The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • Page 29

Ftbnury 4, 1923 THE WICHITA BEACON SUNDAY MAGAZINE Page Fioe Says of Takes Romance Out, of Consular Service And to Think Your Lovely Eyelashes Are Artificial -r ihkkk is no romance left In I the position of an American HE trail tf the artificial eyelash in Wiohitn began when the boss whistled and one of the reporters came "Get a story about artificial eyelashes," commanded lie boss. Like the hero who took message to Garcia, the reporter saluted, faced about and went on Ills mis-ion. He had never heard of artificial eyelashes. He had hoard of artificial hair, artificial complexions, artificial teeth, artificial laughs, artificial legs, artificial artificial friendships, artificial figures, arlifir-ini seal skin, artificial brains, artificial leather, artificial silk hose, artificial beef-' steak and artificial gas. But he had never heard of artificial eyelashes.

The reporter iondered his problem and mapped out his campaign. He decided, that" if there were such -thing as artificial eyelashes. none would know so 'much it as a beauty specialist. He was of beauty specialists, -because there were always a lot of women in their shops, and hc feared 'he might make a mistake "and get into the wrong room. But lie went, anyway.

And fortune was with him. The first specialist he saw knew all about artificial eye-' lashes. Moreover, she had some on sale. It seems that these newfangled beautifieation devices are not as new as the reporter, in his callow ignorance, imagined. The 1 -entity specialist had had them on sale for-two years.

Out in California, she told him, nearly every one wears them men and women. And there are more in Wichita than one would imagine. you mean to tell inc." the reporter 'demanded heart-broken, "that there is a possibility those long soulful eyelashes 1 have admired on Douglas Avenue may be false':" "As false as a pre-election promise," the beauty specialist replied. Artificial eyelashes come in several shades, but mostly blonde and brunette. They are made of genuine hair, and they fasten to the eyelid by means of a glued band.

Their length is something over quarter of an inch. Their effect is tremendous. jAt the artificial eyelash fad get a foothold, and no man will be sate and no home will be inviolate. The only difficulty in connection with the use of artificial eyelashes is the possibility of their coming off. American consuls serve practically every branch of our Government, every, business man and, either directly or indirectly, every private citizen.

of the country occupies most of the time of the average consul. At Barcelona, Mr. O'Hara said the bulk, of the work in the commercial end of his position has to do wit the textile trade, which is the largest industry at that place. American cotton is the largest single item taken into Barcelona. Textile and nuts are exported.

Voluntary and ealled-for trade reports make the duties of the consul extremely heavy in a seaport city. Another item at such a place is the clearance of vessels and the handling of discharged and deserted seamen. Other duties include protection of American citizens and interests, citizneship, passport services, handling estates of deceased Ameri- witnessing marriages, recording of vital statistics and much miscellaneous correspondence. are the only officers of the States abroad maintaining continuous contract with officinls and citizens in the localities in which they are stationed in thei manner in which diplomatic officers maintain with the foreign governments at the. ca pi till cities.

There are attractions, however. connected. with the service which hold American consuls to 'their positions regardless of attractive offers that may be proffered them by large corporations. For instance, the social side of (lie position is something that might well be envied by anyone of the New York "four hundred." Consuls nre considered social equal's to the highest magistrate or mayor of the city in which he is stationed, Mr. O'llarn stated.

When an admiral or major-general conies to ids city or town the consul is his equal. In fact, there are few persons who hold a higher social standing than do those in the consular service. O'Hara graduated from Fairmount College in 1914. He then went to Clark University, at Worcester, to ohtnin his Master's degree. Before he had completed his course lie took the consular service examination and pusscd.

Then, lie completed his couire at Clark and "took training at the first Plattsburgb camp, where he was commissioned captain in the reserve. In lOffl, after trying to enter the army he was asked by the state department to assume a position in the consular service at Washington, IX C. No members of the service were permitted to give, up that work -to enter the army or navy. if counsut, according to v. w.

"Irish" consul at Barcelona, Spain, who has been risking friends in Wichita the past week. Basking in the shade of palms un- Ueed-PottTiper Portrait. F. IV. O'Hara dor tropical sun may have applied to the consular service, when O'llonry wrote his stories, but lint day lias lone since past, says O'Hiirn.

Ileal work, twenty-four hours a day, now confronts men in the American consular service. As Mr. O'Hara is a single mini, there is little doubt tiiut he would be able to find the romance in the job, if there were any. There is probably no class of officers of the Government whose functions are less correctly understood by the public than consuls, he sflrtd. "I am at my office from 0 o'clock in the morning until 0 o'clock in the afternoon.

Then, after that time, I am as much at the beck and caU of those who may want me ns is a family physician," O'Hara asserted. -v 1 National Police Force is Favored (Continued From Page 4) on the police department thru politics, who are lower in mentality than the crooks-- for whom they are searching. "A man of low mentality cannot understand the workings of a superior mind, altho a man of high mentality can understand the workings of an inferior mind. "A national police force would of course be under civil service so ns to keep it entirely free from politics, as is the postal department. "The ideal system would be to have the government handle nil inilice matters, iucluding the arrest of municipal offenders for the police courts.

"Of course, there would be objections to a centralized police system. But I believe most everyone who has studied the matter will believe it would increase efficiency." Don't You Remember Stories on West Side Kver since the runaway in the 000 block on West Ikiuglus Tuesday, West Siders have been swapping "don't, you remember when" stories. Not so many years ago runaways always caused a thrill. There were many of them in Wichita and on country roads, but only occasionally horses nowadays get np enough spunk to run away. Kansas has a larger percentage of purebred luroc Jerseys that 40 other states- and a larger percentage of pure-brad.

Poland Ohinas than 35 ther state. Muring the last twenty years the farmers of Kansas have produced approximately 400 million dollars' worth of hogs, million dollars' worth eiit-h year. If; 1 17 Big Future In Housework; Top Wage Being $36 Week If, for -instance, one's-eyelash should drop in one's consomme, explanations would be in order. Or if, at a one should learn that one's left eyelash had strayed and one's right were still faithful, the effect might he incongruous. It is said of a certain draftsman working in the office of a Wichita architect that some similar accident levelled Hie perfidy of his sweetheart, who is a stenographer Hiid who lost one of her eyelashes while the other remained in place.

All in all, however, life is a matter of 'chances, and all these possibilities of disaster add to the gnyety of nations. The eyelash craze has not spread as rapidly in Wichijn as on the Pacific Coast, where the habits of the movie stars are emulated by the commons-people, lint the use of these devices is on the increase. It has been forecast that the time is not far distant when one can put on or take off her eyelashes in pnblie with the' same nonchalance with which one powders her nose, and ns everybody knows no one would have thought of IHiwdering one's nose in public a few years ago. the washing did the ironing. She still does both jobs in many homes, hut there are women who do nothing but iron and because they do so much of it they can do it better and faster than others nnd they draw more pay an hour." In the Sedgwick House placed 1,000 jobs for women and nliout the same number for men.

Altho the house filled O.tKiO jobs i.t was impossible to fill the demand. Girls for general housework are so few in Wichita that there are ton limes as mnny requests for girls as there are girls. The pay for domestic service ranges from to $15 veck with board and room. According to Woods, girls do not like to do general housework when it requires Mint they live with their mistress because of the lack of freedom. "Under such circumstances Iho average styvant does not know when her work is done," said Woods.

"She rises early in the morning, gets breakfast, and all day long works under orders. She does not necessarily work hard, but she fs always subject to call. She washes dishes affer everybody else is thru supper and then it is lime to go to bed. "The most satisfactory employment from the standisiiiit of the employe is when the worker will work a definite time each day. In 11)22 we lined up fifty women for steifdy work.

They work hard nnd work every day, going from house to house. They may work ne day each week at sir different houses and have employment every week. "They start out at cents an hour. Eventually employing women compete for the services of the good ones and raise their wages voluntarily. The Sedgwick House has nothing to do with the raising of wages.

That is a matter handled between the employer nnd the employe. The best employes eventually gravitate to the places where the pay Is best. During the last five years, Kansas has had an aTerage acreage of 1.17!t.-, 769 acres In alfalfa with an average yearly production of ,173.4.11. llliMtr. is a inline niranu I for women who take up a XlM.l.l...

M. W. Woods, superintendent of the Sedgwick House, vouches for that statement. As Is the ens in every other city Wichita is long on girls wanting to do office work and short on girls wanting to do housework. 1, Yet, there are women without any special schooling who arc drawing $.10 a week and occasionally make as high ns a week doing housework.

And they work only eight hours a day. Girls without any special training can get only about a week doing office They work at least eight hours a day and buy their own lunch. The women who do housework on the S-hour day basis have their lunch provided. "Many women become experts in some certain line, and they are the ones vyho draw the big salaries. 1 know of one woman who is an exjiert dishwasher.

She washes the dishes for three different churches which have weekly church nights. She lrnws sixty cents an hour. Commencing at 4 o'clock in the afternoon she work straight thru to 11 o'clock at night, three nights each week. She starts at 4 o'clock, helping to get the suppers ready. After the church night supper is over she clears up the table nnd washes all the dislres herself.

She is a lightning dishwasher, washes the dishes clean and does not break them. The three churches together pay her $12.00 for the three nights or as much as many girls make a week doing office work. "Another woman is an expert at house cleaning. She cleans houses so well that she Is always in demand and when sh finishes the work is well done The tops of the doors and the picture moulding and corners are all shipshape. She draws seventy-fire cents an hour and is worth it.

"We have many specialists in housework. We have long had specialists In washing. Now there are specialists in jiearly every line. Formerly the same-woman who did Dominoes Come Back After Years Disuse The day of the domino is at hand once more. Makers of games, dispensers of giimes and players of games agree that every form of amusement has its day, the day wanes and then the game sinks into oblivion.

than a doxen years ago there wns not a well-regulated home in Wichita that did not bonst its crokinole hoard, parchessi set, lotto outfit and its package of flinch cards. Of course these were days when the auto, the movie and the golf links did not cull and when families at times spent the evening round their own fireside. In fact it was the day of the fireside. The warmth and light of open fireplaces wns still extant and folks read the paper, played games and "hit the hay" and thought it a perfectly wonderful existence after the ardour of the day. But dominoes nre coining hack.

This fascinating game that has locn in disuse for years threatens to displace playing-cards as a form of entertainment nnd in no pi nee tins the craze returned with greater violence than in Wirhita. Policemen, firemen, switchmen, clubmen nnd just men are learning that dominoes afford a rare test of mental skill and quick calculating. From what had always been consht ered child's play, the, game of dominoes has grown Into a man's size entertainment nnd Wichita bookstores have been kept busy keeping their supply up (o the demand point. OFF FOB SOUTH AMERICA L. S.

Naftr.ger and wife have planned to leave for Panama and South America in February. It Is reported that I W. Clapp also has announced he Is planning a trip Into Uie southern continent: Their friends arc wondering what Is on down there. Kansas has no "razorbacks.".