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regarded with
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of the land of
the prejudice
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is not in a
This is not a pleas
when we hear an in:
sneer at some soc
who ill tier own land is '
consideration and respec
stirs deeply every native
the free. Still, since,
against us is so general
see whether some of it ..
measure deserved.
Is it not true that now and then
stories of our compatriots float over the j
Atlantic Hint ruuse even us to sit up
and take notice? Mark Twain in his
blue bathrobe and slippers, stalking
serenely across the London street from
his hotel to the bathhouse, may have
been an Intentionally humorous inci
dent, yet knowing the limitations of the
insular sense of humor we are quite
reasonably assured that the charitable!
Briton will set it down as another case
of the “awful American."
A Modern Instance.
The Duncans as Ancient Creeks In Berlin
went a step farther. On a recent occa
sion he and his family electrified the
stolid Berlinese by appearing Unter
den Linden in ancient Greek costume.
Mr. Duncan's manly form was robed in
the single flowing garment of the Ho
meric period, and his hair and beard
were fashioned according to the mode
of Pericles and the beauteous Alci-
biades. His toes peeped from between
the straps of sandals, and the smile
which he turned upon a wondering and
unsympathetic world was sweet as the
honey of Hymettus. Beside this Jove-
like vision strolled his wife, an ample
datrie, reputed to be a native of the
Peloponnesus, clad voluminously in the
garments of the era of Aspasia. Grin
ning sheepishly as he propelled a dis
tinctively modern wicker perambulator
in which gurgled the heir of the Dun
cans, came a callow Greek youth attir
ed in the habiliments of a Boetian
shepherd lad, which exposed a large ex-
cauld, daughter of ex-Senator Mitchell
of Oregon. The marriage of the duka
and duchess is said to have been one
of the few international matches made
on account of sentiment, for the bride's
face was her principal fortune. No
woman in Europe is more celebrated
for originality than is the Duchess de la
Rochefoucauld, her frankness being un
excelled even by that of Marie Bash-
kirtseff. Like the pretty Russian, the
fair American does not undervalue her
teiiing points and is reported to have
calmly asserted on a certain occasion:
"I know that I am one of the most
beautiful women in the world. My fig
ure is perfect, and I shall marry for
position. There are very few women as
| exquisitely beautiful as I am, and I
I mean to make the most of myself.”
, Naturally a young woman of such dr-
: Iginality would startle conventional
; French society, but the duchess lias
■ had the tact never to antagonize any-
i body, and* today she is both popular
! and influential in' the m st exclusive
| set of the Faubourg. One of iter m ist
j daring recent experiments was a sen
sational balloon ascension. She was
one of the first women in Parisian hied
life to assist' nature in heightening the
Titian shade of her locks. Gossips say
she adds to the slender resources of
the house of De la Rochefoucauld by
chaperoning rich American girls who
wish to marry titles.
Lady Tankerville.
One of the most unconventional of
British peeresses is Lady Tankerville,
wife of the evangelist Earl of Tanker
ville. She Is the daughter of the late
T. G. Van Marter. who during the civil
war was an officer in the Twenty-
second New York cavalry and after
ward made a fortune in Tacoma. Wish.
Lord Tankerville has been interested in
the Salvation Army, Christian Science
and the revival work of the late D. L.
Moody. He has frequently appeared
j upon the platform as a revivalist.
Of the so called expatriated American
women it may be said that some of
them deserve all the criticism they have
received. They out-Roman the Ro
mans in a way to make themselves and I Sometimes he exhorts, while his beauti-
their country ridiculous in the eyes of
foreigners. The daughter of the rail
road magnate with her pink marble
palace* and her championship of exiled
French royalty contributed her share
to the mirth of nations, and the nations
should be satisfied with what they got
out of it. Apropos of Countess Castel-
lane's one time partiality for monarchic
al institutions, it may be said that it is
a common fault. About the only criti
cism made against either of the Ameri
can chatelaines of Blenheim is that she
was a greater stickler for the preroga
tives of her rank than were the daugh
ters of the king themselves. Like her
predecessor, now Lady Beresford, the
present duchess began by refurnishing
and remodeling Blenheim. That was
sponsible for the American reputation
for freakiness. Neither do our uncon-
on the other side,
too useful for that.
We are altogether
For instance, when
my Lady Lackeash wishes to bring out his predilection for baccarat .and bar-
her handsome daughter, the Honorable ' maids.
accredited to classic representations of
the infant Cupid, but he wore his brief
Attic garb with an infantile grace that
won for him many expressions of com
mendation from the critical loungers in
this famous thoroughfare.
Some Further Types.
Again, there are some persons who
bring discredit on their countrymen
and women by adopting a laxness of
manners-and conduct abroad that is in
no way representative of their real
characters.
“We can do jftst as we please over
here, nobody knows us anyway," is the
excuse they offer, but frequently they
can heiress who isn’t au fait in regard 1 have never been filled since' the days of \ and sensible of any and wears it herself! are identified, and the ubiquitous for-
" ' ‘ |H ‘ *’ | whenever there is opportunity. Her | eign correspondent gets in his deadly
Helen, It is not impossible to find some l
presentable American girl who will I
I bear the expense of the season in ex.- !
j change for—shall wo
Lackcash's chaperonage.
Mere prejudice is not altogether re- | the very unprepossessing Earl of Lack
cash, desires to gild his ancient coro-
If the Duke of Barepurse yearns for
a few suggestions in regard to possi
bilities in the stock market how feasi-
say?—Lady i ble to turn to one of the ever obliging
If the heir,! multimillionaires from across “the her
ring pond” and in lieu of an invitation
dinner or to her grace’s garden
who go abroad make themselves ridicu
lous in .the eyes of European people
with malice prepense. Some of them
assume a method so unconventional
that it would bo taboo even in free
America. Take* for instance, the Dun
can family. Miss Isadora Duncan is a
charming and cultured young woman
who won much .praise in America for
the aesthetic manner in which she
made public what she believed to be a
revival of the ancient Greek dance.
Her success was ego great that she was
painted and modeled in costume. She
has made a long and special study of
Greece and Greek history, and she is-
a great admirer .of everything Hellenic,
net, how easy for his thrifty parent'toj party to secure the information that! so great, in fact:, that she considers the
panse of unpoetical.red calf and beefy a strictly American procedure, and the
arm. As a concession to perverted British aristocrats, who cherish their
modern taste Master Duncan was pro- faded tapestries and shaky Chippen-
vided with rather more draping than is ! dale as the appenages of rank, ele-
ventional capers make us less welcome “arrange a marriage” with some Ameri- | may fill the Barepurses’ coffers as they ancient Greek dress the most' artistic
to the Lackeash scandals or aware of j their robber- baron ancestors.
It is perfectly obvious that many of
brother, Raymond Duncan, also an
our countrywomen and countrymen j ardent student of Greek ways of doing.
work if they are persons of any stand
ing at home.
vated their delicate nostrils and said
scornfully, “Just like one of those
Americans!" It was impossible for the
British mind to understand that the ad
vantages of having a nice, clean palace,
garnished and fumigated as it has not
been since the days of the energetic
Duchess Sarah, quite compensated for
the loss of a little picturesqueness. It
is the fact that the American girl does
not and cannot realize the veneration
with which foreigners regard their an
cient. inconvenient and highly unhy
gienic institutions that has furnished
the basis for many a reputation for
eccentricity.
A Praiseworthy Eccentricity.
One of the most distinguished mem
bers of the present American colony in
Paris is the Duchess de la Rochefou-
ful wife re-enforces his arguments
with sacred solos. The Tankervilles
havo hitherto been indifferent to so
ciety, and when, this season, they
opened a house in London and began
entertaining the smart set society was
much amazed, although quite ready
with a cordial welcome, for the coun
tess is a charming and accompli-n.ed
woman in spite of what the English re
gard as her American peculiarities.
The Diplomatic Freak.
Mrs. Ida Von Claussen. who would
have liked to draw President Roose
velt into her dispute with the American
minister to Sweden, who declined to
present her at the court of King Oscar
and whose refusal she took in the light
of a personal insult, has presumably
shaken the dust of republics from her
feet forever. Mrs. Von Claussen has
recently sailed for the other side, an
nouncing her engagement to a Swedish
nobleman and issuing a farewell phi
lippic, in which she scored her enemy,
the ambassador to Sweden, and other
prominent officials of this government.
While many of those American wo
men who have the interest of half Eu
rope centered upon them are not repre
sentative, yet in the eyes of indiscriml-
nating foreigners all American woman
hood suffers for their shortcomings.
American men ought to be good
enough for American women, but if
international marriage must continue
let those who are parties to it use tact
and common sense enough to keep out
of. the yellow journals. The Daisy
Millers are no longer amusing at home
or popular abroad.
ADELE ATCHINSON.
From Social Tact to a Study of Woman Shoppers;
Kate Clyde Also Tells of Some Warm Weather Millinery
OCIAL tact is more important | looks as if she had been out shopping!
to a girl than all the higherj for a week.
education in the world,” ob- | There is the fat, motherly person who
served a well known matron j (misguided soul!) drags around a child
aa she watched a college woman “put ; P ee ' ^, s * 1 heat, t no stares un-
• , happily in the shop windows, muttering
her foot in it (to use a very slangy > . , . .... a
, , J i her disgust to her companion. Now,
expression). “Now. that girl is full of Mame , ain’t that the limit?” she
Greek and mathematics, yet in the last j snorts as she looks at the latest in
half hour she Iras managed to offend j kimono sleeves. “Why don’t they in-
three women who can help her more | vent some style people can look good
in this world than all the dead lan- ! in? ” she goes on.,
A little later she is completely won
over by a girlish muslin made with
sliirrings and. elbow sleeves. “D’ye
think-I could wear that?” she mur
murs confidentially, but the cruel
Marne answers unfeelingly: “Naw!
It would make yer look too fat!” After
which squelching they move on amid
the subdued gigglings of those who
have overheard.
guages put together.
“One' of these days I am going to
found a school which shall teach only
social tact. That
sounds simple,
but it isn't-xAlas,
only too few
women know
how to say the
right thing at ,
the right time. I
Still fewer know
Our Keenest Critics.
If you want to hear customers criti-
" hen to stop j cised you should listen to the remarks
talking, and the : of.the saleswomen behind the.counters,
number is even ; They know the real from the coun-
smaller of those j terfeit.
who know when I a plainly dressed little woman comes
not to write. 1 up quietly and purchases a waist orna-
' How to enter | mented only with the merest touch of
a room and how
full of Greek
mathematics.
leave it with
cry one smil-
x when you
y good by’ are
hand embroidery. The- saleswomen look
approvingly after her trim figure.
Mrs. .Showy comes up rattling gold
chains and jewels galore. Her extreme
hat is almost failing off behind with
positively an; its load of feathers. She orders a cart-
art. Can a knowledge of algebra com- load of elaborate blouses to be sent to
pare with the knack of making desir- ! a big hotel.
able friends
“Many a woman who has passed her
many degrees ~ould give at least one
of them for the ability to make small
talk at a reception or afternoon tea.
“No. indeed, my daughter, when she
grows up, shall learn first to be agree
able and charming, to say the right
thing, to dance arid walk will and to
compose a pretty note. After she has
mastered these things she may dabble
in high brow studies if she will.”
And I believe the woman Is right.
As she departs she leaves a strong
wake of perfume, and one of the quiet
girls, who iias been taking her in with
coldly critical eyes, remarks, “Made of
money, but”—
At which the others laugh.
From Out of Town,,
The out of town visitor fills the cars.
She may be divided into swell and un-
swell, the latter
An Interesting Study.
If you want to see human nature go
down Into the shopping district in New
York in hot weather.
A11 nations are there and every kind
of woman.
There is your well groomed young
matron, every carefully marcele'd hair
In place. She wears a stunning linen
frock with a hat to match and spotless
shoes of white canvas. No matter how
long she shops she gives one the im
pression that she has stepped out of a
bandbox.
Her opposite is sad to contemplate.
Her face is greasy with heat, and her
collar sags down In the back. Her hat
Is draped with a mussy veil. She
wears a heavy wodl skirt in awful con
trast to the flimsiest of peekaboo
waists. Her hair, which has not been
crushed as it should be, “strings." She 1
being the more
amusing.
Two women of j
the last named i
class were going j
downtown on:
the Broadway j
line. One was j
dressed up to
kill. She had j
been in New
York for some :
time, while her '
visitor evidently |
embodied the
latest ideas of j
the v i 1 1 a g e I
dressmaker. The j
1 he well groomed young dressy o n e j
Matron. pointed out i
every cobble- j
stone with the fond pi id, of a posses- j
sor. She dazzled the timid i ■ tntry
cousin at ev
quettish and
like a ten-year-old chlid. She was t eighth street, being somewhat at a loss
never still for one minute. Needless to: what to say, she picked out a tall
say, the people in the car were enjoy- | building and exclaimed proudly, “I
ing it. At Broadway and Twenty-1 worked there!”
I When she reached the Fifth Avenue
hotel she pointed to a fashionable con
fectioner’s shop, with the remark:
I “There’s a swell place for lunch if
NO NATURE FAKE.
Peasant or president this pretty picture
May look upon without a word of stricture.
The faithful animal will not forsake her—
He knows the maid is not a nature faker. '
you want to make a show. Why" (here
her voice assumed a reverence I can't
express on paper) “they say chocolate
is 25 cents a cup.there!”
At this point I got off, but I’m sorry
I didn’t have time to accompany her
farther.
The country cousin’s mouth was wide
open.
Midsummer Hats. .
It makes me cross to see the enor
mous size of the new sailors. They
make one’s first' part of the season
look hopelessly out of it.
It’s useless to try "to be in style with
out a large hat just now. You might
as well stay at home.
The newest sailor (and nothing is
smarter) is short fore and aft and is
trimmed with a huge bow and nothing
else. These broad brimmed shapes are
not worn tilted, but are placed; flat on
the head with little or no bandeau.
They are very becoming to people with
plump faces, but a little trying to those
with sharp noses and cheek bones.
Nevertheless, every woman wants
one no matter how she looks in it.
The all white chip is the handsomest
of all, and this can be trimmed with a
wreath of white marabou and a small
bow at one side.
Marabou in all colors is the rage, so
if you have an old boa it is now too hot
to wear trim your hat with it.
Perfectly enormous jet 'pin, are
“There is a hat shape called “The
Lydlg” which may be easily trimmed
at home and which is very dressy. It
turns up directly in front, and the un
derside should be faced in pale colored
taffeta, either pink, pale green or ■
pale blue. Any milliner will do this
for you at a sthall cost. -
The trimming consists of three
plumes falling backward as far as they
will reach. This is a perfectly stun
ning hat and all the rage here. It is
especially good in pink and white.
Don’t wear silk gloves any more. Let
me give you the hint—smart women are
wearing white or natural colored
chamois elbow length gloves. These
are only $2 a pair and wear twice as
long as the silk ones, which are fast
going out of style.
It costs no more to keep up in these -
little matters of dress, and it certainly
improves one’s appearance immensely.
New York.
The country cousin’s mouth teas tridc open
used to trim black millinery. They
have heads which stick out for a couple
of inches.
The lace veil drawn close to the face
and fastened at the nape of the neck is
still worn, but in light colors, princi
pally straw shades.
The Newest Waists.
The very newest imported waists are
made without fullness. They are beau
tifully embroidered in panels and have
a jabot of lace i sertion tacked to the
base of the collar in front.
It seems to me these plain blouses,
when they are properly drawn down,
give a much better fit than those made
with fullness.
The proper belt to wear in the sum
mer time is one of white linen fitted
high at the back and low in front.
Some of these come boned so that the
stiffening can be taken out when the
belt is washed. They are most appro
priate for Eton jacket suite.
THE RICHEST ENGLISHWOMAN.
Since the death of the Baroness Bur-
dett-Coutts, Miss Emily Charlotte Tal
i' hot is the richest British woman alive.
1 Miss Talbot is one of the three chil-
uren of Christopher Talbot, a popular
member of parliament of the mid-Vic
torian era. The only son died in early
youth, and Miss Talbot’s sister, some
what younger than herself, became the
wife, just forty years ago, of Mr.
Fletcher of Saltoun. Miss Talbot re
mained at home, keeping house for her
father at beautiful Margam Abbey,
Glamorganshire, and on his death,
which took ■ place some sixteen years
ago, his devoted eldest daughter found
herself left his sole executrix and
owner of all the Talbot real estate,
valued at about ?7,300,000, as also of a
reversionary interest in a huge trust
fund in consols.
REFLECTION
ON AUNTIE’S MAN-
NERS.
She was a very pretty little girl,
with eyes of bluq^ and hair of gold, but
j she didn’t like soap and water very
water
much because it was so wet, she said.
One day she went to tea with her
auntie, and her hands were just a
shade grubbier than usual. You see,
she had been trying to make marbles
from some soft asphalt that the road
makers had left over.
“Effie,” said her aunt, “how dirty
your hands are! What would you say
if auntie came to table with hands like
that?”
“Oh,” said the little lady of the guld
en locks, “I’d be too polite to say ?.ny-
thing about it."
Then auntie changed the subject.
LADIES INTELLECTUAL
Queen Olga of Greece is the only wo- woman in the
man In the world who bears the rank the reputation
of admiral. It was conferred on her j portrait artist
by the czar of Russia, her cousbi. scissors and black
Miss Helen Parker, a young Philadel- I Mrs. Eleanor
Bfhia girl, is unique in being the only I Countess Bishop
who has achieved
great professional
the medium of
as a mental a:
scientists by w
1'C'n taken to u;
. Vi.
ington Irving Bishop, who fifteen cerned she is no; regarded by the laws
:d customs of England as a married
■man. The idea of the law is that
affairs of state consume all the lime
of the king and. therefore, no responsi-
Bishr
of Qiwen Alexan- biiitv for th c
would not be responsible for them, as combined, this is virtually a civic priv- ! draftsman, saleswoman, solicitor, nurse,
any other husband would. The ‘king i ilege. They also have full municipal ; superintendent, coachman, yardman,
cannot be sued for debt, but the queen! suffrage. : carpenter, bookkeeper, secretary, treas-
catt be. In making a claim against the estate urer, collector, overseer, patternmaker.
There are no suffragist campaigns ini of her mother, Mrs. Aurora B. Kfonck dresseutter, dressmaker, expresrmau.
Iceland. Women are ranked as the j of St. Louis said she had performed buyer, general manager, clerk, manu-
■eqitalu of men. A woman votes in j services for her in the capacities of. facturer. fireman, plumber, cat pet lay-
mother of So far as her private, business is con- j ed debts in her husband's name he .churcn, and as church and state are - canvasser, housekeeper, manager, 1 er, paperhanger and painter.