The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
RANDOM NOTES.
By JOIN MoNAuaHr.

surprise that paper of such social emf
nence as the Chicago News should have
SAID, "Slnce California girl has captured
count the West will be received on cali
ing terms by the East" Capturing a
count is nothing. Our girls have already
two princes up their sleeves and several
more dangling at their apron-strings. 1t
is, in fact, for us to fix the visiting list, but
we are not proud. We will admit the
East, including Chicago, to conventional
calls, provided, of course. they make it a
National convention.
There have been SO many pictures and
so many descriptions of the Duke of
Marlborough sent over the country of ate
to satisfy the ardent demands of a yearn-
Ing public that by this time his form and
face, his style and manners would have
been familiar to the American mind had
IT not been that artists and writers have
presented him under such many-sided
aspects that confusion has resulted, and
not few OF our best-informed people be-
heve he has as many casts of countenance
as he has titles. Under the circumstances
1t may be as well to remind the curious
that we have one realistic picture of the
Duke that can be counted on as accurate,
since it is affected neither by social aspira-
lions nor by national prejudices. 1t
comes to US from messenger-boy, but
it is not slow. ''It made me tired"
said the boy, twhen 1 sees him
wr1tln' message at the Waldorf.
He wore white kid shoes and was logged
out OF sight, and everybody guyed him on
the quiet. He is not much bigger than
me, even if he is a Duke, and I can't see
why Miss Vanderbilt is stuck on him.
OF all the judgments recently pronounced
upon the bloomer costume, know of none
better or wiser than that of the Arkansas
Judge who was called upon to decide
whether woman wearing boomers in
that State had violated the law. The
woman appeared before him in neatly
fitting suit OF the latest fashion and the
Judge dismissed her with a compliment,
but added: elf you mad come before me
in the original bloomer suit, would have
given you the heaviest penalty the law al
lows" There is in that decision the full
wisdom OF Solomon. Whatsoever suits is
good suit, and any dress that fits woman
well is well fitted for her, but woe be unto
her whose boomers don't fit.
1t is as sure as shooting that the bloomer
will not long be confined to the bicycle
habit. Its sphere is wider than the wheel,
however widely the wheel may circulate.
Already thus early in the season coterie
OF Chicago girls have informed Mrs. Grundy
they intend to wear boomers this winter
at the skating parties. In winter as in
summer, therefore, it will circle with the
frau and tho r-l, mil
cut no ice with the girls.
1t is not in this land only that women
are rising and advancing. In imperial
Stamboul and throughout the sunlit
Orient, the original home of the bloomer,
the rise is said to be phenomenal and the
advance almost unprecedented. The up
ward movement there is due to the dis
turbances in Armenia and among the
Asiatic provinces generally. These have
had the effect of lessening the number of
girls on the market, and consequently
there has been this extraordinary rise aad
advance in the price OF the new woman.
1t is true the advance there is not exactly
the same as an advance here, but so far as
men are concerned the effect is the same.
Women have gone up and wife-getting
is difficult.
There is reason to believe that as soon
as the movement toward rational dress
for women has advanced far enough to be
out of the way the grand thoroughfare of
life will be taken up by a procession de-
manding artistic dress for men. The pro-
cession has begun already to organize it
self, the rallying point being the newly
unveiled monument to Carnot. As the
monument is of a historic as well as an
artistic nature, the sculptor felt bound to
reproduce the murdered President in the
costume he wore at the time the assassina-
ton took place. Everything art could do
to cloak the deformity of the modern dress
suit was done. Back of the falling Carnot
was placed mighty statue of France,
gracefully draped, and over the shoulders
of the President was thrown an overcoat
to break the formal lines of the swallow
tail; but all was in vain. The monu-
ment has almost demoralized the men of
France. "Sinoe we are born to be inn
mortalized in statues" they cry, ''let us
dress SO that the monuments TO our glory
will not be disgrace to our art"
The criticisms of the Carnot statue range
AAOhi EloFO w Say 1IOiu 1lNt1y W SEVERE.
One critic, with profound seriousness, ex-
presses despair of race of men who would
represent in enduring marble q great
statesman, with a death agony upon his
face, clothed in the bandiwork of fash
ionable tailor. Another says the group
suggests waiter who has tainted through
disappointment over tip and is caught
by a passing laundress; while third as
serts 1t looks as if the statue we're con.
scious of the clothes and had fallen back
overwhelmed by crushing sense of being
conspicuously ridiculous.
What form artistic dress for men NAV
take when dreams come true it is impossi-
BILE to say, but there is a suggestion of
what may come in the fact that the Judges
OF Pennsylvania have decided to wear
gowns. We are told that when they ap.
peared for the first time on the bench in
their gowns the twelve Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia
tried hard to look unconcerned, and the
lawyers who gazed quizzically at them
were met by austere frowns from the
bench Init all the sopoa ba ranorto-, H.