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Show bbh bAbJ I , rr,IIHilJO, , " ' I - DTD BY LILIAN CRAIGEN ADAM X " IggggiP HE SILLY SILHOUETTE AGAIN , H tho Biu' silhouette! f; II what you like it Is really Ix W W worao th'3 season than ever belt be-lt i fore. I Walking down town you nee before you what looks like a hogshead except that a tapering: pin-point structuro lops It It Is walking and you have a weird Idea that there is something familiar to you in its motion. On coming closer you discover that the hogshead is really real-ly your fat friend, Mrs. Jones, In her now winter garb. Dressed sanoly Mrs, Jones doeB not look to weigh more than her 190 pounds; in her new winter win-ter garb she gives tho impression that she would turn the scale at 400. She haa on a huge coat of blue Stout Ladies Wear Styles Intended for SlenderQIrls anti Vice Versa. duvetyn that ripples over her generous gener-ous hips as the marcol waves of the sea ripple over the beach; a great belt encircles her waist making her girth seem at least two yards around; the skirt beneath, the coat is as full as the fullest of this season's skirts, and as short as the shortest, revealing not only plump ankles but plump calves as well. To top this picturesque costume Mrs. Jones has squeezed upon her head a I tiny, tiny hat under which her face JIB fTE. -YOUNG IMw houjtikeeper. ; M3 I that mis, is tne sea- ' K ' son of seasons for en- KP rcv tertalnlng, what with . u xs. debutante luncheons ""' H' Sj " ani aftcr-tho-thea- tBtttlPy rrr"' tre supprs and ln- .' ' IbWJBBI ncr Parties, and that M in consequenco host- ' J r esses are racking , ' their brains to think of new and delicious dishes to sot bc- fore their guests. It is a known fact ; that these latter persons arc somewhat r critical. They expect a menu worthy " I of their distinguished consideration i 1 when they accept an invitation. J THAT luckily or unluckily as you I I look at it, tho markets aro as full of I delicious things in winter as In sum- I t mor and so there need bo no dimculty in making up delightful menus; no - dlfllculty that Is, unless it is a pecuni- ary one. THAT at a luncheon given for a ( debutante tho other day tho first , course consisted of fruit cocktails. For ? tho uninitiated it may bo explained that these consist merely of grapefruit, j pineapples, bananas and white grapes cut into pieces and served very cold .' in double cocktail glasses with a dress-4 dress-4 ing made of one-third cup sherry wine, three tablcspoonfuls apricot brandy, j a half cup sugar and a few grains of ,1 salt Maraschino cherries are used to i garnish the glasses. X A clear soUp with which bread sticks were served formed the second course. '( and after this came squabs, with stunea potatoes ana jrrencn peas; men ai a separate course, French artichokes with a Hollandaise sauce, followed by a pepper-stuffed-with-cheese salad and this by ices in the form of dancing girls, with fancy cakes. Coffee was served in the drawing room later. This menu could have been renderod simpler sim-pler by omitting the separate vegetable vege-table course. It could of courso have boon made much more elaborate in a number of ways, but simplicity is much more the rule now than It was a few years ago. The thing is to have few courses, but to have theso of great merit. Before a dinner given recently tiny sandwiches filled with highly spiced cheese, and crisp celery stalks also stuffed with cheese, were served in the drawing room with the Martini cocktails cock-tails this was in a non-Prohibition State, gentle reader, so don't be shocked. Tho first course at dinner consisted of clams served in green pepper sholls with a sauco of catsup, horse-radish and other condiments. This was followed by a delicious boull-llon boull-llon with croutons, and this by individual indi-vidual Allots of beof served with a Bearnaiso sauce and accompanied by potato apples and stuffed tomatoes. Asparagus on toast with meltod butter but-ter sauce was served as a separato course hero, and the saJad was Ro-malne Ro-malne with a Roquefort dressing. Ices and cakes followed, and coffee was served In the drawing room. spreads out smiling and good-natured Hko a piece of dough under a rolling pin. "My dear,'"ahe says when you come up to her, "how do you liko mo?" Now who could be so hoartless as to answer that question truthfully? Not you, certainly. So you evade it by saying "You look as If you were straight from Paris," which you hope will satisfy her. Apparently It does for she asks no more questions. You walk ten blocks with her. but it Is not too much to say that you do it unwillingly. un-willingly. You like Mrs. Jones in her rrlvate and personal capacity as a lady but as an exponent of thH season's sea-son's most extreme styles you are ashamed of her. It 1b at a dance that you meet Mrs. Smith fresh from the hands of a Parisian" dressmaker. Sho weighs 210 pounds and has a doublo chin. Her costume it superb; no one would deny ?JBM) WNT&? a&e . .itEE3'fcr- TURN TUS WiKkL SCALES AT mWSTk that. Tho underskirt is of silver lace. tlv full pleated tunic of pink satin. The latter stands out over her hipH as If it were wired. Sho is certainly four yards in diameter. "Speaking of the Colossus of Rhodes," murmurs a man, looking at her. It is cruel but then why do not women wom-en realize that It is bettor to bo garbed in something less than tho extreme of fashion than to look ridiculous. Mrs. Robinson calls herself to your attention by wearing a postillion hat. Tho postillion hat, lt Is hardly necessary nec-essary to explain, is that ono now so popular which resembles a man's Bilk hat, only that its crown is nllghtly lower. Mrs. Robinson la not. young. Her face Is worn; there are crow's feet about her eyes; her hair is tinged with gray A postillion hat is about as suitable suit-able to her as a baby's cap. Why docs she woar It? Probably becauso lt is a now shape. She should havo taken a slstor with her when sho went to buy a hat. If there Is ono person moro than anothor who tells you tho truth about yourself and your faults of features it is a sister. And theso aro not all of tho horrible oxamples that you could name. There aro stout ladles who wear pannier and bustlo drapery, and short-necked ladles who wear collars so high that they look as If their throats wore bandaged for tonsllltle, and tiny llttlo THE BRASS BED IS OUT CO say that fashions change is merely to stato a truism and yet lt does seem sad that we must not only alter our petticoats petti-coats with tho provalllng modes but our furniture as well. This is merely a preamble to comment com-ment on tho fact that iron beds and brass beds orstwhilo so fashionable, havo disappeared and are no moro seen in tho homes of those who follow tho 6tyles. It seems but a few short months ago since we plckod up our wooden beds bodily as it wore and cast them, into outer darkness, declaring that they were unclean and generally pestlfor-oue. pestlfor-oue. The four-poster on which Unolo Michael died and thoy woro pineapple pine-apple posts too, think of it! you sold to an old colored man for a song. If you had that four-postor now and Iwero willing to part with it, which I II I i l E J TBTMffl nmfOF DXXfr A7IEN7CM KsJMfcpi J77 TfUV I CfiiffWO ffiffflV BVW women who so envelop themselves In swirling folds of material that they look as broad as they are long and very much like a lino full of clothes gono mad. It is surely a mad' season my masters, mas-ters, and yot hero and thero thero emerges some figure which shows how charming the new fashions really are when they aro worn by tho right sort of people. you would not be, you could sell it to a dealer for the price of another song ono of Schumann-Holnk's say. Yes, tho wooden bed is back and more assertive as-sertive than ever, and It's a lucky sho who can produce from the cellcr an old ono of mahogany to put in tho guest chamber. And yet tho new woodon bed is not quite like the old ono after all. For tho old ono was many cubits long and And In Its Place Stand Twin Four Poster Beds of Mahogany. many cubits wide and about as big over-all as a olty apartment; whereas, tho new wooden bed is invariably a "j h rmri ,l,i! f I Li t JJ I lii i Frlii The New "Wooden Bed Is Invariably A Slnglo One. single ono, large enough for on per-' son and one person only. H In the olden days when a bed vu mado it was mado to accommodate il the family mother, father and at least two children could sleep com- ll fortably within its vast territory; but 'H now that wo'vo grown hygienic and modest nothing but tho single bed ob- 'H tains, and very single at that for it H does not allow even one person much IH room to flounder about in when his i conscionco Is troubling him and he i H cannot sloop. . H And bo nowadays at tho second- H hand man's thero is nothing so con- jH splcuous as the brass bed. There is ' tho ornato brass bed with Jlg-saw-llke H trimmings for which your Aunt Jano ; ,H paid $7C, and the plain brass bod with H the brass wearing off most auspicious- ll ly. for which your Cbuoln Lottice paid H a bare $10, and other brass beds which H you havo known all twinkllagly asking ! their places at home ore twin beds of, H mahogany with four miniature posts, H looking as much liko the old-timo H tester "beds as a llttlo elephant looks H Hko a big one. iH It docs seom a shamo that there IH should bo fashions in bods as well as !H in petticoats, but there are! ,H A pretty school frock for a girl is ' of navy bluo serge. It is box-pleated H from a yoke back and front and has : H a stitched belt of the material. Tho hemstitched rolling collar is of white H faille silk and is finished with a plaid H HB open fireplace has returned ( J to favor and is a part of every I up-to-date living room, oven if ' coal must bo burned in lt. Black walnut furniture is again considered con-sidered smart and many of tho now Queen Anno dining room suites aro made of thl3 wood, but tho new pieces of furniture, aro not hideously-oarved as were the old onos. ,'' The Adam patterns lead In bed room furniture and aro very graceful and lovely. Upholstered pieces for living rooms are covered usually clthor with vclour or with subdued tapestry, and In the latter material the public tasto seems to run to rather large figures. Among the pieces popular for bed and living rooms Is tho chaise-longue. This may be had either In wicker or wood, crotonno covcrod, and is as com- H fortable as lt Is attractive looking. H Old-fashioned couches with one high H end are also seen again. H Dead white materials are seldom used for curtains now but ecru-tinted H goods of lighter or darker shades that B glvo somo llttlo effect of sunshino aro f preferred. H Tho dressing table draped in dust- H catching -materials is luckily one of the H by-gono fads. M The topi of many handsome pieces B of furnlturo are covered with plato IBhJ glass to protect their surfaces from !BV burns and other accidents. This is HBa especially truo of dressing tables. HH Mahogany is as popular as ever but MB black walnut is pushing it hard for BBJ first favor. M |
