The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1913, Page 9

“Tf a “The Slit Skirt Gives Her the Opportunity, but Tight Fitting Dresses Are, as a Rule, Bad Taste and Vul- gar Because They Are Not Frank—Present Styles Ate So Eccentric that the Tunic Costumes I At fect Wouldn't Create Any Sensation if a Few Other Sensible Women Adopted |, Them.” Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ADY CONSTANCE STBWART RICHARDSON, daughter of thousand earle—more or lese—and grand daughter of the Duke of Argyll, hag Gone It again. First al noctety by leaving off her stockings and following in the barefoot tracks of Isadura Duncan, Now has left off hat, skirt, coat, gloves, all {asignia of conventional fine lady- and put on @ strange costume, ‘Walt Arabian, half Italian Renalnsance, belly and entirely Lady Constano the talks dress refurm with all vivid enthusiasm she lavished on Greek posturing four years ago, when she came to New York to dance at ‘pecial and charitable functions. I met her then, and when I talked with her toway, on the eve of her pro- fessional debut, 1 saw at once that ft was the same Lady Constance, Perhaps she fs trained down to an even mors| supple slenderness; certainly the years have erased the hint of nervousness! which used to tinge her vivaohy. But her eyes of onk-leaf brown, the perfect line of her chin meting into her throat, the rushing, windlike movements—above all, the atmosphere of untamed, unchal Jenged vitality—are as notable as ever. Lally Constance combines the beauty of a Greek bas-relief with the untram- melied spirit of an Bleonora Sears, and the result ie worth looking at and worth knowing . Whether one may esy as much for) her now ‘style of dressing is a ques- th It looks well on Lady Constance, ut that means both much and little Phe doésn't hesitate to recommend it te ether women, I do, But leten to her Gpecription of it i 2 z i : | <f zt i : Hi iif eff tit re a } is Fi Feet es! ( | a THE EVENING WORLD, Woman Has Pretty Ankles _ |. Why Shouldn’t She Show Them?” —Asks Lady Constance Richardson. f Lavy fs CONSTANCE ~ COULD EASKY , DANCE IN * HER NEW ; T ARABIAN DRESS ‘way, there's nothing so beautiful ae one's own locks almply parted and done down low on the head, | ehepe. A filet ts ornament enough. Lady red-brown tresses are arranged in the way she | describes, When she adjusts her ohif- fon head covering she pulls forward a few wavy locks to frame @ triangle of white forehead. And now I've not spoken of one of the most important articles of a wo- man's attire—shoes,” shé continued, “Really, in the first place, my whole costume was arranged to go with what I wear on my feet. And ai ited @ pair of purple vel dala, buckled over purple ings and exactly matching he “Leather joes are dreadful averred, nd as I wished to preserve my feet I wouldn't wear them. , But sandals and a tallored sult a an | yards of material and ‘s very casy to| make, although not quite #0 uncotm- plicated ae it ldoks, It is simple to put on, One elips one's head into it, that fe all. Ther are no ‘buttons, no hooks and fea, No fawten! if any weer this dr In the the street. In cold weather It 19 made | of heavy material, and in very cold weather I wear » long cloak over it. 1 wear no gloves unless it is very cold, no vell and no hat. Around my head I wind a piece of filmy chiffon of a con- trasting color with my gown and let one end float down over my left joulder, vening dresses are made in the xcept for a bit of, addition- al drapery. This conslate of a piece of goods about four yarde long which is wound about my hips, over my sown, | in such @ fashion that there is a long) end to hook up over my left shoulder. | Of COurse I never wear any corsets. “With the use of thie additional @rapery,” atkied Lady Constance, * | costume could be worn becomit a stout woman. 1 think she would jook much better in it than in a close-) ly fitting dress, Isadora Duncan Isn't! stout, but she ss quite » bit er than} AVE you selected a summer beard- H ing house for your canary? Sure, there are lots of ‘em i New York, fashionable ones for birds of high degree, medium-priced ones, and even cheaper places where your bird will be cared for for the actual com of hin food. Bird owners planning a summer of travel are the principal patrons of the bird boarding houses, and when place, where their birds will mii thelr volces—with only aristocratic song- nters, they must pay a daily rate, Here's the schedule: Parrots—% cents a day. ind other = soft-billad and she I have described.’ | 1 advanced the obvious objection to the dress for those of we who don't) travel in taxis or a private motor. “Don't you think it would make one extraordinarily conspicuous?’ I urged. ¢ cheaper places where these jay be scaled down 8 to # per i | Broadway’s Latest— | Self-Planted Lawns 118 is the day and season of grow- Ty Ing things. Pending the construction of the new Broadway subway it haa been “I Ikke the fact that they are wearing found necessary to place several elec- more bright colors. Personally, 1 am tric fight poles which are located along very fond of the vivid ehades, and I/ the curb of the sidewalk In front of think there are some lovely ones in the ‘ity Hall Plaga in great hogsheads. dress stuffs this season. But #0 many | They will be left there until the cov: colors ought not to be combined at! of tie new subway is properly adjusted, once, Two are enough. I don’t care for | when the poles will be set back in the eccentric Cubist designe, } Proper position, arising from the s!de- “Why no hat?’ I asked. ‘It scoms! walk iteelf, to me that the shapes this summer are} But during thelr temporary sojourn rather artistic, \ in the hogsheads It was necessary to ‘But 1 don't believe tn hats!’ Lady| steady these poles againat the wild Constance hurried on." I hage never! gale the Woolworth Bullding sends worn one in my life when I could help, shooting up Broadway, making the it, I grew up without one. 1 #pent| famed Flatiron dlasts seem as gente most of my time in the forests and on sephirs, and thin has been done dy ff the moers, riding and tramping, and 1/ ing these hogsheads up to the brims couldn't be bothered with ha: Now| with rich black dirt, when I wear even the lightest straw) ‘Phen the breeses, the binds and others it gives rm the most frightful head-! of nature's resources got busy, scattered aches, I think millinery 1s @wfully bad} grasw seed over the surfaces ang now beth for the head and for the hair. And) there is as fine a “lawn” in each hoge- should Ver wear fglse hair.| heag as any commuter could wish for ) to destroy her own. Any-' afer weeks of toll. * e4i8 Hie they wend them to a really fashionable | * le |care for the birds of more fortunate er anachroniom. tumet” “I gee you don’t ban the sift skirt,” 1 observed, glancing at hers, under which there wae a white Maing, however. Therefore my coa- tention to them, “Modesty, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Although, personally, 1 think the very tight fitting dresses or suits are bad taste and vulgar. That ie because they are not frank. Moreover, they are #0 uncomfortable that I do not fee how any woman can wear them, I believe that one should wear clethes that are attractive to the eye but that leave the body Th ‘wearer fe not all the time thinking about her Gress, The same thing applies to jewet- ty. One of two beautiful pieces are all right, but if one is loaded down ene can't be at one's ease, “When I ride I wi riding breeches and a long coat, because it ty the free, guitablé costume for sitting astride « horse. At other times I wear what I have told you. 1 don't have to bother about changing etyles, 1 and time and thought, three things, @hich most women waste unpardonably on thelr wardrobes, And they might ut all three to so much better use!” But Lady Constance's beat ment for her costume {# the way ‘he ‘herselt looks In It. And that argument has only a vory limited application Canary Bird Boarding Houses? Of Course But there'e real charity for bird own- era who patronize the places where a bird will be taken "lod Daying jonly for his board. Many bira stores have lists of them—they are the names of poor people to whom th ship and care of bra, dete os summer months would prove a real boon, They cannot afford to own birds themselves, trifling as the upkeep may m to others, and they arrange to | Persons wh cannot car ing the summer, SLE HP See ‘These real bird-lovers give free, and charge only fs fe toon the food. And they are glad to do it, too. Aak the man wh you your Dirdseed to find you such a place for your bird thin summer—it saves you e and brings real Joy to some one ' Broadway Tenants enth floor, many people, even though you mi ELE eee a Defy Superstition } NEW high building hes @ thir- é \ This is a statement of fact, And for weveral days was real news to de aware it also has a fourteenth, a fife teenth and @ good many more, and building managers who were in- terewted In the foot that the building han @ thirteenth, Before it was opened there was considerable speculation as to whether tt would have one—many downtown office buildings and mumer- rn them, not considered unlucky, but they are merely unpopular with prospective tenants, Thai why the Puvile Service Commission's oMces are on the fourteenth floor of the Tilbune Building, although the floor under- neath is the twelfth ‘The American Wxohenge Bank Bullding at No. i another building without @ thirteant, floor, and there are halé @ dosen others scattered over the financial districs while many of the uptown hotels jum: fsem twelve te fourtess, Natlonal dway te ut there were many real estate men |" ‘ SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1913 Here’s the New Style Chorus Girl; ‘ Quite Apart From Spirit and Dash, She Has—er— Innate Modesty and Nat- ural Grace and So Much of an Education that She Can Be Photographed With a Book. ‘week, “Every face & new one,” I Is the line for a coming show Which brought her out. Mow does the new chorus girl ‘Aiffer from {he one whose charms have grown familiar? Take it from one. of the highest chorus girl authorities, she has more “clase” and leas “‘oragh.” Quite aside from spirit aad dash and all that sort of thing she has natural Grace and, if you please, a certain in- nate modesty, as well in education that warrants her having her pict taken with a book in her hand. Thon, too, we learn with Interest, her voloce— Uke Annie Laurie's—is low and sweet. Bays the oracle: “New York demands the mentee! chorus girl. The demand hag’t includ- ed an: lessening of exuberant vitality her permitted Any slackening of pedal Pulses, but this city, growing in critical appreciation, wants ite beauty «@ Jittie more refined, if no more adorned. How to Gnd ner? It's just lke thi “I look for regular features, good teeth, &@ youthful and dainty Agure, hair which can be done attractively—whether the owner knows how to do It or not makes fo difference—and always, in selecting girls, | make them speak to me natu- rally. “Beauty in not the great essential: Eyes set well apart, a firm nose of whatever clasgification, a regular mouth and even contour of face the requi- sites. Such # face lends itself to in arts of make-up. Many of the plainest HW ‘new chorus girl arrived thie The Bowery Sees a Bullfight and Speaks Its w a bulifight the other day, and with no hesita- tion the habituen of that erst- while bloody thoroughfare @ the ancient sport “down hum The fight, of course, was not really held on the Bowery, but w: mn through the medium of moving pictures, and the film wan one ao clear and vivid that no one could fail to get a good idea of what thin method of slaying @ bull, a few horses and maybe @® man or two is Mke. Outside the tiny nickelodeon were highly colored three-sheets portraying various phaves of the aport with what looked like auch intense realism that New Yorkers Gain In Bitter Rate War HO saya the cost of livng is not Going down? Reslgents of Washington Square and the upper end of Greenwich Village | have just discovered a rute war in pro reas which is bringing them one com- modity cheaper, anyhow. It's shoe ehines. For years urching between ten and fit- teen years have monopolized the bus!- s of shining the shoes of those who passed through Washington Square, Re- cently there has been an invasion, Se eral men have set up chairs with shining trimmings at various corners an‘ offerbd ease and comfort with shines f the same nickel one must pay for an urchin'’a shine, And the urchin never had @ chair, It was a case nd up with @ foot on hia box or find a vac seat on ® park bench. ‘The invasion was terrifying to tho younger business men, Fut they didn't quit the field, Not @ bit of it. They cut the price of shines, ine, Mii cents!” cried the yc And they did all operators of the stan’ idle, They probably will so until they quit the nelgaberhood out thelr price tuo, ine? Only three ters to-day, The round jo or . She’s Strenuous but Not No y who haps beautiful in the sunshine, by very reason of some irregularity of feature, can never hope to be other than gro- teaque under the calcium. make « girl walk across the stage to see if she has Mfatural grace and rhythm of movement—things which, unfortunately, can seldom be imparted. I mpeak to hi she haa been or what she has done I make her tilt her head by standing straight a» T can, and in no doing I Mine up her teeth for a rigid inapec- ways with Mr. Frohman—realty, thi in my first season away from Mr. Froh man,’ in » sort of Anglicised voice, I @et uw quick line ou her. She is what New York seems to ‘require at the mo- mont, f quot tion only ae stand close to catch her whinper she may hit me in the ear with ¢hi re the dingy ‘thentre’ was quickly filled. jers @trutted into the ring in One of the spectators waa @ typical |silken magnific product of the reighbrohood. He was| Then he listlessly watched the nimble @ hard but not necessarily brutal lovk-| toreadors as they danced about infurl- | ing Individual, and @ twinted and | ating the bewtidered bull with thelr red a cauliflower ear testified that at some banners, The clash of the bull and we time in his career he had battled in, picador and the goring of the fighter's the aquared circle, | mount, which left the horse kicking out Ho aettled in his narrow eeat with a/ its last breath unnoticed in the centre “show me" air and aullenly watched the | of the provoked but mild interest enanging fortunes of the rancher’a bee- | in ov friend, and the work of the utiful daughter and her handsome, | banderilias brought to his face nothing curly black haired cow puncher lover | but an Increasing look of frank dieguat, apin over the screen. Then came the! The last straw came with the entran bullfight and our hero perked up @ bit. atador, ‘This function A trace of dingust came over his rough hed the tortured bull features as the frankly valn bulifig! of his long sword, their) | ary quickly des: nt- | with a def This Alert Wall Street Broker Got Excited at the “Movies” MEMBER of the New York Stock | door of Exchange got real extravagant | Houneing the other night and went to a) si:0+ Vine cr cap nens es oan iaes Moving picture show. His naine is not | BRA GF Teen rome given here became It might cause all ANOS his creditor to close on him and put | him out of business, | But thie broker went anyhow, | | office was a big eign : ‘The robbbers hurried into the office, dought or sold securities to thelr hearts’ content and thelr purses’ extent and, of course, went broke, The moral; the Wages of sin is an empty wallet. But that wasn't the morgl the broker saw. He saw another ineidigus and muck-raking attack of the Stock Bx- ‘The audience a jauded and An4 thie in what he enw: A wild Western robbery tn Wall street, with glimpres of the Hankers’ Trust Bullding the Sub-Treasury and even the Btock Excha: In the back- ground, The robbers held up a bank jand then made a getaway through the {crowds ulways found about Broad and ! Wall atreets, } ‘This was good, The broker was jelated, Me recognized the famiiar} scene and even saw familiar faures of the street in the picture. He regarded |his dime as well invested | Then came the second reel of the jthriller, Another street scene it was, but the broker didn’t recognise the lo- eality, Then he got s ahock, Over the Se a “The Stock Exchange doean't have brane he told those about him 11't take orders direct from persons,” ‘Thon he stalked out, .Since thon he has tried to get the Exchangs in a plan to have a mass mistet aueud reoled of ev’ jeture—"@ tlaguc of lies "goes vig) is: i Tyee I'l tell ye! 1 ben wit! Mutt an’ 4 ever since Feb'rary, Want t 3 Retives? And down on my book go two letters—B. Q. ‘burlesque.’ If anything tor her, tm road, Her fortiagimo talents gou't- Peal to me for Manhattan.” P So the new chorus girl, you see Bat lene gently, she 18 strenuous being noisy. Mind and turned, waving @ emiling a) tion of himeelf, to the applanding leries (in the pleture). “Ww unted our friend to! neighbor, Hllently our friend watehed the’ work of slaying the next bull out, and as the third fight was. on the screen he crammed his hat tight over his head and made his way to the aisle, “#o them greasers see something that.” he commented oo Si “T guess muae his way to the door, jo out and see how the Gi'nts are. ing out.” New Straw Hats Worry Cond HE debut of the festive hat every spring ia the date for the arrival of a season of worry for those surfage conductors who handle the bell « on open cars, ae Here's the reason as @ Broadway veteran: "A new straw hat generally. fully hard to keep on. And it’ harder and harder every year coming of new ekyecraper: the wind up into @oing all didoas, “Then, tor the fret tew how, a man with a new straw do almost anything to keep it getting solled, “ ‘And hile care of hie hat ten't for a moment, whether he's on of off moving mtreet Gare ing in front or behind them taxicabs, When t » eee