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Chicago. Sept. 8.-When / was in
London last week, 1 saw a smart trap
drive up to the door of the Hotel Vic
toria, and woman of exquisite pose
get out.
1t was Mrs. Langtry. She was going
later to the races, and was faultlessly
attired in a blue canvas tailor-made
gown. made over silk, a high white
collar. black satin stock tie and a car
nation for a boutonniere.
II believe she will be just as beauti-
full twenty years from now" remarked
a man standing near. II fancy 1t will
be said of her as Of Cleopatra, that
Age cannot wither her."
But evidently Mrs. Langtry is not
so sanguine about this, or she does not
believe in allowing nature to take it's
usual course OF providing wrinkles for
all women who are reaching the shady
side of 40. She was going into the Vic
toria for the purpose of undergoing
treatment at the hands of a woman
noted for face massage; one. who
though American, takes charge each
season of the faces of some OF Eng
lands famous beauties, putting the
skin in perfect condition.
Nine. Nellie Media. who was stop
ping at the Hotel Metropoie, next door,
was also going through the same
treatment. taking 1t each morning af-
ter her breakfast.
Thinking that face manipulation
which derived attention from two such
famous women must be a good thing
to know. 1 sought an interview with
the little woman who had invented the
lotions used, and that special twist of
the wrist upon which beautiful women
depend to restore wrinkled or faded
compilations.
The massa gist kindly gave me the in
terview. and with it a practical illus
tration of the methods she applied to
the faces of her well-known customers.
First comes the massage. She goes
over the skin of the face again and
again, rubbing it in circles with only
the tips of her fingers. The wrinkles
are smoothed upwards, and the blood
in the veins brought into quick cir
cula ton.
After twenty minutes of this move
ment. soft white cream is applied to
the skin in the same manner. This is
thoroughly worked in until the face is
in a profuse perspiration.
Then a flannel cloth, dipped in rain
water Tor any distilled water), is softly
and continuously rubbed over the skin.
removing all the particles of dust and
grease that necessarily accumulate in
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great object of interest. The picture,
which was the first one ever taken
fof a person, was sent to England to Sir
William HerSchel, from whose son it
was procured for the Worlds Fair.
Miss Draper, still unmarried and very
fine looking at so. tells of it with much
enjoyment. She remembers the process
more wildly and with more intelli-
gence than could many of the society
bellies nowadays tell how they are pho
tographed.
Among writer's there are a few who
must have passed into what ordinary
women would consider old age. yet
who are livelier than ever and doing
better work. Some are even assisted by
their grandchildren. Think of it!
Marion Harland has just returned from
the Orient, whittier she went to write
an eastern novel and to get pointers
for eastern reform. Amelia Barr, in
her 10Th year, is one of the best paid
of living novelists, and travels to
Europe every summer, taking a party
of young people with her.
Then, toward the old age mark, yet
so splendid that no one dares to send
them quite over it into the seventy
flves, are the leaders of New York
society. Among them are Mrs. William
Astor and Mrs. Paran Stevens.
IneSe nne society women never grow
old Occasionally they die. One reads
about their demise in the newspapers
Their friends speak of it as sudden
and unexpected" but they never say
that she was old or feeble"
Grace Greenwood is another of the
smart old women. She holds annual
receptions,-very large ones-at her
Washington home, and she does con-
siderable writing and public reading
now, though fifty years ago she was
an accomplished editor and owner of
a magazine.
1t is claimed that women do not
easily wear out. They fret out much
sooner. Women who have led active
lives, either in society or in public
work, or have devoted themselves to a
cause or a speciality, are young and
beautiful long after their home sisters
have faded out. though they have
worked harder, accomplished more and
made more friends.
AUGUSTA PRESCOTT.
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there is vast difference. which makes
one readily distinguishable from the
other. They are very expensive vehi-
cles, and cost all the way from $1,000 to
to $4,000, although $4,000 is the average
price.
A very seasonable vehicle, with
which to become acquainted, is a ten
mis- phaeton. which is a great favorite
this year at Newport and Lenox. At
first glance. it resembles a victoria;
but it has no cover. 1t is a less eX-
pensive trap, although it costs be-
tween $3.50 and $500.
The spider phaeton is becoming a
very popular trap, indeed, both for
town and country use
Mrs. Burke-Roche is another whip
who drives almost daily, and she also
uses a spider phaeton, although she
prefers a Stanhope, and is more fire.
quently seen in one, to which she
drives pair of high steppers. The
running gear is in dark green; the body
of the carriage is black. The cost of
the Stanhope, similar to the one owned
by Mrs. Burke-Roche, is between $500
and $780,
A very swell wagon indeed, and one
seen in all it's glory at West Chester,
that aristocratic resort, is the Kensing-
ton. 1t is very charming to drive in,
but not so very easy of entrance or
exit. The carriage is built for four;
the two who ride behind, mount in
front, half of the front seat opens side
ways, and in this way only are the
back cushions reached. The seats can
be so arranged that the occupants sit
back to back. A Kensington is one of
the many vehicles in the stables of
Mr.. James NJ. Waterbury, at West
Chester; the cost of such a trap is
between $500 and $400.
i L
phaeton" is much affected by Mrs.
Hermann Oelrichs, whs is seen nearly
every morning driving on Bellevue
avenue. Newport; usually her sister,
Miss Fair. accompanies her. a phae-
ton of this description is not expensive
something in the neighborhood of
$500. One horse or two can be driven
to it. Mrs Oelrichs always uses two
bob-tailed bays.
DIANA CROSSwAYS.
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have seen Mrs. Gilberts "old women"
Of late years and have noted the eX-
quisite minuet dancing done by them
can hardly forbear wishing that some
of the younger dancers would grow old
that they might be as graceful and
nimble. Mrs. D. P. Bowers, near 40,
and Maggie Mitchell, over the SO mark,
are improving as they come into the
realm of the charmed existence of per-
feet old age.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who
belongs to both countries on account of
her American marriage, has been
so; and. although a little cautious
about taking sea voyages, is busy all the
time with philanthropic work OF Varl-
Gus Sorts At Holly Lodge, her coun-
try home, she goes about surrounded
by her dogs and pets of all kinds, and
this year more than ever she has taken
a personal and active interest in her
working people. giving them holidays
and otherwise experimenting their
pleasures as well as their work.
An old lady, but a very hale and
hearty one, is Lady Wilde. She is pro-
baby some years over 20, but her mind
goes on untiringly. Her latest public
move is to secure titles for women SIM
liar to those conferred on men for
deeds performed. And she has never
ceased for day to lecture for woman's
rights.
There are several of our "war wi
dows" who have reached the old age
period, but who are very happy yet in
the full possession of all their energies
and faculties. One of these is Mrs.
Ulysses S. Grant, who is busy writing,
and in summer fits from Narragansett
to Cranston's and all over the eastern
coast. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, though
not as far over the seventies as Mrs.
Grant, does the same, and she is very
well along in years. Mrs. John A. Lo-
gan, a magnificent woman, with mar
ried children, and Mrs. James G..
Blaine, with grandchildren old enough
to read and write, are two more women
stepping into the boundaries of old age,
yet so splendid in their capabilities and
strength that to mention years in the
same breath with them is sacrilege in
deed.
Among the suffragists are several
that are more than hale and hearty
over three score and ten. There is Ma
tilda Jocelyn Gage, grand in her plat
form eloquence and busy writing all
the time in her home at Fayetteville
where she 'leads the town. in ali
senses social and intellectual. Isabella
Beecher Hooker is another Of these.
Last winter, after catching up with her
correspondence, too long neglected for
the Worlds Fair, Mrs. Hooker jour-
neyed to Southern California, hoping 10
shake off, a slight attack of rheuma-
tism, so that she could spend the sum-
mer at her country home, near Hart
ford, entertaining guests and working,
as usual. Mrs. Hooker. of course, past
IS, deeply pities her unfortunate sister,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, who, from over
work, lost her brain faculties, though
smart otherwise at 80.
A very delightful old lady is Miss
Katherine Draper. who, in 1S41, had the
honor to be photographed by her brotha
er, Prof. Draper, Of the University of
the City of New York. Miss Draper
ty, and the fact that sun picture"
had been taken of her made her a
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league, of which Lord Salisbury is
grand master; and, although far over
40 herself, making speeches and presid-
ing with much grace at the meetings
With the marchioness, there is apt to
be Lady Dorothy Neville, whose chief
ambition at the age of past so is to
join the annual procession for the dec
near Westminster and to make a little
address at the dinner afterwards, held
by the Primrose DANES and knights
and ladies.
And then there are others still very
active! Mrs Gladstone, and. across the
German boundary, the Princess Bis
marck; and just little away from her,
old Queen Louise of Denmark, so near
so that her great-grandchildren the
Grecian princes and the little York and
Fife babies. cannot, in any kind Of rea-
son, have her very long with them.
But stu, very capable and entertain
ing
Ia our own country are a score, any
way. Of these old young women: and,
perhaps, travelling under the guise OF
youth which they easily assume. are a
score more, with their secret safe for
years &c come.
ACTIVE AMERICAN DANES.
One of our old young people is Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton. Everybody has
heard of her. but not everybody knows
thai she is now 20 years old, and that
she lives quietly upon the West Side of
New York IN a pretty apartment sur
rounded with all implements for work
she manages typewriting machine
nicely. Compared with Mrs. Stanton,
Miss. Anthony at "a, is really youthful,
with her old age quite ahead of her.
J0iis Ward Hewe lectured so much
last scar at the fair that she was really
tired, and after writing few poems
and short essays and attending to her
club duties, always very numerous,
she conseAte. to be lionized at a few
sy4ll receptions in Boston this spring
before sailing -or her annl'al European
tour She is only 75-the- age of Eng
lands queen.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher. 50, al
most complained of being fatigued.
For financial reasons, owing to an I'M
fortunate investment, she was obliged
to move. giving up her old rooms,
where she could see the doors of Ply
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the pointed vest, overlaid with black
satin bands connecting belt and collar.
The simplicitysof the skirt is relieved
by small fulled panniers that are very
much. used just now in place of the
overskirts that even Partisan approx
al has not induced women to fully ac-
cept. By all signs of the times it would
seem that the winter of 1896 will see
all women again in plain, circular,
faring skirts and sleeves. larger than
ever, If that's possible.
GRACEFUL DRAPERIES.
Perhaps one of the newest and most
approved overdresses is shown in the
second sketch of a novelty cloth gown
of green and red. At the back this
drapery hangs in the form of a knee
deep and full flounce, the goods being
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doubled as shown by the folded ar
rangement on the hips. Finely plated
black mousseline de sole fills the vest
and forms the throat band, and pol
ished jet buckle fastens the double
breasted bodice below.
1t is really delightful to note the in
genuity Of soft fingered Persian women
who are making new neckware more
than ever affected by women who love
all dainty adjuncts of the toilet. Of
tulle, mousseline de sole and chiffon
they fashion bows, rufus and coflarettes
with or without ends, and in such in
finite variety of form and color that in
many places sets of these neck doings
are sold with every gown.
A very appropriate method of this
neck and shoulder decoration for a
young girl is shown in the above cut
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To be 20 years old-and yet youngi
To have reached the Biblical limit of
mental and physical strength and yet
feel the rich blood tingling through
your veins and new ideas coursing into
your brain. This is, indeed, the ideal
old age-the crown which sets off the
whole life, marking it as royal! None
but well lived lives know this triumph
In England at the mention of very
smart old women there comes to the
mind vision of the seventy-five-year
old queen upon her throne, delivering
her annual message and meeting her
ministers on terms of perfect under
standing; and journeying south or
north fer a holiday, as the season may
dictate.
There also comes up the picture of
the Warehouses of Salisbury, busy
with the affairs of the famous Primrose
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FAvoRITE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Fair Women Whose Pictures Insure
n Large and Steady Sale.
There is one English custom that New
York has failed to adopt.
One can go into a picture shop in Lon
don and buy the last likeness" of any of
the nobility, the seasons debutante, the
writer of the last new book or the. bride
of an NJ. P. There is no restriction as to
whom they shall be sold or in what num-
bers.
Yesterday l visited many of the noted
shops on Fifth avenue and Broadway
where pictures of celebrities are on sale,
and remarked that the fac SMILES of
American society women were conspic-
uous by their absence. British beauties
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were found in plenty. and I asked the
disposer of them which sold best
WELL" she said, 1.-The Princess of
Wales, always. The announcement of
new photograph of her is the signal of
demand. Her last one, in court costume
In black has been a tremendous favorite.
Next in favor my informant contin-
ued, sis Lady Randolph Churchill. We
sell two or three dozen of her, some
times taken in different attitudes, to one
person Her last-three-quarte length
which has just been sent over, is having
a great run
OF course, on every hand were to be
seen pictures of the Duchess of York and
the baby prince. These, she said, had
been sold by the hundreds.
Lady Londonderry is always drawing
card. The favorite one of buyers seems
to- be the one where she carries her
pathetic expression. 1t would seem a fit
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This is mid season in which the
French modiste scores her highest
triumph.
A shadow of melancholy days to
come, when the woods have lost their
feeting splendors, is an odd and eff
fective introduction of black into every
costume, no matter for what occasion
it may be designed. The new street
gowns of dark cloth, and the ARREST
tulle gowns for young girls, are alike
treated with black, with what one
might call reservations, for nowhere
does the somber shadow dominate.
Narrow strips of black satin on the
skirt bottom or upper half of the bod
ice, collar, cuffs or a narrow, close
folded line OF it at the waist, are the
bounds within which the sensible cou-
turiere restricts her use of this effective
shading.
TOUCHES OF BLACK.
An excellent example of it's most ap-
propriate use is clearly shown in the
group above. The left hand figure
wears cape of black satin, frightened
along every edge with an entire deux of
butter colored lace, which with the
long stole ends. Of satin falling over the
'DuSt, the PdrlSldn designer OF gowns
intends to make repeated and interes-
ting use of in the coming winter. 1t is
just as well here to also call attention
to the length and fullness of this same
black satin. cape, fair model of the
newest autumn wraps.
French women, who are usually
short, have learned by careful expert
ment that long cape wrecks the lines
of any but a tall woman's figure, that
extensive shoulders lend 1.-THE slender
ness to any waist and that the stole or
sash ends give lines of grace,
NOVEL DECORATIONS.
The companion model is also a good
illustration of an appropriate use of
black This is bronze brown rough
cheviot, warmly tinted with a small,
dull red figure, interviewer in it's mesh.
Accordian plated white chiffon fills in
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SMART CARRIAGES.
Vehicles Favored By Fashionable
and Fastidious Women Whose En-
dorsemeut Makes Them Popular.

The styles in carriages are growing
so numerous as almost to defy class1-
fication or description. To be we'll
posted on the subject is, however. a
matter of great Importance in these
days. and a little time spent in acquir-
ing at least the rudiments of the SUBJ
ject is not thrown away.
For instance. the well-informed, up
to-date young woman never. no never,
makes the mistake of calling a coach
or a break, 'tally-ho," a common
blunder, by the way.
Between the coach and the break
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Without the resolution in vour hearts
to do good work so long as your right
hands have motion in them and to do it,
whether the issue be that you die or live,
no life worthy OF the name viii ever be
the resolution that your work is to be
well done. life is really won, here and
forever.-Ruskin.
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of gown that in the original is of
prettily mixed brown and. blue goods.
Where the skirt is ever SO slightly
draped on the hips line of brown vel
vet peeps below the hem, and brown
velvet, edged with plated frills of
brown silk, forms the collar, vest and
revers. while the girdle, also of velvet,
is knotted in front and drawn through
a small gold buckle.
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mouth church, and move into fat.
She had to store" many of her things,
and she packed several trunks for
sending away to relatives While do
ing this she kept on writing for the
periodicals upon which her name APP
pears as a regular contributor and at
tended 10 her church duties.
SPRY OLD ACTRESSES.
Mrs. Gilbert, at "a. and Mrs John
Drew at rs are both as active as kit
tenn. Mrs. Drew's theatrical company.
recently formed, owes mucn Of its sue
cess to her very clever dancing, always
many times encored; and those who
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SEA MOSS AauARELLEs.

Mounting Ocean Laces Collected at
e1dsummer Provides IL Delightful
Occupation for a Rainy Autumn
Day.
Now that the time has come to pack
away ones salt soaked bathing suit,
furl the beach sunshade and think of
diversion for stormy days, here is
suggestion that may prove valuable
Nearly everyone who visited the sea-
side last summer picked up the red,
green or brown little wads of soft stuff
found on the wave washed shores.
1t is perfectly fascinating to watch an
apparently shapeless ball unfold and
reveal lace like webs fit only for the
gowns of fairies and kelpies. To wit
ness the transformation and preserve
the results, the first requisite is a ba-
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Poe lavished on things compare lively
superficial those great intellectual rs
sources which Hawthorne reveren.lv hus-
banded and used. That there is some
thing behind even genius to make or mar
it--this is the lesson Of the two lives
Higginson.
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SOME AUTUMN WRAPS.

Glengarry capes in pliable double
fancy Scotch woods. plain on one side
and plaid on the other, make stylish
and useful wraps for autumn. When
the gay plaid inner facing is not liked
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LIVELY OLD LADIES.
HAVING PASSED THEIR 10th BIRTH
DAYS REFUSE TO GROW OLD.

Aged Queens, Peeresses, Society
Leaders. Politicians and Literary
Ladies Who Continue TO Take an
Active Part in the Worlds Work.
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Common sense is only a modification of
talent Genius is an exaltation of 1t.
The difference is. therefore, in degree,
not nature.-Bulwer.
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EARLY. AUTUMN STYLES.
SOME NOTIFICATIONS OF STYLES
FOR THE OPENING SEASON.

Models From Paris Suggest a Liberal
Use of Black For Heightening
Effects-Skirts Still Full and FLAIR
ing and Sleeves Larger Than Ever
Before.
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FACE TREATMENT.
HOW FAMOUS BEAUTIES REGAIN
THE BLOOM OF YOUTH.

An American Masseuse Who Treats
Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. Kendall, Nine.
Melba and Is to Count the Prfn-
cess of Wales Among Her Patrons.
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SALVATION ARMY
MARCHING THROUGH THE O0UN-
TRY.
Big Preparations Being Made to
Receive General Booth.

NEW YORK, October 10.--COm-
mander Ballington Booth, of the
Salvation Army, interviewed on
the coming visit of his father, Gen.
William Booth, said that he would
be received on his long tour
through America as few distin-
guished guests are.
"At the opening out of doors
meeting in Union Square, Monday,
October 81" he said, 81 am going
to try to get Mayor GilrOy to in
troduce General Booth. AT Carne-
gle Music hall the same evening,
before an audience of 5000 people,
5000 of whom will be delegates
from the Salvation Army, the Rev.
DR.. Amery Bradford, the leading
Congregationalist minister, will
present an address on behalf of
the Salvation Army in the United
States. In Association hal, October
q, about 10000 of the cream of
New York society will be present.
The Rev. Josiah Strong, president
of the World Wide Evangelical
Alliance and the author of THE
New Era and 'Our Country will
preside. Tuesday night in Carnegie
Music hall when Booth will pre-
sent his s'Social Schemes no ess
a parsonage than Chauncey M. De-.
pew will introduce General VIM
Booth.
"On the trip through the country
General Booth will be introduced at
Philadelphia by John Wanna
maker in the Academy Of Music !;
in the convention hall at Washing
ton, by Mr.. Justice Strong of the
Federal Supreme court; at the
Music hall in Baltimore by the
Mayor of the city; at the Auditor
ium, Chicago, by Senator John NJ.
Palmer; in the exposition build
ing in Minneapolis by Knute Nell
son, governor of Minnesota; at ex-
position building in st. Louis by
the mayor of st. Louis; in the cap
itol at Springfield, Ill, by Cover
nor John P. Altgeld.; at the audi
forum in Kansas City by tho
mayor and Governor Francis"