The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19


NEW YORK. April 1s-Al1 hail. gentle
Spring!
This is the joyous season Of the year
when the amorous robins and the blue
birds from happiness wake you UP at
a. m as they burble under the win
dow sill. These are the nights when
you toss off the extra Counterpart and
wake in the morn with d cold in the
head and an extra counter pain in your
chest.
These are the happy DAYS when the
Analgamated Union Of Janltors turns
of the steam heat prematurely and YOU
have to affect the cumbrous draperies
OF your eiderdown bathrobe on top of
your customary garments around the
frostbitten menage
These are the pleasant mealtimes
when you struggle with the offspring
to get them to consume sufficient guam
titles of rhubarb sauce. spinach. dande-
lion greens and other healthful first
fruits Of Spring against which their
childish souls and tummies revolt.
Being offspring perhaps accounts for
their being off" Spring vegetables.
These are the intoxicating afternoons
when the shop windows get full Of all
the fascinating griils and furbelows
The little birds are on the wing and
the little wings are on the hat. If only
the Spring bonnets knew how to use
their many wings they would certainly
fly away la the little birds. AS it is
L Is only their prices that soar. Truly.
fine feathers make fine hats this Spring.
for almost every turban. poke. mush-
room sailor and stovepipe shape that
isn't beaded is Artistic with wings. Some
of them are both beaded and winged
at that
Hats aren't the only things in the
shop windows that 60 to the female
heads, however. as there are the stun
ming Spanish back combs u tortoise
she'll amber, deni-amber and carved jet.
Wonderfully artistic and alluring they
are and every woman is Immediately
bitten with a desire to possess one as
soon as she tries their teeth in her top
knot
LilcS Dutchmen's breaches. violet. dog
wood and all the Spring flowers, the
fashionable growths in the Spring shop
windows are prone to have as ephemeral
an experience. They enjoy brief popu-
larity and then vanish like the crocus.
TO be glimpsed no more this year
am wondering If the exuberant new
wafstcoats OF rainbow hued jersey silk
are doomed to so tickle a fling. Most
amazingly colored are they in broad
Roman stripes OF orange, emerald green.
purple and scarlet They are stunning
for wear with the new sport coats of
velvet that are press agented as suc-
cessors to the ubiquitous sweaters.
rather fear the existence Of the
divers hued waistcoats will be feeting.
however, since all Of their colors are
guaranteed fast. Speaking Of brilliant
colors, we are due 70 have a perfect riot
Of them on hands this Spring if we are
to judge by the way glove fingers point
Talk about -painted-well. our
hands VIII certainly look painted when
they don the new sport gloves Their
lower sides are Of wash kid in tint or
contrasting tone They will look hand
painted If they don't look as If some
thing had dyed on our hands. Royal
palms may well be dubbed the hands
THAT are covered with the royal purple
gloves with orange silk backs. Nerdant
palms will be those Of emerald green
backed with Chinese blue. White gloves
VITA black silk backs and vice versa
are especially smart in these days when
black and white is such winning com