Show Must Clothe to Keep Body Warm j New York The The zero hour may may have ended for or the army urmy but It sends n a shiver of memory and prospect through us Heatless houses Icy streets and thin clothes served to reduce re rep duce our vitality so seriously last winter winter win win- ter that there are many medical experts experts experts ex ex- to rise up and Sll say that the devastation devastation devastation dev dev- of In Influenza was due to these causes We were frozen by nature fed on substitutes miserable v I v tv fl A l larU arU c neat Heat and our n nervous resIstance resistance resistance resist resIst- ance which was called Into Intense activity to withstand these three plagues has permitted us to fall easy victims to the fourth and the worst plague that leaped upon us from the ocean last autumn The war Is over but the cold coM ap ap- ap The soldiers need not fear the zero hour but the American women wom worn women en must fear It warns a prominent fashion Cashion correspondent It may be that we will get up cold and go to bed cold We may eat warm half meals In front of hearted half fires and have our being being beIng be be- ing In one small room with a total disregard disregard dis dis- regard of the pleasanter amenities of ot life that civilization has led us to believe believe believe be be- lieve are permanent This Is not pessimism It Is a retrospect retrospect retrospect retro retro- of actualities None of us esC escaped escaped es es- C d suffering last year The rich M r r i Y fr I 5 Service coat of nutria with Sam Brown belt and nd buttons of brown leather It is modeled after the regulation reg British coat and is worn by women not in uniform as well as those in uniform and the poor went down alike under the presence of Intense cold and lack of coal just as us s clean and dirty wealthy wealthy weal weal- I thy and pauper went down under the Influenza germ None we were e spared sparer the presence of ot danger last year The multimillionaire lived JIved In one room and tried to heat hent It with whatever sticks and stones she sho could buy or borrow In Inthe Inthe inthe the same comfortless wn way as her sister of the submerged tenth Warmth Is the Fashion Let us say that that that-It It Is the fashion to wear warm clothes and the Individual will follow the fashion as ns the customs I of a country countr follow Its flag flab We move mo I In herds and all nIl the civilization In the world has hns not be been n able to eradicate this primordial Instinct t. t So when you OU go out to bu buy your winter inter outfit say sayto sayto sayto to yourself that warmth Is the fashion that protection to the body by proper apparel Is smart that peltry velours quilted linings high shoes big neckpieces neckpieces neck neck- pieces muffs mutTs for the hands and anti even en foot warmers for the feet are the very height of ot style And not only must we wear warm clothes on the street but they may be be- necessary for the house In fact It Is Is' Is very probable that they will be There Is small doubt about It U under the new fuel request which Is that every room shall have a thermometer and that not a single thermometer In America shall shan go above CS as degrees Now youre you're not used to 08 GS degrees In the house Many of us are used to 80 and the majority of us will shiver for the first rs few weeks under um r the 15 J i t Uon We may take an as our only com t that fact that this temperature Is 19 supposed to be healthful but mind you ou It Is only healthy when the body Is warm No medical expert however great will try to convince you ou otherwise Therefore the clothes that are to tobe to tobe tobe be chosen for the house as well as lS those for the street must be tive And because of this new ruling which comes comes through the federal regulations regulations reg reg- there Is an entire output of ot new types of house gowns that we once thought Impossibly old bId fashioned for American women Service C Coats ats for Women Those who design clothes are arc not averse to a new output to meet new v fuel laws They are quite happy to to- supply women with a variant on or the accepted style of winter costumes costumes- They have rung so many changes on c chiffon and satin on crepe and serge that the they are willing to go In for velours velours velours ve ve- and an angora orn for skirts of heavy hell velveteen They quite endorse thee the Idea of Immense pieces of peltry worn wom In the house ns as well as on the street and they and they exploit new types of Jackets jackets' that protect the body It means menns n a brisk trade to them It changes the dullness of autumn Into the optimism of winter Chief among the new outdoor wraps that have appeared since the cold colel weather made Its first approach Is a service coat cont designed b by one of the thee leading lending furriers of France and Amer Amer- ica It has clu caught ht the fancy of every ery woman who likes something that suggests suggests sug sug- ests the military It Is a genuine service coat copied from those worn w worn rn by the the soldiers soldiers which were first fashioned fashioned fash fash- In Great Britain who has hns led ledall ledall ledall all the world In smartness and comfort comfort com corn fort in uniforms It Is of nutria which is a n poor n of beaver It Is heavIly heavily ily lined I t It Is not awkward In Its lines through bulkiness There Is Isa Isa isa a Sam Brown Drown belt also a broad waist belt of leather and the four Immense pockets which hold all the packages one needs to carr carry are fastened with big leather buttons to match those down the front There Is a high roilIng rollIng rolling roll roll- Ing collar of leather and nutria combIned combined combined com com- which Is s made to stand up when required llred and fasten under the chin with a big leather button Smart women women women wo wo- men who are out In these coats carry one of the new ne short fashionable umbrellas umbrellas um um- that arc are made to look like officers officers' cers' cers sticks The British B W Warm i iThe The American artillery officer who after the first firt months of or- or winter In France said all he desired was a German German German Ger Ger- man helmet and a British warm ha has been echoed as far as ns the latter part of the wish go goes s by the Am American women women women wo wo- men who have discovered that the British warm Is about the most delightful delightful delightful de de- bit of covering that Brut has been Invented for an unpleasant spell of the weather A woman brought one to this country countr as far far faras as sartorial history tells il it and she sold it to a aman aman man who was so excited OE over r It that he tried to get dozens over for other ther men Now the women can cnn buy t them em over here and year wear them with ith content The They are made malle of leather and lined with sheepskin In Its rough state The b are l leather ather the tho pockets are Capacious and the tite high collar I Is cut on good lines Copyright 1918 b by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |