Young Coats Styled to Perfection
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
WHETHER she has attained the
ripe old age of four years or
Is tottering on the verge of her
teens, this year’s smart members of
the younger set will find that their
new wool coats for spring reflect the
same interesting fashion trends as
those of their chic mamas. With the
new vogue for soft tailoring which
Is important throughout the whole
spring picture, fine lightweight wool
ens — notably lustrous cheviots,
smooth tailor-minded worsteds and
fine men’s-wear flannels in the very
popular navy blue, also the now-so
modish neutral shades plus a long
list of beguiling pastels — are de
signed on cunning flattering lines
such as you see here pictured.
In tune with the dressmaker styl
ing which prevails in this season’s
tailored wear, the newer wool coats
ere cut on lines that are anything
but severe. Smart princess silhou
ettes, so charmingly adaptable to
childish figures, are to be found in
double-breasted models with lapels
ef boyish cut or in high-necked sin
gle-breasted types with snug round
collars.
Important for trimming detail is
(the use of pliable colored leather
which may be either in suede or
smooth flnish. The adorable young
ster centered in the foreground of
the illustration has on as fetching
a leather-trimmed coat as you will
ace anywhere in the spring style
jparade. For this attractive double
breasted model stitched leather at
the neck and pockets provides a
smart red accent to red-flecked neu
tral wool tweed.
A leather trimmed coat Is also
shown to the right in the group.
The leather, smooth in flnish and
ailover stitched, is charming in a
PLAY OUTFITS
Dr CIILHIE NICHOLAS
The peasant scart is being tied on
the heads of even the youngest in
the fashion parade, as a highly en
tertained audience learned, that
attended one of the series of break
fast clinics presented in the Mer
chandise Mart of Chicago. The style
show given at this mecca for juve
nile fashions was unique in that for
ty or more youngsters served as
mannekins, ranging from a babe in
arms to the teen age. The toddler
here pictured wears a very practi
cal aqd playful coverall in pottery
shades There is a clever use of
decorative applique, a cactus motif.
The fabric is cotton and easy for
laundering. This cunning practical
play outfit is to be had in various
colors.
deep wine tone, as it gives accent
to this new double-breasted coat
for the eight-year-old. Smooth fitted
lines with chic back flare are smart
ly highlighted by the leather facing
on pockets and high rounded col
lar, with small matching wine col
ored composition buttons at the dou
ble-breasted front closing.
The use of velveteen facing in con
trast shades is noted as an impor
tant style detail appearing not only
on collar and cuffs but as decorative
finishings on flap pockets and other
interesting designful features. Win
some for the six year old is a fitted
princess coat as shown in the inset
below to left. It is in a flattering
shade of pink lightweight wool with
new velveteen collar facing,
matched to navy composition flow
er buttons at the front closing. Dou
ble V-shaped flaps on the high
breast pockets are decorative and
fashionable.
Bright plaid taffeta and other gay
silk facings are used to enliven dark
coats for the very young. Fitted
and flared is the attractively
tailored town coat in navy wool
flannel pictured above to the left in
the group. Plaid taffeta trims the
collar and pocket flaps. The match
ing hat has a plaid taffeta bow at
the front.
If it is a whole spring wardrobe
in one, you would like to be pur
chasing for little daughter this
spring, keep your eyes open for the I
fashionable cut four-piece suits now
showing in children’s apparel collec
tions.
They have a long cape with box
shoulders (too cunning for words)
a collarless jacket and all-round
pleated skirt and a matching hat.
The little five-year-olds who wear
them look like fashion plate young
sters. As to being practical little
or no comment need be made. With !
a variation of pretty blouses such
an outfit offers endless changes and
i possibilities.
© Western Newspaper Union.
VELVET TRIMMINGS
SPRING FAVORITE
—
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Marie Antoinette and Madame
Pompadour are the Inspiration for
the new velvet accents. It is from
them that the bows, the ribbons
and the velvet trimmings of all
types that are so popular this
spring, stem. The tercentenary of
the birth of Louis XVI will be re
called in France this spring, and
unless all plans go awry, many of
the famous fetes of his reign will
I be re-enacted. Maria Theresa en
tered Paris tn 1660. This will prob
ably have its effect on fall fashions,
and we will see a perpetuation of a
fad that will then become a fashion.
Certainly a velvet collar on a suit,
velvet bows or velvet bodices, vel
vet ribbon trimmed flounces, make
interesting details.
Millinery is again millinery, and
velvet ribbons, flowers, crowns,
brims, as well as bonnets, cloches,
tiny berets and turbans always
flourish when women are wearing
"hats as is hats."
Reds and Corals Lead in
Colors in New Fashions
The gamut of geranium reds and
coral tones, shading into pale blot
ting paper pink, take first place in
colors shown in one French collec
tion recently. The prominence of
pink is even noticeable in tartans,
in which soft tones of pink are com
bined with vivid green or yellow.
Purples, fuchsia red and soft
"flax" blues are given importance,
and the burnt tones from ochre yel
low to brick red are emphasized.
New greens are confined to tur
quoise shades.
Color Enlivens Hat
Color rises as colorful hats be
come more and more popular. A
pill-box of deep ruby velvet has its
cuff trimmed with tiny humming
birds in green and blue.
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.—The Nazis haven’t
bothered Frau Katherina
Schratt. Unlike the Pompadours
and Montespans, usually among the
. first victims of po
Frau Katie litical upheavals,
immune to Austria’s "Gnae
Nazi’s Ban dl*e Frau " as
Emperor Francis
Joseph called her, has ridden the
surf-board of dynastic and political
change for nearly 60 years. She is
now eighty-two, doing crossword
puzrtles, disclaiming knowledge of
the current cataclysm, but longing
for the “good old days.”
In those days, she was pretty
Katie Schratt, a dancer in the Burg
theater, which was under the pat
ronage of the emperor. After a hit
performance, with the emperor at
tending, she obtained an audience.
“Sire,** she said, with a low
curtsey, "we cannot maintain
ourselves on the salaries you
pay. I owe $50,000 for my cos
tumes.”
The emperor promised a new ben- j
eflee for the theater and said he j
would help her take care of her
debts. She was backing gracefully
to the door when the emperor said:
“Gnaedige Frau, why do you
leave us?”
She stayed 40 years, in a snug little
villa by the palace gates. The
emperor, after a hard day swinging
the scepter, used to drop in at Frau
Katie’s, split a bottle of Pilsener
and sing a few songs. She knew all
the mellow old tunes which he par
ticularly liked. She used to darn his
socks and tell him when he needed
a hair cut.
She refused to accept gowns or
jewels, always remaining the
“Gnaedige Frau,” but the emperor,
by an amusing artifice, induced her
to accept a fortune in gems. He
was a famous huntsman. He told
her he was sending her a wild boar
he had killed.
She saw no harm in that. When
it arrived, it had diamond earrings,
t a diamond neck
Slain Boar iace and bracelets
is Studded and a diamond
With Jewels breast pin, and its
back was studded
with precious Hapsburg jewels. The
money lenders got them, after the
emperor’s death.
She was supposed to know more
of the secrets of the realm than any
other person. She guarded them |
carefully, but did reluctantly reveal
a few details of the Mayerling trag- I
edy of 1889.
She said Archduke Rudolf
shot himself, after killing Bar
oness Vetsera. That’s the ver
sion of the film now running. It
would make a good story If
somebody could take Frau
Schratt to sec “Mayerling” and
have her write a critical review.
• * •
ARK ETHRIDGE becomes
"czar” of the radio industry.
It is hard to think of Mr. Ethridge
as a czar, or even a third assistant
Simon Legree, but he clicks neatly
as an able, deft, diligent and re
sourceful executive.
While Mr. Ethridge is only forty
four years old, he is of the type of !
» leg-man
Radio Czar newspaper man, j
Began Career with an insatiable
as a Leg Man “PPetite for news.
A native of Meri
dian, Miss., with soft southern
speech artd instinctive courtesy, he
ought to be an excellent trouble
shooter for the radio, rather than a
czar. He was a reporter on the
Meridian Dispatch, studied at the
University of Mississippi and
romped on up through grades to the
managing editorship of the Macon
(Ga.) Telegraph. He was with the
New York Sun in 1926 and his old
friends there have been nominating
him today for a loud cheer in this
corner.
He was lured back to Macon,
went thence to the Richmond
(Va.) Times, of which he was
publisher, and later became gen
eral manager of the Louisville
Courier-Journal and Louisville
Times. He spent the year 1933
in central Europe, on an Ober
lander Trust fellowship, study
ing politics and economics and
—the only touch of anti-climax
in his career—the Versailles
treaty.
The radio has picked a man who
Knows the social and educational
box-score as well as good enter
tainment. He is still general man
ager of. the Courier-Journal, up and
coming in the new enlightened lead
ership of the South. His “czar” job
is unsalaried.
ffl Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Englishman Walks on Coals
After Ahmed Hussain, a Cawnpore
Mohammedan, gave a demonstra
tion of walking barefoot in a 20-foot
trench filled with white-Hot coals at
Carshalton, England, an English
student doffed his shoes and socks
and blithely emulated the Indian's
| achievement.
I-—--——
The Poor Prune
By SALLY LLOYD
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
IT WAS across the breakfast table
mornings, after they had been
married ten years or so, that Alice
began to think of Bill as a prune.
The little slupping
C UT noise he made as he
^I scooped up his oat
C IJ D T tneal, his reckless
I manner of attacking
^%**%^the matutinal egg,
STORY the bald spot that
shone mildly on the
top of his faithful head—all these
filled her of late with a sense of
exasperation.
Alice wondered crossly why she
had married him. Had she realized
that Bill was fated to grow stooped
and commonplace with the years,
she would have thought twice be
fore turning down Bruce Watson.
Alice sat a long time at the break
fast table after Bill had gone, turn
ing Bruce Watson’s recent letter
over in her mind. His note said that
he was going to be in Boston over
the week-end, and would Alice meet
him at the Bellair for dinner Satur
day night? It had been more than
ten years since they had met. He
hoped they could have dinner, a
chat and a dance together—alone.
The thought of stirring the ashes
of old fires filled Alice with a guilty
sort of exhilaration. Surely there
could be no harm in accepting the
invitation.
Now that she had decided to go,
Alice was tremulous and half afraid.
Would Bruce still think her charm
ing? She glanced in the dressing
table mirror. After all, she hadn’t
changed much—a few gray hairs, a
few pounds heavier.
From her wardrobe she selected
a Chinesey blue thing that matched
her eyes beautifully — cornflower
eyes, Bruce had once called them.
Would he think them cornflower
eyes tonight?
It was about three in the after
noon when she called his hotel. Not
in, the clerk told her. No, they
didn't know just when he would be
in.
Suddenly she saw him coming
through the lobby, his eyes scanning
the face of every pretty, unescorted
girl. The same old Bruce, tall and
smoothly blond. Alice rose and took
a step towards him. His gaze trav
eled over her face for a casual
second and then passed on imper
sonally.
He hadn’t recognized her! Alice
felt as though she had been sudden
ly submerged in cold water. Was
it possible that she had changed
as much as that?
“Bruce!” she said eagerly.
For a moment he stared blankly,
then grasped her welcoming hand.
"I’d never have known you,” he
answered, looking her over apprais
ingly.
“Have I aged so much?” Alice
asked, with an upward, coquettish
glance.
“Not at all,” returned Bruce per
functorily. His air was casual, al
most cold.
In the center of the small table he
had reserved were yellow roses.
Alice glowed with appreciation. He
had remembered her fondness for
yellow roses. Her sagging spirits
rose again.
“This is fun.” she bgan gayly.
"Just like old times. Tell me,
Bruce, have you ever married?”
“Twice," answered Bruce gruffly.
Twice! Alice subsided in flat si
lence. That was that! She watched
him covertly as he ate. His hair
was almost as thin as Bill’s and
he had grown older, heavier. He
talked incessantly about deals he
had put through. And at times his
eyes strayed to a pretty girl who
sat at the table at their right.
“Shall we dance?” he suggested,
as the orchestra broke into a blaring
fox-trot.
Bruce recognized that Alice’s
dancing days were over, or at least
badly impaired, before he had cir
cled the floor with her. He wiped
his forehead often, and towards the
end of the dance Alice caught him
returning the sympathetic look be
stowed by the girl who sat at their
right.
aruce excusea mmseu ior a mo
ment and stepped over to speak to
the girl on their right, whose
glances had become more and more
friendly.
"My aunt from Chicago," Alice
heard him say in a would-be guard
ed voice, nodding towards her
"Nice old gal, but rather heavy or
her feet!”
Alice went berserk and stalked
out of the hotel.
Bill was sitting on his side of the
living room lamp when she came
j into the room. He looked up and
whistled as she removed her wrap,
exposing the blue gown that
matched her eyes so well.
"That dress is a knockout,” he
said in his dull way. “You get
younger and prettier all the time,
Alice.
"I often wonder what you see in a
dumbbell like me,” he went on hum
bly. "I used to think that dashing
\ Bruce Watson, whom you turned
down, was more your style than I
am.”
"What!” cried Alice indignantly.
"That poor prune! I wouldn’t pick
him up with a toasting fork!”
And she kissed lightly the spot
on top of his head whence the hair
had long since departed.
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1 BLACK
Z RED
3 horizontal mixed stripes
^ 4-VERTlCAL MIXED STRIPES
5 BLUE
6 TAN
/^\F ALL rag rugs the hooked
type is the most fascinating
and economical. A rug hook, such
as may be purchased in notion
and fancywork departments, and
burlap a little larger than your
finished rug are the essentials.
Most rug hookers also use a
frame of slats bolted together at
the corners. They stretch-the bur
lap over the frame and tack it.
Many hooked rugs are made with
out a frame.
Here is a quaint old rug pat
tern that you may mark off on
your burlap with a yardstick and
pencil. The numbers indicate the
colors used for the original rug
now more than a hundred years
old. The finished rug measures
26 by 34 inches. Allow two inches
at all edges for hems. Overcast
the edges, then mark the solid
one-inch border just inside the
hem allowance; then the large
eight-inch squares; then the small
two-inch squares; then draw the
diagonal lines across the large
squares as shown. Use wool rags
if possible and cut the strips not
wider than one-half inch. Hold
the strip against the wrong side
of the burlap and pull loops of it
through to the right side with the
hook as shown. Short strips are
as useful as long. Just pull the
ends through and clip them.
If you are planning slip covers,
curtains, or doing other Spring
sewing for the home, you will
want a copy of Mrs. Spears’ book,
How the "Well-Dressed"
Furniture Should Appear
This season—and every season
—furniture should be kept fresh
and gleaming! The home-maker
owes it to her furniture—and the
appearance of her home. Before
it leaves the shop of the furniture
dealer, before it is sold—good fur
niture is kept polished! The dealer
continually gives it a “polish serv
ice”, to maintain its rich appear
ance—keep the wood “alive!” He,
who is an authority, regularly
uses a good oil polish (the best
is non-greasy, because it has a
fine, light-oil base). He knows
the importance of this—for selling
furniture is his business—and on
his shop floor, every piece of fine
wood must be kept at its lustrous
best! He knows, too, how vital it
is to the finish, the very pores of
the wood, to frequently apply a
quality oil polish on the various
suites and fine pieces! The effect
of its frequent use on furniture is
two-fold: It prevents drying-out
and cracking—and it brings to the
furniture a deep, lasting high-tone
—that suffuses the wood, brings
out all the natural beauty of the
grain. All woodwork and furni
ture will remain “well-dressed,”
decorative, sparkling—if cared for
periodically with a reputable
light-oil polish!
SEWING, for the Home Decora
tor. Forty-eight pages of practi
cal working directions, with com
plete illustrations. A dollar sav
ing book for every homemaker.
Send name and address, enclosing
25 cents (coins preferred) to Mrs.
Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chi
cago, 111.
TIPS to
(jardeners
General Garden Care
V/jOST flowers should have little
1 or no artificial watering un
til they are at least half grown.
To get better and larger flower
blossoms, cease watering when
buds have formed.
For a continuous bloom, pick
flowers regularly. This is most
important with sweet peas and
pansies, less so with petunias.
Avoid the common mistake of
letting vegetables grow too large
before picking.
Root crops—radishes, carrots,
beets—are at their best when
hardly half grown.
Pick peas just before pods fill
out completely. Pick corn just at
the “milk” stage, when the ker
nel, gouged with the finger nail,
yields a milky juice. Use summer
squash when they are small, just
after the blossom has dropped off.
Certain other vegetables, of
course, must be allowed to ma
ture. Tomatoes should be ripened
well on the vine, as should winter
squash.
Man's Possession
“The world can take away our
money, or our reputation, or even
the right to earn our daily bread;
but th** world cannot take away
the riches of a man’s inner life.”
—Dr. Alvin E. Magary.
Important Spring Fashions
A TWO-PIECE tailored dress
** for street and business, and
a softly detailed afternoon dress
that’s especially becoming to
large figures. Even if you’re not
an experienced sewer, you’ll en
joy making them, for the patterns
are easy to follow and each in
cludes a complete and detailed
sew chart. So start right in, now,
to discover how pleasant and eco
nomical it is to be your own dress
maker.
Dress With Jacket-Blouse.
Exactly the style you want for
street wear, shopping trips and
business. The jacket blouse is so
attractive, with its puff sleeves,
fitted waistline and saucy little
peplum. It can be worn with your
spring suit skirt, too. Make it up
in flat crepe for immediate wear
and later in linen or pique, using
all one color or a printed blouse
and plain skirt, as pictured.
For Large Women.
A very graceful dress with slen
derizing lines, thanks to the
smooth shoulders, the cape
sleeves, always flattering to plump
arms, and the skirt that's narrow
round the hips and slightly wide
at the hem. Gathers beneath the
raglan shoulders make the blouse
soft and becoming. In georgette,
flat crepe or polka dot silk, this
will be your spring favorite. Lat
er, during hot weather, it will be
a cool joy in dotted Swiss or voile.
The Patterns.
1477 is designed for sizes 14, 16,
18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires
2 yards of 39-inch material for the
jacket and 2 yards of 39-inch ma
terial for the skirt.
1499 is designed for sizes 34, 36,
38 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52.
Size 36 requires 5V4 yards of 39
inch material. If contrasting
collar is wanted, it requires %
yard.
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
whicn 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.
Be Noble
“Be noble! and the nobleness
that lies in other men, sleeping
but never dead, will rise in majes
ty to meet thine own.”—James
Russell Lowell.
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• THE SPECIALS
You can depend on the special sales mer
chants of our town announce in columns
of this paper. They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronise
merchants who advertise. They are not afraid of their merchandise or their prices.
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own cigarettes
^ in erery 2-oz. tin
8 of Prince Albert.
F.S. Mild. mallow
cool, and tasty in
your plpa too.