Evening star., 1909-08-22
JUST REGULAR GIRLS
New York Is Surprised at the
Bunch From Oklahoma.
CARRIED NO SiX-SHO0TERS
And There Wasn't Fringed Buck
skin Skirt in the Lot.
FIRST SIGHT OF HORSE CARS
Such Things Out of Date When Ok
lahoma Was Started. They
Told Reporters
CARRIED NO SlX-SHOOTERS
FIRST SIGHT OF HORSE CARS


Of fact they ali look just like regular
girls-,hose young Oklahoma persons who
have descended upon New York to see
and to be seen. There wasn't 4 six
shooter i'll sight when they landed from
morning. and they fell III before the
camera squads attack aS If they had
been celebrities all their lives and rather
liked the role. Nor did amy o. them
wear a buckskin skirt. with fringe. nor
a red flannel shirt waist nor a sombrero,
nor d carved Mexican leather belt. nor
any of the other trapIi in.s which the
lalne OF their state-not territory, re-
member. any more. but full-tiedsed state
brings To the ina ginatien az the ordi-
nary man. to whom the oranges are the
western limit of civilization. Nor did q
single one of them chew Sum-befOre
company. anyhow. Furthermore. there
was not grl-of-the- eolden-west drawl
Ill the bunch-for all their talk was con-
cerned they might just we'll have
come from Vermont.
Oklahoma may have been later than
some states in butting into the Mon. but
1t has made up for tardinesS on that
score by being the first of the season 10
send its bevy-always hevy of most
lative girls to New York. The present
galaXy-that's another word which usual
ly is used in stories of this sort, and
which sounds like perfectly good word
puts in no claim to being the prettiest
girls in Oklahoma-although far be it
from the intention of the present writer
to say that they are not since he never
was in OklahOma-but they are supposed
to he among the most popular. They
were chosen like this: Mr.. o. p. Sturm
runs a magazine ont in Oklahoma City.
He made pretty exhaustive inquiries as
to the most popular girl In each of the
states seventy-five counties. and then
put it up to her to get 300 subscriptions
to the magazine if she wanted To go to
New York. Some twenty-three young
women SO chosen made good, and here
they are their reward.
Here They Are. All Misses.
Here are the names of the. young wom-
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Sturm there isn't
any particular use in repeating Miss
all the time, so let's use it once and let
it go at that: Miss Bess Davis. Hazel
Weeks Lottie Henrietta, Grace Wolf,
Annie l.. Pumpass. F.sse Bell. Rena
Whitney. Bess Wilson, Alyce Walkney,
Vance Graves. Elizabeth Orme, Bess
Gilges. Josephine Dobbs. Maud Elliott.
Mary Powers. Winnie Turner. Orchid
Graves, Grace Brown, Helen Falkcnhurg.
Rose Wood. Mae Gibson. Carolyn Adams.
Kathryn Mason and Elsie Jamison.
Miss Wolf is the real center of atten-
ton because-s-s-h, 1t is not to go any
further than necessary while the girls
are here-she is a bride. She was the
iiance of DIR. W. w. Lightfoot of Chand-
Ter, Lincoln county. which is also her
home town-When she was chosen to 30
on the trip, and DR.. Lightfoot sort of
doped it out that maybe-well it would
be just as safe and all that sort of
thing. YOU know-so they We're married
three days before the sailing Of the Sa-
bine. Mrs. Lishtfoot is not going to
STAY the full week with the rest, but is
returning TO Oklahoma Wednesday.
BY the way. did you ever see so many
vs. in bunch of names outside of
the chorus in your life?
The girls left Galveston. which is in
Texas state not far from Oklahoma.
Just a week ago yesterday and arrived at
So there they had TO stay, with the lights
of Coney Island throbbing tremulously in
the near foreground, and nothing doing
in the line of ice cream soda or a scenic
railway, or Luna Park, anything Ike
that.
Bright and early this morning, however,
General Passenger Agent Arthur W. Pye
of the Mallory line led "a bunch of heavy
eyed newspaper men down 10 quarantine
and showed them up over the rail. and
then the Sabine proceeded to the wonder
full city which the girls had got so many
subscriptions and travelled so many miles,
and been so very SeaSlck to see. Auto
mobiles met them at the pier and drove
them to the Hotel Empire.
Gee, It Was Awful
Miss Elizabeth Orme-she halls from
Usage county-consented to tell Il little
about the trip up from Galveston.
Gee, but we were seasick,'' she said.
"all but four of US, and they had the
nerve to go down TO meals with the most
we had club. the other nineteen of us
did and wore kimonos. and ever so
often we would all go to the rail, lean
over and-oh, it was dreadful.
We called the club the Moon Club be
cause We were waiting for the moon to
come up-but you probably have heard
that one, haven't you? / was afraid SO.
What a wonderful place New York is.
You get everything much quicker here
than We do out in Oklahoma
"Oh, yes. I like New York-we all do.
What funny little horse cars you have
here haven't you? Oklahoma WASH t
started until after they had gone out. SO
we never saw any before. Are they sup
posed to be better than ordinary trolley
cars2 Why"
down the roadway and Mr.. Pye. who is in
charge Of the weeks program and admits
that he hasn't slept for three weeks. for
thinking about it and doping il out-Mr.
Pye was acting as rubber-neck orator
with the usual ION our right, ladies' we
have
After a tour of Chinatown. the girls
went to their hotel and bunked for the
night