Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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 'Wcpl the ground. The hotly won imprisoned in n comet that pushed the bust forward and the lower part of the body out behind. The lower neck was stiffened by « collar with whalebone stays. The sleeves, bodice mid hat were trimmed with pulf and frills. Change in men’s dress have always boon proceeded by those in feminine fushions. The two change hearing u slight resemblance. Just a the women in 1900 could not breathe freely been use the body was imprisoned, the men during the ume period wore stiff collars, worn extremely high. The stitf collar became lower when women’s diets began to free women’ necks and have given way to the soft collar. The change that have appeared in masculine attire during the Inst twenty-five year have affected only the length and width of the coats and 11 o users. After the World War, women became wiser ns to dress. They found the trailing skirts were disease carriers. So year by year, they have shortened their skirt , making them simpler and lighter in design mid form. In I9 24, dresses being simple in ?hnj c and trimming, the feminine costume fell into a dreadful dullness. Fashion began to demand matching not only the dress, coat and hat. but scarfs, gloves, shoes mid hundbags. Thus we hal t the ensemble. Up to the year 1928, dresses were becoming shorter and shorter, but now they arc again growing longer. It may be wc will once more return to long skirt .

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MODES OF DRESS THROUGH THE AGES By Marian Schauer .lust when dress wiu first worn is not known. Our first ancestors, no doubt, lived in a warm country where dress was not needed os a protective covering. Later as their descendants indurated to colder climates the necessity of clothing become apparent. So in the first place, man needed clothing for warmth. Later, his pride and vanity led him to kill birds and animals and use their plumage and parts of their skins for ornament. The dress of the cave-man was very simple. It was merely the skin of some animals thrown over the shoulders, reaching to the middle of the lower limb or sometimes lower. Crude clasps of bone held it together at the shoulders and waist. They very rarely used caps or hats ns we do now. Their matted hair was protection enough for them. In Sumerian days men and women wore fringed garments of wool or feathers and both wore their hair equally long. Dress became the fashion but fur. wool and feather were not comfortable in a hot climate, so people came to wear aprons of unplnitcd grass and reeds, loiter the fibres were woven into u fabric and the weaving showed improvement after improvement as the centuries passed until we have the finely woven fabrics of cotton, linen, silk and wool of today. In the ancient days of the Greek and Romans, the people wore n tunic or shift. Among the Romans the tunic wan often ornamented. The cloak which they wore over the tunic varied much at different times and places. Among the Greeks, it usually took the form of a large oblong cloth wrapped about the body so a to envelope one from the neck to the ankles. The Romans used a similar garment, known as the pallium. The Roman cloak was the toga, a large cloth in the form of a segment of a circle worn with the straight side upperward. One end came forward over the left shoulder reaching nearly to the ground. The garment was then passed mound the back, over the right arm and across the front with the other end being thrown over the left shoulder and allowed to fall behind the back. At the time of the Norman Conquest of England men and women wore a couple of tunics mid a loose cloak. The tight Chauases” or hose enveloping the legs was the chief innovation. From the two tunics were evolved the jackets, jerkins and doublets of later times, and from the short cloaks the various over garment . The initials and devices which were seen in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were for the most part of embroidery. Men. in order to have more freedom in his labors, in the chase and in war, discarded the toga and changed to a garment resembling the present day trousers. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries women’s shkirt were full and bodices were laced in front, sometimes with an embroidered stomacher. Cocked hat-brims developed at the end of the century into the three cornered hat. In the seventeenth century both men and women carried muffs. The muff continued in u»e by women until recently. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the skirts of men's coats had become fuller and the sleeves had wide cuffs. The sleeved waist coot was shortened and sometimes richly embroidered. During the course of the century, the skirts of the coat and the corners of the waist-cout were cut away in front, reducing the form more nearly to that of the coat of the present day. Embroidery was used for ladies' dress, especially for the underskirts, rendered visible by the open front of the dross. Silk brocades and bright colors were used. Toward the middle of the century skirts became very ample, being supported by very wide hoops. The sack or sacquc, or a loose dress falling straight from the shoulders, continued in use during the greater part of the century. By the nineteenth century the change in men’s clothing had swept away much of the finery of the past. Knee breeches were lengthened into the modern trousers. The cocked hat of the eighteenth century was replaced by the top hat. Meanwhile women's dress was marked by a graceful simplicity, with high waist and low neck. A lower waist and puffed sleeves followed. Fringes, trimmings, flounces and long trains were in use during the latter part of the century. In 1900 women's skirts were so long they

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EXTENDING THE STARRY FRONTIER By Carl Manner After twenty-five yearn of hard work and calculation) , scientists at Lowell Observatory have discovered the cause of Neptune’s eccentricities. The late Doctor Lowell receives the credit. It wiw he who, by studying Neptune's orbit a quarter of a century ago, came to the conclusion that there was a trnns-neptuninn planet. His conclusions have only been verified recently by the discovery of a new planet. Though many names have been given the planet, the newspapers still persist in calling it planet “X”. an unknown equation. Neptune, up to now, the farthest planet from the sun, is estimated to bo 2,798,000,000 miles from the flaming globe and receives only one-ninth as much light as we do. This new world, four billion miles from the sun. receives only half of that. Therefore the oxygen, if not a mild. would be a very thick cloud making it impossible for life, as we know it, to exist there in such n dense ntmosphere. Scientists do not put much credit in the discovery of the new planet, os it only confirms the complicated mathematics of the present day astronomers; more firmly establishes Sir Isaac Newton's and Kepler’s laws governing celestial bodies; nnd above all. brings us closer to the possible solution of the origin of the Solar System. The study of the new planet has brought us no nearer to the solution of its mystery than guessing at its composition, density and amount of heat. Observation! through the largest of telescopes show the planet only ns a fnint star, therefore little can he -aid about it as facts. Astronomers consider the planet’v revolution around the sun to be from three to six hundred earth years. The ancients knew only six planet , which were visible to the naked eye. We, with the aid of glass, know nine major nnd thousands of minor plnnets. Still, with the knowledge we hnvc gained so far, we want to know more. This small grain of sand on which we live, houses more curiosity-socking people than anywhere in the universe. This new planet must have been foreran by Kents when he said: Then felt I like some watcher of the sky When some new planet swims into his ken. Many thousands of questions have been pouring into newspaper, scientific and astronomical offices ever since the appearance of the new planet. Notable among these ore: Is the new planet inhabited? If so. what form of life exists there? What is the length of its day? These and countless other questions are being asked. How soon they will be answered is unknown. The planets now. counting in their order from the sun are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the planetoids or minor planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the new planet ”X. Other questions hard to onswer, though not connected with the new planet are: Whnt is the composition of Saturn’s rings? The popular conception is that they arc small satellites that move so swiftly around the planet that they form a ring. It may be that we are mistaken. What is the great red spot of Jupiter? Some say that it is fire from a volcano on its surface. Others that it is a red vegetation native to only o certain purt of that planet. In studying Mars through the telescope, canals, as they are termed, ran hr seen running like a large net across its surface. Are these canals made by human beings? As yet, no answer has been found to that question. Life, as we know it, is highly improbable on any other planet than our own. The only planet likely to contain human beings to any degree, is Venus. At thnt, Venus may have a different form of life than ours. As time goes on, we shall he extremely interested in learning of the new discoveries and theories in regard to planet “X” which seems tr me somewhat of an unknown quantity at the present time.