The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
A Recipe for Effectually COncealing the
Marks Made by Advancing Years.
The Craze for Diamonds and the Effect It Is
Having on New Notwithstanding About
Editor Pulitzer's Handsome Helpmeet.
CLARA BELLE.

A Suffering Woman-Gould and Society-A
Beautiful Jewess-A Valuable Recipe.
Special to the Indianapolis Journaa.
New YORK, Dec. 18-It is shame to treat a
beautiful woman so. Her sufferings would De
acute and cruel enough were she commonplace
in looks, and they would even be lamentable for
positively ugly person; but when | tell you
that they are inflicted upon the widow Ham
mersley, whom described only few weeks ago
as the acknowledged lovelest belle in Astor So
ciety, you can realize their abhorrent atrocious
ness. From what do they arisel From the fact
that out of an income of three hundred thousand
year she is permitted to spend only
one hundred thousand Her estate is,
somehow, in the hands of horrid men trustees,
who do not alphabetically feel for lady just
emerged brilliantly into the most pretentious
section of American wealth and fashion, and
they therefore delay the full payment of her
annual allowance. Considering that she has al
ready enthroned herself successfully as queen
of beauty at the opera and is just about to
enter upon the additional domain of swell balls,
it is ridiculous to restrict her to paltry hun
dred thousand year.
Andmoney does count in society at the apex!
Ideness is the next requisite in the case Of any
body who pretends to imitation arstocracy. Of
course, we can't countenance a woman who
works for living; and now the idea prevails con-
siderably that man must be leisurely or he is
no gentleman. Marks of toll on his hands are
disgraceful, quite.
How soft your hands are" whispered the
bright maid servant of girl friend of mine to
swell who coddled her in dark corner San,
yes" he jocularly exclaimed; II am gambler,
you see." "Not bit of it" she naively respond
ed and she rubbed his palm critically across her
cheek; 'you are barber. 1 could tell that right
away
The news in exclusive society now is that Jay
Gould is going into it. He can'tl Well, am
not so sure of that. They said SO of the Wander
derbilts. and yet no impediment was encountered
by the family when the late William H. re-
luctantly gave his consent to the move. A
series Of magnificent entertainments did the
business right speedily. The same entrance is
open to the Goulds and it is all but certain
that they going to try it. It is on account of
the millionaire's dauther-inlaw, the pretty wife
of George, that the incurson will be made.
She is naturally ambitious of social distinction,
to compensate for the stage CAREER which she
abandoned on m arrying. She is the pet of Jay
Gould, and has strong influence over him.
With such brilliant and persuasive daughter
in-law Gould has made up his mind to let the
youngsters go it socially, and to make of him at
least quiet lay figure in unaccustomed society.
O'Neil, the witness who testified in the Lord
Colin Campbell divorce case to having peeped
kh o,Oh 1axxh n1n % Id hall
servant aboard Jay Gould's yacht. the ATLANTA,
all last season and during the long trip of the
inancier last summer. When he went back to
England on the summons of his former en-
ployer, to bear witness as q household pepper,
he asked whether his services would again be re-
quired on the Aralanta.
mo-" was Gould's reply; "you needn't come
back"
George Gould says: "The fact is that key
hole peeping. wouldn't pay the trouble in our
family, and ONeil would have no recompense
for his extra work in that line So father
wouldn't take him back"
The season of Christmas purchasingi is nearing
its end, and the mention of household scrutiny
reminds me of curious advertising trick Most
of our merchants wisely confne themselves to
announcements in the newspapers, where people
read them, but there some who waste money
in circulars that look pretty, but are never ex-
amined by the recipients The mails are bur
de ned with this unperused matter. One chap
has solved the difficulty, however. Every resi-
dence throughout the city regions of well-to-do
people has taken in letter from the carrier ad-
dressed in the latest chirography fashionable to
females-bg angular scrawls-to the husband
of the concern, and distinctly marked person
ar in corner of the pretentious envelope
What woman writes TO my husband like that2"
the wife wonders at sight of it. He is away.
The letter is in her hands. Does she open it2
Rather. In about one-sixteenth of a second. In
it she finds communication. in imitation pen
marship, setting forth that the choicest Christ
mas gift Is so and-sO obtainable as specified.
That circular is thoroughly read.
An event has stirred society in talky way
though occurring far outside its lines. That was
the double marriage of Mrs. Stvers- Murphy.
Did You see John T. Raymond's company last
season in Colonel Sellersl' And do you recall
big, reddishly blonde young fellow who played
a minor part? That was Vint Murphy, son of
President Grants intimate friend, Collector
Thomas G. Murphy His older brother had
welded wealth and beauty in a noted Brooklyn
belle, and everybody thought that Vint would
accomplish the same feat Certainly he devoted
himself assiduously to the job for several sea-
sons at Long Branch and Saratoga, where heir
esses congregate. He was a graceful waltzer,
clever small-talker, and seemingly bent on the
desired achievement But his finances were bad,
and he thought that as an actor no might both
mend his income until he caught the wife and
make himself more potent as a wooer. At Long
Branch last summer. he met at the biggest ho-
tel the pretty Mrs. Sivers, reputed wife of a rich
wagon manufacturer. She broke his matrimonial
plan all to bits. They fell in love with each
other. And now their elopement and marriage,
her arres: on a charge of bigamy, and all the
rest of the scandal, are public property. Thus
heiress turns out a failure, and society has
another topic for gossip.
This has been great week for the Jewesses
I mean it sincerely and admiringly. The
Montefore fair for charity has conferred the