The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-30
UP TO DATE GOTHAM.
Edith Session Tupper's Notes of Metro
poIitan Life.

51g Calve, whose hold upon New York
has recently been renewed, has a Won
derful personality. She is really more
beautiful off the stage than on. She
speaks very imperfect English, and an
interview with her is conducted with
considerable difficulty. The diva has no
use for boomers or women suffragists.
She is domestic in her tastes, loving her
farm life at Aveyron, France, her pets
and her books better than anything else,
save music. Her manner is charming,
her smile dazzling. She affects scarlet
and yellow in her house toilets.
am told that it is the practice OF
certain fashionable photographers to
drum up custom III this alluring way:
They engage handsome young woman,
furnish her a coupe and send her to call
on prominent clergymen, lawyers,
judges and other professional men. She
takes a sample photograph framed,
which is worth $25. Then she tells
them that if they will give the photo
grapher &15 sitting they will get a
fine, big photograph of themselves
thrown in. Novel, surely.
find that the visiting card en- reggie
just now is as thin as the first coating
of ice on a village pond. 1t is SO absurd
fashion that most sensible women re-
fuse to accept it and cling to the old
style thickness of pasteboard.
There is an absolute rage at present
among clubwomen for medals, badges
and decorations. The more badges a
modern woman can display the more
admiration she commands from her sex.
Many ladies wear sash of ribbon,
drawn from tho right shoulder to the
left hip. on which their various decora-
tions are hung, almost like the Gordon
of European diplomats.
The Colonial Danes and the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution, the two most ex-
elusive Clubs in New York. have the
right to wear upon the ribbons of their
decorations golden bar for each 1ineal
ancestor. am told that the young lady
who has the right to the greatest num-
Der of golden bars is Miss Fanny Pryor,
daughter Of Judge Roger Pryor. This
young beauty has blood from both sides
of her house, the best blood of Virginia
too
have discovered OF late that it is alb
solutely the proper thing to tell your
friends and acquaintance the cost of eT-
erything you buy. If you send flowers
to a lady every day, you must contrive
to let her know how much you pay for
each Offering. heard one of the biggest
swells in town say to a circle Of friends
and acquaintance, "These shoes cost
$14," deliberately holding up her foot
for the others to examine her purchase.
The trappings of fashionable babies
grow moro and more elegant. The
greatest swell have seen of late was
Seventy second street baby out in its
carriage for an airing. Its pillow was of
rose silk, frilled with the costliest 1aces,
and its lap robe was of ermine. 1t was
an ugly little baby, too, not half SO
pretty as many dirty little wretches I
have seen in the tenement district.
The skill and grace with which Mrs.
Leslie Carter swings to and fro on the
tongue of the bell nightly in 1.-THE
Heart of Maryland" is due to weeks Of
laborious practice in the Berkeley gym
nasium, where she spent hours upon the
trapeze.
A craze for fancy waistcoats has seiz-
ed the Chollys of the town. A fashion
able tailor tells me that the young man
Of wardrobe who has not at least half
dozen of these fancy waistcoats is not in
it. Corduroy is popular; SO is leather.
Then there are the fiashy cross barred
things which look, with their lines and
checks of green, red and blue, as if they
had just been cut from horse blanket.
The white silk waistcoat is the proper
thing for evening wear.
l hear that vaudeville drawing room
entertainments will be more in vogue
than ever this winter. Serio comic sing
ers, skirt dancers, jugglers and artists
from the grand opera will help the elo-
giant and wealthy kill time. 1t is now
no uncommon thing for hostess to pro-
vide this sort of amusement for her
guests. Men, too, give vaudeville parties
at De1's, or in studios, and introduce
many clever variety folk to the -Four
Hundred. OF course none of these art
lists, as they are pleased to call them
selves, ever expects to be treated as a
guest. They are there simply to amuse,
entertain, get their money and get out.
There is a growing fad for the ugly
and grotesque. Hideous idols, images,
masks and pottery are taking the place
Of china, bisque, faience and porcelain
in den and drawing room. On the desk
Of a well known writer saw the other
day a Malay creese, a Pueblo Indian
god, a cross eyed Chinese idol, bronze
statuette of Death and japanese skele-
ton! The mantel in the drawing room
Of one of the best known professional
men ia town is Uttered with the rudest
and crudest pottery from the far west,
old broken jugs from Mexico and Fiji
warclubs. In the reception room of one
Of the most prominent society women in
New York are broken and patched plates
and bowls Of Revolutionary days, and
another great swell has the dirty old hat
of an AlaEkan thug on her drawing
room wall among her silver and gold