BDemorea Wald
Bellefonte, Pa., March 31, 1922.
PT ——— eee
DISASTER OF 1917.
Crushing Defeat of the French Armies
Under Geheral Nivelle Due to
That Leader's Overconfidence.
The Revue de Paris is printing,
month by month, the fullest account
yet given of the greatest disaster sus-
tained by the allies on the western
front during the war. This was the
defeat of the French armies under
Ceneral Nivelle between Reims and
Soissons on April 16, 1917. The ac-
count is given by M. Painleve, who
was the French war minister at that
time, though he only came into effice
when the plans for the battle were
complete and thelr execution almost |
inevitable. M. Painleve often has
been attacked for his own action be-
fore and after the smash, so he speaks
as a party to a case. Still, more of
what he says is only new in the sense
that it has not been fully published
before, though it was substantially
known to the French and British gen-
eral staffs within a few weeks of the
calamity. The French attack, com-
monly known at the time as the Chem- |
in des Dames attack, was to be the |
main blow of the Franco-British of-
fensive for the year. Sir Douglas
Haig, placed provisionally and with
gome qualification under the supreme
command of Nivelle, was to attack on
April 9 from near Arras in the north
to our right flank near St. Quentin in
the south.
Our part of the work was to draw
off the German strength from the crit-
ical point, to kill- and be killed and
keep Ludendorff busy rather than to
penetrate far. The whole scheme was
Nivelle’s. Nivelle had been made com-
mander in ehtef in succession to Joffre
the Christmas before, to the exclusion
of Foch and Petain. Nivelle was at
the moment the latest fashion in gan-
erals. French political feeling that
winter was in a state of reaction
against the “Somme school”—the
school of Foch and Halg, the “Hmited
objective” school, the school which re-
stricted the depth of infantry advanees
to ground on which artillery had quite
ruined the enemy's defense. Nivelle
represented a new “Verdun school” of
swifter, deeper advance. He had suc-
ceeded at Vaux and Dougumont a few
months before, by making his men
advance in a way that the “Somme
school” would have thought reckless—
because they or thelr predecessors had
tried it in 1915 and found it disas-
trous, but this was forgotten; fashion
had changed; it had gone back to the
more slashing fashions of 1914 and,
1915; Foch and Haig were back num-
bers, Nivelle was the man, and wis-|
dom would die with him. So he was
given the whole Franco-British offen-
sive in 1917 to mold at his will.
His mind was completely made up
by New Year's day, 19017. He had not
a shadow of doubt, from then on, that
he would be able to drive straight north-
ward from Reims towards Brussels. |
behind the German front, cutting off |
the German northern armies. To any- |
one, soldier or statesman, who sug-!
gested a doubt or an extra precau- |
tion he said, in effect, “Leave it to me.
1 pledge you my word we shall win.” |
To infect the troops with his own op- |
timism he circulated freely among
regimental officers full written details |
of the plan of attack, the date, the at-
tacking strength, everything. This was
done in January. Within a fortnight
the enemy knew it all. Ludendorff in
his book of memoirs tells us how a
German raiding party captured, in the
pocket of a dead French captain of
the second division, the French plan
of battle. The Germans had now twe
months in which to fit up as an abat-
toir the ground which Nivelle meant
to capture first. They drew back their
whole line between Arras and the Brit-
ish right, futilizing the great part of
the intended British division. Phen
they sent down to the Reims-Soissons
front the troops thus economized.
Then they rigged up on the high flats
of Vauclerc and Craonne, where the
chief hopes of Nivelle’s coming attack
centered, such an aggression of ma.
chine guns and quick-firing guns, hood:
ed with concrete and metal, as nc
troops ever had to face, before or af-
ter.—Manchester (Eng.) Guardian.
A Welsh Poet Miner.
Huw Mena! Willlams is Wales poet- |
miner, who bids fair to bring Welsh
literature to the attention of the
Anglo-Saxon world. Born in Carnar-
vonshire, Williams has been a coal
miner at Glamorgan since he was six-
teen. His work has therefore been en.
tirely inspired among the sordid sur
roundings of a mining town. Intel
lectually, he is a self-made man. The
remarkable thing about William's
verse is that it is written in English
—an acquired language for him and
one that he has no extraordinary com-
mand of. His book, “Through the Up-
cast Shaft,” is causing a furore Ip
England.—From Argonaut.
Iceland Ponies.
Iceland ponies run well in company.
Out of fifteen or twenty, one or twge
will soon be recognized as the leaders,
and the rest will follow these; but nc
amount of whipping will persuade
them to go even a short distance sep
arately—a fact which the traveler
soon finds to be very inconvenient if
his pony does not happen to be a lead
er, and he is yet anxious to deviate
occasionally to examine objects of in
terest oft the track. This inability te
run except in company has gained thi
Icelandic ponies a character for stu
pldity in this country, where they are
seldom used except in the coal mines
EMOTIONS VERY MUCH AKIN
Both Laughter and Weeping Suddes
Motions With Which Custom ls
Bound to Do Away.
Sudden glory is the passion which
maketh those grimaces called laugh-
ter; and is caused either by some sud-
den act of their own that pleaseth
them, or by the apprehension of some
deformed thing in another by compari-
son whereof they suddenly applaud
themselves. And it is incident most
to them that are conscious of the few-
est abilities in themselves; who are
forced to keep themselves in their
own favor by observing the imperfec-
tions of other men. And therefore
much laughter at the defects of others
Is a sign of pusillanimity. For of
great minds one of the proper works
is to help and free others from scorn
and compare themselves only with the
most able.
On the contrary, sudden dejection is
the passion that causeth weeping, and
is caused by such accidents as sudden-
some prop of their power; and they
are most subject to it that rely prin-
cipally on helps external, such as are
women and children. Therefore some
| CAME BACK TO OLD HOME
intelligent Horse Made Her Way for
Many Miles to Quarters Which
She Preferred.
My father was very fond of horses
and owned several good ones. One
which I remember particularly was a
beautiful, gentle black horse—a pacer,
which he named “Blackie.” He was
very fond of her, as well as she of
him, He allowed no one to abuse her
and always took the best care of her.
She was petted and loved and given as
much care as a child. She was one of
my father's favorite horses and was
the mother of one fine colt, of whom
she was indeed proud.
At one time she was ill and my
father sent her out to a pasture in
the country. One dark December night
a cold north wind blew and a light
snow was falling. About midnight
my father was aroused from his sleep
by a strange noise. Did a horse whin-
ny? Now he heard the unmistakable
; whinny of a horse, at which he arose
ly take away some vehement hope or !
. approach,
weep for the loss of friends, others for
their unkindness, others for the sudden !
stop made to their thovehts of revenge
by reconciliation. But in all cases, both |
laughter and weeping are sudden mo- |
tions, custom taking them both away.
For no man laughs at old Jjests or |
weeps for an old calamity.—Hoboes
“Leviathan.”
Cairngorm the One Emblem to Which
Substantial Claim Can Be Made
by Highlanders.
“So far as I know,” said the cus-
toms and fashions fan, the New York
Sun notes, “only one stone can lay any
substantial claim to being a national
emblem. The stone is the cairngorm
and the place it holds is unique. It
has no great beauty, being a yellowish
or brownish or smoky sort of quartz
found in any quaatity in the Scottish
hills. It is mined chiefly southwest
of Banff,
“So frequently has it been set in
the big brooches that hold the folds
of the kiltie costume at the shoulder
and in the haft of the highland dirk
that it has sentimental value greater
to the average Scot than that attached
to any other stone,
“It happens that this homely stone,
mined in Brazil and Siberia, and also in
Colorado and North Carolina, is also
called the Spanish topaz or the false
topaz, but to a Scot it is never any-
and went out into the night. There,
apon the front lawn, to his astonish-
ment stood Blackie, who, hearing his
came to meet him. She
nestled her head affectionately against
his shoulder, and whinnied, as much
as to say, “I was cold and came home.
I very much prefer my own bed.” My
father took her to the stable and made
her quite comfortable and did not
again take her away.
As Blackie could open any gate, she
had come home over the familiar road,
| a distance of several miles.—Marie
“NATIONAL” STONE OF SCOTS |
thing but the cairngorm, and so much’
sentiment is attached to it that he re
gards it almost as a charm.”
Power of Progress.
Electricity represents the power of
progress,
In the early days of America in-
dustry, mills were built on the banks
of streams that water power could be ;
utilized. Next come the age of steam
and factories were built near the rail-
roads that coal could be delivered to
the plant. Then came the present
age of electricity and the greatest in-
dustrial development the world has
ever known.
Today electricity brings the enor-
mous resources of the country’s coal
mines and water power to the indus-
trial plants of the nation. By the
throwing of a switch, industry is as-
sured instant and constant power
whenever needed, even though the
plant supplying the electrical power
may be hundreds of miles away from
the consumer. Co-ordinated research,
engineering, manufacturing and com-
mercial efforts have made possible
this quick delivery of power at a cost
which perniits rapid and efficient de-
velopment of industry.
Differing Tea Tastes.
Russians drink tea, not with the ad-
dition of milk as we do, but with lemon
juice squeezed in, while in Germany
tea is often flavored with cinnamon and
rum.
Perhaps the quaintest form of “tea-
drinking” is that practiced by_the sav-
age tribes in Tartary, Central Asia.
The leaves are first boiled in soda, then
seasoned with butter and salt, and then
eaten,
Many people think that tea taken
late at night produces sleeplessness. It
does, but if a slice of lemon is added
instead of milk, it will induce sleep.
In cases of fever, tea taken with lemon
and a little sugar, and, of course, no
milk, is very refreshing.
A very common, error is the belief
that by adding a pinch of carbonate
of soda, a stronger taste can be ob-
tained. This is not so, carbonate of
soda being only useful when the water
is hard. A pinch of salt is invaluable
for giving flavor at all times.
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Use River as Washtub,
The River Seine is the great wash-
tub of Paris. Here, as in Normandy,
and Brittany and other: places, the
women wash in the river, Hundreds
of white wash barges, or “lavoirs,” are
anchored along its banks. These boats
are sunk just deep enough to bring the
water to a convenient height, There
is a row of wash stalls on each side.
A “stall” In one of these barges is
rented for two sous a washing. Here
thousands of women may be seen wash-
ing busily. No hot water is used, oft-
en no soap. The women lean over the
edge of the boat, as though it were a
tub, and beat the linen with wooden
paddles. The noise of these beating
paddles, a steady “tap-tapping,” can
be heard a long distance. The clothes
are dried on the grass, or on lines,
along the banks of the river.
McDonald Rigney in Our Dumb Ani-
mals,
ARMS FRCM FLINT DEPOSITS
Investigators Have Shown Where
“Mound Builders” Got Their
Supply of Materials.
Methods of ancient munition making
are revealed by recent investigations
of the Ohio State Archeological and
Historical society, which show that
the tribes which once inhabited Ohio,
the so-called “Mound Builders,” got
their supply of flint for their arrow
heads, spears, and knives from the de-
posits of flint which occur in the fer-
riferous limestone of Flint ridge
in Licking and Muskingum counties.
A great industry flourished there
once. Skilled quarrymen, with a
patience difficult to appreciate when
one finds that their tools were enly
hammerstones of granite or quartzite,
with perhaps the aid of wooden or,
bone wedges. worked out the stone
from the ledges. Either the quarry-
men or another group of workmen
| then roughed out the blank forms
from which the implements were to be
made. This was done that imperfec-
tions might be discovered and also to
save the transportation of useless mae
terial.
The roughed-out blocks were then
taken to the workshops in the vicinity
of the quarry and expert workmen
fashioned from them leaf-like blades,
from which, with but little further
i work, all forms of arrow points, spear
points drills, knives and scrapers
could be made,
When Berlin Wanted Dark Streets.
Street lighting is ethically wrong be-
cause it is an open defiance of Deity
to turn night into day—day should be
day and night should be night!
In case some old-fashioned citizen
of Kansas City made this startling
statement he would in all probability
be declared insane and be placed where
he could not voice any other sentl-
ments of a ‘similar nature. Yet this
argument antedates street lighting it-
self.
Historians and students on munici-
pal affairs tell us that this argument
was one of the most powerful ones
against the installation of street lights
in Berlin in 1820. Conservative people
of that city deemed it an act against
Providence to light the streets of Ber-
lin with gas lights when God had or-
dained that their section of the hemi-
sphere should be dark.—Kansas City
Star.
Great Wall of China.
An examination of the bricks and
mortar in the Great Wall of China
was made at Shan-hai-kwan by a
chemist attached to the Bureau of Sci-
ence at Manila, He reports that the
bricks are so weak that pieces may
be broken off with the fingers.
They are much larger than ordinary
building bricks, gray in color, and
resemble pumice somewhat in struc-
ture. The mortar, which is pure white
under the exposed surface, is much
stronger than the bricks. The tradi-
tion that the bricks were dried in the
sun only has been confirmed by labora-
tory tests. If they had been dried in
a kiln the appearance of the wall
would have been considerably differ-
erent and its strength and durability
would have been much greater.
Mason and Dixon's Line.
Mason and Dixon's line In itself was
a very short affair, defining the bound-
ary between the states of Pennsylvania
and Maryland, about 244 miles In
length, It was a subject of contro-
versy for more than 80 years, and was
finally fixed at 89 degrees, 43 minutes
and 26.3 seconds north. This line, if
extended across the continent, would
pass through the states of West Vir-
ginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and
California. It takes its name from the
British firm of surveyors who surveyed
it between 1763 and 1767. During the
Civil war it was considered the north-
ern limit of slavery, roughly separating
the North from the South; Maryland
und Delaware, however, both recog-
nized slavery.
MADE MOCK OF SCIENTISTS
Man Emerged Unharmed From Oven
in Which Chicken and Bread
Had Been Roasted.
For a wager of $200 a man named
Martinez suffered himself to be practi-
cally baked alive some years ago in
Paris in the presence of a number of
scientists, He entered a huge oven,
specially built, after ft had been heat-
ed to a temperature of 312 degrees
Fahrenheit, or about 100 degrees het-
ter than boiling water.
Then the door was closed, and he
was left alone for an hour, in company
with an uncooked chicken and an un-
baked loaf of bread. Candles were
also provided that he might have light
during his incarceration—or inciner-
ation, as many people thought it would
turn out.
When he was released, however, he
was found alive and well, with the
chicken and loaf cooked to a turn. The
candles had become boiling tallow.
Martinez afterward repeated his per-
formance in Brussels, Milan and other
cities, but there must have been some-
thing abnormal in his constitution,
since of several would-be emulators of
his feat none succeeded in staying out
the full hour, while two, at least, per-
ished miserably.
Probably his success was due in part
to the care he took to have every par-
ticle of moisture extracted from the
oven before he entered it, since it is a
well-known fact that hot, dry air does
not so adversely affect a human being
us hot, moist air.—Detroit News.
NIGHT ON THE AEGEAN SEA
Author's Beautiful Word Painting of
Marvelous Pictures Formed by
the Lunar Rainbows.
Writing of lunar rainbows, in his
“The Opal Sea,” John C. Van Dyke
says: “And what pictures, never
painted by master, ancient or modern,
are to be seen by the weather rail at
night when the lunar rainbow with
its arch of subtle light-and-dark fol-
lows on the ship's beam, when the pur-
ple water flashes through the patches
of the mist. The summer nights upon
the Aegean when the small island
steamer sweeps you past Syrian
ships becalmed—their hulls lost in the
low-lying vapors, their sails looming
above the drifts into the white moon-
light—are never to be forgotten. They
are only impressions of intangible lignt
and color, momentary revelations of
pictorial poetry without literary mean-
ing or association; and yet very in-
sistent revelations, very striking Im-
pressions. \We do not readily define
them, but we feel their effect upon us,
nevertheless. It is an effect analogous
perhaps to that produced by music—
pale music in a minor key, dreamy
music thar moves in slow-heaving ca-
dences or faints in realms of sun-shot
haze or gleams in chords of lustrous
silver.”
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Immortal Poets.
The palm for exquisite poetry should
go to Keats. In lofty ideas of death,
Wordsworth and Bryant march hand
in hand. Shelly, compared with the
other three, seems immature, As to
these four poets, it is curious to note
that Bryant died at the age of 84, his
death being caused by a sunstroke
when he was giving an address in
Central park, New York, on the un-
veiling of a statue; Keats died of con-
sumption in Rome at the age 25, and
was buried there, in the old Protestant
cemetery—the following epitaph
(which he had desired placed there)
being put on his tomb: “Here lies one
whose name was writ in water.” Shelly
was drowned when he was sailing on
the Bay of Spezia, before he was quite
80, and was cremated (although his
heart would not burn), and the ashes
buried near the grave of Keats, and
Wordsworth died at the age of 80,
at Rydal Mount, Westmoreland.
Color Blindness.
It is declared that people suffering
from color-blindness often have better,
clearer vision than people with normal
sight, While 4 per cent of our male
population suffer from color-blindness.
only one-half of one per cent of the fe-
male population is affected. This imper-
fection of the sight is very pronounced
among Jews and Quakers. The origin
of color-blindness is as completely un-
known to scientists as is the reason
for thus attacking only certain sec-
tiong of people, but women may be free
from it, probably because their eyes
have beer trained to color for gener-
ations. while Quakers are peculiarly
susceptible, owing to the monotonous
color of their garments. Color-blind-
ness rans in a family for generations.
and. although it is always in the males,
it descends through the females. The
daughters of color-blind men invari-
ably have color-blind sons.—The Sun-
day at Home,
Sterilizing Instruments.
After trying many plans, I believe
that the best way to sterilize delicate
cutting instruments is to lay them in
pure curbolic acid for ten minutes, then
rinse them off in sterile water, place
them In 95 per cent alcohol for 15
minutes, and finally lay them in a tray
of sterile water, writes Dr .Edwin B.
Miller, assistant professor of opthal-
mology in the University of Pennsyl-
vania in an article in the New York
Medical Journal. In the bottom of each
tray there should be a sterile gauze
pad. They are then laid out on a
table covered with a sterile sheet in
the order in which they are to be used
in the operation. This saves confusion
and aids the assistant to pick up quick-
ly the needed instrument. They are
then covered with a sterile towel until
the surgeon is ready to use them.
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SHORT-TAILED SHREWS
“I've always been so glad,” said Mr.
Short-Tailed Shrew, “that my name
was so different from the names of
other creatures.
“It wouldn't be nearly so interesting
to be named anything else as it is to
be known as a snort-talied shrew.
There is something so unusual and at-
tractive about the name.
“Don’t you think so too?”
“I agree with you, but then of
course I would agree with you natural-
ly, as my name is the same,” safd Mrs.
Short-Tailed Shrew.
“We're not very sociable as a rule,
but you and I are pretty sociable at
present,” Mr, Short-Tailed Shrew con-
tinued.
“Do you know I wonder if people
know how helpful we are to them?”
asked Mrs. Short-Tailed Shrew,
“I am sure I don’t know,” said Mr.
Short-Tailed Shrew. “Why do you
ask?”
“Well, I hope that they do, and I
hope they will learn it more and more,
or rather that more and more people
will learn that the little short-tailed
shrew or mole shrew as he is some-
times known does everything he can
to help people.
“He eats insects and bugs which are
harmful and is never anything but nice
In his actions,
“He has a great deal of courage,
and though he can hardly see at all he
will fight bravely if he has to, even if
he can’t see the enemy who is attack-
ing him,
“Of course his sense of smell is very
keen and strong and he can rush this
-
-Otnhers by Streams.”
way and that by feeling and by swell.
“He can see light from dark, but he
hasn't much to boast of in the way of
eyesight or eyes,
“Some of us are fond of living in
the forests, others by streams, others
again by fields. We're not in the least
fussy.
“We burrow in the ground and have
fine runways where we go from place
to place.
“Qur homes are beautiful with a
number of rooms papered and car-
peted by soft grass and leaves.
“We eat more in a day than we
weigh, That is if anyone weighed the
amount of food we ate in a day they
would find that we were much smaller
in size than the quantity of food we
had eaten.
“But it doesn’t hurt us for we are
so active, always so busy. We do not
even rest and sleep in the winter the
way some creatures do,
“That is, I mean we do not go to
sleep for the winter.
“We have very keen sense of hear-
ing. “Oh, yes, we can hear very well.
“But I must say I have no use for
creatures who eat all the time and
who are lazy. We must eat a lot in
order to have the strength to do so
much.
‘“And we must do a lot in order to
be able to eat a lot! I don't like to
hear of creatures who eat and eat and
eat and who then feel too lazy to do
anything That is dreadful.
“We can protect ourselves by our
bravery and also by our musk glands
which have a curious odor to them
which the other animals do not like.
we are thankful to say.
“We can squeak and cry and we
can become very angry. But we're not
dreadful little creatures at all, and I
do wish people would hear that we
are not.”
“Perhaps they will,” said Mr. Short-
Tailed Shrew. “And perhaps the next
time they see a little dark animal
which looks something like a mole
they will say:
“ “There is a nice short-tailed shrew.
We will not harm him.”
“Oh, that would be pleasant indeed,”
said Mrs. Short-Tailed Shrew. “Well,
I believe we have talked enough, 1
have plenty to do and then I don’t
bother much about being sociable and
talking my time away.”
“Neither do I,” said Mr. Short-
Tailed Shrew as he wiggled his snout,
which was his way of saying a polite
good-by to Mrs. Short-Tailed Shrew.
Horse's Perilous Trip.
City Point, Belfast, Me., was re
cently electrified by a regular cir-
cus feat when Robin, a chestnut horse
owned by Fred A. Holmes, attached
to a heavy rack ased for hauling
barrels, crossed the long open single
trestle of the railroad bridge. The
driver was taken sick as the team
approached the bridge, and the horse,
accepting the path as a part of the
day's work, carefuily placing his feet
on the ice-covered stringers, crossed
over to solid ground.—Boston Globe.
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AN OUTFIT FOR SPRING WEAR
This charming spring suit consists
of a gray broadcloth skirt and a
uniquely cut coat of blue serge, crossed
diagonally by matching gray stripes.
CHAPEAU HINTS FOR SPRING
Fruits and Flowers in Abundance Are
Predicted for Use on Variety of
Headgear.
—n
The wizards of millinery art are
busy planning the creations that will
adorn milady’s proud head this spring.
Some of the advance models are
already on display and if there is
anything in signs, the spring is due
for a rainbow of color In contras.
to the sombre of winter.
There is a new shade of violet
bound to be becoming to the fair
skinned and blond or brunette type
equally well, It is a sort of blue when
first discovered, yet, one could not
safely call it blue without fear of
having one’s neighbor call it violet.
So subtle is the color note, that it is
truly charming. Rose, too, has a
strange new blend. It mixes with
orchid to form a decidedly new shade
for spring millinery.
Fruit and flowers in abundance are
predicted. According to present signs,
the hats will be small, but brimmed.
At front, just above the short brim,
a multitude of colorful fruits wand
flowers nestle together. Novelty fruit,
such as pink grapes on a violet hat is
shown. Silver grapes on gray are
new and fascinating. So also are the
green and yellow and blue fruits that
nestle together to form a bizarre effect
at the front of a tangerine hat In
chiffon taffeta.
STYLES OF THE DAY
The half-inch leather belt is worn
on the newest sweaters.
Heavy bone ball buttons fasten the
newest jersey frock.
Amgng things that are interesting
in the spring capes is the bright lin-
ings.
For little girls there are all sorts
of charming frocks in English prints,
calicoes and chintzes.
Sweaters are made with round bands
consisting of blocks of different color,
on a foundation of white, black er
beige.
For formal afternoon occasions there
is a long tunic blouse of Spanish lace,
with wrist length flowing sleeves
picoted at the bottom. The lower sec-
tion of the blouse is split almost up
to the hips, and all the edges are
picoted.
Ratime, plain and plaided, alone and
combined with Japanese silk, basket
weave material, Roman striped mo-
hair, krepe-knit, silk, eponge, heavy
linen, pongee, and gingham are among
the fabrics which have already been
brought out for spring waistcoats and
gilets.
The vogue for lingerie neckwear or
collar and cuff sets to be worn with
suits is quite generally taking among
manufacturers also,
Boudoir Garments Are Wool Trimmed.
Among the very popular and prac-
tical boudoir robes of the present sea-
gon is the garment made of a light
silk, such as crepe de chine and china
silk, interlined with lambs’ wool and
daintily quilted. Frequently wool em-
proidery supplies the trimming touch,
d@lthough quite as many are entirely
untrimmed, Washable flannel kimonos
are also popular and dainty, and wool
challis is used for serviceable boudoir
garments. For spring some very
dainty cotton crepe negligees are be-
ing shown, and the low waistline so
much featured in outer apparel enters
the negligee field also, some rather
pleasing effects having been developed.
Neck Ribbons Again.
The flapper set in Paris has resur-
rected the neck ribbon, and it Is fast
gaining in popularity. The girls are
wearing a band of ribbon tightly about
the neck, just below the chin. It is
usually about half an inch wide, and
the colors run all the way from bright
yellow to black. Some of the wearers
have a small gold ornament, such as a
miniature heart, hanging from the rib-
bon by a chain in frent, It is just a
fad and probably won't last more than
a couple of months.