Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-27

A NEW WORKERS. NOTE BOOK.
Scraps 81 Gossip GasAsroa Here and
There In Goshaa.
BRIGHT woMEN n coSvKxrIoS-rur sErIxw-rrxxpo
AFFAn-rHs roecA unsRzILA AND Yo-LxAS
HANDKHRcHrRR-nNp RkApn BNHoP lIARp
YRoN-A NEW WASHINGTON DRAMA
Correspondents Of TIE Evxxuo srsn
NEW YoR5 Oct "a
There is big convention OF American women
here this week. You had women's convention
at Washington not long ago 50 you know some
thing about it Their great meetings are much
more Interesting than those OF men In several
ways ! have found For one thing, they are
better behaved, You don't hear groans and cat
calls and Kisses when somebody disaCrees with
somebody else, things I have heard even In con.
ventions OF clergymen. For another thing, none
OF the dull women 60 to womens conventions; or,
II they do 60, they don't say anything, 90 nobody
nnds them out In . convention OF men there are
always . number Of ''chumpsr who insist upon
hearing themselves talk everybody else tired; but
IN this w. Z. 4. u. convention every speaker IA
an ana Happy ana says something worth hear.
ling gems OF repartee and rhetoric eyerywhere
ha re been the speeches OF two or three men who
addressed the gathering. and as listened TO them
se IT Win the
almost ashamed Of my sex. There were only two
male speakers who held their own with the females
HEWITT sHG sSsy "sss asSs
Clinton B. Fisk.
kyrie Bellows Adventures at Tuxedo and his
subsequent challenge to Pierre Lorilard have been
widely discussed In print and that 10 just what
Mr.. Bellew wanted I talked with q gentleman
who has the run OF Tuxedo about this affair."
''The whole thing" said he, ais the most brazen
bid for vulgar advertising that I have ever en-.
countered, and whatever may have been the former
attitude OF Tuxedos governors concerning kyrle
Bellew, there isn't any doubt now that both Beilew
and Mrs. Potter will be forever excluded from the
not OBJECT to Bellows becoming a guest OF Mr. Mr.
Potter at Tuxedo, nor did any other member raise
the slightest hint OF an objection TO his presence.
governors ever expressed an opinion respecting
beilew, personally, In their lives. They did not
welcome com him with open arms perhaps and they dd
with the same courtesy that any comparative
stranger would receive as the guest OF a member
The denouement 70 Bellows visit shows that with
him and Mrs. Potter advertising is a business
The latters cultivation OF the Prince OF Wales was
simply business, and the invention about Tuxedo's
refusal to tolerate Kyrle Bellew because he is
play actor, the subsequent newspaper articles the
challenge, and all are simply business. They have
10 sns and
1 asked my informant what notice the Tuxedo
people would take OF the affair.
none Whatever" said he. ca Some OF the mem.
bers are amused at the gullibinty OF the public
ana the newspapers In accepting the story, and
as OKs ana are
Potters connivance In scheme to make the Parks
members belittled by the public. But the ma
notice OF the advertising dodge, which everybody
acquainted with Tuxedo knows TO be SUCH"
The heavy-swells of 1ppeer-tendom are not as
general rule ayerse to with nla
To be sure, VIM. ]. Florence, the comedian was
denied admission to the Union Club on account OF
his profession, but other clubs as swell as the
Union have actors and theater managers enrolled
as members, and 1 do not believe there are two
c n1a,. IN New YORK which would backball man
nave even heard II denied that Mr.. Florence was
rejected by the Union on this account I have
never applied TO the Union for membership. The
other was that he was detected telling fish-es
about the number Of salmon he killed on the Res
II all fsh-liars are to be denied club member
snip, there must be precious few fishermen In club
dom.
The Tosca umbrellas have made their appear
| ance. The Tosca canes, as long as shepherds
crooks are not yet carried by ladies on Broadway
Out they are In one or two shop windows Good
ness knows the Tosca umbrellas are bad enough,
and hope the dear ladies will draw the line at
handled, cumbersome umbrellas with any grace,
and the only ones have yet met attached to the
ciumsey things were sights TO behold They
they would have toted fence-rail or q bean pole
one VIII soon have to dodge his way along the
sTe - 70 w aSel1 ge6g In the neck the
avenue stage the other afternoon and she had
Tosca umbrella. She first tried TO get In carrying
was nearly thrown to the pavement. Then She
essayed 70 get IN and pull the thing In after her,
4I' Ins oTOs persisted N swinging shut against
straight inside the stage, ana wObbled IL about so
much In climbing In after It that every passenger
against Implement. When she wa was seated s the
Tosca occupied longitudinal section OF the stage
upon I the Knees ss Of ssl the and when
my head and crawl under it. tr you have ever
tried 10 ride In herdic or horse car and carry
long nsn-pole you may have some conception OF
Another lady whom saw Flooding through the
rain Tuesday had her Tosca umbrella FOLDED tight
10 ner BODY and half covered with her gossamer
waterproof while for the protection OF herself and
| her Tosca from the wet she carried over her head
an open ordinary alpaca parachute.
There is another novelty Just working its way
into fashionable prominence. viii call IL, lack.
ing better name, the ng-leaf' handkerchief. It
is made OF white linen and Is cut the exact shape
OF big ngleaf The veins OF the leaf are stitched
in silk, sometimes blue, sometimes red and some
times green, and make pretty effect don't be-
lieve they are made for active service those have
seen having been tucked by their feminine wearers
into the front OF the Dress and rather guess they
are for adcrnment only.
Ihave been wondering for long time what had
become Of Washington Irving Bishop the "mind
reader" who made pot OF money hereabouts
some tine ago and was exposed by Henry Guy
Carleton and some other clever gentlemen. had
read with pain some very harsh illusions TO
Bishop In California newspapers allegations that
he had gone clean crazy, others worse still hint
ing at croOkedness, and finally, q report that he
had escaped" from San Francisco and was on his
way to Australia via the Sandwich Islands This
week / opened little package that came
TO me by NAH with an odd-looking
stamp and ] got news OF the wanderer
The package contained q half-sheet poster
and a newspaper. The poster was q triumph OF
displayed typography in Central American SPAN
1sh, headed "TeaLro Principalw 1t advertised.
according to my notion OF hybrid Spanish, the
"twO last and only marvellous sessions OF senior
Commander washington Irving Bishop OF world
wide reputation, the grand OWNER OF thoughts
on the afternoon and evening OF Sunday, Septem-
Der 30" 1t told how COMMANDER" Bishop had
astonished the natives In "New YORK, including
"the President, the ministers OF state and the
diplomatic corps with his wonderful power. Then
followed the program. The frst "act" was the sre-
production or a new life, performed before his
majesty, the emperor OF BRAZIL and the imperial
family" Then followed the discovery OF hidden
papers, as executed before the KING VI Sweden and
Norway" the TRANSMISSION OF a musical air from
ones brain TO another's, as performed for the
%