crepe de chine square. “You will wear a white gardenla in your buttonhole, while she will sport & bunch of Parma violets. That green jade bracelet thag you have worn so much that it has taken on somcthing of your person- ality will peep below the cuff of your cout, while wide silver armlets will appear when your friend takes off her gloves. Really such matters are as much a part of you as your tone of voice and have as much to do with the im- pression you present as the eosmetics —or lack of cosmetics—that you employ. One can hardly solve this accessory problem by letting them alone. To be sure, during war days we went with the minimum of small things. Our frocks called for neither collars nor cuffs. They were beltless and gird- less. They went on in ene plece and over the frock went a cape, which, with a hat, was about all one needed, This absence of emall details of dress left us more time presumably to knit and sew and attend committee meet- ll:u!! and otherwise do our patriotic it. We grew 8o accustomed to frocks that went on in one piece that some of us shall never willingly wear any other sort. Still, the two-plece idea has gailned ground, and scarfs and | sometimes beits are now made detuch- ed from the gown. The new Tuxedo sults for women are made up of many parts—skirt, waistooat, coat, jaboet, ete. Well dressed women are buying generous supplies of gloves this Spring. For one thing, there is no longer anything smart about golng glovele: The very women who a seasons ago vowed that they would never get back into the habit of wearing gloves—save when abse- ! lutely necessary—now wear them con- | stantly, save for dinner and other eve- ning occasions. Yes, and at Palm Beach they even wear them with their beach costumes and take them off only on geing inte the water, Moreover, the gloves that are eon- “Housecleaning.” rvemarks a writer on housewlifery subjects in a book published three-quarters of a century ago, ‘“housecleaning, unless con- ducted on some plan which occasions little if any disturbance {n the general domestic arrangements, is a nul- sance, particularly to the males of the household.” And further, observes thia commen- tator, there {8 nothing more exasper- aung tc a tired man than to come nome and find the house topsy-turvy, and nothing so quickly raises his opin- ¢ jon of his wife’s executive ability as to find “everything freshened and brightened, and that without his hav- ! ing been annoyed by the odor of soap- suds, or yet having been obliged to betake himself to the kitchen for his meals.” Times have changed, and the wom- |an of the twentieth century isn't so sldered appropriate now are of light and delicate shades and one must have a fairly large supply of them. Some women do, of course, economize and stmplify matters by wearing dark gloves, but to present a really smart effect you should wear gloves as light as your stockings. Some women take pains to match thelr gloves and stock- ings—if the one is a real bois-de-rose shade then 8o is the other—if the one is a pale flesh, so is the other. You may see women at your stocking shop carrying with them fresh pairs of gloves wrapped in white tissue— matching stockings to various paira of_gloves. The vogue for ornate euffs contin- ues—and all the time a large number of very well dressed women never wear anything but the simplest pull- on variety. Here are just a few of the new sorts of ornamental gloves that are shown in the shops. Gloves with flaring cuffs entirely of gold or silver leather, Gloves that are edged with metal links like a bracelet. Gloves with cuffs of silk embroidered in raffla, or cuffs trimmed with metal nailheads. . The time has passed, at least for the present, when wemen were con- tent to possess a single handbag or even two handbags—one for day and one for evening. Yet plenty of wom- en used to carry one bag for every and all occasions. They preferred to do it that way, using one bag until it had become shabby or they had tired of it——feeling that it was u great nui- sance to have to change money, check book, tickets and other accessories from one bag to another. Now this shifting of our small effects we.take for granted and we empty the con- tents of one purse into anpother as easily as men shift their essentials from one set of pockets to another, Yortunately, there are fewer quick, sudden fads in purses than ence there were. For this reason women are Rules for Housecleaning. able to get the work done without turning the entire house topsy-turvy. ¥or your own peace of mind It 18 a good plan to do one or two rooms at a time, so that the work can be start- ed and finished between breakfast and the evening meal. After all, the actual work of cleaning any room can hardly take more than eight or nine hours. And if things are planned out ahead of time there {s no reason why things sheuld be left at sixes and sevens when ft is time to stop oper: ations for the night. In the old days, of course, the work was much harder. Then one had first to take out the heuvy furniture. The carpets next had to be taken up and sent out to be beaten. Dust was then swept up with a damp broom and then the cleaners went to work first on the ceiling, then the walls and win- dows, and lastly the floor. Now—we much concerned about annoyving her husband with the “edor of soapsuds’ as was the woman of the nineteenth, However, when housecleaning time comes it is a fine thing still to be Are gods were angry bhecause the fol- lowers of Vesta were not allowed to marry, and the two little boys were left in the woods to die. There a wolf found them, cared for them as though they were her own children, and they grew to manhood. Later Romulus founded the city of Rome. Rome, which was a warlike city, always revered Mars, the god of war, and had great feasts for him during the month of March. In older’ times the armies of Rome could not march in the Winter's snows, so that March | and the beginning of Spring meant for them the opportunity for more glori- ous battle gnd more victorles for the ! brave Roman soldiers. For us, too, the coming of Epring means a chance to get out of doors again. And although the month of March is stormy and windy, we must remember that it is dedicated to Mars, god of war, and marks the final battle between Winter und Summer. Sum- ! mer, like the armies of Mars, Is always victorious, and we can now sure that Winter Is in rapid retreat, leav. Ing Summer to rule the world for the { next few months. Cash or Credi_t. Mrs. Buy-on-Time—How much that hat? Clerk—It's ten dollars cash. Mrs. B—And how much by install- ments? i) Clerk—Fifteen dollars—ten dollars dw-‘r‘\ and a dollar a week for five weeka. ! PRESENT © [}-{]Am HATTIE FINDS THE BIGGEST PEARL EVER DISCOVERED IN THOSE WATERS. COCOANUTS AND PEARLS, A COLORFUL. DRAMA OF THE TROPILS IN THREE PARTS. SCENARIO BY JACK GIHON CAMERA WORK BY FRED NEUER. vacuun clean the rugs and furniture, oll the floor, little better than usual perhaps, then we wash instead of dust the woodwork—well, that's not such an awful job, after all! of Jewelry First Thi One of the first ways {n which man used his brain, even while he was stil} but a mivage, was In making things with which te adern himself. Thus began the making of jewelry. The most uncivilized people in the world are found to have some sort of personal decoration. Shells, dried berries, small stones plerced with a sharp Instrument and brightly col. ored feathers are strung or tied to. ! gether and hung around their arms, legs and necks. Many savages even make holes through their ears and noses so that they will have still other places to wear their crude jewelry. In many ancient countries the orna- ments worn by men and women were thought to be symbols of good luck and therefére when the owner died New Riddles. Riddles from the North and South! Riddles from the Fast and West! RId- lles from children living in all parts of this country huve been coming to the Riddle Lditor in bushels! Some children sent as many as 25 atat' e while others sent only one, AnJ these that are glven today certainly made the Riddle Editor think—but he didn't glve up, and finally guessed them. Why 141. the laziest?—Ruth Louis, Mo. v are the tallest people Smith, St GOOFEY MOVIES GOOFEY MOVIES iln THE SOUTH SEAS, WHERE THE WAVES SWG TENOR AND THE PALM TREES DANCE THE HIGHLAND FLING, LIFE 1§ JUST ONE NAP AFTER ANOTHER. more willing to Invest in a number of | really worth.-while hags—knowing as they do t they will continue to be in good style for many seéasons to come. When women's frocks came to be made without pockets handbags came into fashion as a matter of necessity, and 80 long as fairly close skirts con- tinue handbags of some sort will doubtless continye. Conceivably, of course, we might contrive to put our odds and ends somewhere else—in the folds of turbans like the Arabs or un- der wide girdles llke the Perslans. But there is little chance of that because women have grown so devoted to thelr handbags. If they had not little odds and onds to carry they would want te carry handbags. They are so attrac- tive and have proved such useful means to carry a notc of coler or & bit of decoration, and moreover they glve the hands something te do. Wemen of today would be as lost with- eut their handbags as men would be without their pockets. Nowadays when one talks of bags one usually considers two general | sorts—pouch bags and envelopes. There are numerous sorta of pouches, “roomy pouches,” pouches wider than they are deep, und pouches that reaily look like pouches. Then there are flat pouches that might be mistaken ut first eight for envelopes. Some of the pouches have a short tinger strap and others a long strap or chain for the arm. And so with the envelopes—soe have a short strap through whieh the fingers may be passed und some have a longer strap which may be passed over the arm. There seems to he no first choice in | fabric for the new bags nor could one make a list of 12 or even 20 materials | from which the new bags are made. Just think of any material from whieh a bag might be made and the chances are that it {§ somewhere to be found in the shops where bags are had for gale. An oldfashioned peasant petticoat finds its way into the making of one attractive bag, while another is made ng Savages Made. his jewelry was burfed with him. In this way aclentists have learned much of ancient peoples from pieces of metal found in graves, where they have lain for centuries. Many thousands of dollars are now Bll:em each year by people all over the world for precious metals and stones worked into handsome orna- ments, and the business of producing these huy become a great industry. Great care must be taken in the fac tories where jewelry is made because of the value of the material ysed. In some- factories the workers are re quired to wash their hands before leavipg the building, and the water f¢ kept 8o that any bits of valuable ma- ';,arllu ticking to thelr hands will not e los 142. What ceal does not smoke?— 1Josephine Jolliff, Weston, W, Va. 143. What kind of coat has never had a butten on it yet, and has a very | easy wuy of belng put on wet?—Elnor i\\'i?ch(‘r?. Belleville, Il | 144. There was a crowd at 4 ban- quet, and no one sald anything but Help. Who sald this?—Iathlyn Jack- son, Dallas, Tex. 145. Why did they bury George ‘Washington on_ the hillside?—Ger- trude Bartell, Mjlwaukee, Wis. 146. Why do young ladies in love like the circus?—Iola Morisette, Ta- coma, Wash, 147. Why is a bald-headed man A BEACH ComBee, CoMBS FOR LIHAT- GVER T IS BEACH COMPERS COMB BEACHES FOR. $-. LTARY SAM Hun!N'fi- oF HATTIES . @OOD | i i GLOVES ARE OF DIVERSE DE- SIGN. IN THE TOP CIRCLE IS A BEIGE KID GLOVE WITH BEADED CUFF CONTAINING A LARGE CUT STONE, A SET CONSISTING OF WHITE KID GLOVE AND PURSE WITH TITCHING AND TASSELS IN NAVY BLUE AND PART OF A BROWN SUEDE GLOVE SHOW.- ING CUFF EDGED WITH GOLD AND TRIMMED WITH A GOLD BUTTON. THE CENTER CIR.. CLE SHOWS A CHAMPAGNE- COLORED KID GLOVE TRIM- MED WITH STENCILED DE- SIGN AND RED STITCHING AND A GLOVE OF BEIGE LEATHER LINED WITH BROWN KID WITH PATENT FASTEN- ING. LOWERMOST IS SHOWN A GLOVE OF MAUVE KID WITH ELABORATE CUFF EM. BROIDERED IN GOLD AND EDGED WITH GOLD LACE. of .finely accordlen-pleated silik. An tique. brocades from China, Persiu, Italy and elsewhere are the substance of other bugs, Metal brocude und ne tallle kid are used plentifully. Lizard, antelope and snake are used ausntly for the more tallored t tag. Dright-colored calfskin sart, | e All-Glass Houses. NHALL we all live in glass houses some day? A. G. Shieds, an | Ohlo inventor, clalms to have found 2 way to make houses of glass, says Popular Science Monthly, at a cost of 20 per cent Iees than that of fraume ones. No paint, na plaster, no wallpaper, Interest to Younger like heaven?—Dora B. Bates, son, Tenn. 148. What kind of plate can't you eat out of?—Virginfa Cromlich, In- dianapolis, Ind. 149, What has a head and a foot and two eves or more?— Lucille Reynolds, Sioux Falls, 8. Dak. 150. What was Joan of Arc made of>—Eloise Foster, Crowley, Lu. Answers. 141, Because they are the longest in bed. 142. Charccal. 143. A coat of paint. 144, Help. 145. Because he dead. 146. They have an ftching fo the ring. 147. Because there is no parting or dy 148. An enipty one. 149, A bed with children in jt. ' 150. Mald of Orleans. Dick- Oh, All Right. “Take a dollar-chance on an auto.” ut T don’t want one.” “That’s all right, you may not get e He'll Be appointed. Doetblack—Light or dark, sir? Absent-minded professor—I'm not particular, but please don't give me the neck. 2 3 el " Gat! THE SEPARATE COLLAR AND CUFF SETS HAVE REGAINED THEIR IMPORTANCE. AT THE UPPER LEFT HAND 15 A HIGH COLLAR OF SATIN WITH LONG TAB EMBROIDERED IN GOLD. TO THE RIGHT A COLLAR AND CUFF SET OF NAVY BLUE AND WHITF POLKA-DOTTED LINEN WITH A WHITE KID BELT WITH PAINT- ED DOTS AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL BUCKLE TO MATCH. IN THE CENTER 15 A HIGH-COLLARED WHITE PIQUE VEST EMBROIDE ED IN RED WND GREEN. IN THE CIRCLE BELOW IS HI:l COLLAR AND JABOT OF ECRU LACE AND BROWN GROSGRAIN RIBBON. A LOW COLLAR AND HIGH COLLAR IN TWO SHADES JABOT OF WHITE LACE AND A OF TAN CREPE DE CHINE TRIM- MED WITH A BLACK ENAMEL CAT. Soap and waler would keep them clean and sanitary. For privacy sake the glass is opaque and can be made in any color. Mr. Shieds's invention is a machine BY CECILLE LYON. —t Have you get your gun? Hurry, for we're leaving in a few seconds for Junglepuzzls, where there are thou- sands of animals for us to find and tackle! Can you guess this first group? GUESS THESE THREE ANIMALS & {4 Fat Girl—1 have an appetite like a canary. > Thin Girl—Yes, you have. You eat a peck at a time. B HATTIE A PEARL OIVER, DIVES FOR PEARLS. HAIT! MATTIE ggae et FORTUNE, MAKES GVIL OBSIGNS . ON THE PEARL, IS POOR WATTIE GOING TO LOSE HER PEARL? YoulL LEARN IN THIS THEATER NEXT WEEK.” that iaakes lass”slabs three-eighths of an inch thick, 30 inches wide up to @ feet long. The to concrete foundations and serewed to a framework of wo Readers The Puzzlers Go Hunting. { Behead a word meaning to join and get a writing fluid; behead to wear away and get carried along by; be head the cost und get a food; behead each and get an adverb; behead high and get everythi behe: I preature and by and get th head dry ‘The behe: the proper animal. el to be free from. ded letters. arranged in rders, #pell au enormous Guess this word diamond, iuilt around a dangere nimal JTIGER | 24 n 4 1 this sentence two i andwriting were doubly cantious and sent i spe clal form on keys to that address Add a letter t and get o wild one. ANSWERS. 1. The pletured animals are wolt, creeping anjnal 4. Zehva, monkey. Boa-r. Bath in Butter. [} i Imagine taking w bath in butter! Yet that's what people did long | ago instead of eating it on thelr food. | That fs, they used Lutter as an oint- | ment, rubbing it over thelr faces and limbs. There are still some Europeans who do this. using olive oil on their food. ‘The Arabs are thought to have dis- covered the process of making butter because they were obliged to take long journeys over the desert carrying their milk on the backs of the camels, | The constant motion of the animals | nad the same effect as hours of churn- ing on our own back porch at home, and the result—butter. In India butter wiil not keep, so | it 1s made fresh each day by shaking milkc in a bottle. A S A.Bad Mistake. classroom) Teacher ~(entering Order, please. Absent-minded Student—Egg sands [