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TUESDAY, MAY , 119 I Swcx, x, , o Jgfc
yis;a Corset
or a Necessity?,
Doctors Disagree on Its Effects
History Shows It Indispensable
It Makes a Woman Look Young
And the Decision Is Left
Man Commissioner of Internal Revenue Whether
or Not It Shall Be Taxed as a Luxury,
By Marguerite M OOCTS Marshall
WHAT re corsets?
Why are corsets?
The cosmic problem of Cbe corset has Just been left on the door
rWzSkktrrPf iavu, wou-znaae oorrccuy snapca corsets are a
jfi&K3 ' luxury? I doubt If the well-dressed American woman
tffiffi W,H concede that Every dressmaker, every fashion
ty P7 magazine, maintains that the properly fitting corset Is
the foundation of the successful costume. Personally,
I should Ust corsets as a necessity, albeit a painful, a hated necessity .
save, perhaps. In Greenwich Village.
Since corsets are one of the properties of So Man's Land, how can any
male, even a male Revenue Commis
sioner, define or diagnose them?
f What does he know about them? lias
he ever endured their steel bondage?
Not Ms the secrets of the prison
house. And yet men always nro try
trie to regulate corsets, or denounce
..them, or abolish thorn.
Only last 'summer some slant mas
culine Intellect suggested that Amer-
Jean women 'win the war not with
.but WITHOUT corsets. The War
Industries Hoard announced that all
available steel must be used for
ships, and the corset manufacturers
bad to enter a sharp protest 'The
corset 'won this contest, however. Its
position seems as Impregnable as Its
structure.
i Ere was possibly coraetless, al
though there Is nothing; to show that
..she did not make some stiff, rigid,
.corset-like garment out of smnlt treo
..branches. In order that her , fig-leaf
skirt might set better. The Venus de
Mlto never wore a corset but what's
, the use of being a goddess It yon can't
,.gt away with a thing or two7 It Is
'certainly a fact that tho humon fcolles
of ancient a recce and Homo wore
supports of the corset order, con-
striding too abundant embonpoint,
r whether appearing above, at or below
the waist.
Excavations In Crete showed that
.'J.000 years ago women of thut Island
.xwere wearing not only corsets but
-hobble skirts. In the Middle Ages
-armor was worn by ladlea as "well an
knights. Some stays were constructed
of crossbars of motal securely riveted
to each pther and fastened to a strong
framowork. This Is tho description of
nnother corset of those times: "It Is
made of two sheets of solid metal,
with holes punched out to make them
,'llgMcr. These metal sheets support
the back and are hinged to a sort of
ulrass made of four bands of metal,
running parallel to the ribs, strength
ened nt the sides ,aml in the centro by
bands of Iron wrtlch nre fastened to
, the framework above and below, while
'the hrensts uro held In by a circular
case mude on the same lines." Lines
Js probably right! any womun so nt
'tired would have" ull the llneur supple
, pees of a figure In Euclid's geometry.
'SUe Itnllan beaut.es of the ItcnnlM
usance were corseted. French women
of fushlon always have laced tightly;
ln faot. Calhorlne le Medici ordered
that all women of good birth and
breeding should reduce their waists
to the abnormal slxe of thirteen Inches
i tho site of a boy's collar. The cor-
set went over to England wlUi tho
. conquering Normans.
Almost as ancient as the corset has
been the war waged against this gar
ment it has had foemen worthy of
Its steel. The noman Terence wrote
n diatribe about It such as might
have been penned by a modern natlr
,1st on sartorial follies. Bo ardently
.did the health authorities of his time
'abuse the corset that Charles IX. of
France tried to suppress It, and his
brother, Henry III.. Issued an edict
prohibiting the use of It. In those
days the corset was rolled the bus-
qutne and was made of Btrong linen
fastened to a busk or wood or
metal, so that It could be drawn ns
tightly as possible.' KccdlrBs to say,
Jrje royal edicts were smilingly dis
regarded by the beauties oi inc uay
Queens have been no more suc
cessful In 'conducting an ontt-rorset
campaign, In the happy days of
'1910, when royalty could take Ufa
much less seriously, Qucei Elizabeth
of Itoumanla Joined Queen Alexandra
;' of England In a crusudo ugulnst
, corsets. They refused to wear
, corsets themselves and urged
thfelr subjects to follow suit
J Hut the uncrowned queen Dame
i Fashion, even In thoso years
t when crowns were crowns, had th
r nuttiest tine to tciiiimnu uiit-Kine
.'nad English, Italian and Roumanian
t women, Ilk their sisters In other
elylllxed tworM, kept
a Luxury
in the Hands of a Mere
step of Daniel C Roper, Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, In Washington, who poor man must decide If
comets are or arc not underwear. In the former case, they
aro subject to the luxury tax If they cost moro than 13,
'which means that every well-corseted woman must pay
the tax.
right on -wearing the "Instruments
of torture."
Innumerable doctors have con
demned corsets. Ir. Dudley S. Sar
gent of Harvard, has even urged
that they be abolished by the d rus
tic method of adopting trousers.
"The wearing of trousers," he says,
"would do away with corsets, whloh
alone ought to commend them to
thinking -women. The evils of the
corset are too well known to, re
quire comment"
Tight corsets for -women are con
stnnt cause of backache and
stomach trouble, according to many
physicians. "Half the divorces in
civilized countries are caused by cor
sets," says Dr. Maud U. Dunn. Dr.
Moses Htern of Philadelphia ran for
Mayor a few years ago on an anll-
coract plank -forbidding women under
thirty to wear corsets In order to do
away with race suicide.
Some physicians, on the other hand,
ray that woman Is helped physic
ally bv a. nronprlv tnutla and flttm!
corset. "The woman of to-day Is
vastly better oft In corsets than
without thorn," Dr. It. W. Ixvett,
Instructor in orthopedics at the Hur-
vard .M'dirul Hcliool. has said. Dr.
Mury Ilalton, one of New York's
iM-st-kninvn womon nhvslelans. oncn
explained to mo that the nverago
woman of to-day, particularly ufter
TB" h..ki C'.
nnd Is likely to rcqulro surgical at
tention it sno goes uncorseted.
"Women never will give ud cor
sets," a corset speclailst assured me
recently, "becnusu tho modern, 1919
corset mnkva a woman, look YOUNG.
t 1m cut low ut tho ton. It eliminates
the hlpH, It laces up tho front and
Is u comfortable, neccssnry support"
To tho question, "wny nro cor
set?" n French costumcr has re
pllctl: "Take a way tho corsets nnd
cverytning elso woum inn to pieces.
Huro cnougn, mat scanaaious in
Soptember Morn was uncorseted.
Ho In thu name of tho late Anthony
Comstock, lot us nt once nnd forever
put corsets In the necessity ciassi
hey aro necessary to preserve uo-
cency, or at least, u. unions.
The Oldest Puzzle in the World
TAKE A PENCIL AND SEE IF YOU CAN SOLVE IT
r
HE mare or luliyrlnth is inc
oldest puzzlf In the world.
Now u labyrinth Is a collection
of walled path", or paths edged by
thick hedges so high that It Is Impos
sible to see over them, that run In a
ircular direction. To solve tho puzzle
It In only necessary to got to tho
centre of tho circle. Hut this Is not
as easy as It sounds, for many of tho
paths ure nothing tut "blind alleys,"
while others take wrong turnings
which lead bock to the entranco in
stead of tho direction In which ono
wants to go.
Thcro was a very famous mazo
built In Egypt near I-aHe Mo iris,
probably as long ago as 2300 II. C. Ac
cording to Herodotus, the famous
Greek traveller, It had 3,000 rooms
half of them ulxive ground and half
below. It as destroyed by order of
the Caesars when Homo was mUtresi
Of tho world eighteen centuries uro
and only fragments remain.
Another even more famous lab rlnth
was on tho Islund of Crete. Ac ord
Ing to Greek legend this was Imllt
for Minos, King of Crete, on the mide,
of the earlier Egyptian nrue. hut
was much smaller. In it wan kept the
Minotaur, a rtpulsivo looking aiilnml
that somewhat resembled a bull. Th,
story goes that every year en
youths and i-cven maidens whom
Minos compelled the Athenians to
send him as it tribute were driven
Into this labyrinth to feed t'in mon
ster. And this went until Thsseim, one
of the youths sent In with the last
party, dlscou -ed the clue to th
labyrinth and killed the mlnntaur. The
labyrinth actually existed, hut tho tulo
of the nilnotuur 1s of rourwi only
Jcscud. A dlssram sf this eld lahy
rlnth accompanies this article. Take
a pencil and see If you can get to
the centra.
Four Brigadier Generals
Hodges, 34, MacNair, 35, Johnson, 36, MacArthur, 38,
Establish New Record in U. S. Army History
OvrriJtit fcr TM Prn raMMfec Oo
(Tfc Nt Tort Erutof World,)
A
FEW days ago there arrived
on the Aqultanla Britain's
youngest Ilrigadler General
A. C. Crltchley, who Is only twenty-
elffht years old, who won bis distinc
tion In the Air Service.
America's youngest Brigadier Gen
eral in the World War, and tho first
American to receive tho British Dis
tinguished Service Order, Is John N.
Hodges, who was thirty-four years
of ago when Gen, Pershing promoted
him to tho rank of Ilrigadler General.
Hodges Major Hodges then was
one of the "Fighting Engineers," ns
signed temporarily to tho Fifth Brit
lsh Army, who stopped building
bridges and railroads for the moment
threw down their picks and shovels.
seized suns and rushed to the aid of
the British In holding the ltocho near
Amiens In the dark days of March,
1918.
It Is now Major Hodges again, for
he has returned to his permanent
rank, having finished the Job he was
specially 'loaned out" to do. Ho Is
now down on the Mississippi Itlvcr
at Memphis, looking after construc
tion work since bis command was
mustered out
Hodges was born In Ilalthnorc. Feb.
IS, 1881. Ills promotion to the Ilriga
dler Generalship was made June :o,
1918, a ferw days after ho hud rrjolnetl
tho American forces In France fol
lowing his gallant exploit with the
British.
He was graduated from the Mili
tary Academy as No, 13 In a class of
114 In 1905. His high grade on grad
uation caused him to be selected for
the Engineering Corps.
When the war broke out he was a
'Captain of tho 6th Engineers nnd
(located at Washington Barracks,
..i i. t. i- .i,n.n..
" v ' T V r' J n
thereafter and went to I ranco Dec.
5, 117, with that rank. On Feb. 11
jj,s organization was transferred to
the Bntlsh.Army. and ho was given
command as Lieutenant Colonel
Hedges and three companies of tho
Cth Engineers were building bridges
back of tho British front when the
storm broke on March SI, 1918, as
the Germans began tholr "March to
Paris." How they discarded their
tools for rifles and helped our Allies
stavo off disaster Is a matter of his
tory. The American Engineers and
their young commander wore actu
ally In line March S3 to April 3.
When the tlrst German onrush was
halted Hodges and his engineers were
again found working on bridges to be
ready for the next attack. Meantime!
DIAGRAM OF THE ANCIENT
PENCIL AND SEE IF YOU CAN
There nre sovcral of these labymths
in existence to-day, notubly ono in
Hampton CourU, the old puUce not
far from London, England. T!i"n theio
la ono at Versailles and another nt
Hchevcningun In Holland.
The mazo at Hampton Court wan
built by King William HI. in the
seventeenth century. It In formed of
very high, close-cllpped hedges, and
Is still kept ui and open to the public,
who derive miich uimit.cmeiit from It
Many romantic stories ale told uliniit
it, one of tho best of wlui.li Is tho tale
of two brothers who wore both In
luve with the same girl. In order to
decide which should have the lady
they took part In a novel race. Thej
were bllr.dfs'.ded and led '.o the c'n'r?
of the labyrinth. Hero tho bandages Tho cluo to most labyrinths Is aim
were removed and tho two at once I ply to turn to tho right tho moment a
set off to find the entrance, the Idea choice of any two turnings la offered.
" n.r autx"c mw Trrrr?rnTiPT n"nnSt
Led American Armies in
ma J. .1. ki wonr.PA
,fwir DrtxacUv; acnerl
he had been promoted to Colonel.
They wero called back to the Ameri
can Army on June 12, attached to the
3d Division of the 1st Army.
He returned to the United States
on Sept 4 to assist in training an
Infantry division at Camp Devcns,
which he would have taken to Franco
had not tho Boche quit meantime.
Ever since Civil War days there
has been more or less discussion as
to who was the youngest General of
that conflict Tho War Department
has never attempted to settle tho
matter by any official statement, but
all available Information Indicates
that Gen. Nelson A. Mites, who at
tained the rank of Ilrigadler General
on Slay II, 1881, at the age of twenty
four, was the youngest General officer.
Probably not before, nnd certainly not
since, hasnny one so youthful reached
this grade.
.Tho next younger man of the pres
ent war to become a General officer
for the emergency was Brig. Gen.
Isley J. McXulr. who was born on
May 28, 1883, nnd Is therefore Icsm
than nlno months older than Gen.
Hodges. .
McNalr went to France as n. Major
In tho 1st Division In June, 11)17, and
has been there ever since. Ho became
Ilrigadler General on October 1, 1918.
Ho graduated from West Point In
1904, us Np. (1 in hls,clasM and was re
cently awarded thev Distinguished
Service Medal for his remarkable work
in training tho artillerymen of the Ex-
CRETAN LABYRINTH. TAKE A
GET TO THE CENTRE OF IT.
being that tho ono who got out first
should bo freo t woo tho maiden
without interference from thu other.
Thu race began early In tho morning,
but it wnH not until late afternoon
that thu younger brother staggered
nut thoroughly exhausted, to bo fol
lowed In t -n minutes by the elder Up
was so overcome by fatigue and the
knowledge that ho had lost the con
test that ho fainted away. When the
pour fellow recovered the two went
hume together, and determined that
after all, as the race was ho close,
they would nut abide by the result
but both would tr their hardest to
win tho girl's low. Hut. sad to say,
she nMtleil tjio question by refusing
1 ttim ivotu
i i
Under Forty
DRIO. QCN. A.C. CRITCHUCV
9m. ftv Service
pedltlonary Forces. Wo have It from
Gen. Pershing that Gen. McNalr "was
largely responsible for Impressing up
on the American Army sound prin
ciples for the use of artillery and for
Improving methods for the support of
Infantry."
Gen. Pershing knew McNalr back
In the days of tho flare up with Mexi
co. The latter was on the border with
"Landing on the Landlord"
This Tenant Had Plenty of Seconds in His Corner, and
His Footwork Was Clever, but the Landlord Had the
Wallop and an Iron Jaw and Kept Coming Back for More
By Will Mack
CVijnjlil, 1U10, bj Tin I'ms I'ubtUIiii Co.
ITh New Yorx Kitnirf World.)
OU never know how much rent
ou can pay until you try.
.What if the landlord docs
ralso your rent?
You can raise It right back!
Just pretend It's poker.
Keep a calm countenance and pre
vent a murderous glare from show
ing In your eyes.
Ho is having stored up against him
tho wrath of a pillaged populace.
All you aro losing Is money.
Follow my lead:
Two years ago I rented a flveroom
apartment for $30 a month.
Tho lease expires next October 1st.
Tho rooms were not lurge even
when they wero empty.
In fact. It was debated whether the
twin beds should bo set up In ttia
clothes closet and my wlfo's gowns
and my suit hung on tho chandelier.
I solved the dlfllculty by draping
my things over a chair.
Ws had to send back a erfectly
good bird dog that we brought with
us from our homo town of Hddvvllle-
on-the-Fort-Wnyne-Road.
Hb was broken to quail, grouse and
snipe, but a chronic tall-wagger.
We 'could not stand to have htm
brushing the silverware from the din
ing room side table on to the baby
grand piano In the drawing room
every time one of us said, "Nice old
Sport!"
But our reward came In vacation
time when we re-vtslted the old folks
and I Illustrated with two motions
of my hands the shape of a box a
foot square, and said: "That's the
slzo of our rooms In the city!"
"Fifty dollars a month!" my mother
and father exclaimed In horrified uni
son. That amount would rent the town
hnll of Eddyvllle for moving plcttiro
purposes.
My wife glowed with pride as If to
say:
".See what a rich man I've made of
your struggling son? Ten dollars a
loom!"
Two wecUs ago I light-heartedly
approached tho owner of our build
ing with a proposal that he renew
my lease for unother two years.
"Wo arc inuMng only one ear
leases" ho explained, gently.
"Well, If that's tho btst. go ahead!"
I agreed, magnanimously.
"Tho rent will be sixty a month!
he announced, soltly.
"Not for me!" I assured him, some
what warmly.
1 went down-town to Interest my
crunles In u tirade against what 1 be
lieved to bo a iinilltecriiiK landlord
Tho tlrst one I met was a luwyer
friend.
"Don't pay the thief a cent!" he
World War
the 47th Flold Artillery and was at
Vera Cruz In 1913. Ho went across
tho border with Pershing In 1918 la
the chase after Villa. He has served
as Instructor In the School of Fire at
Fort Bill. Ho was one of tho highly
trained officers sent abroad In tha
early days of the war to lay Uie
groundwork for the great army that
was to follow.
Gen. McNalr Is married and lives
In Minneapolis. He became a Second
Lieutenant of Artillery on Juno 5, 1904,
and a Captain on July 1, 190S, Ho
went abroad as a Major and received
a Colonelcy June 26, 1918,
Tho next youngest Brigadier Gen
eral was Hugh S. Johnson, a Regular
Army man, who recently resigned
from the service after serving con
spicuously as Assistant to Gen.
Crowdcr In working out the draft
system and later as assistant to Gen.
Goethals In the organization of the
Purchase, Storage and Tronic
Division, which co-ordinated the
huge work Involved, In the purchase
and shipment of supplies to the
army, as well as handled the troop
movements. Gen. Johnson was born
Aug. 6, 1881, nnd -he was thirty-six
years old when he attained his rank
In the summer of 1918.
Another young Brigadier General
was Douglas MacArthur, who was
only thirty-eight when he received
the Distinguished Service Cross for
conspicuous gallantry under fire.
Gen. MacArthur comes of fighting
stock, and was born Jan. 26, 1880.
advised, feelingly. "You'll get a dls-
dosscss notice from him, operative In
five days. In
the mean timo nave
some one visit you and become sick
abed. With a doctor's certificate
you can stay In -tie apartment as
long as the Invalid doeo."
"What'U tt cost mor I asked eag
erly. "My fee would be ten dollars; the
doctor's twenty. You see, he runs
some risk!"
"And the sick person would cat
about forty dollars' worth of gro
ceries a month!" I murmured. 'Tm
not that much embittered against
this particular blackguard of a land
lord." I hurried home to permit my wife
to share this new indignation of
mine.
"By the time that bloodsucker
gets a new tenant," 1 declared,
I mildly, "he'll wish he'd listened to
reason."
The real question," she assured
me, bitterly, "Is now to get a new-
landlord!"
'Til run out after dinner and dig
up a dozen!" I boasted.
After spending all the spare time of
three days, I mad the remarkable
discovery that there were no new
TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM
By Herman J. Stich
i-r,rH.ht mt. h tm Pnn Publlihlni
Not Proportions But
TWO laborers were quarrelling beneath a largo lifting magnet over
head an electro-magnet that could lift thirty tons 60,000
pounds of Iron. One of tho laborers held In his hands a short
pinch bar. Tho other held a heavy shovel. As the electro-magnet
operator approached the machine both laborers raised their tools to
ward each other menacingly. Instantly the operator switched on the
electric current. Tho two mem stood as if transfixed, clutching, ties
pcrutely ut their weapons, which were held aloft as by some Invisible
hand tt was not a giant's hand It was the product of a dxcarPs Ulca.
Just because a man Is big doesn't mean that he will supply the
weight of tho argument. Tho prize is not won by dint of sheer size.
Napoleon was a dwarf. Also Caesar, Alexander and Hastings.
Single microbes have wrought more devastation than billions ot
bullets. The typhoid hiclllus has Incapacitated more armies than
have cannon.
Tho mouse i's far more destructive than the mammoth, while grubs
have ruined far moro crops than have cyclones.
Apparently trifling fallings have foundered more futures than have
conspicuous lacks,
Dlgncss too often precludes greatness. Witness Russia and China.
Tremendous powers come packed small and concentrated. You can
pulverize a mountain with pittances of dynamelln and paroxyllne.
The most colossal bucket is emptied by tho most Inconsequential
leak.
Insignificant Infections dally overpower towering Hercules.
TUo tree that scccrrfully battles with brt surenmhs in saw
and gnaw.
Not proportions but POTENTIALITIES count. '
By Florence Elizabeth Summers WMg
UlutfraUon by Natalie Fontaine Stokes. iXntf
T-ILIi DERE,
I) I been to Red Cross Working
nicklcl Thcyro awful down
please to wash my hands before I fooled with tho bandages. They
scrgicat dressings but
I hoped tho doctors
would put on more
than that when they
operated, but they
dont dress themselves
In them, they put cm
on tho fello that the
Boche has cut up. I
knowd my hands was
clean cause It being Monday Id been
washln all morning but I washed em
an dldnt argue or explain.
Then they told me to go over in
tho corner an stretch. I went over
an started strctchln my arms an they
all commenced to laff. I dldnt know
what at" I thought the strctchln was
a good Idea cause you had to sot still
so long foldln the rags. But It waant
myself that I was supposed to
stretch, It was the cloth to make the
things to dress you fellos In when
the Germans leave you on the battle
Held blecdln to death. Why dldnt
they tell me to stretch the cloth?
How Is anybody goln to tell?
Thats the way It went with every-thlngr-nothln
made plain. They
say the Red Cross Is a sign of mercy.
They showed mo mighty little. Dldnt
explain nothln then laffcd when Id'
dono somethln wrong. All the
women talk about Is babies an
Hoover cornbrcd. Mrs. Joo Backncr
was braggln about how hers never
cried. If I hadnt been no more
human than she was Id have told
(landlords on the market
I hastened back to my old one
"I'll take the apartment at sixty a
month!" was my humble decision.
"Sorry!" he remarked, happily; "I
rented It ten minutes after you left
the other day. I thought you didn't
want It-"
"Hat I fooled you!" I said, gloat
ingly.
"Yep; you did!" ho acknowledged;
but there'll bo a vacancy on tho
floor abovo you Oct. 1; same number
and size of rooms."
"Sixty?" I inquired, cautiously.
"Sovcnty-flve!" he answered.
"You think I'll pay that?" I d;
manded savagely.
"Nope!" he replied.
"I've fooled you again!" I, fairly
shouted; "I'll take It!"
When I told the Missus what I'd
done, her eyes shone like stars,
"Oh-h-h-h!" she exclaimed, Joy
ously, "that saves fifty dollars' mov
ing expense. A couple of men for a
day or two to carry up the piano and
to forth won't cost more than twenty
five, will It dearest?"
"I hope not!" I, said yearningly.
"And Just think!" she added In awe
and admiration, "we'll be paying flf-
tten dollars a room!"
Co. (Tba New Tor DitrJni World).
Potentialities Count
ftVwould put on more 'Xm'H
today. Spcakln of somct
there. When I got thcro
her It waV because she never!
at home to hear It. They li
doors from us. Tho kid wlM
have to go West for consul
as long as It keeps up Its luo
Uce.
I went In the parlor last nl
played "A Maidens Prayo?
made me awful blue, That
ways your favorite song.
Thanks for tho swuggor
Hope you didn't take my rui
for a hint. Maggie SamH gotM
tiioso cross gun pins toaay-
knlttln on some sox for you.
Yours till Niagara falls
MAI
Tlx tf.uuilrlA tenrn of IlKHK lit
1.1
mllnnl in form
A Little Gil
V 1
s a rasniom
Thine This
To Be in Style Milai
Must Invest in
ft'"'
By Margaret
Yuu just must invest ii
for your new coat sul
.. . . . I . n n. 1 1 1 . m . t
a iuiui nuoiv wiiiivh.
coat.
A little gilct Is n dazzllay.
particularly when it is mn
ono of those gorgeuus mctolWft tirp-jj
cuded ribbon lengths. Hlazli
and silver nnd hectic dyes,
the modern maid present n
front to tho world, even tt.
hlnIMI-fft
ran
deepest of Indigo serge surail. li;
around her. JUL, .
Indeed, every well regulated an
up-to-date coat suit opens Uflgverit,
gllet and opens up at the saM jlm-tV.
such endless possibilities oCjftllvertf
and different gilets that ltVsjjJ jre-H-dcr
nil the femlnlno world jrfahMpljt
gllet mad.
Now that Sister Susie haoeasedl
sewing shirts for soldlerajsxehe -iif
fncnflohlu 1 1 1 a t. .nnt'ini. nn nAitA
gncis ior ncrseu oui oi ouuamq opofiy
in tno ramuy scrap nag.
fascinating little vestees th?
such charm and piquancy!
severest suit are posltivclyeojveil
out of nnytning una cverytnmjr. -v
Wool nnd silk Jersey, bipid ecM
broldered In vivid yarns; braadclotli
stitched In silk, or even stenciled Int.
a bold design; linen and plquj&rafls
cullncly buttoned, plain anjydOfie.
wun peari, sneer, rniiy, rcreMweafs
falra of hand tucked iuffludyj4jlae.sl
inserted organdie nro out .affeWrt
mo nrty-seven varieties, Titer ;&retj
quaint llttlo changeable tunta,wal
coats that present a double fron.t-Q.n4B
show a dainty Inset ot IvorVj-.toneil '
batiste, lavishly tucked, ruffled aF
lace trimmed, like a much bVitt&4Jh
shirt front of tho long ago mttTajf'eSj
Still othois aro quilted UkTs, iWt
spare room bedspread andsotWr4u.
have eruptions of colored beadstta (iftf
Its decoratlvo touch and ofteiAsJilt'
ot ilium painiing vies Willi meisinw;
liar treatment of tho fiica above ,iht
gllet. ,
It is perfectly obvious tliatvto
the proud possessor of ono gll
docsnt at all suffice The rea'dj
Olliuit nuiiiiui ut-jis tb wiiuio CUIICO
tlon, one for each day in tho el
,ui amy uro uur suns an vested i
uur ono-picco trucics nun sopor
Moiikps too aro being dona
simulated gllcts. Capes hav
fronts ana, yes, tney navo erg
vaaea tne rcaira of the under

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