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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-04-15
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George H. Jones has been elected
president and William Pedigrew, the
retiring president, and J. Kibben In
gals elected trustees of the Oak Park
and River Forest township high
school board
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-04-15

H Lawley and Matthias Mueller.
DENEEN.
Clerk Probate cOurt-JOhn F. De
vine.
Board of Review Edward R. Lit
singer
REPUBLICAN COUNTY coMMIS-
SIONERS.
Charles S. Peterson. Tom Murray
Charles ~ GoodnOw. Berger o. Bor
gerSOn. Helen NJ Bennett. Joseph
EspOsitO, John r. Palandech Emily
w. Dean, Thomas A. Boyer. Myrtle
Tanner Blacklidge.
Although Charles S. Peterson, who
won the Republican nomination for
president of the board of county com
missiOners, and Orville T. Bright. Jr.
winner of the nomination for county
superintendent of schools, We're orig
inally slated by the Brundage organ
izatiOn, they were indOrsed by the
Deneen forces.
The Washington times., 1922-09-10
The Late Lillian
Russell, Whose Nose
Mr.. Strauss Considers

l deny Florenz Ziegfelds assertion that,
no gray-eyed woman can be beautiful.
For intellect, contrary to a tenaciously
held opinion in some strata, does not pre-
clude beauty.
The eyebrows should be nearly
straight, with a fine curve toward the
end. The shaped eyebrows, arching high
above the eye, lend an idiotic air to the
most intelligent. They should not lie
dormant. They have their function.
They are no mere appendix of the face.
The eyebrows of the beauty are eloquent,
as are Mary Pickford's. Miss Pickfords
eyebrows are hard workers. She ex-
presses more emotion by them than by
any other feature.
The chief drawback to the beauty of
the American woman is in her figure.
Her legs are too heavy. And there is q
lump on her back as discernible to the
sensitive eye as the hump on a camel.
1t lies between her-shoulders and is very
noticeable when she wears an evening
gown. The necks of most women are too
short.
While have done my duty as an artist
in telling the truth about the nearly ex-
tinct quality-beauty in women-I will
add that no woman, even if she be of the
last ten per cent, the homely, need wholly
lose courage. There is saving grace
which every woman may cultivate. That
is charm
Peter Marie, the ancient beau of the
"400," compiled list of definitions of
charm. That one which met his favor
was short and not beautiful 1t was that
charm is Dantean. 1t was more prettily
put in the speech which Maude Adams
uttered in what Every Woman Knows"
Barrie described it as "the bloom on
woman" 1t was his opinion that having
that she needed nothing else or, lacking
it, nothing else she might have counted.
To which high opinion most men, artists
Or others, will subscribe.
Take heart, all women! For an old
woman whom met in Cairo told me that
Cleopatra was not beautiful. She was
plain and Had red hair; but she pos
sessed that which ! have catalogued in
the points of beauty as human magnetic
force. She could get her personal mes
sage over. Not one of her many lovers,
even while dying from the poison it was
her habit to administer when she was
tired Of them, would have denied her the
potent gift Of charm.
The Washington times., 1922-09-10

belongs. For once she is listed where
only good fortune excluded her, in the
class Of plain women.
Having told you that celebrated "beau-
ties" are not, after all, beauties, l SUBJ
NIT the list of the three who will bear the
test of analysis. ! have said that | have
seen but three beautiful women in my
life.
One of these was Lotta Faust. There
was no fault in this Broadway favorite,
whose untimely death is still mourned.
Another woman without a defect is one
who passed as a ship in the night from
a fete in Paris. But painted her por-
trait She is an unknown. Her name
Is Nancy Dare. The third is one whose
CHILDHOOD lies just behind her. She is
Constance Bennett, the daughter of Rich
ard Bennett.
All beautiful because they are in an
perfect Miss Bennett is but eighteen.
The beauty must possess matched fea-
lures She should have a figure that Is
at once round and slender. She should
not be either tall or short. But her
figure should have perfect proportion. No
part Of II should be more conspicuous
than another. The curves should melt
gracefully into each other as waves upon
the surface Of the sea. Her hands should
be in proportion TO her figure, but be so
dainty as to look small.
The Washington times., 1922-09-10

other prize-winning beauty, has eyes too
close together. She is short-waisted.
What, asks a peevish reader, will
satisfy this man? Standards will satisfy
him. The standard of beauty is perfec-
ton. The world, grant you, affords US
little of feminine beauty, as it affords us
little of masculine happiness.
appeal again for strict and correct
use of the term beautiful woman"
Limit it. Define it. Never abuse it. 1t
is a superlative, than which earth gives
US nothing greater.
repeat that not more than one wo-
man in ten thousand is beautiful. The
proportion is so small as to be almost
negligible. 1t is such small fraction as
to be without our consideration.
So slight is the fractior that will ex
clude it from consideration of one hun
dred women. Of one hundred women
not more than two are pretty. My de-
mands in respect to prettiness are not
exacting. A pretty woman is one who
wears her hair becomingly and whose
features are comely. That is all / ask.
Yet only two per cent of women conform
to that standard. Jessie Reed is pretty
woman. Merely pretty. 1t is tosh to call
her beautiful.
twenty-five per cent, or one-fourth of
all women are attractive. The attractive
woman is one who is we'll groomed and
wears her clothes WELL Her worst enemy
could not call her trump. Helen Worth
ing is attractive. In the same class is
her adversary in fisticuffs behind the cur
tain of the Midnight Frolic stage, Edna
Wheaton. Both Miss Wheaton and Miss
Worthing have won beauty prizes in COM
petitions. If the competition had been
for attractiveness ! would have voted
cheerfully and conscientiously for both.
l note that artists assisted in the judg-
ment in which Miss Worthing was held
to be the most beautiful woman In Amer
lea. ] am sorry my brother artists
stopped 10 error.
Sixty-three per cent of womanhood
remains to be accounted for in this, at
least, conscientious appraisement. Fifty
three per cent, that is, more than half Of
all womeny are plain. Absolutely, with
The Washington times., 1922-09-10
Kay Laurel, the
internationally
Famous "Follies"
Beauty, Who Loses,
in Mr.. STRAUSS
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House last Winter, is too heavy and her
mouth is too large. Mrs. William Astor
Chanler, once known on the stage as Min
ME Ashley, lacks beauty because Of too
wide open, staring eyes. BY so slight a
thing as that one eye is little nearer her
nose than the other, does Martha Hedman
miss the palm of beauty. But she knows
how to dress her hair. The'coil of wheat
colored hair that surrounded her shapely
head we all remember as a perfect frame
for her face.
Most women could learn individual hair
dressing by study of her-ether
Miss Hedman herself or her photograph.
For at least one-fourth of all women do
not make the most Of the hair that should
softly frame their face.
Calling the long roll of beauty claim
ants, it seems to the layman hypercritical
and perhaps a little cruel to name the
defects Of lovely women. But an artists
eye seeks perfection, and beauty is per-
fection. Therefore maintain that,
VleWGu WIFI all eye, tHC oO-SaiCu
beauties of long reign and renown are not
beautiful. Lillian Russell's mouth was not
we'll shaped, as l have said and her car
riage, so much admired, was a trife awk-
ward.
1t was considered "queenly," but the
shoulders so far back and the pouter-pig-
con effect were not regal. Not, for in
stance, like that truly queenly walk of
Alexandra, the dowager Queen of Eng
land. Lantelme, no, for the reason !
gave and for the further reason that she
was too short from the waist down.
Elsie Ferguson, so nearly beautiful, yet
failing of beauty for the reason of the
walk I have characterized as that Of
duck, and because the end Of her nose is
too round. Kitty Gordon, too heavy
boned. Jane Cowl, showing her gums
when she laughs. have seen her commit
that error. Edna Goodrich, ,heavy-boned
and too fat Of face. Jessie Reed, hands
stubby and doesn't know how to arrange
her hair. Edna Wheaton, Q prize beauty,
has a body that Is too thin and face
that is too full. Helen Worthing, the
The Washington times., 1922-09-10

ing; but she uses slang and her claim to
beauty is lost
One point more is essential to beauty.
That is what is sometimes called person
ality. | have named it human magnetic
force. 1t is the power to project the per-
sonal message of the individual Whether
the personal message is power or sweet
ness or intelligence, the woman with hu-
man magnetic force "gets il over" If
she lacks that force she may possess all
the other points of beauty | have named
and yet miss being beautiful woman.
1t was my purpose to mention last the
eyes. Because hold different ideas con-
corning them. Mine are not the set rules
as to the eyes which beauty appraisers
like to quote. The eyes need not be
large. They should only not be small.
am more concerned with their setting
than all else. They should not protrude,
as do the eyes of George Drew Men
dun, the cousin of Ethel Barrymore. Nor
should they be set too far back in the
head, as though they were trying to hide.
The lashes should be either dark or
golden.
i grew faint-hearted in my denial of
charming Billie Burke's beauty claims,
else would have said then, as I do now,
in illustration of my point that ,eyelashes
should never be red. Miss Burke's are
red. Eyes may be too dark for beauty,
as Jane Cowl's. They cannot be too blue,
The Washington times., 1922-09-10

out appeal from honest Judgment To
none save their lovers, or some friend
suffering from astigmatism or favorable
prejudice, could they possibly seem any
thing else. Unless it were a beggar, to
whom they had given aims, or a waiter
whom they had tipped with unexpected
liberality.
Ten of our basic hundred women re-
main. They are homely. The homely
woman is one whose lack of physical
pleasingness is so striking that we are
sorry for her. The homely woman is one
whom at sight we pity. She has but one
hope. 1t may be called the hope of
Polaire. The ugly French woman, know
ing the depth and breadth and height of
her ugliness, tried to redeem herself by
her dress and grooming and witty con-
versation. She succeeded. Because of
her effort she is known as "the fascinat-
ing Polaire." A cour,e of study of
Polaire might save the Ugly woman from
her ugliness. I know nothing else that
would.
Beauties, like theatrical stars, may
have regulations manufactured for them.
Billie Allan, in private life she Is still
Mrs. Johnnie Hoagland, the baking DOW
der princess, / believe, had that good
fortune. Miss Allan Is q dancer de-
veloped by the lessons Of Captain Vernon
Castle. She Is a woman of intellect and
Of temperament. But beauty? While |
do not wish to be ungallant, my con-
science moves me to place her where she
The Washington times., 1922-09-10

Her feet and
ankles should be
slim in proportion
to the rest Of her
body, whatever the scale
upon which she is built.
Her carriage should be
slow and dignifed. The
merry-go-round girl with
the; jazz voice is no
beauty. The manner of
speech of a girl may oe
the determining factor
of her beauty. If she
draws down one corner
of her mouth while she
speaks, as Lillian Rus
sell used to do when she
sang, she misses beauty.
Or if her mouth per-
forms we'll its function,
her lips parting prettily
and without distortion
over her teeth in speak
The Washington times., 1922-09-10

1872 BY Weekly Inc Great Britain
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12
Cl4 rn-..-h rlH.tl.t7Q.

The farth.ng is an old English coin, coined in silver first by King John. The Irish farthing of his reign bears the date of 121O and 1t Is valuable be- cause 1t is so rare.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12
Hn. C.-E.

Tie painter. the S~"!rf"r. 'he com poser, the epic rhapSodist, the orator, all ravtahe of one desire, namely, to express themselves symmetricaIly and abundantIy, not dwarfshly and frag- entarily.-EmersOn.
Evening star., 1922-05-21

ferent person. indeed. from the poor doc
tor Of CambsrweIl.
We spoke Of mutual friends in Com
etantinople and over at 3cutari. He
apparently had been in touch with sew
eral OF the ofIicials at the sublime porte
men who were my close personal
friends @
AT last he said:
do forgive me forynot acknowledging
you in the restaurant q few months ago.
BUT ! was, ~ you know. with q lady.
and had strong reasons. very strong
reasons"
"oh. my dear fellow. quite under
stood. That's all over. I wondered at
frst, but quickly felt there must have
been some good reasona"
4 +
T ATER we parted. previously max
ing an appointment to dine toseth-
er at the Carlton grillroom week later.
This We did. After our meal. he said ::
why not let us go along to my place.
I've got quite q cosy little hat in Mount
street. Come and sec It. and We can
have real long chat"
consented and found that his
abode was one, OF the most expen-
Evening star., 1922-05-21

me an invitation to Pontrieux. This 1
accepted. and about three months
later paid them = flying visit. What
the doctor had said regarding the
place was quite true. The chateau
was as nne as any Of those famous
ones on the Loire. 1t was In the CEN
ter Of hne estate, the home Of Che
now defunct Marquises de Pontrieux,
which. twelve years ago. had been
bought by madame's nrst husband, .
Paris banker named Leblanc. Le-
blanc had died. and Booth-Evenden
had met his widow at Heyres. They
had become friends. and he had mar
ried her.
Now I happen to subscribe to the
Matfn newspaper. and read it every
day in London, or wherever may be>
One day I read an astounding para
graph to the effect that an English
Doctor named Booth-Evenden had
been arrested in Marseilles on suspi-
cion of causing his wife's death by
Evening star., 1922-05-21
OUR FAMOUS SONGS
THE Conquered Banner

A MONG the great poems Of the
~ civil war Father Ryan's Con-
~ ouered Banner" stands high
q in the list of worthless. and
but for this one effort of the dis
tinguished priest he might long ago
have been forgotten, save among his
Immediate friends. That, one poem
was written at a time when the peo-
ple of a great section were mourning
for h cause that was forever lost. To
that cause they had given the flower
of their manhood. They had sacri-
ficed.- du1fng four long years, all that
was best in lives, in property and in
unquestioned devotion.
When the south realized that the
banner representing this cause was
finally conquered, trailed in the dust,
grief which rent every southern heart
was more than any arrangement OF
clever language can describe. So
when Abram Joseph Ryan wrote the
memorable poem, THE Conquered
Banner" 1t became at once the out
pouring of grief for the great suf-
fering soul Of a conquered people,
just as Randalrs My Maryland" had
innamed their patriotic enthusiasm
only four years before.
EATHER RYAN, who was born in
Norfolk, Va, in 1889. and died in
Louisville in 1886, was not a master
Of the technical phases of poetry, but
in writing "The Conquered Banner"
the occasion and theme met All over
the south could be seen the smoking
ruins of war. A proud, aristocratic
people had been crushed by force Of
numbers. The cause which they be-
lieved in and for which they had
staked their all had been lost. For
years that banner had stood for their
hopes of success. 1t was an emblem
in which they had faith. 1t was the
thing for which thousands of the
flower OF southern manhood had given
their lives and their fortunes-their
all. The banner was sacred.
So when that dark day dawned-
the day when the south realized its
defeat-this gentle chaplain who had
served through the conquered army
wrote from the emotions of a soul
overlooking with grief THE Con-
quered Banner" The song went like
wildfire through a country now ruined
by war. 1t was read in every hamlet
and alike In the poverty-stricken pal
ace Of the one-time rich-all now
Evening star., 1922-05-21

administering in her tea the bacilii OF
typhus!
With Nagerness I watched the news-
papers day after day. and read how
suspicious had fallen upon him after
the death of his wife in London. and.
further. that he had married in other
names four other women, all OF them
rich. and all had died Of zymotic DIS
eases within q few months of mar
riage.
At once / saw that the man who
had been my friend was clever
criminal who killed his wives for pur-
poses Of gain.
This was abundantly proved at the
assixe court OF the Seine. and he sub
sequently went to the guillotine.
The case is among the annals OF the
most notorious crimes in France,
hence my acquaintanceship yath
Booth -Eevnden has left a rather pit
ter taste in my mouth. ~
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1922-05-21
Prisrnatic CoIors.

THE interference Of light produces
the prismatic colors on a ny's
wings. When light falls on an ex-
cessively thin substance. such as a
soap-bubble or film Of air between
two glass plates. the waves of light
reflected from the upper and under
surfaces interfere with one another
in a certain order called ''Newton's
scales"
The iridescence of mother-of-pearl
10 due to the reflection from minute
grooves on the surface. giving rise
to the production OF color by the in
reference of the waves of light The
refraction of light and the produc-
tion of prismatic colors surround us
with the most interesting phenomena.
The laundress. whose work raises
over the washtub q soapy froth. per-
forms inadvertently one of the most
delicate operations of chemistry
the chemistry Of imponderablel
axents-and the result Of her manip-I
uiations manifests itself in the deli-v
cate colors that play In fairy light
over the g1aosy films that follow the
motion Of her arms. F''-s 49,
Evening star., 1922-05-21
Odd American Specimens
In Minerals Collection

private man unaided can thus brin
them into neighborly and understand
able order gives one a sweeping visior
of things.
In the extravagant bringing to-
gether Of places i note: Apache moun-
tains and Arabic Chain: Idaho and the
Euganean Hills of Shelley's poetry:
Napoleon's Corsica and Marathon.
where Greece delivered our world
from the Persian peril: Ireland and
Greenland. facing each other across
the ocean; Brazil for Venus Hair"
quartz and Arkansas for plain quartz
lite; emeralds from Bogota and chrome
iron from Baltimore; chloride of silver
from the Bolivian desert and CLASSY
beryl from New Hampshire, with Mis-
sourite from Montana and amasonite
belle from Pixies Peak.
One beauty Of the collection 10 a
single Geode from Oisans. where tour
lists mount the French Alps above
Grenob1e. 1t is fifteen inches in di-
ameter and is composed of 10 crys-
tails Of every geometricai figure found
in quartz. Educational blocks cut TO
order could not get ahead Of nature
here.
In this odd collection. there are
other items of human interest for the
uninitiated in mineral lore. There is
a porphyry from a rock which still
holds columns the Romans never fiu-
ished cutting out-and more porphyry
from the block out of which was
carved the sarcophagus OF Napoleon's
tomb in the Invalides. Paris. There is
dark siIicate of which prehistoric
Brittany made tomahawks and silii-
mantle Gan American name that OF
which later Gauls made battle axes
and one OF the axes from the Upper
Loire. And. reverently. there is irised
anthracite from Pennsylvania and
specimen labeled 'very beautiful Bal
imorite from Bare (?) Hill. Maryland"
STERLING HELLO.
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NICE, Nav 10.

f/T WISH you would look at my
fathers mineral collection
said DR.. Camous. He is sew
enty-eight years old. and 1t has
been his life work and he has always
kept 1t to himself"
In France have already made ac-
quaintance with such private scien-
tific and art collections, gathered piece
by piece and year by year by edu-
Gated persons Of moderate fortune.
Their interest lies in a sort of per-
sona1 juxtaposition Of unexpected
specimens quite as Ruch as in their
completeness. was predisposed in
favor Of the work of Auguste Camous
by what he has published-with, illus
trations from his own drawings-on
the seaweeds and sea flora of his ma
tive Mediterranean. with particulars
Of the depth and temperature Of the
water and the kind Of sea bottom
whore they are found and the changes
Of such marine vegetation in the past
A collector like that is no amateur.
Mineral specimens are not picked
up at sea, but sea voyages can help
a collector to find the lie Of the land
The natives of Nice have been a sea-
going race ever since the Phenician
and Greek ships made a landing sta
tion Of their little port much further
back than 2.ouo years. Garibaldi was
q native Of Nice. and began his career
by sailing away to South America.
and, after many adventures, sailed
back to glory from Staten Island. N.
Y. Auguste Camous sailed for Brazil
at the age Of twenty-five. with little
fortune besides his scientific education.
and in time he extended his collecting
activities as far as Labrador. At last
he settled down in Nice to complete
his collections and his studies OF his
native sea, and, for his support. mean
while, was content with the pharmacy
which he opened in the old town,
where American tourists search for
the romantic and the picturesque. In
this retreat his persistent work. with
out ever talking to the world about
1t, must have been prodigious. and the
result Is interesting even to the man
and woman in the street.
I went over more than q thousand
specimens with the help Of classified
catalogue which n. Camous has been
persuaded to have privately printed.
Under the title Of garnets aione-a
unique part of the collection-I count
Cd sixty-six headings. Of which sew
eral comprise groups Of their own.
There is one whole series Of the CO.
rdndum precious stones called orien-
tai, with the blue sapphire. rose ruby
and yellow topax. There is emery
stone from the classic maid Ariadne's
Isle Of Naxos and diaspora from Ches-
ter, Mass; rubicella from Ceylon and
|brucite from New York. and. Of course.
gatherings from all Europe. from Fin
land and Norway. to, Italy and the
Alps where they slope down to foot
hills above Nice itself. Truly. our
world IL built MP everywhere on rocks
ana Various stones. some Of which are
precious in. hnED 0Do-but that one
Evening star., 1922-05-21

rubber or cotton. or some other
speculation? 80, =
~ = ~
r LUNCHED with my friends In the
= big, rather bare restaurant The
food was perfect and I noticed that
the doctor lunched with . paie-faced
young man whom / suspected Of tu-
bercuIosis. We had sea truff.ss,. I
recollect, those delicious shsilhsh that
come from the Mediterranean and
are only known in Italy-the isnd Of
love and good living.
Before we left .on our long run
across the mountains down to Flor
ence-a road full Of sharp turns and
Evening star., 1922-05-21

~ the gay, sy-going husband who
loved to take. his wife TO the Cafe
Suzio. so
Well" he said. after : brief pause.
you'll come to see me again. won't
you? Don't forsake me because, as q
doctor, am compelled to live in this
hole" E
"of course not" said. Cheer up.
Madame will recover"
But he shook his head as he grasped
my hand. and we parted without fur
ther word.
On my way back to Piccadilly
felt sorry for him. He seemed so
utterly broken. And. indeed, 1t was