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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.
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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.
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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
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"The Ideal line
w s iiv iueai iin
j of a drese Is that I
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1 wearer to as- I
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tud... naturally Q
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f dress did not ex
j 1st. This picture
1 conveys an Idea
1 of what I mean.
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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.
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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
