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Evening Gown of Chiffon, Showing th New TripU Skirt and High WaUt LIna
with Jeweled Girdle.
ADY DUFF-GORDON, the famoui "Lucile" of London, and foremoit creator .of
fashions in the-vorld, write each week the fashion article for this newspaper, pre
senting all that is newest and best in ilvlrt for well-dressed women. '
Lady Duff-Gordon's new Paris establishment brings her into dose touch with thai
centre of fashion.
Lady Duff-Gordon's American establishment is it No. 17 West Thirty-sixth street.
New York City. ,
By Lady Duff-Gordon
("Lucile")
I CALL ineae "money dresses,' because
it takes so much to buy them. Two
of these photographs are of the rery
adranced Spring models of a Parisian
dressmaker. The third I a charming lit
tle study In ermine furs for the present
moment. All ar very expensive.
In the photograph of the walking suit
In black and white please notice the bat.
It was of the neweM, billowy masses of
chiffon piled on a velvet or beaver crown.
me orm linen nas excellent unei, ana
shows the rapidly increasing fullness of
the skirt
.The elaborate toilette on the left lllus.
trates the use of transparent and semi
transparent fabrics this Spring. The wide
lines from the hips and the high waist
are typical of the new models.
. All through the past season the evening
wrap has ben steadily ascending tht
scale of splendor, till now surely It Da
reached the summit of Its glory In a cer '
tain wonderful and beautiful creation "
whosn .memory positively haunts ms still
though It Is over a week since I met and
loved It so that I tblnk I will get rid of
it by passing it on to you.
Imagine, then, chiffon velvet In a new
shade of green which softens the bril
liance of emerald with a suggestion of
the more subtle softness of Jsde, while
the lining-of crepe de chin in its turn
gives a new and lovely depth to the fa
miliar powder-blue. Russian sable forms
the great collar, and la banded "0 broadly
at the hem that It is perhaps fortunate
for the prospective purchaser that Juat
there the encircling measurement of the
wrap Is restricted to the smallest possible
limits! So, both aa regards It coloring
and contour, and its blending of fabrics
and fur, the model has already achieved
a triumph; but still, this Is only the be
ginning, and now you must know that all
across the line of the shoulders the slight
fulness of the velvet, which eventually
Evening Hat with Gorgeous Osprey Decoration, and New
Wide Scarf and Muffs of Tailleu Ermine.
develops &to great sling sleeves, Is gath
ered Into thick cording, and that then
there art added huge, softly banging lapels
formed of leave and flowers worked In
ribbons of many colors and all held to
gether by a tine network of silken stltch
ings, also of infinitely varied hues.
And then, of course, there Is that other
smaller, though equally Important, acces
sory of the evening toilette, the scarf,
for which, indeed. In both its daytime end
evening aspects, I have an affection which
only lncreaaee as time and experience
prove the endless possibilities of this
grace-giving thing.
One new creation of my own ia of
nlnun, In the deeply beautiful blue of an
Italian aky, veiled with shot chiffon,
whose coloring suggests now the glorious
gleam of an emerald and then the sort
translucency of sea water. Then both
fabrics are bound together la the bond
age of a bordering band of still brighter
green crepe de chine, which at one cor
ner Is deftly manipulated Into the form
of a big true-lovera'-knot bow. And this
fsvorlts scheme 'of mine blenda dawn
shadings of gray and blue and pink with
dusky night tones of gray, merging nearly
into black, a narrow edging of akunk be
ing added to the chiffon at either fide and
then both fur and fabric being knotted
the corners Into careless, long-looped
bow. Beyond this, again, there cornea a
band of tawny golden velvet of the rubbed
variety lined with cloud gray chiffon, or
possibly you may prefer a scarf of dsrk
thunder gray mousseline wrought at
either end with shadowy scrolls of gold
and a bolder, device of deep hyaclnthine
blue, another and" entirely different blue
more of the peacock variety being
used as an edging on one side, while the
otler is finished off with a broad banding
Flowerpot Turban, with Full Maline Crown. Black and White Recap
tion Gown with Newest Split Tunic. .
Butter Balls and Water Bullets Replace Anarchy's Bombs
Parts, January 27.
kl'LLETS of butter and water, used at
close range, have been proved to
have more destructive power than
bomba and Internal machines.
This useful discovery -baa been made by
the Russian Terrorists biding in Paris,
aud it said that the next time tbey try to
remove a high Rnssian official they will
put their discovery into practise.
A noted French Journalist, Clement Cas
cianl, who haa always been a student of
criminals and their wars of working has
written several important volumes on the
Apache of Paris, haa lately been able to
aasiat at some recent experiments held in
the heart of the Russian quarter by a
number of" the most notorious of
the Nihilists, and
bis accounts ol
what ba saw are
UBbsUevable.
These curious ex
periments consist
in replacing the
ordinary lead balls
of our guns by
bodies more or
less soft and even
liquid.
Gun' are charged
with paper, a piece
of butter, a bit of
talktw or several
cubic centimetre
of water. These
bizarre projectiles
are capable of
greet damage and
can easily kill a
r
A small ball of butter can be shot
through a hardwood board of more thai
a halt Inch thickness. The reason I very
simple to those who have made a study
of ballistic science. The power of a pro
jectile depends on Its weight and Its speed
the force by which It is sent A ball of
double the Weight of another will produce
twice the effect travelling at the same
speed. A ball of the same weight as an
other, but travelling at double the speed,
will not be twice, but four timet as effec- '
tive. On the other hand, the lighter the
projectile may be the greater will be Its
initial velocity Its speed immediately on
quitting the gun. Thia speed diminishes,
however, very quickly.
- It was with experiences of this kind tact
and the ball, de
formed and re
duced to half Its
slse. testified to the
violence
shoe k.
against wood
tried. The bullet
was of soft wood
and the target, a
pine board, two and
a bait tncbea thick.
It was easily trav
ersed. Projectiles
-of wster are made
by filling little
paper," cylinders
with tie. liquid and
gluing them shut
The weight is two
A Paper Ballet Penetrate, an Iron Boa, Several Boards JirX
of satin in the palest blue of corn flow
ers, both ends being further fringed with
gray whose silken strands show a gleam
of gold here and there.
Another scarf of softest nlnon In real
sea-wave tones of blue and green Is
piped on Its outer side with emerald
green and then wrought with a device In
dull gold, a narrow line of dark skunk
fur setting off all these elusive shadlnga
to the best advantage. At tht other tide
just the soft, mysterious blue Is ia evi
dence, and there are few gowns which
could not be Improved by the addition of
thia delicate tblng.
ijlWhyJoyConquersWoundsandGerms
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The Result of Foot On of Butter Fired at a Target
Composed of Two Iron Boxes
and a Magazine.
the English explorer, Bruce, astonished the
native of Africa during his travels. At
the Court of Meaelik he ttupifled the
Abyssyaian by shooting a small piece of
candle through their beaten leather ana
Iron shield, which are ballet-proof at a
certain distance.
Among the recent experiment have
been the trial of a ball mule of a piece
of candle on different kind of targets.
Two boxes of white iron, separated by a
sheet of steel, and three boards were easily
penetrated.- A piece of butter weighing
four ounces penetrated a white Iron box.
A ball made of paper traversed a target of
ten magazine of twenty page each. De
spite the considerable resistance this
paper target offered, it waa torn Jo shreds
ity of liquids these
ball are most powerful. Shot through
sheets of Iron, steel and boards they tear
our enormous piece becaus of their flat
tening out before penetration. These ex
periments were made at distances ranging
from six to eight feet
The resistance of water gave the idea
to maks it in turn serve sa a target An
Iron box filled with water bullets, tb
Russians assert, and no more "marked"
potentate will escape with a severe wound,
for all the would-be assassin ha to do i
to get near enough and then succeed in
bitting any part of hi face and tb whole
head will be torn off.
Owing to their tendency to flatten on
striking the target, tteae bullet of fluid
nd soft msterial are as terrible as tbe
outlawed "dum dum."
fHOSE who regard emotions ss
merely an exhibition of weakness
or foolishness are greatly mis
taken.' Excellent medical authorities tell
ns that the emotions may help ua through
many terrible difficulties and even ssve
our live.
Dr. Spltzka, tbe noted American surgeon,
estimates that the mortality from wonnds
In battle is In the defeated army In pro
portion to that among tb victor a four
to three or even a three to two. Tbe
victor recover from their wounds more
frequently than the vanquished because
the emotions of Joy and bop reinforce
their physical strength.
Dr. Bonnete, a French army surgeon,
write in th Pre Medicale oa the
physical intoxication of victory and the
extent to which bodily pain can be van
quished by tbe sense of military triumph.
Moreover, the victorious army is not only
Insensible to Its wounds, but It delle dis
ease In like measure; it is the beaten
army that succumbs to pain and Is the
more ravaged by epidemics. For exam
ple, members of the Old Guard In tbe
Napoleonic wars raised themselves on the
bleeding (tump of their amputated leg
to cheer the Emperor; again, the great
Larrey operated wltho ceasing for
tblrty-slx hour on th wounded soldier
after tbe battle of Eylau. and emphasised
-the moral exaltation that raised his
patient beyond tbe dominion of pain.
"Here," comment the New York Med
ical Record, "is Indeed conslderatloa
well worthy th practitioner's attention
the extent to which a reasonable parcho
thorapy iay be oftentimes marvelous and
seemingly and specifically tb extent to
whicr -iuch awakened emotion aa hope. ,
fulness, courage, faith in the surgeon'
skill, reliance oa the physician s good
prognosis will turn the scale in favor of
the patient's recovery. One recall Helt-X
sser's demonstration of how rich I th
animal organiam la factors of safety and
of rehabilitation: when such emotions a
those bere noted can be brought to bear
upon these factor results oftentimes mar
velous and seemingly miraculous may be
determined. Nor need on doubt other
things being equal, tbe accuracy of Bon-
nettee statement that tbe victorious army
i less prone to auch camp Infection aa
typhoid fever and dysentery. In every in
fectious disease two elements are easea'
tlal; the presence of tbe specific gena
and the predisposition."
A beaten army Is a depressed army,
and is by that fact predispoced to Infec
tion, whil , tbe soldiers jof a victorious
xmy become by reason of the atimulu
of their victory a barren toll to harmful
bacteria. t
A pal blue tulle scarf I have edged
with three rowa of narrow silk fringe, thia
being one of tbe few purposes to wbtca
1 ever put this particular trfming, and
another being, of course, the finishing of
ash ends. 1 always maintained that it
was entirely undesirable on dresses, and
I am glad to ee that, though for a short
time It decorated or disfigured any
number of new models, th maker and.
tbe wearers have both alike realised that
tbey were better without it And I only
hope that I had something to do with th
early demise of tbe revived fashion for
fringe.