Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
TALL GIRLS ALL The RACE
Stretch, Grille, or You'll be Counted
as a Has-Been
SHORT ONES ARE TRYING, TOO
Oia Fashioned House where Chnnde-
iiers Were Removed and Even
Ceilings Too Near to the
Floor.

II the number Of very tail women con-
hnues TO increase the architecture OF GER
tain rooms viii rave TO be changed. For
instance, in several high class residence
streets are ceTtain rows Of comparatively
small houses, two and a half. three and
three and a half stories high. These
houses are always in demand. Prom time
TO time extra bath rooms and heating
plants have been installed In one or an
other, otherwise even to the brass knoeker
on some doors, the houses are practically
the same as when built. This in fact IL
one OF their charms, or rather Il used to
be. An agent who used TO have an easy
time when II came to renting one particu-
lar row OF these houses received a shock
not long after a new tenant had signed a
Lease and moved into one Of them, when
told that unless the drawing room chande-
Hers we're heightened the tenant would
have to move out again. What was the
matter7 the agent wanted to know. Those
chandeliers with their beautiful prisms and
brass ~mouHtings had always been among
the most admire features Of the house.
'Oh, yes" responded the lady, I'VE have
no fault to find with them except that they
are hung too low.
Il did not find this out till yesterday,
when l had an informal afternoon reception
and a guest was caught fast by the top
OF one Of the plumes on her hat in a drop
OF the chandelier, and 1 noticed that ever
so many OF the young women had to circle
away from the chandeliers as they moved
about the room"
Never such a Complaint.
. ID. -.-ra- - - - -
fore" protested the agent, getting up and
standing under the chandelier, which was
certainly a good bit above his head.
How tall are your" asked the tenant
About five feet ter and a half inches,
madame"
You don't look IT," returned madame
HAt any rate many OF my daughter
friends. wearing as they did enormously
high hats, looked about seven feet. ant
Pm sure they had an awkward time Of 1
ducking those chandeliers.
"Alicel' she called. Alice came II
equipped for the street-a tall girl in g
modish hat decorated with an imposing
aigrette. At her mothers request she cir.
culated under the offending chandelier, the
central drops of which and her aigrette al
most met.
You see!' madame exclaimed sigpifi-
eantly. And my daughter Is not nearly
50 tall as some Of her friends"
The agent did see. He saw also that to
heighten those chandeliers would absorb a
big slice of the profits from that house foi
a year and that there would be a big kick
coming as he told the tenant, from the
owner, a mar who did not happen to have
tall daughters. Nevertheless those chande-
Hers were heightened, the tenant herself
taking her complaint to the owner.
Tea Room Clear out of It.
More significant still is the case of a
merchant In a populous and popular thor
oughfare. a well paying adjunct Of whose
business is a tea room. This tea room is
In two adjoining sections, the rear section,
which is reached by two or three steps up.
being about three feet lower in the ceiling
than the other, Opening from the former
Is a pretty little parlor containing pins,
powder and other accessories TO the female
toilet. A few years ago when the tea room
was first opened the rear room was the
~fRvorite, OF late the merchant has noticed
that the rear room, the larger Of the two,
by the way Ia less popular than the front.
One day he asked the head waitress why
this was.
II think It's because the ceiling Is so low.
sir" she told him.
But the ceiling has always been like
that and customers seemed to like It." he
said. puzzled.
Maybe it's because the women are wear
Ing such high hats" the waitress went on
II heard one woman say the other day al
she came out Of the parlor that she Eel
as II she were taking the door along with
her"
After that for a day or two the pro
pristor kept his eyes open and wondered
why he had not before noticed how many
very tall women visited that tea room
As one and another took the steps to tn,
rear room it really looked to him as 1
there might be danger Of millinery graz
ing the electric bulbs dropping a few inche
from the ceiling. Something would hav,
TO be done he saw and done soon IL HI
would keep his business. AS a result II
the early summer masons and carpenter
marched in and proceeded to sink the floo.
OF the rear room TO a level with the ron
room.
How skirts Have Grown.
When this anecdote was told to the man
ager OF the dressmaking department of
large store she nodded Understandings
With a wave Of her hand toward a lonI
row OF very tall cases filled with importe,
costumes displayed on lay figures she re
marked:
1T was only yesterday that a custome
asked me II we had any patrons tall enougI