Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 245, 25 September 1915 — Page 11

THE mOUfOND PALLADIUM AIJI SUN-TELEGUAX1 SATURDAY, SEPT. 25, 1915

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In Fashion's Realm

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jThe Smartest Seal Coats Have Trimming of Contrasting t?ir Animal Effects in Neckpieces Find Favor Muffs tt'hat Are Modish Are Round Youthfulness of Style Aimed At in Fur-Wear for This Season- Mink Revived in Fashion's Esteem. - .

MAGINING winter cold, while the mercury is still above the seventies, is one of the most difficult mental feats as difficult as imagining torrid heat and umidity when frost nips the fingers on January day; but feminine imagination onquers even such acrobatic problems tth ease it would seem, and any woman in mid-August can visualize herself, in & stunning sealskin wrap wun nat ana jmuff to match ; the feat causes her no Wiscomiort whatever. Aireaay tne new furs are being shown in shop windows, and so alluring are they one instinctively makes up one s mind on beholding them what other extravagance it will be possible to do without in order to go clothed in fur the moment the thermometer permits. ' A salient feature of the new fur coats is their youthfulness. The furriers seem this year to have put their whole mind n making furs not only elegant but fetching; and well have they succeeded. Elegance and distinction are no longer the first duty of furs they must express charm, grate and dash as well, and even the once matronly looking neckpieces of cumbersome peltry have been given a dashing suggestion by better planned lines and by brushes and animal heads applied in lavish profusion. THE BOA RETURNS It is years since one saw the oldfashioned fur boa which twisted itself

October Days Full of Sweet Poetry

BY EDGAR ILIFF. The best days are coming on apace the October days. 'Tis then that nature triumphs and glories in her work. She has passed the hardness of winter, overcome the travail of spring, feone through the storms of summer, and now rests like some hearty dame nd looks with beaming face upon her children around her. There Is glory and romance, heartiness and lustiness in the air. Imbibe the spirit of an October day and the things that eeemed a burden in your narrow moods now shrink up. We see how petty were our anxieties and worryings. We begin to see the right Bide of life. We have left the false standards of respectability. Sham, cant, hyprocisy, both political and religious, begone! We are near to nature's heart. We are rich when we thought ourselves poor. The farmers may own the acres and see only the possibilities of crops. We see the landscape, with its golden-hiled trees, ind are lifted into a higher sphere. We own that landscape and our title Is perfect. If he cannot glory in the beauty and radiance so lavishly bestowed upon us all, then he dees not own the title. Blessed are the possessors of hearts responsive to nature's chords; they shall inherit the earth! All lovers of nature are communists tn a high sense. The beauty of earth belongs to all the children of men, and neither riches nor poverty shall shut It out; and whoever would lessen this beauty, or fence it in, or try to take it tor his own, is a robber and a thief. We should hate with a scornful hater or pity with a deep pity, all who would drape life in dark colors or attempt to improve upon nature's work by the lubstitution of dreams : born of deranged stomachs. Dark views of life Ire neither Pagan nor Christian, but morbid. We are all heirs royal. Who khall dare seize our wealth by quibbles pt the law? ' It was once said in a famous sernon a sermon whose beauty and Septh no church has yet fully heralded ir fathomed. "Blessed are the meek,

around the neck and then fell to the knees, but boas are being revived and doubtless by midwinter a good many of them will be evident. The only possible way to wear a boa so that it shall not look staid and middle-aged or make one look so is to let one end of it trail over the shoulder while the other is held down in front under the muff. Time will tell how the 1916 boa Vill be worn. Styles in neckwear seem to be divided between the little fur collar which fits trimly and closely around the throat and the enormous animal scarf loaded with natural heads and brushes. Both will be fashionable next winter, but for early season wear the collarette of fur, matched by fur cuffs seems to be the favored style. All the foxes, most beautiful of pelts, promise to be fashionable, but most exclusive are the lovely blue and silver foxes which are so high in price that only the favored few can afford them. White fox will be used on evening wraps but this fur has been worn so much during the past summer that its winter vogue will doubtless be somewhat impaired. In the short-haired pelts beaver, otter and nutria are the favorites, and beaver is particularly modish and will be more so, probably, as the season advances. This fur, with its soft texture and delicate color, is ideal for trimming costumes of rich material, and beaver is also charming on indoor and evening gowns, as. a border for chiffon or satin.

for thy shall inherit the earth." Alexander, with all his vast conquests, did not as truly inherit the earth as the gentle and pure-minded Socrates. Nor could Cae6ar, nor the Roman officials who looked on Paul with contempt, as truly Inherit the earth as he who had learned to look upon "whatsoever things are pure, lovely, just, of good report." October days are full of poetry and carry us back to the early English poets, back to the early morning of our literature, when poets sang like morning stars and as sweetly and naturally as wood-birds. The red leaves of autumn, the rich, warm colors painted everywhere by nature, carry us back to old Chaucer and the early minstrels and ballad singers. We may suppose that, the lusty tone and rich flow of early English poetry are due to the fact that men talked, acted and sang "with less restraint then than now. True, we have more civil liberty, but Puritanism has stamped us with a fear of our neighbor. Whether we speak, write, walk or talk, we are haunted with the consciousness that some one will not approve. There is an imaginary Respectable Person who clogs our wheels. As a result we choke the rising thought, and instead of making the air clearer by the clarion ring of our honest convictions we wait until some Mr. Respectable speaks and then we all bow In silence.' We so label ' men Democrats, Repub-' licans, Populists, Christians, Infidels, Prohibitionists, etc., that one has a hard time to find a man. We quietly resign ourselves to our fate, and when one wants us he has only to run over the row of labels and there we are neatly bottled ( up and marked "Methodist, Presbyterian, Republican, Democrat, Standpatter or Progressive." Oh, out upon such imbecility! Poor ballad makers and traveling poets of bygone days! There came an evil day for you. Puritanism and Calvinism, teaching that all joy was sinful, forbade the writing of ballads and singing of love songs. No more could the cavalier sing to his lady's

ROUND ARE THE NEW MUFFS ' One's new muff may be big or little, but it must be round as a puff-ball to have the cachet of smartness. With animal neckpieces of large size the rather large muff is most harmonious and graceful; but the small muff is delightfully chic with a fur collarette, or with a velvet suit trimmed with fur. Fitch lends itself "well to the making of neckpieces and muffs, but fitch is scarce this year and the fashionables will have to content themselves with blue fox or beaver in its place; RIPPLE FUR COATS HAVE A " - DASHING SWING : Y Gone is the bulky, cumbersome fur coat that . added thirty - pounds to its wearerin appearance if hot in actnal weight, and in its place is a new fur coat, inexpressibly smart and youthful, with sleeves set into rather small armholes, close lines over shoulder and bust and most of the fur in the ripple skirt which swings out below the waistline in jaunty, youthful style. Hudson seal is by all odds the favorite pelt for such coats and unless the seal coat is trimmed with collar and cuffs of contrasting pelt it may not claim last-minute modishness for its own. Skunk, fox and chinchilla squirrel are used as trimming on these coats, and also on coats of near-seal which are lower in price than the genuine Hudson seal models. Even Hudson ' seal, as most people know, is only dyed rat, but the pelt is beautifully soft and satiny. and the dyeing is perfectly done. The near-seal coat looks well at first, but must be often redressed. All fur . coats are richly lined with satin, some of the Hudson seal models having linings of pale tinted goldenrod satin or . flowered pussy willow silk. eyebrows! They actually hung the poets. They actually put to death , those who added to the gaiety and joy of life. In those godly days the prevailing religious tenet was that nature was corrupting and that no greater Bin could be committed than to taste something sweet or look upon something lovely. Only to the ignorant and wicked was life beautiful; to the Puritan-elect it was a vale of tears, a ' Golgotha of sin and misery; whatever was natural was wicked. All true poets love nature and revel in October's glory. "Poets are God's priests, who clothe natural things with heavenly meanings; who give a pleasant flavor" to unsavory duties; who redeem life from its frosts and winter by kindling an amoral glow of hope along its horizon." It would be well for us if we could banish "Old Man Care" and sing with Henry Vaughan: "Not a spring Or leaf but hath this morning hymn, Each bush and oak doth know I am! Canst thou not sing? O leave thy cares and follies!"

Unusual Things Worth Knowing A camera with which motion pictures of the aurora borealis have been made was built by a Swedish scientist. Baltimore, Md., has received more than two hundred manuscripts in her municipal song contest. , Every state in the union . is represented in the poems that has been sent. - At present, almost all the moleskins used in the United States come to us from Europe, though the skins of the mole found In the eastern part of this country are far. superior to the foreign product. ' It will never do to talk about the "new" west. Dr. Charles D. Walcott says that near Helena, Mont., are found the oldest animal remains now known, and also the oldest authentic vegetable remains. Some years ago he discovered the remains of crablike animals, suggesting in form fresh water crabs found the world over.

NEW NORFOLK.

A New Belted Norfolk Coat with a suggestion of the fatigue unlferm eeat in its braid-bound strappings and buttons, completes this one-piece frock and coat costume for the schoolgirl. The material is navy blue serge and the skirt l especially graceful with Its broad box pleats. PASMIOM CAMERA VTUDIOS

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Peasant Styles for Little Girls Are Picturesque Pleated Skirts and Braid-Bound Boleros in Military Effect Dance Frocks for the Teens Are of Dainty Daphne Silk Cretonne

Dresses for Warm Autumn PRACTICALITY and style go hand in hand in new toggery for little folk;, and one may say in general that juvenile modes reproduce older fashions in effects attractively modified by, the picturesque a feature essential in garments f6r childhood. School ' frocks for early autumn are of the cooler fabrics ; linen, gingham and even cretonne. Some fascinating little dresses are made entirely of cretonne and the effect is charming, for Knall, dainty patterns have been selected and cordings and smockings in plain color add the - finishing touch. - -The American autumn is so long and so sultry in many localities that worsted dresses are not comfortable before November, and some mothers keep their little daughters in tub frocks even later ; the linen or. gingham frock being covered with a smart serge coat in the , street. . , REDINGOTES FOR CHILDHOOD v Now that Paris has revived tht redingote for women, these graceful coats are appearing in the .children's departments also, and are very smart with their rather close-fitting , upper portion and coat-skirt flaring out from the waistline in ripples over .the skirt of the frock. Youthful coats of exclusive , type are built to fall short of the frock's edge by an inch or more as women's coats do this season. When the frock is a pretty one, this effect is charming, but the frock must be dainty and the foot

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To be really smart this season one must have a dance gown that is quite short, quite transparent and quite decollete. And in the illustration above we have all of these charming elements. It is fashioned in cream net with a fringe trimmed drop of georgette crepe and inserts of the daintiest opalescent embroidery. The bodice is quite simple with square neck and wing sleeves. The metal cloth girdle drapes in surplice effect with point in front lending a basque effect.

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Days. - wear correct to give the dressy effect desirable. With a navy blue serge coat showing. an edge of white frock beneath, the stockings should be white silk or fine cotton and the boots black, with buttoned tops of white. A smartly dressed child wore, the other day. a redingote coat of eal brown mohair and worsted rep, and stockings of natural silk with buttoned boots of black patent leather and kid. - - MILITARY FROCKS GAY WITH ' " ' BRAID AND BUTTONS - . . ; ' Appealing to youthful " fancy are autumn school frocks of dark blue serge, : with braid-bound edges and groups of bright buttons, of galalith in two colors, which give a cheerful appearance to these little dresses of dark blue serge, and some of the particularly martial frocks show brass or silvered buttons stamped with the eagle. A frock of this type, reproducing a childish frock by Lanvin who is the authority on juvenile modes in Paris is of soldat blue serge with a ripple skirt. and the plainest of plain little waists gathered along a shallow yoke and slashed down the front half way; silver cord over silver buttons lacing up the slash. Two very large pockets are applied to the skirt over the' hip and long t extensions from these pockets run up under the belt on' the waist, where they finish in blunt points. Belt, pockets and cuffs are bound with black braid.

A smart little navy serge school frock, displayed in a Fifth Avenue specialty shop for children last week, had a side pleated skirt and braid-bound bolero cut away under the arms and also far down the front and back in rounded ovals. Under this very open bolero was a tailored guimpe of pin-tucked linen with regulation shirt cuffs and an eton collar finished with a perky black bow. PUSSY WILLOW FROCKS FOR . CHILDHOOD Most attractive" little dresses for dancing school are of pussy willow taffeta in Dolly Varden sprigged patterns and in block checks. Black and white checked silk is considered very chic for little girls this -season, but it must have bright outtons and broad collar and cuff accessories of sheer organdie or net to give the -youthful touch.- ' Navy blue and army blue checked pussy willow silk is another pretty silk for children's dresses. Party frocks are of tucked organdie and lace or of hand-made French lawn, very soft and sheer. More elaborate model of tucked and finely corded net are mounted over crepe de Chine, pussy willow taffeta or daphne silk in some delicate shade. Girls in their teens may wear more sophisticated frocks, approaching grown up costumes in style, made of daphne silk, white taffeta or pussy willow in some dainty shade or in pompadour de sign. But the girl in her teens never wears a sleeveless or a decollete frock, though the neck may be rounded out a little and the sleeves tiny, puffed. affairs i in early Victorian style. The young girl of fifteen" or sixteen wears youthful dancing slippers, also. The high heel of womanhood is not for her, and all her buttoned boots and slippers have heels of low or moderate height.

hot, and It will remove all smell from the pan. To remove grass stains, wash the stained article In alcohol or ammonia and water; if the colors are not delicate use a paste made of soap aad - cooking soda. A siphon of soda Is an excellent fire extinguisher, as the carbonic add gas In the soda water helps to stifle the 1 flames. The siphon can be tilted and the fluid will carry to a considerable height, such as tne top of a biasing curtain. To set colors dissolve one tablespoonful of common salt In each quart of rinsing water. To make white linen a good color add a squeese or two of blue to the . water In which it is boiled. - To render articles non-inflammable dissolve two ounces of alum In one gallon of cold mater and use for rinsing. To wssh'lace squeeze In hot eoapy water, then in cold. Dip in milk to stiffen It. Press on the wrong side with a fairly hot iron. When boiling soiled clothes try putting a slice-of lemon in the pot and then boiling it with the clothes. This removes all the dirt .and stains and makes the clothes nice and white:

Floor boards should never be scrubbed across, but up and down with the grain. After being scrubbed with soap they should be washed over again with clean water and a soft cloth and then well dried. In order to keep the coffee pot sweet and clean put a tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda Into it, nearly All it with water and let It boll for a little while. Then rinse thoroughly -with several lots of warm water. ,- x. A New Belted Norfolk Coat with a suggestion of the fatigue uniform coat in its braid-bound strappings and buttons, completes this one-piecs frock and coat costume for the schoolgirl. The material is navy bine serge and the skirt is especially graceful with its broad bos pleats. Tbe coat is braid-bound and has simulated box-pleats below the new shoulder-yoke. 3. Tbe wee girl must have her new Redingote like her grown-up mamma, and this coat for a tot of five is particularly interesting because of the sloping yoke outlined by covered buttons a new and graceful line in juvenile coatwear. Collar and cuffs are trimmed with Russian fitch and the same fur forms the crown of a piquant hat. The coat is of tan broadcloth and is widened at, the sides with pleats. . 3- Plaid Pussy Willow Taffeta is combined with navy bine scree in this graceful school frock for a little maid. The gay green and blue of the plaid appears also in narrow caffs and necktie, and in a buckled sash which pas a under the over-hanging sides of the loose blouse. The collar of starched whit pinna ia low and picturesque, and white buttoned boots and stockings give Hiff. tive "Style to the costume.