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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1916)
Ihe Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page A Lively Winged Effect in Velvet with a Sea Gull in Applique. Hats with Strange Applique .Designs, and Slippers with Falls of Expensive Lace That Sweep the Ground AFTER the painted bat comet iht embroidered bonnet'. Fashion, ' leaking ever after novelty, takes what catches Its eye wherever It tees It . and makes It Its own, Irrespective ot Its source. And so we hare the very odd tats that you see on this page. The character of the embroidery used produces n applique effect a sort of In lay In a lighter shade upon a dark back ground. Thus, the shapes of these odd new hats fit the head closely, like modi fied toque, arid are of a reasonably firm material, like velvet or felt As will be seen from the Illustrations, the embroid ered designs aro mostly compact masses clearly outlined as when whltewood Is Inlaid upon ebony, or any oher darker wood.. ,.: J...,,::.. : . In one example the felt shape la as 1 plain as the Inverted bowl of a dipper. A broad band of dark velvet stitched to the brim with white wool Is the only orna ment save the vertical front panel of the same velvet upon which the distinguish ing design is embroidered, within a frame . of white woolen stitches. : Here the de sign Is a portrait of a Rembrandtesque gentleman wearing a woolen skull cap with a white tassel. This very old feminine headpiece sug gests a broad field of possibilities. Are fashtonablo young women shortly to be seen going about with portraits ot their -intended husbands appllqued upon the front ot their hats? Or, perhaps having one's family crest thus displayed will be come the vogue. A more charming variation upon this mode Is an all-fur toque ot miniature site with a little bow at the top of the- front ' from which la auspended an odd drop ornament - The applique decorative de sign Is embroidered in dark and light' colors noon a band ot braid encircling the brim. V .'- Oddest of all la the embroidered velvet shape towering to a, lofty point In front ' and having a general resemblance to the .ceremonial headdress of a priest of the Greek Church. - Indeed, the . whole design suggests Greek eccleslasttclsm, Including the suggestion ot an Inscription In Greek text which forms the border of the spa clous pointed front Shells, flowers, fishes and birds enter Into the compli cated design. In the centre larger figures of an owl poised erect between two in quisitive swans.' One can Imagine the sensation likely to follow the appearance ot a hat like ' this In the Easter Sunday Fifth avenue parade. . Another, really a quite fascinating ex- ample. Is the velvet toque surmounted at ' the back ot the top by. flaring folda ot the aame material, having winglike lines. This suggestion ot tilted wings in motion Is emphasised by the large crown design In white relief representing a sea gull floating upon wide expanded pinions. ,. There Is no other trimming and any other would be unfortunate. It will be seen that this new type ot bat has possibilities of individualization -which should make It very acceptable to women with a passion tor originality In , their attire. Further, It Is not easily imitated In Its . characteristic feature, cheaply, for the multitude. One might remark that It Is an aristocratic hat provided aristocracy sees fit to claim it tor Its own. Will us. is Most Original of the - , New , Embroidered Hats, . with Its Towering Front Resembling the Ceremonial Headdress of a Priest of the Greek -Church. A Small Fur Toque with Pendant and At the opposite pole ot the fashionable sphere stands the pair ot extraordinary slippers portrayed on this page. One hat heard ot the Parle actress who never permitted the soles ot her slippers to come In contact with the vulgar pave ments, yet certainly the had no such excuse for that prejudice, aa a glance at this pair of slippers suggests. Long skirts tor walking gowns have gone out largely for hygenlc 'reason! because they sweep the streets and gather np microbes. But here Is si new slipper with a long "skirt" of lta own a tall ot the most ex jiensive lace extending from toe to heel and dropping to the sole. It Is easy to grant the novelty, and probably the luxurious charm ' of these lace-sklrted slippers; and to accept them with grate ful toes for that class ot feet which are frankly more ornamental than useful. These new tip -to-toe fashions are a tresh demonstration ot the Increasing dif- Acuities which confront designers of women's attire whenever novelty is the 4f IS r Appliqued Braid. main object striven tor. In the mat ter ot the main es sential, gowns, the changes have been rung upon every note ot the gamut of col on and forms and possible means ot embellishment until originality would seem to be the vain est ot quests. To' make gowns shorter, or longer, closer fitting or more loose, are devices which have marked the main course ot fa shions in the last few years. There Dave been charming effects produced by famous artists in the handling of dress fabrics, but only an occasional note of real novelty the great goal of all dress makers. The quest ot the new Ideas In head gear seems even more despairing. The feminine passion for hats, innate In every Individual ot the sex, has been recognised by the most extraordinary Inventiveness Copyright 1M. by the Star Company. 4) 5 y k ill The Luxurious New Slipper with Its Fall of Fine Lace Sweeping the Floot. and industry on 'the part of designers. And, although every hat must harmonise with the costume of which it Is the fin ishing touch, pretty nearly every object In nature or In art has been pressed Into service as an Inspiration for new shapes and adornments - - Very seldom has there been a depart ure tjrm the main-traveled road of hat possibilities so wide as that illustrated on this page and mainly confined to the deoartment of decoration. If this idea Great Britain BlshU Reserved. IS U ? vSI mm 7 ot solid figures inlaid upon darker back grounds In the make-up ot hats proves captivating to the feminine fancy, at least ; one benevolent purpose will have been served; the cart-wheel and the big floppy construction will cease to monopolize space in public conveyances. This, how ever, would seem to be a forlorn hope, as the costliness or the new mode will harly bring it within the means of that multitude ot the fair sex who have to travel by trolley and subwav Like the Bowl of a Felt Dipper with a Portrait Panel in Front. Why Laughing Makes You Fat T AUGH and grow faf has been a I proverb for hundreds of years, . yet few people have taken the trouble to find out why laughing should make one grow fat Jolllness and stout ness are generally found together; not thai all stout people are Jolly, but that nearly all Jolly people are stout It is, in a measure, due to the influence of the mind over matter, but there is also a physiological reason. Fat is the result ol good digestion. It shows that the food eaten Is readily changed by the processes of the body Into living tissue, pi course, extreme stoutness or obesity may become so in convenient as almost to be a disease, but even so, this is still due to the ability ot the body to get the full mea ure of worth out of the food consumed. The sufferer from chronic dyspepsia and the various forms of Indigestion Is actu- , ally as thin as a rail. , It Is not always a matter of quantity , of food. Some thin people eat a sreat deal, some stout people eat very little. Nor Is It entirely a matter of quality ot diet, though this often has a great deal to do with it For example, Jewish cook ing Is much more fat-producing than American cooking. Still, it Is not uncom mon to see stout people whose diet is spare and limited. Since stoutness, then, is partly the re sult of a good digestion, the old1 proverb mar be turned round: "Grow fat and you will laugh," for It Is not easy to be Jolly with indigestion, heartburn and other similar "ills that flesh Is heir to." Moreover, a good cushion of fat is a groat preventive of cold and a great aid In keeping the body at an even tempera ture during changes of weather. In a climate so variable as that of the United States It is of treat importance to be able to resist these weather changes, for It calls heavily upon the resisting power of the constitution of a thin man or woman to maintain an even body tem perature when the thermometer vol planes thirty degrees in one day. Stoutness is a little like a brake It keeps the body from pigging up and down in response to the vagaries of the weather. r This induces contentment and makes laughter easy. - It may be asked. Will laughter make a thing perspn fat? Undoubtedly. Laugh ter, real, hearty laughter, a rlb-tlckling guffaw, is even better than a yawn for emptying the lowest passages of the lungs and bringing air into tbeir inmost recesses. Few of us ever breathe deeply enough, and in consequence a large section of the lung Is not only unused, but It is' filled with stale air. Many lung troubles such as tuberculosis are Invited by this con dition. But the man who laughs heartily and often need have less fear: be clears out his lungs; he uses the full extent ot their passages for taking the oxygen Into his blood and making It a rich, full red, and thereby he keeps the body fluids up to their full powers of doing their work of digesting the food and carrying to vari ous parts of the materials for the build ing up of new tissues. Tradition tells a story of Titus during the siege of Jerusalem revealing the be lief In the "laugh and grow fat" idea cen turies ago. According to the legend Titus was sitting In his tent pulling on a pair of the long war greaves or boots with studded leather protectors over the shins, and had donned one of these when a messenger arrived to tell htm that he had been given imperial honors in Rome. He burst Into a fit of delighted laughter, and when he tried to put on the other boot his toot had fattened" so that he could not get it on. All the heathen gods who were patrons of Jollity are represented sb having been stout; all those who were serious were pictured as tbin. In literature the same holds true. Falstaff is fat and Hamlet is thin. Caesar says to Antonius: "Let me have men about me that ore fat" In fiction Sancho Panza with his Jollity Is rotund, while Don Quixote is built like a lath. . 1 ::tt A