The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-25
THE GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Edith Sessions Upper Discusses a Wide
Variety of Topics.

Edith Sessions Topper Discusses Wide
Variety of Topics.
NEW YORK, March 23.-The cham
p1on amateur feminine golf player in
this country is Mrs. Charles Brown Of
Lexington avenue. Mrs. Brown was a
Miss Barnes of southampton. Her golf
costume is striking and novel, consisting
OF check tweed skirt, a red flannel
shirt, stiff white collar and black tie.
On her head she wears a soft black felt
hat.
Many of New York's most elegant
and luxuriously cared for women could
earn their own living if it were neces-
sary Mrs Herman Oelrichs, who was
one Of the Fair girls of San Francisco,
is said to be a splendid cook; Mrs. John
Jacob Aston is an expert at needlework
and makes many of the flags for her
husbands yacht; Mrs. Cruger writes
novels and earns a handsome income
with her pen; Miss Gertrude Wander
bilt is a splendid fencer; one of the
Rockefeller girls is a capital typewriter;
Helen Gould understands the law; Miss
Clews is a postgraduate and is thor
oughly conversant with Greek, and the
Misses Hewitt are accomplished must
clans.
It is very bad form for man to wear
any sort of jewelry with evening dress.
No rings, pins, jeweled studs or watch
chains are permissible. No we'll dressed
man at any smart function wears the
ghost Of a watch chain. Several ultra
sweIls have of late attracted attention
by sporting white waistcoats with black
buttons, black shirt buttons and black
ties with evening dress. This is in the
worst possible taste. Plated and rutfled
shirts are occasionally seen, as are white
silk waistccats.
Perhaps very good illu stration of
the shams of would be fashionables is
that of the cooperative valet system.
-Four or five young men who aspire to
be swells will cooperate on valet,
an Englishman usually. His time is
carefully parceled out among his pa
irons, and these miserable pretenders 60
about the streets talking glibly of my
man." giving the impression that they
are combed and groomed and dressed
and cared for by servant exclusively
the property of each.
It's amazing, the amount of money
spent in this big town for sweets and
bonbons. The swell confectioners' shops
are always SO densely packed it is next
to impossible to get waited on. Candied
rose leaves and violets cost So pound,
and these are the sweets usually select
ed by the very elect.
The diamond tiaras of the queens of
New York swelldom grow in brilliancy
and extent. Mrs. Bradley Martins has
perhaps been written about more than
any other. It cost over 500, 900, and
the central part is four inches high.
Mrs. George Gould has magnificent
tiara which she designed herself. The
crown has SO points. Young Mrs. Astor
has tiara designed by her husband. 1t
is band of diamonds holding seven
flowers de- luce Twelve large diamonds
form the circle proper, each one of
which cost $4,000. The diamonds in
the flowers bring the worth of this tiara
up to 500, 1000. The late Mrs. Willie
Z. Vanderbilt, now Mrs. Oliver Bel
mont, owns the diamond crown which
once belonged to the Empress Eugenie.
It is stated that the present owner will
give it to her daughter, the Duchess of
Marlborough. 1t cost 5000, 900. The de-
sign is a wreath of roses and violets,
with sapphires, emeralds, rubies and
pearls mingled with diamonds. On gala
nights at the Metropolitan, when these
gorgeous crowns have been in evidence,
they have rivaled the calcium lights
thrown on the stage at proper intervals.
Contemplating all this dazzling sp1en-
dor, beside which the stars of the sum-
mer night pale and dwindle, what won
der ones mind instinctively turns to
the hymn of ones childhood, and one
mechanically huns bar or two of:
I want to be an angel
And with the angels stand
A crown upon my forehead,
A harp within my hand.
EDITH SESSIONS UPPER.