Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-10
sIovak Girl in National press.

to HHQk the mineral water of the
country Through which he is passing.
NSIovaNan Faper Industry.
| Sloval1ia stp0t so highly organized
along il dussrfA lines as is Bohemia
but it hns vast forests and already
There ara many paper mills, some of
them stu running under the old
/ Hungariah names. But these are all
SRall affairs and SO far the paper and
WOOD Pulp industry has not been de-
veloped to anything like the proper
| IONS which could be reached in
| liable, industrious Europe. In Slo-
/ Vakia, too, one may see Brentwood
Nhairs being made for the American
market.
| r. Gzechoslovakia is short of coal but
this may be a good thing in the long
Eruns for Slovakia is one vast store
/ house of hydraulic power and there is
4 enough unused water power among
Lffle Slovakian hills and in the fashion
able high Tatra region to run all the
| factories that are likely to be started
| for long time to come. The Tatra
mountains are rivals of the Swiss Alps
for scenery. There the wealth and
aristocracy of Hungary have been
accustomed to go for generations for
Notwithstanding and other outdoor
/ recreatiOns.
While Bohemia, the land of the
Czechs, is predominantly an industrial
| country, Slovakia, the home of the
| Slovak portion of the partnership is
at present chiefly agricultural. There
are to be found the quaintest and
! most artistic of the peasant costumes
of the republic, which are never
ending delight. The men wear white
shirts, embroidered at wrists and
| throat and faultlessly Numbered,
| thickly braided vest wide white
| trousers, high boots, and a round
topped hat circled by a wide figured
| band.
How the Women Dress.
The women run the whole gamut OF
color and a group of them makes a
picture on which the eye must linger.
Their skirts of plain black reach only
few inches below the knees. Just
! below the waist is line of fine
embroidery. Their stockings are
thick and serviceable. Some have
small square colored designs knitted
into the dull black. Their shoes are
stout and usually high cut. High soft
| leather boots are worn by some. The
| jacket which reaches to the waist may
also be plain except for an applique
/ design of handmade lace.
Where then is the colorfulness OF
| the women's costumes? 1t is in the
gay and striking head-dress and apron.
| White and red are the favorite colors
for the head shawls, but the aprons
| the real adornment for which the
other clothes seem merely the back
ground-are every color under heaven
bright green, changeable to gold;
yellow with a silver overnight, pink
blue. cerise and all the other coors
that feminine fancy may choose. When
few hundred Of these gaily-colored
aprons are displayed in one moving
picture, athe scene is a charming one
| indeed.
The hand-work that of old was put
upon women's costumes, utilizing as
| its materials homemade vegetable
dyes. produced artistic results. But
with the growth of industrialism less
and less of this old-fashioned work
is being done. Aniline dyes are being
substituted and machinery is being
called upon to turn out its products
quickly and in great volume. The
factories, too, are attracting to the
towns the women who would have en-
gagged in the home work. Thus gradu-
ally the arts of the past are being
lost
Even from the tiny villages OF Slo-
vakia. hitherto the stronghold OF rural
customs, young girls are going to the
cities. They have neither time nor
! energy to do the fine needlework that
! made their mothers costumes things
of beauty, nor money to purchase SINH
lar clothes made by others. They are
coming more and more to wear white
hats with wide brfms, spotlessly white
dresses, and white stockings ana
slippers. These newer costumes are
charming but lack the beauty AND
individuality of the ole