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MRS. WILSON'S GOWNS STUNNING CREATIONS FROM PARIS EXCITE WASH INOTON SOCIET V. Blue the Favorite Color Capital Also Greatly Interested in Spring Hats, Which Are Entirely Novel. - - - i With the President and Mrs. Wilson again on the high seas en route for Paris, congress adjourned and many leading men and women of the capital taking advantage of the Lenten season as a time for rest if not of prayer and fasting the uninitiated might expect a great reaction in the capital's social life activities. But only the unitiated would hold that mistaken idea. For the casual visitor, the new official, or the oldest inhabitant Washington has a spring time charm that nothing can destroy with magnolias and forsvthia? abloom in the parks and new millinery adding to the interest of the daily church, service as well as to club meetings, afternoon visiting, bridge and similar events. Dinner parties are almost as numerous and quite as important as in midwinter with visitors from everywhere contributing to the interest of society in general and the diplomatic circle in particular. Mrs. Wilson during her short stay of one week in the WThite House appeared / on several occasions in a new and very becoming suit of the latest shade of blue which heretofore has only been seen in evening gowns and is very rare at that. Mrs. Wilson's is undoubtedly the first cloth suit of this rich dark shade to reach Washington?and' is of a fine homespun combined with Oriental silk of the same color. The silk slip of true Chinese design extends well below the hips where it is joined permanently to the plain narrow cloth skity. The coat which makes thi^ onepiece gown a suit is very smart indeed, with long narrow panel effect in the back, a cut away front, show, ing the top of the gown in a blouse \ fashion with revere collars and cuffs embroidered in two tones of blue silk. The top of the gown which has the three-quarter kimono sleeves, is also embroidered in blue with a line of added pink and gray. Mrs. Wilson wore this very smart costume to church on Sunday topped by a becoming toque of the same colored ostrich plumage. At the White House Dinner. At the now historic dinner of % February 26th, when she sat be tween Senator Lodge and Representative Henry A. Cooper, Mrs. Wilson wore a gown of black and silver brocade with drapery and flow' ' ing sleeves of tulle. One afternoon when she entertaintd a score or more at afternoon , tea 'in the red room, most of the -company being ladies from the diplomatic circle, Mrs. Wilson wore -what many of her friends consider her most becoming afternoon gown, ' a baize colored crepe trimmed in sil- : ver, in a closely draped model with ] square cut neck and straight, slightly flowing sleeves. Mrs. George Barnett, wife of the 1 Commandant of Marines, who took < advantage of her hurried trip to France, where she nursed her hus- 1 band through an attack of influen- : za, tcr order a few gowns in Paris is wearing one of the richest of new ' metal brocades in purple and gold with extremely smart drapery and the return waistline. The Season's Hats. , According to a famous authority on Fashion, with a capital "F," "the hat is the thing" and any woman who attempts to wear a last year's hat will be so conspicuously out ot the picture that she might just as well return to the sailor or the mushroom of a decade ago. In fact, a polk bonnet of our grandmother's day could be maniuplated into a piece of fashionable headgear with more ease than the last purchased or the least worn hat of last sum? mer. Mrs. Robert L. Owen, who accompanied her husband on his recent official visit to Paris, is wearing one of the newest of the four distinctive 1919 models. This is a turban of dark straw of a new bronze and green at the base of the crown, leaving a single line of straw to show the body of the hat. Mrs. George Marye is wearing a round shape ajjite conventional in I proportions, and of Milan straw,' but showing its claim to present I ! hour distinction by its unusual col- j or,* a shade between the henna of! the past winter and a deep burnt | orange. This is trimmed in a half wreath of flowers and foliage of exquisite harmony and faced with THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. It Will 1h> liored Sooner or Later and Connect Prance and England. Already plans are being prepared; for the carrying out of one of the j greatest engineering enterprises ev-1 | er undertaken hv man?the boring | of a tunnel to connect France with | England?and it will doubtltss be I begun as soon as the mess of war j has been cleaned up. The digging of such a tunnel be- j neath the British channel, making direct undersea communication be- j tween Dover and Calais, has been j advocated for a century. Beginnings j of it were actually made a few years ! ago at both ends. But the project j i... fnor rtf r>nn?prva_ ! Was QGIUUltJU u> tuc ivai \si ~ ? | tive Britishers lest the hole under the strait be used bv the French, in case of war, for an invasion of England. Jf course, tms was a foolish idea; for nothing could be easier in an emergency than to block the tunnel, or even to blow up a section of it, rendering it impassable. The great war, however, has J taught a lesson. If the tunnel had existed, troops and supplies could have been sent through it from England to France in an endless stream, safe from submarines or other ene- | my attack, while releasing much- "" needed ships for other purposes. WouDded and sick soldiers would have been carried back by the same route without peril from the murderous Hun. Incidentally?and by no means of least importance?England would have been wholly safe from the starvation which the Huns hoped to inflict upon her by the operations of their submarines. The mistake is not to be perpetuated. The tunnel is to be dug, and in v ~ J ~ accordance with plans long ago aucquately developed?though, presumably, with some modifications. If the floor of the channel were of soft material?say, of silt, such as often furnishes the make-up of river bottoms to a great depth?the engineering problem involved mig?t be one of utmost difficulty. But, happily, the fact is quite otherwise. Currents flowing between the North sea t and the Atlantic keep the bottom of the strait scoured clean, and its floor is of solid chalk?stuff almost impervious to water and easy to bore through. This chalk stratum is more than 200 feet thick. The distance from Dover to Calais is only twenty-two miles. But actually the tunnel will be thirty-two miles long, connecting the DoverLondon railway with the Calais-Paris railway and thus enabling a passenger to get aboard a train in the British capital and travel direct to Paris, dismounting from the coach at the station in that city. Electric locomotives will do the hauling. It is estimated that not more than four years will be required to complete the project, digging from both ends. TV,** fAtoi /vAot ic rpr?knnp.d at $80.-1 1U^ IV/tUl WUV AW * W. - T - - / j 000,000, and the expectation is that I the investment will yield at least 6 per cent, per annum.?Popular Science. "One dollar, please," said the dentist. "But," protested the patient, "your sign reads: 'Painless extracting free,' and now you want a dollar." "Certainly," replied the dentist. "You remember that you yelled a bit, so this does not apply in your 1 case. I do painless extracting free, ~ just as I advertise, but yours evidently was not painless and so I make a charge for it. One dollar, please." dark-toned velvet. Mrs. George Howland Chase is just back from Philadelphia wearing a straw hat purchased in that city which is of the same family as Mrs. Owens's cherry-crowned turban, except that the straw is a much finer weave with the crown covered in a variety of small fruits including the several specimens of currants. Mrs. Truxton Beale, occupying a box seat at one of the recent symphony concerts, wore a real picture hat of black panne velvet and ostrich plumes, the latter the old-fashioned rich of flue kind which started from the front of the crown, encircled one side of the hat and fell halfway to the shoulder. Mrs. Beale, to whom this unusual hat was very becoming, wore a black satin one-piece gown on smart lines. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, this same afternoon, wore a gown of black georgette in slightly draped skirt and the rather closely draped bodice with long narrow sleeve topped by a georgette hat in the modified sailor shape, which she never entirely abandons. This had the beehive crown, lined with some lusterless silk but a transparent round brim. The hat was practically untrimmed, a small bow and band of lusterless taffeta or satin being the only addition to the plain shape. A broad scarf of sable served as an outer wrap. pabyffickFee^1 ! I Baby Chick Mash I 9 Will Make Little Chicks Grow 9 I STONE'S CAKE! i mi * * T 1 i Comes in Three limes a Week |jj Phone 15 9 TOM DUCKERl fl BAMBERG, S. C. 9 UNDERGARMENIS I for All the I FAMILY atUtider You want undergarments and' hose that will fit well, feel good and wear a long time. Then come to us for them. Bring the whole family g along and let us suppiy mem an. p We have bought a big quantity of underwear and hosiery. 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