The Washington times., 1918-12-15

kad'moeslls Paris without sugar goes.
But she slmply eaut give up her
fashionAb is clothes
And thouBh the Huns thundersd with
guns At her gate
She always Kept hated and sownsd
up to date.
PARIS, Nov. IT (by mail).-The
courageous, charming and altogether
chic PArisienns has bravsly given up
the bright lights with a lightness Of
heart that frightened even the Sty-
Gian blackness of the nighttime
streets. She has sacrificed sugar
with q sweetness that suffers from no
lack OF It and carries around the few
Jumps she 10 daily allowed In gay:y
bedecked little boxes OF an ade1Ints
sise for postage stamps or else corks
up an ounce or so OF 1iquified sac
charlie in q tiny painted bottle. She
has cheerfully renowned hot water,
heat, taxi rides and most of the COM
forts and joys OF life, but when II
comes to giving up the defnier mode
HJamais, c'est trop beaueoup," and
Just AJAX any American doughboy to
tell you what that means.
MODE Breath of Life.
Wars may come and wars may 60
but fashions go on forever here in
Paris, where the mode is the very
breath of life. When the Hun gun
crashed destruction every fifteen min
utes into the very heart OF Paris,
Madame Ia Mode stopped only long
enough to cut out pretty paper pat
terms to paste on her windows and
keep them from being shattered, and
then she went back to cutting CIT
adorable and rosy new lingerie, chic
and ehere ehapeaux and smart and
ltunning frocks and foldetols.
In the final days of the war modes
the most noticeable change OF all Is
the absolute getaway from all mill
tAry suggestion, which at the begin
ming and middle OF the war stamped
all the styles. Perhaps the influx Of
American and English uniformed
femininity has surfeited the Partisan
with the military modes. They GER
tainly have been so done to death
that there is no shred OF originality
left to them
The only possible scrap of militar-
ism left is in the shape OF one OF the
popular model hats now, the beret.
And although this is the official
headgear of the dashing Blue. Devils
10 hardly smacks at all Of armydonn,
developed as II is in different colored
Velvets or else in the all-fur models
Of nutria and moleskin. Since a beret
Is really only q common or garden
tam" anyway. 1t hardly can be ac-
eused of being unduly military.
Hats In Turban Glass.
All Of the newest hats are small
and in the turban class. They are
preferably Of velvet in bright shades
Of blues or reds, or Of the taupe and
brown tints. much crushed or shirred.
One particular model of this type in
sort of a pinkish beige is shirred in
quaint convolutions until IL is I'M
pleasantly reminiscent Of that IA
nous trio. cerebellum, cerebrum and
medulla oblqngata, or in Jess physiol-
ogical terma q set. Of brainA NRtpral-
IN this turban is decidedly smart.
Among the newest brimmed hats Is
one very narrow OF brim behind that
juts out like q port cochfe In front
1t IL loaded with aigrettes, and there
fore is As forbidden fruit to us of the
United States
The mantle or cape coat also clings
closely to the mode and the figure.
With its deep shoulder yoke and
scant fullness It il almost form fit
ting. with her close turbsn set down
well over her eyes, her high fur col
lar turned up well to her nose, and
her scant coat clutched tightly
around her figure, but little is seen
of the Partisan these days except
what shows beneath her shortest of
short skirts. Little, but Oh, my!