Evening star., 1917-11-11

even small souls must be gowned, ana
theN smaller they are these days the
more gowning they seem to need-per-
haps to cover them up. says the Los
Angeles Tribune.
It is gratifying sight to see the
woman patriotic workers these days.
Perhaps there isn't any distinct ar. di,,
days before the war;" but there seems
to be wonderful Inconsistencies con-
cerning ones looks that must give q
little boost for Uncle Sam and his
cause.
For the most part, dark colors seem
to prevail on the street and at the
various benefits. We live so from one
event to another nowadays. from one
benefit to the next. that 1t is always
safe to appear in some sort OF tailieur
costume. The younger girls seem 70
have adopted the navy blue dress, large
furs and small hats.
Ono lives and moves and has ones
being these days in terms Of the mill
tary Everything is sub
coo;.%v servient to patriotlc
~. needs. Even things SO
Keeps Step. apparently remote from
war as fashion and social custom ap-
near to he affected quite as completely
as ones attitude toward the butcher
and baker and candlestick-maker'
which reminds me that in my chat
of last week, when I enumerated the
social funct1ons which we are to do
without this winter, I completely for
got to state that the old Twelfth
night" frolic. which has delighted the
staid and serious-minded as well as the
more frivolously inclined Of Chicago g
fo1l
to be given this winter, says the Chi
cago Herald. The butchers and bak-
ers and candlestick-ma therefore,
will not disport themselves in quaint
year. and maybe never do so again
until after the war is over.
While there is to be sweeping aban-
donment of the usual festivities OF So
ciety this winter. much to the RELIEF OF
the maryland the number Is growing
who long to give a bit more attention
to the worth while art exhibits. the
concerts, the readings and lectures
which are scattered through the social
calendar, the blight Of the war will not
seriously affect such institutions as the
opera season. which Is to open at Chi
cago on the 18th OF the month. nor with
the usual festivities of the Arts Club.
which is to have a conspicuously inter-
gathered by Frank Lloyd Wright dur
ing recent trip to the orient.
~
There have been quite = number Of
private dances. recently. given at Lon
don, one an immense
A Queen Who ly enjoyable one CIV
Walks Well. young Duchess Of
Sutherland. who is staying in town just
now with her father and mother, the
Earl and Countess Of Lanesborough.
The duchess, who is the queens mis-
tress of the robes. Is an exceedingly
pretty young woman and very popular.
She is very fair and slim, and she
wears her clothes well. but as Is al
ways the rule with ladies who are at
tached to Queen Mary's court, her
gowns are OF the simplest description.
very long in the skirt and made with
out any excessive devotion to advanced
fashion. Her grace Is enthusiastically
fond of dancing and, as l heard rae
ing man express his opinion Of her
powers in this amusement. says Lon
don correspondent in the Pittsburgh
Dispatch, "she is a good mover" In
fact. she dances with much more grace
than she walks, which Is often the case
with Englishwomen. It seems to me
that something is wrong about the
system Of education that teaches girls
give them no sort OF instruction about
how to walk. In these days, since
women have taken to drilling and field
labor and activities of an unusually
strenuous kind, their failure to use
their feet well under ordinary circum-