The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1918, Page 14

| ) ! ; ! } } j a ‘os a ae erm scrns- War Uniforms for Women! ‘Red Cross Sets the Fashion For the Woman of 1918 Has. Made Uniform for American Robe of Honor, Her Insignia of Service Woman War Even the Novice, Rolling Bandages in the Workroom, Has Her Work Dignified B NIFORMS for: women! It is THE fashion note for What the) dress reformer woman and her frifl thrust upon wom the ascetic Red Cross ha women a robe of tto be worn in be a ved by tA 5 lhe woman for a second look at ils wearer, canne type of other years—that is the of the women of this war year. her as a part of the war, a Ras seis him apart and the by This Recognition. Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘fee f 1918, 7 tired business of feminist, haveevainlyrtried to upreme tsartordal desire For the/American made uniform fir American honor, not to be dontaed lightly, not , the critics of the the ¢ spirit of amateur theatricals, but to weeks and months i country and its defenders, {to the who wants a uniform whith marks the soldier's khaki till makes us turn xt simply go to themearast shop and truly a ailor’s blue buy her white workroom costume, or to her smart tailor’s and have built for her ihe natty canteen suit. She must earn her right to doff the mufti| of chiffon broadcloth or Georgette. The American Ked Cross picturesque playing at war among its workers. Even those vol anteers for a week, who, ginning next Monday, will help raise the $25 000,000 which is New York's quota for the second $100,000,000 war fund of the American Red Cross, must pledge themselves to work six fixed periods of time at intensive money raleing. That thousands upon thousands of American women are wearing one kind or another of Red Cross uni form is in itself a proof of how seri ously and loyally our women are taking the war. As the months go on, the number of uniformed women to be observed in New York doubt- less will increase. After three years and a half of war the late Lord allows no servic ‘ Kitchener's niece told me last winter that in England the woman in clvil- jan clothes is almost as rare a sight as the young man similarly appar- elled. All English women, she said, have reduced thelr wardrobes to khak!, navy blue or the nurse's white Meanwhile, what are the uniforms to which the American aspire? The American Red Cross as furnished The Evening World ~ with pictures of the most important *ones. For the woman who must stop at home, for the very young untrained sirl, for the elderly woman, for her with only a few hours a week of elsure time, there waits the work- room uniform of the Red Cross. It ® really an all-enveloping pinafore of white linen, with long sleeves and * plain round neck. It completely covers the dress and buttons down the back. With it is worn a flowing, vell-like white cap, under which all the hair may be smoothly gathered and which falls in graceful folds over the shoulders of the wearer. Just over the forehead and the beart {is a tiny re@ cross. This 1s the uniform for the room novice—simple, daintily clean, severely graceful. The woman who, by continuous service and assiduous study of the making of surgical dressings or hospital garment the post of monitor or gold or silver bars but special form of cap—a which $ts snugly about the head and woman may above work wins head has no may wear a white ban over which falls a dark blue veil Extraordinarily emart and natty is the uniform of the Red Cross Motor Corps. 1 khaki with a st of shoe-top length, a coat reach made of tan wool aight, narrow sk well below the hips and cx many and capaciou it is worn much | tan wool coat are and tan putts comfo tume. Many sprang first months war, but paratively 1 Red recognising these « khak Underneath the worn a khak e shoe Into existence du Cross has ly taking them over. There is a tale of one which incipient sartorial mutiny Washington society w part. Their motor corp: rganized by Mrs, J man of New York and the corps membe koickers which thelr was long taken coats. When by tthe the corps Red Cross the women were told that they must ar skirts. The order caused plenty of “grousing,” but of tary discipline 1 Cro: over couree mili- Utiamphed, and now ‘ motory women, when they drive returningy soldiers from rail- road their not—to the naked eye bockers The canteeti uniform {s still an- other Red Cross service suit. Iti made of Oxford gray whipcord. The various bray ches of the service are distinguished by the different col oved collar? on the long, belted, be- pocketed qoat, and by the tle and hatband. 4A black sailor hat is worn With thisfcostume, or a stitched hat made offthe same material as the uniform, together with black puttees and shots stations jlo homes, are in knicker- It is this costume which {s worn in France by the sisters of Secreta'y Lansing and the other de voted women who stand for long hoursgserving hot coffee, sandwiches, home} made doughnuts and cheery smiled and words to tired, homesick American boys | Of feourse, there are thousands of women who are registered Amet jean or bave qual} fled Cros coun try simp te, wearing themselves as id ready to wear the Red nurses’ uniform. In this the uniform consists of a long-sleeved waist and skirt | ®ray linen. with white collar and cuff, Over the dress is worn a white apren with a bib rea colyir, and on the capt ts the fore ign an ¢ to the turned-back white significent red cross. service the unitorm is the except that a white lMnen sult replaces the gray. There are certain ideas back of| tha designs for all the uniforms. | On@ of the ideas is simplicity, An. r bility Comfort, suit abflity to the work performed and digaity are also considered by those reqponsible for Red Cross uniforms for, Women, Withal, the costumes hage th own beauty of chaste link», utter neatness and economy of effect, And each uniform is stamped invisibly but unmistakably, with omething more valuable to the wearer than the most exclusive Panisian labels—the trademark of trug -hearted service Rich Oil-Shale Reserves For Our Navy Ve RING ar two oll ver 46,00 acres in | I ates @ t 2 1 1 Mechar t . : ; ‘ 8 aVallat : » which 1M ia ve GERMAN sTUFF wit her ter bey the circus In a r she owed w j \ t , tl e, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1918 Worker, \ RRR: wa HE ARE STANDARDIZED WAR COSTUMES MOTOR CORPS, CANTEE! BLUE VEIL UNIFORM W Onn vy “woRk= ReOM Ora TOR. peas ern The Canni ng Season Service ‘Uniforms of Red Cross War Workers WHICH IDENTIFY A WOMAN’S CONNECTION WITH , HOSPITAL OR WORK ROOM. oNORS COSTUME. Gace ewe Two Sparrows Can Stretch One Worm Pretty Far, but Don’t Try to Emulate Them in Your War Garden—Raise as Much as You Can and Have Your Wife Can as Much as You Raise—Preserve the Union by Preserving the Onion—By Adding the Lima Bean You Can Make the and Make the Kaiser Dance the Can BY ARTHUR N the zeal for conservation you shouldn't go quite as far as the New- ark t who gave the kids a dime to go to bed without supper. And then in the morning he took it away from ‘em to buy break- fast with, That's whooting over the mark Pwo sparrows ean stretch one worm pretty far, but you shouldn't stretch the idea of conservation quite as fav as the Bumpbump Rall road, whose trainsson't require any whistle. Everyb nows bow an unabridged edition. of car wheels squeak on a curve, By building the Bumpbump Raliroad in curves and not oj the wheels, the Bump- bump Board of Directors have been able to dispense with the price of a whistle As the train is always on a curve, are always iking like a mechanical mouse with the metallic rheumatism, ich is conservati at shoots under the k Meyou he t, wh larg ditference doe The idea now And to keep it black for the ‘The best wa make whether you pop north o uth of it is to blacken the bull's-eye. duration of the war to bang the conservation Holstein in and publish a war ble onion, 1 be the optic is to garden. And while you are the durable lima bean and the joyful chauffeuring a War preserving laboratory. unsheath your elbow chaperoning the nin tomato, the y Beat the rais« by raising the beet, Preserve the Union by preserving t i Raise corn in your garden and on the Kaiser's progress a ame time. Every corn you raise another corn in the imperial 4. By adding the lima bean you can make the Kaiser the sucker in suchotash And don't return your elbows to their scabbard until the Junkers are in the junk. While the navy is canning the U boats, you can the navy bean The National War Gard ommish in Wash ngton will'tell you all you wa ousSnow about war gardens from soup to the bat check Phey will 1 wou a yard of literature telling you how to separate a young * om its mother witho vending in a riot eail We fem Con ‘ OU Up just how to plant charlotte Lev ds eu cost of ugL asyarague up ie Kaiser the Sucker in Succotash—Can, Can, -Can—Vamp Till Ready. (“BUGS”) BAER. | camphor to last out next winter. Carrots, beets, parsnips, cold slaw, double-barreled potatoes, rhubarb and Mexican jumping beans are the ammunition to shoot into the boys who are shooting ammunition into the foe. It doesn't matter if the Mexican jumping beans have a slight limp. They are easier to catch that way. Every home should have a garage full of 1918 model, underslung chassis, one man jars loaded to the ears with fruit shrapnel. The next treaty of peace will be signed with an ink made from currant jelly, canned tomatoes and preserved peaches Paste that in your tin hat | rubber heels to toothpicks. | the can-can Can anything prunes, hay in everything except a German peace top preserve Can anything and everything from Can, can, can and make the Kaiser dance Garli or sawdust. There are calories WILD HOGS AS WATCHDOGS UTILIZED BY MEXICANS. UNIFORMS OF AMERICANS TOO TIGHT, SAY EXPERTS. atives call Jaba te and fitting f #9 ag s jelr na . +e 4 oe us wat “— » oree ha ne Wound: nd fight coyote other [tralia the a ai w Its Ke with & they will an slee ideall ¥ ‘ pund a ranchhou at ng e Norfolk -jack be aistba ive Jus useful as any dog. trimne without necessitating | Although fierce by nature, they can] Wearing of a be |be tamed until they follow the nagter| And just @ expe pin around like @ dog. ‘The landiord of ajton declared the U. A. uniform the hotel in one of the border towns even | wors Jabali Is only frst cousin, how appea You I Jever, t0 the domestic pig. Swine ar ¥ A y n wo ma bra ne In am 8 a bs bs And " r A pecca n warette seems abvacgu Hera, Chk Oey A ‘ TUESDAY, MAY 114, 19: American Fighting Spi Finds Full Expres | In Stirring War Stage Battle Scenes Have Exerted Wonderful i New York, and Theory That People Want | Divertingly Light Is Exploded—Sight of Kh Tread of Marching Feet Is What They ¢ By Charles Darnton N spite of the early predictions of theatrical wiseacres | would meet with little response, for the suppcsed rea would seek light entertainment in these grim times, by no means followed the example set by London. O plays with battle scenes have exerted a strong appeal. Without doubt, it is the American fighting spirit 1 these plays to success. with were seen in action. This spirit has found expressiot cheers ringing loud and long, especially when solé From time to time there has been a great deal of talk of a national theatre. boards is a national theatre, not merely To-day every theatre that has a in name but in sf women are so stirred by the sight of khaki, the: tread of the sound of guns, the smell of powder, as to make tlt the play itself. They are carried off their feet by the rt springing from a common cause. Moreover, they have ph pockets and bought Liberty bonds with fresh enthusiast peals of actors and actresses. For example, a friend said to me | the other day: “I went to see ‘Fancy Free’ this afternoon, Crawford made such a speech for the Liberty Loan that although I had already subscribed for all the bonds I felt 1 could af-| "ers written the finest pla riod, for he has given the true spirit of hu thetic, self-sacrificing Although there wa bought another. And his e; bt that is seen ford to take, I couldn't help it!” shone with the lig everywhere to-day. The American fighting spirit has been recognized by producers of war plays, and these profited accordingly land has t tary and naval melodramas. when Days’ Le fe brought over from London and given | ®°! n Boston as net with failu es at For years Eng-| 10 “Seven In New York it} me ar “hit scored @ pop n turn, with a cruiser firing at a German U boat to save an American troopship “The Man Who Stayed at Home" has been similar treatment first presented in New given since it wa | giv gentlemen have| tn en the home of big mili-| {06 But! packed was| Weeks Contrivances of me left out of the quest and Clifton | ing “Out There,” wht rousing| again with a distin players intent upon ¢ for the Red Cross is to be credit dramatic constrv & Together,” this aid British and Ce here thrilled the Lyric T The spectad ng “over the top” English melodrama t| itself to call forth ch an the enduring for the simple! well-made play reason that {t was given an Ameri-| It American gunners on| we have been spared war in the theatre. even the rescue with song cle is for the best musical comed ver boys from tI en remarkably York under the title of “The White | y¢ have also i ner Nothir succeeds like) siimpses of the En America, and the theatre is its look-| view in such comed ‘ing-glas Post,” “Billeted,” ar Emotions are easily quickened in Petticoats all of 1 the playhouse, ven a dull person! ing, but worthy of o may come out of it these nights with tice, Barrie's “The his nerves alive and his heart beat-| now being acted onc g in time with “The Star Spangled | ynpire Theatre, is Benher’. Its Che eM angled | human as to make th Banner,” in fact, that 1s ever in the| ang the eyes moist. eye and the mind of the playgoer.| niacance was “Her Nothing else means anything by comparison A nation roused to war finds a certain outlet in the theatre Newspaper reports of fighting are | coy visualized in plays, no matter how | .j, crude, that show the valiant—and al-| tho ways smiling—American soldier or| no | sailor banging away at the enemy. drama by Rudolph E Spottiswoode, In whit wife of a German of f subjected to the n household. Od opening night ¢ w York, the scene ture of the Kaiser ¢ Like the French, we have quick blood | with a grand smas in our veins, quick volces, quick) hearts; therefore in the theatre we respond quickly. But unlike the French, it {s real- with other nights there w finally the town turm jder to the play. af uproarious lau Jsm that appeals to us most strongly.| a iittle too much to st Discussion us in “L'Eleva offered in “Servic the American playgoer. these plays were devoted the talents of two fine actresses—Grace George and Mrs, Fiske, It was the eternal, if not inferns ench triangle that | no doubt defeated Miss George, whereas Mrs, Fiske could only talk in a play so far behind these eventful times that it seemed \to take its place in anelent history A certain spiritual “L'Elevation” far above bomb-bursting melodrama, n,” and Lavedan fails to interest | And yet to; wh such as Lincoln J. Carter's “An American Ace,” yet it must be said that nowadays one scene in the] pe trenches is worth two in the draw-| use ing room It goes without cal managers have not » war (o commercial punt with plays that have more noise than ally, aying that theatri-| ch: hesitated to| cot turn t there drama, Us s a woman spy dressed in purple or some other onspicuous color, so that she may ‘he identified at first glance, D. W Griffith had the good sense and cour-| | age to make the German spy in his} motion picture play | World,” a heavy, middle-aged, unat tractive woman of the peasant class But in “Seven Days’ Leave,” the | on beatteous spy is disclosed in a bath-| , ne hat would bring about he [ot Palm Beau ie |The new material, sa jah ning in a glove. 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