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'I J ' , ; 1 i ' It's Called "Camouflaging the Vaccination" and Here Are Some of the Very Novel and namwx vpw, mmr -r -w Twig m -a w Jy ff safe ST, IF you have a little vaccination mark on your arm, then you really must have a little bracelet there, loi, ot I little Huff of ribbon, or a little nan of paint, or a flower, or a brnuty spot, Ot sonv t liiui' equally spilTy to rover up the ICar tin notor left. For fashion --ays vaccination mark.- an not to be shown this year. Th( y an j lit as hail form as ears Mm year .' last. And -that goes, too, for moll .-. birthmarks BCTatchet or skin bli tnilhea 01 any kind, even thouijli you ma consider your particular mole is a VOf charming mob-- anil no blemish at all. ('over them up! The command il im perative. For camouflage purposes the beams specialists have invented some novel schemes. Most of them originated in I'aris, but they have found their Way to New York via the stage, and now jnu couldn't discover a vaccination mark In a New York ballroom with a telescope. Since vaccinations generally are per formed on the fleshy biceps of tin- uppej arm, it would seem impossible to I ld them with long cloves or ordinary brace lets or anything at all when a woman wears evening clothes. And for years and years no attempt was made to hide' them. Where a lady . as squeamish about a sear she had herself vaccinated on the calf of the leg. But now lieaut; spcriali.-l.- do not care where you are vaccinated. They have the wherewithal to "cover up." There , for example, the serpentine braci let. It is made of three or four coils that clasp the fleih closely. Fastened around the bio pi, the colli either rover the vaccination mark entirely or blind it so effectually it is practically iu isible. Or there are the painted bracelet aim the painted ribbon. A skilful maid with The black adhesive plaster is cut into droll designs, itar.eing doll may cavort at tract!' I over a back where a red birth mailt has been the bane of its owrer's lite. One of the pn tu'lar designs is a monkey In a. cage. Birdl of paradise, stars, eroscents, 'daisies, ovoH sailoi- do iiiK a hornpij.e or a Scot; mini in th wl it I of a Highland Sing are offered In the beauty shells. Oln Parltian actress startled the Mu ll Picturesque .Ways in Which It Is Being Done mm The Dcauty of ShouldWTt Being Enhanced by Fantastic Designs Painted Or Pasted On the Back. i.l n llotp. Vaccination Marks Adjacent to Dimpled Knees Are Jovered By "Beauty Spots" By Dancers Who Appear Barc-Leggcd. 1 ' c I. A Ribbon Painted On the Arm Serves to Hide a Disfiguring Vaccination Mark a regulation artist's paint brash Wul ul them on deftlv in exactly the riht plate. There ia no intent to dec ive anyotll into thinking the painted article i.-. the real Ihinn- The paint is part of the bizarre note. Painted bracelets and painted rib bons are ar; swagger as jewelry if thu-y are done cleverly. Some women wear (lower-. QVM ti e ac cination mark. A Singh blossom iH-th' correct thing. It may be aj) artitu-ia! FOX . SJMtad on 10 that the stem falls into tin crook of the elbow. Or it may be a ganUj inc Mtaflowar bald Uchtly around the bt- leps by a black nbbon cane.!.' with a ma mond pin. Where it is desired to ronreal mob beauty spots generally are employee; dually they are ".-ipots" only In nann . i, " - ,. ir. a' the Four 4Kflf( all by o- "r li " ith a Bg ' !- af m the middle ff" i,r her forahoad. No! i vtstl h r inti mates knew that, this beauty sinre childhood had worn bei hair dreaied low ko as to conceal a mole that grow an inch above, her DTOWI. There v.iu! some comment on the new style of coiffure mad ante had .adopted; the hair war b d high on ip if her head. But the beauty pot H accepted merely as I fas l cil itiiifT new trick in facial adnrn- moat liMload of what it actually w.i a means by which n. a lame was enable. to wear her hair as she did. Women of the New York stape, like those of the Continental stafre, have Ink; n the lead in introducing the fad into popular use. So meticulous aro i roe of the Broadway ehorinei about vaccination marks that those who arc vacillated on the calf of the lea; have I ,j t! "rover 'em up" slogan like the rest. That is why. if one attend a popu lar musical .-how In N'e York this Winter, he will see beauty spots on the limbs of barefoot danccri. Bo intritru in'r is the idea that many dancers who are acciratcl on the amis wear hi auty pot (jMrt the same anywhere from ankle to knee, and ladies in tight! fol- Ult just as rh the i ilk was Such a Huge Flower-Ribbon Decoration as This Is Too Large to Merely Cover a Vaccination Mark, but Miss Jcanettc MacDonald,' Who Wears It, to appreciate the practical value of beauty spots, braceletl ami painted Camouflage. Many housewives welcome the fail not as a butterfly flourish, but be CaUM it. sol . i I what is often u n al prob lem for them. Sine it i, I rai mparts an unknown thiag fir the modern wife to rook thn family suppi r and then dash off for the danre, arid since even the rich unman is not immune to burn-i from curling Irons in the hands of a clumsy maid, more than one woman bewail hot late when she ilkKCOVfrn, as she dr .. I for the evening, that her low-cut gown will reveal glar ingly the scars eVokory and housework I I VI left on her aril'-. There was a tin hen she had to make Says It Is the Newest Wrinkle in Beauty Spots. - low not th One II 1 1 at. no on. ft by an ov ie a l owi vi r, g( tting into le Inat Ion ,'itv foi if ould loor, e , 'I hand- f mm ' .ir-ninati. Mil loVod One ol the Most Beautiful W.joien In Italy, Has Introduced a Fig Leaf Ornament. the best (,f till; notice tlii- red v or elsi tie it up 1 k rchiof and ipi i ing to In r paj i " fell w hen : ouine. But the ban against voce hi liovi d hi r -f the nect karchlefi and Bbbing, Ovi i i the M rpontlM bracelet or the bun or tin sunflower. And more than one brand tin re no fouo on earth why there shouldn't be mor thai one bracelet or ribbon or blOMOn In far', the mor.- she trickl her .kii the more fashionable aho is. Thus it would appe ar that bouuty'l ni "skin gam'i" has come to fta; , a- , tnt the doctors ran VOCCil it' whenever the please on m'liily'h biceps without callin forth cries of pro' ', "!t will ipoll rn arms!" Unless, of course, the fashio tide shouhl turn, ai it turned in II- i of ears, and another : snouhi ;.. forth in a season or so. "Sim. iur cination marks! It's riot only a goo'i health; it's a symbol of iraa tven Snake Designs Are Beins Introduced to Cover the Blemishes Due to Vaccination. tin: l tf.'"'' ' '" li -7 I