Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-10
FLIGHT or FORTY
In FlLMY CHIFFON
Connecticut Farmers Lament the
Loss Of Summer Beauty
Show.
LEARNING LYRO.RYTHMC. ART


uresome-if there Is such a word-young
women that the town ever beheld have
invaded one OF New Yorks most fash
ionable sections.
Better looking than beauty show.
more graceful than the best trained bal
let you ever saw, and all-or nearly all
society girls!
No. this IL not theatrical announce
ment. II is merely the news that Mrs.
Florence Fleming Noyes. instructor in
poise and '1yro-rythmic expression"
transferred to No. 90 Madison avenue
for the winter school which in the
summer she has been conducting at
South Woodstock. Conn.
No. 20 Madison avenue is the oil
home Of Robert Ingersoll, and Is d.
rectly across the street from the house
Of J. Pierpont Morgan. The forty beau
tiful girls will dwell there as well as
study there.
And they viii wear-though not In
the open air as they did az South
Misunderstanding costumes Of chiffon.
There viii be neither sufficienoy nor
weight Of fabric to cucumber them in
their itssome movements.
siahs Of Regret aud Relief.
Just how South Woodstock. which has
had the young pupils Of Mrs. Noyes ali
summer, feels about their departure is
difficult 10 ascertain. But Il Is prob
ably mixed feeling. with the feminine
part Of the countrywide heaving signs OF
relief. and the masculine end closing ita
eyes and trying to coll back the won
al q
warm. sunlit days. At least that 4 the
occasional feeling Of reporter for the
New York World who saw the dances OF
The sDrites.
At the beginning Of July. Mrs. Noyes
rented the 2OO-acre farm Of Judge AL
fred Matthewson OF New Haven. n
beautiful place which contains velvety
awns, ripping brooks. secluded wood
and glades and all the other things
necessary TO cali 20 tho mind of n young
woman what might be termed Thoughts
beautiful" Mrs. Moves Is the dancer
who impersonRted Liberty" on the
capitol steps at the Inauguration OF
President Wilson. She has appeared Mt
various pageants given by suffragists
Rodin, the sculptor. said she had the
most perfect right arm in the world
her friends say.
To the remote Connections farm came
her pupils from New ork. Boston. Phila-
delghia, Chicago, Cleveland aud half a
dozen other cities They were TO learn
grace. poise and 'lyro-rytnmlc express
sion" Some OF them brought ten or
twelve trunks OF clothing with them,
but as soon as they arrived they learned
that the most imperative order OF Mrs.
Noyes was that the girls were 10 wear
loose robes OF the highest OF chiffon;
only that nothing more. No shoes. no
corsetss absolutely nothing but the
chiffon.
Spectators Broke stockade.
At first The dancing lessons were
given ON smooth stretch OF turf not
far from the road which leads TO Pom
fret, where the Woodstock Valley farm
ers go TO send their produce 10 market.
But Il was not long before Mrs.. Noyes
found that farmers wagons and auto-
mobiles were blocking the roadway. and
that every dance was beheld by an as
semblage OF spectators. ranging from,
millionaires TO hired men. SO she had
her own hired man. Gus Erickson, cut
800 white birch saplings and make a
stockade Of them, which shut off. the
view.
But enthusiastic spectators pried and
cut apart the hirchea. and thronged the
roadside In greater numbers than ever.
ArH so--alas for the general populuce =
Airs. Moves changed the scene OF the tern
siehorean enuoavors to a secluded glade
away back In the woods, far from any
road.
Every morning and afternoon the girls
danced and sought 10 give rhythmic ex-
preston to their thoughts. Each was
told. upon her arrival. that abe must for
ser her family and name, and assume the
character OF some physiological person.
Here are the characters and those who
unprecedented them, as given TO the World
reporter by Mrs. Noyes:
Galatea. Miss Hilda CARING, New York
fhaeton. Miss Anita Day. Boston; En-
dymion. Miss Rebecca Jordan Chany
New York: Achilles. Miss Grace Corvie
salt Lake City, Utah; Echo, Miss Hazel
Rowland sanda. Boston; Erato. Miss
Anna Gage, Cambridge; Eurydiee, Mis-
Emily Adams. Boston: Narclssus. Mis-,
May simpson; Bsechus Miss Margaret
Warner King; Juno. Miss ava dalton
Boston: Pluto. Miss Valerie Ladd. Min.
neapolis; Cupid. Miss Louise Knlinger
New York; Iphigenia. Miss Helen cranp
philadelphia Aurora. Miss Edith MART
Kansas City; Ataianta. Miss winifre,
Lawrence. Cleveland: Clytie, Miss Dor
othy Smith. Cincinnati: Mercury. Mia
Georgia sprague. New York: Apollo. Mis-
Bertha Remick. Boston; and Calliope
Aiiss Alice Barney Hemmiek. Washing
ten
PeeDed al GOddesses Bathias.
Following the afternoon dances. IN,
giris would so 20 a brook where Their,
was a little water fall. and stlll In thei
chiffons, would lie in the stream an,
allow the tumbiing water 70 fail owe
them.
But admirers Of the classic and beau
uful sought them out. the girls and Airs
Noyes discovered. even IN these retreat
80 far frem the beaten paths. Benin,
bushes and up IN tree tops were diseov
cred the faces OF farm lads and tthls /
amply vouched for) even gray toppe,
and gray whiskered visages OF gr0wn-ul
asricultuFista.
And 10 the home Of the forty fair one
came reports that many an irate en-
pioyer wondered why in all tarnation hi
produce didn't get 10 New York in time
and. learning, vent down aud sou0hf