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The Washington times., 1914-05-19
TdbleclOthS and
Table Talk
BY MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK.

SN'T it delightful that we are
really becoming so sensibie!
we may, as an age, have alb
surLities and fads, but IL fu-
ture historian should compare us
with the tirles of the Louis or Early
Victorian. he would certainly oy
comparison, call us n simple age
as to our iouse furnishings. an any
rate.
Think OF a drawing or description
of n table set for a refined family
century ago! What profusiDE of
plate crystal fruit 'salverS,'
and other ornamental table fiIiugs
there We're.
In no one respect has table service
SO slmplified, as in the use OF doIlics.
and runners" and small cloths to
replace the large table napery. 1t
may have been. that with numerous
servants. six tabIecloths a week
mattereJ not. But with present
problems of service, we try to make
two cloths week 10. and then wish
We could still further cut down our
laundry bills.
So has come into gerer.l use. the
simple lunch cloth. tie individual
doiley, aTG the runner All of
these come IN all styles and grabs
from imitation butrvn-hole to lace.
AL are attractive, and simple and
especially sitting for summer service.
- In small lunch cloths there is also
a wide choice. especially In the coll
cree cloths which are very far away
from the red tablecoth'' of the
loEg ago. These new cloths are all
colors, mostly conventional pat
tcrnse except the Japanese cloths,
which come in all the gay hilarity
OF Old Japan. A set OF these. with
in the means of the moderate
prrse--and so attractive. but which
appeals more to my practical mind,
So easy to launder.
TEen there are the runners"
which look particularly we'll with
r.ain or craftsman furniture. These
may be linen. crash. monks cloth.
ami other similar materials. The
two strips about eighteen inches
wice are laid at right angles across
the center of the table. and have
decorated or embroidered ends. Or
1t whole tablecloth may be made OF
green or blue or brown denim. and
scalloped or edged with heavy
lace.
have one friend who would not
tolerate the usual cloths in summer.
anC who evolved crepe cloth of
lcveliness. Crepe. in white, with
heavy lace like imitation cluny. is
very decorative. washes like a hand
kCrchief. and needs no ironing.
Why Is the housewives work
h9rdr Because she makes il SO,
Try a simpler summer service. and
save time and laundry bills. besides
being a BIT ."different'-which Is
what We all like to be,
Copyright, 1914. by Mrs. Christine
Frederick)
The Washington times., 1914-05-19

1T seems very difficult for me to
speak to American women about
beauty. because they seem so well
to know how to make themselves
attractive. They are very fascinating
to me. these fine. tall. independent wom-
en-. with their splendid health. They
seem so competent. So alive SO ready
and able to meet any emergency.
Then they have such charm. 1t is a
charm which is all their own. 1t is as
distinctive as their independence. II is
entirely different from the charm of the
Spanish woman, or the French beauty,
or the Italian lady 1t is diGcrcnt, too,
from the charm OF their cousins, the
English women. 1t is something in
born, native 1 do not feel that it is
cultivated or that it can be acquired
through study, to be exactly the same.
No matter how faithfully it is copied, |
think it would always be an American
charm with a foreign accent.
We hear a great deal of the Spanish
type of beauty. Sometimes I think
there is no real type. 1t seems TO me
Spanish women vary so much. OF
L
type" for they are my sisters. And |
think they are vety beautiful. Beauty
means a great deal in Spain, and in fact
in all the Latin countries.
The first question young man asks
about a young lady is, rs she bcauti-
ful?''
Spanish women have not the inde-
rendence of the American women. They
think il is the best ambition :Ur a wCm-
an TO marry the young man VINO il a
suitable match for her and To- have a
horte and family Of her own. Even
now. with all the great progress tho
world is making, the average Young
Spauish girl does not think nf having
a ..carcer~ like the American girl. Shc
In,rrics. And if she wants - marry
well snC has to think about her good
looks.
Nav I tell you at the beginning what
is considered the requirements oi beauty
in my country?
There is the same general iJc, Of
beauty in Spain that there ~ in some
Of the Oriental countrj"". II - OK
rressed In sort of beauty p-uyerb
which divides the elements Of b..srty
quite simply.
There is a division Of color and form
which covers all womanly beauty
I:lacE< should be the hair CyaIasbee
eyebrows and iris of the eye.
White should be the skin. the teeth
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A. .. ss.tCI NI.sII SnS described as
most shocking day" she confessed
that she had been forcibly impressed
with the fact that she was an almost
extinct type, and that the fashion
world had moved on and left her At
the cross roads.
According to her views her demands
were perfectly reasonable.
She wanted simple, neat things. a
tailored suit, a practical silk gown
quite good enough for church and
semi-dress wear. lightweight street
gown, two or three plain and becom-
ing hats, suitable for the woman OF
mature years. and some dainty collars
and accessories"
"As well hunt for needles in hay
stacks" she complained. when L
finally found something which ap-
ProNimated what / thought | wanted,
It was shown me in such way that
l hadn't the heart to buy il.
Ways of Tailors.
Now 1 don't know whether 1 want
10 buy the things that once seemed
impossible and be the dressed-up old
lady said / never would be. or just
sit down and hope the fashion wheel
will turn around so 1 can once more
be in the procession"
Any one who has shopped this sea-
son on Fifth avenue, the wonderful
New York shopping center. must ap-
preciate the experience of this woman.
Among all the variations of all the
different periods of fashion the only
one missing seems to be that wherein
the plain tailored suit with its fault
less fit and trim lines held sway.
1T is the most difficult suit to find.
If one wants to save time, let her
search for il in the department store
where sports suits" are displayed or
else brave the shoulder shrug and
lifted eyebrow of the tailor who win
make ii, certainly. if madame wishes.
After all, it is madame who is to be
pleased
And by that time, if you have had
your eyes open, you find that a plain
tailored suit isn't half the desirable
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Famous Prima Donna Writes First Article on
How to Be Beautiful

nous in history, and Mile. BOri is a namesake OF
the famous Lucrezi3 Borga about whose real char
dcter there has ever been mystery. Some writers
have made her pertable fend Others have de-
tended her and have produced facts to prove that
stead of being the wicked person she has been gen.
orally beLeped to be she mas pictim of circun-
stances, and that she really mas a woman whose
good deeds should hare given her lasting fame.
Whatever one belepes, the beauty and charm
of the original Lucrezia Borgia have never been
questioned, and her descendant has inherited her
undeniable beauty from her.
When Mile. Bori became an opera singer she
dropped the latter part of her family name for she
mas not milling to gain any prominence through the
advertising uhich her fathers position would gipe
her. Nom that she has succeeded, she feels 'that
it mould not matter"
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Answers to Health
Questions

NJ MacD--I have been troubled with
bronchitis for three years. / have a
good chance to 20 To Denver. Colo. Do
you think that climate there would
oeneht me or do you think I would
nave trouble with my heart, as / have
oeen told.
You will have no tr6uble with your
heart there. 1t Is an excellent place for
any sort of lung disorder, IL you follow
tn. rules laid down.
a. Il. C.-Scurf and falling hair =
M head trouble. and blackheads on
the nse and chin.
lots of oatmeal rice. whole wheat. and
frrIt3. Take two glasses of water be-
Ior. breakfast and many others in the
day. Use this on the face and mas
sage IL on the scalp:
ne =. .-.----.-..-.--.--...-. 10 grains
BaIssn, Pr, -''..'.--.'...--..-- : drams
DaESH ru.:---...-.--...--..--. y dram
Beiats OF soda--..-.-.-.--...... / dram
'aS' -......-.-.-..-.---..-.- 2ounceS
what You think Of the ratt.esnake
venom treatment for epilepsy.
This has proved to be dangerous in
one or two instances. In other Instances
some apparent benefit seemed to bs
present.
A. r. P.-What will help a bad taste
In the mouth in the morning? CD, what
Is q good blood mixture?
d. teaspoonful or two of milk of
magnesia before retiring and also be-
fore breakfast 90, fresh vegetables.
tender meats, fruits and all sorts OF
plain. fresh food. Ride bicycle and
dance; go In the sunlight.
DR.. Hirshberg will answer questions
for readers Of this paper on medical.
hysienfc. and sanitation subjects that
are OF general interest He win not un
dertakc to prescribe or offer advice for
individual cases. Where the subject n
not Of general interest letters win be
answered personally IL a stamped and
addressed envelope Is inclo5ed. Address
all inquiries to. DR.. L K HirshberE.
care this office
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Style Tips

The cutaway coat still continues.
Ratine has almost become a staple
fabric.
Flowers are used chiefly on picture
hats.
New dancing frocks barely reach the
ankle.
Lace and net waists are much worm
A novel girdle is shaped like a min
iature tunic.
Pointed wings. large and small, are
In high favor.
Tie domino veil is one of fashions
latest freaks.
The vogue for hats Of lacquered straws
continues
Chamois suede gloves have been
adopted far and near.
Wool-back satins for, tailor-made
suits are good wearing.
4 novel telephone cover is made OF
b'sque female figure dressed in Louis
XVI style.
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pets. and ''bOoful." too. is any flower.
or color. or jewel. or soft silk, or vel
vet. or fur. Everything proves that
love OF beauty is planted deep in the
woman baby's heart. and it is right
that II should be developed as the baby
body grows to womanhood.
So the very first beauty secret that
shall give you, is to love all beauty and
try to act beautiful. Is that bad Eng
lish? 1t expresses what | mean. Be
kind and loving toward all the world
For the world is beautiful-just as it
should be to hold all the beauty there
is in ii. including women-for any
woman who is a true and good woman
has elements of beauty.
What do | use on my face? ! knew
YOU would ask me that. And | will tell
YOU and you can use the very same
thing.
Listen. SOAP AND WATER. And in
my next article | will tell YOU all about
The Washington times., 1914-05-19
Three-Minute JOURNEYS
By TEMPLE MANNING

TS almost every port Of India the fakir
is met-the man who does strange
/ tricks, charms snakes, etc.-but the
real histrionic ability of the native
IS not appreciated until one has seen a
''ba ahurrIDi'' OiteraIIy "man of MANY
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Common Folks Thin.

| loins ungirt." -
Common Folks Thin.
Personified trusts, sleek Senators, cor
porations and other unpopular individu-
ais who sleep o'n!ghts' are all as ro-
tund and globular as the equator OF a
| theatrical magnate.
The common people," Socialists. re-
formers. clergymen. poets and other
professionally honest creatures are
drawn as thin as the eye of a needle.
Self-satisfied, complacent, equatorial in
dividuaIs with squab-like breasts, squat
hips. dumpy corporosities and bay-win-
like penetration of the slim, tapering
. slighty-built bodies.
Since all the fair and fat would be
thin. and all the gaunt and skinny would
wax butter-like, it is always a serious
sanitary problem to discover whether he
who drives fat oxen should himself be
fat
II you are thin and have a cough. not
only in your ambition to grow rotund
justified. but your very life may depend
uEon a rapid gain in weight
Tenuity of your tissues and tubercu-
los:s are an unhappy combination. You
must overcome these unheavenly twins
az once. II you are lean and have an
annying bronchitis. laryng:tis. bron-
chial infection. or any other sort Of
cough. do not blame either the cough
or the ''lankiness' upon smoking or eat
Ing.
What makes you so thin?". was a
query leveled at a club acquaintance le-
Gently.
oh. just a sligh cough" he smiled.
What's that from?" was a friends
question
Way To Get Fat.
oh, the doctor sad it was only a
cigarette cough OF a stomach cough
This man or the doctor lied. No doc
ter nowadays ascribes a cough to smok-
ing or to the stomach. Ninety odd times
in the hundred any cough or great dura-
ton. accompanied by a waste of flesh,
SPELLS tuberculosis.
An admission of the truth that it is
this malady means early and prompt
measures to eradicate it. Self-deception
as to the truth means death or disaster
The way to grow fat, to gain flesh. TO
make weight" is to live in the sun
light. in the fresh air. in the dry coun-
try. where rich cream. clean oxygen,
fine butter and honest-to-gocdness
fresh eggs are always to be had
Butter. beef fat. pork fat. oils. DlubDer,
fats, greases. creams and a sane moder-
alton in outdoor muscular practice, all
aid IL producing corpulency
Sugars, starches and sweet pabulum
generally all contribute to make fat
Eggs and rich milk. extra meals. sleep,
nocturnal diets are all fast bind and
last tind.", proverb never state in the
fat-starved kind.
Copy't, 1914. Newspaper Feature Service. Inc
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Copy't. 1914. Newspaper Feature Service Inc
Miss Laurie will welcome letters OF in.
curry on subjects of feminine Interest
from young women readers OF this nal
per and will reply TO them In these col.
care this office. ~ te''
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M HLLE. LUCREZIA BOR7, the youngest star
IW in the Metropolitan Opera Company NeW
- York, has finally been prevailed upon 10
write on beauty for this paper. She herself is
petite. with exquisitely rounded figure, non
derful hands, Nth as much expression in their geS-
lures as there is in her liquid black eyes, eyes that
shop a CLINT of wdrm reddish brown in certain
moods and lights, and that glow with Hniiess, inky
depths in other temperS. She has the freshness and
charm and enthusiasm that belong to her tWenty-
four years.. Her skin is like milk with faint flush
on the cheeks, and her Cupids bow mouth is laugh
ing and red
The family name of Nile. Bori is BOrja or BOrgia,
whichever spelling is chosen, and her father is al
colonel in the Spanish army
The family is descended from the Borgias "a
The Washington times., 1914-05-19
Advice to Girls
By ANNIE LAURIE

Dear Annie Laurie:
am in great trouble. 1 have good
reason to suspect that the girl who
iS al the world to me has not been
as discreet in the past as she should
have been. SO Ia as know she is
not aware that ! am in possession
. Of this information. What shall 1
do: PERPLEXED.
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we'll dreS. ter
her own Co.. IVA
tive ideas o. Wnat
"a lady should
wear" went shop
ping in New York
city for her sum-
mer wardrobe.
When she re-
turned TO her ho-
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Dear Annie Laurie:
1 have boy friend who is a good
boy, and one 1 respect very much.
Now, 1 like to dance, and he says
If l do he will have to leave me. 1
certainly do not want TO lose him.
What do you think l should do?
SINCERE.
WY HIGH do sou like best.
=, your n..nt friend nd ,s or the nso,an tango Ss
tween the two, doesn't it?
Ihe tango IS pretty sure to 60 out one
or these days. The times coming Won
Know, when you won't care for dancing
particularly-oh. yes, it is-and il Won
really care for this person you cali a
boy you'll 90 on caring for him al
ways. II that's the kind you are.
Is it?
Why doesn't he want you to dance ,
Can't he dance, and is he Jealous NJ
you. or has he really religious prei,,-
dice against it?
In afraid l should worry a bit abou.
a young man who was SO very very
olnerent' from the others.
Think 1t over, little girl TbinL G.,
over, and make up your mind. for NO
oody can make II up for YOU.
But be quite sure that when Won have
given up dancing the young man does
hot decide TO learn, and get some girl
VINO has not given il up to teach hin,
Nouldn that be yexing?
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nimbe thigh. and "lankf
ons sunyirt
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Secrets of Health and Happiness
| low You Can Cain Weight;
Why Lankiness Is Common
By DR.. LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG
A. B., M. A.. NJ. D. Johns Hopkins).

A RE thin persons concave? The original meaning
~ Of the word lean indicates. The Angio-Saxon
4 \ middle glsh and scandinavian words from
which this term is derived. bent. bowed. o
STOPPING
A gap-cheeked is usually pictured BY poets and
painters as lean DEATH yet scrawny is best
for long journey.
Those of who scant OF flesh and far from plump
with ribs spindle shanks. lank legs. and hollow
checks have often the better half of Goldsmths
THE fat pale. the lean ruddy.'
The Washington times., 1914-05-19

HIGH do sou like best
your friend or the tango:
1t seems to be a choice be.
tween the two, doesn't it:
The Washington times., 1914-05-19

THE Old Fash h
. ioned Wom-
an. h o
lik, be
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avenue and Mrs. John Garrett Underhill,
No 100 Dean street. Brooklyn Tickets
will also be sold at the door on the day
/ Of the entertainment.
Invitations for the ball OF. the me arts'
which is TO be given by the Society OF
Beaux Arts Architects a. the Hotel Astor
on Friday. February 20, will be out the
latter part Of next week Lloyd Warren,
/ chairman Of the committee in charge, has
sent out notices saying that all tickets
will lie strictly personal and may be used
only py the painters. sculptors, aren't
tects musicians. players. authors ana
dancers to whom they are issued. Inc
ball is for the benefit or me Beaux Arts
Societys educational fund Tor young
artists and architects.
There will be pageant. "Nenize a
Trayers les Ages" and those wishing 10
have a place in it are requested to no
/ tify the chairman Of the pageant COM
mittce. George Chappel, No. 10l Park
I avenue After the pageant will come
/ spectacle and the chairman OF this com
mittee is Howard Greenley, No. lol Park
avenue. to whom those desiring TO dance
in the spectacle must apply.
Every effort is being made TO simplify
, the selection of costumes appropriate to
the three great periods in Venetian MS
tory-the Byzantine, Medieval and Re-
naissance. The committee has decided to
extend the choice to the eighteenth CEN
fury fashions OF Longhi and Guard. and
even the dress of the Levantine colonies
! and allies of the Venetians will be &C
ceptablc The costumes must conform
with the suggestions OF the costume COM
! mittee. of which William NJ. Taylor is
! chairman. .r
Books on costume during the periods
| covered by the fete have been placed on
view in the Avery Library, at Columbia
University. through the courtesy of h. r.
Smith. the librarian. and the committee
urges that these works. as well as ref
erence books al tine Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the New York Public Ii
brary. be studied by all those attending
the ball.
! Further assistance will be afforded by
| designs 10 be placed on view at the
studio OF Mr.. Taylor. No. 40 West 10th
street. from February to IA. between
and o'clock IN the afternoon.
| Among the patronesses are Nine, JUS
| serand wife of the French Ambassador
Mrs Vanderbilt Mrs. John ". Alexander,
| Mrs Dom Barber. Mrs Cornelius Van
derbilt Mrs. August Belmont. Mrs Karl
| Bitter Mrs George Blumenthal. Mrs
| Robert : Brewster Mrs. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler. Mrs Edmund l.. Bsylies. Mrs.
| Carroll Beckwith, Mrs. Edson Bradley,
\ Mrs. w Bourke Cochran, Mrs. Y. Full
ton Cutting. Mrs. Howard G.. Cushing.
| Mrs. Camden Dixie. Miss Elsie de Wolf.
| Mrs. Magee Ellsworth, Mrs Frederick
Edey. Mrs. Ernesto Fabbri, Mrs. Ernest
Flagg, Mrs. Daniel c. French. Mrs. Har-
old l.. Fish. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. Mrs.
| Charles Dana Gibson. Mrs. Cass Gilbert.
| Mrs. Robert Goelet. Mrs Frank Gray
| Griswold. Mrs. Norman Hapgood. Mrs.
r. Henry Hartman. Mrs. Thomas
Hastings. Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt,
Mrs. Adrian Iselin I'd. Mrs. Robert
Underwood johnson. Mrs. Otto II. Kahn.
Mrs. Robert d. Kohn. Mrs. James +. ID.
Ianier. Mrs. Goodhue Livingston. Mrs.
Luke Vincent Lockwood. Mrs. Bayard
Sands Ltchfield. Mr.. V. Everit Macy.
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! Margaret Bowers. Miss Marjorie Cieve-,
land. Miss Frances Montague Ward Miss
Agnes Sheehy, Miss Gladys Robbins. !
Miss Abby Morrison, Miss Elizabeth
Sabin Miss Harriet Lummis. Miss Mar
gerry Shannon, Miss Alice de Zaldo, Miss
| Cornelia Chaplin, Alfred Lottimer. Leon
ard Cox, Mcneil Swasey and Daniel Tom
/ linson.
There will be small tables around the
/ ballroom, where the men may smoke. and
| between the sketches there will be gen /,
eral dancing. One of the performers VIII
be H. l.. Bill. of Hartford. Conn, a blind
| youth. who is attracting attention among
entertainers as banjo player.
Boxes and tickets may be obtained from
Mrs Pierre Crosby Waring, No. 70 Gram
Grey Park.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Dorothy Wander
HODGE, daughter of a. S. Wander Hooge'
of Boston, to Paul G. Thebaud. jr. of
this city. Miss Wander HODGE has lived
for the last three years with the rea-
tives, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Van Wyck.
at their home in Riverside Drive. MI.
Thebaud is a member of the Union. New
York Yacht and other prominent clubs.
The annual charity ball for the benefit
of the New York Nursery and Child's
| Hospital will be held on February at
the Waldorf Astoria. Mrs. Algernon Sgd
ney Sullivan is experimenting the ar
! rangements. as she has done for many
years. Tickets may be obtained from the
managers. and Mrs. George II. Benjamin.
of No. 20 West 18th street. has charge OF
the sale of boxes.
Mrs. Charles r. Scott and others inter
ested in the Lisa Day Nursey are ar
ranging a mardi gras ball for the benefit
Of that institution, to be held in the ball.
room of the Biltmore on February "a.
Miss Edith Z. Bouvier daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. John Vernon Bowler. jr.. was
introduced to society at dinner dance
given for her by her mother at the Ritz
Carlton on December Y.
Miss Hope Malcolm. daughter of Mrs.
George /. Malcolm, OF No l6o West 5sth
street, is one OF the seasons debutantes.
Miss Dorothy Battle and Miss Marjorie
A. Vreeland are debutantes for whom
many entertainments have been given
during the season.
, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Wellnan Moore.
of No. 12l Madison avenue. will give a
second musical. supper and dance at the
Plaza next Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Belmont have re-
turned from Garnet, 5. c.. and are at
their home, No. a East S4th street.
Dr. and Mrs. Preston y. Satterwhite
and Mrs. n. Bramhall Gilbert have re-
turned from visit TO friends in Wash
ington.