The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-07
PICK BEST LOCKER
Passenger Department Steno Is
Selected in Beauty Contest.
Santa Fe Committee Tells of
Feminine Charm.

A Kentucky girl, Miss Mae Richart,
IS years old, stenographer in the pas
senger department of the Santa. Fe at
Amarillo. Tex, has been selected in
the Santa Fe Magazine beauty contest
as the most beautiful girl in the en-
ploy of the Western Lines of the road.
Each month the committee will
publish the portrait and the name OF
the most beautiful girl on one of the
grand divisions, and the final report
will be on the most beautiful girl em-
ployed on the entire system.
Born In kentucky. -
Miss Richart was born in Coving-
ton, Ky, and has been a stenograp1ler
in the passenger department of the
WesternsLines for the past year.
The committee. selected to decide
among the candidates for the beauty
prize on the Santa Fee has the follow
ing report to make in regard to the
contest:
Truly the great Santa F'e system
should have some additional marks to
| its credit California, with its count
less number Of movie beauties. has
nothing ON us.
There We're many types of girls.
| Sometimes when we found one with a
glorious head of hair, carrying it with
the air of a queen, it would be spoiled
| by forced smile which some pho
1
make a good picture.
| 'Then,A again, some depended on a
good pair of shoulders. lightly draped
| to carry them thru. One outstanding
| feature was the large percentage OF
wonderful eyes. One close runnerup
| would have won on her eyes except
that she had too severe a mouth, when
no doubt in reality her mouth was a
smiling Cupid's bow.
| AS to types. What has become OF
our baby doll type of years ago
Among the large number of photos
examined. we found only two photos
of this type. There is no doubt that
the industrial environment surround
ing girls in the offices of a modern
railroad has changed the type oil
makeup of the average girl who i:
Ibusily employed. In fact, you can see
a difference between the girl of today
and of some years ago before woneT
Iwere so universally employed in tn,
different vocations Of the great in
idustries.
Can Pick the Winners.
you can almost pick out the CIR
who keeps the ball rolling and answer
the urgent messages during the alb
sence of the boss, and to whom M
doubt, the same boss appeals for hell
in handling a mass of detail. By thi
We do not mean that she is any tn
less feminine, but she has a characte
f-she is in class by herself. Yol
can see confidence and ability in he
face. The modest violet doesn't las
: Hong in busy superintendent's office
|, She gets a firm chin and a loo
/ straight from the eyes that says, stat
, your business, please; this is my bus
5 day
/ There We're many good 1ookin
r girls. Each of them had some CHAIR
2 but some did not know how best t
2 display it. One had a pair of dimple
: THAT would cause a fellow to forge
/ his trouble with one look. Anothe
t had the most dazzling of teeth. On
actually sent in a photo that shove
| her ears. There were others with
graceful poise of the head; one wit
t a peach of a chin as one outside
who broke in while we were busy, pu
/ it, saying that IF she were in Shattuc
for twenty-four hours, she'd have
5 dozen proposals.
II "Our tip to the girls is, You didn
: do yourselves Justice Look yourselve
!. over and develop your fine points NOR
| and get acquainted with the backwar
: points and harmonic them, and Sc
: if you won't improve your general ap
: pearance 100 per cent. The wor1
loves a pretty girl and venerates
I beautiful one"