The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
'WOOLLY NOT WILD PAL
Society Even's Knitting Things
Nowday All the Time.
Little Fancy "Do-Dads" Are
Apropos for Fine Apparel.
BY MARGARET MASON.
written for the Topeka State journal.

written for the Topeka state Jocrnai.)
Darling" sighed the knitting needle,
Wool you marry meF
But Miss Zepher Yarn so furry
Nought but Knit" said she.
New York, June Stalk about the
wild and woolly west, it isn't in it for
wildness and woolliness with the
effete east these days. You'll find all
the feminine wits on Fifth avenue
have gone wool gathering and now
have their hands full. In limousines.
taxis and on tops of the buses, SOCKS,
mufflers aid chest protectors are
growing for soldiers and sailors
1 even encountered several strolilng
ladies with their knitting all ready for
business in one hand, not even under
cover of hand bag. They helo II
thus in the open so they coulo TAX
advantage of any little stopoVers anu
waits for traffic TO take few stitches,
en- PEASANT as it were. Most woolly
enthusiasts have their mufflers muir
fled or their chest protectors protected
in one of the gay cretonne knlttlhs
bags when not in active use.
Fascinating Array Work Bags.
The array of these bags is positi"ely
fascinatingi So much so that even
the most rabid of anti-knitting Wouio
be glad to yank a hank of yarn ana
pair of needles and get busy just IN
order to bag bag.
Thew are evolved liO u
bits of cretonne and figured linen
trimmed in cords, tassels or gaioon
and varicolored satin apples, fringes'
festoons and frills. Some more ornate,
are of silk and satin trimmed IN
French ribbon flowers. Attached ~
the tall walking sticks they are most
handy for those who walk Wnlle they
All the wool gathering isn't being
done for the military or the marlies'
tho, by any manner OF means. II taN
three skeins to make regulatlon
army or navy muffler, but it is marc
| TO gauge lust how much 1t takes 10
| trim and fringe milady's dress OF JSr
sew cloth. serge or Georgette crepe
he a really successful frock' IL nlus'
have wool embroidery arounu nt tn and
the cuffs, the neck, the pockeeH .no
tbe belt There are yarn tasseis to9
and warn fringe to finish well anu
woolly. $780,,
| Wool doesn't even stop at outer gar
ments but invades the rea IN WooIen
lingerie of 1917 to the estnetic reu
an6 grey wooden union suits our pa
rents used to make us don "heh We
were Young and helpless. 1ooay
velope chemises, nighties ana coiipi-
nations of salmon pink, purple or tur-
ouoise blue Georgette crepe are EN-
broidered lavishly in yarn OF olvei ];
bues. This modernist underwear is
certainly right UP to scratch; -
J Smocks and slip over olouses OF
Georeette crepe are also fulsome.y
| darned Even some of the smartest
new bathing suits have the habit with
cunning little yarn fringes arouno
their abbreviated skirts ana poooIns
warn tassels on the pockets ana Top
ming the smart and rakish bathins
| cans It is to be hoped. however, that
a generous cake of wool soap Will &C
| connnany each wool embroidered mer-
maid when she goes in for her dip.
| Dame Fashion is actually trying to
pull the wool over our eyes as is evi-
| derced by the new yarn embroidered
! wells that float in the breeze from cur
| close little hats.
Then there are the hats themselves.
OF course they are numbered among
raveled yarn fringes. and un1url tneir
knitting new under the sun.
Collar and Cuff Sets.
h Collar and cuff sets of Georgette
crepe, buttonholed around their edges
in bright toned wool are most effect
i've and jabots, wool garnished, are
neck and neck with the latest summer
modes. Jabots of all sorts. by the
way. are very much to the front and
spill their frilly frouth of lace and cas-
cades of chiffon crepe over the smart
| est of tailored lapels. OF finely pleat-
ed organizes, batiste and muslin Dor
dered in the narrowest of Irish GRO
chet, Cluny or filety edge they are
chic, tho the filmy lace ones are the
loveliest of all.
But to return to our muttons or
rather the outside of them. which is
| the wool, we mustn't forget the yarn
embroidered negligees, house gowns
and robes intime in our resume of
yarn decked wearing apparel. They
are all quite exotically and erotically
woolly.
From all of which 1t is plain to be
seen that a 1917 reversion of Mother
Goose's famous ditty is badly needed
now, to run about like this:
Baa Baa black sheep
| Have you any wool?
| Yes kind master. three bags full.
! One for the soldier,
The sailor the same