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THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH 18, 1912. i EES > ANDPANE ATWO 1 BROOKLYN FIRES Citizens Aid Police and Fire- IS THE MODERN WOMAN BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED? ALONZO KIMBALL, in the Second of a Series of Interviews, Declares She Is, but Condemns Freakish Fashions. What Artists Say About It plumed Gains. | as much in particularty Ifke the bi borough hats, which favor now as they ever were, I didn’t | Mke those small, steaple-crowned things some people called ‘em beehives and some peach baskets—which the women wore a year or two ago, But I haven't een any lately. “The colffures of @ year ago, with their pulfe and braids and rate of false hair, were horrible creations, But just now that craze seems to have passed, and the present way of dressing the hair shows the beautiful lines. of the head.” ‘Then Mr. Kimball ended the same bid “Te not What else! And though our ideal of the present and the knitting-needle fig+ ure may be @ step too far in the other Mrection, I think the artistic effect is to do with the modern woman's attrac- 3 Spring Suits G Customary $25.00 Value $7 6° Whipcords—Diagonals Serges oferable to that of 1860. tive appearance—her makeup. Of course, men in Work be Dlue-white cheeks and pu pe of Carrying feak ae ag at ag ne Tay ac! | tnmpennsi.fi ik fate wom To-Morrow—Thureday | Out Victims he continued. “The Dutch neck, either | Who Knows enough to darken her ‘oo Never in our history have we had a finer i ad square or round out, is something I like light cyebrows and to manufacture @ : very much. It shows to perfection the | blush if she hasn't o be Meet the of all beautiful lines melting into the throat that is fashionable, new and in ONE RESCUER BURNED. ay aE F. L. TOWNSEND DEAD. from ohin to ear, and when finished, as it generally t#, with @ round lace collar, *% there te a charming reliet for. the fs Brooktyn ‘Teast Company Omectal ba Py les, paid poy. 4 ne Children Handed From Win- ee teers emmnse Gr bailey sed | <sicaiblén ts, Kewnlegh tw tie | Rane eee ee dow to Window and Others Sone ‘tloovh, popiar tyr the Jam. year in oMecer of the Brooklyn Trust ONE STYLE PICTURED or two and showing the shape of. the ny and for many yenrs paying | spit ict emt Whee Go Down Ladder. | | eeteacMasve’ secret Seung fest Gotse | wood, Mins’ Str, owneend, fae Vor Mae vo ge mar Pood lig anutear™ pretty teatere, | Bot the | vio cen Cords, Highland Bight persons, three of them babies, ‘Were eaved early to-day in Brooklyn fires, citizens aiding policemen and fire- men fn the daring rescues. About mid- Bight Gre started in a two-story vacant ‘Rouse on the east side of Hast Fifty-ftth mreet, between Tilden avenue and Bev- @ley road, Fiatbush, and quickly epread to the adjoining house, occupied by Adam Becker, his wife, EMsabeth, their eighteen months’ old son, Adam jr., and two boarders, Joseph end Chartes Frankie, twenty and twenty-two years ol, respectively. ‘Mounted Policemen Charies East and William Conway of the Snyder station saw the glare from different posts, sent in simultaneous alarms and then made for the fire. In places the mud was kneedeep on their horses, but they made quick progress. ‘The front porch and dining room were blazing when Conway smashed im the front door, He dashed up the stairs through the smoke and aroused Becker and his wife. He took Mra, Becker and the baby 1 his arms and burried back down the stairs with them, BLINDED A6 HE SOUGHT’ TO AWAKE BOARDERS. Becker tried to arouse his boarders first and was blinded by the smoke be- e could get out. While Conway ving the woman and child, Mast went up the bavk way and mot Becker groping blindly about trying to find his way to the yard. He carired him to the ground and was told the Frankles had not been seen. East fought hie way back through the smoke and fire and found the brothers, nearly unconscious from emoke, after he had broken in the door of their room, ‘They were carried down the rear and ‘an ambulance surgeon soon revived all five of the occupants of the house, ‘The fire did a damage of 4,000 and did not completely destroy the Becker that started near the eirshatt three-story apartment at No. ‘goes Greene avenue, Brooklyn, about midnight, got good headway before they were discovered. ‘The six families, including twelve chil- dren, made a rush for the hall, but the smoke drove them back into their rooms, None of them had time to dress and the roar of the flames through the airshaft terrorized them. They ran to the front and rear windows and began calling for help, George Thompeon, his wife, Bertha, months-old son and a younger iter, William, twelve, and Mary, fifteen, live on the top floor. Acrces the hall John Halpin and his family live. Below them live the Fred- erick family, and across the hall Mrs, ** Agnes Permento, twenty-six, and her four-year-old daughter, Luey. ‘Thompson led his family across sev- Gowns Now .Worn, He} Says, Are Elegant and| Artistic, and a Peculiar Fact Is, Many of Them Will Never Go Out of Date. Tailored Suits Look Best on a Girl With a Slen- der and Boyish Figure —Even the Big Hats With Plumes Are Ap- proved. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Je the modern woman deautifully Greesed? ®@he very much wants to be! Probably there never was a time when more labor was devoted to achieving the desired result. “Why Goes the fachion change every other minute?” curiously queries the mod- ern woman's husband. She knows the answer, even if she doesn’t always tell him. It's because she, hopes, with each new style, to ap- Dear just a little bit more beautiful than she did before. And Harrison Fisher answers her that she {is succeeding. Alonzo Kimball, the clever portrait painter, agrees with Mr. Fisher. “I Uke the modern fashions,” he admitted frankly yesterday, “They ecem to me artistic and elegant. And there te one peculiar thing about Hes ALON ZOR MEAL Bank of this city before he went with the Hrooklyn ‘Trust Company. He exceedingly effective. : Another graceful atyle of the present | mnoved from Brooklyn to Ridgewood about four years age. fe the surplice trimming of the corsage. ‘ There are many forms of this; one that| ,!!9 Was a member of tho Crescent hes been worn for more than a cen-|Athletlo Club and the Chureh Charity | tury ts the dainty linen kerchlet crossed | Foundation of Long Island and a ves over the bosom by the Quakers. Tho! |tryman of St. Mary's Protestant Epis- Puritan girls wore {t, too; it appears | Copal parish, Brooklyn. His ity a son and a daughter 1 fm nearly all the representations of; caoemetiiphiteente JAIL N. G. EVEN IN RAIN. Car Driver Says He'd RB Priscila. To-day it is repeated over Ia and over again in dresses and coats. the evening gown one fold of ¢ acr form the corsage. ai Fichus make part of the trimming of other dresses, and even the coats have the collar with wide re- When Jonn Carney, driver of a Mad!- ear, Was arraigned before | te House in Contre Street | Court to-day for driving a lame horse) he was a picture of despair, An agent are the dainty scarfs of lace, some of | of the 8. P. C. A. arrested Carney late them interwoven with gold and sliver | Yesterday afternoon and locked him up thread, which have been such @ popular | !n, the Tombs. novelty for the last year or two. And| “It Was a good night to be on the In- who can deny the beauty of the gor-|*lde, no matter where you were," re geous Oriental trimmings and embroid- | marked Magistrate House eries which all well dressed women are fot on your Hfe,"* replied Carney. using to-day?” {Td rather be on the outside looking , in ‘on the inside looking out o EVEN TARG ADRROVEOL HATS} cach a place, no matter what the night Fe was.” amie our hats are beauti-) Magistrate House fined Carney $8, Mee Seat chee a Ne be i which Lawyer Daly of the Metropolttan re not to im-| Street Railway Company, wht proved upon,” declared Kimball ais Seenee one pas#ing across the other, This y beautiful way of draping aj ¢ shoulders and bosom. game line with this feature | CHAPTER THREE OW did that so-called “fresh” vegetable and fruit get to you? Answer: From the farmer's wagon tothe freight'var, then to the railroad siding, then to the jobber’s truck, then to the market place, after that to you. Fresh? It all depends on what you call “fresh.” Premier Vegetables are canned in the field, Their freshness, sweetness, tenderness, tooth- someness are real. Their flavor had no chance to get stale. They did not stand in the market place or on the railroad siding or in the freight car exposed to sun andrain. They were sealed up and fixed like the photographer's plate— atthe right moment. Ask yourdealer. 5c, Let us ui se you to try ered collare—smart a complete Spring edition. Alterations FREE SALE AT ALL THREE STORES 14 and 16 West Hath Street—New York. 460 and 462 Fulton Street—-Brooklyn $45.65! Broad Street—NewarhN. J 6 av... CORNER Greatest of Bred Suit Sales derful collection motifs of trimming. peau de cygne. Actual Value $22.50 Not only are D, PRICE & CO, acknowledged leaders in - value. give ing, but they occupy the front. rank for presenting the newest. styles the moment they are designed. And never before has this been more fof cibly demonstrated than in this won- model suits at $14.75. Suits of 1 cone sipaeb eras, in owverely, Cloret with fine quality guaranteed yarn dyed Assortment sizes for women and uuisees, 14 to 44, 182 =. of most advinced the smartest All coats are lined includes all are wearing such dresses this spring. “It seems to me that the modern woman {s coming to resemble the 08 ern man in this very respect of dress. Like him, she finds a style or styles which suit her and she sticks to her discoveries, instead of following every latest exaggeration of fashion. When ahe goes to tallor she doesn't ask him ‘What THEY wearing? and then meekly give her order according hobble ie as bad as the hoop- skirt used to be.” Then the painter took down some ‘books with pictures of the beautifully t dreased ladies of several centuries, If you will believe it, we found the firat | habble skirt dated in the year 1812, But) ‘we discovered far worse horrors in the hoop-skirt age. IN THE DAYS WHEN HOOPS AND BUSTLES WERE WORN. “The goneral idea seemed to be to them, There are many dresses worn to-day which will never date. “Naturally, as @ paintor of portraits, Tam in @ position to notice this fact, A portrait, as well as an oniinary Photograph, will look old-fashioned 4 out of date in a few years if the itter wears certain sorts of costumes, And the painter must take even more The pictare shows the newest severe- ty fallored model, of two tone gray or tan whipcord, © Lie quel eet to be confounded with whipcords asually sold pho, this price. eral window copings to the adjoining house, No, 1270, RESCUER OVERCOME. AND BADLY BURNED. Adam T. Meisenger of No, 1223 Greene @¥enue, who saw the blaze as he started into bis home, ran to help save t he knew were in the house, 4 ‘Was overcome by fire and smoke on the MX, Premier Pervi-H Walla Tea, 30c. 1-2 |b. WED CORN FRANCIS H, LEGGETT & CO. al fecond floor and fell unconscious, not} care than the photographer that his|to his answer, She says, ‘I want this| make the hi ” = SSS Te = ips as large as possible, being found until the fire was out. He| wor shail not date, because « painting | suit or this frock cut thus and so,’ and| Mr, Kimball summed up. “There wa wag so badly burned he had to be taken % ibe the German Hospital. # Mra, Heipin was afraid to walk the : eoping, and was standing screaming in front window holding her two months’ ‘Gla babe, Myrtle, when Henry Vaeth of he follows her dictation 4: the hoop and bustles and those things | his," they called panters, and heaven knows | “But do you think tallored suits are] “——— COCO ever really beautiful?’ I asked. “I've eeen some that were," Mr. Kim- [ball replied, “at least beautiful-on the is more valuable than « photograph, tead of the | and therefore the owner feels more keenly the portrait’s diminution in ef. fectiveness. A COSTUME THAT ALWAYS WAS Registered tele Mark : Established No. 24 Keiokerbockor avenue and Bar’) AND ALWAYS WILL BE RIGHT. [women who wore them. ‘There ie a cer-| Garden to Kitchen | Hel « Conty : i i ir. Kim-itain type of woman with a slender | 1 Bet tram the streets a aaa ball lea the way into is studio, On|and rather boyish figure who really| all stages and allthe way, its | Open tardays Until 10 P.M. Close Evenings at 6. J ledge, @ easel @ nearly completed | looks better in the coat-sult, such as is ; gieners wits rede, ond ot Kn Dern of OE | atiengta Portrait of & woman. shelworn by sen, than she woul! In & one- uniform excelience Is safeguarded. a Week Delivers This Roomful of Important 3 5 wore @ green-white evenng gown, | piece, closly fitt! u whi of Dra, Halpin's fiat, She was standing | graped dextroualy about the ahoul- Rina, oar CtUaR: Stet e a0 a ie e Furniture (as illustrated) to Your Home.) i pried Ree oat ee tne aime wieaew) |e st the low corsage, and falling | possessed. I painted a little girl re- ‘ose nnouncemen 5 |B sott ‘0 the floor. The] cently who was quite charming 1 ‘Mes. Halpin had handed the baby to} ony pelt atife girdle of es io 6 P ft, A Neoth. He passed it over to Goseluer, |oinck velvet, It was s, perfectly good | samen, ,taflored sult, although the CEYLON TEA Regarding { WOMAN CRAWLS ALONG LEOGE evening drem for the year 12, Yel, a8 | moved she ad to giince along with H ; TO GAFETY. Mr. Kimball pointed out, it could have | ewocinch ete I ; gi C t t H Da. ‘ ; Then came Mrs. Halpin's turn, Vaeth| been worn equally well in the year! ‘phat, of course, was absurd,” added Forty Cups for 10c In erle, Orse Sy e iC. [wap 0 weakened by his exertions that | 182, and, wt year Gita eee eee) We direct especial attention to our Spri he was unable to pass the woman to his r | ng campanions, This was explained to her. but-for-all-timo styles,” White Rese Coffee, Coffee Perfection’ Opening in the folio lowing lines, each one of whi x he climbed out "And plenty of wo Pd is complete with the newest and most exclusive creations in style and design that the foreign and American markets afford: " French Hand-made Lingerie High-grade American Lingerie French and American Corsets Valleda, Felicita and Gossard Negligees and Silk Petticoats In this connection we wish to emphasize particu- larly our facilities for supplying Bridal Trousseaux, James McCutcheon & Co., Pot the window at Vi ‘a bidding and, th the two men aiding her, crawled lover the window ledges to safety. When | 7 was landed in the next house she |} awooned, The two men carried and the babies to the street. On the second floor north was the body of Miss Mary Frederick, sixteen, who died Tuesday. It was thought at firet the body would have to be removed to the street, but the firemen got the flames under control before this was necessary. While Mre, Halpin and the children were betng rescued firemen had taken out the other tenants on the lad- ders. It was while going through the fhouse later that Fireman Muench found ‘the unconscious Metsenger. You can’t get any bet- | ter sauce than this, though you have to pay much more for some. Chiffonier in Golden Oak: be Washstand in Golden Oak; Rocker in Golden Oak, cane seat; vhair in Golden Oak, with cane Bed, 2-in. Post, heavy filler: 38, soft top, A. C. A. ticki Smart headwear means satisfaction in the’ head as well as on it. You are on good| terms with yourself when you have the feel-' ing of being perfectly dressed. Why guess' at style? Buy a Young and be certain. ‘Val. $80, at merce faq Qs A “PAIR. OF. 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