The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-29
AIR RAIDS FAIL
TO JAR PARIS
TASTE FOR BEST.
IN WOMEN SDRESS
"Bonnb Cellar Gowns"
Show Paris Women's
Courage Under Fire
LOVE OF BEAUTY
NOT AFFECTED
Men and Women Affected
Madame Goes to Gel
lar Especially GoWned
CBy REIETA CHLDE DoRRJ


are learning new lessons Of life,
have made illusions to the indomtt-
able courage of the French, a smil-
ing courage which I wish our people
would learn to initiate. I am going
to try to analyze this gay fortitude
of a people we have thoughtlessly
at times called frivolous and pleas
ure-loving.
The French are not frivolous
they are volatile and gay. They are
not pleasure loving, any more than
other peoples are. The sO-called
pleasures of Paris, the bal Mosques
and the Moulin Rouge sort Of thing
existed for tourists mainly. We
thought the French liked that kind
Of unWhOlesome painted stuff be-
cause it was there, and they thought
we liked It because we paid almost
anything to get it. 1t is time the
two people. French and Americans,
understood one another. I think
cannot give a better idea Of the
French character It's unquenchable
gayety and indomitable courage,
than by telling how, through all
risks and dangers and calamities,
their worship Of pure beauty per
ststs. Beauty Is a cult with the
French. They cannot endure any
thing ugly. Every national emotion
is expressed in terms Of beauty and
grace.
Paris, as we know, has been under
bombardment from the German
dong distance guns since March %
Almost every day the gun sounded.
Some days it's spiteful boom sound
ed every Is minutes from dawn I'M
til dark. Now one Of the effects of
this constant bombardment was
that 1t threatened TO break all the
expensive plate glass windows in
the capital. and the people were adj
vised to paste strips Of paper across
their windows. Window glass Just
now is not only expensive, but it is
very scarce. Once broken. replace
ment becomes a serious matter.
Turn Need Into Art.
OF course, strips of paper cannot
stop shell or a piece of shrapnel,
but they can lessen the shock of
conclusion. So Paris overnight
blossomed from one end to the other
with paper striped window glass.
But did they just paste on strips
Of paper, as almost any other people
in the world would have done? They
of window decoration. Every mer-
chant, every householder, Wed with
all the others to make their striped
up windows things of beauty They
devised color schemes, they studied
historic design, they made the pa
per strips advertise wares. In a
word, bombs fall, but beauty went
on as usual.
But the most extraordinary mani
4estation of the unquenchable spirit
OF the French was the discussion,
Immediately opened, as to what a
properly self-respectIng woman,
awakened in the night by death
dealing bombs from the sky, ought
10 wear when she fled to the cellar.
Bomb Refuge Gown.
A leading Paris newspaper fea-
tured an interview with a we'll
known man dressmaker in which
the subject was thoroughly threshed
out. The dressInaller recalled the
fact that during the Reign of Terror
Of the French revolution the doomed
aFtstocrats dressed for the guillo-
tine as for a function, this being
their last defiance Of the mob.
Hence it was but proper that their
descendants, the French women Of
today, should not permit the Ger
man terror to interfere with their
duty to look we'll on all occasions.
This couturier did not have to
urge this duty on his clients. They
overwhelmed him, he declared, with
demands. It had become for them
necessary to make frequent de-
scents to the bowels of the earth,
and that suddenly. What were they
to put on? Nothing in their ward
robe seemed either suitable or prac-
tlcal.
Thus pressed, monsieur proceeded
to invent a cellar gown. It sounds
funny, but, after all, it may not be.
Remember that the Parisians often
had to leave their houses and walk
or run half a block or so to find
adequate shelter from aerial bombs,
Hence a warm garment was called
for. A woman is not necessarily
cellar, 20 feet underground, when
she throws a kimono over her
night gown. No!
Demands Exacting.
1T was no small problem, YOU can
readily understand" declared mon
sieur. Il was obliged to invent a
gown that one could put on quickly,
at the first sound OF the alerte. At
reg much Thought I decided on q
domino. model. By it's simplicity and
the amplitude Of it's dimensions il
is well suited to a rapid adjustment
and quick flight, It is provided
with an ample hood to cover the
hair and to guard against cold
draughts,
1.-THE traditional domino, however,
is not provided with any pockets.
These, of course, are very necessary
$Fl
Der OF indispensable objects ac-
company, or should accompany. a
lady to a. cave. She wishes to take
with her. not only the most precious
Of her jewels and bijoux, but her
purse. watch, keys, mirror, also
divers other small objects; an cleo
trio TORCH nanicurtng tools, a. box
Of powder, lip stick, perhaps.
she will acquire a pencil and a
pad OF paper, in case she wishes to
keep a diary Of events. She may
wish to carry with her certain
photographs which she cannot bear
t1l lose. Certainly she win need
some nlorsels OF chocolate, and in
case the raid ds "a prolonged one,
something to read. My bOmbard-
ment robe contains pockets enough
and ample for all emergency re-
ausreanents'
Color Problem.
The color OF the bombardment
robe, or cellar gown. was an ina
poEnt item The average cave
abEf or callsr % not noted for it's
mot sssue One must look out
GoE that, Hence the proper color
of f3e gown was something pra,c-
brown, gray Of taupe. How