Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1910 — Fads and Fancies in Dress [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Fads and Fancies in Dress

Bordered materials make many summer gowns. Plumes to match the gown are used on black hats. In Paris short-skirted evening gowns are fashionable. New combing jackets are made of flowered cretonne. Some of the cotton foulards are as beautiful as the silks. Hats of black straw are seen trimmed with silver braid. Crochet lace is»smart on gowns, jabots, blouses and even on hats. Cornflower yellow is one of the newest shades for evening gowns. There is a craze for brown and many new shades have been sliown. Many of the new turbans are trimmed with huge bows of changeable ribbon at the back. The black hat Is probably most durable from its power to withstand dust

and spots and its satisfying harmony with any color of costume. Parasols are seen with long, fantastic handles of carved wood, such as elephant and bulldog heads. Women 1 ! Clothins;. Dr. Haig Ferguson in a lecture at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary the other day had some severe things to say about the clothing of an adult woman. It was hampered by fashion and superstition and nothing could be a greater tribute to the strong nerves and pqwerful muscles of women than the fict that their health had survived for centuries their habits of clothing. - A woman’s clothing was the despair of the hygienist. ’ Children .and girls were more sensibly clad, but when girls grew up they were often clothed in a way which made them unable to walk, run or breathe. Weighty skirts, low-necked gowns, “pneumonia blouses,” the modern hat, the highheeled shoe with its pointed toe, were all condemned. But, then, women will have it so and so it will remain. Sleep and the Brain. When the brain is at work marshaling ideas, producing mental pictures, and calling into action stored-up memories and impressions, the cells of its mysteriously potent “gray matter” undergo a change of form. Cavities are formed in them, which, as the brain becomes wearied by long-continued action, fill with a watery fluid. Part of the substance of the cells appear to have been consumed in the process of thinking, but in the hours of sleep the exhausted cells regain their original form, the supply of recuperative material coming from the blood, and on awakening, the mind finds its instrument restored and prepared again for action. A Dluppolntment. Artists, poets and writers generally conspire to represent woman as being beautiful, gentle, self-sacrificing and the embodiment of love. With this extravagant ideal of woman formed for them in their youth, is it surprising that many men are doomed to disappointment?—Ttu th. Woma» and the Motor Car. Can a woman drive a motor car? Robert Slass says she can, and in the Outing Magazine tells why. In one place he says: “Unusual physique is not necessary

for the woman motorist. Neither eeg needs extraordinary muscular develop* ment in automobiling, and also any woman not an invalid can master its •mysteries quite as well as a man, provided she has the will and the patience to acquire the know-how. Certainly in the sphere of patience woman by nature is equipped to give man a long handicap. The woman motorist is not half so likely as man Is to swear and call loudly for a tow when anything goes wrong with the car. She will more probably set quietly to work to find the trouble and remedy it quite as thoroughly as if she were cleaning otit the kitchen range. “Remember, nevertheless, that though sex and slight physique aye in no sense disabilities to the woman who wants to do her own motoring, and though her feminine patience and intuition stand her in good stead, she must not expect to succeed by intuition alone.” s . I A World Upside Down. Another announcement was lately made of the perennial discovery that women are alike the world over—that gentle birth, training, environment do not of themselves create a new feminine type. The fact is as old as the race. The beggar maid, we have been assured for generations, proved an excellent queen for King Cophetua. Maud Muller would have quickly learned to adorn the station to which the judge might have called her. So the reCent scheme of so-called "social leader” had not even the excuse of being a jnovel demonstration. Madam took two girls from ordinary boarding houses to her house, dressed them in her clothes, loaded them with her jewels, and introduced them to her millionaire friends. The next day she told the newspaper of her successful trick, exulted over the enthusiasm with which “society” had accepted her victims, and thus demonstrated that "wealth and false pride form the barriers between the classes.” The contriver of the scheme said to the reporters, “I* once dressed up my cook in one of my gownd, and she mingled with my guests. Her figure was beautiful, and she made a stunning appearance. But she did not feel at her ease, and stayed only a short time. Back to the kitchen she went.” It is to be hoped that the girls in her latest experiment, nay, that the hostess herself, may show as good sense as did Mary, the cook. But the

task of the two young women is not an easy one. Will they go back to simplicity and industry and honesty and womanliness? Or will they plot to force their way, by hook or crook, in the not too genuine world of which they have caught a glimpse?—Youth’s Companion. Summer Sleeve SuKVeetiona.

Very few sleeves now are all In one piece. An over and undersleeve are used In almost every case. The first sketch shows a foulard silk sleeve with deep cuff over an undersleeve of dotted net.* The second sketch is a lingerie effect in white batiste, strapped with lace insertion. Na 3 shows the “peasant" or seamless shoulder, an extension of the bodice forming the sleeve, which falls over an undersleeve of heavy lace. Nos. 4 and 5 show sleeves taken from two mohair frocks, one a tailored street gown and the other a little white mohair house dress. The last sketch is a ponge sleeve trimmed with oriental embroidery and mounted over an undersleeve of. cream tucked batiste. To Soften Paint Braahee. To soften an old paint brush in which the paint has been allowed to dry, heat some vinegar to the boiling point, and allow the brush to simmer in it a few minutes. Remove and wash well in strong soap suds, and the brush will be like new. Explained at Boat. Women are better than men, because they do not have women to tempt them.—Smart Set