THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 31, 1923
FOREIGN CAPITALS AND OTHER CITIES GONTRIBUTE GOSSIP
CHINA'S BEAUTIFUL CANALS OUTRIVAL FAMED WATERWAYS OF VENICE.
MOVEMENT OF CANADIANS
OVER BORDER IS GROWING
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Increase in Emigration in Part Ascribed to Fact That People Are
"Fed Up" With European Politics.
NEW YEAR DAY IN CAPITAL
TO BE ONE OF GREAT POMP
Old Daya, When White House Reception Vas Unalterable Institution,
Recalled; Historic Event Canceled, Due to Mrs. Harding's Illness.
BY JOHN GARDINER.
(Copyright. 1022. by The Oregonian.)
MONTREAL, Dec. 30. (Special.)
Canadians are emigrating
to the United States' in num
bers that are puzzling the officials
of both countries. Not only is this
bo, but the withdrawals from the
dominion are so surprising that
there Is a deep feeling of concern
in official quarters here as to just
There la a growing belief that
one at least of the reasons is the
. desire on the part of Canadians
to get away from European discus
sion. They are "fed up" with Eu
ropean politics and beliefs and the
injection of "European situations"
into domestic matters does not set
well.
But after all, to make the New
Tear happy, Montreal, which is fast
becoming a very strong "national
ist" municipality, has within its
borders tonight many Americans
who have come here to welcome in
the new year. . A new hotel here
has advertised liberal, inviting
residents from below tjf order to
spend the anniversary JL and the
result has been an influx, of visitors
who intend to forget that "back
home" prohibition holds sway.
Population Loss Serious.
An" estimate of the startling in
crease f immigration from the Do
minion of Canada is practically in
dicated by the statement recently
issued by the department of immi
gration that since the year 1914
more than 700,000 people have left
Canada for other countries.
It is probable for thia reason that
the dominion government has un
dertaken to sponsor a movement to
, stimulate emigration of settlers to
Canada from the United States,
Great Britain and Scandinavia. This
is a complete reversal of the policy
in force from November 30, 1920, to
May, last, during which period im
migrants were , discouraged and
many stringent requisitions made
before they could find it possible to
gain admission at all.
During the last ten years Canada
GOTHAM, IN MIDST OF WARS,
FACES HAPPY NEW YEAR
Disgruntled Laundr-ymen Burn Up Laundries While Things in Other
Industries Are Declared to Be Going Just as Bad. 1
BT JESSE HENDERSON.
(Copyright, 1922. by The Oregonian.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 30. This is a
nice, home-like, comfortable
little town in which to settle
down for a happy New Tear. This
is a beautiful spot from which to
look forward to 12 months of joy,
prosperity and the other seasonal
expectations. At the moment there
are only a laundry war, garment
workers' war, an Irish consulate
war, a bandit war, and a carpen
ters,' or perhaps it is a bricklayers',
war to distract attention from the
joyous chimes ringing in the glad
new 12 months.
The disgruntled laundrymen are
burning down laundries. Thirty thou
sand of the" disgruntled garment
makers are planning a general
strike. The Irish free state consul
and the Irish republic consul, both
disgruntled) are each claiming pos
session of the Irish consulate of
fice, which, consequently, neither
possesses. The bandits, everlastingly
disgruntled because people aren't
hoarding up as much cash and
jewels as they did immediately after
the armistice, are blowing only the
safes which contain $10,000 or more.
And the disgruntled bricklayers, or
perhaps it is the disgruntled car
penters, are holding up building
operations in a town where three
applicants besiege the door of every
vacant apartment.
City Haa Coal Shortage.
On top of this comes the coal ad
ministrators to announce pleasantly
that the city coal shortage is merely
a matter of some 72,377 tons. This
shortage will probably be made up
by the middle of January, they add,
a bit of information which imme
diately sends the thermometer into
a sinking spell and brings the tail
end -of the icy Atlantic gales to
whisk around an already shivering
Manhattan.
To cap the climax of these woes,
the prohibtion agents have an
nounced that anyone so much as
flicking an eye in the direction of a
bottle on this festive Nejy Tear's
WASHINGTON WOMEN PREACH
; SARAH BERNHARDT'S GOSPEL
Feminists Maintain That Those of Sex Who "Do Things"
Beauty and Fascination Longest of All.
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BY CAROLYN VANCE.
(Copyrtjht. 1022, by The Oreitonian.)
WASHINGTON, D. C Dec. 30.
The feminists of Washington
this week have been preach
ing the gospel of Sarah Bernhardt.
Today they announced their conclu
sions. "Resolve," they say, "like Sarah
Bernhardt, to 'die in harness' and
you will retain both, youth and
beauty."
The feminists- are out with a
warning too, to the butterfly and
the parasite. Those types fade
quicker than any other, say the wise
women of Washington. Discontent
soon etches ugly lines in their faces.
Work is the one marvelous cosmetic
It is perspiration that is a potent
producer of pulchritude; the Wnd
that is labeled "sweat of the brow."
Like Mme. Bernhardt, the women
who "do things" retairt their looks
and fascination the longest, femin
ists maintain. To prove the point,
it is claimed that the women of
achievement in America are the
ones who not only look younger
than their years, but have a beauty
that goes with a keen interest in
life..
"The life of Sarah Bernhardt,"
w4'i Mrs. Cornelius Gardner of the
League of Women Voters, "should
be inspirational to the women who
dread the shelving process which
they feel is inevitable at middle age.
An abiding interest in some kind ofj
work will keep a woman looking
young and feeling young;
: "The fluctuating state of Mme.
Bernhardt's health has .been of great
conclusion to women everywhere.
She has been particularly beloved
' of her sex perhaps because she was
not beautiful. Without her dra
matic, gifts she might even have
been called a homely woman. Her
nose, her eyes, her mouth were not
standard of beauty. But she had
the power to create the illusion of
beauty, which, put hope, in every
has lost more by emigration to the
United States than she has gained
by immigration from' all other
countries. Thus between 1911 and
1921 Canada's population increased
by 1,500,000 to 8,700,000, but during
that time there was a natural in
crease of 1,836,000 and immigration
totaling 1,975,000. After making
full allowance for war losses, it is
evident that the country did not
even maintain the increase due to
natural accretion.
Although monetary and other re
strictions have been removed at
least partially, immigration con
tinues to decline. In the period
from April to October, latest rec
ords available show that entries
numbered 52,651 compared to 72,015
kfor the same period a year previous.
showing a decrease of 27 per cent.
Of immigrants during the preseift
year 25,553 were British, 16,781 were
from the United States and 10,371
from other countries. In the past
six months 250,000 Englishmen went
to Australia alone.
Here is what the Honorable
Charles Stewart, acting minister of
immigration, has to say oft the
subject:
"We propose to initiate at once
an active advertising and publicity
campaign in Great Britain and the
United States and to extend it to
the favored countries of northern
Europe as circumstances permit.
We shall particularly seek settlers
with some capital in a position to
buy and cultivate the vacant lands
now adjacent to our railways, but
we shall also provide departmental
machinery to bring the tenant
farmer into touch with rental op
portunities which will give him a
chance to begin."
Lore of Lands Wanee.
In the case of Great Britain,
Canada has never availed herself
of the British government's offer
to pay half the cost of an emigrant's
fare to a dominion provided the
dominion furnished the other half
This is in contrast with the action
of Australia, where 6,000,000 is to
be spent in assisting residents of
the British isles' to settle in the
commonwealth.
eve will be boiled in oil or drawn
and quartered, or whatever the lat
est thing'is that they do to a citizen
who takes a drink. It was the
vigilance of the prohibition officers
which kept all except $4,000,000
worth of yuletide smuggled liquor
out of our immediate environs, the
$4,000,000 being brought in by way
of New Jersey.
Hotela Still Charge High.
Hotels and restaurants and caba
rets, however, are getting ready for
the christening with an enthusiasm
all too plainly assumed and not
heartfelt. In order to stimulate an
old-time air of joviality, many of
the hotels are offering tables at
the same high prices which pre
vailed in the good old days. But
even paying $30 or $40 for a re
served table right near the orches
tra isn't going to put much joy in
a party which? glimpses the new
year through nothing more roseate
than a cup of malted milk.
No wonder we never heard com
plaints of a coal shortage in the
flays of, the reprobate forefathers.
Little they cared whether the coal
bin was full or the woodbox replen
ished. They didn't have td get
through the snowy New Tear's on
a glass of lemonade. It is too bad,
however, to allow the mind to dwell
on such unworthy topics, though
nothing much else seems to dwell
in other people's minds. There are
so much more worth-while things
to consider. Look at Isadora Dun
can, for example, dancing "Sarah
Bernhardt's funeral march" before
the death of the great actress, to
Bay nothing of before the funeral
arrangements. A beautiful example
of preparedness, even though the
pianist did flounce in a rage and
leave Isadora flat.
Business Given Employes. ,
Look at H. A. Dix, turning over
to his employes a dress and uniform
business which brings in $1,000,000
a year and lending the 409 employes
$250,000 on which to do business.
This is sad news to the Soap-box
orators, who like.ifo prattle about
soulless corporations.
Retain
woman's heart. And she has shown
the women of this latter day that
they can be of some-use - in the
world, ever of great use, after 60,
even after 70."
The Chinese are more advanced
than we are in that respect, chimed
Dr. Yamei Kim, a young Chinese
woman. They do not pay much at
tention to the intellectual endow
ments of woman, the Chinese, until
she has reached the age of 45, and
then she suddenly blossoms out as a
sage. Her voice raised in council Is
equal to that of a man. The Chinese
believe, and not without some rea
son, that after a woman has raised
a family she has become wise, for
she ihas had the opportunity to
observe life and to meditate upon it.
Instead of being shelved at middle
age. in China a woman is consid
ered in her prime.
But while clothes play a part in
maintaining a woman's youthful
spirits it is useful work that keeps
her mind resilient
One of the first women, to come
to mind in this connection is Miss
Julia Lathrop, who was world
famous for her welfare work for
children. Miss Lathrop does not
look a day over 45 or at the most
60. and yet she is down in Who's
Who for all the world to see at 64
yearsof age.
There are many other women of
note who have kept marvelously
young through years once thought
sere and yellow. Ida Tarbell ad
mits to 65; Edith Wharton proudly
proclaims the fact that she was
born in 1S62. Anna Garland Spencer,
over 70. still is lecturing at Colum
bia university, New York. Alic
Stone Blackwell, in the 80s, is active
as an editor. Miss Alice Robertson
campaigned for congress last fall
at 67. Ex-Senator Rebecca Felton
looked winsome in the senate for a
day, and at 87 she has just accepted
chairmanship of the political com
mittee of the national woman's
party.
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aet amid surroundings sordid and malodorous, yet one forgets the odor and background in remembering the beauty of the scene. Venice haa
ions been fain otu for lta streets of water) few know that China concaina thousands of little canals bordering which are houses which have
atood through the agea and which, for genuine charm and beauty, outrival Venitian streeta, even when garbed in all their pristine glory. And
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SENATOR NICHOLSON RISES x
FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH
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Boy Who Began as Laborer in Mines Now Is Friend of Working:
Man, Helpful in Labor Reconstruction.
BY PEARL KEATING.
SAMUEL X. NICHOLSON of Lead-
ville, Colo., impresses you as he
swings into the capitol with
a long easy stride and a strength
borne of the toil of youth. If
Nicholson wasn't a senator, he
would be a bank president, or the
head of a big corporation, or some
thing that required a man of
strength and untiring action..
There is the cannie of the Scotch
parents and the wisdom gleaned
from the hard school of experience
all intermingled In his pleasing per
sonality. Among his intimates he
is spoken of as a diamond in the
rough. One's intimates may mistake
truth and' misnomer it with rough.
Born on the picturesque isle of
Prince Edward, when a very young
boy he put his extra change of
clothes into an old oilcloth valise,
bent upon adventure, and started
out to see the world. He landed at
Bay City, Mich., where an uncle
conducted a prosperous drug store.
Young Sara realized the necessity
of an education, so he arranged with
his uncle for board and keep and a
little extra money for clothes and
books, for in those days, school sup
plies were not given gratis to the
school children.
Boy Poverty-stricken
For several years he worked in
his uncle's store after school, Sat
urdays and Sundays, until he had
finished in the public schools. He
was looking about to find means to
enter college when the weekly pa
pers began to print glowing stories
of the great mineral discoveries of
gold, silver and lead in Colorado. He
abandoned v all thought of college
and purchased a ticket for Lead-'
ville, Colo., arriving in due time
with plenty of pluck and ambition,
but handicapped by lack of ready
money. Twenty-five cents wouldn't
buy a pick and shovel even In those
days, and that was all he had.-
j.eadville was experiencing . a
boom at that time. Thtre were high
times in the saloons where money,
liquor and free lunches were tossed
off without a thought. But the
"cannie" in Sam said, "Bide your
step, Laddie," and he bided. Instead
of entering the saloon, and his- stom
ach was begging for a bit o' food,
he crossed the street and without
the asking helped a surprised man
lift a heavy quarter of beef upon
a wagon. The man was in charge
of a gang of railroad men. and he
offered the kindly stranger boy,
who stood 6 feet 1 inch in his stock
ing; feet, a job shoveling snow. The
boy promptly accepted.
His clothes were worn, his shoes
Old, but he went gamely to work
and shoveled with the best of them.
He tied his feet up in gunny sacks
and shoveled snow until the spring
thaw set in.
Then the prospecting fever began
to fire his blood. He formed a
partnership with two other men.
From their winter's savings they
purchased a mining outfit and set
forth in quest of gold, like the Three
Musketeers of old. At Little Eng
lish gulch they halted.
Again like the Three Musketeers,
One dropped out, leaving Sam
Nicholson and a Mr. Percival of
Texas to go on. They persevered
until they had succeeded in sinking
a shaft 97 feet down into the earth.
Hunt Made for Ore.
Each evening, after the drilling
for the' day was over, one or the
other would be lowered down the
narrow well by his pal to see if
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any of the shots fired off during
their day's labor had uncovered ore.
They were misled by glints of mica
and applied themselves early and
late, and it was not until after their
savings were exhausted that they
learned that their shaft was sunk in
solid granite whef e there was no
possible chance of finding ore.
: The;'. second Musketeer dropped
out, but the third had come to con.
quer. He applied at a mine and se
cured work as a common laborer.
It was a lead mine where the work
ers become leaded after a time, the
disease in severe cases bringing on
complete paralyse.
After, an attack of lead poison,
up6n advice of his physician, young
Nicholson, then 22, sought a lower
altitude and found work In Las
Animas county. Here the owners of
mines did not supply bunks for their
men, and young Nicholson was
forced to build a dugout in the
mountain-side, with a sheet of iron
(or a roof, and a wall of boulder
for protection against wild animals.
Here he lived e" a victor of old.
His heart was In his work, bis mind
was gathering every whit of knowl
edge to be gleaned from books upon
mining that he could buy or borrow.
Thus absorbed, his body defied
physical discomforts.
Diligence, perseverence, a dogged
determination to arrive, and he went
from miner to manager, from man
ager to owner of that mine.
Then his state claimed his lead
ership and sent him to the United
States senate, where his allegance is
unquestioned.
Samuel D. Nicholson is a friend of!
the working man. He doesn't forget
in his prosperity the day that he,
too, carried a hod. And to his credit
be it written, so near to him are the
workers in his mines that never is
there a difference that they do not
ait down and talk it over, man to
man, until all Is settled without I
even a raise of the voice. I
A man to look to in days of po-1
litieal and labor reconstruction. 1
Enormous Water Reservoir
Nearing Completion.
Cleveland Improvement Will Coat
About S18,O00,O00.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 30; An under
cover reservoir which' will hold
125,000,000 gallons of water and will
cost approximately $18,000,000, now
Is under construction here. Engi
neers state that the reservoir will
be in use next year but the entire
waterworks addition, started in 1914,
will not be finished before 1926
The plant covers 50 acres and Is
located in one of the city's exclu
sive residential districts. The con
crete cover, supported by 1096 col
umns 30 inches in diameter and 40
feet high, is 1050 feet long and S50
feet wide. '
. The reservoir will not be seen by
the ordinary observer, as it is
planned to cover the top with earth
and to make an attractive park on
top, with walks, shrubbery and
artificial lakes.
Over the raw water conduit is
the chemical house in which are
four bins holding 217 tons of chem'
cils used in the purification of the
water. In the mixing flue the
water flows down a slope at the rate
of 10 feet Per second and it is here
the nitration process.. The mixed
wster that enters the coagulation
basins, four in number, each hold
ing 8.250,000 gallons.- These are of
concrete Construction with groined
arch roof. The clear watey reser
voir, which is the largest of the
unit, consists of two basins of re
inforced concrete, with a storage
capacity ' of 125,000.000 gallons of
water, sufficient for a day's water
supply for the city.
Chinese Contribute to Y. AV. C. A.
SHANSHAI. Workers of the
Toung Women's Christian associa
tion, who brought to a successful
conclusion in November a campaign
fcr funds, reported that more Chi
nese than foreigners had contrib
uted to'the S16.00J-that -wag raised;
The funds will be expended to meet
the current budget of the Shang
hai Y. W. C. A. and to pay a share
of the costs of . maintaining na
tional T. W. C. A. work in China.
BY BETTY BAXTER.
(Copyright. 1022. by The Oregonian.)
WASHINGTON, D. C- Dec. 30.
New Year's day is perhaps
v asmiitsiua a most picLur-
esque and characteristic fete day.
There's a brave effort being made,
too, to welcome the New Year with
a certain amount of official pomp
in spite of the fact that there will
be no reception at the White House.
One is apt to become reminiscent
ef "the good old days" when the
New Year-reception at the White
Housej was an institution as un
alterable as the laws of the Medea
and Persians; when every diplomat
In town buttoned himself into his
gold laced uniform to pay his re
spects and his government's to
the president of the United States
and hastened directly from the
White House gold lace and all to
the diplomatic ( breakfast when
every cabinet hostess held a recep
tion with a score or more of pretty
girls to assist her. When every
matron of any social standing kept
open, house; when every girl with
any pretense to position was invited
to receive some place usually sev
eral places. When every man In
town boasting a morning coat or
eould beg. borrow or steal one
went a-visiting, and when egg-nog
and other holiday cher could be
drunk openly and egg-nog parties
actually mentioned In the papers.
Wilson Halta Celebration.
President Wilson gave the first
blow to the goed. old-fashioned New
Year celebration when he canceled
the White House reception, most
picturesque of American institu
tions. Then the war made such an
entertainment impossible. The war
also put a stop to diplomatic break
fasts. Long before we got into
conflict the diplomatic corps was
divided into two hostile camps and
it would have been impossible to
entertain them both under one roof
at the same time. And naturally
with our entrance into the conflict
there came a cessation of all offi
cial, entertaining except that which
centered about some varied assort
ment of foreign "missionaries" who
invaded the capital from time to
time.
After the armistice New Year fes
tivities again went by the boards
for first President Wilson was in
Paris and then ill. Consequently it
wag not until last year, the first
New Year of the Harding adminis
trationthat the official celebration
took on a new degree of brilliance.
President and Mrs. Harding re
vived the 'historic reception at the
White House, being at home during
the morning hours to the diplomatic
corps and the official world, retir
ing a bit for luncheon and return
ing to their stations in the after
noon to shake hands with the long
line of men, women and children
regardless of rank, station or color,
who had stood in line for hours
waiting the opportunity to say
"Happy New Year" to the president
and his wife.
Reception la Canceled.
Secretary and Mrs. Hughes enter
tained the diplomatlo corps at
breakfast at noon and all of the
HAIG SAID TO HAVE OPPOSED
AMERICAN ENTRY IN WAR
If Statement Is True, Field Marshal Is Considered to Have Hat!
Peculiarly Detached Point of View. i
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.
(Copyright, 1922. by The Oreaonian.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) M. Painleve, French
minister of war at the time
America went to the aid of sorely
pressed allies, says that Field Mar
shal Douglas Haig did not want the
United States to "come In." M. Pain
leve often was in conference with
Sir Douglas and he may speak by
the card. ' But one thing is true;
If General Haig, whose name has
been so popular in this country,
both during pre and post-Volstead
days, did not want the United
States in the war he held a pecu
liarly detached point of view. In
fact, it may 'be said of him that he
was suigeneris among the warriors
of the western front.
If General Haig did not want
America he was completely out o
touch with his superiors of the war
office in London and was Just as
completely ignorant of the. view of
his own army. It happened to be
the lot of this correspondent to be
attached to the British armies in
the field at the time America de
clared war.
Glad Tidings Passed Out.
From the farthest forward-fluns
trench back to battalion and brig
ade and division and corps and army
headquarters the glad tidings came
as a veritable benediction. Mrs.
Humphrey Ward has best expressed
the feeling which not only ran
through the British armies but
through the whole body of the Eng
lish people. It was, she said, as if
in individual, hard pressed in a
personal encounter, suddenly felt
the strong arm of his neares,and
dearest friend thrown about his
shoulder
Winston Churchill in the latter
part of 1916 frankly told his asso
ciates in the British government
that the allies would not win the
war "unless America came in." He
repeated this statement a dozen
times during a visit to the British
front. His frankness unquestion
ably shocked some of the tories who
heard it, for America having stayed
out so long, they were anxious that
Pi-itoln on1 PVartft should CO Ahead
and finish it without the Yankees
from overseas.
Whor, r"hnrohili made this pro
phetic statement at the British
correspondents' mess, Phillip Gibbs
first gasped and then in his most
sepulchral tones avowed the asser
tion was the most humiliating thing
he had ever heard. Some of Church
ill's critics ascribed his statement
to the fact that his mother was an
American. Churchill himself de
fended his position with logic which
was unanswerable. And by the time
the spring of 1917 arrived everyone
believed him. They believed him
even more in 1918 when the Ger
mans made their awful drive against
the British army.'
M. Painleve, evidently feeling
that American sympathy at thir
time is turning from France, to
England, has endeavored to tnrow
the. switch.
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Th women are coming into their
own even in the matter of a sense
Of humor. Miss Julia LathrOp, whom
Senator Jim Reed of Missouri called
cabinet were at home; there were
lots of other big receptions and al
together it was a gala day. But
this year the New Year reception
has b,een canceled along with other
social activities at the White House
because of Mrs. Harding's health.
But all of the-othcr usual features
of the day Including the diplomatic
reception will "come off." The
breakfast, however; will lose much
of its picturesque value because the
corps will not be in uniform. ; You
see it was not in compliment to the
secretary of state that the foreign
envoys donned court dress but be
cause they had been calling at the
White House and had not had t'me
between functions to change their
clothes.
Like the week before, this week
was turned over to a great extent
to the young people whose holidays
are almost up now.
I don't know when I've seen so
many pretty girls and so many good
looking gowns as I have lately! And
the girls all seem to have different
ones.
Striking Costume Worn.
Louise Hoar, daughter of Mrs.
Frederick H. Gillette, wife of the
speaker of the house, is one of the
best dressed young women in Wash
ington. She had a striking costume
at Tuesday's charity ball; a red vel
vet gown that had a skirt draped
until it was extremely short back
and front and quite long on the
sides. Over it was worn a striking
Spanish shawl with a black back'
ground covered with large red, blue
and purple flowers; very vjvld. She
wore flesh-colored hose and dainty
red slippers. Katherine Sutherland,
one of the pretty daughters of
Senator and Mrs. Howard Suther
land, is wearing a gown of pink
satin. The skirt is full and gath
ered and, like Miss Hoar's, was
short in front and back and swept
the ground on the sides. It was as
though the hem of the skirt had
been cut in two huge scallops.
Princess Bertha Cantacuzene at
the same ball wore a black lace
gown with a red scarf about her
shoulders; kept it on even when
dancing. Mrs. C. E. D. Bridge, wife
of Captain Bridge of tlia British
embassy staff, wore a striking gown
that evening, too; made of heavy
gold cloth. The skirt swept the
ground all around and was draped
and wrapped about the figure in a
complicated manner, the drapery
extending up to the bodice and over
the left shoulder, suggestive of a
scarf. The other shoulder was held
with a narrow band of gold sequins
that extended on down to the knee
line. The bodice was cut low In
front. 1 notice lately that the low
decoletage is becoming more popu
lar, though t'.ie bateau neck line is
still quite fashionable.
Miss Evelyn Wsdsworth, daugh
ter of Senator and Mrs. James W.
Wadsworth Jr., has one of the new
Ioose-w a i s t e d, . bouffant-skirted
black velvet gowns which In some
ways are always demure and girlish
in spite of somber material of which
they are fashioned. Miss Wadsworth
bad added a touch of distinction to
her costume by wearing a girlish
lace nun collar. The hat she wears
I with it is a wide picture design.
"a meddlesome old maid," because
of her activities as head of the
United States census bureau In be
half of the maternity bill, is lead
ing the way in this new phase of
women's progress. She is telling a
story on herself which has just
reached the various headquarters
of the sex in this city. Admittedly
it is rare, indeed, that a woman sees
a joke when that Joke happens to
be on her.
Miss Lathrop Is known far and
wide as a wonderful listener. She
Is most flattering in the attention
she pays you when you are in a
talkative mood. But Miss Lathrop
admits that perhaps because of the
64 years which sit so lightly on her
shoulders, she is apt at times to
grow quite bored. And when she
is bored, she gently but surely drops
to sleep. This is a failing which,
of course, she deplores but which
she eays cannot be helped. Hence
the story.
The locale of the story is Vassar.
Miss Lathrop was on the commence
ment programme for Bhe is noted
for her extraordinary Interest in
young girls. While awaiting her
turn to speak and making valiant
efforts to appear interested in what
the other speakers had to say, she
finally was overcome by a state of
complete boredom and, as usual,
fell asleep. How long she slumbered
she does not know. When she
awoke, however, the audience was
clapping its hands. Not to be out
done Miss Lathrop Joined most
vigorously In the applause;, when
she discovered that the clapping
was that following the chairman's
Introduction of herself as. the next
speaker.
Famous Honolulu Saloon
Will Be Art Shop.
Resort of Hawaiian Kings ana
Princes Unique Place.
HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) The Union Art gallery,
one of the famous saloons of Hono-
lulu, which since prohibition has
been used as a drygoods store, will
become an art shop. One of the lo
cal art dealers is moving his stock
Into the old saloon, whi(n is lo
cated In the center of a business city
block and can only be reached by
means of narrow .passageways
which lead from two opposite
streets.
The Union Art Gallery, as a m
loon, had many famous steel engrav
ings, wood cuts and various . an
things, brought from New England
and China during the days wheu
whaling was a big Hawaiian indus
try. Sometimes known as CnnJia's, that
being the name of the owner, the
place was frequented by the Ha
waiian kings and princes, by sea
captains, and traders of all kinds.
Built of stone, with many alcoves
In which werf marble-topped tables
and leather-covered easy chairs.lt
was always cool on the hotteKt dft?
and hence always a lure for the
tired business man. - . .
The art dealer plans to retain
much of the atmosphere of the eld
saloon as possible, thotieh it "111 bo
a salon of art rather than a salooi
of art.
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