The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-12
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Miss Townsend
Ring Collector
NEW STYLES
BY HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
It's house cleaning time again.
It's the day to shake the sand
and the pine needles out of the
summer clothes and lay the faded
things, worn with vacation mem
cries, away until another hopeful
July.
A mental house cleaning would
now be praiSeworthy.
So here are some unrelated OBJ
servationS Scooped from a column
lists thoughts.
When you meet Miss Lyla Town
send in Washington this winter,
hoSteSSing for her father, the
Delaware Senator, ask her about
her rings.
She has so new ones. She will
be certain to have on the fourth
finger Of her left hand the one
that best matches her costume.
Miss Townsend bought a ring
at every port visited by her ship
on q recent round-the-world cruise.
She always selected rings OF native
craftsmanship, fashioned Of sill
yer and some native stone. Miss
Townsend also has so new cigar
cite boxes and ash trays bought on
the same voyage. She ought to give
a benefit bridge party.
StylistS say that women must
have that poured-in look in the
winter clothes. CheckbookS will
be drained out and pinched as
usual.
The artificial eyelash business
is doing very well. For two dol
lars Washington beauty parlor
artists will take pair of tweezers,
a saucer of adhesive and a few
strands of hair, and attach curl
ing lengths to your own meagre
eyelidS, either one-at-a-time or all
in a flock. The one-at-a-time SyS-
tenn has q Surtax, a commodity
tax, ETC., etc. But is more come
hithery. Chinese hair is not be-
ing used for eyelasheS nowadays.
It is coarse and considered very,
very low class. French and Ger
man hair is much more divine.
In about two weeks from your
first hirsute adventure you will
need a refill. Price 81.
That open-souled woman, now
exposing her transparency in a
New York museum, is coming to
Washington soon. Except for the
fact that you can see through this
creature of cellhorne wire and
bone, she resembles, so they tell
me, a Washington widow.
She is about thirty. Will remain
so permanently. Rests on her own
feet without aid of brace. Is about
5 feet 6 inches tall. Smoothly pro
portioned. And stands with her
arms outspread and her chin
thrown out. Scanning the horizon.
The Transparent Lady pays lit
tie attention to clothes. This brings
me to two washington prima don
mas who do. To Wit-Mrs. Ralph
Worthington and Mrs. William
Fitch Kelley.
I saw these up and coming
creatures at Chevy Chase Club
talking about how to get rid Of
sun tan. Mrs. Worthington, who is
charming in a dimpling Southern
manner, was decorating q wine
colored suit, vest of white and a
hat to match-all being part of
the plumber of her Canada vaca-
ton. Mrs. Kelley had on a new
purple hat and other stunning fall
equipment
A group Of young things in .
corner of the club were talking
about Mary Dwight'S romance.
Mary herself was in the crowd.
Also 1rma and Charles Drayton.
Mary, so I gathered from the chat
ter, met her True Love on a cruise
to Peru where his family owns
nearly all the worthwhile mines.
When said True Love isn't in
speeding said mines he lives at Mt.
KiSco. Mary will live there, too,
after october, when she is to be
married.
Now that I am lost in romance
and on the verge of domesticity, I
shall reprint a letter from a cor
respondent on the subject of
"Darning." The letter writer
as you will see for yourself in a
minute should be engulfed by
both romance and domesticity
very, very quickly, if men know
what they are about. Here's the
letter:
Dear Helen Essary:
81 have enjoyed your tonight's
column as 1 always do. But
these four little words stood out
as though they were written in
red ink-DO Women Darn
NOwadayS?' This gets under my
skin. OF course, women don't
AowRa VAnwya HouS TEnn,x - 1865.