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i ckNtfcw of TWAr a> a j ati& pSaym$$lt Ys^tVtatuier iJSKf^PWrr Duchess de la Rochefoucauld Isadora flimcaiy AgtisticPaucer Counteas of Tankervi He to RAVELING Americans and more Indeed, cert regard Ame and transplanted I ire growing more mpopular abroad. | in foreigners pro as a joke, illation, and int foreigner .-spiring lady regarded with t, indignation of the land of the prejudice it is well to 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.