Evening star., 1918-02-10

less, plea tless. patchless. ventless, fapless
and cuffiess. All designs are built close
to the customer, and it is apparent that
gentlemen who have lost their shapes
will be driven TO kimonos
The first impression Of the lay observer
is that buttons will win the war. Virtu-
ally everything is missing but the price
which will be as substantial as the cloth
ing itself used to be.
In the matter of overcoats. about a
quarter of yard has been removed with
out notice.
Says the Onicial Bulletin. the govern
ment demand for large quantities of but
tons has led American
Who Has Got manufacturers to at
= ,, tempt to purchase
the Button! back the stocks of
wholesalers and jobbers of buttons at the
price asked the cutting-up trade in order
to fill government acquisitions promptly
The figures furnished by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce show also
that there has been a greater demand
abroad for buttons made in this country
The exports of buttons and parts from the
United States for the fiscal year ending
June 30 1917, amounted to s1,9s2. .1o4. as
compared with s1,902,556 in 1916 and $654,-
312 in 1914.
Buttons. especially the larger sizes. for
ty to fifty-five line, such as are used on
overcoats, of metal. horn or vegetable
ivory, are now much wanted. The de-
mand has not only absorbed the American
product, but has apparently stimulated
the import trade in buttons.
"A Brooks benefit Gondon slang for
air raid) started Tuesday at $50 pm,
writes a
London Cats Accustomed London girl.
to Air Raids. aged TO get
home before the fireworks began. AS the
was somewhere near zero.
however, l refused TO leave the fiat and
go down into the bombproof basement
where it is colder than the nethermost
milestone. Instead ! stayed by the fire
and ate my dinner, while the entertain
ment in the air went on uninterruptedly
for about an hour. 1t is strange how ac-
customed one gets to this sort OF thing.
Even the cat. which you will remember
used to be terrified when the guns thun-
dered around and about US, takes now
very little interest in the proceedings. Her
ears go up and her hair bristles a bit,
but by and by she stretches and
yawns and lies down in a bored sort of
way as near to the CRATE as possible.
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Alabama is sponsor of movement,
the Atlanta Constitution tells us, to
honor Georgia's pa
pa.+. c;u. triot-poet. Sidney Lam
Ter, by prese ing.
Ambulances. through the American
Poets to the Italian government an
inscribed with his name.
This ambulance is to be purchased by
cable for the sum OF $4,000, and the ad-
mirers of the poet in Birmingham have
raised half of the sum, and elsewhere
In Alabama the other half has been
donated
The American Poets, in all, have con-
tributed fifty ambulances. and each one
is a memorial to some gentle verse
maker of their own country.
The handsome young French lieuten-
ant, Robert Mairesse. says Americans
are awful gossips.
Is Gossip the Spice ,, su, aon aonn,. aae .ae
OF Lille. gossip?" he was
asked. "Oh, yes. before the war it was
their national occupation" he admitted.
"but they don't do 1t in print. Your
newspapers. they are the dreadful gos-
sips" ,s
dizzy circulations. After all, gossip is
the spice of life, isn't 1t?
With Lent only ? few days away. So
ctety will have very little time in
which to indulge
M Mord; Gras at In what little gay
ETY. there Is. New
new UIleans' Orleans has dis
nehsed with its usual Mardi Gras festivi-
ties this year, the second time in history
the first time being during the civil war
and many folk whose custom it has been
to journey to the southern city for this
annual event will this year miss its rev.
siry and msrriment. And then again
xha, GAunAhnxus J, .