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IN the extraordinary new and fashion
able attempt of women to look as
■ though a strong gale had given them
a hopeless list to starboard the only one- .gg
sided opportunity that seems to have
been overlooked is a lateral curvature
of the spine.
To be truly fashionable and up to the
minute, a woman must contrive to appear
about as symmetrical as a grapevine. One
sided costumes began it —gowns sweeping the
floor on one side and revealing the ankle
on the other, trimmed on one side, plain on
the other; coats with a sou’west-by west ef
fect. But, bless us! that was only the first
primmer class effort of the fair ones to get
out'of plumb.
Now she has to shift her centre of gravity
clear down to her bones. That her legs and
arms are reasonably well mated is little short
■>t a disaster. If nature provided her with
eyes that match, something must be done
about it. A nose that is in the middle of the
tace won’t do at all, and a mouth that re-
Want to Be Rich? Decipher This and Find the Hidden Treasures of Imam Riza’s Shrine
IN the strange diagrammatic map
here shown may be the clue
to the hiding place of millions
of dollars' worth of treasure.
One of the most deplorable epi
sodes of the recent invasion of
I’ersia by Russia during the
Shuster regime was the sacking
bj the Russians of the ancient
shrine of Imam Rlza.
This shrine, over a thousand
years old, was known co contain a
wonderful collection of precious
stones, silver and gold ornaments
and other valuables, donated by de
voted Mohammeuans from time to
time. Among the treasures was
an extremely large sapphire worth
no less than a million dollars.
iuu fierceness with which the
Cossack regiment descended upon
the shrine can be explained,
although, of course, not justified,
by the knowledge of the existence
of this treasure, for in the carnage
which ensued defenceless wor
shippers who made no attempt at
resistance were butchered in cold
blood.
Fortunately for the Persians.
11 < y had been warned of the
threatened assault, and long be
s to the Cossacks arrived, the Prin
cipal nart of the treasure had been
safely removed from the shrine and
secretly interred by the dignita
ries of the Mohammedan Church.
As a result, despite the utmost
cruelties practised by the Cossacks
on the worshippers whom they
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exce- lor alimentary purposes.
Actually, this boxing the compass with sar
torial and anatomical details has become so
popular in fashionable circles that it is a
wonder that any fair member of the smart
set promenading Fifth avenue. New York,
with multitudes of imitators overflowing into
the Gay White Way, can look Nature in the
face.
She could hardly do it anyway, with her
vision distorted by that “odd eye” enlarged
out of all proportion to its mate by the artful
use of belladonna, and her head drawn over
to the “O. P. side,” as they say on the stage,
by the weight of a coiffure operating like a
made prisoners, they were unable
to obtain the hiding place of the
asure, but, concealed on the
person of one of them was found
the strange drawing shown on this
page, and which, it was concluded,
was ready a map, a proper inter
pretation of which would reveal
the hiding place of the treasure.
The unfortunate Persian upon
whom the map was found was
Mirza Tahir, a watchmaker of
Meshed. He was seized by the
Russians and imprisoned, but de
spite all the tortures to which he
was subjected he refused to divulge
the meaning of the map, declaring
obstinately that it was simpiy a
prophetic picture which he hud
made upon hearing of the threat
ened sacking of the shrine.
Study of the picture reveals that
the watchmaker’c explanation is
quite plausible. The picture
shows half of the old court of the
shrine. In the upper left hand cor
ner are corpses, and lower down
more dead bodies are seen being
carried cut. A Russian soup
wagon with its smokestack, s com
m’ssarlat vow- 1 and two dogs are
seen in the lower part of the left
half of the picture.
In the upper right hand corner
Is a crowd of prisoners, including
some women. Below are seen a
no -.an killing a Pen with an
axe, Russian soldiers, cavalry
horses and wagons, three cannons,
one of which is a machine gun
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Map Found on a Persian Prisoner Which Russian Author!'et Belijve u ->ld. the Clue tr the Hidden Treasure.
S ’ shifted cargo of pig iron aboard
f an Erie Canal barge. Besides,
f Nature certainly would resent
that brand-new “triangular
smile” which women who are a
la modo now sit up nights to
cultivate.
If the late Aubrey Beardsley
should come to life and take
luncheon at any of the New
York's “smart'' hotels it would be impossible
for him to resist the temptation to immortal
ize the New York woman of fashion of this
day date and minute somewhat as is at
tempted on this page—the lopsided lady with
a vengeance!
The whole business started with the open
ing of the last silly season. Summer at
Newport there were some of the oddest effects
produced by the strange fad. For instance,
one morning, when the Casino lawns were
crowded with tennis enthusiasts from ail parts
of the country. Miss Eleanor Sears came In z
with Harold Vanderbilt. There was nothing
unusual In this, of course, but everyone who
-aw her gave a gasp and said:
"What is the matter with Eleo s feet?"
There was nothing the matter with the feet,
but there was something strange about the
slippers On her left foot Miss Sears was
wearing a bright ted slipper and on her right .
foot she was wearing a black one.
"Everybody Is doing it now,” said Miss \
Sears when Cynthia Roche Burden asked her
why she had made such a mistake, and Miss
Sears was right. Everybody did seem to be
getting one sided in one way or another. The
next day Mrs. Alexander Bache Pratt, one of
the prettiest and one of the wealthiest brides
of a year ago, appeared wearing a red silk
stocking on her left foot and a black silk
stocking on her right foot. But Mrs. Pratt
went even further, and on the red foot she
ore a black slipper and on the black foot
she wore a red slipper!
It was young Mrs. Sidney Colford —formerly
hare Knight, of Philadelphia—who was the
Irst matron to wear the one-sided gown. One
day Mrs. Colford appeared at Bailey’s B ach
wearing a marvellous creation of black and
white. The left side of her costume was of
oyster white satin made abosolutely plain
from shoulder to hem. The other side was of
bla ’ satin draped in a most graceful manner
at the side. The contrast between the plain
ness of the one side and the pannier of the
other was most marked.
A similar surprise was sprung upon New
port several years ago, when Mrs. Reggie
Vanderbilt’s mother, Mrs. Bello Neilson, wore
one very large pearl earring and one very
large torquolse earring. At that time all the
Newport women thought that Mrs. Neilson
bad made a mistake, but she very soon told
them that it was the very latest Paris fad,
and the next day all her friends were wearing
mismated Jewels
Last Summer Mrs. Craig Biddle revived this
fad and wore one beautiful black pearl ear
ring and one very large emerald earring.
At the recent Horse Show the new Mrs.
Alfred Vanderbilt wore a curious necklace;
one side was of pearls and the other of rubies.
The wmnderful diamond garter—or what
Mr. John R. Townsend called a “leg brace
let,” worn by a very prominent matron, was
the sensation of the hour at the Horse Show.
It was a broad band of diamonds clasped on
the left leg Just Polow the knee. From it
hung a two-inch fringe of smaller diamonds.
The matron’s skirt was slit up on the side so
as to show the garter.
And then there is Mrs. Pick Stevens, the
wife of the Mr. Richard Stevens who owns
the "Castle” over on the Hoboken side of the
Hudson. Mrs. Stevens is one of the most
spectacular members of the Newport, colony.
She has her ball gowns slit ’way up one side,
and where the slit ends she wears a bouquet
of flowers. And so this peculiar fad is af
fecting practically everything that a woman
wears, and it is difficult to know where it
will stop.
So the dear creatures are cultivating lop
sided features to correspond with the lop
sidedness of their wearing apparel. The eye
on the more ornamental side of the costume
is thus treated with belladonna to enlarge
aud make it more brilliant, while the other
eye is encouraged to look as insignilicant as
possible.
Even a nose can be manipulated in away
to turn it several points to the sta’board or
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Painfully Acquiring the New The Astonishing, but
Au Nature). Three-Cornered Smile. Fashionable Result
the la’board of the course which the lady
brig has marked on her chart. This adds
considerably to the irresistible piquancy of
the "triangular smile,” which, in the mean
time, she has so painfully acquired and which
is so subtly babyish in its effect of trustful
innocence.
The “triangular smile,” when once acquired,
is really an economy. It. is accomplished by
sharply elevating the centre of the upper lip.
thereby revealing only two upper incisors
instead of a full set of teeth, upper and lower.
Considerable time and not a lltue incon
venience is the cost of acquiring this three
cornered expression of approval. You have to
sleep in a sort of bridle with a vertical front
strap firmly clamped to the tip of the upper
lip, which it draws upward toward your nose
all through your sleeping hours —if, indeed,
you are able to sleep that way.
Examination Into the whole matter In a
scientific spirit, however, suggests a mo.e
serious reason for the existence of the trian
gular lady with her pronounced list to sta'-
board. There is, in fact, no denying that she
approaches more nearly than anything else
human to the ideals of masters of the “Fu
turist” school <f art—as is plainly indicated
by the two examples reproduced on this page.
You will observe that the distinguished"
painters of these two portraits of women saw
nothing about their subjects which did not
. suggest vague cubes, triangles, rhomboids and
other familiar geometrical figures, some regu
lar in form, but most of them decfdedlv irreg
ular. Furthermore, these ladies immortalized
by "Futurist" masters have that same char
acteristic list to sta’board that is so pro
nounced in the case of victims of the sash
onab’e. new lon-«lded fad
M ,:’ el i h “ P „ a “Futurlsts’-'are right. Perhaps
that is how our Meters and sweethearts reallv
look, anyway, and that some day we’ll be
educated up to seeing 'em that way even when
their clothes are on straight.
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“Head of a Woman,’’ by Pablo Picasso—
Showing How the “Futurists’' in Art Are
Right in Line with the New One-
Sided Fashion.
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Another “Futurists’ ” View
of the Case.
ranger] on the tomb; a horse and
carriage and two Russian ladies.
N„,. r -, ~u a the drawing bears
every earmark cf being tt map
and there is little doubt among
tnose who are acquainted with the
Mohammedan methods, that it has
far greater significance than the
unfortunate watchmaker was will
ing to aamit.
thli 18 ~ { l’ s sin“ authorities were so
thoroughly convinced. Indeed, that
m this cartoon lay the secret of
the hidden treasure that every
Prisoner taken during the subse
quent engagements was interro
gated concerning it, but as far as
is known, their efforts were unsuc
cessful.
is still in m>s<. «>nn of
Northern Persia, and the great
Russian Secret Service is stiil
making every effort To unravel the
secret of the map.
The shrine of Imam Rlza was
the to: sacred edifice of tho Mo
hammedans in Persia. For eleven
centuries Ri'*ad been the Mecca
of the faithful in Persia. Into its
shrine room they hav annually
poured iwi more than a thousand
years the richest jewels of the
Orient as religious offerings. Not
tint* 1 uie bi uau-MuoUldered, gaunt
Cossacks, armed with modern
rifles and glittering bayonets, made
their attack upon tho shrine hud
the haiiuwed ground upon which
the famous temple stands been pro
faned by the feet of unbelievers.
Besides the fabulously rich store
of rare jewels in tho temple, the
original sacred writings of Moham-
med were kept there, as were also
<. ~ei u..m..s of l. ’most am'ieni
literatur of Persl-. The edifies
itself was the most splendid exam
II- of Persian architecture.
Except for the ureas"-'.* which
v. re ret >ved in time, th- Russians
seized everything of value, de
stroyed ths great temple, and
burned the sacred shrine.
The Russian Cossacks arrested
the tr usurer, the n> . „nu th*
■ "lei --Keeper ol the Hcl.v
1 * ace, and dm everything tney
could to force mem to give up the
treasures ot rt. boons and geurn
which the stirine was known to
house. The map was the only thing
they obtained, however.
Meshed is a city of about 60,00#
inhabitants, but is visited anually
by about 100,0'100 pilgrims. Ths
shrine in question was built in
memory of AH ar Rlza, son of the
Imam Musa. Riza was born Lu
770 A. I)., and at tho age ot'thirty
succeeded to the office of Imam, or
leader of the Shi-ites.
The exact date of the building
of the tomb is somewhat uncertain,
but additions were made to It dur
ing many centuries after Imam
Riza’s death.
The vaulted dome ot the shrins
was one of the most wonderful
sights i.. Persia. It was made of
torquoise tiles, embellished by a
girdle of arabesque inscriptiona
The minarets of the porches
were embossed with gold and ths
blue tile effect was carried out la
the facades of the memorial
mosques.
