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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938 Lace Ranks High in Daytime Chic By CHERIE NICHOLAS L ACE! There’s magic in the word. It is enchanting to wear by night, it is charming and wear able in a practical way by day. Lace brings into -the picture that feminine allure or glamour (if you are not tired of the word) that fashion tells us must be this sea son. According to latest style de cree lace will carry you through sar torially triumphant wherever you go from sun-up to sun-down and on into the social swirl of the midnight hours. As a matter of fact lace has come to be regarded as so all-important it enters into every phase of fash ion. To state it even more defi nitely, be it daytime dress, evening gown, tailored suit, jacket, coat, cape or bolero, be it blouse, negli gee, sports frock, be it hat, bag, gloves (showing lace mitts for sum mer) even the shoes you wear, be it frilly jabot, or any type of dainty neckwear, or be it accessories ga lore, if made of lace rest assured it is indisputably style correct. Particularly intriguing are the day time fashions that are being devel oped in lace for immediate as well as coming summer wear. Paris couturiers, in their recent collec tions, showed frock after frock with pleated lace skirt, just such as we are picturing centered in the group. It adheres to the lace-tailored idea yet because of its being lace it is dressy enough for bridge or any so cial afternoon occasion. By the way, you’ll love the new lace-pleat- ed skirts, for of all materials there’s something about lace that makes it pleat up most effectively. Most of the lace afternoon dresses with pleated skirts give very simple tai lored styling to the waist or blouse or bodice top (as you choose to express it). The dress pictured is no exception to the rule. Keep in mind, whether you make your own clothes or whether you buy ready made, that the pleated skirt, the tailored collar and belt, as well as the pique bow as here shown are features that are new and distinc tive in a lace of sheer pattern. Francevramant, who is noted for her tailored and street clothes, made the youthful dress of navy and white mixed wool lace shown to the right in the picture. It was featured at the lace ball given in Miami as a fashion future for spring and sum mer. The white pique which is used for the narrow yoke and collar is repeated as a decoration on the sash belt. A front bandeau of flow ers tells you that Paris milliners are sponsoring flower-trimmed hats this season. The popular two-piece dress is in- terpretated delightfully in lace and sheer crepe as illustrated to the left in the group. The jacket is made of sheer lace that is heavily corded and bound around all the edges with the matching crepe, such as makes the pleated skirt. The idea of a bolero of lace with pleated crepe skirt is also going big. This twosome makes a most desirable number in one’s wardrobe, for it invites the wearing with it of a dainty frilly lingerie blouse, per haps an exquisitely hand-tucked ba tiste, such as is destined to play a stellar role in the current fashion picture. As to lace in the evening mode the biggest news out of recent Paris openings points to the high fashion of Chantilly lace sheer to an ex quisite degree, combined with other fabrics, notably marquisette, mous seline de soie or the new silk or gandie which is so sheer and crisp and altogether lovely it seems al most unreal. G Western Newspaper Union. CORDED WASH WEAVE By CHERIE NICHOLAS Tailored simplicity and correct ness marks this attractive sports outfit of fine ottoman cotton, with a sleeveless bolero jacket of knitted wool. Fine corded cotton is modern in every sense of the word since corded and ribbed fabrics are “tops” this season. The corded cotton used for this costume bene fits in that it has been sanforized- shrunk—will not shrink no matter what provocation. Moderness of this outfit extends to every point of style, giving free swinging skirt, short slightly flaring sleeves, slim snug •fitting waist and affording perfect freedom of action. LOVELY LADY NOW LEADER OF FASHION By CHERIE NICHOLAS “Glamour and elegance, romance and sentiment are in fashion again!” according to Miss Thelma Roberts, nationally noted style authority, who is completing a coast to coast survey of American fashions. “The American woman often thinks that she merely follows fash ions,” said Miss Roberts. “Actu ally, she sets these fashion trends herself. Her changing activities change the fashion trend the whole world follows.” Summarizing the recent Paris fashion openings, Miss Roberts said: “Put away your pet inhibi tions, your shy reserve and negative personality! Be your own sweet self. For this year the lovely lady is the leader of fashion. The gra cious woman whose charm and fem ininity once marked her as ‘individ ual’ has become today’s smartest example of fashion. “This summer we’ll wear poetic crinolines and dance to moonlight waltzes. We’ll wear trailing wisps of tulle wound round our shoulders, and masses of flowers in our hair. We’ll look our loveliest in slim hang* ing chiffons that seem to smooth away those extra curves, and we’ll wear frothy lace blouses and hand- embroidered sports frocks and dainty frills of organdie and lace on all our daytime frocks.” Detail on Shoes Either stilt shoes or squared backs, heels and toes is the line of new spring shoes, which are de signed with amusing detail to go with the new frocks. Springtime Costume Gray and chamois yellow are combined to fashion a striking springtime costume. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON HHMm? N EW YORK.—Georges Bonnet, France’s new foreign minister, has been a vigorous advocate of a British-French-American alliance. He is regarded as French May more in accord Join Four with the Chamber- Power Pact lain Policies than his predecessors. With the downfall of the Left gov ernment, the conclusion of an Anglo- Italian agreement and the appoint ment of M. Bonnet, interpreters of European politics see an advance toward a four-power pact, possibly five-power, with Poland in, and the further isolation and immobiliza tion of Russia. The abandonment of the French-Soviet treaty is expected to be an immediate issue in what is regarded as a sharply clari fying outline of dominant conser vative policy in France and England. M. Bonnet, shrewd, suave, dressy, is a somewhat rakish figure, with his hat usually on the back of his head, but a personage of power and dignity in the political forum. He is of the younger school of French politics, and, in that connection, one of the best Jai Alai players in France. At his country place at St. Georges de Didonne, he spends much time making M. Bonnet incredible kanga- Cuts Didos roo leaps, playing on Estate pelota basque, as they call it there. But, in statesmanship, he is no rub ber-heeled bounding basque. He is rather a wary and adroit fencer. When he was appointed ambas sador to the United States in Janu ary, 1937, he brought with him a year’s supply .of truffles and pate de foies gras. He had to take most of it back, however, as, in July, he was recalled to save the franc in the Chautemps cabinet. He was supposed to have saved it, but, as usual, it didn’t stay saved, and, in the turn of the Ferris wheel, which is French politics, he was down- under and up again. He is an economist, but also a philosopher and author, in the cham ber of deputies from southwest France at the age of thirty-six and a former minister of budget, pen sions and finance. He budgets a few wisps of hair carefully across his bald pate and surveys the world warily through gold-rimmed spec tacles. • • • J APAN’S strongly authoritarian government, with its feudal car ry-over, has never fitted exactly into any of the molds of ultra-modern . absolutism. The Spotlight intensifying issue Now on Jap » of fascism which Strong Man ma y force out the present govern ment spotlights several likely-look ing “strong men” as possible suc cessors to Premier Konoye. The only one with apparently clearly formulated ideas, and a flu ent line of totalitarian talk is War Minister General Hajimi Sugiyama. After several years of Euro pean post-graduate studies in di rect action, he returned to talk of “national renovation,” “de cadent parliamentarianism,” “unity and discipline,” and the like. More than any other lead er, he employs the standard terminology of fascism—if that means anything. On May 27, 1937, he gave the diet quite a lacing and said that it would . have to behave, or Sugiyama “ W e will dissolve Tells Diet it.” Since he was to Behave then a member of the ruling military triumvirate, this was no casual edi torial “we.” While he is fifty-eight years old, he hits big-time politics with a strong momentum, not a contender for high place until 1936, and hence not track-sore, like some of his ri vals. He did not become a general until 1936, after the army revolt early in. that year. He had been vice-minister of war and head of the military air force. His heavily underslung face, rest ing, neckless, on a heavy torso, is asymmetrical, with one eyebrow al ways cocked, one side watchful and the set of a Benda mask of a dicta tor. He is of the army caste, gradu ated from the national military col lege. He represented Japan at the 1926 disarmament conference at Geneva, remaining in Europe for several years thereafter. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Elephant Remembers An elephant walked along a road near Rangpur, Bengal, a man in a garden shouted and made faces at it. The beast ambled into the gar den, but the mahout restrained it while the mocker fled to safety. When the elephant returned along the road the same night it rushed at its tormentor’s house and badly damaged it. Summer Afternoon Dresses T HESE two patterns bring you outstanding fashions of the sea son, the woman’s dress very slen derizing and flattering, the little girl’s frock as saucy, bright and perky as a daffodil. Each pattern includes a detailed and complete sew chart, with step-by-step di rections, so that you can make these pretty dresses quickly and easily. Bolero Frock for Little Girl. This dress has no less than four of the most becoming details in the world—a crisply flaring skirt, sleeves puffed out like little bal loons, a brief bolero, and a round collar! Make it up in printed per cale (a light, flowery design), pa per taffeta, gingham, linen or dim ity. Use ricrac or Irish edging to trim the collar and bolero. Soft Detailing for Large Women. Notice the soft gather on the shoulders and sleeve tops, creat ing just enough fullness where it’s needed, the lengthening revers, the slim lines of the skirt—all extremely becoming to women who want to minimize their weight. This dress will be lovely in silk print, georgette, chiffon or voile. If you choose a print, be sure to select small or indistinct designs. The Patterns. 1505 is designed for sizes 4, 8, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 6 re quires % yard of 35-inch material for the bolero; 2% yards for the dress. Contrasting collar (if de sired) requires % yard. 2% yards of braid for trimming. 1461 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires AVz yards of 39-inch material with short sleeves. 4% yards with long sleeves. Spring-Summer Pattern Book. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book which is now ready. It con tains 109 attractive, practical and becoming designs. The Barbara Bell patterns are well planned, ac curately cut and easy to follow. Each pattern includes a sew-chart which enables even a beginner to cut and make her own clothes. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Uncle J^hll A Great Difference The unwise man puts things off; the wise man puts things over. Has anyone ever analyzed suc cess so that you can understand it? We think not, or more people would have achieved it. In climbing the ladder of suc cess there often seems to be a missing rung. Here’s where one has to make a struggle. There's the Rub Life is a good show—but some people don’t like the rest of the cast. Money spent on a magnificent church is not wasted. It gives joy to those inside and those outside, as well. Encourage the right kind of pride in a young man; and it begins in his pride in his college diploma. That's Her Business The woman pays and pays and pays, of course. That’s because she buys and buys and buys. People really resent other peo ple being indecent rather than sin ful. There is a great difference. Milton, Scott, Defoe, Bach Late-Flowering Geniuses Cervantes was fifty-eight when the first part of “Don Quixote” was given to the public. Milton was sixty when he began to compose “Paradise Lost.” Daniel Defoe was fifty-eight when he produced “Robinson Cru soe. “Pil- was Bunyan did not begin grim’s Progress” until he more than forty. Sir Walter Scott was forty-three before he began to attract atten tion by his writings. Bach did not compose until he was past forty. A Jiffy-Knit Blouse Made in 2 Pieces Large needles—four-strand of string, pearl cotton or wool—a simple stitch! You’ll knit this blouse in no time. Pattern 1709 contains directions for this blouse and a plain knitted skirt in sizes 16-18 and 38-40 (all in one pat tern); illustrations of blouse and stitches. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York. CHEW LONG BILL NAVY TOBACCO Only Good Merchandise Can Be CONSISTENTLY Advertised -.—BUY ADVERTISED GOODS Can Ton Bake a Good Cake? Your Recipe May Win a Cash Prize Enter This Easy Contest Nothing to Buy „ . . No Letter to Write H AVE you a favorite cake recipe that never fails to delight your family and friends? Possibly it is famous all over town and you are always asked to bake it for benefit sales and church suppers. Or perhaps it has never been served outside your family. Here is a chance to win nationwide fame for your cake and at the same time earn a substantial cash prize. The dietitians in the Kit chen-Laboratory maintained in New York City by C. 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