Evening star., 1918-01-27
Picked Up Here and There.

IICkeQ Up Ilefe ana lnefe.
Speaking Of concerts, in many east
ern cities knitting has been ruled out
at musical affairs
Ran m Cnnner% Artists have request
-, ed it, and managers
AtelAS. insisted upon it, with
q very good excuse that relaxation is
necessary to prevent the developme Mt
of knitting nerves. which seem to be
troubling many Milwaukeeans at pres
ent. says the Milwaukee Journal This
idea may be taken up here, for it is an
noying when listening to some charm
ing music to hear the click, click of
steel needles. The following piece of
poetry was posted at musical given
recently in the east:
Now every sel,-respeeting girl
Knows how to knit and how to purl:
hut is 1t fair to spoil the fun
OF the Friday symphony pa-trun
By jabbing elbows in his aims
When he is listening to BrahmsA
Or dropping yarn upon his knee
As he is wrapped in Debussy:
Now purling, now counting, now dropping a
stitch,
Through the ravishins playing of Gabrilowitscha 2
hould shouldn.t there there really really be ban bar,
spoilips he concert. bi. By bit.
That hats on the head must not remain,'
Who never encore will permit
says rs. please. from this knit. knit. knit!
Temperamenta1 tea gowns are the
tab1eau called the
Temperamental "Nymphs of the For
est" one of the many
'Petticoat Lane" fair at the Albert
Hail. London. in aid Of the concerts at
the front fund" organized by Lena
AshweM. which already has been. the
means Of entertaining many hundreds
of thousands of men in France through
tho concert parties which it sends out
The wearers Of the temperamental
tea gowns. says the San Francisco
Chronicle. were Mrs. Morrison Bell
whose husband. Capt. Bell, NJ. p, is a
prisoner in Germany: Lady Loughbor-
ough. the pretty young wife Of Lord
Rossiyn's soldier heir; Lady Idina Wal
lace. daughter of the late Earl de la
War;. and Mrs. w. L. George, wife of
the novelist. who since the war began
ministry of munitions They appeared.
respectfully. as THE English Oak
1.-THE Silver Beech" ""The Weeping
Willow" and THE Copper Beech"
To illustrate the tableau, a series of
Sers libres has been written by w. L.
George. These will be spoken by Miss
1illah Mccarthy, who so recently was
seen with Granville Barker in the
United States. and each will herald one
Of the ''temperamental tea gowns"
a ~.
All Of the bright, glittering balls, the
silver tinsel. the angel with the .gauz.
wings and the
Christmas Trees Christmas bells
n. haye been taker
DID Their Bit. down and CAREFUL,
laid away until next year, and the
Christmas tree, shorn of it's gorgeou:
holiday dress. is now ready to do it.
Bit" says the Los Angeles Tribune Fol
times have changed since last year Th.
little tree that was SO radiant Christ
mas morning in former years had tn,
honor place for one short week Then
after New Year, having served its pur.
pose, the bright, pretty trinkets wer.
removed and the tree was ignoniniousl,
consigned to the trash heap
But the 1917 Christmas tree was :
new variety. the Hooverized speci-s
product of the war. Instead of beins
merely thrown away or burned. it is Il
be sent to the salvage department o
the Red Cross. The little needles will
be used for the making of fragrant nil
lows: in fact the entire tree will he mn
TO use. But the Christmas tree is mere
1y Keeping apace with the times, fo
our people and even our language hay,
undergone many changes since the war
THE year 1917 has added so many word
to our vocabulary, and what is NOR
important, perhaps. than the new words
Is that 1T has taught the meaning of on
perfectly good word, made it popula
because it is somewhat disguised byf
new name-that is economy. pro
nounced Hooverizing
Economy and patriotism are almos
synonymous these days, SO everybod,
that's patriotic is Hooverizing.
4 Il
Trousers for women while they are
doing their work in shop or office O,
outdoors. Trouser.
MRS. t1ske Tor women while
n.f, they are riding
"eS o1ess. climbing mountains
taking part in any sport. But beau
tiful frocks of silk and velvet, evening
gowns. lovely in color and line, fol
home wear. for parties. for "the woma,
hours"
That IL the interesting philosoph,
of clothes which Mrs. Fiske delicateI.
painted for me at the Criterion Thea
ter. New York, says writer in tn,
Seattle Post-Intelligence.
The greatest actress and the mos
Intelligent woman on the American
stage had Just finished her reincarna
NJ sGa0r1a h.