New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1916, Page 10

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, MARCH 10 A Cheering Fact odeodeodrdetodreboiel THIS season Dame Fashion is no ca- pricious tyrant who rules with a rod of iron. She yields to individual {aste, and in the happy pageant of color, tex- tures and contours, all gay with the springtide, is something becoming and comfortable for every type of woman- 3 I materials, many of which show a mer- I serized finish. | novel material and exceedingly smart, skirt suit or for separate skirts for ‘a marked effect upon suit styles for [ the coming season. T is remarkable to note the tremen- dous hold chiffons, voiles and crapes have obtained as the most fashionable materials for smart ecostume making this spring. Today chiffons lead. At least chiffon cloth leads, with georgette crape, silk voile and wool voiles enjoying the same ratio of demand. Of course chiffons are in plain colors mostly, although high style effects are offered in plaid, striped and even floral printed patterns. Fashion pronounces strongly for checked materials as highly acceptable designs for the modish spring suit. England has managed to send quan- tities of checked wools in homespun, tweed and cheviot weaves. These, supplemented by the products of our own mills, bid fair to exercise There is no end to the new cotton The oxford weave is a suitable especially for the coat and sports wear. Noncrushable are whip- cord and cotton gaberdine, a likable and serviceable material as well. Bed- | ford cords and piques are shown in white and with stripes of color. Any woman who likes simple lines which give elegance is distressed when the fashion prompts a profusion of trimming, and it is time for this dis- tress to be shown. With the exception of the new Poiret gowns the fastidious woman finds everything overloaded. And what about sleeves? Almost every gown has its particular pair of sleeves. Here the designers have run the entire scale of individualism. There are long sleeves and sleeves that hardly reach the elbows, wide sledves and sleeves that fit the arms so tightly that it will be next to impossible to raise the arms after the frock has been fastened, sleeves without as much | as a button to relieve their severe plainness, and others filled and puffed in the elaborate manner of the Eliza- bethan era. ‘With taffetas in the lead for spring costumes, combinations of plain and striped silks are favored for suits. The Georgette model illustrated uses cornflower blue silk for the jacket, with collar and cuffs of blue and white stripe. The interesting feature is a 1it- tle short cape fitted into a yoke and edged with a narrow plaiting, which also extends all around the jacket. A strapped belt buttons down on to a rippling flare that tops the two baya- dere flounces of the dashing skirt. Crispy, chic and colorful, this costume could be nothing but French. If one is to judge from indications every girl who turns her face south- ward this season will carry a frock or suit of white serge and one of taffeta. Beyond that her choice may range at will, but in these items lies the prac- tical foundation for the southern out- fit, and no one can go amiss in placing them at the head of the list. The Palm Beach suit featured is a combination of white gaherdine and figured taffeta picturesquely used on the belt, collar, cuffs and buttons. The trim skirt is cut an easy walking length. The good looking house gown pic- tured is fashioned of wistaria taffeta, kind. At A A set off with numerous silk ball buttons. All seams are piped with the same | material. The double belt in front lends a princess effect, becoming to a matronly figure, and the V neck, fin- ishea with a little tie of self material, and bell cuffs are interesting points. Jenny designed the handsome street frock of blue silk and mousseline de soie. The very full skirt is finished at the bottom with five narrow bands that | | hemstitch on to the skirt. The grace- ful bodice of the mousseline is high necked and features long sleeves adorned with novel handkerchief | draperies falling at the wrist from the w)u(:lde seam. Pin tucks cluster about | the bottom of the bodice and the waist | line, tightly banded with a narrow crushed girdle. This beautiful frock consoles us for any freakishness spring styles. in| BN 3 The Pretty Woman e e P P u(vi’fi(?fi’:(-ifi’k PRETTY woman's weapon is her eye. It is here with which to flat- ter, to beguile, to charm, to repel, to fascinate and to search. Throughout “these windows of the soul” she can éxpress her whole being, if she will, or hide her inmost soul forever. But here again enters in the question of health. A dull, Jackluster eye, with heavy lids, encircled by dark rings, bespeaks bad heaith and lack of sleep and exercise. In its normal condition the white of the eye is clear and unflecked, the pupil large and dark, the iris a clear, deep color and the surrounding skin fair and transparent enough to mirror the dusky lashes that droop over it. Only too often thin and straggly lashes and eyebrows mar otherwise beautiful eyes. To correct this it is only neces- to apply a small amount of white vaseline each night, rubbing it in well. The friction as well as the lotion itself stimulates the action of the cells. Every dressing table should contain & soft camel’s hair brush for smooth- ing down the brows. “Thou hast the right arched beauty of the brow,” says Falstaff. Imagine a dusky, black eyed beanty ‘with thin, poorly defined eye- brows! 'Imagine a tremulous, round eyed blond with eyebrows that stand up like quills on a porcupine. Yet all too often it is defects exactly like these that prevent perfect beauty.—Sperry S THE TILT OF THE HAT. SUCCESSFUL milliner makes the assertion that ninety-nine in a hundred women don’t know how to put on their hats. And as just about nine- ty-nine in a hundred women have to put on their own hats this lack of skill is almost deplorable. The gravest fault in 'the way women put on their hats is that they don't put them on far front enough. One reason for this is that they aren't big enough, very often. It is an economy, if your head is unusually large, to have your hats made to order. If your hats are becoming they don’t need hair about the face to soften them and make them more becoming. If the straight line of hat against skin is not becoming don’t pull out a fuzzy lock here and there to soften the lines. Instead, make one curl in the middle of the forehead and pull it out so that it makes a thin fuzz or bang. If the line of the hat over the ears is trying make a curl just over each ear—a definite one, that gives a defi- nite effect. Don’t just use the stray locks that you can pull from the halir on top of your head. EGG FARCI. LEAN and chop two chicken livers. Sprinkle with onion juice and saute in butter. Add the yolks of four hard boiled eggs, rubbed through a sieve. Add one teaspoonful chopped parsley and season with salt and ta- basco sauce to taste. Refill whites of eggs -with this mixture, Cover with 9 Blagazine grated cheese and hake lghey will utter words in a tone that - "CULT OF A GOOD speaking voice 18 an envia- ble asset, but one that compara- tively few American women possess. Isn’t it true that in your own acquaint- | ance there are few women or girls of | whom you hear such a compliment as “Her voice is wonderfully attractive?” A good voice ig a power. It charms with the charm that holds. It is some- thing worth cultivating, if it is not al- ready one of your possessions, because | it can be cultivated. At any rate, it you are the mother of | small girls begin to train them from the early days of childhood, and when they grow up they will have that envi- able additional power of attraction. Training begun in childhood along this line simply insures an attractive voice in the adult. It doesn’t take much of the mother’'s time—just a little correc- tion and a little assistance now and then. Children are imitative, of course, so it will be necessary for the mother training the child to train her own voice at the same time if it is not al- ready of a pleasing speaking quality. | So the instruction works to advantage all around. And, again, because chil- dren are imitative they should be more or less in the company of those who do know how to speak properly. When children are at play is the time when they are specially apt to let their volces *“go,” and in thelr excitement {1t carefully, never allowing excitement | ness. GOOD VOICE A& could only be likened to the snap of a whip. Unless such a child is checked | in youth she will grow up with a harsh toned speaking voice—a most unlovely thing in woman. Some think that they can use any kind of voice around “home” and put on a “best” voice for company. The re- sult is artificial and insincere.. No sensible person tries to put this theory into working effect. Have one voice— the best one. Use it at home and guard or anger to fun away with its pleasant- Before you begin to speak have your voice “placed” in an agreeable key and pronounce your words clearly and distinctly. You might practice little rimes in the privacy of your boudoir every day until you get the habit of a correct way of speaking and a pleas- ing tone is acquired. THE SOCIAL FABRIC. O uphold the social system women submit to uncounted tests of their constancy. They endure physical dis- comfort, ennui, the peril of cold drafts and damp places, hours of weariness and moments of acute annoyance for the sake of what, to a man, is an un- important social matter. And even though at times she feels that it would matter little if the whole social scheme | of things should perish—and that in- stantly with fire and bloodshed if need be-—rather than require so much of BN BN ,Eié Sensibly In Love O P T Y A GOOD husband can be made out of the most unpromising material by a woman who is sensibly in love. She does not make her dependence upon her husband or his dependence upon her too apparent, but she makes herself essential to him in every way as a companion in the gorgeous ad- venture of life. She leads him, when necessary, by appearing to let him lead her. She exhibits her trust and con- ceals her jealousy. She gets the care and devotion she wants more by show- ing she expects to get them than by demanding them. She cares and makes it clear that she cares, not by what she says, but by what she does. She relies on her husband, but she also relies on herself, and she fills him with the as surance that he can rely on her and | himself be relied on. If this sort of | woman were to become “a deserted wife” she would be fully entitled to the heartfelt sympathy of the whole | wide world. But she s not the sort of woman a husband is ever fool enough to leave. CHINESE LEATHER. '['HERE is a vogue for Chinese leather trimmings on suits, blouses and neckwear. It is a beautifully colored and embossed leather in oriental de- signs and gives a bright touch to a costume when applied on collar, cuffs, | necks ENOUGH EXERCISE. "XTAL]TY is both phy | 1ected or the lar walks second will suffer. in the open control, which she needs. There is too much pentup vitality in all of us, and yet it is better for your beauty and poise that you expend it with discretion over a number of activities rather than exert all of it over one. When you rested well you keep calm, you enjoy life and accomplish without leaving lines care on your face. If you must be strenuous in the pur- suit of some object use a good amount of daily enthusiasm on physical exer- cise. OPEN NECKS AND HEALTH. ORTRAITS of famous beauties who life always show that they wore open and heell s a well known physician. Certain it is that when the neck is restricted with tight collars the important thyroid glands on either side of the windpipe, stabilizers of the human body, do their work properly, relations between other glands in the head, throat and chest ¢ interrupted. It is these glands which store up the reserve strength and vitality needed in later life and which regulate the entire body and head. The thymus cannot and the co- her, she stands to_her colors.—Vogue. belt, handbag, hatband or even gaiters. glands in the chest are particularly important to growing girls sical and men- tal, and the first must not be neg- Regu- country and | . daily exercises are necessary to give a woman perfect equilibrium and nerve and | of | have kept their good looks late in | the great | so much | PRIZE RECIPES NUT CABBAGE medium firm | then cut or shred slaw. Sprinkle salt this. Prepare one cupful of English walnut meats and crush rather fine; then make a dressing of three eggs beaten very light, one-half cupful cider vinegar, salt, sugar, mustard and curry powder to taste, one tablespoonful flour, | Liet boil, and lastly add one-half cup- ful rich cream Add all ingredients |ana mix well together with a spooa. | Serve on individual cold lettuce leaves. Pecan Cream Cake.—Two cupfuls powdered sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter, three eggs, one cupful sour milk, one teaspoonful vanilla, two teaspoon- fuls baking powder, pinch baking soda, | pinch salt. Mix well; then add three cupfuls flour and beat well Bake slowly. Frosting Whip one cupful sweet cream, ith one-half cupful powderef a few drops Of vanilla and one pound chopped pecan nut meats When cake is baked put on frosting. Hot Water Sponge one-fourth cupfuls granulated sugar, four eggs, and one-half cupfuls flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powden, four tablespoonfuls boiling water, | Cream sugar and yolks of eggs; then add beaten whites, then flour and bpl.‘. ing powder. Stir thorousghly, pinch of salt and flavor to taste. {1y, add the boiling water and stir thora | oughly. Bake about forty minutess, SALAD.—Select ¢ head of cabbagej very fine, as for and sugar ovér Cake.—One and one