The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 27, 1919, Page 6, Image 6
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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