The morning news., 1891-02-01
BRIGHT GOTHAM GOSSIP.
FADs AND FOOLISH FASHIONABLE
FOIBLES.

How Our w omen Walk-WE rat Women
Are tie Best WalkersP-A Mans
Present of fDiamonded Slippers-They
Were Beautiful, But No. l, and She
Couldn't Get in No. 3i-Small Fortunes
in Slippers-A New York woman's
Ancestors-Bernha Cleopatra"
Said to Be a Failure-A Coming New
Actress-The Newest Styles of Femi-
nine Stationery-Chara Told in
Writing Papers.
(Copyri0ht. 1917
NEW YoRK, Jan. Silt is not exactly
the proper quotation, but it is true that ''all
things come to her who knoweth how to
walk, and by knowing how to walk, l
mean to go out in all sorts and conditions of
weather, and keep your eyes open wide, so
that you see everything, from the shop
windows to the pretty girls, from the sun
shine to the clear blue sky. and you can get
absolutely intoxicated with the fresh air.
Now the material side of knowing how to
walk Is unknown 10 the New York woman.
When she goes in for being stately she takes
two long steps and three short ones, aud
when she is in hurry she trots. A woman
trotting, especially if shs is waving q muff
TO stop street car, is much more ridiculous
than the woman who is doing an amateur
tobagganipg down a high stoop, and she
ought TO realize this anc cease her frantic
rush. A French woman can hasten, and
you are never conscious of anything ridicu-
lous in her walk.
THI BEST WALKERS IN THIS COUNTRY
are the southern women, who from natural
indolence put the foot down with ease, and
are taught early in lie that they must land
first on their toes and not on their heels.
The western woman walks with emphasis,
as if she meant to get there. and, usually,
think she does. The Philadelphia woman
has little bit of an inclination to mince,
and an occasional startled air about her, as
if she were afraid of being quick in her
movements. To walk we'll, have com
Portable shoe that fits the foot, with
medium high heel, and always put the toes
down first; this gives good carriage,
throws the hips in their proper position, in
tinsifies the springy movement, and makes
the man passing by you very conscious of
the fact that you are well shaped about the
shoulders, and have graceful curve from
the waist down. A woman who walks well
is pleasure to look at, and every man who
knows her feels himself honored by being
seen with her.
DIAMOND SLIPPERS. BUT THEY WERE NO. l.
The real fin de steele is for the man of
your heart to give you not gloves, not
flowers, not sweets, though these may all
come in due season, but slippers. Slippers
such as Cinderella wore; slippers that gilt
ter with buckles OF gold or silver, sometimes
precious stones, and that have the highest
of heels and the narrowest and most pointed
of toes With them always comes wish
that your feet may go in pleasant places, or
the slippers come with a hope that you may
walk through life beside him who loves you
with ali the intensity of his heart. It's very
touching. But l think the most
touched girl in New York was one
who got a pair of white satin
instead of a buckle, was a beautiful dia-
mond butterfly, that might might be used
as O brooch or q hair orpament when it was
not doing duty on the slipper. l consider
those slippers the first excuse l have ever
seen tor anybody putting their feet on the
mantel-shelf but the funny part Of it is
that the young man believed his own dar-
ling wore a No. /, whereas she found it dif-
icult to got into No. g. She couldn't
change the slippers. for she couldn't find out
| where they came from, but she bought her
self q pair exactly like them, removed the
butterflies, and dances around and over
that young mans heart with perfect uncon-
cern.
SMALL FORTUNES IN SMALL SLIPPERS.
Another pretty pair of slippers sent to a
foncee were of gold brocade, with buckles
glittering with topaz. These were to be
worn at dinner where the engagement
was announced, and the gown with them
was one Of deep yellow chiffon. The man
who sent these slippers will certainly make
good husband, for with them came q
lovely yellow gauze fan on tortoise she'll
sticks, with monogram wrought out in
topaz, pair of pale yellow gloves that
reached far up over the arm, while very
far down in the toe of each slipper was a
pale yellow silk stocking. These all came
together with the note from him, and later
in the day, without any card, presumably
not from him, arrived a box in which were
encased pair of garters, one black, the
other yellow, the buckles set with topaz,
and on one was the monogram of the wearer
that was on the black garter-while on
the yellow was engraven "Luck comes
through me-" The girl was 80 happy she
couldn't tell whether it came from the
garter or the man who sent it, but of course
she knew he did, and she intends TO thank
him in the prettiest way possible-after her
marriage.
A NEW YORK woMAN's ANCESTORS.
Everybody can't have ancestors-that is,
of course, everybody does have ancestors,
but they are not always particularly vain
OF them, nor anxious to INTRODUCES them to
aires may not object to having thieves, and
liars, and forgers, and men who die on the
wrong end of the rope among their pro-
genitors, but plain, ordinary, everyday
people have an idea that they would rather
their parents" far back should be more or
less respectable, presumably more. A
bright woman, with no blue blood
to speak of. has solved the ancestral picture
fashion in very amusing way. She herself
is a very beautiful woman. and she
earned her living by her needle and her
brush; that is, doing very fine embroidery
for various decorative societies, aud by
painting menus and cards for the large
shops. A man whose riches are great aud
whose blood is most cerulean fsll in love
with her, and made her his wife. This
family had slight inclination to scott, not
because she had earned her own living
thank God that is credit to woman
nowadays-but because she hadn't come of
gentle folk. She never seemed to know
this-had the tact to ignore it in most
beautiful manner. At her first afternoon
tea the members of the family and her in
innate friends were invited into her own
special room to see the picture of, as she
funpily put it, "the women who have pre-
ceded me-" and there she had, either in
colors or photographs. the picture OF almost
every woman who had triumphed through
her beauty. She had Cleopatra, Catherine
of Russia, Lady Hamilton, the three beau
tiful Cummings. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Nell
n l.