Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-14

And so I'm sure the Spring is here
IL always makes me so.
New York, April 14-An hail gentle
Spring
This is the joyous season of the year
when the amorous robins and the blue
birds happiness wake you at five a.
m. as they burble under the window
sill These are the nights when You
toss off the extra eounterpane and
wake in the morning with cold in the
head and an extra counter pain in your
chest
These are the happy days when the
Amalgamated Union of Janitors turns
off the steam heat prematurely and
you have to affect the cumbr0us dra-
peries of your eiderdown bathrobe on
top of your customary garments around
1 the frostbitten menage.
These are pleasant mealtimes when
you struggle with the offspring to get
them to consume sufficient quantities
Of rhubarb sauce, spinach, dandelion
greens and other healthful first fruits
of spring against which their childish
souls and tummies revolt.
Being offspring perhaps accounts for
| lutlI blI NtENNdpANS.
These are the intoxicating afternoons
when the shop windows get full of all
the fascinating grills and furbelows
and frivolities that 60 to female heads.
1, The little birds are on the wing and
and little wings are on the hat. If only
the spring bonnets knew how to use
their wings they would certainly fly
away la the little birds. As it is
is only their prices that soar. Truly,
fine feathers maks fine hate this spring,
for almost every turban, poke, mush-
room, sailor and stovepipe shape that
isn't beaded is abristle with wings
! Some of them are both beaded and
winged at that.
Hats aren I the only things in the
shop windows that 60 to the female
heads, however, as there are stunning
Spanish back combs of tortoise shell
amber, demi-amber and carved jet
Wonderfully artistic and alluring they
are and everywoman is Immediately bit
ten with desire to possess one as sool
as she tries their teeth in her topknot
Like Dutchman's breeehes, violet
dogwood and all the spring flowers th'
fashionable growths in the spring shol
| windows are prone to have as ephemera
4 an experience. They enjoy brief popu
larity and then vanish like the erocus
to be glimpsed no more this year.
] am wondering If the eXuberan
new waistcoats of rainbow hued jerse,
e silk are doomed to SO tickle fling
+ Most amazingly colored are they in tn
+ broad Roman stripes of orange, emeral,
green, purple and scarlet. They ar
$ stunning for wear with the new spor
+ coats of velvet that are pressagente'
as successors to the ubiquitous sweaters
I rather fear the existence of the di
vers hued waistcoats viii be fleeting
however, since all of their colors ar
! guaranteed fast. Speaking of brillian
!, colors, we are due to have a perfec
c riot Of them on hands this spring, if W
are to Judge by the way the glove fling
ers point Talk about handpainted
. well our hands will certainly look paint
s. ed when they don the new sport gloves
Their lower sides are of wash kid i
I the most hectic matching tint OF con
{ trasting tone. They will look hand
painted if they don't look as if somt
G thing had dyed on our hands. Roya
e palms may well be dubbed the hand
+ that are covered with the royal purpl
gloves with orange silk backs. Verdan
y palms will be those of emerald gree
II backed with Chinese blue. White glove
II with black silk backs and vice vers
are especially smart in these days whe
8 blanck and white is such winnin
T. combination, but the bright colors ru
;, pretty close for favor. When the ki
Il underpart of the glove is in the sam
brilliant color as the silk back instea
of being a contrast the stitching on IN
y back in an off color relieves the m'
: notony.
,; Just fancy group of foreign Dor
u cbarmers at the polo match, the go
= club or the race course indulging in
!, animated conversation in which han
= gesticulation plays such an importar
e part. Thus gloved their waving pain
are bound to have all the colorful chif
u ing effect Of kaleidoscope.