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ADY DUFF-CORDON, the famoui'"Lucile".ot Undon. nd fore-
mw creator oi lasmont in tne world, write each week the faihion
article for thil newmiiwr. nrMntinir ll;tko !. n. .-J L..t :
tylea for well-drewed women.
Lady Dutf-Gordon ParU eublihrnnt kringt ber into cIom touch
nth that centre of faihion. - ' . . . .
Lady Duff-Gordon'a American establihmnt it at Nos. 37 anj 39
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'LucUo" Dresi Showing the "Turko" Soldier Skirt anu
"Military" Girdle.
London. Bent 8.
T ia difficult, indeed, for ma to
wrue or iasniona witn tne war
horror brooding over all Europe
now. Parla Is no longer the centre
of fashion U la a place where aor
row and patri6Mo hope alternate and
nothing is thought of except the men
wijo go out to cattle, tbe men who
to not return and the preservation
of France.
. There will be no models ahown in
. f aria tnia year! .
Before tho shock came that throw
alf life here out of Its accustomed
grooves It was apparent that thli
was to bo a velvet season. The vel
vet was to be of richest Lyons
weave, combined with softest chif
fons. ft was to have been a costly
fashion year in Paris. In colors
black was to predominate a bit of
saddening prophecy. There was to
have been a great deal, too, of navy
juue, bottle green and tete de nerre
As an aftermath t.i thn
scheme, which was to have been at
nrst tne most lasniorible, there was
to follow such Striking contrasts as,
for Instance, a mod cnrui. f ...
rouge chiffon velvet colored and bor
dered with black fot and a skirt of
oiack velvet.
As a material for evening wraps
too, velvet will again be to the fore'
and in such catea, of course, the
more brilliant rolnrln wiM ha
to splendid effect, and their general
sumpiuousness runner increased
by broideries of gold or silver and
broad borderlnta of fur.
Then, again, there was to have
Deen and will be available for the
making of evening gowna, nlnons
brocaded with velvet roses and
.eaves, or else perhaps patterned
wiu sereny velvet gulmpes, which
am broken tnfn At IntarvaU Vw -
trl-colored shamrock leaf or a cluster
or tiny rosebuds, sheltering within
a circlet of leaves sapphire blue,
petunia and green being one typical
triple alliance of colors.
But even apart from their frequent
use as a mere background for this
dominant and decorative velvet, the
nlnons are going to have a special
success on their own account In
many cases they are weighted by
heavy metallic designs; tall taper
ing leaves of stiver showing out
sgalnst a blue as intense aa a tropi
cal sea under the noon-day sun,
while on another a blur of blossoms
In blue and rose and flame and
green makes background for other
flowers all wrought in gold and lends
a new and ever changing beauty of
shading to their shining petals.
It would seem. too. that th
3 "frosted" effects are going to be
very popular, and certainly they are
ery light and pretty, as well as
novel. Twisted threads of silver or
gold tinsel r used for these de
signs, which are either broldered or
plain nlnon, or a pattern printed in
many soft shadowy colorings on an
old ecru ground.
It has been more difficult than you
can know for me to write this. 1
Copyright
Remarkable
Experiments by a
Famous French
Scientist Which Shows
Fish Shapes Are Made Entirely
by Water Pressure
ie Of the Extra.
ordinary and Grotesque
Fishes Which Are
Taken from the
Lowest Depths
Of the Sea.
Their Strange Shapes
Professor Houssay Finds, Are Caused Entirely by the
Enormous Pressure of Water in Which They Lire.
By FREDERICK HOUSSAY,
Professor at the Sorbonne.
VERYONE who has seen the weird, grotesque monsters that
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. u.u.o W uui i9 Drougoi up irom ine lowest deptns of
the ocean, hac wondered whnt it u that h ma ik.m
misshapen. They are like nothing seen on land or in air and they
bear no resemblance to the graceful denizens ot the shallow reaches
of sea.
By a series of experiments we are now able to say that the shape
or these deep sea monsters is produced almost entirely by water
pressure alone.- ,
To understand how water was able to model the fish we have
to understand that every living creature is plastic, that is to say,
may undergo some deformation under pressure. To take one ex
ample of m,ny every one knows that if a child holds Itself badly it
will become deformed. If it allows its weight to exercise a pressure
in an uneven way. leaning always to one side. It will curve the spinal
column very markedly. Thle deformation may. however, be rectified
by proper pressure brought about by a stiff brace or in some other
be modified by slight pressure, can wo not understand how enormous
pressure exerted for ages can bring about great changes?
u , ' 'V1?18 Kreal rorce wl,b whIcn w have te dealt
la the resistance of the water. This is an enormous force
Having at our disposition the living plastic
creature and the great modelling force. It is necessary
to detail the conditions in whirh thn itt .i.
the former? The two esentlal qualities both necessary
and eufnclent to obtain fish with a plastic nature
?ve. ..u U vhas tho power of displacing rapidly, and
that it has the same density as the water. All the fish
properly formed weigh, we may say, volume for
volume, as much as the water, sometimes a llttla more
sometimes a little less.
Thorn rrAntiiia whtnl. -.. -.m i .
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tne same time less rapid, are not modelled in the fish
a all V...4 . . .
... uui iiuo annenas ana crustaceans. Other crea
tures still heavier and at the same time still slower
become molluscs, and others that do not move at all
flx themselves on the rocks or bury themselves in the
bottom and are modelled accordingly.
This explains how it is that although the resist
ance of the water is always the same it does not al
ways produce the same effects nor act in the same
manner, and for this reason all the aquatic creatures,
though equally plastic, but being of different weights
and of different speed, are not at all like each other
This being well Understood, it is easy to see how the
water may model a plastic creature that is rapid and
equally den a. that weitiin. ..- . .
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aa the equal volume of water. How, then, are we to
experiment so as to obtain the same conditions under
which the fish awim?
In order to have a body as a model which will be
plastic I use a rubber bag about seven Inches long
and an Inch .and a thlr.1 In thlnVnoc. tk.
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of the density of the water, and I fill this with some
oil so as to eet the exact pmml vol limn f MiH .hi.
to a thread so as to draw It throueh th tor vn
have only to look at It as the speed has Increared, and
you will see how the water presses upon the bag.
When aolnr verv alnwlv if tha ui.ii u-a i.ij
the beginning it stays flat, only turning on Its axis. If
drawn more rapidly the front remains at the horizontal
and the back becomes vertical. If the speed be still
more increased the number of inversions Increases,
and we can count three, five, seven or more successively
horrliontal and vertical.
The rlnnlea of the water flea tn th h.xlr
place to the body which Is penetrating it In
presence of the obstacle which the form of the
opposes to tneir night they take on an aooearance
Which 1S reeeated with a rertaln rvtlim .Kr.i
aa we call it. The vibration of the water models tha
soft sack, and this shows us how it works on the fish.
It is a verY nlaln innllrallnn nf nna. nf .ha .. k....i
ful theorema Of nhralc dlnonvoreri hv Uril ir.i.i.
the vibratory transformation of a ripple in the prea-
ence or an oostacie.
The Dower of swlmmlnar in thn flh whan nt,nt.4
with Its weight and density is the actual explanation
of all the modifications which come about In the re
cesses or tne sea. Tho monsters of the deep are the
poor rwlmmers who have barely escaped In many In
stances becoming crustaceans and lijslng the character
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A Fish Below It the Model Which
Counterfeits All Its Movements.
Another Weird Misshapen Deniien of the Deep Btaa Wlies
Ueliness Is the Secult of Water Prtseure,