The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-05
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QUESTION That Is Now Worrying the
Ultra F~ashionables in New
York City.
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fHpAcial Correspondence Of TIE I~NDEpENpENT.l
- EW YORK, NOV. @.-THE FASH
VJ ionabls world always likes to have
lux something to mildly worry about. 1t
rot through with the servants Ca
business. Now II Ia debating the question
81 introducing cockades on the hats Of
soachmen and grooms.
Al q matter Of fact, cockades are seen
syery day on Fifth avenue. They are gen-
eYall1 simid and moro or less unag0ressive
coSkaAsA But they are the genuine article
% far q they 20. The practice il not, how
ever, general, for the reason that society
has BY no means decided that the thing IL
III good form. Some have argued that the
cockade, like q coat Of arms, had to be
somehow q matter Of inheritance, and to
depend UPON rank or something Of The sort.
The other side has said, Nothing of the
kind. You may have your cockade. say
these people, provided yoa conform
10 certain conventions. One OF
those oraclss says: "Rulss Of
etiquette governing the livsries OF servants
arc d clearly defined az those controlling
drawing room precedence. As. for in
stance, q foreign ambassador shows his ma
tional colors in the cockade, with a single
rilt band about the hat; dukes of the
realm assume triple bands and = gold cook
ade; 4 marquis reduces the bands to two;
sarls and viscounts to one; barons. knights
and bishops are allowed silver trimmings,
while the gentry are confined to simple
black. Gold sticks, scarlet coats, nosegays,
etc., are reserved for noblemsn of high
degree; but the simplest may
put his men in bright livery, powder their
hair and sport : high hat ornament without
the slightest offense to FORM"
Nevertheless cockades are relatively
scarce. Why is this? Since we adopt the
English groom and the English footman
without any apparent qualm. why stop at
any of the appendages of funkeyism?
Perhaps the real answer will be found in
the growing hesitancy on the part of peo-
pie Of the greatest wealth to parade their
"Why, sir" said a society man to
me the other day, eff the Astors and Van
and Goulds and Narquands and
Beekmans were to put on the outward show
Of people Of the same wealth and social
in Germany or Italy. not to men
ton France Or England, We should have q
storm of restrictive legislation that would
noon make it impossible for wealth to ac-
cumulate and arrogate as it does. Our
Goulds do not faunt their wealth in the
streets. and they do not care to have their
palaces described too frequently in the
papers. 1t stirs the ire of that public which
MIR. Vanderbilt so courageously damned.
So the American millionaire. while he has
does not parade too large a ~retinue
of liveried servants. He tnfns his money
over and over in stocks instead of spending
it on land and servants as the Englishman
does. He has one eye on his millions, and
the other on the legislature, and has the 6
genius of a politician in keeping the atten- I
tion of the profanum volgaris off his en- !
heap of dollars" s