The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-16
THE FASHION, THE Fun AND THE
FROLIC.
Things You Sec and Hear As You wande
Around tho Big Crowded Garden.

Things You Sec and Hear You Wander
Around tho Big Crowded Garden.
Fashion has taken possession OF tho Garden
in the square and is holding n great house
pnrty. at which tho New York Horse Associa-
tion is permitted to furnish Just the sort OF
amusement that holds the function together
and doesn't interfere with the conversation.
Fashion is running the horse department. too.
to n largo extent, for tho powerful Clydesdale
and Percherons. tho heavy dray horses. and
stocky roadsters are conspicuously absent
from this display Of lue-blooded horsefesh.
where only the hunters, the high steppers. the
freakish dude hackneys, the tandeme. and
trotters. owned By men OF place and fashion.
interest the people and win the ribbons. The
funny thing about 1t oil is to soc the
queens and princesses OF the American aris-
tocracy whose sacred exclusiveness Is usually
guarded 9 carefully Is Is the person OF royalty.
sit down here in this public garden to gossip
and chatter. TO fllrt and futter for the benefit
OF the common people. who push and iostle
and crowd around the boxes to hear what
sassiety says and how she says It. to copy the
Paris gowns. and catch the latest accent OF
swelldom. And the sang trod Of the pretty
women that lean over the box rails. looking
soft nothings that that they do not mean into
the eyes Of the men who look up at them with
all the devotion that feeble intellect can
throw into insipid faces. who trip about from
box to box and talk over their affairs and other
peoples. especially the latter entirely oblivious
OF the curious crowd around them.
Yes she is pretty. very pretty: but how
how old a woman looks with her hair parted
in the centre Don't you think OF" And then.
musngly. Why. she looks thirty. doesn't
sho:" And the man who had pointod out the
pretty girl in the picture ha. turned away
4; l.,
make Of himself talking to a woman. but OF
them eli the most consummate idiot when he
begins to talk ahou: one pretty woman to an
other pretty woman and expects her to be
sympathetic
There were several casualties at the show
yesterday not reported in the list OF accid ents.
long trousers apparently. and with tho dell
cate down, upon his liz ,Iust bursting into
his carnatlon flower. started in to make the
grand tour OF the horses. Twenty five times
he hooked bis cane into the box rail in front
" the WT.iI'is %Sco'aings to re !, l London
you.do.o.o.ah? Cbawmed to SEQ You.
know where to find you at IN, least
in the Son you Won This is
stand ? Well Groome! horses and well brought
out women. BY, love. do. pom my honah!"
began to tell on him and he was gently led
out OF the place by his trienda
bed a. ~ anopjrxv was nil ON aceonnt ~
the pretty girl and the freight dude.
Now. why do they call them hackneys?'
cause they are-nre bred that way. don't
you know HACKING sort OF gait they have
thu man With VIE his cane ha Way DOWN his
Iwonder how they curl his mape that way7"
Ills maine is pulled. lady" interrupted the
groom seeing the effect it was having on his
What is pulled ?" said the girl.
Why, it isis pulled. don't yon see? Yes.
pulled. don't You und err, Awiuiiy funny:
n fellows moustache Is pulled to make 1t grow !
a certa in wnV." ,,,
way" persisted tho girl
Cause he's AFRAID he'll hit bis ~, pose With
and that's part o. it. and then the groom, |
who had seen the long hairs pulled out Of that
and had driven him without bearing reins.
but with his moath strapped back to his |
hordcr until the instant m ARE rem n + tGhtened
III in u TT. And the girl said: That ind OF
horse looks like green rarnation. all wrong
%!n"s' az Ii" had been b ru
M in a stall too shor, for him to grow up right
The imgcnue girl is Mt tho show. She comes
with the club man. with his burgundy nose
and eanvasLaek s"YHGh. which Sh. gets there
Jlue dress. with little ribbon around the
waist, a lace ruie around the shoulders. and
he shoulder. She has been an inRenue a long
inc. and she doesn't propose to try that baby
plue next her face, Her tale golden hair she
Town low in u l,tio loop at the back 81 her
lead. her bonnet Is scarcely more than bit
II blue ribbon tied about her head with some
parking things in front, Her smile Is as
neltngly innocent as that OF bisque doll.
)ut somehow tho women know she isn't the
rap nj ina n RI in n d. |
nire her as she passes. ,
+" Deuced cIevah. She does 1t as well as she
lid five years ago" mutters club man half
lnder his breath. and then wonders why his
vife who overheard, is 30 frigid the rest Of the
venng.
ddIy enough. seems most left to her own re-
ections. She has m exquisite renaissance
ace perfect in It's oval outline. faultless In
eature framed In with dead gold hair and