The times dispatch. [volume], October 25, 1914, Image 37

About The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914

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Gray Gabardine, Pleated at Sides of Skirt.
"Lucile" Model.
ADY? DufScORDON. the famous "Lucile" of Lon?
and foremost creator of fashions in the world,
'writes each week the fashion article for this newspaper,
presenting all that ^ newest and best in styles for weli-dressed
women., *
Lady Duff-Gordon's Paris establishment brings her into
close touch with that centre of fashion.
By Lady Duff-Gordon.
BACK In New York and seeing all
you bright and happy Ameri?_
cans makes It easier for me to
forget Paris and my beantlful house
In the Avenue "]Du Bois, where the
aalle de fetes is now rowed with beds
cf wounded soldiers, and my dogs
that used to play around the tea
tables of my Versailles pavilion are
now probably sitting up begging to
the overworked French commissariat
stair, who are using it as offices.
One of the hardest things I ever
had to do was to leave Paris, but
every one has a duty, and mine was
and Is to retain in employment the
hundreds of women who work for
"Lucile," many of whom in England
and France are already widows and
fatherless.
In England we are booming a
phrase, "Business as usual," its aim
being to keep open all the flrmi, who
employ a large number of hands, and
to persuade all they can to spend as
much as they can to this end.
One of the accompanying cos*
tumes is of gray gabardine, pleated
at the sides of skirt; the bodice long
waisted and tied around the hips. A
flat hat, with a band of fur, accom*
panies it*
The charming little gown In the
centre is a little dance dress for a
young girl, in pale green chiffon and
satin. The skirt is draped and gar*
landed with silver flowers, with
gray satin foliage. In another pic*
ture on the page you can see the
front view of this dress, with its sash
and buttoned front.
Monkey fur is the most popular
and smartest of trimmings.
Here is a restaurant gown of pur*
pie tulle trimmed with it Tho broad
sash is of blue and purple brocade,
finished with a spray e? flowers/an
exact reproduction of those woven in
the brocade. The hat has its enclr*
cling band of the same fur.
Still another new model Is tl.e
panne afternoon gown in golden
brown trimmed with buttons, with
girdle and buckle of the same. A fur
collar and cuffs of fox completes the
whtole effect. The new line has a<
Charming Little Dance
Dress for a Young Girl.
Green Qhiffon and
Satin. '' Lucile" Model
Panno
Afternoon
Gown
in
Golden
Brown.
"Lucile"
Model.
*
Front View of Gray Gabardine, Showing the
Saab and Buttoned Front.
tendency toward more fulness, 8*
you can see by these photographs.
Skirts are baggier and so are waists^
With this go larger girdles. There
is much more fulness about the
knees. There is more room for us to
walk. Withal, I think that the pres
ent line is just as graceful as the
more revealing one it ha? supplanted.
The "buttons down the front" is a
new note that la made possible by
the new line. It is in reality, of
course, a very old note. But so is
the fulness. It Is the art of fashion
to take the old things and make
them not only seem new but make
them actually new. Just as life is
nothing but old things constantly
dipped into youth.
Restaurant
Gown by
"Lnoile"
Trimmed with
the New
Monkey For.
Purple
Tulle and
Brocade.
Why Carry More Than
150 Tons on Your Heart?
HE commonest cause of death is
heart disease, and, according
A to many doctors, we are
creating this deadly peril bj our
habits of living.
That the alarming increase of heart
disease, due largely' to tts faoj. that
in these strenuous duys people do not
Jle down - often enough and long
enough to relieve the severe strain on
the most important organ of the body,
was the argument of Dr. G. Harlan
Wells, of Hahnemann College. Phila
delphia, in an address before the
Bureau of Homeopathy of the Ameri
can Institute of Homeopathy.
"Few people," said Dr. Wells, "stop
to consider the terriQc strain they put
upon their hearts. Actually the
organ lifts about 150 tons more than
four feet from the ground during the
average waking day of the ordinary
human being. In earlier days the
people lolled around at -every oppor
tunity. People of to-day fall to do
this. They remain in an upright
position for lbng periods and do noth
ing at all to relieve the strain on the
heart
"The savage usually lies flat on the
ground when he eatj. Every time ho,
halts he habitually spreads himself
flat. or bis back on the ground.
Lolling around so that the heart
would simply have to push the blood
through the arteries and veins, in
stead of having to lift it, would re
lieve the swelling feet and legs which
are one of the first signs of heart
trouble. It would allow the blood
which has become settled in one
point to become redistributed and re
vived. People would do well if they
would manage to lie down for an
hour in the afternoon at a point mld?
way between their waking hour and
the time they retire for the night."
A number of men of ^ffalrs whoso
business keeps them at fever heat the
day through are prudent enough to
stop and rest for five or ten minutes
several times in the.course of the
day, and they usually spend this pe
riod in a reclining position to relieve
the strain on the heart which a stand*
ing or sitting position involves.
A well-known banker used to say
that the lounga which occupied dm
corncr of his business sanctum and
on which be made a . practice of re
clinic* for at least a quarter of an
hour in the morning and again in the
eftornoon was of more value to bin
than the desk at which he worked*