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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1919)
PART TWO SOCIETY "SECTION the Omaha Sunday B VOL. XLIX NO. 12. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1919. B 1 PART TWO SOCIETY SECTION SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS mans S ct ion Women ! Knee Dresses No Backs Bobbed Hair Four-Inch Ear Drops 1 , .., ML. Society Women Will Be Weird and Grotesque, Blazing With Odd and Golored Jewelry Much Bare Flesh and Necklaces. Chicago, Sept. 6. Women of so ciety will be weird and gorgeous figures, shy on clothes, but blazing with jewels, if the Paris styles for the fall and winter come into vogue here. ' Miss Isabelle M. Archer of New York, fashion authority of the Jewelers' Circular, fresh from the French capital, set the National Re tail Jewelers' convention here gasp ing when she described the new fashions. "And don't think they arc not , coming to America they are, "de clared Miss Archer. Paris fashion, according to Miss 'Archer, has decreed that women fliust wear these oddities: Knee dresses. Anklets studded with precious Stones. Evening gowns with very little front, no back to speak of and not a fcint of sleeves. Bobbed hair pushed straight back .u. t I l l l Hum uic luiciitdu anu nangiuK in curls about the neck. Or bobbed hair parted low on .one side and almost all of it brushed across the head and allowed to droop over one ear. With one ear liidden by the hai, a pendent ear ring three of four inches long will be worn in only one ear. The bare arms will be covered vith windings of a rope of jewels or with many bracelets both below and above the elbow. The jewels on one arm will be of one color and those of the other arm will be of another color. This contrasting color scheme will apply also to finger rings. The ring gems on one hand must be different in color from those on the Other. Rings will adorn every finger of 1oth hands and will be of massed diagonal line across the hand. Necklaces will be of double and triple strings of gems most of them of extreme length and will be hung with jeweled pendents at the back and front. "Gowns this winter," said Miss Archer, "will be very much shorter. Knee skirts will be fashionable. They are wearing them in Paris riow. I think they are hideous but then I'm nat a man. If American (men are like thftse in Paris, they y. think them beautiful. The chief idanger on Parisian boulevards, I found was from collisions with men who had turned their heads to stare at some vision of loveliness in knee dresses'. "The anklets will be of platinum fend gold flashing with all sorts of jewels. They will fit around the - raked flesh under the silk stockings from beneath whose film the gems will gleam duskily. In Paris, the Very best people are wearing them fend I expect them to be equally as popular here. worn, wren me near-ironiiess, wljjiost-backless, absolutely sleeve less evening gown.jhe necklace will serve as shoulder straps. The most fashionable are matched pearls not gradated pearls or diamonds or pearls and diamonds. The front 1 A. . - il. - I Tl. JJCIIUCIU icsis upon UIC UUSUUl. I I1C back pendent swings to below the middle of the troso. The point of the V in the back of the gown reaches to the waist. These twin-pendent necklaces are made in the less ex pensive jewels as well as the most precious sort and young girls over here may be expected to wear them on the street over their shirt waists. "Bobbing the hair became the rage in Paris during the war be cause the French women didn't have the time to comb their heads. This winter the bobbed hair will be brushed back and caught with head fitting combs set with jewels, be neath which it will fall in curls. This style will bring in a revival of earrings. Stud earrings are ta boo. Earrings shoud be long and pendent. With this mode of wear ing the hair, long, narrow barrettes of platinum and diamonds will be popular. "Another coiffure that is popular in Paris is to part the hair just above one ear and brush it all across the head and let it fall over one ear. This has brought in the style for one earring. This earring is very large some are three and four inches long and swing almost to the shoul der. A great jeweled comb is worn at the back of the head. Tremen dously big Spanish combs are also .a craze. They are gorgeous with jewels. Signs in the theaters re quest the ladies to remove their combs. If they didn't those sitting behind-hem couldn't see the stage. "The most beautiful bracelets I saw abroad were pearl ropes wound all about the arm from wrist to el bow with bracelets of platinum and gems covering the arm from elbow to shoulder. This sort of ornamen tation is worn also with afternoon gowns which are made with loose kimono sleeves. Many of the brace lets are hung with platinum ban gles, polished, plain or frosted. "The gems of finger rings anu bracelets must be all of one color on one hand and arm and of a different colored gem on the other. It is considered artistically a crime in Paris to wear the same colored gems on both hands and Srms. A striking effect is achieved by wear ing sapphires on one hand and arm and either brown topazes or canary diamonds on the other. "Solitaire rings have gone out. The fashion is for twin-stone rings or clusters in which the gems are so close together that the setting is not visible. The clusters are sur rounded by a -border of platinum. The rings are worn on all fingers and the line they make across the hand rises diagonally from the little finger to far up the index finger. "Shoe buckles are in great vogue. They are small and gay with jewels. The stones must not be rhinestones or glass, but real gems that match the other jewels that milady hap pens to be wearing. Fans are of the single-stick variety heavy with ostrich plumes. The stick is set with jewels which must match the color of the plumes, which in turn must match the jewels on arms, legs and throat. "The dominant note of the new fashions," Miss Archer concluded, "is youthfulness and joyousness born of victory in the war and the jewelry, which is the optical center of all costumes, must carry out this note with brilliancy and gorgeous effects." Washington Society Dull While Omaha Reaps Benefit of Wilsons Omaha Bee Bureau Washington, Sept. 6. Washington society, that part of 'it which has returned from a sum mer outing, is revelling in a peace and quiet, not dullness, which it has not known since the opening of the extra session of the Sixty aixth congress. The president and Mrs. Wilson are away. The-White House is dull and deserted. The secretary of state and Mrs. Lans ing are off on a long deferred rest and recreation trip to their sum mer home at Henderson Harbor, N Y. A few, just a few, of the cabinet ' officials, ambassadors, foreign minis- : .ters and other important officials re main in town, these early and near fall days. Of course the most of congress is liere, but Washington is so accus tomed to congress that it takes its families for granted, and they do not always mean society. And indeed just now they are purposely avoiding it. About the only meeting places forthe congressional set is the gal leries of the house and senate, and there one may always find an inter esting group of women in official cir cles. The galleries are the invariable tnd to the marketing or shopping trip, when the wives or daughters rest and cool off after the search for reasonable food and reasonable cloth'ng, and await the end of the day's debate on the floor, and carry off the husband or father for a drive in the park and dinner either at a country club or at home. Dinners More Informal The dinner parties for this and the - next few weeks are delightfully in formal ones. There was scarcely a - dinner at the White House before , the president's departure that there j was not an interesting guest or more at table. The last few days Mrs. - lYilsou had her mother and sister, J Miss Boiling, with her the greater part of the time. She has a favorite brother, John Randolph Boiling, who is the frequent guest of the president at theater parties, ball game parties, and on their ve"ek-end rips on the Mayflower and their drives in the country. Secretary and Mrs. Lansing scarcely dined at home a singleeve ning since their return from France, and if they did, they had a guest or guests with them. And they have enjoyed these informal parties far more than any formal ones in mid season. Last week the Lansings had two real dinner parties, one for the United States minister to Belgium, Mr. Brand Whitlock, who was here for a very short stay, and the other for United States Minister to Swed en and Mrs. Ira Nelson Morris, who were here for a couple of weeks. Dinner parties at the Lansings are i always stately affairs, mixed with much charm. These summer eve nings they invariably have coffee on the porch or in the lovely little gar den, both at the rear of the Foster home on Eighteenth street, where they spend their winters. In the winters coffee is served in the won derful library of the late Genera! John W. Foster, father of Mrs. Lansing, which is so filled with rare and valuable souvenirs of his travels and his distinguished services to other countries that there is no na tionality to the apartment. There is, however, to the garden and the vine covered porch. It is a most ador able spot with flowers blooming in profusion, all planted with a direct purpose of having blossoms every week from early spring to the late autumn. Former Omaha People. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Malone of Hastings will arrive here tomorrow to be the guests of their son-in-law ((.ununited on fujA Iuo, im gccUooJ jli ' $ JIV ij - y V jinn'"" J 'iyipr Mrs. Woodrow Wilson First Lady of the Land Will Be Guest of Omaha for Three Hours Monday The first lady of the land! Though she has received the homage of kings and queens, no heartier wel come was extended even in the courts of the old world, than will be hers when the portals of the Gate City swing wide at the approach of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Monday morning. Diadems and ermine may fascinate, but the true American spirit is found in fertile Nebraska and all the wealth and love of the broad west will be laid at the feet of the first lady. Owing to. the short sis-, pi the presidential party no elaborate en tertaining has been planned in Mrs. Wilson's honor, rather the informal mode of the war days will predom inate. Just as the brilliant sun touches the hills and fields with his first rays, President and Mrs. Wil son will arrive. Although no large gathering will be permitted at the station the pretty canteen maids, who have cheered so many warriors on their way, will present Mrs. Wil son with a bouquet of dewey roses, tied with satin streamers of the true American 9jp.r ciubsoOj A ride through the city will follow when everyone from the tiniest bab ywhi can grasp a flag, to" the grizzled warriors who have denfended with their lives, may view the president and his beautiful wife. After the president's speech at the Auditorium an informal reception will be held in Mrs. Wilson's honor, when prominent suffragists and war workers will compose the reception committee. Mrs. Draper Smith, who is president of the woman's depart ment of tiit League . .to Enforce Peace, has chosen the wo men who will receive Mrs. Wilson. The committee in cludes: Mesdames Ed. P. Smith, Frank W. Judson, H. C. Sumney, E. W. Nash, James Rich ardson, N. P. Feil, G. W. Wattles, Henry Doorly, Lisle Abbot, Gould Dietz, C. N. Dietz, Arthur Mullen, R. B. Howell, Z. T. Lindsay, Luther Kountze, Joseph Polcar, George Josyln, O. C. Redick, Clement Chase, L. C. Hemel, E. M. Syfert, John L. Kennedy and Leorara Dietz Nelson. Jhese women, who gave invalu able service during the war, many of them holding executive positions, will extend Nebraska's greetings to the wife of the chief executive and as a fragrant reminder of her visit, will, present her with a huge bou quet of American Beauties. There will be opportunity but for a short chat for the presidential party will pursue their way west ward at noon, and the reception will be "curtailed. Farewells will be spoken, but the meniory of Mrs. Wilson's visit to the west will grow green with nassina year. Gabby Warns of Notable Wedding : Melody Land Is Literally Flat and Tin Pan Alley Has No New Tune Hits. ELSIE JANIS, of the infectious smile, denies emphatically that her heart has gone airplaning. When asked concerning the rumor of her betrothal to the famous ace, she said: "Engaged to Eddie Rickenbacker? My goodness, no." ''Why, I scarce ly know him, and haven't the slight est idea where the dear boy is, and for all I know he may have a wife i , , , . ii ana mrce cnuaren somewncn. "I only wish I could make such a nice announcement. I'd shout it and sing it and maybe weep it to all the world, in my joy," said Miss Janis, who, it became apparent, had returned from her war work on the front lines in France heart-whole and fancy free. "I guess the story got started when, some time ago, Eddie Ricken backer and I were appearing in a benefit entertainment together, on the Century Ropf. "I had been on for a turn and Rickenbacker, the dear boy, fol lowed me. We both received very warm receptions and when he had finished his stunt the audience be gan to call first for me and then for Rickenbacker and then for both of us together. "Now, I don't see that having your names called together right out in public like that constitutes matrimony. Do you?" And even our famous Eddie, whose prowess has been acclaimed from sea to sea, denies that anif gagement exists. He seems toAe so busy planning a trip acros4 t1" Pacific that he has no time for the feminine sex, even though they be , famous actress. Of course, with all this evidence the trustful souls will settle back complacently and et the nays have it. But oh, the skeptical ones . who garner news! What a large slice of intuition and suspicion they have tucked up their sleeves. You may cover. plans with a veil of mystery, you may prevaricate until your con science i$ endangered, all to no avail, for those "News-ances" . who write thaf the nnblir. mav rrirf. know one's innermost thoughtd Consequently, when Elsie em phatically shook her brown locks and Eddie swore by the silver wings emblazoned on his khaki coat, that there was nothing to the rumor, the society scribe smiled a knowing smile and selected the very prettiest picture of Miss Janis to use on the great day, when wedding bells will chime. Just how it is done. Gabby can't disclose, but the genius who literally breaks the bottle of cham pagne on the prow of many a matrimonial bark, can detect the odor of the orange blossoms long before they are combined with tulle and pearls. MELODY Land is literally "flat," for the truly "sharp" composers are sadly , missing, not one song hit for three ' years. "Poor Butterfly" still holds its own, for not one tunc has caught the heart and ear of the public since this melody was written. Many songs have beeri manufactured in tlfe mu sic foundries aong Tin Pan alley, but they all lack that peculiar little haunting lilt that makes a song1 a true success aftd starts all theVorld to humming. "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," runs close second to "Poor Butterfly." but the classic themes of the Fantasie Impromptu have been copied in this popular number. "Tulip Time" is the song hit of the Ziegfield Follies and has al ready passed the 600.000 mark, but gone are the days when Nora Bayes and Blanche Ring could sing, a sprightly tune straight into your heart; for there are no performers to take their places. ' Al Jolson comes the nearest in this modern day, but he favors the risque too much for popular favor. It is music that eases the burden of a sorrowing world and the melo dies that are a bit jazzy do have a fashion of chasing away the gloom bugs. We earnestly hope that some musical genius Jias a note or two up his sleeve that will be a bright be ginning for a tuneful masterpiece that will set the world to dancing. Reincarnation When I am dodging touring cars to get across the street, And bounding, leaping here and there upon elastic feet, . It often has occurred to me, perhaps it has to you That in the other life I was a jump ing kangaroo. When traveling around the state in prohibition towns, " Where e'en the soda fountain wink is met with frigid frowns, When for a whole week at a stretch a thirst I must endure, I feel that in the other life I was a camel sure. I sometimes think I .used to swing' from trees and wear a tail, And chatter language simian, if pres ent signs don't fail. There are some indications that cling fast, 'tis plain to see, It's still quite possible to make a sioako out el me.