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LABOR LEADERS
PLAN COLLEGE
FOR WORKERS |
Katcnah (N. Y.) Institution to
Supply Opportunity for
the Ambitious.
NEW YORK. July 20. —Plans for the
Brcokwood Resident Workers' College at
Katonab, N. Y.. where men and women
from the ranks of the workers may he
jiven sufficient intellectual training to
nake them leaders in their various
;roups, have heeu formulated by a com
nittee of labor - leaders. They have
Mantled a college where the man in the
nines or the woman in the factory, who
las toiled over ioHks to gain knowl
edge in economics, sociology, history and
tindred subjects, may be given the op
tortunity of two or three years of college
nstmction.
A cooperating labor committee de
■igned to link the college with the
\merican labor movement, has been
ormed. It consists of John Fitzpatrick,
►resident of the Chicago Federation of
Labor: James II Manrer.opresident of
the Pennsylvania State Federation f La
bor; John Rrophy, president - of District
Vo. 2. United Mine Workers of America;
lose Scbneiderman. president of the Na
tloani Women's Trades Union of New
York; Abraham Lefkowitz,Central Trade*
in 1 Labor Council of Greater New
York, and Charles Kutz, chairman of the
international Association of Machinists of
Pennsylvania Lines. It is expected that
ultimately the committee will represent
’very union in the country.
VOT PROPAGANDIST
INSTITUTION.
“Save for the fact that it stands for
l new end better order, actuated by so
cial values rathtr than pecuniary ones.
Brookwootl is not a prnpnfandist insti
tution." said a statement issued by this
committee today.
“It earnestly and fearlessly seeks the
truth, free from dogma and doctrinaire
teachings. It believes that the labor and
farmer movements constitute the most
vital concrete force working for human
freedom and that by exerting a wise so
cial control they can bring in anew
era of justice and human brotherhood.
"Brookwood seeks to provide working
men and women with an education which
best IDs them for such service. Brook
wood is virtually a professional school
to educate workers to work in the work
ers' movements. It frankly aims not to
educate the workers out of their class.'*
ALL JOIN
IN WORK
The problems of democracy as seen at
the school are worked out in the daily
life of the faculty and students. All par
ticipate in the daily tasks, both faculty
and students doing cooking and wood
cutting and all the other labors of the
community .rum farming to dish wash
ing.
•'The importance and dignity of band
work and bead work are both fully
recognized," the committee announces.
The college is self governed by a com
mttnliy meeting wherein each member <>/
the community has one vote, faculty and
students alike, but as the faculty defers
to stud- nt opini; n in matters pcrtainln#-
to The:ii. so the student respects the
opinion of the faculty in strictly faculty
matters.
N-> age limits ar- set, anil there is
no fixed charge for tuition. The college
opens this fall. Students are expected
to fay as much of the cost of main
tenance as possible and never less than
J2OO, which represents the bare cost of
food. Tra le unions ran establish scholar
ships at *-> rate of s4s* per year, ami
their nominees will be accepted without
further obligation. At the end of three
years it is hoped to n-duce the cost per
student ly increasing the number of stu
dents to a point where the entire cost of
maintaining Brookwood can be mot
through trade uuiou scholarships.
TOO MUCH FLAY,
RABBI CLAIMS
Men and Women Shun Work
for Pleasure.
PHILADELPHIA. Pi. July 23.
“Tbr-re aro i-ervant tfoni'li’s b*..anse all
too many of our wornon k vicr anl
iealtli o.i tennis court and golf links,
when they aiitrht obtain a far better
supply of red blood corpuscles by spend
ing equally a 1 ; much time at the kiteheu
stove, at the wnsttub, or at the sening
machine,” said Ilabhi Joseph Kniuskopf,
i" :t discourse ou “Too Much T’lay.”
Practice of business men who avoid
all the work possible to avoid was men
tioned also in a comparison of the need
twenty tears ago of a gospel of relax
ation with the need now for a gospel
of work.
”In constantly increasing numbers."
said the rabbi, “young women are as
ignorant of domestic works as i* anew
born babe. Large parts of their days
are spent in !* <l, the other parts in
idling, primping, dress parading, gad
ding, pleasure seeking, money spend
ing.
“There is a luck of servants because
all too many of our mothers and wives,
of our sisters and daughters, are
wholly dependent upon them, are igno
rant of even the simplest household
work, know not —no matter how pro
ficijpt iti motoring, golfing. tennis
playing, horseback riding, dancing,
dress parading, face painting—know not
as much as bow to boll an egg or how
to peel a potato, or how to male* a eup
of coffee or make a bed. or sweep the
floor, or wash the dishes.
"There are servant trouble because
all too many of our women look upon
domestic work as mental, degrading,
unbefitting a lady, fit only for inferiors.
“There aro servant troubles because the
elass of girls who formerly took posi
*■ >ns as cooks and maids—when sneh
work as theirs was made honorable by
the participation in it by the mistress of
the home and her daughters—seeing their
mistresses nowadays victims of the work
shunning and pleasure seeking disease,
have caught the disease themselves. Thev
se-k employment in factories, mills, shops,
where they are required to Work but
eight hours a day, where they have ever.v
eiening and half of Saturday and all of
Sunday off. to be spi rtt on pleasure in
dltlgeuce, in the dance halls, at the
theaters, in motor trips in street parad
ing and the like.
“What is true of many of our working
women is yet truer of far larger numbers
of our laboring men. They, too, are
stricken with the work shunning and
pleasunre seeking disease.
“The shortening of the hours of work
and the lengthening of the hours of play
are the besetting sin of modern day so
•iety; are responsible for not a few of
our social siiw. our desecration of the
Sabbath, our spurning of religion, our
extravagances, immoralities, infidelties,
nfeiicites. They are responsible for not
n little of the bitter conflicts between
capital and labor, between employer and
employe. They are -sponsible for a large
part of the Insufficiency and inefficiency
of labor, and for the consequent high
cost of living.
“What is needod is a clearer conception
than now obtains of the dignity of labor
and of the purpose of play.
“There must be a stop to the con
spicuous prominence given to sport in
the colleges. In the press, in ‘society.’
There must be a lessening of loafing and
idling in the home and in the shop. There
must be a deepening and heightening of
the ‘dignity of labor, of the pleasure of
work. There must, at the present time.
b<* less of the preachment o# ibe gospel
of relaxation and more of the preach-
HOW 1)0 YOU LIKE MY HOSIERY?
i j * -'
How do you like my hosiery? Miss Dorothy Jardon speaking, if you please.
A member or* the Chicago Grand Opera Company, who is going to spend her
vacation In Europe. The photograph was taken on board the Olympic.
ATLANTIS CAFE
RENDEZVOUS OF
THIEVES, SPORTS
Famous Coffee House Be
comes Center of Smuggling
and Cl ime.
VIENNA, July 21.—D0 you want to sell
a handful of jewels or a wagonload of
grain—and no questions asked? There
is a market in Vienna where it can be
done.
If you are a Philistine jou have prob
ably wandered in aud out of the place
half a dozen times during a short so
journ in the city without realizing that
you were in the most famous “s- hiel er"
exchange in all Central Europe and the
Near East. For the Atlantis cate bears
no,visible sign to distinguish it from any
other coffee house along the Ringstrasse.
Only the dealers in illegal trattie have
put tlicir cross over its door, and if you
belong to the famous internalional of the
profiteers, beside which the Third of Mos
cow- is harmless ns a dove, be your Ital
ian. or Serbian, or Hungarian, or German,
the Atlantis is the Mecca of your jour
ney s.
It stands on the busiest Vienna street,
across from the great Imperial Hotel,
Behind Sts plate glass windows, candidly
open t-> every passerby, is a largo room,
upholstered In red leather, with com
fortably padded benches nlong the walls
and around the posts which support the
ceiling. Arm chairs are fitted into cozy
nooks, and efficient waiters trot from
table to table, carrying syphons-, filling
liqueur glasses, pouring Turkish coffee
thickly out of little copper mugs. Tim
or- liestra, goaded by a temperamental
conductor, sighs out the strains of a
heavy, honcysweet Viennese valse. Alto
g tber a typical Vienna case.
But if—instead of burying your nose in
the Neuo Frie Prcsse or the Arlteiter Zei
tur.g. both of which are handily at your
elbow, supported on frame-, fitted with
handles you look you keenly you
will hear strange whisperings aud see
hands ron.-hlng out to each other und-r
cover of the table, and now arid then you
will see something gleam In transit. Or
you will see eager heads bent togtdb-T
over some small package wrapped In
tissue paper, and over and over again you
will catch one word, repeated in all lan
guages, “Comhien ?” “Quarto?" “Sko!-
ko?” "Wie VWl'' “How much?"
THK l NINITIATED
BARRED.
If you want to do business In the At
lantis you must know the ropes. This
is no place where you come in, put down
your money and ask f“r what you want.
You would be thrown out if you did, with
indignant protests that this is uo shop,
but a oafe. No, you must know exactly
to which table to go In order to dispose
of grain, jewels, money, women.
Yes, even women aro bought aud sold,
so they say, in the Atlantis case. Pretty
Viennese, with their shoc3 run down at
the heel and their stockings in holes, are
offered positions ns actresses in Rio Jane
iro or Buenos Aires and arc contracted for
and shipped away. What becomes of
them afterward no one knows, but. many
hazard a guess.
When you have seated vours If nt what
you judge to be the right table the con
versation begins in cryptic phrase. Rc
ceitly a man said to another laconically:
“I have a wagon."
The other (equally laconically), “How
much ?”
The first man named his price.
The second: “Very dear. White or
spotted ?”
The first, snorting. “White or spot
ted! Are you crazy?” And he goes away
in a huff. He had been trying to sell
wheat at the bean table!
Around the different tables different
nationalities gather. It is mostly Jews
who slip watches and cigarette cases and
chains of pearls from hand to hand at
the jewelry table. Dark-eyed and ex
citable Italians gesticulate in another cor
ner over objects d'art, and Austria's pic
tures, ceramics and gobelins change
hands around glasses of coffee. The
Italians are the noisiest aud. sh a habitue
of the case assured me. spend more
money than all the rest put together. Al
ways at the Italian table are one of two
Italian soldiers—who will be useful in
getting goods over the border.
P.VSSrOKTS MINES
RED TAPE.
Serbs, Rumanians, Czecho Slovakians
negotiate chiefly in foodstuffs. From
1 Lake Erie & Western Railroad Cos. I
On August Ist, the present Lake Erie & Western freight |1
Hi house will be abandoned. Also, effective on that date, the #
H C., C., C. & St. L. R. R. (Big Four) will take over and per- m
I form all freight house and city yard team track work of I
I the Lake Erie & Western Railroad., '1
|£ All less than carload freight, both in and outbound, will O
I be handled through the Big Four freight house.
Mr. T. A. Connor, freight agent, Big Four R. R., will, on 8
I and after August Ist, also represent the Lake Erie & West- H
I ern in that capacity.
them comes the wheat to make tin little
white rolls which you rat with such
pleasure in the famous restaurants,
while the rest of Vienna lives on bitter
black bread.
But more underground than the traf
fic :a food is the traffic in passports.
The “sohieber" knows no frontiers.
For five to ten thousand kronen, if you
.-re a “wise one,” you can g-t Ruman
ia.', or a Serbian, or a Czecho-Slovak
passport that will take you where Bul
ganin. Hungarian, or Austrian papers
are iseloss. And vises—needless to stand
In q.senes before the Consulates if you
have friends at the Atlantis. Any vise in
an hour is the tinadvt rtis.-d promise of
the g. ml men who haunt a particular
corner of the case.
The Atlantis has i>s personalities.
There is a little spectacled woman in
n r. and hat. with the manners and bustle
of an American stenographer who has
been reading the .-access stories in the
American magazines and means to rise.
Mark her well. She is the liaison officer
between visitors to the case and all tie
Italian profiteers, she walks jauntily
’rotn table to table, finding here a man
who wants to sell leatbop”“Troods anil
lher*' another who wants to buy. Now
she is offering an exceptional bargain in
a lot of gold No one ran
estimate how great a volume of business
she does in a single day.
Nor need you confine your interests
•o husim ss in th-> Atlanta*! Over there
s the table where volunteers were col
ieeied for an army to bring down the
Social Democratic regime in Austria.
Refugee communists from Hungary
gather nt that table and, presumably,
plot. The revolution table is in a sc
eluded corner, and its habitues arc
usually very well behaved. Revolutions
are quiet in Central Europe just now.
much quieter ihnn grain trnnsaetions.
Oxford Co-Eds Are
Debating Styles
LONDON. July 22 Thorny questions
about tbo proper kit of the Oxford I tii
versify women stud-nts are being put to
the Junior l’roctor, who is the one li
censed authority on fashion in academic
clothes.
He has decided that women must come
to examinations in a skirt and coat of
“subfusc hue," whii h is the medieval or
dinance still in vogue, if not obeyed, for
man's attire.
Her blouse must be white, aud her tie
must be black. This decision does not.
end the fashion master's problems. A
complaint was forwarded that Ihe limp
cap which goes with the gown gives no
protection to complexion or neck against
the heat of the sun. Might women un
dergraduates bo allowed to carry a para
sol while wearing cap and gown, and
if so, of what color or colors?
The decision is that parasols may be
carried, but must be black and white.
If is probable that “black or white" is
meant, f'>r no parasol ran be made more
striking than a good magpie arrange
ment.
Hoosier Gives Life
to Save Companions
Special to The Times.
GARY, Ind.. July 2.1.-George-Jdeffins.
20. Indiana Harbor, gave his life last
night, in an attempt to save Puree other
persons when a canoe turned over in Lake
Michigan off Miller Beach. Guards saved
Miss Nellie Meyers. Hammond; Miss ()r
---pha Hern. Linton; and Harry Hatch, In
diana Harbor, who were ' conoe
with Stoffins.
Muncie Woman Hurt
When Auto Is Ditched
Special to The Times.
MUNCIE. Ind.. July 25—Anna B.
Chambers suffered internal injuries late
Sunday night when the automobile driven
by Wilbur Chambers, her husband, ran
into a ditch near Mt. Summit, south of
Muncie, and turned over. Mr. Chambers
attempted to turn the ear to avoid strik
ing a dog. He was slightly hurt. The
automobile was demolished.
TERRE HAUTE POLITICIAN DIES.
TERRE HAUTE, July 2.l.—Andrew
O’Mura, 57, long active in municipal poli
ties anil for eight years member of the
Terre Haute school board, is dead at his
home following a two years’ illness.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1921.
PROMPT CHEST PAYMENT ASKED;
CASH NEED IN UNEMPLOYMENT
An audit of the books of the Community
Chest of Indianapolis for the period be
tween Nov. 2!*. and June 50, this
year, show total disbursements of
- lid. 10 and n cash balance on hand of $7,-
230.07. The report was made by George
S. Olive, a certified public accountant, and
was made public by the Community Chest
officials.
In a statement F. L. Arfgerer, secretary
of the organization, urged the necessity
of subscribers paying their dues
promptly.
“It will be remem lured,” lie said, “that
..REGULAR KIND.
—Receipts—
Total subscriptions Y
Less unpaid subscriptions 17.1,...u ns ~M e „
Cash received on subscriptions t—s.uu-.i-
Casb over -.}•},!
Subscriptions for special advertising account.. Y-t !>o
Refund from school lunch associatioi .
Workers 1 subscription. to pay for lun‘bos t,oul w i
Total cash receipts : $230,197.0.
—Disbursements —
Member organizations.
Alpha Home Association ? 1.050.00
Bovs’ Club Association 2,401.34
Buy Scouts of America —Indiana pubs Cos;, noil. 7,*.5.00
Cutup Fire Girls 1.312.50
• 'atholle ( omunity Center and Day Nursery.. 3,257.14
Catholic Women's Association _ 582.86
Charity Organization Society 23.500.00
Children’s Aid Association 22.575.00
College Settlement Asoclation 3.5..7.11
Cosmopolitan Com unify Cruter 7'■•7 50
Dispensary Ai.l 2.292 SO
Flaner House . 3.987.50
Florence Critfen Home 2,314,2*
Immigrants’ Aid Association... 921 12
Indpls. Board of ’ndorsers Motion I’lcfu res.. 133.70
Indianapolis Day Nursery Asoclation J.pnp.OO
1 ndiannpojin Flower Mission 3.000,00
Indianapolis Home for Aged Women 4,2*5.70
Indianapolis Humane Society 1.300.00
Indianapolis TravelersVAld 1.2*5.70
Indianapolis Orphan Asylum 3,500.00
Jewish Federation of Indinunpolis 1*42*.50
Knuickerboeker Hall Association 1.503.00
i.itle Sisters of the Poor 1.200.00
Mothers' Aid Society 27.525.00
Old Folks’ Home 1750.00
Public Health Nursing Asoclation 10,500.imi
Salvation Army t’>. 102.92
School Lunch Association 3.000 On
Society of the Good Shepherd....... 3.425.-10
Social Service Dept., Tndpls. t hup-h Federation 1.57.1.00
Sumer Mlsison for Sick Children 2.337.50
Volunteers of America 4,312.30
Wheler City Rescue Mision 2,1*7.50
Woman's Improvement Club 05(1.25
Young Men's Christian Association 20.17142
lining Men s Christian Asocial ion color ed. .. 1.312.10
Young Women's Christian Association 1(5.071.42
Less paymeit direct from War Chest Board. *.000.00
Net amount paid by Community Chest $210,003.77
Administrative Expense.
Office employes’ salaries $ l.oii oo
Postage 100.00
Printing and stationery 243 50
Office supplies 30.00
$ 2,233.10
Second Campaign Expense
Campaign direction $ <5.000.00
Stationery and printing. *..... 350.7. x
Office salaries 1.490.,*-
Adverilsing 1.120*7
Luncheons, dinners 32*00
Postage .. 391,95
Office supplies 120 9.1 „
Telephone and telegraph 19'>2
Freight and hauling. 2* 1*
* - $ 10,056.92
Special \<!ert ising Expense
To local newspapers $ 721.30
Indianapolis Electrotype anil Engraving Cos .. 27*0
Refunded overpaid subscription 21.1.1
$ 770 31
Total cash disbursements $233,160.10
Balance cash on hand June 30. 1921. $ 7.230.97
FOUNDER S’ U NI)
Kcce Iptx
Total subscriptions $ 4.*00 on
Interest earned ou deposits 210.00
IMsburs ements
Dinners, luncheons, etc $ 1.021 00
Stationery and printing. 2.660.6s
MZMimsMs BASEMENT
Store Closes Saturday at 1. “ Store Closes Other Days at 5 P. M.
August Sale-PLUSH COATS
<4|pL / he greatest sale of our career — sso,ooo worth of fine new
' SfZfe Plush Coats at around half last
JmJRk year s quotation
COATS FOR SLENDER WOMEN COATS FOR MATURE WOMEN
JAgEf. EXTRA SIZE COATS FOR LARGE WOMEN
~ illSi* asemen l Store is Famous for Plush Coats i|Jjl||
flSjlflH In trade circles it is regarded as one of the largest distributors -mHHhH
wWSSSmJ of plush coats in the central west. Therefore, when an institution
with such prestige and outlet (‘enters all its energies on an annual J* jj
occasion, the result is BOUND to be worth while.
\ I / * The determination to have this annual sale stand out so strongly
m in value giving that it would be a mercantile sensation, brings U
v you fine plush coats at lower prices than you’d dream of paying. n jY
* 1385 PricesJßegin at $10.95 for SILK PLUSH COATS
(THE LOWEST PRICE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS), TO MARVEL
OUS COATS AT $98.75, SUCH AS SOLD AT $198.75 LAST YEAR.
..... ’ /r9®r
A (/; Every condition played right into our hands. Plushes were bought when the record
v/low price was reached —fine pelts, the pick of the collections, were acquired at far below -.. v V
today’s price—contracts were, made for the production of these coats at prices that AvW
§ barely covered labor costs. The maker preferred activity to profits. jLV*^vp|k
—BAFFIN SEAL PLUSH COATS - HUDSON SEAL PLUSH COATS
—SEALSKINETTE COATS —LONG COATS—SHORT COATS
—PECO PLUSH COATS —THREE QUARTER LENGTHS lifwlfl
—BEHRING SEAL PLUSH COATS —DOLMANS—WRAPS
If you’re going to buy a plush coat this fall, now’s the time to buy.
Vied % f
i Our deferred payment plan We give you this assurance I / \
11 \[ is arranged for those who desire to benefit by the econo- So confident are we that this sale // j A
| l \\ lilies of this annual occasion, but are not prepared to means a big saving on your purchase, /
Ijj V\ make complete payment at time of purchase. A reason- that we will refund what you paid any Ljt &
M \J able down payment and convenient weekly payments put time up to Thanksgiving’ day, if you fy
1/ you m possession of a coat at a saving. are not satisfied.
$49.75 $29.75
we asked for $500,000 to cover budgets
aud received only a little more than $400,-
000 in subscriptions. It was necessary
therefore to reduce all the budgets 25 per
cent (allowing margin for non-payment).
With the present daftnands for relief on
account of nonemployment the resources
of the organizations are strained, and it
is Important that subscriptions be paid
promptly each month, so as the appropria
tions can be paid regularly and as early
iu the month as possible."
The report shows the following dispo
sition of’the funds;
HEROINE IN FLYING ROMANCE
Miss Corisuelo I'lowton, a Ziegfeld Follies beauty, whom rumors say is to
wed Lieutenant Iv’oor of the Naval Flying Corps, who was until recently
engaged to her sister.
Office supplies 79.95
Telephone 5.64
Balance cash on hand June 30. 1921 $ 643.68
The founders’ fund was raised spe- . community* chest. It w ill be noted that
dally to cover the expenses of the first there is still a balance remaining in the
public campaign for subscriptions to the j fund.
Jilted Homely Girl
Tries to Take Life
BALTIMORE, July 25.—“.M0n only
look f"r beauty; they don't care about
the real homemaker any longer." Vir
ginia Hi k>, 20. who tried to comyilt sui
cide by swallowing oplson, explained:
“I don't want to pot well,'' she contin
ued, pushing back her short red hair.
“Men don't care what you do for them;
they are all for the girl who spends ev
erything on clothes and makes a big
show.
“They don't care if a girl is good, salf
respeeling and .i real homemaker, all they
want is a big display for thier money.”
Refusing to give her suitor's name, she
admitted they expected to get married
uniil one evening at a dance he met a
prettier girl.
‘Pretty Horsie*
Produces Kick
ST. LOUIS, July 22.—Never pour out
effeminate cajoling to a horse that has
a look of virility; That's the advice of
I'atrolman James Asher, who was kicked
into sweet oblivion by a migratory mind
ed blase-faced horse he encountered
while roamlngihis “boat.”
“Nice horsie, pretty borsie!" wheedled
the copper.
An ambulance arrived shortly after
“Horsie" had pivoted on his forefeet.
NEGRO ELKS IN
LODGE SQUABBLE
Members Ask Injunction
Against Use of Fund.
A suit asking for an injunction to re
strain certain members and officers of
the Improved Benevolent Protective Or
der of *Elks of the World, a colored or
ganization, today was filed in Superior
Court, Room 3 by E. L. Johnson and
Williams Fellows as members of Indiana
Lodge, No. 104
The suit is directed against George
Paxton, Johrj YV. Johnson, William
Adams, Guy U. Blaine, Security Trust
Company and the Marion County State
Bank.
The petitioners ask that the defendants
be restrained from paying out any money
belonging to the lodge; that Blaine be
restrained from performing any duties as
presiding officer of the lodge; that the
banks be restrained from honoring any
checks drawn on the funds.
It is alleged in the complaint that no
one was elected exalted ruler at the
regular election in June and it is claimed
that Johnson, Blaine and others “have
conspired to defraud the lodge out of
large sums of money by means of an
appropriation to defray expenses of cer
tain persons to the city of Boston, Mass
on the pretense that certain persons are
delegates to a grand lodge meeting to
be held in Boston in the fall.”
It is alleged also in the complaint that
Johnson, is attempting to install Blaine
as exalted ruler.
BLACK GOWN IS
STYLE IN PARIS
Sable Is Adopted by Feminine
Europe as Reaction.
PARIS. July 20.—A1l feminine Europe
is suddenly turning to black gowns and
tHe woman who fluunts bright colors
feels distinctly out of place.
The running of the I’rix de Diane at
the reopening of the Chantilly race
course was the most fashionable event of
the summer on the continent. Prom
enading Jjefore the stands were thou
sands of the elite of Paris, London, N'ew
York aud scores of other cities and fully
90 per cent of them were in black. The
wave of sombreness has struck Berlin,
Rome, Vienna and all other European
capitals.
Edouard Ponti, netted French writer,
thinks he knows the reason why.
"Fashionable dressmakers did not
launch this mode deliberately, for it takes
money out of their pockets," says Ponti.
“A woman must have many gayly-col
ored dresses, because they are conspic
uous and the same color cannot be worn
every day, whereas she may do very well
with two or three gowns in black.
“It is not a measure of economy.
Women are spending more money in
Europe than at any time, excepting the
period immediately following the con
clusion of peace.
“It is simply the natural reaction
against the wave of jazz-band gavety
That followed the armistice when every
thing was brightly colored. It a his
torical fact that some mysterious link
connects women's fashions with the pre
vailing attitude of the public mind. After
the armistice, noise, champagne, reds
and yellows. Today, sober- second
thought and realization that the world i
still full of trouble, less noise and danc
ing. sombre gowns.
“If, in tlie near future, Europe be
comes more stable and life everywhere
returns to normal you will see lively col
ors reappear in the feminine toilette.”
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