The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

body ever speaks to this woman as she driveA
The men who know her never look at her,
and by curious fancy she Is spoken OF as
the "Abbess."
Here comes sight that will take all the
bitterness out of your heart and make you
realize that there are good women In the
world, who are loving mothers and happy
ones It's young Mrs. George Gould. She Is
in quiet, modest Victoria, and With her are
her babies and nurse. As the years have
gone by since she became George Gould's
| wife she has grown prettier and sweeter look
ing, and you feel as does working man
who's saying as be looks at her that she's the
heaven that would leaYen the whole lump Of
the Gould graspiness. There's four-in-hand
coming which looks extremely smart. 1t is
driven by man who likes to think he looks
like an Englishman, but he doesn't-he looks
like an Englishmans valet-that's the mistake
that kind of cad generally makes. Hisfather
made huge fortune in bakery. 1t COM
menced with few loaves of home made bread
and gradually grew into steam bakeries all
over the city, and the son is doing his best to
make the world forget that his father was an
honest man, By behaving like fool and hav-
ing the people who eat his dinners, accept his
invitations to drive, go to his theatre parties,
laugh at him. Oh, you see Vanity Fair in
the park It's the one place in the world
where, if you will stay long enough and look
at everything with philosophical eye, you
will come away perfectly satisfied with your
own station in life.
The monocle fad has struck the women of
New York and struck them at the wrong
time and in the wrong way. Last year, when
the so called swagger set in London and
Paris assumed the tiny nnonocle with its gold
rim, the directoire coat was being worn and
1t was perfectly proper to have the monocle
swung on its black ribbon around the neck,
for the ladies of the directoire wore them So
But with tailor made frock, or any ordinary
gown, the monocle was simply an exhibition
of a woman's ignorance Of the history Of
costume as well as bit suggestive of her
being aIttle loud. The first one seen in New
York was worn by the Baroness Blanc, who
had a perfect directoire costume, a copy of
the famous picture in the Louvre of Nile.
RaimOnde, who in the days when Napoleon
was director of the fate Of France, was the
leading actress at the Coincide Franchise
The Baroness Blanc wore a black silk skirt
quite plain, and gathered just enough at the
top to be graceful. Over this came the long
coat of diagonal cloth, in color perfect Lin
coin green. The waistcoat was long one Of
white brocade lowered IN rose color and
belted in at the waist line with a broad black
ribbon belt. a jabot of old rose point lace
was just below the high ribbon stock and it
was caught in place by a moonstone brooch.
The monocle was on an inch wide ribbon,
long enough to throw over the shoulders,
h1 in nd
just on the edge of the jabot. 1t was never
used, it was only worn as the finishing touch
to the costume. The hat was a large one of
green felt, turned up quite near the front and
caught there with a bunch of full black
feathers. The gloves were black undressed
kid, wrinkled at the wrist, just as they were
worn in the time of the pretty actress and
just as they are worn today. The monocle in
the eye, though it is affected by few women
in New York never obtained in Paris or
London, except among the members of the
demi-monde, who unfortunately, the Ameri-
can woman too often copies
That pink and white young woman was
Miss Mabel Wright, who has been called such
q beauty, and who was more than ever talked
about when she married the divorced brother
in-law of the Duchess of Manchester. Her
mar was exquisite, being ChaJ perfect blonde
50 seldom seen except on the heads of babies,
but she lacked expression. Her discovery
was very funny. One morning at Narragau-
sett one of the gilded youths went in bathing
very early. Suddenly as he was swimming
far out there seemed to come from the depths
of the deep blue sea a mermaid whose long
yellow hair was floating in the water. With
his mouth full of salt it was rather difficult
for a suffering young man to speak, but he
to gasp ont, Are you VenusT" No
body knows what she answered to this, but
an introduction to two OF three fashionable
women over at Newport followed and Miss
Mabel Wright got in the swim from knowing
how to float successfully. Skillful, wasn't it,
KATE KEARNET.