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PART TWO
SOCIETY SECTION
The Omah -Sunday Bee
PART TWO
SOCIETY SECTION
VOL. XLIX NO. 9.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, v 1919.
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Two Engagements Appear
to Be Broken ---Gabby
Fears for Soldiers
Long Has Woman Basked in the Light of Her Husband's
Glory, But the Glory and the Light
Are Both Shifting a Bit
,
NO LONGER is the woman to
be the silent partner. Indeed,
some of our well-known mat
rons are daily eclipsing their hus
bands in business, politics, and
other lines. Formerly the woman
shone in the reflected glory of her
husband; henceforth she will reflect
her own glory. An instance of this
came to light recently and those
who know are silently chuckling to
themselves.
It seems that one of our promi
nent business men discovered that
a friend had been arrested upon
some flimsy excuse. Always gen
erous and willing to help everyone,
he immediately 'phoned to the po
lice station and stated that he would
furnish bail.
"Who are you?" was the question
which was asked of him.
Confidently the man gave his
name and occupation. The person
at the other end of the line did not
seem to be at all impressed. Think
ing that perhaps he had not been
explicit Mr. Man repeated his state
ments. Nevertheless, the person to
whom he was talking protested that
he knew no such person. After re
peated explanations the person at
the police station inquired.
"Perhaps you are the husband of
Mrs. ," mentioning the name
of a woman who is prominent in
charitable organizations.
"Er Yes," was the only answer
the thoroughly subdued man could
give.
THERE is mourning in the King
dom of Love. The tiny mon
arch has replaced his rosy
wreath with a band of crepe and
his arrows are scattered, for Dame
Rumor whispers that one or two
romances are going astray. The
betrothals were announced while
we were in the very thickest of the
fray and the brides-to-be said, "after
the war." With true industry they
stitched the days away on lovely,
fragile things for the new home
and all was going merry as a mar
riage bell.
In vain we wait for engraved bits
of cardboard to bid us to the nup
tials, eagerly we listen that we may
catch some hint of the wedding date
all for naught. There seems to
be no great hurry, the young women
look very happy and contented, but,
are delightfully indefinite concern
ing their future plans.
One of the girls is extremely
athletic, in fact her hobby is horse
back riding. She would make a
charming bride and we are hoping
that nothing has really happened to
"shatter the dream. The young man
in question has forsaken military af
fairs so we hear, and entered busi
ness, perhaps he is piling up the
dollars, that might be a plausible ex
cuse. The other couple are so very
prominent, we must be careful not
to give too many hints. She is one
of the pretest of the young girls
and her personality corresponds,
while everyone agrees that he is a
splendid chap. Such an ideal com
bination, we trust sincerely that the
hint of broken promises is not true.
THAT mysterious iron hand
known as the trusts, which dic
tate what we shall eat and
what we shall spend and where
withal we shall be clothed is even
now bartering for our soles. Dame
Fashion has been consulted and the
high court has decided that the'
down-at-the-heel public is not pay
ing half enough for their footwear.
It's very easily explained high
prices always are if you have ever
noticed. Although high finance is
quite beyond us the middle class will
continue to pay and pay that is
the ultimate conclusion when all is
said and done.
Dame Fashion must be receiving a
share of. the profits' or perhaps a
bonus, for heartlessly she demands
lhat our shoes be elaborate to the
nth degree. None of the low-heeled,
rubber-soled affairs, thank you, but
flimsy creations with thin leather
soles, high heels, fancy uppers, ex
treme lasts and all the other bits of
foot vanity that men are in the
habit of pooh-poohing and admiring.
The style's the thing, and it is
a bit hard to be placed in the "has
been" class when one longs to be
among the "up to the minutes." But
a little thing like expense should
not deter us for it certainly hasn't
annoyed the lords ,of high finance
in the least. What matters it if you
have to pay a dollar for a nickel's
worth of lunch or if a tax is laid
on all the dire necessities of life,
including face powder and movie
tickets, ore might just as well be
dead" as out of style so on with
the dance we care nothing for ex
penses these days, there are o
many of them, we'll justs cut out
the butter and buy shoes, we sup-
p0Se Q -'
THE Prince of Wales might drop
a peg or two in his own royal
estimation if he could hear
the careless comments passed unon
his appearance. Gabby was reading
a bit of a story to a crowd of pretty
Omaha lassies, displaying his most
recent picture, and expecting a flut
ter of hearts, but alasl
Less than medium size, 5 feet 6
inches, and very slender, with sunk
en chest. He changed the custom
among British officers of wearing a
mustache because he couldn't raise
one. He is pleasant and at home
they call him David.
He loves animals and was once
described as "fonder of his bull pup
than of any girl." When a little
boy he said, "When I am king I
shall make three laws: No one shall
cut the tails of the little dogs; there
shall be no more fishing with hooks,
and no one shall use bearing reins
to hurt horses." He smokes cigar
ets and an odorous pipe.
"I'd rather have a regular HE
man for mine," commented one maid
in Omaha.
"He looks, like he had adenoids,"
sniffed another.
"Uh, how I hate the sissy way he
combs his hair," came from a pretty
blonde.
"Give me the kind that loved
Olive Thomas 'Up Stairs and
Down.' "
"If I had to choose between that
colorless creature and Bill Hart
I'd take Bill every time."
"What's his honest-to-goodness
name?" inquired a pink-sweatered
miss.
"His Royal Highness, Edward
Albert Christian George Andrew
David"
"Help!" shouted the chorus. "No
wonder he's anaemic and has ade
noids and combs his hair funny. I'll
bet when he gets angry he says
'fudge' or 'mercy me,' or uses some
other dreadful expression."
Now. Omaha men, you see where
there isn't such a great advantage
in being a prince after all. These
modern girls have ideas of their own
concerning the opposite sex.
Bathing 1 Suits Edged With
Fur Are the Latest at
Atlantic City
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 16. Fur
trimmed bathing suits are the latest
craze in this city of fashion and
startling innovations. The newest
innovation was worn by the sum
mer girl here today. Rabbit skins
are used as collars and fur garters
talso are seen. The fur is so treated
that it revives immediately in the
gay sunshine after being immersed
in old Neptune's domain.
' Fishy bathing suits are swimming
right into favor. Denizens of the
deep, in brilliant coloring character
ise. 'of fish caught in the tropics,
are used effectively on black silk
suits. Some times the surf rig is
perfectly plain with the fish motif
introduced on the rubber caps and
stockings. One-piece Bathing suits
will be tabooed at the shore next
summer. Early notice was served
this week so that milady will have
no excuse as to ignorance of the
stern edict. This warding was given
out as a guide to manufacturers of
stylish bathing raiment for fair
femininity.
Bare knees are also taboo. Dr.
Charles L. Bossert, chief beach cen
sor, says: "We will not tolerate
one-piece bathing suits for women
as long as I am in charge of the
bathing grounds. The body must
be adequately covered. The rule
for the wearing of stockings by
women will continue in force. I do
not aim to be prudish, but we must
draw the line somewhere to save
appearances."
The first fur-trimmed bathing suit
created quite a furore here. It was
worn by a prominent Philadelphia
ociety girl on the exclusive beach
directly in front of the new-Hotel
Ambassador, which is in the
Quaker-controlled residential sec
tion of Chelsea. When this young
woman made her appearance on the
beach she attracted a 'crowd of the
proletariot, much to the discomfit
ure of the gorgeously plumed foot
man in front of the fashionable Am
bassador. Eventually the young
woman's mamma took her under
her protecting wing and into the
hotel away from the gaze of the
curious.
Apropos of fur-lined and other
new style bathing regalia, the
beaches in front of all the great
hotels here are crowded daily with
both fair and unfair bathers. Never
before has Atlantic City been so
crowded as ifHs this summer, and
the hotels and restaurants report
that more money has entered their
coffers this year than ever before
in the history of this world-famous
resort.
By PEGGY NATTINGER.
FOOTPRINTS on the sands of
time. But there are finger
prints in the annals of the A.
E. F. And the historians who coin
piled these important records for
Uncle Sam, were feminine, if you
please and, even more (laughters
of the golden west. Omaha proudly
claims one of these women, for Mrs.
Emily Bridges Byram served in the
War department for the past year
and is an acknowledged finger print
expert.
The Goddess of Liberty, who has
been America's beacon since Revo
lutionary days sounded the clarion
Ex-Queen Marie Amelie, who has
made her home in England since
the overthrow of the monarchy irf
f ortugal, lives in a charming, house
in Richmond park, near London.
Amelie is one of the most attractive
women of European royalty. Her
SO odd years have scarcely dimmed
! her beauty. She has alwavs been
keenly interested in science, and she
studied medicine- and took her de
j gree. Riding and swimming are her
! favorite recreations and she is ex-
pert in both of these outdoor pas
1 times. She once plunged into the
J water and saved a fisherman from
drowning, and in the same way res
i cued two children.
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Fingerprint Expert Is Back
Home Again in Omaha,
Nebraska
Mrs. Byram Was One of the Two Women Bertillion
Experts at Capital and Had Great Shock When -She
Found Own Brother's Marks.
French Waitresses Refuse
to Serve German Brides
of U. S. Soldiers.
German brides of American sol
diers are on their way to the United
States after precipitating a strike
among the French waitresses atHcr
tel Petrograd, the Y. W. C. A. host
ess house in Paris, and causing
more or less of a tumult in Brest.
Scarcely before the peace treaty
was signed 140 American doughboys
were married to as many German
women despite the rigid rules
against fraternizing with the enemy
which had held, supposedly, up to
that minute and the next day 22
brides were on their way to Brest
via Paris, chaperoned by a lieuten
ant, and accompanied by two hus
bandsboth sergeants.
Miss Eleanor Wood, in charge of
the Y. W. C. A. bureau for war
brides in Paris, met the brides at the
station to take them and their lug
gage to Hotel Petrograd, while she
ttied to arrange for their passports.
Arrived at the hostess house the
brides were taken into breakfast.
Suddenly one of the maids heard the
er.emy tongue. She sent the news
around. The maids struck. They
would not serve one of the enemy
though peace had been declared the
day before. Service was suspended
for five minutes while the brides
ate on placidly. Finally the strike
leader was suspended and peace re
stored. That night they left for
Srest.
Luxembourg will be sent straight
tnrough to port and will not be
permitted to stop in Paris.
The Ayita Camp Fire group of
which Miss Ruth Bracken is guard
ian", enjoyed a delightful evening at
Krug park, Thursday. They took
their supper along, after which bath
ing and other amusements were en
joyed. The Satakatohi group of which
Miss Esther Ellinghusen is guardian,
held a meetinar Thursday. Thev
Henceforth brides in Germany or worked on their head bands.
There prevails in some parts of
Brittany a curious marriage cus
tom. On certain fete days the mar
riageable girls appear in red petti
coats with white or yellow borders
around them.The number of borders
denotes the portion the father is
willing to give his daughter. Each
white band denotes 100 francs per
arnum; each yellow band represents
1,000 francs a year.
Women of Dallas have arranged
to establish an open-air municipal
market as a step toward reduc
ing the cost of living
tall of duty when oppression from
a foreign power again seemed im
minent. From cities and hamleta
her subjects came, rallying to the
flag and the common cause. The
women joined the ranks as quick
ly as the men and Mrs. Byram,
aflame with patriotism, was eager'
to serve in a truly efficient way. A
clipping from The Her attracted h&r
.ittention, announcing that finger
1 r i n t experts were greatly needed.
The intricacies of the work did not
daunt her. for she felt that this was
her bit for victory and she imme
diately began her instruction under
Hans Nielsen, police Bertillion ex
pert in Omaha.
Artists are not made, neither are
musicians trained, and so in finger
print work, one must have a par
ticular turn of mind to be able to
'grasp the rudiments and later to be
come proficient. After three months'
i study Mrs. Byram was accepted by
S the government and left immediate
j ly for Washington, where she was
assigned to the adjutant generals
office. Here she found the real
joy in the work with the drudgery
done, for she could almost hear
the tramp of marching feet and the
roar of cannon so closely 'was she
allied to our armies through the
medium of her particular service.
Soldiers' Finger Prints. ,
Not a man donned the khaki
without having an impression made
of his finger tips. More lasting and
more accurate even than identifica
tion tags or written records were
these copies, of which there are
6,000,000 in the great files at Wash
ington. Mrs. Byram adjusted her
magnifying glass one day over a
picture, counting the "swirls" care
fully when she stopped, transfixed.
The prints were those of her
brother's hand, Robert Bridges,
then stationed at Fort Logan, Colo.'
There was no name, no sign, to
guide this woman worker and to
show her that this was a replica
of the fingers, of her own brother,
only by the mysterious rules which
are used to identify could she
recognize those familiar prints.
In far-away France 40 gallant
Yankees forgot the dullness of dritts
and marches by conversing with
some pretty French girls. The ac
quaintainship grew and with true
feminine desire the daughters of
France asked the Americans for
some souvenir. Their identification
tags, of course, and in defiance of
all military regulations the young
men presented the girls with these
tiny disks, bearing their name and
company. But Mars thundered on,
and these American boys paid 'the
great price for liberty with only the
waving poppies to mark their rest
ing place in Flanders Fields. But
what of the loved ones in the home- -land
who ,were eager to find the
graves of these sons and brothers?
There was no clue, no way of de
termining who the men were when
guns were stilled and reconstruc
tion began. After a weary search
; the bodies were exhumed and finger
prints taken. A huge transport
bore the pre'eious slips of paper
to the nation's capitol and here
the missing link was found, for
-it took but comparatively short
time for the experts to locate orig
inal finger prints made when the
dead heroes enlisted and to compare
the two, thus identifying them with-
out question and easing the minds '
of saddened loved ones.
The "Tuscania's" Dead.
When the great ship "Tuscania"
plunged to its watery grave many
valiant men were lost. It was not
many days,' however, until queer,
smudged prints came to Mrs.
Byram's department, for the sail
ors' finger prints had been taken
when the waves surrendered their
victims. Nearly all were identified
and the Bertillon experts had ren
dered another invaluable service.
The special work of the Omaha
woman was the classifying of the
multitudinous prints for the files "
and her task was most exacting and
intricate. She was rewarded in
many ways, however, for sol many
men who had served -in- the world
war were made happy through her
efforts and those of her cowork
ers. Two men who had lost their
discharge papers could not collect
their bonus from the government
unless they could show their con
nection with the army and it took
but a few moments to locate their
finger prints, thus proving that they
had duly sworn to protect the Stars
and Stripes. The money was
promptly paid and the two ex-soldiers
departed, wreathed in smiles,
with a little nest egg, with which
to engage in peaceful pursuits.
With swords sheathed and peace,
treaties duly signed, Mrs. Byrain
has completed her task and with
Uncle Sam's "well done" ringing in
her ears has returned to her home
city. This charming young woman
has been a member of the teach
ing staff for some time and ob
tained a leave of absence to serve
her government. She will now con
tinue her chosen work, glad to re
turn to the small Americans whose
fathers and brothers she has so
nobly aided in winning democracy '
for. the world.
Mrs. Russell Duane, of Philadel
phia, sister of Roland S. Morris, the
American ambassador, was received
in audience recently by the Empress
of Japan. William Potter, of Phila
delphia, formerly minister to Rome,
vas received in audience bv Era
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