The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-07
REAL TROUSERS,
WORN BY BELLE
in WASHINGTON
Tailor is Making Several Pairs
of EN- for Mrs. Alice Bar
ney-Hemmick
PEOPLE WILL BE SHOCK
ED" BUT SHE DOESN'T CARE
Bjfurcated Garb "Only Sensible
Apparel For Women to
Wear"

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. thrills
for Washington society has given Mrs
Christian Dominic Hemmick no end
of diversion for many years. You
won't know her by her new name
perhaps. because In most Of her go
ings on she has worn the name OF
Mrs. Alice Barney. which was left
her. together with Ave million dol
lars. by her banker husband when he
died some years ago.
Mrs. Barney acquired the new name
and a husband only 2G years old when
r she was married TO Christian Hem
mick of Washington in Paris little
more than two years ago. Her Wash
ington friends we're somewhat shock
ed, and quite naturally, perhaps, in
asmuch as Mrs. Barney was then 81
years old-old enough TO be her hus-
bands mother.
But her latest thriller is a daisy
Mrs. Hemmick is going to wear trous-
ers-moditied trousers, II Is true, but
still trousers, with suspenders. A
Washington tailor Is preparing them.
Some OF her friends are also going
TO try them, so they say. and as soon
as the trousers are finished they will
be seen In public
Mrs. Barney-Hemmick has been get
ting closer and closer to trousers for
years She first appeared in a Span
ish costume which was wound tight
ly about her and which bore GER
tain generic resemblance to trousers.
A little more frank expression of
nj
adopted the Greek mode. This was
followed not long after by her ap-
pearance In the Syrian costume. with
the baggy trousers OF the orient.
Plebeian Washington. at least sat
up with open mouth not long ago
when there appeared on thre lawn of
the beautiful BarneyHemmick home
in Sheridan-circle. the statue of a
young woman IN the nude reclining
at full length II vas called the De
serted Ariad The statue was the
work OF Laura Barney, a daughter
who has achieved quite a reputation
as sculptor. IL was said at the
time that Natalie Barney. younger
daughter. had posed for the statue,
but this Mrs. Barney denied when the
statue shocked Washington. II had
been placed on the lawn 10 allow Ii 10
become weathered A good part of
Washington went to have look at II,
and the police finally came and
covered the statue over with tarpau-
lin and later removed 1t to the vesti-
bule OF the Barney home. Mrs. Bar
ney-Hemmick was abroad at the time.
Mrs. Bsrney-Hemmick was educat-
ed in France and has travelled much.
AS painter she has exhibited abroad
in salons and at exhibitions. in this
country. Her million dollar residence
in Washington she designed herself.
Its interior decorations and furnish
ings are said 10 be marvels Of the
bizarre and unusual In art. There
are no beds. touches being used in all
the sleeping rooms. Mrs. Barney-Hem-
mick has written 10 plays and page
ants and produced them, too. at Wash.
ipgton theaters with great success.
She wrote The Man in the Moon
and produced II at the Belasco the
alter with cast OF widely known So
ciety young women and Mrs. Barney
Hemmick further startled and sur
prised her audience by appearing as
April and giving a character dance
that won much applause.
Her travels have led her TO Persia
where she encountered a priest of
Bahaism. He fascinated her with the
explanations OF the tenets OF that
Persian creed and she adopted 1t,
putting aside the comparatively col
orless Presbyterianism in which she