Evening star., 1917-03-04
Picked Up Here and There.

Once more the old residents on that
populous highway. for the moment
yclept Lincoln
rard plo@ee Must parkway, will
Be Changed Again. change their
card plates and letter headings. What
was once Pine street and is now Lin
coin parkway will in the near future
be rechristened Michigan avenue. says
the Chicago Tribune. How long this
new nomenclature will cling to it seems
to be dependent on the whim of city
official attached to the committee on
streets and alleys, who runs our street
nomenclature with the imperious self
confidence of a teritable Hohenzollern.
There have been three changes of
house numbering on this avenue and
this makes the third name change, each
alteration necessitating a fresh card
plate, invfgorating for the copper plate
engravers, but annoying to the private
citizen resident on the thoroughfare.
II the street naming were directed by
one imbued with a knowledge of and
reverence for Chicago's early history
cause for caviling. There is no more
effective way of preserving the aroma
of the past or of perpetuating the
names of those prominently associated
with other epochs than in the naming
of streets, parkwayS and squares.
Think of Piccadlly, Threadneedle
street, the Strand. of Champs-Elysees.
Boulevard Hausmann, Rue de la Paix,
of Inter den Linden, of the Corso and
of all the other famous municipal
= -'thoroughfares.
a very delightful coterie of clever
folk is gathered together in and near
Pasadena, and they discuss the most
serious and stupendous things in such
a simple. easy manner that it isn't until
you have left that you realize just what
keen views they have on everything
both in particular and in general, says
the Los Angeles Tribune.
Lord and Lady Russell, who are the
house guests of DIR. and Mrs. John
Haynes. were charming though tempo
Tary additions to a brilliant group of
folk in Pasadena recently, being enter
tanned at luncheon by the Gaylord Will
shres, later going to Upton Sinclairs
for a cup of tea.
Lady Russell. formerly the Countess
Van Arnim. is to visit the Wilshires
lne spring, ueSeTtlnS santa Bar
bara, where she has been stopping, for
short stays with them.
The other day in group at the Will
shires. having tea, were the daughter
of Julian Hawthorne. Mrs. Fred Haw-
thorne. Mrs. Ray B. Howell. sister of
Mrs. Wiltshire; Julian Hawthorne, the
Upton ISinclairs oh, any number of
clever people.
There is one member of the little
group whom We mustn't forget to men
tion young Master Logan Wiltshire
the brilliant little son of the household
Logan Wiltshire seems an extraordi-
narily bright youngster-indeed some
of his poems at the tender age of seven
caused a great deal of interest among
his parents clever friends several years
ago. He is the apple of their eyes and
promises to follow in the footsteps of
his more than clever parents,
Watch your step" is the latest decree
OF fashion, and the continued vogue of
the short skirt is
Skirts Distort directly back of 1t.
Woman's Stride. wa,cssd monan ~ mas
stroIling or rushing down I'd avenue
on pleasure or business bent, says the
Post-InteHigencer of Seattle, quickly
realizes the feminine charm is not at
Inc point Oh ntT toe IN TACT. one can
count the few women who have pretty
feet. and who know how to walk cor
rectly.
The world never knew that three
fourthS of the fair sex were bow
legged or knock-kneed until the ad-
vent of the high-water skirt. Perhaps
women We're ignorant of the fact them
selves. otherwise why do those with
the most decided inward or outward
curves wear the shortest skirts?
And dancing teachers and authori-
ties on the body beautiful claim the
whole trouble is due to the fact that
women do not know how to walk.
Long skirts for ages have hampered
the free movement of the limbs and
hidden ungraceful strides. One master
of the ballet claims that We're women
to7wear trousers for generation that
they would quickly straighten out any
unnatural twists and dents in wayward
knees and ankles. In trousers a woman
could see her silhouette and correct
any ungainly habits of walking or sit
ting.
one style of skirt after another has
produced an ungraceful, mincing, stiff
ankled, Pigeon-toed walk. To acquire
lithesome. tigerlike freedom in the
stride, practice only will produce re-
suits after many weeks. One rule to
gain this desired step requires that the
ball of The foot must first touch the
ground lightly. toe pointing out, ankle
thrown leeward. giving the effect of a
nlRn -2rcneu 1nSteD. the weight OF the
body gently. but firmly, falling on the
heel.
1t might put fear into the hearts of
all our country's possible enemies
could they realize the
Supplies for intensity of purpose
Do and hot fervor with
which nearly all our
women are taking up the task of pro-
vfdng bandages. pads and surgical ,
dressings for every possible emergency
Chicago is not behind the rest of the
nation in this direction. Four base hos
pftals have been assigned to US, and
our local Red Cross with all its
branches is working fast and furiously
and most competently. let me hasten
to add-to furnish all these needfuls
says the Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Schuyler Doane and her cohorts
have already laid up great stores of