The Forrest City times. [volume], January 06, 1905, Image 8

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NEW YORK GOSSIP
THE OLD-TIME NEW YEAR'S DAY
IS FORGOTTEN.
BALLS AND PARTIES POPULAR
Change* Which the Almighty Dollar
Have Wrought — The Apprecia
tion of Art and Artist* —
Romances of Old Houses.
EW YORK— O 1 d
time. New Year's
is in New York ut
terly forgotten, iu
Philadelphia near
ly forgotten. It's
just as well. M. j
I). Conway, in hit .
autob 1 ograpliy,
tells about the |
open house kept in 1
Washington by of
ficial families in
his youth, when as his diary
reads: ‘‘I saw drunken men reel
ing into the front doors of refined
families, their object being to devour
the dainties provided lavishly on such
occasions." Of such a New Year’s cel
ebration—and it must be remembered
that even pretty decent men got drunk
under the repeated plying of well
meant “hospitality"—nothing is left
but the free drinks poured in saloons
for patrons who have spent much
money over their bars during the year
Let it go at that—though the custom
might have better served real socia
bility.
Social activity of a sort tne new year
does bring. Country house parties are
well over by three days after Christ
mas, and the beginning in town of
the new year's activities is almost im
mediate. though a social superstition
Still saves holiday week Itself. The
wedding of Miss Daisy l.eiter to the
Earl of Suffolk begins this year the in
ternational season with sufficient bril
liance, but as it is a Washington func
tion New York is less Interested than
might be otherwise the case, in fact,
the Letters seem to illustrate the the
ory that Washington may presently be
the social center of America. The Lei
ters have never taken the trouble to
live in New York; yet no American
family has contracted such a brilliant
series of matrimonial alliances as
theirs, with brainy Lord Curzon, with
Maj. Colin Campbell and with the Earl
of Suffolk. The Garner girls, one of
whom wed a French noble, one an Ital
ian of title and one Sir \\ illiam Gor
don-Cummlng, of England, ate a close
Becond.
The Bachelor Entertains.
AMES Hazen Hyde
son of the late
president of a
great life insur
anee company,
shows the city
how to begin the
year. His Idea of
a New Year's eve
celebration 13 to
get society togeth
er In the ball room
at Sherry's to hear
Kejane and her excellent company
In two French—and Frenchy—com
edies. So large a portion of so
ciety is now of the second gen
eration that French plays are prob
ably fairly understood by one-third of
a society audience. It goes without
saying that the audience will be repre
sentative of the city's wealth, if not
its culture. Hyde is fabulously rich
and a "catch.” He is the only rival
of James Henry Smith among the un
married men of New York: and he is
several years less experienced and shy.
Either of these two young Fortunati
would be welcomed in any one of a
dozen great families that arrogate the
title of leaders In that little portion of
society which calls itself society.
The ball thus set rolling on the eve
of the new year will be kept in motion
oy the dance of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
on the night of January 3. The great
January balls come about the middle of
the month, and well before Lent the
brief season may pronounce its own be
wildered epitaph: "Since so soon 1
am to be done for I wonder w hat 1 was
begun for.”
The great balls of Mrs. Astor and
other prominent New York matrons
set the pace for the winter, but the
gayety seen at them is of a moderate
and subdued pattern. New York men
do not care for dancing. It is tame
sport after watching the ticker and an
occasional night over the whirling
wheels of fortune. Younger matrons
are hard put to it at times to attract
representative gatherings. No such de
vices are needed by the social leaders
but the younger matrons find it neces
sary to enlist committees of the young
er men who round up the recalcitrant
and get them into dancing humor if
possible, by means recalling those em
ployed by parliamentary "whips” in
London—a mixture of authority, flat
tery and cajolement.
Society of Other Days.
N ELOQUENT re
minder of Ameri
can society in oth
er days is fur
nished by a lady
who is revisiting
New York alter 38
years spent in in
tellectual circles
in Europe—Madam
W addingtoc.
Granddaughter of
Rufus King,
daughter of a president of Colum
bia university when it was a simple
college. Miss Mary Alsop King
married M. Waddingtou, the French
Statesman with an English name and
an English training, who represented
the French republic as ambassador in
England and in Russia, and who final
ly became premier under President
(Jrevy.
Mme. WaddinRton has lived all her
mature life among cultured persons,
such as in all Europe lead society, and
she returns to her native city to find it
frankly worshiping wealth as it did
hot before the war.
“My friends point out to me," ahe
says, ‘ here is a steel king, there Is a
railway king, yonder a shipbuilding
king, farther away a cattle or a mining
king. Is this really America—a repub
lic? Are there no persons worth point
ing out except financial magnates, mil
lionaires? Has America no artists,
scholars, poets, thinkers men who
work and think otherwise than in
terms of dollars and cents? The mil
lionaire seems to be, in America, the
whole show, the Alpha and the Ome
ga ”
Discouraging indeed is the actual
situation, but not so discouraging as
to £ stranger It seecms—most of all, as it
seemt to a returned American jealous
of her country's repute. Poets there
are not—l do not know why; but
scholars, thinkers, artists, yes—though
not aii in America, and here the bright
est might not have much to eat.
American Art and Artists.
S THE finest por
trait artist living
an American, Sar
gent? I ask rath
er than state the
fact, since the
question is still in
some dispute.
Bumptious as we
are In business,
we hesitate to pro
nounce upon tal
ent or genius
until Europe has spoken. It was
so with Sargent, with Abbey,
with Whistler. George Inness paint
ed landscapes with the best and New
iork did not suspect until the French
man, Benjamin Constant, came over
and said in surprise: “Why have we
not heard of Inness? What were you
millionaires thinking of to buy inferior
pictures from France and let this man
remain unknown?” Then Inness be
came the fashion. Homer Martin
strove all his life unknown except to
the few who were able to Judge for
themselves. He went blind at last,
and with the failing remnant of his
sight barely finished a swan song, a
masterpiece. After his death New
York discovered him. Stephen Crane,
Harold Frederick, Henry James were
"discovered” as writers in England;
Robert Chambers and a few younger
toilers in France. Chambers, by the
way, like the poet Stedman, makes a
living as a stock broker, so that he
may write as he chooses and not make
a hack of his art.
As lor scholars, when an American
college professor of whom his own
country has but a hazy notion goes to
a famous chair in Oxford. Europe at
least pays attention to America study.
Once In Narragansett Pier, upon a
newspaper errand not now important,
I walked about with a guide familiar
with the locality and its people. Names
and particulars were poured into my
car concerning persons who had come
from all parts of the country with the
repute of wealth. 1 caught sight of a
distant, but familiar figure. “Who is
that yonder?” 1 asked. "Some one I
know, but I cannot :*t this distance—”
“Oh. that!” said my mentor, some
what contemptuously. "That’s a man
named Matthews. Some kind of pro
fessor, I think.”
Such was the Pier's “sizing up” of
Brander Matthews, university profes
sor, critie, phiiiligist, famed in literary
circles throughout the country. Of
course Mme. Waddington exaggerates
—and yet—does she?
At any rate, Washington society
does recognize intelleit.
Romance of Long Ago.
OND s: reel is down
town. It was up
town when the
house that was
sold the other day
at auction for $44.
000 was new. It—
No. 23—was in
habited lor 3 0
years by Henry
Hall Ward, one of
the family which
produced person
alities so different as “Sam Ward,” the
"King of lobbyists,” the Julia Ward
Howe, poet, writer and reformer.
Hall loved his cousin. Eliza Ann
Partridge, but her parents ob
jected to a match. When he died—of
disappointment, they say, but there
was a good deal of typhoid and such
things in those days—his true love in
herited by his will the house which
had been his home. That was in 1840.
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were
young men, Greeley was just making
his early struggle. Miss Partridge
moved into the house and made it her
duty to keep Ward's rooms Just as he
left them. Half a century she lived
here the recluse life—until the region
became Impossible because of trade’s
distractions. Even when she moved
to a quieter region. Ward's rooms were
kept in the condition dear to him by
a bachelor’s fussy habits.
Miss Partridge was 87 when she died.
A love kept green is a preserver of
youth. That was in 1899. She had
been 20 when her heart was broken. 27
when her cousin-lover died. What cold,
unsympathetic eyes were turned upon
the rooms which she preserved in their
old condition, when the real estate men
come to view the house before the sale!
OWEN I.ANGDON.
The Ruling Passion.
Johnny, wouldn’t you like to come
to our Sunday school?”
”1 don’t know. Do you give trading
j Stamps?”—Kansas City Sto",
winter Hats oi varied Styles
A GROUP OF PRETTY WINTER HATS.
ERHAPS the most approved
!jiy»\»' hat of theseason is the heaver
velvet trimmed. Although
hats matching the costume
■I'T' are not absolutely the only
thing, yet they are well
liked, maybe because we have not for
some years had the one-color costume.
And to-day shadings of a color seem to
be preferred to the costume matching
perfectly throughout.
In hat trimmings, blue and green, the
peacock combination, is yet worn by
very carefully dressed women, although
cheap imitations have threatened to
make this rich combination lose favor
with exclusive ones. It is a conjunction
of colors that has general becomingness
to recommend it; it lights up tbe pale
blonde wonderfully; it makes brunette
beauty still more vivid.
Rivalling the rage for intense green
and blue is the very opposite, the pastel
shades. In choosing these the wearer
must be sure that she herself is not a
little passe, for the fady tints are apt to
add to a fady look. When becoming
the# give delicacy to a costume, and arc
especially appropriate for dress occa
sions. One of the most exquisitely
gow ned women we haveseen this season
we met recently late in the afternoon
She wore a dress of dark blue broad
cloth, very soft and fine, her furs were
of snowy ermine, her hat a white beaver
trimmed with roses in the loveliest pas
tel shades. She seemed a hothouse flower
by some accident finding itself out in
the snow.
The hat worn by this fortunate being
was of the shape illustrated in one oi
the accompanying pictures, of medium
size, dented ^ere and there, fitting close
ly at the back. And that appears to tie
one of the features of this season's hats,
that the brim extended down low and
close over the locks at the back. This
gives u jaunty look and'a decided bit of
style.
Hats are of varied sizes, but neither the
cartwheel nor the infinitesimal is no
ticed. One is safe in selecting a middle
ground, and can have as many bends in
her hat as fancy desires and her own
style allows. The upturned sailor, w ith
either soft or stiff crown, is pretty and
youthful. One attractive design is of
brown beaver with folds and rosettes of
pink satin. To show that trimmings do
not always match the hat. we speak of a
good model of black satin decked with
pompons and ends of shaded green vel
vet ribbon, but this should be worn with
a dress of black and green to give th"
right fashion. A hat of nasturtium red
can be worn with different costumes and
is advancing in favor. For those that
like quiet tones we suggest a gray »elt
trimmed with gray scarf and a plume
shading from white to gray.
Prettu Costumes tor Staters
LTHOFGII little England
cannot count on long season
for skating, she takes ad
vantage of skating when it
comes her way; and the Eng
lish ladies of lashion, fonder
of outdoor exercise than her lazy Amer
ican cousin, looks well to the costume
she is to wear when engaged in this win
ter sport.
There is nothing more picturesque
than a good woman skater, and a careful
ly studic<l skating costume adds not in
considerably to the picture. The skirt,
of course, should be short, practically
and jauntily so. and the shoes, prac
tically, and if possible, jauntily stout.
Materials and cut of skirt may he se
lected from much variety, hut ever in
mind should be kept the use to which
the costume is to be devoted, the sur
roundings amidst whic h it is to be worn.
A vivid red. even scarlet, is good for
those that can wear anything so pro
nounced, for here if ever bright hues can
be worn w ithout offending. Rough ma
terial should be chosen if this gay color
j is decided upon, and the fur to give the
! desirable touch, we think, would be a
1 white one. A hat of furry red beaver
would go well with this costume. In de
fense of the gay skating frock, we call
| to attention the fact that fady pastel
! ones are quite out of place for skating
they are cold tones, and make the wearer
look frozen.
The French fancy for a skating cos
tume is a corduroy of myrtle green
trimmed with tan suede; and this cer
tainly is a very chic creation. lf>e
French model has a plain gored skirt
strapped with corduroy and ornamented
wTiih buttons of the tain suede. The
diort coat has a vest of the suede, and a
belt of this passes through a plait in the
back of the coat. Reveres of suede fold
back, and can be made to close and fao
ten at the desire of the wearer. The
shirtwaist may be of cream silk and
wool, or one of a light shade of tan
would be very pretty. A green tie, a
green beaver hat. se.tt and trimmed with
1 a bit of bronze, make the finishing
touche* to this suit.
An English leader of fashion suggests
for the skatiug party a costume of white
or cream zlbeline. but this Is not practi
cal for average needs; and then, too
there are so many colored goods that
fulfill requirements. If one prefer a
light costume, why not select gray
trimmed with chinchilla? This can be
made elaborate, if that is wanted, by
having the skirt of cloth, the short
bolero or jacket of velvet with a waist
coat of gray suede and shirt front and
stock of some cream fluffiness.
What is known as fur plushes are worn
for skating costumes abroad, and
though an expensive material they are
durable and stand the wear and tear
that one that loves the sport is bound
to give her costume a great deal of Vei
veteeus make economical skating frocks,
and come in the colors suitable for pic
turesque demands. Leather, now In
use for about everything save lingerie
Is also liked for outdoor demands, and
not only the huntress, but also the
skater, is using the leather costume.
Petticoats should be trim and suit
able for the skater's needs, and though
silk frills are coquettishly pretty, they
seem rather out of place for a person that
does more than merely play at the sport.
However, there are many that skate a
little and dress a great deal for the'part
and these may get their money's worth
in outlay for frivolous ice finery.
To refer to the shoes again, walking
shoes now do not have the exaggerated
extended soles that once obtained, but
they are of medium thickness and usu
ally lace; buttoned shoes being kept for
more dressy wear. For skating, the pref
erence is given to laced shoes, as these
may be adjusted to fit ihe ankle. The
hull-dog toe is entirely out. and the ath
letic girl must now content herself with
A SMART SKATING FROCK.
moderation, should not advertise the
faci that she is a devotee of pastimes
once relegated to men.
Brown furs being the furs of the sea
son. and brown continuing the fashion
able shade generally, the skating cos
tume may be designed in a harmony of
brown, though brown and black are a
bit colorless. Still for the girl with
chestnut hair and golden-brown eyes
there could be nothing prettier than an
all-brown costume having suggestions
of gold here and there. But be careful
not to use enough gilt to make a tawdry
effect. A bit of Persian embroidery
would lighten un such a costume, and if
used sparingly Wat detract from the sim
plicity that should mark the suit for
skating.
_EI-LEN OSMONDE
Quite Appropriate.
Singleton—What was your notion for
calling your baby Bill?
Wedderly—Because he arrived on
the first of the month; that’s the an
swer.—Chicago Daily News.
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