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Blouse of Cotton-Crochet the Rage
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
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W OULDN'T you just
love to own one or
several of those smart,
cool, attractive and very
practical mercerlzed-cot
ton hand-crochet blouses
which high-class specialty
shops are showing this
season, to wear with the
now-so-vogulsh linen (par
ticularly black linen) or
pique suits! Well, why not be the
happy possessor of just such? They
are so easy to make and Inexpensive
(when home crocheted) and are they
good-looking !
As to hand-crochet. It's the rage Just
now. Chic Parisiennes simply dote on
It, wearing blouses of crochet with
their best-looking suits, and gloves,
the cunningest affairs you ever saw,
with flare cuffs, the whole thing done
In a dainty lacy stitch. Belts, too. and
pocketbooks and hats all of crochet,
while their frocks are trimmed with
designful croohet insets and entire
yokes and edgings and such.
The group of clever blouses in the
picture cannot but prove an Inspira
tion to those who feel the urge to
crochet The vastly Important thing
about using mercerized cottpn for
these blouses Is that It washes so per
fectly no matter how colorful It be.
Of course you are going to have a
hard time deciding which of t\\e blouses
pictured to copy. We think the model
on the standing figure Is particularly
good-looking. It's "darling" when
made In a pastel shade to match the
skirt, although It Is just as effective
In contrast—pale blue cotton crochet
blouse with a pink pique or flannel
skirt, or, If you like monotones, a pink
crochet blouse topping a pink linen
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DOTS IN THE MODE
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
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It Is surprising how persistently
dotted effects keep In the mode. To
day, polka dots, from medium to tre
mendous coin dots, are. if possible,
more fashionable than ever. Paris de
signers especially exploit the dotted
theme. To be sure, the costume pic
tured Is rather extreme from an Amer
ican standpoint, yet It goes to show
how French couturiers are placing
emphasis on dots. Another fashion
which loses not In favor Is that of
black and white. As the season pro
presses It Is apparent that black with
white Is as much In the limelight as
ever. The tight-fitting sleeveless black
velvet jacket and the self-fabric gloves
are the high spots of this costume
Jacket En.einble.
The jacket frock Is developed In all
the fabrics of the moment—summer
sheer crepes, printed crepes, chiffons,
linens, pique, eyelet embroidery and
other cottons.
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skirt, a matching linen swagger coat
completing this most Intriguing three-,
some. Oh, there Is no end to the
staging of effects which can be done
with these hand-crochet blouses. It Is
the handsome shell stitch which makes
the aforementioned blouse outstanding,
also the tricky picot (crochet) finish
tng at the neckline.
The eye-satlsfylng little sweater
with Its pert cap sleeves on the seated
figure Is crocheted In blue and white
cotton, Intermingled so as to give It
a sort of tweedy effect
The fashionable high neck -of—the
striped-yoke blouse shown te the right
below, also Its wee puff sleeves, make
this model a smart Item In anyone's
wardrobe. The buttons at the belt
are a happy thought, avoids stretch
Ing when you slip the blouse over the
head.
The young woman who's head and
shoulders above the group are pictured,
Is very much In crochet attire. Her
blouse Is a perfectly s tunning affair
crocheted in the popular filet stitch,
bright orange with white. The white
sports hat crocheted of mercerized cot
ton has the soft, easily draped brim
which Is becoming to all types of
faces. A band of mesh stitch suggests
new height for the crown.
©. 1138. Western Newspaper Union.
ONE BLACK DRESS
IS FOUND ENOUGH
Blessed are ye who have one good
black silk dress and half a dozen
sets of collars and cuffs, six hatbands,
two hats, three pairs of shoes and
two pairs of gloves with detached
cuffs. With a rounded or V-neck for
the dress, any number of diversifie«
collars—size, shape and color—may
be applied, being careful to choose
the correct hatband, gloves, cuffs,
shoes and purse.
With the hats, shoes and gloves
black and white, or perhaps one set
In a brown, beige or a medium green,
you can do wonders with constructing
a wardrobe suitable for all occasions.
One evening gown, with two or three
different Jackets, accomplishes mira
cles and makes one realize that orig
inality and Ingenuity are having a big
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New Fall Coats Are Rich
in Elaborate Fur Trim
The new coats shown In early fall
displays are richly trimmed with fur,
many of them having both collars and
upper sleeve accents of silver, stone
or blue fox, astrakhan or Persian
lamb. Their silhouettes are generally
almost straight, while their hemlines
are from 7 to 11 Inches from the
ground.
The frocks shown with theft)
designed of soft wools or pebbled
crepes with simple bodices, natural
waistlines and slender skirts. Black,
red, brown and deep green are the
favorite hues for early fall.
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Summer Corsets of Soft
Rubber Bid for Favor
It Isn't fair to keep talking about
the top layer of fashion and extolling
Its virtues while taking the more ob
scure Items for granted. And right
now there Is considerable news next
to the skin.
A summer corset has made a bid for
fashion's favor. It Is made ol soft
rubber—no stays Or things to cramp
your style—and Instead of being cut
so long all the way down to give that
sleek line over the hips and upper
part of the thighs, sections are clipped
out neatly back and front and the
legs slip through rings like garter*,
making a perfect fit
MONEY PROBLEMS OF LONG AGO
Romans Had Their Troubles, as Did Other Nations, in the
Adjustment of Currencies to the Demands of
Trade and Public Welfare.
The Romans were slow to get a
coinage system. Three hundred
years after the founding of the city,
far advanced In many respects, Ro
mans were trading like a tribe of
aborigines, Reuben Cahn writes. In
the Chicago Tribune. They were
quoting prices In sheep and oxen
The two were related In a decimal
system—10 sheep equaled 1 ox.
In Etruria, which lay northwest of
the Tiber river, were copper mines
and at an early date copper was
brought to Rome. It came to be used
In shields, harness, wagons, ships, and
for many other purposes. Thus Is
had a market value and It became
the custom to use lumps of It In mak
ing payments. The government paid
no attention to this Innovation, how
ever, for some years. At a time when
pieces of copper were being used In
trade a souse driving his chariot
recklessly along the Applan boule
vard might have to settle with the
Judge by driving up a flock of sheep.
Since copper was sold by weight,
it became convenient to have pound
lumps called an "as." There tkere
also two and three pound pieces.
Thus copper served as money before
the state started Issuing pieces of
metal stamped with picture of the
gods, mythical heroes, and contem
porary politicians.
When after 366 B. C. the Romans
became commercially ambitions and
founded a maritime colony they took
up coining. The money was bronze,
lead, and tin, being combined with
The unit of value
raw copper,
weighed an as and was called by that
name.
Silver, which the Roman generals
fonnd desirable to have on band to
buy army equipment aa they went on
conquests and which was already
widely used elsewhere, thanks to
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Greek and Alexandrian Influence, be
came official money In Rome after
269 B. C. Thereupon the double
standard was adopted, silver and cop
per both being coined and a mint
ratio of 120 to 1 was established. Al
though silver was used exclusively
In the foreign trade, copper con
tinued to constitute the principal
money at home.
Now silver greatly Increased In
quantity. For one thing, Alexander
discovered enormous treasures of
both gold and silver In the Orient
and set them in circulation. And
there was the great silver mine in
Spain, which at one time employed
40,000 miners. This had the effect
of cheapening silver: boosting prices
In terms of silver. At the time when
wars bad cut off the supplies of
Rome's copper, the value of that
metal In relation to silver rose more
than did the general commodity In
dex number. And furthermore, cop
per was a commodity useful to have
around while warring.
Roman statesmen well understood
Gsi'sham's law 18 centuries before
Gresham: with a double standard, an
Increase In the supply of silver, being
coincident with a reduction In the
supply of and an Increase In the de
mand for copper, would have led to
the hoarding of copper as money. If
the double standard was to work. It
was necessary to reduce the mint
ratio from 120 to 1. And so the size
of the coin "as" was changed from
12 ounces of bronze to 10, 8, 6. and
eventually to 2 ounces. Thus, the re
lation of silver to copper fell as low
as 20 to 1 while the normal sources
of metal were unavailable. When the
peace-time flow of new copper was
re-established, and the war-time de
mand was cut off, the old ratio of
120 to 1 was restored. Copper and
silver performed similarly In the
World war. The market ratio was
30 to 1 In 1017—now la 78 to 1.
Devaluation of copper was not un
dertaken by the Roman republic at
any time for profit nor to relieve
the burden of debtors, the ends
sought by gold devaluators today. It
was done to maintain the double
standard. It was the earliest exam
ple of a successfully managed cur
rency. On the Ides of March, 44
B. C., the great Caesar was slain.
Seldom Need to
Talk Too Much
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Mr. Cato Ninetails Gives a
Little Dissertation on
the Subject.
"There is too much talk about the
people who talk too much," declared
Mr. Cato Ninetails. "It does no good
whatever, because the people who
talk too much keep right on talking
too much; In fact. It does harm, for
It merely adds to the amount of
talk, and so Increases that kind of
unnecessary noise.
"I have never been able to deter
mine whether loquacity Is a gift or
a disease. 1 am rather Inclined to
think that It Is a disease of the nerv
ous system, but. on the other hand,
It may be merely one of those Invol
untary physiological actions like res
piration or the circulation of the
blood. Mentality doesn't seem to
have much to do with It, as It Is no
ticed that the people who talk too
much generally say less than the peo
ple who talk comparatively little.
They have two distinctive character
istics. They talk principally about
themselves, their families, their own
affairs and their opinions of other
people's affairs, about which they
know little or nothing, and so have
all the pleasure and stimulation of
letting their Imaginations range
widely.
"For other people than those en
dowed with this gift, or afflicted
with this disease, as the case may
After him came emperors whe ased
the republican precedent to debts*
the currency as a racket, onttl tta
value was but one-fiftieth of what it
was before.
The history of money In the Ro
man republic was a succession of re
adjustments to make a double stand
ard work. That the republic sop
piled Its citizens with a sound and an
honest medium of exchange is testi
mony both to their ability and their
character.
be, my observation and experlenc*
convinces me that talking la hard
work ; that It Is not merely a mental
effort, but that It Is a physical effort
that Is wearing on the muscles as
well as the nerves. The toll of 'raak
Ing conversation'—which Is undoubt
edly the most unnecessary activity
that humanity engages In—is more
exhausting than the
physical labor. I mean thaTlt
the people who don't talk too
The people who do talk too orach
have to make conversation because
what they think Is conversation bur
bles from their Ups like the water
from a never-falling spring.
"People, of course, cannot give pre
vious thoughtful consideration to all
the remarks that they make— aa te
their justifiability and effect, even
though they experience repeated In
stances where after consideration Is
extremely disconcerting; talk;, even
discreet talk, must have some spon
taneity; but It is certain that thg jess
they say the less danger there will
be of a subsequent feeling of regret
"I don't think that the pebple who
talk too much are really any satire
untactful than the people who don't,
and when they say tilings that, are
better left unsaid the effect is diluted
by their general gush of words tin It
Is hardly noticed. It Is the people
who don't talk much that must watch
their step—or their tongues. The in
frequency of their remarks tends to
make their hearers note, and perhaps
remember, what they say. So It real
ly wouldn't appear to be safe to sajr
anything—which would make life
somewhat duller, and a good deal
less laborious."—Indianapolis Newa.
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