Evening star., 1918-01-20
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bowler hats and geegees were lacking
FOR Rotten row.
the Regent street ONCE Just as the mes
senRer girls were coming on. No more
= nifty little boys with pill boxes cooked
over one eye-they now wear KHAKI
and guard bridges. help with the crops
and fill gaps in absence of the men.
The messenger girls range from ten
to fourteen. They wear dark blue suits.
!" Norfolk jackets with standing collars.
on which their numbers and stations
are clear in white: a moderately broad
brinsmed hat with blue-and-white band.
=, and they carry themselves as snpartiy
as the Coldstream Guards.
1t was in Cambridge that the window
cleaners were conspicuous, trundling
l. around their big custard-colored
wagons piled with hose and ladder.
And they did it as easily, as nom
chalantly as IL their wagons were
=. .prams. two girls to a cart.
Custard- colored. too, were their belt
ed-in smocks, reaching to brown put
tees at the knee. Their collars bore in
scarlet and black the number OF their
'~ round and &C. W. c."
Fortunately the two most often seen
90 from my window on Trumpington
d. street had dark curly hair. for the
Breton cap Of cream and scarlet jaunt-
. coming. And when they elongated
. their custard-colored ladders and ran
d. nimbly up there was suggestion ol
the theater-a touch Of Degas.
The v, A. DIS are an outcome OF this
p extraordinary time-voluntary aid de-
-partment-which is as comprehensive
. as mothers help"
s They certainly look more like very
amiable dears." as Canadian lad muir
injured, watching the slim figure in pale
green, writing a letter home for his
'.. .comrade in the next cot ON the street
they wear demure long dark capes,
garden hat so dear to the English girl.
but in the hospitals or canteens they
bloom out in pale colors like flowers
The military nurses are conspicuous
ly il not becomingly clad In light gray
alpaca, fitting snugly with scarlet belt
and collar. and in short fitting shoulder
capes faced with scarlet The red dis
carded for khaki by the soldiers has
been utilized for the decoration OF the
: woman contingent.
"a So the variety and charm of feminine
dress Is not lacking. even though wom
an has Joined the fighters and workers
outside the home.
%, There were expressions of regret
-, years mild cele-
Days Of Pop Call" eration that the the
Regretted. cali" had passed
-. While the custom Of New Year calls.
:. long since placed upon the social shelf
at New York, says the New York Her
. aid. could have enlivened this years
studied quietude without running coun-
: ter to the Puritan simplicity of the
: time, no attempt was made to revive
!, the vogue which made January 1 a day
of social animation two decades ago
Among the persons who celebrated
i. New Year eve by watching the per-
formance Of 'Marouf' from parterre
boxes In the Metropolitan Opera House
more than twenty-seven years to q ball
in that same auditorium. This was the
Aapotheosis of New Year eve brilliance
,'in New York society and was the ia
,Allister was the originator and his col
y slaborators were the late Cornelius Van
derbtlt and Byam K Stevens.
we had succeeded in giving balls of
. AeAllister In his "reminiscences. why
: not have q similar one on a larger
secale?''
= An artificial ceiling cieverly shut out
sthe galleries of the opera house
:, OF the ban Mr. McAiiister wrote:
-, Ihe four most striking points of this
ball were the reception for more than
twelve hundred persons as at q pri-
vate house by three Of our most bril-
liant and accomplished society ladies;
the quadrille d'honneur danced by the
most distinguished ladies of this city.
the nobs and swells' uniting, and the
1supping OF twelve hundred persons at
one time at small tables
The Sir Roger de Coverley was
danced In the auditorium and on the
stage' and before its completion q blast
rom the cornet-a-piston was sounded
by direction of the management, when
At once the three members Of the exec
Z utfve committee sought the three lady
patronesses who had SO graciously re-
"cefved for them"
MT. Vanderbilt sought one of Ameri
cas- loveliest. most beautiful and most
graceful daughters" (Mrs. Elliott
4Roosevelt). Mr.. Stevens had the for
tune to have on his arm a most superb
iy dressed woman. whose tiara of dia-
monds could have graced Queens
brow. (She was Mrs. Bradley Martin
who now lives in EngIand.)
AS Tor himself. Mr.. McAllfster wrote:
mad the honor of leading the way
with our leader Of society. whon
Worth had adorned with q robe of such
maGnlncence that 1t attracted and held
Ine attention of the whole assemblage.
Her Jewels were resplendent-in them
selves kings ransom" The writer
referred to the late Mrs. william Astor.
Inat was society's last ambitious ef-
. LOTT toward New Year entertaining
Tne nobs" and ''swells," who called
tSSemssiyes u the Chevaliers and boosted
o1 drinking the health of twenty host
Ssses on q New Year afternoon. went
the way OF the Patriarchs. and one ~
me msrriest customs which society in
New York ever had known fell into
nnaoeiphia society has not only knit,
sewed ana folded surgical dressings for
the American Red
SKATE and Study Cross, as well as
. for p.a g. begged. danced and
1 1Aeu ofoss. employed every
known device to entice contributions
TO this worthy cause. but is now search
ing for diversity in raising funds.
When Mrs. William Freeman and Mrs
; Charles Maule suggested. skating for
the Red Cross last week. the idea was
accepted by society in general and a
large and substantial sum was realized
for the worthy cause.
The latest suggestion offered, says the