PART TWO
SOCIETY SECTION
The-'Om
aha Sunday BS
VOL. XLIX NO. 10.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1919.
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PART TWO
SOCIETY SECTION
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS
Se c t
ion
Our Fairest Matrons Labor
-Wedding All But
Revealed
By GABBY DETAYLS
THE ladies, God bless 'em. They
top st nothing even to turn
ing butcher and baker and
candlestick maker I We are really
aghast at the versatility of our Oma
ha women. For many months we
watched them drive trucks, conduct
lunch rooms, roll bandages, sell
flowers on the street corners, fry
doughnuts on the court house lawn
-yes, and even dance with the sol
diers of all nations. All the mem
bers of the Pessimist club, who do
love to take the joy out of life,
prophesied that the war workers
would return to bridge and a cup
of tea when hostilities ceased.
Oh, skeptical ones, we bid you
go to the Auditorium any of these
summer mornings. There you will
have ample proof of the cleverness
of these matrons who still find plen
ty to do in spite of peace times.
For bless me. they are up-to-date
merchants. Counters of boards
have been erected and outside the
barrier surges a perfect mob of cus
tomers, who bring wagons, boxes
and suit cases to carry home their
purchases.
- Mrs. H. C. Sumney, looking most
attractive in a blue apron, deals in
raisins. This prominent suffragist
is every bit as efficient in sellng
foodstuffs as in delivering a speech
for woman's rghts. Her wares just
. melted away and goodness , only
knows how many delectable pud
dings will be stuffed with those
"muny" raisins.
You should see Mrs. Draper
Smith sell beans and bacon! Step
right this way, please. One at a
timet Really, a traffic cop is
needed, for the strong-armed mascu
line buyers are apt to usurp the
front line, leaving the timid house
wives out in the cold. Bacon has
jumped right into the luxury class
within the last few months and for
those who do long for a crisp slice
or two of mornings. Mrs. Smith and
her wares are quite irresistible.
The making of change was a bit
j confusing at first. The money
came so fast and the customers
were so multitudinous that it was
hard to remember just how many
quarters in a dollar. But the femi
nine merchants were undaunted and
their grocery store continues to
thrive, sans advertising, sans fire
sales!
Mrs. James Richardson and Miss
Ida. Smith are also numbered
among these enterprising mer
chants. f They cheerfully give their morn
ings to weighing and measuring and
incidentally to discouraging the
wicked profiteers. Each bean sold
means another spike in the coffin
of that grim demon, H. C. of L.,
and each day the grocery .store
hangs out the S. R. O. sign means
another star in the crown of our
energtically patriotic women.
TO BOB or not to bob, is the
question confronting weighty
minds. When one watches
Nazimova vamp her way through
.1,000 feet of film or so, the ayes have
it for the bobbed locks. She really
is fetching and no one could ever
forget how chic Irene Castle was
with her tresses curled under her
ears and a wavy lock dripping over
her forehead.
Mrs. Enrico Caruso has just been
bobbed.
There is a hint of perpetual youth,
a devil-may-care look about this
coiffure that we do adore, but do
think of the poor hairdressers.
You all know that no woman
Uvea with soul so dead who doesn't
arrive at that crucial time when she
"just must have a shampoo." Long
hair is a trial to launder and the
drying is so tedious. It's so easy to
lip into a cretonned chair, have a
deft artist slip an apron over your
iead, while you sink back with noth
ing on your mind but soapsuds!
But th-'ukl If the hair is bobbed,
: how easy it would be . to wash.
Many, many shekels would be
saved, for marceling, tonic rubs and
fancy shampooing will not be neces
sary. We will find milady washing
! Ripening
By FOLGER McKINSEY
Apples on the winesap tree, melons
on the vine,
Berries on the mottled briar,
peaches on the bough;
Fears and plums and apricots,
quince and nectarine
If there is a glory hour, surely it
is now!
Wheat and oats and timothy,
Summer at its best;
Earth as lovely as can be,
All in harvest dressed 1
Man upon the mortal branch, does
he ripen, too?
This his opportunity, world in so
much need
Of the sane and reasoning, 'of the
high and true,
Of the living faith that melts in
the living deed!
Leagues and covenants remade,
Pacts of right to keep;
The thunder of life's accolade
. Resounding deep to deep!
Honey hived for winter's feast, hon
ey in the comb,
T Beauty on ' the morning breeze
singing to the sky;
Victors of a mighty war bringing
victory home,
1 let it not have been in vain that
some had to die!
Peace upon the twilight hill,
Love on brooding wing;
Oh, for so much less of ill
Let the whole world siigl
-From the Baltimosj fun.
her own and drying it with Nature's
electric fan, the saucy breeze.
And the hatsl Picture yourself
wearing a chapeau made tor a high
coiffure on bobbed locks. It can't
be done. The milliners will have to
revolutionize the styles and let's all
pray they will reform the price. Haf-
pins, deadly weapons, will also be
taboo and we will wear comfortable
little toques which stay on unaided.
The influenza really was to blame i
EHOLD. the "Summer Girl
she who barkens to the cleat
nature luring her to
ed hilts and pine-scent-
atmosphere of the mountains.
Oant, who lett during
ik for Estes park, may
limed as Omaha's own
irl." Her Titian hair,
, and the delicate col
piquant features is the
of the summer
jbts m f jmmm mmm. o .v vt. i typical Deauiy
Miss Mary Gant Goes to
Estes Park For the
Last of Season
maiden and like that maid she exceU
in all athletics and is a devotee of
out-door life.
Everywhere we find the "Summer
Girl." The beach, the plain, and the
mountain is filled with her presence
and nature bows low to her. The
sheltered violet, the bolder crocus,
and the crimson gladiola proclaim
her queen of the season. How we
welcome her coming in the spring
time when she peeps from the chilly .
cloak of winter and sends a tiny ray
of summer warmth into our hearts.
And again, how we regret her pass
ing in the fall when the King Win
ter comes to occupy her throne.
Horseback riding is one of the
favorite recreations of the "Summer
Girl" and one in which Miss Gant
is an adept. While at Stead's ranch
in Estes park she will enjoy this
diversion which she has missed very
greatly in Omaha. Before her com
ing here Miss Gant lived in a com
munity where thoroughbred horses
were the rule rather than the excep
tion. It is no wonder, then, that
she is most eager to renew her fa
vorite pastime.
Tennis and golf are also among
her pleasant pastimes. She, however,
favors the racquet rather than the
golf stick. Almost every day dur
ing the summer she might be seen
at the Field club indulging in one
of these fascinating games.
Fancy dips and dives are nothing
unusual to this young athlete, who
is also considered a good swimmer.
During her outing she will try her
self at mountain climbing, which
will be a decidedly novel recreation
for a girl of the plains.
For a time during the war, Miss
Gant entered the business world in
order to perform her share of the na
tion's great burden and was most
successful in her work. She will
spend several weeks of the late
summer in the west and will return
to Omaha in September.
The record for long distance
"lone hand" automobile touring is
claimed for Mrs. Maud M. White,
who motored alone from Rochester,
N. Y.. to Miami, Okla., thence to t
Brantford, Ont, to visit her mother,
and from Brantford returning
to her home in Rochester.
The new law in Ontario making
it possible, not only for women to
vote in provincial elections, but
also to hold seats in the legislature,
is not to remain long inoperative
Several women have alrc.dy an
nounced their intentions to be candi
dates in the next elections.
Every wedding engagement in
Turkestan begins with the payment
of a substantial consideration to the
girl's parents. If the girl jilts her
lover the engagement gift has to
be returned, unless the parents have
another daughter who may be
offered as a satisfactiry substitute.
By tacit agreement, the women
leaders-in high society at Newport
have greatly curtailed their formal
entertainment programs this season
because of the high cost of living.
for this new fad. So many pretty
girls lost their hair that they Just
must look attractive, and with fem
inine ingenuity they originated a
brand new style. Omaha girls have
many of them adopted it, and they
look as smart as can be.
And the strangest thing of all
seems to be that they do not want
long hair again.
"It's so cool and comfortable"
so they say, but the true reason we
know is just because the men have
set their seal of approval on this
new wrinkle.
HAVEN'T you heard of the sur
prise wedding which is being
planned under our very noses?
Everybody has. In fact, friends of
the young couple even know where
they are going on their southern
honeymoon trip. Yes, and Gabby
knows that they will live in Park
avenue on their return, October 1.
The last Friday. of the month is
to be the great dayl So hurry and
buy a present, as there are to be
so many weddings this fall.
The girl of the romance is a tall,
slender blonde, who has large blue
eyes. She came to Omaha just
eight years ago from California. If
you wish to know where she lives,
draw a circle with a radius of two
blocks, with Twenty-fourth and Far
nam streets as the center. Then
take up the hunt, as the pretty
bride-to-be lives within that locality.
What does this maiden to while
away her hours? She is an accom
plished ' musician and instructs the
erring pianist in all the rudiments
of his art
The man? Oh, yes, an unimpor
tant but necessary part of the plans.
He is a native of Boston, coming to
Omaha but a year ago. He is a
member of the Athletic club and is
well known in business circle's, espe
cially in the packing house industry.
it you aon t know 01 whom we
are talking, just watch the papers
after the 29th. The secretive pair
have promised to tell all to us after
that date. Gabby doesn't think it
necessary, for why repeat stale
news?
DELVING into the philoso
phies of the ancients we find
this bit of wisdom: "No
matter how often a man marries, he
always reverts to the some physical
type." Is this time-worn bit of ma
trimonial lore true? ylt would seem
to be confirmed most interestingly
in the recent marriage of Howard
Chandler Christy, the designer of
beautiful girls, to his model, Mrs.
Nancy May Palmer.
Some 20 years ago Mr. Christy
fell a victim to Cupid's darts and a
Hair Dressing in China
By Mis$ Wong Tsien-yi
springtime love affair flowered when
he wedded beautiful Mabelle Thomp
son. The blighting frosts of mis
understanding killed this romance
and the courts affixed "selah" to the
their freedom. Pause for a moment
to compare the photographs of
the two matrons who have borne
the Christy name. You cannot fail
to observe the striking similarity
between the two women.- Statu
esque in appearance with dark hair
and eyes, there is nothing of a puny
clinging vine type in these perfect
"Christy girls."
The artist has Indeed remained
true to his ideal type of beauty
whom he has sketched on a thousand
posters, magazine covers and front
ispieces, simply dripping and oozing
romance. He has written a most
romatic description of the American
girl "That tall broad-shouldered
gracefully muscular creature with
her perpetual putting to shame the
undersized man, that creature of
tireless buoyancy and incomparable
litheness, the brown-eyed, blue-eyed
beauty with the most admirable
outlines, the most bewildering
variety of expression and the most
radiant smile of any woman in the
world." How's that for a fragrant,
little bouquet?
Mrs. Christy, number one is now
Mrs. Leslie Canfield Ferguson, wife
of a New York lawyer and is happy
and contented with all past troubles
forgotton. The artist has wed -"the
prettiest woman in America" he
says, so let's all wish him and his
real life "Christy girl" a love story
as happy as that of any best seller
he ever illustrated.
One thrifty housewife hangs the
inside wrapers of the kitchen soap
along side the sink and ' they are
used as ' soap leaves" she asserts
that one wrapper contains sufficient
so.. to wash the hands twice. For
convenience she cuts each wrapper
in half.
Hundreds of wom:n who earn
livelihood as "extras" in motion pic
ture productions .are considering a
proposal to organize a union with a
view to securing an increase in pay
and improve working conditions.
In the earliest period of its his
tory China, like other nations, was
uncivilized, so no truth can be told
of that age. But when it reached
the age of writing and literature,
books were written. From that time
onward we are able to relate histor
ical facts when required.
I am going to discuss the subject
of hair dressing chronologically, for
there were certain changes after the
downfall of certain dynasties. The
subject may be divided into three
periods: (1) that of the Han, Tang,
Soong and Ming dynasties, (2) of
the Tsing dynasty, (3) and of the
republic.
The hair of Chinese women was
noted for its gloss, length and black
ness. The hair was seldom washed,
but was cleaned by a fine tooth
comb.
The women of the first period
were rather more artistic than those
of later times, for they dressed more
becomingly. When a girl was born
her hair was let alone until she got
to the age of 7. During this
time her hair was never to be cut
or left disorderly, but was always
kept shiny and smooth. At the age
of 7 the front part of her hair
was put up into a knot of any form
which suited the child's face. When
she came to her 16th birthday, all
of her hair had to be put up and
then she was said to be a grown-up
lady.
The ornaments which the women
of that time wore can be divided
into three classes: the ornaments
of the palace and of the royal fam
ilies, such as dragon, phoenix, bird,
flower, letter, etc., all made of pearls,
jade and gold. The ornaments of
common people were mostly of the
same kind, but not so splendid. The
common people were not allowed to
use a certain crown which was to be
used in marriages of the royal prin
cesses, ihe ornaments ot tne poor
people were made of silver and gild
ed materials. No matter how rich
or poor they were, they used orna
ments every day and added some
more on happy days or for special
occasions.
The day before the girl's marriage,
the family Of the bride asked one of
the relatives, one with a pleasing life,
to come and sit by the bride's side.
Then a barber woman used a pair
of pincers and picked off all the
useless hair along the forehead and
eyebrows, so as to make the fore
head higher and the eyebrows more
slender and curved like a new moon.
All the while the barber woman re
peated blessings. After which the
hair was combed and a red string
used to tie it up. Then a pearl hat
(either real or imitation pearl) was
put on and the bride was led out
for home ceremonies. On the wed
ding day the bride had to put on
a phoenix crown which was very
heavy indeed, so the bride suffered,
much in wearing it.
If some one, either parents, par-;
ents-in-la,w, or husband should die.
the woman scatter, her hair ana
mourn. Her hair was not to . be
combed smooth for two years and
60 days (the period of mourning).
If her husband should die she never
wore anything red on her head ex
cept at the marriages of the son and
daughter, if she had any.
Now I must tell you something
about the hair of the second period.
Owing to the coming in of the Man
chus, all people were ordered to
shave their heads. Even children
were included. They said that the
children were born of blood, so their
hair was bloody' which displeased
gods and goddesses. So a girl or
boy was not permitted to go out in
the sun, to the kitchen or other peo
ple s homes, if the ceremony of
shaving had not taken place. The
uncleaness of the child might bring
anger to the sun god (a god above
everything), on the kitchen god (a
household diety) and made other
homes unclean. When the child was
a month or two old, a good day was
selected and the child was beautifully
dressed and adorned. If the parents
were rich they would have feasts and
plays and the home would ring with
happiness and merriment. At an ap
pointed hour the barber shaved all
of the child's soft, fine' hair away
and left a bald head. Then, a beau
tiful hat sent from her maternal
grandma was put on and the nurse
took the child and pretended to
'kow-tow" before all the relatives.
Afterwards as her hair grew, she
was not allowed to cut it herself but
from time to time the family would
call for a barber1 and shave off the
margin around the head. At the age
of 13 the act of shaving ceased and
her hair was put up either at both
sides, one side or in front, while
formally the hair was made into a
braid. When the time arrived for
her to wear a skirt, her hair was put
up at the back.
At the time of marriage or at the
death of members of her family she
had to perform all of these cere-
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