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SHORT COAT-AND-SKIRT MODELS;
VESTEES AND JABOTS IN FAVOR
• CCOBDING to th e recen t co uture describe the fascinations o f th e pre-
A . openings P aris counts tailor-m ades possessing French m illinery creations
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» n-|)|ch will top m ilady's sm art tailleur.
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BS s spring fashion
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reckoned
A record season is foretold by
with, especially the sh o rt coat-and
skirt type. It is im portan t to relate sty lists fo r sm art neckw ear and
In this connection th a t navy blue hHS clever accessories. “ 'N ull said !" P re
been rediscovered by th e P arisian paredness is the word. Every woman
tishlonlat. F urtherm ore, th ere Is con of fashion should accum ulate in ad
siderable in terest m anifested In the vance a supply of pretty things which
tuck-in blouse to he w orn w ith these add chic to th e costume.
H er two-piece tuxedo or bolero suit
suits, also very sm art, carefully b u t
toned w aistcoats. And again the llu- is going to call for a frilly vestee set
gerie touch Is relied upon in many in or a strictly tailored w aistcoat. Note
stances to fem inize these conventional In tld s picture to the right, w hat a
sm artness th e tuxedo tak es on when
tallletirs.
w
ith .. a w
hite crepe de chine vest
Suits favored
most by
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„re excessively sim ple as illu strated I bound with navy blue silk. W here there
herewith. The lust w ord In French ! Is a will th ere Is a way “to own Just
tailored modes em phasizes th e su I such a practical and charm ing costume
premacjr of the slim short-coat boyish I accessory as this. Not only do the
KIDDIE
KATYDID
a
/¿pArthur Scott Bailey
A P A IR O F R A S C A L S
K /T 't. FROO reached home Just as
the sun peeped over the hills.
>1.» slipped hastily out of the w ater,
sprang up the bank of the creek, and
In th ree Jumps landed on the roof of
his tailo r's shop. T here he squatted,
while his queer, bulging eyes scanned
the sky In every direction. He was
w atching for Mr. Crow, and all but
bursting with th e news th at he had
for the old gentleman.
Mr. Frog had not sat there long be
fore he heard a hoarse caw, caw I in
the distance.
“T here he i s !” cried the tailo r nloud.
“Why Not?” Mr. Frog, the Tailor, De
manded to Know.
“T h ere's the old boy! He'll be In sight
In a moment.”
And sure en o u g h ! soon Mr. Crow
flapped out of the woods and came
sailing over th e meadows.
Thereupon Mr. Frog set up a great
croaking. And to his delight his elder
ly friend heard him calling and
dropped down a t once.
“I’ve some news for you,” Mr. Frog
announced, as soon as the old black
scam p alighted n ear him.
“It'll have to keep." Mr. Crow re
plied. " I’m on my way to th e corn
T W O PA R IS M O DELS
field. I haven’t had my b reak fast yet.
type, usually with notched lapel and neckw ear d ep artm en ts carry item s of And a person of my age h as to eat
th
is
character,
but
those
who
glory
in
plain sleeve but som etim es w ith softer
his m eals regularly.”
shaw l collar. Also the tuxedo lapel Is home sew ing will do well to spend
T he sprightly tailo r looked slightly
approved on stre e t types. Some Jack leisu re m om ents In m aking more than disappointed.
e ts have rounded corners, some square, one dainty vestee o f this c h aracter for
"I don’t know w hether th e news
aotne have one button, some have two the future.
will keep or not,” he replied slyly.
If aspiring to th e perfect tailor-m ade, “It's very Im portant. And I may have
an d the double-breasted effect is also
why not fashion a w aistcoat of pastel- to tell It to some one else first If you
sponsored.
S kirts a re short and narrow , w rap colored flannel o r broadcloth? Of don't care to h ear It now.”
arounds being em phasized, th a t is If course It m ust be very precisely b u t
toned up th e front, even including the
they are not of the plaited version.
T he introduction of w hite pique close-fitting choker collar.
H aving once glimpsed th e handsom e
vestees, plaid silk blouses o r w aist
co ats conventionally tailo red of pastel flesh-colored satin tailored vestee sets,
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colored suede cloth or tlunnel gives a th ere will be no peace of mind for the
woman
who
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” appreciates
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note O of I l individuality.
F I rilly
F ac t! about yo u r nam a, Its hlatory;
also lend a note which Is distinctly tails until she becomes th e happy pos
meaning, whence It waa derived, aig-
gggcence. yo u r lucky day, lucky jewel
fem inine in its charm .
I sessor of one Just such. T his, too, can
The vogue for the tailo red suit has be mnde at home or purchased a t will,
certain ly renew ed Interest In the sep- i Indeed, neckw ear departm ents a re fea
F R E D E R IC A
« ra te blouse. It is even h inted th a t tu rln g handsom ely tucked, plaited and
"W hat's your news about?" Mr
Crow asked him gruffly. “I suppose
you've made another suit for some
body. And you rem em ber I told you I
couldn't put thut news In my new spa
per any more uidess you paid me
something. It’s advertising. And no
body gets free advertising.”
“This news Is som ething entirely
different front anything you've ever
heard," Mr. Frog Insisted. “I t’s
about Kiddle Katydid. He's a —”
“Wait till I come back from the
cornfield!" Mr. Crow pleaded.
“I can’t! I simply m ust tell it now !"
Mr. Frog cried.
“Very well ! Rut please talk fast ;
for I’m terribly hungry."
“ Kiddle Katydid Is a flildler,’’ Mr.
Frog announced. “He Addles every
night. And th a t’s the way he makes
th at ditty of Ills—K aty did. K aty—”
"Don’t !" Mr. Crow begged. "P lease
don’t ! It's bad enough to have to hear
th at silly chorus every tim e I happen
to wake up during the night—bad
enough, I say. w ithout being obliged
to listen to It In broad daylight."
“Very well !” the tailor yielded.
"Rut he fiddles It. all the same. And
when you tell my tale to Brownie
Beaver I guess he’ll be surprised."
“1 shan't tell him.” Mr. Crow de
clared, thereby astonishing Mr. Frog.
“Why not?" the tailo r demanded.
"W e’ve had a slight disagreem ent."
said Mr. Crow with a hoarse laugh.
“I’m not his new spaper any longer.”
"Well, there's nothing to prevent
your telling this story to other people.
Is there? And you certainly will he
willing to mention me Ht the sam e
time, won’t you?" Mr. Frog Inquired
with an anxious pucker between tils
strange eyes.
“W here do you come In. pray tell?”
Mr. Crow Inquired coldly.
"Why, I discovered the secret !"
“P erhaps you did—and perhaps you
didn’t," Mr. Crow observed. Being
very, very old, he w as very, very wise
And he Imd long since learned that
Mr. Frog was a som ewhat slippery
person. “If I spread any such news
us that about P leasant Valley I shall
do It In my own way.” lie rem arked.
And thereupon the old gentleman rose
quickly and disappeared In the direc
tion of the cornfield, w ithout so much
as a "T hank you !"
Mr. Frog gazed a fte r hltn m ourn
fully.
"If thut Isn’t Just m.v luck!" he la
mented. “I ought to have kept the
secret till a fte r the old boy had his
breakfast. Then perhaps he'd have
been b etter natured."
"What’s in a Name?'
WMGLEYS
NEW HANDY PACK
Fits hand
pochet an d purse
This wlnsoms "movie" comedienne
is the daughter of O tis H arlan, noted
actor, and was born In Long Branch,
New Jersey. She Is a petite miss with
dark brown h air and brown eyes. Miss
H arlan Inherited much dram atic talen t
from her father.
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CTHE WHYo/
SUPERSTITIONS
By
H.
IR V IN G
K IN G
TH REE KEYS
H IS charm Is highly recommended
Is the feminine coun
I JtREDERICA
te rp a rt of the popular masculine T for young women who are anxious
to know w hether th a t young man who
nam e Frederick. It signifies “peace
ru ler” and comes originally from ttie has been philandering about so long Is
old F reyr of Teutonic mythology. going to propose or not. Buy three»
F rey r m eant “free,” which Is loosely sm all keys: tie them together with a
tran slated to "love of peace." The sm all cake of dough on which yon
Idea w as personified Into a god of very have scratched the Initials of the
high rank who la te r was disintegrated young m an's name and place the bun
Into a brother and sister, called F reyr die under your pillow when you go to
bed at night. If the youth Is destined
and Freya.
F reya named th e sixth day of the to be your future husband he will ap
week and presided over love and m ar p ear to you In your dream s—o th er
riage and drove over battlefields In a wise not. H ere we have the sym pa
chariot drawn by panthers to conduct th etic magic of the key, and also the
the slain to th eir appointed places in magic of nam es—nomancy as it Is
Valhalla While F reyr w as progress called—which w as such a favorite
ing by direct route Into Frederick, the w ith the ancients, especially the Ro
feminine form was slower in Itecoin- mans.
The key, of course, locks things.
Ing Frederica.
The saintly daughter of the lord o f When the Bulgarian peasants w ant to
Oxford bore th e nam e of F rlthsw lth keep th e plague out of a village they
and lived In a little cell at Thornbury go out w ith a lock and key and per
and had curious adventures which are form th e operation of locking upon
portrayed In a window of the cath e all sides of the settlem ent. This, by
dral of Axford. She was also patroness sym pathetic magic, locks out the
of the university and cathedral. 1 he pestilence. The m aiden's three keys
cumbersome nam e of F rethesantha are for locking to her the affections of
was borne by the wife of Geoffrey h er lover, the said lover being repre
sented by the Initials of his name
L uttrell In the F ourteenth century.
Frederica Is purely an English In which she has Inscribed In the cake of
vention, though Portugal and Italy had dough.
F or prim itive man considered, and
adopted It Intact. T he French . all It
fc t
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Frederlgue and the H erm ans Frldrika. peoples living In h prim itive sts te still
S H O W IN G V E S T E E A N D JA BO T
Onyx Is
F rederica’s tallstnanlc consider, and the civilized Romans
stone.
It
will
guard her from lover’s considered, th at a man and his name
(he tuck In style may come back. stitched vestees of delicate pink tu b quarrels and assu res her of a sw eet w ere so strongly affiliated as to he
satin.
Ju st now plaid taffeta is receiving
lovable nature. T hursday Is her lucky p ractically one. In choosing three
Soft and lovely Is the “tle-around”
m arked atten tio n by th e P arisian
keys we see a hint of the magic of
day and 1 her lucky number.
blouse stylist. The plaited, pin-tucked Jabot. To be sure the gtrl who w ears
num bers—arithm ancy
The selection
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»nd quilted satin blouse is very sm art It must be deft-flngered enough to give
of a cake of dough upon which to In-
It Just th e proper “tie." The model to
I scribe the lover's Initials brings In
ly In vogue th is season.
som ething else—an Invocation to the
French tallletirs accent tw ills and the left In the picture Indicates Just
i how to arran g e the loops and ends.
* j eonsplrtt which our barbarian an-
A LINE O’ CHEER
tweeds, also corded w eaves, tricotines
T he cascading jHbot Is made of white
£ cestors of northern Europe worshiped.
and hairline stripes. T w ills appear In
By John Kendrick Bang«
navy, black and a range of super- ! crepe de chine edged with black. Those
X ! Now in the nlBht *i',rlt’ " n'1
1 who have an eye for color may Justlfl
lovely
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: nHl *"■>»” n t llv,n* P**’’’1*' th*
T7 e e spring
S S Z Z colorings,
m a n n i s h ch aracter ably su b stitu te a ,.laid piping for the i >»
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| bodies" of the ancients—« re more
Jhe Hotel StcTio^raphcr
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( i l l ' THEY creniHte me, Kelly, they
1 will have to do It when 1 am un
conscious,” cried the Hotel Stenogra
pher spiritedly.
"Ha, h n l” laughed the House D etec
tive.
"T h a t’s w hat they alw ays do
when they crem ate them. They w ait
till they are unconscious.”
"Then w atch out when you are pass
ing a crem atory, Kelley, ’cause It’s lia
ble to happen to you a t any time,"
snapped the girl.
"W hat I mean Is th a t I don’t w ant
miybody burning me up In this world.
We all take chances enough on having
th at happen to us In the next one.
“I don’t know much about heaven,
Kelly, but I’m blessed If I will put S t
P eter or any of I l l s assistan ts to the
trouble of trying to make me over
again out of a little hunch of nshes.
It will be Job enough to do, anyway.
“Kelly, think of th e chance a fter
they put your ashes In a vase, of get
ting knocked off the parlor mantel by
some careless person and laying on
your side for a week or two on Ihe
hearth tw ill somebody sees you and
sets you hack again. If you set on the
bookcase the cat is apt to prowl around
and knock you out of the window I
w ant to be buried In the regular way
and have flowers put on me when they
happen to think of me and have mock
ing birds sing in the cedar tree over
my head and all.
"Kelly, no one will ever crem ate ma
w ithout me raising my voice in pro
test. I like the fresh air and a hot
room alw ays m akes me sneeze and
then m.v complexion runs anti If they
w ant to make me happy they b etter
keep me out of one of those furnaces."
I 'o p y r l s h t by th e H r ' ' » » h l s y n d i c a t e . I n c .)
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bla. k, or a 111
world this
pet hobby of the
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season.
In regard to neckties and scarves,
w ithout which very few costumes will
appear, rem em ber th at the slogan Is
“It's all In the way you tie It." Scarves
are wound high about th e throat, bows
are brought to the side.
The latest fad Is for th e short, gay
necktie, made of plaid silk or gorgeous
metal brocade.
JU LIA BOTTOM LEY.
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ID S. W esters Kawepager Volos.)
LIGHTENING THE LOAD
aur*»it o f ro a d « to a
P eace, th e Peace t h a t la
go od an d tr u e .
la e’e r to be o ff w it h th e Id H a te
b e fo re y o u a re on w it h th e
new .
rhola
T o c h e ris h b o r e w it h a
h e a rt, a n d lig h t e n th e p a th
y o u tr u d g e
a v in g b e h in d a t th e s t a r t
B y le
le
f ing
f a i p o in t th e w e ig h t o f y o u r
f a v o r it e g ru d g e .
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loosely attached to their corporal
bodies than during the day Sleep, the
1 prim itive man thought, released th em ;
i and so, If the maiden and her lover
are to wed the three keys lock to the
l maiden the Initials, the name, of the
i lover and he appears to her In her
j dream s. All good prim itive magic,
j thousands of years old, as firmly be-
J lleved In today by Its votaries as It
i w as In the dawn of history—as efflea-
! clous.
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Look for Wrigley’s P. K. Handy Pack
on you' Dealer’s Counter g 7
“Albers stunzb far
B titer Breakfasts
Albers
Carnation
Mush
Count on Carnation Mush not
only for a better breakfast but
an easier-to-get breakfast. Five
minutes.........and this delicious
whole wheat cereal is table-ready I
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W HEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
BY JO SE P H
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21_Prof. Irving Fisher W as In
Vocational Doubt.
« a T T H E age of tw enty tine I was
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In my senior year at Yule uni
versity. When il ( nine to choosing my
life work, I was In doubt. I liked Io
he a lawyer, and I also thought well
of teaching m athem atics. I eventually
decided upon the la tte r course and en
tered the graduate school the follow
ing year with that end In view. I then
became Interested In m athem atical
economics and ended by becoming an
economist.—Irving Fisher."
TODAY Professor F isher Is one of
the most fam ous economists In Amer
ica, with an Internallonal reputation
He Is at present professor of political
economy at Yale.
( A by M e C lu re N *w « p « p « r S y n d ic a te .)
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Ing, s|ieclallzlng h eath e r and moorland
tones.
Accessory defnils, so d ear to the
heart of la P arislenne. a re p articu larly
depended upon to supply th e distinc
tive touch to th is sp rin g 's tallleur.
Briefly spoken, handbags a re of the
colorful envelope type, gloves are fan
cifully cuffed, handkerch iefs arp gay.
«hoes have high spike heels, novelty
belts are exploited, um brella handles
are amusingly carved, and the chapeau
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