The Cordova daily times., 1917-06-18
S0ClE TY kN|TS FOR WAR AND
 OWN USE
tBy United Press) Darling" sighed the knitting needle, Wool you marry mel"

Darling" sighed the knitting needle Wool you marry me?''
 But Miss ZepAyr Yarn so fluffy. "Nought by Knit said she"
 NEW YORK. June IS. - Talk abou
 the wild and wpolly west; it isn't in i
 for wlldness and weaknesses with tn
 effete east in these days. You1l fin,
 all the feminine wits on Fifth avenu,
 have gone wool gathering and nov
 have their hands full. In limousines
 taxis and on tops of the busses, socks
 mufflers and chest protectors ar, growing for soldiers and sailors.
 I even encountered several strolline
 ladies with their knitting all read, for business in one hand. not even mn der cover of handbag. They held it thus in the open 80 they could take advantage of any little stopovers and waits for traffic to take few stitches en passant as it were. Most woody en. thusias.s have their. mufflers untitled or their chest protectors protected in one of the gay cretonne knitting bags when not in acti-e use.
 The array of these bags is positive. | ly fascinating! So much so that even the most rabid of anti-knitters would be glad to yank hank of yarn and pair of needles and get busy just in order to bag bag.
 They are evolved from the brightest bits of cretonne and figured linen trimmed in cords, tassels or galoon and vari-coiored satin apples, fringes. festoons and frills. Some more ornate, are of silk and satin trimmed in French ribbon flowers. Attached to the tall walking sticks they are most handy for those who walk while they work.
 All the wool gathering isn't being done for the military or the marines though, by any manner of means. It takes three skeins td matse resala- ton army or navy muffler, but 1t Is hard to gauge just how much 1t takes to trim and fringe nilady's dress of jersey cloth, serge or georgette crepe. To be really successful frock it must have wool embroidery around the hem. the cuffs. the neck. the pockets and belt. There are yarn tassels and yarn fringe to finish we'll and woolly.
 Wool doesn't even stop at outer garments, but invades the realm of lingerie. It is far cry from the woolen lingerie of 1917 to the aes thetic red and grey woolen union suits our parents used to make us don when we were young and helpless. Today envelope chemises. nighties and com binations of salmon pink, purple or turquoise blue georgette crepe are em- broidered lavishly in yarn of divers hues. This modernist underwear is certainly right up to scratch.
 Shocks and slipover blouses of geor- gette crepe are also fulsomly darned Even some of the smartest new bath ing suits have the habit with cunning little yarn fringes around their ab- breviated skirts and bobbing yarn tassels on the pockets and topping the smart and rakish bathing caps. It is to be hoped, however, that a gen erous cake of wool soap will accom- pany each wool embroidered mer- maid where she goes In for her dip
 Dame Fashion is actually trying to pull the wool over our eyes as is evi denced by the new yarn embroidered and bordered wells that float in the breeze from our close little hats.
 Then there are the hats themselves Of course they are numbered among the wOolly ones. and parasols revel in travelled yarn fringes, and unfurl their knitting new under the sun Collar and cuff sets of georgette crepe. button-holed around the edges in bright toned wool are most effec- tive 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 froth of lace and cascades of chiffon crepe over the smartest of tailored lapels. Of finely pleated or gardies. batiste and muslin bordered in the narrOwest of Irish crochet, cluny or filet edge they are chic. though 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 in time in our resume of yarn decked wearing apparel. They are all quite exotically and erotically wooliy. From all of which 1t is plain to be seen that 1917 reversion of Mother Goose's famous ditty is bad. ly needed now. to run about like this :. Baa, baa. black sheep.
 Have you any woolf
 Yes. kind master. three bags full.
 One for the soldier.
 The sailor the same.
 And one. very large. for the fashion.