Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-24
KNEES ARE IN THIS SEASON AND
 THIS MEANS THAT THEY ARE OUT

has discovered that a human knee is useful as we'll as ornamental. Knees are lin" this season, which means that they are decidedly out Why waste 'em? So we get the new garter, thing of beauty never intended to blush unseen. It is rather wide strap of silk elastic, heavily embroid- cred and glowing with brilliants and semi-precious stones.
 A narrow silk envelop, also hem med and embroidered, in snuggly fas- tened to the band with forget-me-nots in enamel. There are gold tassels of modest ankle length. You watch, or try not to, pair of these tassels cross ing the foyer of fashionable hotel. The lady and her escort-somewhere, these tassels are always escorted take seats in not too conspicuous corner. The lady crosses her knee. While chatting, she negligently yanks
 
 and from it the lady produces cigar cite, gold-tipped and in shade match ing the garter. Sometimes she also produces a powder puff, rouge, lip stick, railroad tickets, handkerchiefs, invisible hair pins, calling cards, a nail file, matches, old theater prog rams, miliner's address, fountain pen, vial of perfume or what have you?
 These things could just as well-or perhaps not quite so well-be carried in pockets. But pockets this year are not to carry things in, except chif- fon handkerchief or a pekinese of pocket size. You'd be surprised at how much can be carried around the knee and you frequently are. Only it must be the right knee. A lady who likes to be in style doesn't at all mind taking a cigarette from her gar ter as things are now, though she would blush like anything if her bob garconnaire got misplaced so that an ear showed. Tn spite of some adher- ents who stoutly maintain that ears are perfectly proper, there's feeling against them even yet. It isn't con- sidered quite nice to call attention to them, even with ear rings in the daytime. A few daring souls allow theirs to wag in the open, unabashed, but the womanly woman affects con- servative little blobs of tightly curled hair
 Knees, however, are nothing to hide at present. Especially if they have dimples, which any beauty par Tor will insert in couple of days. Stockings are sheer, sheerly nominal. Again the Parisian naivete. Knees are in and dimples are good; voila; lets have plenty of both.
 Then there is the newest thing in Parisian barometers. An enterprising fashion expert has taken the barome- ter out of the category of things that hang on wall or glover in a ships pilot house and given it a place in ev- cry day life, place in the eyes of the heart of the Parisienne.
 Barometer Plus.
 Tho now horop,a+or ;e o l,oc-,., .4 .. plus. A round disk, beautifully en- amelled in pale blues, pinks or the fashionable green, it is an accurate little weather forecaster studded with jewels. Wrist watches are all very well in their place-which isn't the wrist this season, but the lower arm or upper ankle. Yet of what use is 1t to lady with new frock to know the hour, when she doesn't know whether to wear the embroidered crepe de chine wrap or to carry the feather umbrella. Sling a little baro- meter around the neck on thin plat mum chain and she's forewarned for all emergencies. <
 So, too, is her escort. If she notes. for instance, a rapid falling of the barometer during too long conver- sation about where we shall have tea today, he hastily heads the lady to- ward the Ritz before the storm breaks. Instantly, the barometer rises. indi- eating long sunny spell. If, during discussion of international law. he observes on the twinkling blue enam- elled disk the unmistakable indica- tlons of cold snap, he changes the subject. And if, on the other hand we'll anyway, it's an awfully good idea. this little barometer, and as French as they come.