Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1928, Page 47

C BY MARY MARSHALL. HAT do you mean when you /. - use the word “‘sportswear”? ‘What is your idea of a 4 Sports ensemble? £ Do these words bring to mind thé trim, wearable frocks, wraps and hatsiof tweed, jersey, rough woolen materialy and felt that women nowa- days s0:often choose to wear about town during business hours and for in- formal Juncheons? Or do the words indicate the things that women choose when they actually play golf, ride, go skating, tobogganing and skiing? In an effort to get away from the am- biguity of this word sportswear, ‘some people speak of sportswear and semi- Sportsw or of actual rtswear and Spectacular sportswear—the idea being in the lafter distinction that one sort of !iwruwe'ar is worn by women who par- ticipate and the other by those who sit or stand &round and look en. There bas come to be & decided dif- i ference between these two kinds of 'sportswear, and it is especially apparent at this time of year when so many of the younger women are planning to spend Christmas holidays where snow and ice are abundant. So popular have all the Winter Sports beeome of late years—both here and abrond-—that some sort of skiing costume has ccme to be looked upon as m indispensable addition to almost very young woman's wardrobe. It may be that in the section of the country where a woman lives ice and snow come for but a brief period or not at all. Still she looks forward to a few days’ sojourn in higher or more north- ern climes, and realizes that at least half the fun of taking part in Winter sports lies in being eppropriately and becomingly dressed for the occasion. Most of the new skiing ensembles are xade with long trousers that taper in to the knee and fit the leg fairly closely below it, after the manner of the jod- hurs, which has come to be so popu- lar with young equestrians. If these trousers are made of woven fabric, they | ere usually provided with lacings below 81! knee. The ribbing of the knitted ousers usually keeps them close about the knees, but in any event they are provided with tie strings that make tham perfectly secure when tucked into boots or heavy woolen socks. Perfect security i§ essential. Collars and wrists are usually provided with straps, gloves have close: wrists and caps fit very ;_nufiz‘ly to' keep out snow . in case of a ‘spill.” Some skiing outfits are entirely knit- ted—sometimes by machine, sometimes by hand.: These usually consist of & substantial, soft woolen pull-on sweater, to be worh over a lighter weight, crew- necked sweater or a woolen blouse. The knitted breeches come to the ankle, where they are tucked into the laced beots or into the rib-topped wool stock- ings. Add to this a close-knitted cap, a long scarf to be tied or knotted about the neck, a pair of woolen. gloves, and all you need is a pair of maple skis and the bamboo ski poles to be ready for the most exhilarating of all Winter sports. % Schizparelli, whose name stands for much that is new and smart in Winter #vorts wear in Paris, is making skiing costumes with the usual long trousers to be worn with belted jackets of match- ing gabardine or broadcloth, warmly nterlined {and rendered waterproof by some speclal process. Beneath such a jacket is worn a fine ‘wool jersey jumper ending shortly below the waist with a band of ribbon. A skiing el emble chosen by 2 well cressed Ameéri. ean girl consisied of trousers and jacket at the knees as well as the ankle cuffs whlah turn down over the tops of the of rose-red gabardine, the jacket being | boot ¥ned with matching flannel and strap- ped at cuffs and collar. The matching mittens when pulled on extended up to the elbaw. The long jodphurs type of trousers undoubtedly is favored, but knee-length breeches are sometime chosen instead. worn with warm woolen “A perfectly satisfactory sort of cos- mr skiing or other Winter sports of gabardine breeches worn; :with these high, double-cuffed e e advantage of ¢ woven Thaterial that sheds snow 4 ‘These art stockings {h at are provided with cuffs " Your Bfiby BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘Whenever a parent is absorbed in some unusual activity her watchfulness over the children is apt to relax. Baby is left in care of a small child while mother does a bit of hurried, late shop- ping; Junior is told to keep an eye on | baby while mother #tirs up fhe Christ- mas pudding, and Junior's eye has a way of wandering at the wrong mo- ment. Bumps, burns, bruises and cuts are likely fo be the-byproducts of this { ®eneral excitement and the. relaxed Vigilance of busy mothers. One may read:all about the neces- sity of keeping ane’s head in accidents, but one’s head, ‘With 4ll a mother has in it, departs without ceremony when she is called upon to do something in an emergency. Obviously it is unpar: cnably trite to remark that preve ion is better than cure, but there are accidents which could bz avoided if the mother were imaginative enough o foresee the inevitable results of care- ess in a child’s early training. Many parents unconsciously put ideas | ¥ into babies’ heads which tempt them to dangerous experiments at unguarded jl moments. Lifting children up to run along high retaining walls, even though the child’s hand is held by the parent, may resuit in just such adventuresomeness on some day when the watchful adult is not at hand. The even more distressing habit of ecating children on a window ledge to watch the street below, or perhaps a pessing payade. is a most sucoessful method of .robbing the child of any sense of the danger of open windows, which sense of danger might protect him from any personal attempt at in- vestigating them. 1f the baby is lured to coo and gur- gie at the sight of the pretty lights on Christmas tree, he will’ finally want to grasp them, thus getting hot.wax on his small hands and possibly put- ting the flame in contact with some easily kindled object. . Cups of scalding coffee and tea left within baby’s reach can be pulled over in the blink of an eye, an all too com- mon manner of acquiring deep and dangerous burns. Every child is bound to acquire bumps. Our modern furniture with its sharp corners; the glassy floors with their small slippery rugs; the polished stairs; the chairs which tip over, are menaces which the child must learn to negotiate successfully gr leave alone. eccording to his education in the bump school. Bumps are natural penalties (Which it were better to let the child suffer, as an education in what to resists mtgisture. “43(Copyright, 1928.) .and Mine (WO days 1o Christmas, worl day left; i e probably _ cro | 4 BERE ARE THREE SKATING COSTUMES, SMART AND BECOMING—ALSO HIGHLY PRACTI- CAL. THE ONE AT THE RIGHT IS ALL OF WHITE. THE LONG COAT COVERS A TROUSER SKIRT., . CAP, SWEATER AND CUFFS ARE KNITTED IN A GREEN, WHITE AND BLACK DESIGN. THE GIRL AT THE LEFT WEARS A BEIGE SWEATER, WITH A DESIGN KNITTED IN OF BROWN, BLACK AND GREEN. THE GIRL IN THE BACKGROUND WEARS KNICKERS OF WHITE, WITH ‘WHITE SWEATER, CAP, GLOVES AND SCARFS TRIMMED IN DIFFERENT SHADES OF RED. Trimming Your Christmas Tree BY BETSY CALLISTER. with taska. enough 4o days. But time e left to attend” to decorations . if they bee: for. paper and some green 2. board, a few tiny bottles of perfume or some cigarettes, some little dblls and some T n, you can make all sorts of pretty things that are iHustpated in today's sketches. e If you can't spare much ‘time, but can borrow or buy a small rplane and can find a Santa doll to put in it, you can make a lovely Jack Horner pie 'to hang over the Christmas dinner ta- than a repeated: “Now be careful, dear, or you'll fall!” We have tq allow children to learn by painful methods in order that they will acquire both caution’ and self-re- liance, for none of us can offer them an absolutely safe environment, even if we ‘would. It is only when the lesson to be learned would be too dangerous through personal experience that the mother behavior in no way show contempt for the conduct she is trying to instill. the *mother shows baby that she con- siders sitting on the window sill harm- less, bushels of ents and tiresome “don’ts” will be futile. If she crosses the street in a manner to make it seem a daring adventure in escaping auto- mobiles, she can't be su it the child esclm& her hand and darts in front of them without looking side- vays. Since the business of living is seldom a harmless one, despite our utmost pre- cautions, the mother must fasten in her memory some one single thing to do in case of burns, bruises, bumps and cuts. She can’t possibly remember all the things the professional must know, ybut she can learn a few simple reme- dies and be able to use them until the doctor arrives. She need only know that air must {be excluded from a burn and have on hand some agent for accomplishing this, that isons are better out than iin and help the child to vomit, that bumps and bruises respond to imme- idiate treatment leaving them less jand uncolored. Such measures of first aid should be packed in the mother’s memory kit where no amount of ex- citement can dislodge them. No mother can ever be quite sure that she will not some day be called upon to give that prompt first aid in an emergency which may be instru- mental in saving a human life. The Gazeka. LARGE carnivorous mammal, hitherto unknown, was discovered w0t so lnns s‘m in Dutch New Guinea. The animal, found and named by Eng- lish naturalists in the course of coast explorations, lives at an altitude of 650 | yards in a place inhabited by a tribe of black dwarfs. The gazeka, as this beast is known, is must impress caution and by her own | tp, ble. Paint the words “Santa Claus” on the hull of the,airplane, tie a little favor for each diner in white paper with red ribbons and hang them all from the plane. You can plerce the hull of the airship to fasten in the ribbons if you or you can have all the ribbons come from the cockpit where Santa sits. The easiest favors to get at this time of hurry are small boxes of nuts or candy, which really answer the purpose very well. Lovelx ittle ladies may be made from small dolls with ballooning skirts of crepe paper in a ired design—you can use paper napl if you wish— and jackets or bodices of plain color, trimmed with a bit of cotton-wool fur. The paper lady is made taller than the little ‘doll, so that she seems slender and graceful, and her stiff paper skirts hold her up as well as legs. The skirt is gathered with needle and thread, but most of the costume is pasted securely in place. An easily made Jack Horner is a big basket. Use a square box for the foun- dation. Cut squares or circles of paste. board to cover the sides of thé box, cover them with ‘crepe paper in red with a smaller circle of green pasted on medallion fashion, and 2 big red poinsettia seal pasted on the green disk. Make a handle of a strip of pasteboard. Put individual favors inside the baskel thus formed. Tie each with a ribbon and arrange the ribbons to go to the appropriate places. Little baskets of e same sart make attractive salted nut or bonbon holders for the individ- ual places. Butterflies perched on spirals of wire, each with a bottle of perfume or a cigarette for the bo:y, are attractive and very easy to make. You will need a piece of crepe paper about four inches square. Fold it crosswise of the grain through the center, and cut the edges in a way to suggest the outline of butterfly wings! the crease with coarse double cotton thread, p““l‘;llth gathering string up to about an_inch. Fasten off securely and then sew to the end of a green wire spiral, lmng! so that it will stand on the table. With a bit of wire fasten a-tiny bottle of perfume over the shirred section like the body of a butt . Clgarettes may be used for the men’s butterflies, if they smoke. If you don’t want cigarettes you can use those little chocolate-cov- ered crackers that are shaped like little loaves of Vienna bread. to make any- bunches of If you have no time thing you can use little holly tied with Christmas ribbons at each place, or a chocolate Santa Claus that you can easily buy, or a tiny toy Christmas tree, or a little red candle, 1lighted and burning in half a walnut shell, to which it is fastened securely by melting. And Christmas cards always m easy and pretty place cards. (Copyright, 1928.) Living Yuletide Gift Has Charm Give a dog for Christmas, some one suggests, and some one puts a wet blanket on the suggestion by saying ithat taste in dogs differs as much as taste in cigars and that it is as diffi- icult to choose a breed of dog that will be acceptable as ., chooss necktles for a man or perfume for a woman. Still there is much to be said i striped like zebra, but its aspect is ferocious. The animal is like a tapir % avoid, as well as what to improve upon. (One or two falls will more quickly teach b child what posture to.assume and oW best to-step dn -order uot to fall and is of a species supposed to have died out thousands of years.ago. Its protruding.teeth give. it an-sPpearance of extreme crueltys {favor of & dog for Christmas, and it {1s not difficult to choose a breed of | dog that will. appeal to.children.or..to -choose -the sort that would appeal to she young bay or girl, HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS ONE CAN USE FOR DECORATING THE CHRIST. MAS TABLE—A SANTA CLAUS AIRPLANE WITH FAVORS HANGING FORM IT, A TINY CHRISTMAS TREE PLACE CARD, A SQUARE BASKET USED IN LARGE SIZE FOR A JACK HORNER PIE, IN SMALL SIZE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL SALTED NUT HOLDER, AND A RED POINSETTIA LINED WITH SILVER, A PURELY DECORATIVE FAVOR. Remove Holiday Grouch BY ALLENE SUMNER. There's no use mincing words— Christmas is not “sitting pretty” among adult mortals. Chfldhood does not quibble about its joys, but, after all, childhood needs Christmas no more, nor so much, as its elders. ‘What can be done to give' Christmas a clean bill of health? Questioning and observing, we learn that there are various causes of the thumbs-down-on-Christmas attitude. “There’s no real spirit left in it,” ene will moan. “It's just a big commercial project, with the stores ballyhooing for trade and foisting silly non-essentials upon us.’ But, after all, if, incidentally, Christ- mas is & money-making concern, that's no real indictment against it, is it? Must we have no Christmas spirit in our own hearts because our spirit is making a profit for some one else? “We give presents because some one z}v:‘: them to us,” another will com- ain. Well, why do you give gifts for that reason? Why not sit down and make your Christmas list of 108e people for whom Yyou have- &* th and a #eal affection? “This Christmas card business is so plain silly,” another will say. “Cards from your grocer and undertaker and banker and coal dealer, and, though they all use grandiose words to tell you the many things they wish for you in the coming season, it only means, ‘Don't forget to do your trading with me. ‘That may all be very true, but why should this prevent one from the en- Jjoyment of sending and receiving cards to and from those friends between whom and self there is some real feeling not_desecrated by commercialism?’ “It's too expensive,” some one else complains, “Christmas bills just wreck our budget.” “It seems criminal to scrimp and save through a whole year and then buy cut glass punch bowls for aunts and uncles and cousins when you can't figure where the money is coming from to pay for them.” Of course it's criminal. But why do you do it? No one has ever succeeded in capturing and imprisoning Christmas spirit if no real affection ‘pmmmfll the purchase of gifts. And -perhaps right there is where #ost people get thelr aversion for | IN THE OVAL IS A DOLL DRESSED IN OLD- FASHIONED _ CLOTHES, MADE OF CREPE PAPER, TRIMMED WITH COT- TON.WOOL FUR, AND CARRYING UNDER HER ARM A LITTLE FAVOR. WRAPPED AND RIBBON TIED. SHE STANDS AT ONE'S PLACE AS PART OF THE DINNER TABLE DECORATION. [] Christmas. If they would make gifts only to those whom they really love and want to remember, the holiday would be more of a joy and less of a drag. “If it only weren't for the Christmas let-down!” another will wail. “You get tuned to the pace of holly and candles and plum pudding and turkey. And the day after there's that let-down with a thud! I don't know any day or any week in the year so.much like cold gravy as the day after the last of the holidays!” Well, that is a serious mistake of Christmas, of course, to be such a red- letter day that no other day can equal it! One might as well say that sun- sets and sunrises are all wrong be- cause the days or nights to come are “such let-down”! Or that we should never have Summers as preludes to less satisfactory Winters, or that flowers should never bloom because they will|, only die. But the very fact that the anvil chorus continues to knock Christmas is a serious indictment of human be- ings who permit the dross to the gold; who refuse the sweet because of the taste of the bitter. A Good Tip. Poor Man—I say, porter, did you the | find $50 on the floor this morning? Porter—Yes, suh; than: you, suh. 3 ghi? iy Ammfi’muwmtwm the brush, Griswol d, AT LEFT ARE SHOWN TWO CORRECT SKIING OR SNOW-. SHOEING COSTUMES—OF HEAVY WOOL, BELTED SNUGLY AND BUTTONED SE- CURELY. 'THEY ARE WARM ENOUGH TO BE WORN WITH. OUT FURS, AND ARE THERE- FORE FAR MORE CONVEN- IENT TO GET ABOUT IN. THE JODPHUR TYPE OF TROUSERS AT THE LEFT HAVE SHORT WOOL SOCKS PU! IS A PLAID-LINED WOOL SPORTS Black and white take their places with bright colors in the new sports costumes and accessories. It is the soft, dull tones that seem entirely out of the picture. Browns and grays, which are decidedly smart for less specialized sportswear, are out of the picture for wear against a background of snow and ice. Bright red that is simply red at its reddest and needs no qualifying ad- jective to indicate a softened tone is as appropriate to a Winter sports cos- tume as red holly betries on a Christ- mas ‘wreath. aptly this iscom- bined with white—sometimes there is a three-toned effect of red, white and reen—suggesting a snow-laden holly e, no doubt. Black is sometimes used with white and red. A smart French skating cos- tume consisted of a black flannel frock with pleated skirt worn with a sweater of red and black in striking modern- istic design. For less specialized sports wear a most attractive ensemble con- sists of a short jacket of black caracul lined with ved jersey and worn with a red jersey dress. Certainly this is the reddest season that we have known in a decade—per- haps in a generation—for this brightest of all hues of the rainbow manages to continue in favor in spite of its popu- larity and contrives to look appropriate for many occasions. Certainly for sports wear—and just as certainly for evening. Despite the increased in- terest in beige and neutral tones for formal afternoon wear and the rather unexpected coming into favor of cer- tain green shades, red still holds its own for afternoon. Tomato red is especially well liked for the lighter tweed semi-sports cos- tume—brick red, lacquer. red are also good in tweeds, and there are tweeds in which the brilllance of the red is toned down somewhat by a light black thread in the weave. These are at their best when trimmed with black fur. Egyptian red is also spoken of, and geranium red vies with cherry red and coral for evening honors. On the smart Winter coats and en- sembles the fur collars and cuffs usually strike a note of contrast with the color of the material used. BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. “Dear Patty,” wrote Jane's and “Mother is worse again and I'll have to be able to leave her long enough to spend Christmas with the children, but I can't after all. Do you think you coald come and play mother while I am gone? The girls adore you. . ..” Thus ran the letter and Patty her- self was the answer. She came bag and baggage and bustle and full of plans for the holidays. Not the least of these was the Christmas shopping. Patty always enjoyed getting her holiday remembrances together and making them as gay and festive as all good Christmas presents should be. ‘There was no school in the city the week before Christmas as that was when the teachers’ annual institute was held. So girls were free. They rather dreaded that time, for the few days before Christmas always dragged by on leaden wings. All they could do was to sit around and read. and jump at the sound of the doorbeli | when packages “not to be opened till | Christmas” came. & ' The day after their mother had gone Aunt Patty said at the breakfast table, “Girls, have you made out your lists?” Lists? They looked at ach other in surprise. No. Only mother had a list. | They never had any. Mother bought | !their things to give away. | “Well, I asked your father for some shopping money for each of you and he gave me five dollars. That's two and | a half aplece. We can get tons of stuff | for that.” | ‘The %ll.rls danced jigs of joy. 'rhelr; doleful little faces broke into delighted smiles. “Oh, Aunt Patty, are we really | going to do our own shopping? Go to the stores and pick things out and make up our own minds?” ‘“Yes, darlings. That's half the fun. girls, I have a little scheme,” she b2 going to be a partner- pay half if you agree to my scheme. “What do you say if we ask Dr. Briggs for the names of six children who aren’t likely to have any Christ-; mas and buy things and make little presents and fill stockings for them? By this time Betty and Jane were too much excited to stand still. “Oh, | And put in. is ship affair. IT Betty's mother to her sister-in-law.| out" of peanuts and Daddy's go back to nurse her. I had hoped to | LLED UP OVER THEM. AT RIGHT COAT OF A PRACTICAL® SORT. Black and White Take Place With Vivid Hues Cloth in green, which has turned out to be one of the smartest of Winter colors, has interesting possibilities in fur alliance. The new spinach shade is decidedly smart with beayer. Badger combines well with any of the new coat shades of green and the formal cos- tume of green broadcloth is never smarter than when combined with krimmer. n‘B};lck furs are usually chosen with the brighter shades of red. Persian lamb is chosen for Castilian red. Civet cat was chosen for a smart ensemble of wine red tweed and Vionet set the fashion for. using. gray krimmer with various winé shades. For the coral-red transparent velvet evening wrap which has come into prominence among women of fashion the most luxurious of all furs is mink. ‘The newest and smartest fur affinity for brown is red fox. Fitch is worn with dark brown and dark brown cara- cul lends distinction to brown tweed. A sedate but smart effect is achieved by the combination of brown with beaver. Colors never take a pre-eminent po- sition in the fashion of the season without having a reaction somewhere in favor of neutral tones. sea- son—with its spinach and bottle greens, its Castilian and wine reds, its warm browns and bright blues—beige has been revived, and revived with unusual success. Interestingly enough it is for the more formal afiernoon wear that ‘beige and sand and other neutral tones are chosen. The feeling among some women is that the bright colors—blues, greens, reds—should be used only for tweeds and less formal wear, and that the more formal materials such as broadcloth used for afternoon wraps should be chosen in blacks, grays and the various neufral tones that are ranged round beige. S Nothing at present is smarter than beige or sand color trimmed with Per- sian lamb. There has been a revival of interest in beige and beaver that was important last Winter also. Another combination that has come into impor- tance recently is gray cloth and black Persian lamb. “The Give Habit” for Girls at the lake last Summer,” said Jane. “I bought home a big boxful.” “And I can make cute little An!m‘ als cleaners and ink,” said Betty. “B‘Kl%es. too, if I have some little bright | feathers.” “We'll look up some old hats,” said | Aunt Patty quickly. “We'll get the |feathers all right. And I can make doll clothes like everything. We'll go to the five-and-ten-cent store and get |some things, too. Horns and drums |and things. And we'll get red tissue | papér to wrap things up. Everything to be bright and jolly.” By this time the girls were prancing like young ponies. “Let's gol - Let's go!” they fairly screamed. Never had there been such a Christ- man in that house. Aunt Patty had tapped the great secret of allowing the children not only to have a part in the planning of their own holiday, but in making it a happy time for poor chil- | dren whose addresses Santa Claus had not been given. Why Skiing Clothes Modify All Others Actually only a comparatively small number of women ever go skiing, an even smaller number go snow-shoeing. Why, then, all this interest in the new, highly specialized costumes chosen for this not very extensively enjoyed sport? Simply this: Enough of the well- dressed women of Europe and this country do enjoy and indulge in this sport to make it important from a fashion point of view. The well-known dressmakers of Paris have been inclined to give it definite consideration. In the fashions of the Winter it is getting to be as significant as the bathing costume in_ fashions of the Summer. The sort of skiing cos- tume that well-dressed women are wearing, the colors chosen, the mate- rials, the accessories, set their stamp on other Winter sportswear for the season. And so the girl who had never seen a ski might go skating in a sports ensemble modeled on the sort of skiing costume. Or the girl who lived in a snowless climate might, when she went to the shops to choose a new Aunt Patty, what will we put in them?” “T'll make some candy and we'll get nuts and some nice big, shiny Nred 3 owl apples and an orange what else do you think?" ‘o “I can make lovely neéflée! out of periwinkle shells I found on the beach sweater, have spread before her coples of those that had been designed in Paris for the smartest sportswonien to take with them when they went to the Alps or to the Northera XEuropean ‘Winter resorts for snow-shoeing, .tobog- ganing or skiing. o AT S gy M N 5 P g e AT S A ALV SN A AR 877 o e e B AL A R ol 5 A V3 Y RN AN &