The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1920, Page 17

| SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1920 - Women’s Gowns Are to Be Cut! Low in Front, Low in Back | And All the Arm Showing: The National Wholesale Dry Goods Association | Confesses That Lack of Labor, High Prices| of Materials and Exportation Will Be Responsible for Milady’s Scanty Frocks. By Fay Stevenson Copyrieht, 1820, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) UST because you notice they're wearing ‘em low in front, luw in back) are to be cut at both ends, because they will not only be abbreviated at the bottom but have a great “cut” also at the other extremity—the neck and sleeves—for once don't credit this to gay Parce | but rather to lack of labor, high prices of material and} exportation, According to the nal Wholesale Dry Goods Association in convenon at the opinion of members of the N Waldorf-Astoria, the shortage in production of materials hn accordance to demand, the high prices and the labor troubles will make it necessary to show much, yes, a eat deal, and the chief plan of designers will be “every little dit helps, every inch skimped from one dress helps t. make another!" Perhaps even our strictest New England grandmothers would not object | to Dame Fashion this year—no matter how ultra she may prove—if we} scrap” of cloth, At any rate this go upon the principle of 4 just what w to H. Glay Miller, Pr Association of Dress I aving are going to do, according _ ident of the Jobbers uorie Buyers’ at the Wal ed Mr, Mille “Ww it in \ ery indeed, decla 1 and France are sending some ma e] so true that we never had such ®2 RB \ y “In fact there will be practically no sleeves, there being place@ in the armholes of gu ments only a slight band extending a few inches downward. Likewise the necks will be lower | ind although some folk may gasp at that, fashions which have prevailed | summer is over. Low in front, low in back, and all the arm showing seems | to be the watchword, and in this way thousands of yards of material will | de saved. “Of course 1 am more interested in the textures themselves,” confessed | Mr. Miller, “ an the designing end of it, but from what I have heard there will be practically no sleeves, exceedingly low necks and skirts are going up in prices as well as in the number of inches from the ankle “But we have been told that prices are goin, interested in the rise of prices than the rise of ski “No sane man can reason that replied Mr. Mii down," I insisted, more unconscionable prices can endure,” “and yet no juggling of figures can justify the fact that the prices of textiles are relatively higher than any other commodity. We have hopes of prices coming down eventually, but for 1920 and 1921 I eagnot say much, At present textiles are higher than any other staple. Foods | advanced from pre-war } materials, 40 per cent.; fur the price of textiles advanced it is the lab es on an a erage of 100 per cenl., buil 100 per 00 to 500 per cent. Question which js really making dress fabrics sear, and when you combine that with the present export demand there little hope for shange in prices at once,” continued Mr. Miller “But there is one consolation!” nd that is?” "Milady can be clothed in sijk far cleus than she can in woollen, Silk looms in th ng 150 per cent. but shoes, women's dresses than woollen for the sa purpose. Never has there been such a ind for silk as in the last three years, T AsOns ned for this heaper than wool, that it is more adaptable to design and to color effects, and that it ean | Ye made over more readily, The report trom | dress manufacturers indicated that the num- ver of silk dresses now being made is hal! again 1s lupge as the number of woollen dresses. Many of the tailored spring suits are to be nude of silk instead of woo! ne colors of these silks? Are they to be gay ot re that silk is und plaids,” laughed My, Miller p, ludies! | number of you wouldn't think of wearing such shocking Pashion so decreed, but, of course, if 4 nch to some other woman's gown that al m your pndition own ntircly! The Jarr Family Can You Beat It!_ and all the arm showing don't cry “Paris!” Because women's gowns |\/ATER, demand for exports as this year. Our produc- \e tion Ras doubled since 1914, but so have omr \e & exports! Therefore one of the best ways to > } make material meet the demands of Amer ce? | and Europe is to abbreviate, WP ard n the way of ‘law neck’ will be considered quite conservative before the | Lo. THIS, TIME YOU WONT FALL OFF PROHIBITION | would be looking for blind-tigers now. He-never dreamed that gu By Marguerite Mooers Marshall York Frening World.) inn, ae can in woaten, ti omen toel TRE Passing of By Sophie Maxims of a Modern Maid each experiment pass Irene Loeb) reat Worker {, 1920, by ‘The Press Pubiisuing Go, (Tae New York Rrening World ) AAA AAA ANAAA ARAL DORPODODDODORDDRPDDADOOOODOCDROD ADD OCOPOOL OS Paralyzed, Almost Blind, This Brave Spirit Would Never Admit Defeat, but Carried His Creative Art Through to the Victory of Achievement. through three judge is perturbed by “progressive polyandry not to say legal—than polyandry of the centemporancous} away’ its nighteap, URING the week a If you wonder He was a potter and contribution to 1 mankind reat worker! now in the first house of the land $ that was actually 3 —more interesting yr set by this humble man who has The young dc who has just « foolish enough to expect admir the example ught a chicken is like the young if it were merely a matter of loving one's hus- He lived and died t's also a matter of keeping him fed n the small city of a found, and a woman found SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1920 Vital Statistics Mr. Ezra X. Prohibition and Miss Anne T. Saloon-League Were United in the Holy Bond of Matrimony Last Evening; Holier- Than-Thou Officiated, Chirping Extracts From the 18th Amendment; the Couple Were Showered With Crepe Juice and One-Half of 1 Per Cent. Confetti; Also Old Shoes Without a Kick in Thein. By Neal R. O'Hara Copyeiem, 1920. by The Press Publishing Oo, (Te New York Keoning World.) » en X. PROHIBITION and his bride, Anne T, Saloon-League, ane now on their honeymoon. They were married on Jan. 16 with a ry noisy wedding, Rev. Holler Than Thou oMciating. The double ring ser ice was used, a bellhop bringing water on each ring. The clergy- man rad the Sighteenth Am: marched down the alse to the t Dry Am." ‘The happy cou alt of one per cent, confet iment, w eupon the wedding party smbling strains of Mendelssohn's “How © showered with water, grape juice and Also old shoes, which didn’t have a we | kick left in ‘em, ‘They left immediately for a wedding trip to Niagara Palls, bride is the daughter of that sterling politician, Organized | rN 38 Minority, who recently killed Personal Liberty in a duel in the halls of Congeess. She is a direet descendant of Carrie Nation. Mr, Prohibit the groom, is a prominent business man with offiees and highly paid executives in all the prineipal cities. As a yoong man he frequently ran for political offies, hut always with poor success. Dai ing the war Mr. Prohibition way active in charity work. While some poor, misguided folks were providing fresh milk for babies, Mr. Pro« hibition was working to provide fresh water for grown-ups. His popu larity was so great that Congress prevailed upon him to run the Nation, Ce ee ee SWAK SONG Mr, Prohibition and Miss Anne T. Saloon-League Are Wed. IMULTANEOUSLY with the Prohibition-League nuptials came the death of John Barleycorn, an old and respected citizen, Mr. Bar corn was aged 14—in the wood. He is survived by two children, Yeast and Raisin, who, in spite of their feeble strength, will try to carry on his work in this country, Mr. Barleycorn owned numerous distilleries in the United States, and all of them were closed at the time of his death as a mark of respect. They will stay c R. BARLEYCORN was strong at the time of his death and seemed M lo be getting stronger with old age. A foul blow killed him. The strain of the recent war was too much for him also, rere Y the death of Mr. Barleycorn 100,000 bartenders are made orphans, ‘There are millions of others who will mourn him. When he was Inid to rest there wasn't a dry eye anywhere—it was a case of red eye ywhere. A BROKEN heart contribuled Ww Barleycorn's death, When Mr. B. put XX on his barrels twenty years ago he never thought the Prohibi- tionists would be giving him the XX—the double-cross—to-day, He never suspected that pints, quarts and gallons would pass on to the table of dry measures. He never realized that friends who used to see colored snake ys who bellowed a whiskey tenor would stop and look for speak-easies, He never foresaw that it would be useless to holler for booze—that the owly way to get it would be to keep still. He died in blissfal ignorance. eee osed, ‘The following codicils were read from Mr. Barleycorn’s will to-day A lot of guys have water on the knee, but it's booze they've got on their minds. Wood alcohol’s O. K. for an alcohol lamp, but don't try to get lit that way Vrohibitionists have made New York a 9 0% k town and have taken Alcohol’s still left in hair tonic, and many will suffer from dandruff of the liver, pa 2'919 ginal Lhey took away beer, but they leit us the foam—on the wate: Tee; 've eliminated wine; they're after hard women, and it looks lke soft muste is all we'll have left Mu all that intoxicates n mn we'll be having jag bands, HERE is just one thought that would please Mr. Barleycorn ifhe By Roy L. McCardell 8 Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) | Conyrizht ° Bannerer The Jarrs Find the Obsequies of John Barleycorn a Very Sad Affair, Indeed. $ $ Mr. Jarr stopped into his boss's [hot water bottle and an inva A pelle hen Jobn Barley-| chair. ‘Think of going out mtemobile, when Jab: ¥*| ning's pleasure with a chronic invalid corn was to die again, bis foot | tnd his vacuany bottle t a handbag in the bottom of the|” Mrs, Jarre remarked sweetly that it onneau that gave back a metallic] Was a lovely night, and that she wa sure they were going to have a dk ound when struck goin ui rdon, T hope 1 lightful time I bu a Last Death of Barleycorn, lidn't anything!" remarked Mr, Jarre said nothing. If his be ur hero. and his boss's young br were t “Oh, it wouldn't hurt anything if] start their marital skirmi aad ow did!” said Mrs ru Mudridge-| very beginning une fashionable and h Smith, the hoste f the evening. 1 , may ne f Bi drink a lua toast uf It's only my husband's old vacuum] Quigg youn tarley corn, ie bottle him’ as thou t pleasant tim dh, it's all ivs all right | Would be had by a. Nothing broken baled tinedh Reged 11s murmured old man Smith smith, Mr. Jarr's merchant prince] into Mr. Jarr’s ear ‘Are we all yployer and devoted husband of] fixed nicely now?" ihe asked aloud, y matron Mrs,| "All right, Dick, drive ahead to the St. Vitus Jazz Pall ints any stimulant for medicinal] Mr, Jarr started to hum | rp ved one in the to-| Mra, Jarr gave her husband a ter- ght « just be prepare after this also, 1am always going tol party swept on. ith way rave My vacuum bot U "T knew everything would go Thank « ness’ you wrong,” cried Mrs, Mudrid, Smith s “My husband, the old hobo, is ro your di ir crutches t ple, now liquor is to be amgainst youl” snap; his bride I'm the law forever! glad, too, that you do not bring a “It will be all right, my dear, it Sewn anes Lome yalty private equalled the | stifled ail hope of future act o with this pe ame partially could ndét walk kiln to wateh the ad the young trad) in body, dd his powers of « jplishment, He needed nu eyes to see You're | blngett, than of me! premonition disuppointments, ». large letters; whea be knew he had {round the formulas that mad: in china muking in this country He began to teach others about him as he knew he was but mortal, and others must follow Thus he built I'm not jealo of you, and Would never ha y baby is so full of lit only way fe and i permitted me tved his apprenticeship | hard knocks hey stood him in ood ste so thoroughly wa. eval of his ¢ in bis pathway. | up a small orguniza- planned lis work and they ing known abou Vitus Jazz Palace and found the place too crowded to allow floor space tor twas also ascor wined that the protiveering proprie- | Worked 5 to permit each s he the director gen wanted os lit- nydimed condi- slowly at first, but soon so fast that had to enlarge the quarters and this growing process, jhe kept on daveloping designs, per-| \fecting hia pottery, and teaching his | assistants—for comes from his workrooms wa Mud ee ey ete eet” iT hate that place!" cried Mca. Mud |t vacuum bottle, You know if”one] rdge-smiuh. ‘It's so dull!® t irious, | * and every be being opened in the plac: Ang, | fible nudge in the ribs, and the big! ridge-Smiths i! holding the | sadly vituperating eu eyed lo Trenton an talked with him at length, and 4 spirit of the man would have moved | 4, never complained, who was a doer until obstucles and hu h other with vitrolic knew we would Why should are who are less | wood “Phere is a curse on liquor even now) He paid me com- “How many tie: when you men can't get any!" fortunate uben 1! ® blow that would have for his work goes on, — | were alive @o-day. Folks that live in Dry Aimerica will drink less water than ever before. There won't be so many chasers. “Health and DoYou - Beauty Queries LA. UA os “ Copyright. 1920, by The Pres Publi By Pauline Furlong | ree kev Tok mont wean Tt a 1. ie Urs Vublisiing Oo} 4. What city in Massachusstts @ pera Ph called the City of Spindles? 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