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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1914)
Ihe Omaha Sunbay: Bee Magazine v. - w -i Good Example of the Long Draped Fur Wrap That Will Be Popular This Winter. LA ADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous "Lucile" of London, and foremost cre ator of fashion in the world, .' write each week the fashion ar ticle for this newspaper, present ing all that it newest and best in styles for well-dressed women. Lady Duff-Gordon's Paris esf ' , r. taMshment brings her into close i touch with that centre of fashion. '' Lady Duff-Gordon's Ameri J can establishment is at Not. 37 and 39 West Fifty-seventh street, ,' New York. J, ' By Lady Duff-Gordon : ("Lucile") , tUIS la the s48onwhcn woman. whether the be lovely woman or otherwise, stoops to tho folly of planning her Winter furs. But why do I call It folly? Because October Is just two months too early for tbe woering of-pelt, but my opinion, I notl-e, ha ' irtrffT weight with the majority " of women! It wuis never too early for furs, but my personal feeling Is that December, Janu- ' ary and February are the only ' . legitimate .fur-bearing" months 1 of all the twelve. However, realizing that my voice will be lost In the -multi- : tude, I am going to fall in Hue with so many of my ulsters and show you pictures of some new furs which I recently saw at nn : ' opening, and then I am going to talk, or rather write, about the newest blouses. . Cruel is the only word to rightly describe the attempt which Is liow being made to rob women of a freedom which they have one and all prized, and loved, for some two yeara or ptore. And o. It behooves every woman to make a firm stand against thU new Injustice and restriction In the ' form of a high,-closely-fitting collar!. Just Imagine It a band' of rather thick whit net, fitting round tho neck Ilka a second akin, and upheld . In this now unfamiliar and always . unbecoming position by two or three "invisible" wirings. And still this la not all, for uprls- ! ins round the top of this band is a flaring, outstanding frill of net, cut to. the drees, and also very tightly wired at the edge, so that all the su- . perfluou fiesa about the unhappy : wearer's chin and Jaw. which the , tight, high band hsa pushed up. Is upported and upheld In hideously ' permanent and prominent fashion by the platter like foundation and frill! s Why, the very idea la painful and ' the actuality would be more so. 1 promise you, positively and phlalcally Wf - or port. Velvet Street Costume, 6 r i -. it. 7 i r - i t v The Short Draped Coat That Promises to Be Generally Worn. This Is of Sealskin. r painful, after the long and absolute freedom from any restraint which haB been our pleasant portion during sundry season of collarless or low-collared bodices and blouses, and mentally agonizing, too, loasmuch as almost every woman of say thirty and onwards Is con scious of the alteration, for the worm, of the contours of her ftce and chin, and naturally doea not want the change to be absolutely forced upon every one'a notice In such a way! So we must obviously, and all of us. make a firm stand agalust the threatened encroachments of the high collar, alike upon our freedom and our fascination. , You must simply decline to consider any blousa which is thus completed and disfigured and then matters and modes will soon right themselves automatically. Of course, this is an extreme case and model, but It is a forecast, and also a forewarning, it rfeems, of what we are to expect during the next season, unless our JisapiiToval is ao promptly and firmly shown TETTQueen Fashion realises the unwisdom of trying our loyalty too far. I rot it ii also and sadly significant that several other new blouse creations, which still have down-turned . collars, have so curtailed the uauatly deep V-shaped opening In front that practically all tho usually becom ing eftect Is lost. One such blouse has a collar of white tafleta whose turnover points are brought speedily and . closely together in front of tho neck, and there fastened with two little Jet buttons. Silk curls to match also finish off the loose and full white chiffon aleevea at too wrist, where a touch of narrow black moire ribbon Is also added, and. for the reat. the blousa Is fashioned of white Jap silk veiled with chiffon, a somewhat curious adornment being added in front in the way of a very broad band of golden yellow velevt ribbon, aoftened, at first, by a veiling of the chiffon, but eventually ahowing all its brightness, and being looped over at tho waist, where it is held la. position by flatly folded bows of black malre. Copyright, 1011, by. the 8Ur Campany . 4 t Enlarged Head of a Bat, Showing the Delicate Hairs About the Mouth That Act as Mosquito Traps. A A PERPETUAL closed season on bats has been declared in Texas as a result of recent experiments con ducted there by Dr. Charles A. R. Camp bell, of SanAntonio. It has been dem onstrated quite conclusively that bats are the worst enemies of mosqultos, and that by propagating bats the menace of malaria1 may be greatly diminished! From time Immemorial the common bat has been despised as a denlaen of the graveyard, a bird of til-omen, a blrd anlmal that gets entangled in milady's hair, serving absolutely no useful pur pose. It has been hunted down and de stroy3 without mercy. It Is now realized, however, that the oat Is one of man 'a. best friends and ought to bo carefully cultivated. The eradication of malaria is promised if bats . be multiplied in sufficient numbers, and Texas scientific bodies are so much Im pressed that they secured Jhe passage of a law making It a penal offense to de stroy a bat under any circumstances. Tho experiments which resulted In the glorification of the bat were commenced some time ago at San Antonio by Dr. Campbell. v After much research and' numberless experiments and disheartening failures Dr. Campbell finally succeeded In constructing "bat roosts," which, after being prepared with certain chemical fluids, seem to be actually preferred by the bata to natural bat caves. One of these "bat roosts." which la located at MltchstU'a Lake, ten miles south of the city of San Antonio, Texas nas proved itself to be such a complete success that fleets almost border on Its the miraculous. Housing and pre lecting, as n does, bats by the iens oi thousands, its vantages over natural bat caves are self-. evident. Citizens of the region declare that since the erection of the bat roosts there they can sleep comfortably out of doors at night without a mosquito bar or any other kind of protection; while before this roost waa located there it was ut terly impossible for them to sleep even In the bouses, except with screens and mosquito bara. These citizens also tes tify to the entire absence of any malaria In their families now, and they term this roost "a miracle." They also state that before the erection of this roost they were ail sick at one time or another with malaria, and that mosqultos came there in auch hordes that they were driven from their work of Irrigating their crops at night, and were forced to see their crops go to ruin. Tho "bat roost" at Mitchell's Lake stands ten feet above the ground, and the structure enclosed Is twenty feet above this; Is six feet wide at Its apex ' and is twelve by twelve feet wide at Its baae. Whlla this roost has performed such wonders, it was designed merely as a model; the intention beiug to construct Grt Britain Rights RrvL mi I :, f . I the roosts three or four times as large as this model. The roost is given this steeple shape and placed above the ground for teveral reasons. Its shape makes it resistant to high winds, and also allows the sup porting posts to be fitted with contrivances which prevent the bat's enemies from gaining access to the inside of the roost. It' also permits a wagon to be driven underneath it, in order to receive the accumulated guano from tho hopper, hav ing an opening on hinges, which orena. downward, thus permitting the guano in the hopper to be easily collected. ..The advantages of this artificial roost over tho natural ones bat caves are self-evident In the natural bat caves, during the breeding season, the bat suf fers most from its natural enemies, for shortly after the baby bats are born they cling mechanically to the mother's body. Very frequently they loosen their hold and fall to the bottom of the cave. Here them baby bats fall a prey to wild anl nals, which are always In and around these caves at this particular season. If one of these baby bats falls to the floor of the caves the mother bat will dart to the same place to try to protect ier young, and also falls a victim to the wild animals. All this danger is com pletely avoided and rendered absolutely impossible in one of the roosts, as no animal except a bat can enter one of them. It is therefore evident that with such protection the bats will increase o rtspidly as to tax the capacity of the roost in a very short time. The bat roost at Mitchell's Lake Is at tho head of a large body of standing sewer water; in fact thia lake holds all the' sewage of San Antonio, a city of about 126,000 persons, and it is an ideal spot for ihe breeding of mosqultos, as the lake covers about 900 acres of land, and the average amount of sewage re ceived by it daily in 10,000,000 gallons. The very large quantity of organic matter left in water, the large pools formed by seepage through earthen dams Aa Enlarged Photograph of the ':-vM r Page mfirto- to ana How Texas Has Put a Closed Season on the Ugly Little Flyers to Enable Them to Eat Up the Disease 'Carrying Mosquitoes and the countless billions of mosqultos that this place has furnished in the past amply proves this assertion. Tho roost was finished oa April 2, 1911.' Before locking the louvre, the in side was sprayed with a chemical fluid which gives off an odor identical with tho natural odor of tbo bat. and without which chemical fluid tho bats cannot bo colonized. Twenty-five pounds of fresh guano were then spread In the hopper of the roost, and in four months it was tenanted by a colony of bats at tracted there by these odors. The next year the roost became so full of bats that it took them several hours to come out, and thevwere so thick that in tho sunlight they resembled a cloud and gave the roost the appearance of being oa Bre. Tho roost is now full of bats. Persons living in cold climates need not fear that the bat cannot be success fully cultivated and colonized there, for his habitat ranges from Alaska on the north to Patagonia on tho south. In very cold climates, however, the amount of guano produced in these roosts. would be much less than in hot climates, as the period of hibernation would be much longer and the period of the bat's ac tivity) in destroying mosqultos corre spondingly smaller. All malaria, how ever, would be effectually eradicated there. I r . x. A Bat Roost Designed by Dr. Campbell to Make Them Comfortable During the Day. Malar carrying Mosqulfo c