Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
Ally CHRONICLE, London.-A
new evening dress for men is
the latest creation by the Mems
Dress Reform Party.


~ Dress Reform Party.
In the Little Lord Fauntle-
roy" style, the suit may be in black silk
or in some cloth in mauve, salmon-pink,
spinach-green or blush-red.
There is a white, or silver-gray silk
shirt in Byron fashion and sleeveless
knickerbocker suit buttoned down the
side, from neck to knee. Black silk
stockings and buckle shoes complete the
ensemble.
A Cheltenham member has devised
a form of dress which can be adapted
to Winter or Summer. 1t consists of a
tunic and Knockers which are worn
above the knee like Elizabethan trunk
hose. The stockings can be turned down
to expose the knees. or worn long. The
material may be adapted to the weather.
The effect instead of being fantastic,
as regards the above garments. Is very
attractive and medieval, and 1t is antici-
pated that these models will be quite the
rage in London and other social centers
this season.
Man Arranges to
Hear Own Funeral.
japanese Advertiser, Tokio-Yoshi-
jiro Kobayashi, principal of the Hinode
Girls Higher School in Mcguire, a
suburb of Toxic, is going to have his pre-
death funeral service observed on the
occasion Of the formal funeral service
for his wife, who died while Mr.. Kobay-
ashi was on a tour of the world with
a Japanese educators party. On re-
ceiving word of his wife's demise he
hurried home, reaching Toxic recently.
81 am 81 years DID," said Mr.. Koba
yashi, land therefore old eonugh to an
ticipate that the end may come at any
time. 1t is for this reason that I may
as well have my funeral service per-
formed with that of my wife. From this
time on I shall spare nothing for the
promotion of education, in the thought
that am already dead"
After the great earthquake of 1923
Mr.. Kobayash pitied the children
on the street because they had nothing
to play with, and tried to furnish
amusement for them. He went among
the children in the poor districts with
a photograph on small cart and play
ed records for them daily, after his own
school duties were over, to comfort
them. He said that he was planning
to do the same thing now that his wife
is dead, and he has nothing to worry
about at home. He has received post
humous name, to be used in place of
his living appelletion, from the chief
priest Of the temple to which his fam
lily graveyard belongs, as a preparation
for the coming event.
X X X II
Anti Tobacco
Crusaders Are Flayed.
A. B. c., Madrid-Men are continu-
ally torturing themselves with their
opinions, says an old Greek adage, but
never the same opinions about the same
thingSl We recommend this saw to the
abstinence crusade which Is at the pres
ent time directing itself against the use
of tobacco. But why this campaign?
| Tobacco is something very agreeable.
Diffused through mouth, nose and
lungs, it Gains and soothes our nerv-
BUSINESS, composes our thoughts and
makes us happy and tranquil. Indeed,
smoking is an invgorating diversion
| that strengthens all the organs Of the
body and accumulates within one the
ambition Of a giant. 1t Is today the
! only pleasure of a convivial sort left
| to man. 1t Is a pleasure that Is at
once refreshing, asepticizing and tonic.
What are vices, anyhow? We all have
different ideas of what it is wrong to
| do. At one time some of us object to
one form of relaxation and others to
another. Indeed, some of us so insist
upon certain conventions and virtues
that they actually become superstitions
and vices.
A stipulation of the anti-tobacco cru
SADIE provides that believers in the
movement are not to importune those
to stop smoking who are either unwill-
ing or unable to do so. These victims
are to be left to their fate. while those
who have not acquired a taste for nico-
tine are to be spared its dread effects by
education and appeal. From this 1t
| appears that the crusaders" are not
entirely unacquainted with human ma
ture, and, indeed, for our part we fail
to see where tobacco smoking has been
anything but q relaxation and benefit
! 70 people In all walks of life and that
they are in better health with moderate
use than when deprived Of the article