The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26
War POWDERLESS
Not Munitions, Mercy No! It's
the Ladies' Faces.
High Cost Also Gives COrSetS
an Awful Squeeze.
BY MARGARET MASON.

BY MARGARET MASON.
Cwritten for the Topeka State Jour
nall
In France they've taken all the rice
To hoard for food supply,
So powderless all danes must so
OF low degree or high.
Henceforth each Gallo feminine
Will feel she looks a fright
And shiny noses soon become
common Paris sight.
New York. May 26.-"Noses will be
worn highly polished this season"
Can't you just see this modish note
in the fall fashion journals. Natural
ly since they have to taboo powder in
Paris we who make practice of let
ting the Parisians lead us by the noses
in matters a la mode will see to it
that our noses shine with the best or
them.
Even if we don't feel like apishly
following latest war necessity we may
have to come to it perforce. Since
most of our best face powder is inn
ported from France this cutting off of
the rice supply as a first aid to beauty
is bound to make us face near pow
derless future willy nilly.
Noses aren't the only feature in the
case to suffer from the powder peril
either. There is the whole face to
face the deprivation. It's one thing
TO go around with your face shining
with happiness but quite another
proposition to go around with 1t shin
ing with perspiration.
Queen Fashion May Abdicate.
The cleaning countenance offers
one tiny advantage to offset its many
drawbacks, however. Henceforth
when you pause to reflect you won't
have to paw madly thru your hand
bag for your pocket mirror. Just
turn to any handy face and see your
self 'as in a looking glass"
1t really is the feminine nose, how
ever, that is due for the most awful
blow from this anti-powder problem.
So powder ye noses while We may and
ponder the paradox that war should
mean more powder for the men and
less for the ladies.
If wilhelm isn't made to abdicate
real soon and give US a little peace it
locks as if the Queen of Fashion
would have to do a little abdicating
on her own account in favor of Mad
anne Nature.
Bare Feet to Become Popular If.
Let the high cost of clothing keep
on at its present rate of crescendo
and it will soon be a scream. We will
be following in the barefoot steps OF
Isadora Duncan, Ruth St Denis,
Maud Alien and all those other ad-
vocates of ION with the dance let limbs
be unconfined." Back to nature styles
of dressing or rather lack of it that
of the dance will now be de rigeur for
all walks of life. With shoes going
up in price proportionately as our old
ones go down at the heel it's going
to be lots easier to acquire nude toot
sizes than rev shoes. 1t certainly looks
as if we had better figure on 'em any
way. Nine and ten dollars for good
low shoes twelve and fifteen for high
are the average prices up-to-date.
There won't be any other figure for
eit Of re
keeps on ascending. A corset that
was originally eight dollars and a half
has leaped lightly from $3.50 to $11.5o
since the first of May. Other price
corsets from the cheapest batiste
ready-wear' ones up to the most ex-
quisite broche made-to-order models.
have alb gone up proportionately. 1t
indeed seems quite time that we steel
ourselves against these costly corsets
before they bust us.
Quality Inferior Too.
On the other hand there are the
gloves. If you want to handle any
thing with kid gloves these days you
must be prepared first to hand out
at least 81 per pair for short white
ones And they are going up! So
are our hands in CONSERVATION. The
worst of il is we can't challenge the
point We don't dare throw down the
gauntlet-they're much too expensive.
The bad phase of it is that you
don't get as good goods for the more
money. At a reputable shop I tried
on five pair of $3.50 white gloves the
other day before l found a perfect
pair with unripped stitching Shoes
may be or a good last but they don't
last good and corset material can't
stand the strain of deep signs from a
lady of size no matter how great the
size of her check.
Alasi shOeless, onionless, powder
less, potatoless. corsetless and glove
\ -sr-E,N l.
men of Fashions imminent future will
be her face. As they say in the hectic
problem play IT'S the woman who
pays" and believe me that seems to go
lust well for wa for ,Ora1S