Newspaper Page Text
ttlD-WtNTE®
c/&UTHERW
OutingCowk#
TMltrtte Is ft veritable flower garden
in our midst, a refreshing oasis
In the desert of furs tfttd sombre
Winter wear, for one has only to step
from the snow, sleet, rain or wintry
sunshine of .lartunry weather into any of
the big shops to be in a bewildering ar
ray of color, ranging from grave to gay.
from lively to severe. It would seem
that the flora of every country must
have beert carefully unearthed and
studied to produce the wonderful variety
of design and the kalledoseope of color,
and every kind of weave which has
been in vogue since the time of oik; great
grandmothers has been resurrected to
satisfy tho demands for something dif
ferent
Bure'ty that cropsbarred ground with
shadowy roses trailing over, in a material
which looks like pineapple silk, but Is
only mercerized cotton, is a direct imita
tion of one of granny's wedding gowns,
and of much more recent date Is our old
friend seersucker in lovely colorings and
more mercerizing.
Dotted swiss. like the poor, we have
always with us. only a new touch is
added In that the dots are of some sub
stance tvhlch lookft ns though It would
melt and run off In the wash, but which
the salesman assures us will stand any
amount of laundering. Lovely thin silky
looking stuffs which are not silk, but
near, In the most enticing shades, vie
With flowered and striped and dotted ef
fects. and the old-time gingham Is so
glorified as to be almost unrecognizable
with bordered edges and soft artistic
coloring.
Every year seems to bring In more de
sirable coloring In the linens. As far as
careful laundering goes they maintain
their freshness Surprisingly, hut no one
seems to have produced a dye that will
Withstand tho rays of the sun.
One of the newest and most practical
fabrics is the silk serge than which
nothing will be more useful this spring
and summer for general knockabout
wear. In weave it IS exactly like the
prevailing wool serge, and much smooth
er than the Rajah of previous seasons.
Cotton voile with flowered or banded
or polka dotted borders, or with an all
over design In each and every shade will
make dainty garden party dresses, and
cotton nets to replace the popular nets
Of winter are shown to match any cos
tume. Never were foulards more at
tractive, and it Is a joy to see that some
really artistic designers have been at
work for there have been many horrors
perpetrated In times past upon an other
wise very satisfactory material. Enter
prising American manufacturers In show
ing this silk which they rightly call
"Shedwater,” pour a glass of water upon
the entire piece, from which it glides
gaily off, leaving not a trace.
In a way pongee, tussor, and other of
the raw silk family, seem more suitable
for morning wear, but so fine and flexible
have they become that they are being
used more and more for formal occa
sions, and with braid or tinted lace, make
Very beautiful gowns. White takes prec
edence over all others, and black with
black silk cluny and tiny soutache braid
Is extremely handsome.
The white lingerie gown upon whloh
all one’s Ingenuity can be exhausted and
upon which any number of laces can be
Joined In friendly feeling, is perhaps the
most favored by women, for daintiness
Is Its keynote, and that Is what appeals
to most. When expense need not be
considered, no more beautiful gown can
be Imagined than one fashioned entirely
of Valenciennes lace. The German Vnl.
with Its round mesh has more the ap
pearance of the real, and with appllca
tlAnO A# Inn. M ■
tions of heavier lace motifs, a dream
of cloudy loveliness Is accomplished.
With such a wealth of good things the
difficulty will be to make a choice, and
realizing what a small and favored ma
jority of us are able to seek the sunny
Superstitions About the Opal.
THBKB Is one superstition of wide
range and Influence that Is directed
agalost one of the most beautiful
objects In nature, the opal.
A man failed In business years ago and
what do you think he did? Took his opal
ring into the yard and emaahed It to
pieces with a hammer! He did that In
the twentieth century! He ascribed his
bankruptcy to that opal, and he Intended
neither to Buffer such misfortune again
nor to allow any other one to do so by
Inheriting or buying that ill-starred prop
erty.
There Is a reason for the baneful repute
of this gem, of at least as much of a
reason aa you ever And for a belief like
this, because reason and superstition are
hopelessly at odds.
Two or three centnrles ago the stone was
popular In Europe, and the Jewellers of
Italy were especially running In Its set
ting. At the height of Its popularity came
the plague, which made havoc In Venice.
It was noticed by some observant per
sons iu that city that when a victim was
at the'polut of death, his opal. If ha wore
oue. brightened, while after death It be
If Tired Out, Take the Sleep Cure.
LACK of Sleep Is responsible for half
the 111-boa 1 1 h and the fashionable
uervous ailments of the present day.
Most people are too busy to sleep. They
work or play or rush after pleasure when
they ought to be in bed.
The working woman is as great an of
fender as her fashionable sister. Keen on
her work, overanxious about the futnre,
she Is too apt to neglect her health In
the present. She may overwork and under
sleep for ‘ time, but Insomnia to inevitable,
lu the cfi s of the highly-strung, nervous
type of w}nan, at least.
She begins by Sleeping badly, by worry
ing over little things when she goes to
bed at night; very soon the habit of In
somnia is established, and it may persist
for months <»r year* If neglected in the
early stages.
Business men also are sufferers from
nervousness and Insomnia.
South, one wonders who and what for
are all the lovely ladles purchasing with
such frantic haste the unseasonable fab
rics. Perhaps each and every one of us
hopes the other will think we are bent
on speedy departure, or perhaps, kinder
thought, each hopes to secure the most
desirable materials which we will tuck
away against the coming of summer, or
the more thrifty and forehanded will
have the annual sewing fest, and make
up any number of cunning little tub
gowns, sometimes successfully, so as to
be fully prepared for the first warm
days.
In passing, It Is Interesting to wonder
What the petticoatless sisterhood will do
when Summer’s transparent materials are
In order. Shall we go about It diaphan
ous draperies with undisturbed serenity,
unmindful of the shocks we have had in
came dull. As this accession of brilliance
Implied a sort of malignant purpose or
Intelligence in the stone, it was charged
with the death of its owner.
It never occurred to the scientists of that
time to torn the incident around the other
way, and see If the patient had anything to
do with the opal. But that was the way
of it. The heightened fever Just before
death caused the atone to become mors
brilliant, and the chill and damp after
word* dulled it
The stone Is affected by heat—that Is,
some specimens are—hence we nave a fear
that has affected a source of wealth and a
measure of human happiness ; for does the
woman live who ought not, In the nature
of things, to rejoice In the personal adorn
ment of nn opal?
One of the most amusing Instances of a
belief In wrong things Is reported from
New Fork, where a man took an opal to a
Jeweller and asked him to sell It, as he hud
nothing but bad luck since he owned It,
hls business ventures having failed, hU
Children having suffered Illness, and every
thing he touched going wrong generally.
The Jeweller found the gem to he nn Imi
tation. Its falsity must have been ob
vious to everybody except the victim, be
cause the opal Is the one stone that has
never been even passably Imitated.
So, if you are beginning to sleep badly,
take heed before the tendency develops
Into habit Aek yourself if you have de
liberately tried to curtail your hours of
eleep. Make up your mind to turn over a
new leaf. See that you get nine or ten
hours' rest In bed every night. Go to bed
at ten and rise shortly before eight, and
train yourself to sleep all the time.
Sleep, even more than food, is essential
to health, and, when the mind I* over
strained, sleep Is the only medicine which
will do permanent good. Are you tired
and fagged and Inclined to worry? Try
ten hours In bed every night for a week,
and a short rest after the midday meal.
Have you been overdoing It? Are yon
run down and seedy, and generally out of
sort«? Try a day In bed oace a week, and
you will feel and look a different person
Don’t wait till you are a wreck from sleep
less ness before following this advice.
(aw**: mm
' mm.-
«i||
former times when some unsuspecting
person with only one underskirt passed
between us and the strong light?
Those who must remain to endure the
rigors of Winter, which seems to have
been long In coming, will console them-
The Spark
CHE liners loom through the dripping
gloom—
The vexed propellers thrash—
But through the gray they hold their
way
And close In n grinding crash.
CHE sea's false friend, the fog, will
send
More thousands to their doom,
As rent asunder, the ships go under,
Alone In their grave of gloom,
BUT a sudden spnrk files through the
dark.
And over the leagues of sea,
And the eastwnrdbound and the west
wardbound
Wheel nt the chnttering key.
SPARK answers spnrk, and through
the dark
The questing sisters leap;
No Judas-mist can balk the tryst
They hold on the bullied deep.
JLTO longer bound where the cabin
Av tound
The blind sea-creatures’ lair,
The spark files free across the sea
And through all the waves of air.
In Their Highest Form.
"Whet Is the dlfferencs between valor
and discretion?-'
"Well, to ko through Europe without
tipping would be valor."
"I see."
"And to come back by a different
route would be discretion."—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Killing Him With Kindness.
The South will do nothing to break
the solid Taft.—Atlanta Constitution.
PLACING A LIMIT.
"I’m opposed to admittln' any more
States for some time.”
“And whyt”
“Becuz," explained the rural solan,
"then we’ll hafter build a warship
apiece to name after 'em."—Baltimore
Heral4.
Human Nerves Cannot Stand Absolute Silence.
NO living person knows what abso
lute silence Is unless he Is deaf.
Some patient scientists In Holland
have constructed an absolutely noise proof
room, but as soon as a rann gets Into it to
listen to silence, the silence Is broken.
The human body, being a machine, Is,
like most engines, for frotr noiseless.
The heart, lungs and all the vital organs
make all sorts of unexpected noises and
keep up tbe racket until death and a long
tlnle after.
Much as the elty dweller mny long
for silence, he wouldn’t like It if he
could get It or anything approximating it.
Experiments In the noise proof room show
that absence of noise becomes an almost
unbearable strain on the nerves wltblu an
hour.
The first subject sat still and breathed
as quietly as possible for twenty minutes.
Then tbe effort was two much for him
and be cleared bit throat. The sound of
bis own voice made him jump, being so
much louder than the noises of bis heart
and lungs, to which be had been lis
tening.
The first experiment showed that n man *
clothes give out a continuous crncallug
W3tW the: Fatmiona9le>
PawYbRKDIWJJMAKER.
ipf. fl
ilB. - F il
[t j\
pR & <3ro
N ■*
from Sombre Furs for Winter Wear.
pelves by replacing their feathers and
algrets with artificial flowers, which are
enjoying a return to favor, for they are
everywhere seen, pinned on the muff, on
the coat or In the front of the motors.
Upc i the aVenne a large hunch of Amer
ican Reality roses will be seen peeping
through the window of the limousine,
The Idea is pretty* even if they are only
make-believe in some oases
a vel*y novel Idea in mourning has been
evolved by a young and, need one say.
attractive widow. She has n well-defined
horror of crepe, and her period of heavy
mourning was shortened as much as
convention would permit. She straight
way donned white for every occasion.
'Hie original touch was In the violet un»
'
/f
Ije.
llSflli
ill iers
I' 1 PMr
, I Sftf
and rustling as he breathes. Besides this
the shoes croak ut the slightest movement.
This being noted almost nn sooh as the
man stepped into tbe room, he was with
drawn and returned naked.
The result was more noise than before
It seems that the clothes had served to
muffle tbe noises of the body. The man,
after listening to the seeming silence for
a few minutes, observed a roaring in hls
earn like an overdose of quinine, it
sounded louder and louder{ it wo* the
bubbling of the blood through the veins
In his enrs.
But above the roar of the blood boomed
a rhythmical thumping like some great trip
hammer, muffled by Intervening walls and
great distance. In the subject s hand whs
an instrument for locating the direction of
sound, which promptly showed that the
pounding was hls own heart.
Only at Intervals could lie listen to
these sounds, for periodb-ully a tumultu
ous r sblng amKVhlstllog rumpus excluded
all other sounds. Doing hls best to be
silent, nevertheless, hto breathing In that
quiet room was like the working of s huge
pair of bellows.
The kidneys, it was found, made a doll
With the Advent of
Gay Colors in Foulards,
Linens and Cotton
Voiles There Is a
Refreshing Change
dCrsklrt which she wore with outdoor
togs, while With her house gowns she
wore a flimsy though fluffy skirt of black
chlfion.
It is perhaps of no practical value to
mention eecenlricltioß In dress, but It Is
amusing, nevertheless, to see to what
extremes some women will go to attract
attention. One of the most startling was
recently seen in broad daylight and In a
public Case. A very handsome black
gown, with stock fitting close and coming
well up under the eats, was cut in a
square yoke below tho collar, with no
toning fold or even the thinnest net
over her bare flesh. Her companion. In
decided contrast, was clothed to her chin
and alihbst to her fingertips In plain blue
serge, fitting very close around the
knees, with a tiny soutache braid for the
only trimming.
Nearby Was a good-looking matron in
a simply perfect gown, absolutely satis
fying In every respect The underdrew
Intermittent tapping sound and the liver
hissed.
The peristaltic movements of tbe Intes
tines from time to time startled him wllh
thunderous rumbling*.
Every sound produced In this room Is
killed the Instant It reaches any of the
walls, for these are so constructed that
they not only will not transmit sound, but
do not reflect It. Tbe celling and door
have eight layers of different material.
Tbs sides ure constructed of the follow
lug layers:
TrichopolSß6, a felt like material made
of horsehair, and n very bod conductor
and reflector of sound. This layer Is cov
ered with a net on the luucr side to keep
the hair from falling.
Boron* stons. This part of the wall does
hot rest on the floor, but Is Isolated from It
by a layer of sheet lead.
A dead air space.
A wood layer
A mitturs of ground cork and sand.
A special composition of ground cork
called korsksteln
Animals placed In the room slirtW marked
symptom* of nervousness and hood begin
to set up piteous cries. 1/ hot taken out
they tear and scratch mdtly at the doer.
of smoke-colored satin was covered with
ft tunic which reached tHe knees in front
ftr. ’. lengthened toward the bottom In
back. This tunic of marquisette was
entirely covered with an intricate pattern
in soutache the same tone, while intro
duced into the waist and sleeves was
some real Venetian lace, the creamy color
of which was the exact shade to go with
gray.
There remain Rt 111 Several weeks In
which furs will h« comfortable, and on*
in constantly seeing new conceits in this
nost coveted of women's belonging*.
Muffs seem unable to stop growing, while
the collar is often merely a scrap of fur.
A very elaborate affair can be fashioned
of shirred brown chiffon and bands of
brown fur, the stole lined with shirred
White chiffon and lltlto frills of Val. lace.
The very la r g« muff is lined In the
•Ante way. and there is something
very dainty In the little white frills
peeping out nt the end:*. Wide bands of
fur around tho bottom of the skirt and
around the wrist of a plain velvet redin
got e are very swagger. Gray panne Vftl*
vet with bands of chinchilla and castor
cloth with sable are pleasing combina
tions.
Days and Weeks slip past b<v quinfcly*
one in no sooner through worrying about
Winter clothes than thoughts of Spring
Intrude and one’s peace of mind Is over.
A few suggestions for Southern wear
nre offered In to-day’s sketches:
(A) —This Is a very olmple one-piece
morning dress of the new shantung
linen In one of the dull blues. Fast
ening is on one side in Russian blouse
fashion, with band of braiding in Walts
of Troy design.
(B) —Linen or silk serge coat suit,
Louis XV. style, with vest of cfetonna
fastened with one large pear) button.
Three of the same buttons trim each
side of front with loops hanging free.
(C) —Lingerie gown of mercerized
batiste with Insertions of Valenciennes
lace alternating with rows of small
tucks. Waist has handkerchief dra
pery with Insertions of lace. Bleeves
and guimpe are formed of rows of lace
and tucking. Girdle of flowered silk.
(D) —Afternoon gown of flowered
border matorlal edged with band of
solid color! Border Is draped entirely
to one side, both front and back, edges
being fastened at waist line with loops
and cords of silk mixed with gold
thread.
(E) —Severe new hair arrangement,
with wide spreading aigret on one side
fastened to narrow twist of velvet.
yrf^jShlm
M ' mw\
/ Jf I ■■ : (jpf nil ■ nr I
(: i Ml ml M\ / i
%lm\Ui /S/ /If ( /
itlvlfi/jiijf ms 1\ \/l
'Mjßlw wm
L\U II jj j;,i
rail ; p mmJA
ffl na Wi
ft Vug rj j Ha HTB /I
|$V5 1 wtf/a
.Hr pi Hwj
\H| 1-, Hw//
•,\yg n sjw/
\YB Ui Uf/1
p | jg 1
wP n I
■fir*,/ tji L! bB-’^k
Ejfif' IL V i «■
13?, I L tU
taasJMT