Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-24
CHE TWELVE MOST BEAUTIFUL
WOMEN IN AMERICA1~31@
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Miss
IN Frances Fairchild, daughter Of

Mrs. John G. Fairchild of New
York and Southampton, T.. L, is an
other divinely tall and rarely beau
tiful girl. She tends to make of you
a David singing psalms of praise of
the modern young For you
who are apt to find yourself c%uriously
baffled at trying to picture a de luxe
type of American girlhood, l should
recommend this irresistible, independ-
ent, self-reilant democratic girl. In
her you have a combination of ex-
IRENE, a wholesome disregard for the
hampering conventions of the society
life in which she has been reared,
and a keen desire to be a useful mem
Der of the community, best illustrated
by the position she occupies IN the
business world Of buyer for the gift
department in Hearns' department
store, this city. And, be it regis
tered. she started in as a clerk III the
department, following her activities in
war work.
Her name is registered beneath that
of her mother in the society Blue
book. Her great-grandparents were
pioneers Of New Hampshire. Her
mother, the daughter of Frances
Houston, the artist, occupied a promi-
nent social position in Boston before
is listed along with the Goulds. AS
tors, Tiffanys. Vanderbilts, in the do
ings of the social world.
Miss Frances self-reliant n fine
physical qualities are inherent. Hel
beauty, was left a widow some few
years ago with three small children
to provide for. She followed the hob
by Of her childhood and became a
photographer with rather phenomenal
success. due to the unusually artistic
effects she was able to produce.
They say of her: She takes society's
with It at night
Since Miss Frances debut a couple
of years ago, when she was acknowl-
edged the most beautiful debutante of
the season, no ball or pageant or So
cial Importance is considered success
full without her presence.
During the war she was known as
the society Poster Girl. Her pictures,
with which you are undoubtedly ia
miliar, netted thousands and thou
sands of dollars for charitable and
patriotic purposes. Inc UeSI hhoen
poster. perhaps. was the replica of
the statue of liberty entitled "Liber-
ty Points the Way" 'The Salvation
RAINY Lass" used in the Salvation
Army $4,000, 900 drive, and the Joan
of Arc poster used in the Red Cross
drive. were further contributions of
her beauty to noble causes. In every
city. town and hamlet of the United
States, and even in Uncle Sans far
insular possessions, her compelling
features looked at the millions and
opened up fat purses again and again
until they were lean and the war had
been won.
She served during the war as a
lieutenant in the women's motor corps
with the efficiency Of q trained army
man, / am told; also with the eff
cheney of a graduate chauffeur me-
chanic.
Compare her with the weeping,
fainting Louisa Of a few generations
back, once the type of feminine vir-
tue and decorum, and be glad of
Louisa's wholesome demise. Compare
her with the embryonic state of this
fine new type, the society girl trying:
to kick free Of her %swaddling clio
and meaningless. And then sing your
p%anegyrics for the fully deyelopd, ca
pable, useful, and highly decorative
Miss Frances Fairchild.
There is something unusually fine
about the girl who might have had
n career as bright as the flight of a
butterfly, who has had repeated offers
from motion picture people, to prefer
the ranks of the working woman and
become a useful member of society,
don't you agreed? That something
shows in her face, in her beautiful,
beautiful eyes, which look out upon a
world of interest, Of sympathy, of
understanding. A girl who was chosen
by the Prince of Wales for several
dances at Mrs. Whitelaw Reds ball for
promptly at S:45 mornings, and out at
6 p. M, uniformed according to store
regulations in black or dark blue, and
worked enthusiastically alongside girls
whose glimpse into her social life is
necessarily confined to news items and
society editors reports.
Miss Fairchild was porn in Boston,
educated at Miss Falkner's school at
Dedham, Mass, and at a school in
Paris. She, like the other two beautiful
American women, Dolores and Miss
Julia Hoyt, is 5 feet 8 IL inches, that
slender, wiliowy form that inspires
dress artists to their finest creations.
Light brown hair, with a graceful
wave, eyebrows natural as her man
ner, a healty color in her cheeks, and
eyes with a rare lovely softness and
kindness.
DO you find it hard piIing out in
the mornings?" I asked her.
NO, why should l? I've always
been an early riser. Besides / love
working and there are an awfully nice
lot of girls down there" she answered,
as l expected she would.
No hint of %patronizing there. Just
one of them in the spirit of the work.
Il got awfully tired of the monot-
ony of teas and luncheons and bridge.
] feel as if I am doing something now.
Yes, / love it dance" she an
swered my query. "Now, Of course, l
can 60 only once in q while, not every
night as / used to land ] enjoy it 80
much more. If ] work every day, /
can't 60 out so often at night. At the
end of the week. I can indulge, and
her at the beginning I pick and
choose. But during the week / have
to get to bed early.
IT am disgracefully healthy, any
way" she said. Il must have been
just born that way. ! never seem to
get any poular aches and pains.
1--WE always been pretty much of
an outdoor person. TOO. Riding. swim