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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1923)
A FASCISTI FASHION NOTE STRIKES BROADWAY. Mrs. Earl Carroll, wife of New York's prominent theatri cal impresario, recently inadvertently dyed black one of hubby’s linen col lars. Earl, visioning re duced laundry bills in the offing, fell for the idea and now many of his friends along the Rialto are trying hard to get up sufficient nerve to follow Carroll’s lead. itwuKn—i A LIMOUSINE OP SNOW. The motor of this snappy-looking closed car job is frozen hard—so is all the rest of the car, from headlight to rear license plate —for it is one of the clever examples of snow modeling that are all the rage in the little Swiss town of Davos. Wld* World OLD KING COAL HIM SELF—The largest black diamond ever mined. Ten tons of coal in a single lump arrives at the Utah Capitol, Salt Lake City, where it will be made a permanent exhibit sym bolical of the state’s min eral wealth. The massive chunk, 5 by 5 by 10 feet, comes from the King Mine of the Western Fuel Com pany, and cost to mine and transport just $2,000. V h dr r wood Right—THE RISE AND FALL OF FASHION. In our own United States skirts are in the descend ancy. In faraway Japan skirts remain trailing in the dust as they have for centuries, but the obi, that glorified bow that consti tutes the Nipponese lady’s chief fashion ornament, is in the ascendancy. Our photo shows the obi going up from its long-familiar anchorage at the waist line. Obis, of heavy bro cade, cost several hun dred yen and are handed down from mother to daughter generation after generation. AdacM WORLD’S TINIEST STEAM ENGINE. Henry C. Stoll, of the Bronx, New York, a Stevens graduate in engineering, believes this little steam hoisting engine which he recently completed to be the smallest of its kind in existence. The engine itself is but two inches high, the boiler is five-eighths of an inch in diameter, the cyl inder has a bore of but three-sixteenths of an inch. Standing beside the perfectly working model is an ordinary cigarette which affords a splendid comparison as to the en gine’s tiny dimensions. Xr;9lm* IT’S THE LIFE AT ST. MORITZ, Europe’s most famous winter resort, now filled with American vis itors for the holiday sea son. Our picturesque camera shot shows a speeding sledder streak ing through the Cresta Run, one of the many long snowslides that twist and curve down the steep mountain sides above the quaint little Swiss town. Gilliam* Left—GOING UP! An interesting- qnnrtet of pro gressives snapped a few weeks ago out Hollywood way—from left to-right: Princess Wee-Wee, twen ty-seven inches tall; Sam Brooks, a pint size come dian ; Harold Lloyd, screen funny man ex traordinary, and the late George Auger, the eight foot-four circus giant who died in New York Recently w*ri* BOY “MAYOR" O P MINNEAPOLIS. Robert Plummer, one of Minneap olis’s schoolboys who re cently took over the reins of their city’s government for a period of two hours —one of the features of Minneapolis Week. The lads, who say they learned more about city govern ment in this short time than they could have learned from books in a year, conducted a police court and held a council meeting, going through the routine without a mis take. t'otagmmM MRS. BETTY LAUR ENCE, of Montclair, N. J.. who is said to be one of the youngest and pret tiest feminine captains of finance, being active head of a brush manufacturing business which she has built up to national pro portions through her own efforts. Mrs. Laurence, who is the mother of two little children, believes a woman can be successful in both her home and busi ness life at the same time. Underwood f Left—ZERO JOBS, No. 14.—When you begin to wonder if Friend Husband will ever be able to afford the weekly wage of sorely needed hired help, give a thought to this unsung heroine, the charwoman who spends the after-office-hours through the long winter nights down on her hands and knees scrubbing the floors of the city’s big buildings. New YorkJack iwiww Right—PETE’S FAREWELL_Just two mongrel dogs awaiting the executioner is the pound, but a picture as full of heart touching pathos as any we’ve ever seen. Death sentence has been passed, and, seeming to know their fate, Pete bestows a farewell kiss upon Bess, his devoted pal of the city streets. wtdo world