Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1910 — Fads and Fancies in Dress [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Fads and Fancies in Dress

Dots and rings are much employed tn the new foulard designs. On Louis XII. coats one sees three pocket flaps, one above the other. Tailor-made gowns of silk will be more in evidence than ever before. The fashionable flower this season is the Bermuda lily in white or pink. Bordered challis are charming this spring and will be a popular fabric for cool day summer gowns. Black chiffon tunics over blue or green or orange satin foundations are among the more favored styles. The Russian blouse in wash maerials will be very popular for wear in place of the regulation linen coat. Russian turbans of flowers, foliage and are trimmed with huge bows of maline at the left and back. .Coarse Russian braid, row’ upon row, soutache in intricate patterns and soutache in hanging knots, constitute the trimming for outdoor garments. Many rows of Russian braid, tubular braid, plain silk braid an eighth of an Inch wide, embroidery and soutache associated, trim the tailored models. Among the new designs in table linen are napkins and square table cloths with circular designs. The corners are filled in with handsome separate patterns. For outing days there is a stunning model of a sailor hat with a slightly rolled brim and trimmed with a plajted cord and two quills placed quite flat at the side. Cotton crepe is correct in colors as well as white. Dresses made of it are both inexpensive, practical and dressy, an almost impossible combination for a woman’s dress. Lace is more and more claiming the attention for trimming hats and gowns. Black and white are most used, and when dcorating skirts it is adjusted in flounces or as a tunic. Skirts‘are drawn back tightly, the fullness massed at each side or directly in the back by a broad strap about a hand wide or sometimes by a band reaching to the sides. Separate foulard waists to go with cloth suits match in color. They are made without collars and worn with round collars of lace or embroidery, Irish lace of course being preferred. A Loveometer. Science, laments the Gentlewoman, Is slowly killing romance. The latest invention is an instrument called* a phethysmograph for scientifically testing the warmth of lovers’ affections. The person whose feelings are to be weighed in the balance puts his or her arm into a rubber bag; which is then drawn tight and filled with water. Names of young men or young women, as tty case may be, are introduced, and if the name stirs the heart the pulse rises and the indicator mounts up. If the name leaves the subject unmoved the pulse remains stationary. • Uelualona in Marrla?e. Sir Charles McLeran is championing in the English commons a series of bills to recognize the marriage service with a view to making it honest. The church service enjoins: “Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands as unto the Lord,” which. Sir Charles says, the ladies have never any intention of doing, and which, Sir Charles’ wife says. Involves an arrogatlon to

the men of godlike quality which she regards as a characteristic bit of masculine buncombe. Further on the service contains the man's vow: “With all my worldly goods I thee’endow,” which. Sir Charles and Mrs. Sir Charles declare is just a plain lie, He never means it for fifteen minutes after the knot is tied.—Success Magazine. “Cottage” Motor Bonnett.

Among the new spring and summer motor bonnets is one built on lines shown in above sketch. It is exceedingly smart and comes in several different kinds of material —silver sheen silk moire and voile cloth; all pretty and practical. The rosettes are made x from the material, with ends slightly fringed. The Working Woman. Cardinal Gibbons is quite right in saying that the world has a great deal more respect for the woman who toils than it has for her dawdling, idle sister in society. It must be borne in mind, however, that the stigma that attaches to luxurious indolence does not belong to all society women. There are women who have a great deal of money, and who do not have to assume the domestic burden, who look well to the ways of their households, and are earnestly concerned in altruistic causes. Such women are deserving of admiration and honor. There are those who accomplish quietly and apparently without effort, what others do with much bluster and fuss. In “Weir of Hermiston” Stevenson describes the elder Kristie as run ning her household “with her whole intemperate soul, in a hustle, not without buffets.” The women who labor on without letting it appear that they are hard at work do not always get the credit for activity that is awarded by the unthinking to the woman who proclaims from the house tops that she has been busily upheaving the domestic economy from cellar to garret. Not

every woman is idle because her efllciency, like less Wisdom, doth not cry aloud nor lift up its voice.—-Philadel-phia Public Ledger, Marrying for a Home. In one sense every right-minded woman marries for a home, since the home Is the symbol of her new partnership; the sanctuary of all high and holy hopes. It is as natural for the normal woman to long for a home as it is for her to desire the love of ja good man; but the day has gone by when an American girl need be forced to make a marriage of convenience. With the multiplication of industries and the ever-widening call for women’s work, the number of mercenary alliances in the middle classes has been reduced to a minimum. The educated girl who marries so that she may be supported is either hopelessly lazy or the victim of an unwise training which has failed to fit her for life. So long as love continues to exist in the world —and that means until the human race is extinct—it is safe to say that women will be reluctant to marry for a home, and there is no doubt that economic independence has increased the reluctance. In response to the question, “Do vomen marry for a home?” we should say that a few exceptions prove the rule that American women do not marry to be supported.—New Idea Woman’s Magazine. Keep Children Bn«y. If mothers want to keep their children out of mischief, they should keep them busy, either at work or play. It is a well known fact that idleness is the cause of a great deal of wrongdoing among men and women, so what else can we expect of our children? Give each a task to do each day and they will soon learn to feel responsible for its being done well. After their work is over, give them the time to play, but not to mope or worry some one. Children feel of more importance in the world when they know that they are being depended upon to do something to help. Then when the mother has so much to do, it is a great deal to have so many steps saved. Of course, this applies more especially to homes where there is no outside help kept. Give your little ones something to do and see how much better they are. Remedy for Blackheads. Use soft cloths wrung out of warm water to soften the skin, and then keep it perfectly clean by washing with plenty of good soap'and warm water every night, finishing with cold. A girl of 16 should not have blackheads; they mean that you do not get the dirt out of your skin when you wash it. Wouldn’t Stay Away. A Chicago man has been fined $25 and costs because he for 11 hours on the front steps of the house in which his adored one resided and would not stay away when her mother drove him off with a broom.