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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1914)
. The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page gne of tht New -Luc lit" evening Qowns, In Wtiloh the Natural tin of the, Figure I Preserved. 77ze Frs Essentials of Good Taste in Dress Analyzed By Lady Duff -Gordon. i ADY DUFF-CORDON, the famous MLucfl- of Lon I don, and foremost creator f fashions in the world, writes each week the faihion ertitle (or this newspaper, presenting tO that U Dewat and best in styles for weB-drassed FOTOB Lady Duff-Cordon Paris ecUbhihmeBt brings hr into dot south with that centre of feshioa. Rv Latlv Duff-Gordon. : 7 . I HAVE been asked, What ar tat simplicity. Any dress which con tra llnss of taahlont Ar there forma to thaa two thinga la a Indeed any true llnea T" good drees, correct fashion no mat I answer To doubt It U Ilka ter by whom It la mad r of what doubting there la anything Ilk her- period. xaonj." In another article I have outllneo. But, they eay, this year there la too briefly, my philosophy of color one fashion la lines, last year there ftnd Its effecta upon the wearer and was another, next year there will b those Wh cite upon the wearer. till another, and each will be dif ferent. All of these cannot bo tha true lines. Which on la right? - Then 1 know thai mote who ask really have In mind the nldeoue bustles, the spreading crinolines, the atrocious shoulder puffs and so oa of other days. But these were excrescences, false leads. ctghtmar developments. The aame truths hold In tha lines of fashion. The ancient Oreek woman was gracious, lovely, beautiful because, among other things, aha suffered so external d It-harm on lea of garb to check these qualities from within. Of course I speak of th type that Impressed Itself upon the genlua of a? a. i m m mm r i w r f m ' a .i . - m m m m r w a t- nr.. , t r V .,aUv'-;TT. MJ rx . WJthout Being f'i jfOZZS- "Ovarladen." v.Ti' "- vmm, - If A W: ( i n I II. f 1 I I , t r I I ! j m ( ail . ii is ne) n i f t aw 7 ,7..ALa MM U I1 rdb I IITL. S3 "The Ideal line w s iiv iueai iin j of a drese Is that I J which enables Its I 1 wearer to as- I 1 sume any a Ml- A tud... naturally Q j - as inouon me m f dress did not ex j 1st. This picture 1 conveys an Idea 1 of what I mean. -0 One of the Very Latest Walking Dresses by "Luclle," thow - Ing the "Buttons Up the Front" which soon met their end. The true th n(1 tht r th fruit of llnea of fashion ara very, very old xmee. Th Greeks knew them. The women of the Orient have known them for ages. Their secret le simple. ' They are the llnea that will truly and best bring out the natural nd Inherent beauty of the perfect woman figure. - They are th llnea that will hid or dleguls any departure from the tlfbt mould of nature. They are not the llnea that add tha faintest groteaquerU or exag geration to the figure. The body itself, the perfect body, can never be in bad taste. And ao. therefore. the fashion which har monises and conforms to the llnea of that body cannot be In bad taste. But anything that departa from It- rune at once the risk of falsity, ugllneaa. The true lines of fashion must bave first then naieralnese. Second the Venus da MIlo. th Winged VW tory, the wonders of th Elgin mar blee and ao on. ' Lin of dress and natural Una ot the women are absolutely and en tirely harmonloua. Try th effact of a bustle on the Venus d MIlo, or ot a crinoline, and see how absurd th figure becomes, how utterly annihi lated la 1U dignity and nobOlty. It becomes a thing to be laughed at, pitifully absurd. And If this la ao ot a etatue, bow much more la It ao of th mobile thing that la th body ot a living Woman? I do not meaa that women ought to go about la th flowing robe of th) ancient Greeks although I hon estly do not think It would be alto gether bad if they did. But I do mean that they could welt A Charming New Winter Costume by "Luclle," Showing tha New Arrangement of Fur Around Neck and Base of Skirt seise tha inner thought of which those robes were but on symbol, one materialization the ideal of harmony and simplicity and true naturalness. You ask me. "How to It possible for a very tat woman to attain this ideal, when her own body is InhaN monloua, or a very thin woman when ah la equally essentially inharmo nious T To the first I answer: It is not at all necessary, except la a few cases ot actual disease, to be taj. la moat womeo tat la tha result ot laslnese, thaa it la to hide a superabundance wrong eating or neglect Any woman ot them. And it la easier to build who baa enough courage and will up to a standard thaa it la to drill power can conquer her fat Tha down to one. woman who hasn't enough ot those Nevertheless, it Is Important to two qualities is not the kind that has know that there la a standard, that enough of the eternal strength In her he standard can be attained and to bo a, true type, I spctV now, of that th matter of real beauty and oourse. of the really offensively it last rests on, so simple a founds woman. There Is a type ot large tlon. f i f 5 ' K- v 1 i. N 1 i If" ( . "t jN 'TV I A. " 1 woman, a woman built on herolo lines, who, though called fat by th unthinking, la not tat, at alL Such women lend themselvee admirably to th true llnea. Their only danger ia that the canvas is so largo that there to more ot a margin left for error. A HtU intelligent atudy will obviate this danger and give them their right barmonlea. , The very thin woman haa aa ad vantage that the very fat woman has not It to always easier to disguise the lack ot certata physical qualities Moles and Other Growths Now Cured by Dry Heat EOICAii records are mul- arable depth beneath the skin yield to the dea tlplylng cases of morbid locating treatment The treatment as upon growths on the surface the face, Is not disfiguring, there being no so- of the body and upon accessible quel of scar tissue. The only disadvantage to mucous membranes cured by the the expense and cumbersomeness ot the neces application of dry heat through sary apparatus. ths medium ot instruments con- No needle or knife to inserted Into the growth nected with high tension electric to be removed. In fact the Instrument does currenta. Thla is called curing not come Into actual contact with tha patient's by "desiccation." body. Following are some of the conditions A special advantage of thla reported by Dr. William L. Clarke to the Amer treatment to that moles, ulcers, ,ca Medical Association as cured In thla way: abscesses and other abnormall- In localised cancer of tha mucous membranes, ties of surface tissues are removed with- such aa the tongue and Inner surfaces of the out disturbing blood vessels or normal tls- Up, the results of desiccation compare favor aue. A small point of dlaeaeed tissue ably with those obtained in localized skin can may, be destroyed without affeotlng th aur- cere, although there Is not quite the same as tounding area. The curing process, while dry- surance ot success, because one cannot be sure lng up and causing the abnormal tissue to dls- that the adjacent glands are not Involved appear, aeala up and protect, th. blood and In ab.olute,7 UM ot CMCer lymph channele whlca la Important When the whether of ih. ,n, L , v .! . . . . " wnetner or the skin or mucous membranes, the growth to be removed to a malignant one. main growth may be desiccated. Soma unex- The process also includes sterilisation. In- pected good results hsve shown that thla course suring rapid repair, rurtner, the high tension Is sometimes Justified. As ordinary operations current has an anaesthetising property which are out ot the question, such treatments at least makes the application bearable, even upon delay the progress of the disease and add to mucus points surrounding the eyeball. The the pstlent's comfort degree of heat Used is not sufficient ' to burn The desiccation treatment haa been used with the diseased tissue, only to km and dry It up, success In cases of lupus, acne and varicose so that it speedily disappears, A current strong and other ulcers, and meets with no resistance enough to do the work can be directed through In the more common forms or malignant skja a sheet of white paper without charring or dls- eruptions. coloring the paper. Afterward the tisane In connection with the Roentgen ray treat treated can be pulverised and removed with men of deep-seated growths, desiccation by the fingers. the electric current to declared to be of great Morbid growths which extend to a consid-, value. Tcohirrtrtt lilt t the Ctaa Comnany. Cratl3rltala riahia Keseryi