THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 12, 1922
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BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER.
AND so,, of course, if the king of
Spain hadn't raised his royal rolce
in the matter, we might have gone
on and on Indefinitely without paying
any special attention to points of the
feminine arm, good and bad, and wonder
ing If la mode du Jour is kind or clever
cr ironical or downright disagreeable!
As it is, we have become convinced
that Dame Fashion must leave a portion
cf the figure undraped, since such ap
pears to be her method of maintaining
balance for other portions which she
rather overdrapes. Yesterday, as the
history of 3000 years hence will record
with gusto and many an exaggerated
sketch, no doubt, Bhe removed all or
practically all covering from below the
knees and sometimes above the knees!
and hung it bunchily round the hips in
godettes and panels, and crowded it over
the shoulders in long, angel-wlng sleeves.
Today, as everybody at all interested in
the look of lovely ladies well knows, the
legs are wrapped round and round and
' the hips still are bunchy with surplus
folds and they do say that the bustle is
on its way! But oh, the arms! Bare
from the elbow, tare from the shoulder,
hanging long and a bit startling and very,
very naked against the floating fabrics
which the dictatorial dame loves for the
moment! k
Now, whether those arms are beautiful
or not is purely a matter of opinion.
Some of the owners of them admit that
they are. They are very beautiful, they
say, what with a peach-blush skin coaxed
out of a large assortment of jars ami
boxes, pink and white, and the cunning
est dimpled, natural as life itself and
practically permanent since the new
waterproof rouge" is so easy to use!
Others maintain that beauty is as it is,
and what is it anyway? According to
their theory the handsome arm is the
efficient arm; the one which can beat a
game of tennis or smoothly drive a
motor through the rush hour.
But King Alfonso of Spain feels differ
ently, as a countryful of nettled feminine
arm-wearers well-knows. Dropping round
to the Deauville races on an idle after
noon, the Castilian monarch whose own
personal comeliness is not apparent,
waved a languid eye over such samples of '
American womanhood as happened to be
hanging on the rail, and told the world,
via a group of writing gentmen who
were present, that he didn't like the new
sleeveless dresses.
He particularly didn't like the new
sleevelesss dresses when they were on
American women, he added, after medita
tion. He didn't like sleeveless dresses on
American women because they revealed
American women's arni3. And American
women's arms, he finished profoundly,
ought. never, never, never to be revealed!
Said the king of Spain:
"They're too fat! The women have
courage to exhibit them!
"A woman may wear decolette; or a
gown which leaves her back bare, or she
may appear in the shortest of skirts, but
she never presents the -same look of
nakedness so arrayed as when her arms
are bare to the shoulder. Fancy them
appearing thus at a race meeting where
the light is the broad illumination of day,
and not the shaded artificial one that
conceals faults!"
Perhaps it was because the king had
the, grace to supplement his statement
that the astonishing "arms contest" was
organized and held and brought to suc
cess in Paris. His further opinion was
this:
"Very few women of any nationality
have arms pretty enough to warrant the
new bare-to-the-shoulder fashion. While
arms of American women are too stout,
those of British women are too skinny.
Spauish arms are too short! France cited
the Paris beauties that hundreds of
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Miss Carmel de Smythe, - Winner
of the Recent California "Perfect
Figure" Contest, Is a '"Perfect,
36." Her Arm Measures . 10yi
Inches and Her Forearm "9
Inches. She Is 5 Feet, 5V
Inches Tall and . Weighs 140
Pounds.
thera hurried to enter their names in the
lists of the beauty tournament. And
when the event was over and the judges
had handed down their decisions, it was
discovered that only the French girls had
presentable arms, in the opinion of these
experts, for it was only to French girls
that prizes were awarded!"
Howatp Chandler Christy, the famous
portrait painter, Idealizer of that type
of American beauty expressed in his
"Christy Girl," was one of the first to re
sent the royal criticism. He said it was
founded on pure lack of knowledge.
Where' has the king of Spain obtained
his Information?" inquired Mr. Christy.
"It seems to me that' he is afflicted with
that, curious failing of human nature
which makes one talk the most about
what he understands the least!
"By the artistic standard, American
women are the most perfectly formed of
any women in the world! Their shape
liness is due, I believe, to their interest
in athletic amusements. And their ten
nis, riding, golf, swimming and so on has
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Rhea LaForte of Alham
bra, Cof- Who . Was Pro-'
nouneed "the Most Beauti
ful Woman in the West,"
Has Arms With Symmetri
cal Proportions Developed
Through Outdoor Exercise
and Swimming.
given them poise as well as symmetry! "
As if to indorse Mr. Christy's theory,
three winners in three of the biggest
beauty contests ever held in this country,
are devoted to athletics, and especially to
'swimming, Dainty Harriet Gimbel, who
won first prize at the Greenwich Village
"artists' ball," and who is said to be the
smallest comedienne on the American
state, measuring', as she does, only four
feet and eight Inches from' top to toe,
swims with the biggest of them. And
her arms are shapely as never were those
of Venus de Milo before that lady dis
pensed with hers! '
And about the same descriptions ap
plies to Miss Carmel De Smyhe, who
won the San Francisco exposition contest
for the most perfect figure ni California,
and to Miss Rhea LaForte of Alhambra,
Cal., declared by a committee of artists,
sculptors and other experts to be not only
the most beautiful woman in the Golden
State, but in the entire west as well!
Miss Sally Farnham, the sculptress, is
another authority on feminine shapeli
ness who has taken up the row with
Alfonso.
"There are dozens and dozens of
women in New York alone," she de
clared, "who have more beautiful arms
than the king of Spain ever saw! Par
ticularly are society women in the east
noted for . the attractiveness of their
arms!"
Jhe Arrr.s Adjudged Most "Perfect" in the Paris Contest. They
Are Possessed by Mile. Edmonde Gay, Who Since Has Been
Declared the Most Beautiful Woman in France. -
ROYAL NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE
REORGANIZED AT END OF WORLD WAR
Mount ies No Longer Allowed to Be Special Poliee for One District, But Are Made to
Serve Whole of Canada Name Also Is Changed as Result.
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rHEN, during the world war, so
many of the Canadian Mounties
enlisted that the force had to be
disbanded, it was thought that the end
had come for the most famous police
force in the world.
It was a blow to the world of lovers of
romance, for the Royal Northwest Mount
ed Police had found a warm place in the
hearts of all enthusiasts, all who cans be
thrilled by adventure, endurance and all
the other qualities of stout hearts and
brave men.
Novels, tales, uramas and especially
the movies had spread their fame
throughout the world, and the threat of
' disbanding them sent a chill through the
millions who had come to know of them.
But after the war many came back;
and so sorely had they been missed that
the famous organization was speedily
reconstituted and sent back to its duties
in the lawless lands of the far north.
Nevertheless there had been a change
in the relationship between the Mounties
and the government. This change was
given concrete expression when the Moun
ties were no longer allowed to be a spe
cial police tor a district, but were made
to serve tor the whole of Canada.
Whole Dominion Included.
Their new name is the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police and their patrol now
includes the whole of the dominion.
The strange sight of Canadian JUoun
ties prancing along the paved streets of
Ottawa or Quebec or any other of the
larger cities of the country is gradually
becoming a customary spectacle to the
citizens when previously it was necessary
to make a trip to the primitive northwest
to see them.
In their picturesque red blouses and
their wide-brimmed hats and prancing on
their spirited horses, they make a fine
spectacle indeed, even though it had been
meant originally for the primeval woods
or the great northern forests.
But the woods have not been left with
out them. They are still to be seen in
the depths of the white northwest and
they are going further and further north
as this message shows.
The Mounties are to be found not only
in their old haunts' in the Yukon and
along the Columbia rivers and along the
edge of the Arctic circle; they have gone
further and are now . established in a
station that probably gives them the dis
tinction of being the most northerly po
licemen on earth.
Ponds inlet is in latitude 72 degrees
40 minutes north, and there are few set
tlements of any kind as far north as that
with the exception perhaps of Eskimo
villages and .starting places, like Point
Barrow, from which Arctic explorers hop
off. ..
Sergeant A. H. Joy, chosen to carry ou
civilization to this barren ice spot, Is one
of the best known and most trusted of
the troopers of this remarkable police
torce.
Tne northwest of Canada has filled up
with settlers to a great extent and natur
ally has modified the wild and adven
turous life that obtained there and se
cured for the Mounties who somehow
kept it in order their romantic reputa
tion. The Indians who formely caused so
much trouble have been given special
treatment and are now law-abiding and
contented citizens, and the field of opera
tions in that region of the mounted police
has become less exciting and perhaps
more humdrum and routine.
As the forests of the country have been
cleared and the Indian elements convert
ed into good citizens time and opportunity
has been giveiT the pqjice to get busy
in another primitive section of Canada's
vast reaches.
There are still about a million square
miles of territory that can be called vir
gin. Just as Canada formerly rolled back
the curtains of her wilderness across the
plains and mountains to the Pacific ocean
she is now rolling it in a northerly direc
tion to the Arctic sea and beyond that
frozen ocean on to the islands that stud
the sea in a bewildering confusion, reach
ing, it is said, up to the north pole.
The new post at Ponds inlet in Baffin
land is further north than Coronation
Point. Early explorers in that region
were so shocked that there were people
living in that desolation that they brought
back the story that they had found a land
inhabited entirely by fur-clad devils, gen
uine devils with horns, referring probably
to native headdress, which, like that of
the northern Indians, included often
moose horns.
Station Farthest North.
" It enjoys the distinction of being the
farthest north police station in the world.
Before the world war Russia had a police
post in Nova Zembla, which was a few
minutes, speaking in terms of latitude,
further north than this Mounties post at
Ponds inlet; but it is 'unlikely that the
bolshevikl have managed to maintain
it, and thus the distinction of the Ponds
inlet post remains unchallenged.
The Canadian Mounted Police is about
50 years old. At that time all of Canada
west of Lake Superior was a howling wil
derness without any constituted agents
If the Longer Skirts
Hadn't Brought Sleeve
lessness the King of
Spain Couldn't Have
Started an Interna
tional Controversy.
tills
Harriet Gimbel Draws Herself Up'
to the Full Majesty of Her Four
' Ftet, Eight Inches, to Assert
, That Her Diminutive Arms Ful
fill All Esthetic Demands.
of organized government. Then Canada
purchased the northwest territories from
the Hudson Bay company and it was de
cided that some form of orderly govern
ment should be instituted.
Thus in 1874, by a decree of Sir John
MacDonald, sometimes called the father
of the dominions, the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police was formed. It started
with 300 men, who marched across the
plains, establishing posts and bringing
the law Into a land that had known noth
ing but feud justice and the vigilantes.
Today there are more than five times
as many of the Mounties, and what must
never be forgotten in any story about
them, 750 horses.
The first duty they had to perform
was the pacification of the Indians. This
was accomplished with a remarkably
small amount of trouble. Incidentally, it
was a wise move in the selection of uni
forms whicl made their task easier.
for some reason or other the Indians
felt that they had been treated unjustly
by the soldiers of the United States gov
ernment, and wthen they saw the blue of
an American trooper's uniform they were
in a rage and difficult to get under con
trol. The Mounties, therefore, were given
red uniforms, flaming and picturesque
colors, which by wise methods they made
the Indians feel was a real symbol of
law and order, beneficial to them, too.
Besides trouble with the Indians, they
had difficulty at first with the half-breeds
and the whites, who felt themselves out
side the pale of the law. The unruly ele
ments among them soon found that the
long arm of civilization had reached
them.
The work of the Mounties includes al
most everything included in the word
government.