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Show RlimneRs of String Bean To Be Spring Mode for Women More than over the spring Klrl Is going to resemble tho string bean. She Is to be as trco from curves as the geometrical description or a straight line. A Hock or ra9hIon's ravorltoa out for a spring stroll will resomblo so many perpendiculars drawn to given points on tho sidewalk. Grace has given way to severity, and tho Joyous little writers or how to row thin on soven lemons a day arc sharpening Uielr pencils pen-cils In anticipation or tho harvest. It s going to be a bad year for the embonpoints. Already driven to the last ditch of desperation ovor tho lack or curves allowed by our most exclusive ex-clusive modistes, there socms nothing lert tor plump parties but u straltjacket ind one meal a week. The eternal question has gone out of fashion. The only question that keeps frivolous femininity awake nights Is how to lake another dozen ounces off where tnoy are most noticeable. Uant-dns Uant-dns will bo practised by all thu best dressers, Tor how else can wonion hope to attain the straight up and down pro-fllo pro-fllo that goes with a one hundred pound net weight? Tho beauty specialist who can concoct con-coct a prescription guaranteed to tako oK. all curves without dieting, oxcrcls-Ing, oxcrcls-Ing, steaming or any or the trials and tribulations known to tho person Inclined In-clined to plumpness and three chins will make money so rast ne"ll have tho three richest men looking like a trio of punched pennies. Lr.nn Cloth, -More Cant. It's all the raull of tho National Cloak and Suit Jlanuracturors' Association. Every little while these urbltors get together to-gether and decldo the r.ito or tho folks, who buy. What, then, more natural than that they should press tho tad for few yards or clothes to the limit ot pergonal possibility? A fashlonablo suit of to-day requires less than half tbo amount or material demanded by the style or a fow years past and It costs three times more. It wouldn t take so very much ot a mathematician mathe-matician to llnd tho answer. In selecting your spring suit kindly remember every gore tho tailor leave out or your skirt puts money la his bank Consider well whether the tyrant fashion Is worth risking your llfo io roilow. You know transportation companies com-panies arc not going to keep on Inventing Invent-ing stepless street cars and things, aud there Is no Intention on the part or automobile au-tomobile manuracturcrs to build their now models closer to tho ground. Last soason. when tho hospital wards were all cluttered up with broken bouos and men lost their tempers oer the length or time it look to walk u block with a smartly gowned woman, the tailors hit upon one or the most brilliant ideas Unce tho launching ot the sheath. It consisted or nothing more or loss than a alaah or two at tho bottom of tho aklru Tho slash' didn't cost tho maker a cent and It averted a threatened epidemic epi-demic or pleating which would cut prollts almost In two. The mashed skirt allows its wearer to navigate without doing an Imitation or a bound-footed bound-footed bollc or Hong Kong In a hurry, fopularlt) Unli::cn. Then, too, it was so dollghttully risque.' Small wonder it leaped to tho height or popularity at a. single bound and at tho present writing rc-ruscd to be shaken from Its pinnacle ot favor. Tho tailors have thought ot no better plan to defeat tho makers or expansive materials, ao they have taken tlfo sltab , right wltli thorn Into the spring season! i with a promise that skirts will be nar- H rowur and slashes deoper. H Doesn't seem possible, but that's tho H word from the convention. IH Look to your waistcoats, men. The H women arc going to wear 'cm with their H spring suits, and or contrasting ma- H lerlal, too. Here Is a splendid sug- H gcstion for that hectic ono or rcd and H blue polka dots friend wlfo wlshod on H you on an otherwise happy Christmas- WWwM tide. Leave it around looso and see IH ir It doesn't go great with the now spring H We are warned the spring coats are built H mostly or stripes. Yes, they build quite H a few of them that way at a llttlo walled H village up tho Hudson. Plaids aro also H In line for a big revival, with tho lid off 1 on color schemes. But wait until we get a gllmpso or the H Ilali 'Rah coat destined to send every jH susceptible girlish heart into the seventh IH clothes heavon. It Is forty-six Inches IH long, cream background with a tan stripe, IH cuffs and collar ot the same goods, with IH tho reverse clutch on tho stripes. Ob, IH pshaw, why don't they Bet some nice live- IH ly colors like bottle green with scarlet JH stripe or burnt orango with purple plaid? H You couldn't cull cream and tan a 'Ran H Huh coat aud bo strictly truthful. M The l'm'ulnr Color. H Speaking or colom. tan rrom chamola to IH leather shades, navy blue and taupti have IH been picked as the winners, with taus IH leading. Or course you can tako a chance- IH on red or green, you may even go so H far as to risk a prune shade or nn old H ros but no one will mistake you for the IH escaped model ot a fashion magazine. H Serges have passed to their well earned H rcwaid. The newest weaves arc Bedford H cord and wool corduroy. Those matcr'als. H M,.v".,riv irranffcd. add to tho perpendleu- H ar e et w-Uhout any material reduction H in iho already fast diminishing diet. H Where oh. where tho cuIv,a .? H rS?.'ir? Where is tho Gibson girl with H S?"cnJe?r waist and her lines a la IJMm uTonmriaK or nf, attempt to rcduc, H the high cost living? IH |