Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
THEOTHER ANGLE
Nutty Knitters.
BY KIRK MILLER.

| tiles, but it hasn't done much to cure
| the knitters. The swooning sex is
knitting Just as vampishly as ever and
ers and won't-workers are going to
bust loose this winter in rash OF
cerise. henna. heiiotrope and bird's-eye
maple sweaters: with the very chic
bell sleeves and corduroy founces
! where the waist line ought to be.
Yeppo, the burglar alarm, fireproof
star-spangled armistice is as useless
| as liquor license in North America
because they didn't aim any clause at
| the two-handed. five-fingered, quad
ruple-plated knot Of knitters who in
fest the street cars, park benches and
apartment house bay windows. They're
still fighting the battle of The Yarn.
th-two needles in each paw and
six back of each ear the frail set is
armed to the: teeth against tough
ternal stimilants. If an armistice will
produce secession of arms, why not
q; knittfstice for secession of knits ?
Sounds reasonable, but amt.
The blondes, brunettes and neutrals
for. one of those Circasion walnut
trench vests with dangling sleeves, in
laid front, white-tiled trimmings and
tricolette embroidery just south Of the
elbows. There's only two ways to nab
one Of these creations which were evil
IDENTIFY created with good intentions
but poor effect on the baratone bank
roll-buy elm or knit EN-
II you inhale one at fancy good
store where the merchandise isn't
nearly so high fillutin' as the cost
marks. 1t means you've got to sacri-
nce your pewter engagement ring or
your Christmas lavalliere. The other
way to goof yourself into the pro-
prietorship Of one of those jigg-saw
sweaters is to buy 754,329A kilometers
OF vermillion hemp, a set of knitting
oars and mix it for yourself. Most of
EN-. 1t seems, prefer the latter and less
humane method Of expiating their
sweaterish ambitions, for 1t gives 'em
they're waiting for a flock of tele-
phone calls which never arrive
Heard lot Of the two-eared sojers
in the A. E. F. remark that il the So
pranoes back home would do more
knitting and less knotting. their ribs
wouldn't be full of little pox places
where the knots never went A. W.
o. L. But it seems that by knotting
and knitting and knutting for from
six months to the average prison SEN
tence OF ono year, a rapid knittress
can toss of corrugated sweater
which you can't tell from the original
straitjacket unless you're near-sighted,
which most people usually are.
The sweaters 'emselves aren't so
worse II it weren't for the colors
Nobody's satisfied with the good old
tints which the first lord Of the color
admiralty dabbed on the rainbow, but
they've got to smirk around in the
color encyclopedia and decide on the
old roses, the skim-milk bluffs, the
aurora borealis greens and the Ala
bama blues. The good, -fashione ed
hues that grandma used to embody in
for the modern maidenette, so they
go grandma one better in the sweater
epidemic, which isn't SO noisey as the
seventeen-year locust, but much harder
on the eyes.
In crocheting a wooden helmet for
the torso it's a safe thing to not car
~ all of your yarn in one basket like
it was eggs. A domestic incident also
proves that it's bad billiards to knit
while riding to and from work on the
local rapid transit systems unless you
carry your balls of worsted in pri-
vate garage. One lady, we assume she
was that. who was hemstitching q
cravenette raincoat or something
alighted from a street car and left the
ball Of yarn on the car seat. She toted
the partly finished fluffy something to
her official swivel chair and discov-
cred that the source Of supply was
still unwinding itself on its blimpy
way to 18th and D streets northeast.
Her fellow war workers administered
cold towels and smiling salts in q
manner BETTING the smiling sex. Sew
enteen rows Of knitting were report
ed unraveled in the skirmish. with
complete returns not yet in.