Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-04

-HlS being Holy Week society is
on the wane for even those who
j are not churchgoers invariably
spend Holy Week without much gal
I ETY.. The going-aWay OF the Great
! Northern tool: the socially inclined Of
| the tourists. 50 no events wifi be re
cor led ny these.
! TIE TONNEAU FROCk
The following interesting clipping
from Vogue will be read With all due
; respect for its importance
The good ship Fashion, riding on
an even keel, Is nearing port, and
! never since she commenced her Eoy-
ages has the world been SO puzzled as
to her cargo. Judging from reports,
she would list heavily to port under
/ her load of tonneau' frocks. were II
not that the staf1oard siie is as heaT-
| lily weighted with those Of the
straight variety; while slowed away
amidships are all sorts OF surprises 10
| determine the silhouette OF the COM
| ing season.
| What this silhouette will be, exact
! ", must remain in doubt until the last
of the openings is over The tonneau
frock Is still much talked about. but
the tonneau, from the point OF view
of a critic OF the modes, is no longer
new. There is nothing especially new
about the straight frock, but the
straight frock is one we all love. Com
Portable, graceful, and generally jolly
is the straight frOck, concealing In
1t, ,hs ,l,y..I phnr
conings Its loose belt vaguely out
lines the waist; its easy skirt skilful.
ly wells alike the too-stout and the
too-slight figure. Not that one can
really be too slight in these latter
days when slenderneSS is absolutely
imperative. Some of the latest frockS,
in fact, call for a slenderness which is
little short OF emaciation, for the
skirts measure a scant meter and
half at the hem.
Now that the food regulations are
in force We have an excuse for starry,
ing ourselves into shape, as It were.
In complying with the economy rules,
we render ourselves fashionably thin,
money which may be applied to the
puISudse Vi u HcWstIOCk.
SOCIETY Is KNITTING
AS every woman in Honolulu is
knitting and never goes any place
without her needles and bag, the fol.
owing clipping will be interesting
reading: ~ g.. 9 ;.,,, i IT,.
lust now it is fashionable to be a
Teactionary, turning deaf ear and %.
stony glance. at anything that might,
be m the strenuous whiri. Its the,
smart pose to be relaxed, to .list6le "a.
be the piscid guardian angels that our
grandmOthers were and to match the
pose, workings filled with knitting and
crocheting and jammed full of colored
yarns aud threads that look terribly
Industrious, or make their owners
Instead of idling teas or nerve.
wrecking bridge, the girl who goes in
for looks and an angelic disposition
now makes q hobby of carrying around
with her, for afternoon sidling hours
! depths she hauls sweaters, light as
down, on which she is knitting. ."
Or 1t may be golf hose for him
or even for herself-queer plaid and
striped woody things that probably
are the hygienic toys to wear on dewy
morning on the links, even if they are
not as alluring as cobwebby silk ones.
Some of the ultra-smart country
clubwomen even wear them to town,
with their flat, low-heeled shoes. Mrs.
Kenneth Moore, for instance, who is
graceful enough to look chic and smart
with things that would make any less
youthfuls and pretty woman look
d trump; wears plaid hand-knit hose
in town the same as she does on the
golf links. Others also, but Mrs. Moore
looks so girlishly trim that one par
ticularly notices her"
ENSIGN IVAN NJ. GRAHAM
The following card comes as a sur
prise to the Honolulu friends of Mr.
Graham:
=, Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson Sprigg
= announce the marriage of their
daughter
F -. Lillian Addison
Ivan Montrose Graham
Ensign United States Navy
on Friday, the sixteenth of March
One thousand nine hundred and
seventeen
San Diego, California .
QUARTERLY MEETING
The quarterly meeting Of the
Women's Society OF Central Union
Church was held Tuesday morning
In the church pariors, the president,
Mrs. Edwin Benner, presiding. Re-
ports of the standing committees were
read and several items of business
transacted. II was announced that