Evening star., 1917-09-09
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but let the old country attempt to
take away one American mans trou-
sers and hts gentleness disappears at
once The spirit of international COM
ity Immediately will be shot full of
holes. When we get right down to the
rock bottom philosophy Of this thing
we discover that the average man is
the most modest creature IN the world
Women are not nearly so self-conscious
or diffident and are governed largely
by the dictates of fashion. Men. how
ever. are naturally shrinking and want
to be fully dressed all the time
The adoption of kits as a civilian
costume will give a lot Of unpleasant
publicity to bowlegs and knockknees
that now enjoy compare tive seclusion.
If ones legs happen to be symmetrical
kits will work no hardship, but the
average man will not stand the strain
if he thinks that he is poisoning the
view with a set of legs that look like
parenthesis marks, or even like the
number Il.
If Great Britain is wise she will re-
serve the kits for home use and not
attempt to bring the fashion to the
United States, or even to Canada for
that matter. Kills for the Scots is
the slogan.
In Toronto and other Canadian cities
q pre-Christmas plan by the patriotic
women is
Will You Play Santa Claus pla ing
to the Soldiers? in nan, n.neas >
80 that any one desiring to complim ent
soldier with a holiday remembra nee
can drop a package into a hamper, and
the gift finds its way to soldier when
It means most to him.
The hampers when placed in store
windows should be labeled, with in
structions attached. and the most use
ful things are toilet articles such a
soldier needs. bonbons, safety razors.
wrist watches, pocket compasses-in
fact. anything that is useful to a sol
dier.
A seeker after information in the
Baltimore Sun thus bewails the lack of
dimples in today's
Dimpleless Todays femininity
,m The dimple, be-
femininity! Where, oh, where has that
beguiling charm of womanhood depart
ed? The artist inclined to the belief that
dimples. like hothouse roses. are a mat
ter of cultivation, and that girls have
ceased to cultivate them. The writer
has remote memories of schoolgirl as
sociAtes who spent long hours before
their mirrors pressing rosy fingers into
peachlike cheeks In the hope that dim
pies might thereby be acquired Also
she recalls direful tales of certain rash
seekers after beauty who secured arti-
1iciaI dimples by surgical aid. forgetful
that the allure of a natural dimple is
that 1t comes and goes-like the twinkle
of star; while the horror of an arti-
ncial one is that it stays. unchanging
as Mona Lisa's vaguely haunting smile.
These victims Of fate dimpled in season
and out. They dimpled At funerals,
they dimpled when they wept. they
dimpled and looked coy when their one
images. 1t was:
Dimple. dimple, little face
In smile that won't erase.
Perhaps. who knows, these surgically
wrought dimples may have had some
thing to do with dimples out of fashion.
Another cause may be that these at
tributes of beauty are usually bestowed
upon girls inclined to stoutness. The
cheeks of the slender girl seldom dim
and classical dancing affected by girls
OF the period are not conducive to
avoirdupois The sylphlike costumes
enthusiastically adopted by modern
seated in a coach borne upon a wave,
may have seen dimpled face and form
reflected in her seashen vanity glass, |
but Atalanta, swift of foot. doubtless, |
like CAssius. had "a lean and hungry |
look. Certainly when discouraging |
her numerous racing love-suitors she |
never dimpled.
Again. peradventure. since women no
longer yearn for dimpled daughters
they may have ceased to manufacture
that type of femininity. The dimple, |
finding itself undesired. has faded away. |
out Whether. like the century plant
and linen duster. 1t will bloom again |
some 100 or fifty years hence. who can
A recent issue of London It'd Bits
has apparently devoted considerable
time to the compila-
Crowned Heads tion of interesting
TIL. data in regard to
various channels of
trade In which European crowned heads
keep the ledgers-and the contents of
the till box. These statements are to
the effect that the King of Spain is
the proprietor Of large motor and
bicycle factory near Madrid. The
kaiser runs a cafe at Potsdam, close
to his castle gates His all-highest |
also receives dividends from a lager
beer brewery in Hanover, and he is the |
sole owner of the big and fourishing
porcelain works at Cadinen, which re- |
turn him profit of about per cent on |
q capital of 100000. King Peter of