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three: charming conservative hats that have just appeared
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nery departments!
The three hats sketched for thl?
week are among the best that
have appeared and go further to
emphasize ^the conservatism and distinc
tion that Is characterful and a valuable
isset of the season's models.
The first one shown Is of black vel
vet. with the brim folded up In front In
graceful ripp es. It Is trimmed with a
beautiful black bird of paradise and
three-inch velvet nbbon arranged care
the models represented is an amethyst
velvet hat with plumes of deeper ame
thyst shades and a band of skunk around
the crown. The crown has the vei. et
drawn about it with a few little gathers,
and the brim, notched in front, is roiled
up evenly , all around.
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Beaver, which has heretofore failed to
reach first place among hat materials has
attained the position this fall, for already
there is literally a craze for it. In large
hats, moderate sized ones and .small mod
els. one can hardly get beyond it. Vel
vet is its close rival, and is much more
apt to be becoming. Plush and velour
are reserved for less formal hats. Hats
of either of these materials are developed
upon simple lines, always with the trim
ming, whatever its nature, carefully ar
ranged with a view to emphasizing the
Bimplcity.
Some of the large hats have metal lace
superimposed on the velvet brims, or a
swathing of tul;e laid around them, per
haps held down at one point or another,
with a large rose, while net is much used
and in various ways upon all the all
black hats. One of the most effective
treatments is trie broad band of jet with
two long jet quills rising therefrom.
Then there are innumerable other de
vices in jet, such as the string of large
jet beads that is flung quite carelessly
around the crown to drop about the
brim, caught here and there as though
by accident, and smaller beads that are
used to edge brims and outline bows and
quills. Paradises and aigrettes are much
in vogue poised upright or stuck straight
out in uncompromising fashion, as the in
herent grace'of the pretty ornaments per
mits. This year, whether it is a costly
paradise or a pheasant's breast, or a
half-dollar coque feather, it matter^ not
so it is posed dashingly.
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The new quills are of extreme length,
being used almost invariably in pairs.
Quills made of velvet, jet, tulle and
moire are in great demand, as also are
those which combine two materials, as
velvet and tulle or silk and jet.
Much Is done with trimming under
brims?a large tailored bow, a rose, or
a breast, or even large quills are used
in their ornamentation. Band trimmings
are in vogue and usually becoming, and
they are seen upon both large and small
hats, posed flatly against the crown or
standing away from it.
A new shape that comes both in moire
faced with velvet and in all-velvet has
a large brim slightly rolled at one side
and extended well out at the back, while
the crown is mound shaped and of mod
erate size. As a matter of fact, the pre
vailing fashion calls for the elongated
type of hat whatever its shape otherwise. |
It does not suit every one, but neverthe
less will be generally accepted.
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A great many draped effects are noted,
but always with the soft arrangements
of velvet or plush, or whatever the ma
terial used for the crown may be, there
is a very obvious tailored suggestion.
That Is, it is never too baggy or too ex
aggeratedly pouched over the brim. The
Tam-o'-Shanter crowns have come in
again. They are seen on small and mod
erately sized hats as well as In the very
large ones, and are much more attractive
than when they were first Introduced.
Delightfully feminine are the small
hats that, after providing a portion of the
brim, drop down In classical style over
one shoulder, or perhaps It is down the
back. ? A model in which this manipula
tion of a white breast "makes" the hat
consists of a foundation of amethyst vel
vet; that is, a close-fitting crown has
amethyst velvet draped about it, then,
started at the left side, a long breast
curves a trifle above the face and veers
down to one s.de, falling low over the
shoulder after threading two cut-steel
buckles.
Another model that has a double brim,
one drooping over the other and the two
together sharply pointed at opposite
points- cf a diagonal line, has two un
curled plumes about six ahd eight" ihches
long springing from between the two
edges just where they may fall over the
point at the side back. This trimming.
I however, is conservative beside some
schemes that are demanded. An Eng'ish
waking hat of exceedingly mannish
shape in itself becomes a distinctly femi
nine bit of headgear by the attractive,
if eccentric, attachment of coque qui Is
with straight stems and curly ends, to
the side of the crown and to project hori
zontally or at right angles to it.
The Cost of Dress.
From tbe Rochester Post-Express.
In the days of her pride, when the sec
ond empire had revived the glories of the
first, Queen Eugenie, young and beautiful,
was the most courted if not the most
attractive woman in Europe. Save one
only, England's queen, she was the most
Influential; Bonaparte was a greater name
than Hohenzollern then, and "the eages in
bronze looked insolently across the' Rhine
at the petty princedoms which had not
been welded into an empire yet. Old and
wrinkled and forlorn today, husband, son,
throne, youth long passed away, she is
dragging out the decrepit end of her days
in England, going back now and then to
do a little old-woman shopping in the
city that used to call her queen.
She still takes interest. so they say, in 1
the latest fashions, and on a recent visit
much admired some gowns worn by tue
women who set the pare for the world in
feminine attire. But when she found out
what they cost her wonder was genuine
and great. She had never paid more than
$12S> for a dress, she said, when she was
on the throne, and yet was accused of
extravagance.
We must, leave others better informed
to say how much the elaborate gowns of
the fashion pacematers cost today. There
may be no fixed price limit, out the cost
of the dresses she admired startled an
empress of only a few decades ago, which
shows how fast and far the world is going
in extravagant outlay. Vanity and the
desire to outshine others is evidently
chargeable with the vast sums now spen:
for feminine adornment, and manifestly
undue and outrageous extravagance is
reprehensible even for women who can
afford it. Is it all wrong then? No, prob
ably not. Perhaps there is nothing that is
wholly wrong in this world, which God
created and pronounced to be good But
the huge outlay today for vanities is rela
tively wrong, in that a wiser person
might make a wiser use of wealth. Some
age to come, when the mass of the peo
ple have developed to the point which the
few now have attained, will regard such
expenditure to bedeck and bedizen the
body as irrational and incredible.
Ideal for a High School.
From tbe Columbus Journal.
The principal of the East High Schood
has had printed and circulated among
his pupils the following noble pledge,
known as the "Athenian Oath":
"We will never bring disgrace to this
our city by any act of dishonesty or cow
ardice, or ever desert our suffering com
rades in the ranks; we will fight for the
ideals and sacred things of the city, both
alone and with many; we will revere the
city's laws and do our best to incite a
like respect and reverence in those above
us who are prone to annul or set them at
naught; we will strive unceasingly to
quicken the public's sense of duly. Thus
in all these way? we will transmit this
city not only not less, but greater, ^better
and more beautiful than it was transmit
ted to us."
This is a very thoughtful act. A boy
who is Inspired by the sentiments of this
oath Is well educated. In fact, if he is
indifferent to these ideals he is poorly
educated, it makes no difference if he has I
conquered all the text books. To make a I
boy what the observance of this "oath"
will make him Is the very purpose of pub
lic school education. It is that for which
school taxes are paid.
We congratu ate Principal Harlor on his
happy thought and hope the pupils will
rise to a full appreciation of what that
oath means to the citizenship of the coun
try. If we cou d get the doctrine of that
oath into the hearts of the boys and girls,
the usefulness of our public schools would
increase a hundred fold.
WORKING OUT WELL
New Rules Are Making Better
Game.
TIGERS FOLLOW THE BALL
That Factor Practically Won Con
test for Them Against
Dartmouth.
BY EDWARD R. BUSHNELL.
Although a number of big foot ball
4eams are suffering unusual reverses, the
new rules are working out splendidly.
There can be no dissent from the state
ment that the sort of foot ball played this
year is far superior to anything that has
been seen on the college gridiron since
1905, the year that the rules were so
radically amended.
The October games have demonstrated
that the better team is bound to win, and
that it can do its scoring on straight
foot ball. There has been just one 0-0
game played in the east, and that was a
preliminary contest between the Carlisle
Indians and the Washington and Jeffer
son College. There has been very little
luck to figure in any of the scores, and a
team with a first-class attack has no ex
cuse for not scoring.
The most unusual thing connected with
eastern foot ball has been the lamentable
showing of the University of Pennsyl
vania and Cornell. Prior to yesterday,
both of ^these teams had been beaten
three times, and by institutions whose
student bodies they outnumbered nearly
five to one, and in some cases the dis
parity was even greater. Within the
period referred to Pennsylvania had been
beaten by Swarthmore, Brown and La
faye.te. The Cornell team had been com
pelled to bow before Colgate, Oberlin and
Penn State. There was not the sem
blance of a fluke in any of these games.
In every case the better team won, and
won through straight foot ball.
There is considerably more excuse for
the showing of Cornell than of Pennsyl
vania. At Cornell there was a change
in coaches and a complete revolution in
the system. When Dr. Sharpe went to
Cornell he announced in advance that
his primary purpose was to establish a
system in coaching which would be of
permanent value to Cornell. He went to
Ithaca with a three-year contract and an
nounced that he was prepared to spend
the entire first year in the establishment
of this system, even if he was obliged to
lose every game on the schedule in doing
so.
The fruits of that system are now be
ginning to show and there is every reason
to believe that Coj-nell will play a much
better game in November than most of
the critics expected. What Cornell wants
most of all to do is beat Michigan and
Pennsylvania. It may accomplish this.
Tigers Follow the Ball.
Close following of the ball has extri
cated Princeton from serious difficulty on
the gridiron. While it would not be fair
to say that the Tigers owed their victory
over Dartmouth solely to the manner in
which their mates recovered fumbles it
did have a great deal to do with the re
sult and some of the critica who wit
nessed that game are convinced that the
confusion which followed Dartmouth's
loss of the ball on a fumble was responsi
ble for the demoralization of the team '.n
the second half and the ease with which
the Princeton eleven gained ground. Dart
mouth certainly had the better of Prince
ton in the first half and in addition to
the touchdown actually scored they took
the ball to Princeton's 1-yard line,
where a fumble recaptured by Bluethen
i
thai saved Princeton from a certain
touchdown.
There was naturally some lack of lead
ership which permitted the Dartmouth
team to go to pieces in the second half,
though the way the Tigers kept 'Ighting
may have had something to do with this.
Princeton, however, is not a team that
is easily rattled, and the Tigers always
play their hardest, no matter what the
situation is. The Dartmouth game
proved the truth of what the writer sug
gested Home time ago In these columns
concerning the Tiger line. Princeton has
the making of a good line, but it did
not have enough hard work in the pre
1 minar.v games to be in proper condition!
j for so hard a match as that with Dart
] mouth. This, of course, was not entirely j
j the fault of the Princeton management, j
for it had expected more opposition from
| the teams scheduled than they could
j give. Nevertheless the fact remains that
! the line had not had enough hard work to
enable it to present the sort of a defense
that was needed for the attack of Dart
mouth.
The game between Princeton and Yale
on November 1<> will test two radically
different methods of development. From
j the beginning o? the season the Tigers
I have concentrated all their efforts on
their attack. They have built up the
| running game to its highest point of effl
j ciency. and while the defense may have
; suffered the plan of the Tigers was to
J have both it and the offense at their best
j when the Elis were met.
I Yale, on the other hand, began early
j to work on the defense, and the Elis
. labored so long over the construction of
j a powerful line that the offense actually
i suffered and seemed to be powerless in
j some of the early games. But now Yale j
I is beginning to see the advantages of con
' centrating first on the defense and then
bu lding up the attack. This system has
given Yale a very even development, and
in some respects the Elis made the best
record to date. Not only have they not
lost a game this year, but no team has
yet been able to cross their goal line
The only scores that have been made
against them were two field goals, kicked
by Wesleyan and Washington and Jeffer
son.
Yale coaches have proved very astute in
sizing up the tendency of the game un
der the new rules. Last year the advan
tage was with the defense, and it was
this that caused so many 0-0 games.
Early in the winter the Yale coaches
came to the conclusion that the new
! game would very greatly favor the of
j fense, and that any team that prevented
an evenly matched opponent from sc >rinK
j must have a powerful and well knif de
fense. That is what the Yale men have
I been developing all year, and it begins to
1 look as though this defense, w 11 have as
great a bearing upon the championship
matches with Princeton and Harvard
as the attack itself.
Those persons who imagine that Yale
has been neglecting her attack are likelv
to be surprised when the championship
game comes around. The writer has pret
ty definite information that th j Yale
coaches intend to stake everything upon
a series of new plays wnich will n-.t be
made known until the Princeton game.
It was for this purpose that Yale held so
many conferences among old graduates
and men who have been closely following
the trend of the new game during the
summer months It was announced only
a few months ago that Charles Chevlin,
who brought the "tackle shift" from Min
nesota to Yale, had worked out some
other effective combinations for the of
fense which will not be shown until th??
Ells meet the Tigers. In view of the fact
that Yale has made more of the possibili
ties of the new rules than any other
team in the east, with the possible ex
cept on of the Carlisle Indians, there is
good reason to fear their inventiveness
on this occasion.
International Foot Ball.
That international foot ball match be
tween the Carlls e Indians and a team
of Canadians was not the success pre
dicted for It. The manner in which the
Indians overwhelmed the Canadians in
the first half, during which the game was
played according to American rules rob
bed the contest of all its interest. And
when, during the second haf. the Ameri
cans played the Canadian tules and still
outplayed their hosts, there was so much
confusion and misunderstanding that
even this part of the contest, though
very much more equal, lacked in interest.
As originally announced, the game was
to be played between the Ind'ans and the
University of Toronto. The team that
did p ay the Indians was composed for
the most part of former Canadian play
ers. but who were not in the sanio
physical condition as the Indians or ad
the University players would have been.
It Is unfortunate that better usu could
not have b*en made of this opportunity
to learn something from the Canadian
game. In the confusion which ??xisted it
was quite impossible for the American t<?
learn something from the Canad an ame.
There may be another opportunity to
compare the merits of the two names,
but it cannot be done unless the two
teams are more evenly matched than
they were at Toronto.
It Is very difficult to explain the np.?et
of Michigan by Syracuse last week. Thorn
are only two conclusions to b?- drawn
from the score of IS-7 by which Mlch4gan
was defeated. Either Michigan was in
the m'dst of a fearful slump or Syracuse
had Improved about 1<M per cent. S>?a
cuse was beaten by Yale 21?o ?he In
dians -O. and by Princeton Th?
Michigan eleven has been mak n>; fairly
big scores, and has been giving evidence
I of cons'derable strength. How it could
have fallen a victim to Syracuse is one of
the most curious things of the present
season.
Yale Will Be Tested.
The Yale eleven will get its most severe
test prior to its championship games next
I Saturday, when it lines up against Brown.
The Providence men hope to inale
amends for their poor showing in the
Harvard game at the expense of the Elis.
There is no doubt that Brown overesti
mated its own strength by the over
whelming score it ran up against Penn
sylvan.a. Harvard won handily enough
by 'Sj to 10, and Yale should take Brown
right in the Blues' regular stride.
Origin of the Newspaper.
From the Detroit News.
In celebration of its forty thousandth
number, the London Times, the historic
"Thunderer" of Printing House Square,
devotes many columns of beautifully
printed pages to the history of printing
and of newspapers. The Times is a tra
dition of which the newspaper fraternity
is proud. High purpose, great capacity,
universal interest, enterprise and splen
did ideals of the value of the newspaper
as a vehicle of thought and of literature
have characterized it from its institution
by the Walters family under its present
name in 1787.
The history of the Times is almost tl]?
history of the press. Nevertheless, there
was the embryo stage, and this the Times
examines through the media of the old tiles
in the British Museum. From out of that
mass of evidence many facts have been
adduced for the tirst time. 8ir Roger
L'Estrange in 10f?3 perfectly characterized
the reactionary attitude toward the press
and toward government. He wrote:
"A newspaper makes the multitude too
familiar with the actions and counsels of
their superiors, and gives them not only
an itch, but a kind of colorable right an<l
license to bo meddling with the govern
ment."
Government, at the birth of the press
In the seventeenth century, was a "mys
tery," and how could it remain a mys
tery if the "mob," or "multitude," were
a.lowed to learn what was going ou? The
publication of the debate of parliament
was long forbidden. The reactionary of
today still holds government to be a
mystery, especially the supreme court.
The Times also draws attention to the
growth of advertising from the tirst
"advice" printed in the Public Adviser
in London May 20, 1657. It is rather sig.
nificant, in view of the fact that the prev
alence of advertisements for cocoa in the
British newspapers has earned for them
the tory epithet "the cocoa press," that
the first newspaper advertisement wfas
for "coffee, a new. delfclous drink." From
this grew an industry that employs mil
lions of capital and thousands of the
keenest minds. And among all the suc
cessful newspapers the Times, one of the
very oldest, remains the most influential.
Off and On.
From Judge.
First Drummer?Have you traveled
much over the breakneck railroad?
Second Drummer?Off and on?*cs.
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