Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 7 January 1926 — Page 3

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

Velvet Leads for Dressy Occasions

The tea dance demands something more formal than a tailored suit or the ordinary all-day outfit that of late has served even the most modishly dressed women who drop in to tea and stop for a dance or two. The extreme severity of line in the styles of late seasons has softened. The gowns one sees now at the smart rendezvous, observes a fashion authority in the New York Times, have more elaboration of detail and a general “dressy” air. This season’s materials are rich and colorful; velvet, fine cloths, metal, silk and satin brocades and novelties of the most'delicate quality and the highest degi-ee of art in design and color. The best-known names in the center of styles creation are attached to the models one sees In the smartest places. One with a background of prestige is Drecoll, past master of the art of dress as presented by the woman of elegance. It is said of Drecoll’s gowns, wraps and ensembles that they are never “out of style.” Some of the happiest creations of his career are shown in this season’s collection. Drecoll, always noted for his use of handsome materials, is handling velvet with skill in many unusual designs and in original combinations. Without the slightest suggestion of clumsiness or overelaboration, he treats velours with as much freedom as if it were chiffon. In one of the most stunning models shown by this house gold lame and‘black velvet are combined. The metallic tissue is finely plaited and the velvet is added to a straight-line foundation in the form of a circular flounce. Drecoll treats with equally happy results several interesting combinations of sheer and heavy material. He adds wide bands of velours to a gown of georgette, fur to chiffon and velvet to any one of several fragile fabrics in a manner both original and attractive. Among Drecoll's Creations. Nothing more fascinating among the fashions has emanted from Paris this season than Drecoll’s models. His treatment of the latest silhouette, in which the natural line of the body is followed, is most clever. This is apparent in some charming princess gowns for afternoon, made of velvet and the new brocaded chiffon velvets. It is shown also in gowns, with the hip-length bodice and gathered skirt. Drecoll treats the lifted front line of the skirt very skillfully. The hem is Jinvariably uneven, and.-the. skirt, fullness is distributed in different ways according to the style of the frock. A design of which the Drecoll atelier apparently never tires is the surplice front, with a slightly cascading drapery at one side. This season’s models

Afternoon Gown of White Crepe Combined With Black Velvet.

are distinguished and rather more than ordinarily beautiful, with nothing of the bizarre. Some of the models are done in the new shades of gray, with silver; in metallic fabrics with warm shades of wine, plum and rose velvet and in striking combinations of black with the metal brocades. Drecoll uses much fur, but his models have little of the cheap furs one sees on so many of this season’s gowns. Mink, real fox, lynx and ermine are shown on some of his best models. In a particularly handsome ensemble of metal brocade and velvet, the wrap is bordered all around with black lynx. A distinguished feature of Drecoll’s creations is the sleeve. All of the gowns for afternoon have sleeves, most of them long, but few absolutely plain, either on gowns or on coata. The puff and gathered-under sleeves are shown in several variants. On one model a puff is introduced between a narrow cuff at the elbow and the top of the sleeve. In another the sleeve is plain from the shoulder to the point of the elbow, where, the lower part is gathered on full. It is held by a narrow band at the wrist.

Patou, in creating an elaborate afternoon wrap of a Bianchini fabric, cuts the sleeve tight at the top and flaring wide at the hand. In an afternoon coat in the same collection he adds a wide lower sleeve of fur to a plain, tightly fitted foundation of cloth. This corresponds to a deep, flaring flounce and high, spreading collar of the same fur. Interesting Sleeve Designs. Worth has presented several interesting sleeve designs. In one coat model he makes the cloth sleeve fit snugly, with a wider oversleeve of fur three-quarters up from the hand, held with a narrow band of the stitched cloth. In another, this same

Wrap of Metallic Brocade Is Trimmed With Silver Fox.

couturier tucks the material finely from a band of fur above the elbow to another at the wrist. In still another novel design he has a tightfitting sleeve from the shoulder to the elbow, with a puff the rest of the length, gathered into a narrow wristband. Phillipe et Gaston are showing some late models of gowns in which the sleeves are long and very full, widening below the elbow, but invariably gathered into a close cuff at the hand. Bernard treats the sleeves of both gowns and coats in a somewhat tailored fashion with wide cuffs. Those from Beer are done in much the same fashion. Martial et Armand are showing some designs in sleeves that are cuffed below the elbow in a rather extreme manner. Jean Magnin presents two models of striking and unusual design. In one, a handsome wrap of silver lame and black velvet, an enormous sleeve cut in one piece with the coat is of two materials, the upper part of lame, with velours gathered in full underneath. The whole tapers to the hand, where It is finished with a narrow wristlet of fur, matching the band with which the wrap is finished down each side of the front and around the bottom. From this couturier comes an entirely different design. In this the sleeve of a velvet afternoon coat fits tightly from shoulder to wrist, where a narrow scarf of white satin Is added, with two ends hanging free. Metal Cloths Fashionable. In the very latest models for afternoon some of the most important fabrics o? the season are presented. Metallic cloths and metal brocades are exceedingly fashionable, particularly for coats and wraps. The newest coat, which will be featured for the Southern resorts and for the spring season in town, of silk and metal or all metal cloth, is straight or flaring slightly. It must be but 36 inches long. It is almost invariably trimmed with some sort of fur, and marabou is coming into vogue again. The usual model is conventional, only the sleeve being in novel design. Crepe and crepe satin are tremendously popular and the ribbed silks, bengaline, velvet and fine wool rep are used a great deal. For the most elaborate gowns many of the new brocaded chiffon velvets are seen. These are of infinite variety in pattern, in the most gorgeous colors, the warmest tones of red, delphinium blue, green, brown, burnt umber and all the tints of the most colorful flowers of mid-summer and autumn. Some of these materials are dyed in shades with charming effect. They are so ornate that no trimming is required. Gowns of plain material are ornamented in different ways with fur, passementerie, stunning motifs or the new girdle of silk in a contrasting color, or handsomely brocaded ribbon. Though the lines are a matter of individual design, many models have the flare at the side and in the back. Some have a definite suggestion of the bustle or pannier. In this detail Martial et Armand have done some interesting things. Premet Is fond of the one-piece gown with a decided in-curve at the waistline and a flare at the sides.

Editorial Eyes By RUBY DOUGLAS

(Copyright.) TWTENTALIiY Alice Langhorn filled the editorial room, even to overflowing: physically she certainly did not. However, what there was of Alice physically was simply beautiful from shingled head to dainty feet. She always looked through her big mail eagerly for the letters marked “personal” and read those before taking up the manuscripts from hundreds and hundreds of strangers. Her lips curled happily as she found one from Ethel Ward, her lifelong chum. Ethel still lived in the town of her birth, in the Middle West, while Alice had been drawn to the East by the power of ambition. And now, Ethel was preparing for her marriage to Stanley Bradshaw in the near future and would no doubt settle down to domestic happiness. “Dearest Alice,” read the little-big editor, “I am going to ask the greatest kind of a favor of you. Stanley is going to New York next week and intends shopping his poems about the various magazines. I don’t know a thing about poetry—all I know about is dogs and ponies, so I can’t say whether his poems are any good or not. Of course I’ve told him so much about you that he swears he knows you by heart, and I am sending him to you, poetry and all. Please don’t be foolish and spare his feelings if there is nothing in his work; but help him all you can. He’s frightfully serious about it. I sometimes wish he weren’t. “Also, dearie, do be good to Stanley and let him take you about with him—he will be a stranger in a strange land, so be a sport and show him the sights. Hope you take to each other because you’re both true blue. Much love—will write more later. Ethel.” Ten days later Alice received the card which she had been looking for and a moment later Stanley Bradshaw stood within her sanctum. They liked each other without hesitation—frankly, and instinctively. He drew forward a seat and they first had a long chat about home. After that he shyly j 7 et eagerly brought forth his poems. Alice knew they were very dear to him and she hoped wkh all her soul that she would not be called upon to chill his ambitions. Alice smiled softly and held out a hand. “Come back at about five— perhaps we can have dinner together and I will tell you all about the poems.” “It’s too good of you,” he said boyishly, “1 need not tell you that more than half my life has been spent in effort and that I hope to win out.” Alice knew that her heart was thumping in dull turmoil as she waited for Stanley at five o’clock. It was a beat quite unknown to her and startled her with its persistency. He greeted her with a breathlessness that proclaimed the fact that she had not been out of his mind for one moment since leaving her. “I am going to talk poetry, before we go out,” Alice said knowing full well that they could only skim the surface of any other topic until that subject had been thrashed out. He thanked her with his eyes—meeting the glorious depths in hers with a long look of understanding, “You have an exquisite poetic sense,” Alice told him, “but if you want your verses to live you must make them breathe, throb, pulsate with something which you—well—I may be wrong but I feel that you have not yet held your head dose enough to mother earth to get the intensity of her longings—the vast emotions, heartbreaks, love, tenderness—” She held out her hands to him now as if to soften the effect of her words. “You have it within you to become one of the world’s poets. I do not want to publish these as they are—you would be sorry.” Stanley never knew how roughly he took and held the hands she offered him. There was a fierce look in his eyes and he beat back with an effort the rapid flow of words that threatened his tight pressed lips. "I know those poems are feeble, inanimate soulless things,” he said. “I knew it when I stepped into this room this morning!” He drew her suddenly against his breast and tipping back her face stroked the soft hair from her brow. He looked down into her startled eyes a long moment, then added, “When I left you, a grief so intense plunged through me as to make me physically ill, and all through the day my blood has been beating tempestuously like a lion against its cage.” More softly he said. “I think for months I have been anticipating something tremendous. I believe in my heart that Ethel has brought this meeting about. It is she who has put your soul into my keeping with her constant reminders of you. She talks of you continually—I seem to have known you always—there will never be any other love in my life.” He released her and she stood Speechless. And out West, in rough knickers and heavy boots Ethel Ward tramped happily about among her ponies and dogs and by her side was a big man who knew no more about poetry than Stanley did about the breeding of ponies, but he did know that he and Ethel loved each other and that where there was a will there was always a way, and he was going to find that way even though Eth#l was engaged to a poet.

Small Village Mother of City of Baltimore Far to the north on the southeastern coast of Newfoundland Is a little village called Ferryland, says a writer in the Baltimore Sun. This small, windblown town of some sparse five hundred inhabitants is in a way the mother of a buxom, prosperous daughter to the south, the city of Baltimore. In 1628 George Calvert, Lord Baltomore, arrived in North America with a charter which gave him most of the island of Newfoundland, called the province of Avalon. He founded his first colony in the new country on the site of this village of Ferryland and settled there with his family. But finding the climate more rigorous than he thought comfortable, he asked Charles I for a grant of land north of the Potomac river and planned to move to warmer regions. His request was granted, but before the final negotiations were completed he died. His son, Cecilius Calve t, second baron of Baltimore, completed the transaction in 1632 and named his colony Maryland in compliment to the queen, Henrietta Maria. And so it was that Ferrvland was left to struggle with the bleak winds blowing off the rugged coa t where it clung up on the hillside. But though small, it was wiry, and todi v it still is alive, not a great deal larger than It was in the days of its early youth several hundred years ago, but still sound and hearty.

English Trade-Marks Many Centuries Old English legislation trending toward the authorization of trade-marks began in 1286. In that year parliament provided that “every baker shall have a mark of his own for every sort of bread.” This was followed in 1363 by Edward Ill’s provision that every master goldsmith have a mark. Under Henry Y appears an ordinance for marking barrels; and one of these early signs, dating back to 1420. is still used by the London Coopers’ company. By 1688 Randle Holmes, writing of his investigations throughout the kingdom, reported Chester to be full of merchant marks. And shortly thereafter the practice became the institution. Many of the present British companies hold devices dating back to the Seventeenth century.—Exchange. Tungsten of Great Value Tungsten or wolfram is a metallic element isolated by the brothers d’Elhujart in 1783, after Sch ele had, in 1771, isolated tungstic aci L Tungsten is not found native, but ( ‘curs as the tungstate of iron and ma'ganese in the mineral wolframite, as e calcium tungstate or’FCheellte, As ut^rtrioxlde or wolfram ochre, and in small quantities In other minerals. Tungsten minerals are almost invariably found in tin ores. It is used to increase the hardness and tenacity Of steel and thus improve it as a material for hard tools. Coolidge has succeeded in rendering tungsten malleable and ductile, and at present tungsten Wh’e is widely used for making incandescent lamp filaments.

Narrow Escape The professor was lecturing to the medical class and stopped occasionally to ask a question. “Suppose,” he said, “a young woman in walking on a slippery pavement fell and dislocated her ankle, and you happened to be on the spot, what would you do?” “Rubber,” answered the flippant and unthinking young man. The rest of the class held its breath till the professor went on: “Quite right. A vigorous rubbing would serve to keep down the swelling until remedies could be procured and applied.” And the students breathed again.—Brooklyn Eagle.

Thrift Not Mere Saving It is well to understand that thrift means much more than the mere saving of money, says Thrift Magazine. It is unfortunate that so much of our current thrift educational effort is directed solely along lines of money saving. Many people, through great patience and self-denial, are able to lay by a comfortable sum, only to lose it in the end through ill-advised investment. Thrift education should *e conducted along broad lines. How to spend and invest is as important as how to save.

Many-Sided Mule Those who are supporters of the mule say, in comparison with the horse, he lives longer, endures more work and hardship, requii-es less attention and feed, and is less liable to digestive disorders, lameness and disease. The difficulty is to know how 7 to handle the mule because of the fact of a combination of stubbornness and willingness, temper and sullenness, slyness and docility, faithfulness and waywardness. The mule must be understood, and gently but firmly persuaded to do tilings out of the ordinary.

Quick Thinking A famous automobile racer was speeding at night through a towm that was in darkness owing to an electricians’ strike. Something went w 7 rong with his batteries, and the lights of his car went out. He w 7 as accosted by a policeman, who, pointing to his darkened lamps, asked his name and address. The racer did some quick thinking, and said, “Of course my lights are out. They’re out all over town.” “That’s right, I forgot,” stammered the policeman. “Go ahead.”

AN EXCEPTION

Husband—This tomato soup tastes just like that my mother used to make. Wife—I’m glad to hear it. You have never said before that anything of mine was as good as your mother’s. She was a fine cook, I suppose? Husband—Yes. There was only one thing she couldn’t make properly. Wife—What was that? Husband—Tomato soup!—Stockholm Kasper.

Unto This End “By the way,” said the lawyer who was drawing up the will, “I notice that you’ve named six bankers to be your pallbearers. Would you rather choose some friends with whom yo\x are on better terms?” “No, that’s all right,” was the quick reply. “Those fellows have carried me so long they might as well finish the job.”—Boston Transcript.

Feared Results of Lack of Sprinkling Walter Stern, new purchasing manager for Universal, is very proud of a sizable brood of chickens. Also, he has a little daughter, Barbara. Being in a hurry one morning, he asked the child to feed and water the chickens, and did not see her again until the following day when she snuggled up to him with a worried look on her face. “What’s the matter?” Walter wanted to know. “Did you forget to take care of the chickens yesterday?” “I just guess they’ll never grow up to be hens,” Barbara confided, “ ’cause you see, daddy, I feeded them all right, but I forgot to sprinkle them.”— Los Angeles Times.

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Merely Time’s Change “The ambition of the young man of today,” laments an eastern educator —and so far as we’re concerned he’ll have to do his lamenting alone—“is to acquire a flivver and a flapper,” says the Detroit Free Press. Well, what of it, and what can be done about It? The ambition of his dad and his grandad, probably, was to acquire a gig and a gal.

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HARD CASH

First Citizen—Has Zero made much money In the ice cream business. The Other One—He made a cool million.

She Wants to Know He said he had never loved before As he gave the girl a kiss. “Then how,” asked the girl. With her head In a whirl, “Did you learn to love like this?”

Showed Her New Steps Hostess (at dance)—What have you and Arthur been doing outside all this time? Dolly—Oh, he showed me some new steps. “But I thought he didn’t dance.” “He doesn’t. We sat on them.”

Willing to Swap. Wealthy Judge (lecturing a prisoner)—A clear conscience, my man, is more to be desired than riches. Prisoner—All right, sir, I’ll swap with you.

Love’s Labor The man who loves his little wife And heeds her every call and beck Has still another duty now— He shaves the back of dearie’s neck.

Dangerous Sport “Are you going to the masquerade?” “No; last time I won a prize and my friends all got mad at me.”

Retreat “Why should we buy a house, dear?” “Well, we have no car, and we ought to get a place to hide.”

RENEWABLE CHARMS

Mr. Laurels—Mere physical beauty is all too fleeting. Miss Manchester—It doesn’t last long but, then, it can be renewed every day.

Breakfast Didn’t Worry “You don’t mean to tell me you married Elsie Spender?” “But I do—I mean I did,” replied the optimistic bridgegroom. “Why, your salary won’t even buy her breakfast!” “Ha 1 Ha!” laughed the optimist. “That’s where I’ve got you. Elsie won’t get up for breakfast I”

Once Upon a Time Counsel—Now, sir, tell me, are you well acquainted with the prisoner? Witness—I’ve known him for twenty years. “Have you ever known him to be a disturber of the public peace?” “Well—er—he used to belong to a band.”

A Trade Trick “Are you familiar with Browning?” “Yes, I’ve been a baker for 12 yearsi.”—Pitt PAnther.

Beginnings It is a wise father that knows how to pick for his child the shoestring that inevitably starts him on the road to success.—Life.

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