New-York tribune., 1896-11-22
GOSSIP FOR MY LADY.
REMARKS ON THE HORSE eHO"
sTRIKING AND GRACEFUL MODEo
OF THE SEASON.
rpp AMERICAN MILLTNER-GoLF AND l1s
pEyorEEs-THE LATEST THING IN
WRITING AS TEST OF CHARACTER

r,,r .urp,cAN MILIINER-GoLF AND 1TS
nrvorrrs-rHE LATEST THING IN FUN
u,,rrSc as A TEST OF CHARACTER.
Tho Horse Show this year was not SO '"'a rso
from a social point Of view as iol"e,''
staring, impertnent crowds Win 'hc"
pressed comments were not a pleasant ordea' Io'
.-eraa and fastidious woman TO undergo 30 II
MA. cu,te noticeable this year that many Vi io
,nost exclusive people conspicuous os W
sbsence-at least from the boxes. seVera' "a .,o
who had taken them were hearo resioe - ,ho
extravagance for as a woman "io " ,
social make" observed: Last year hadh d ' DoA
e,a felt quite out Of It in consequence, a"' a..
year I've taken one. and feel tnat l III oo' "a
again" .,s ha the case:
tho crrio,s multitude was too near ana 100 pD'"
ing 10 suit the fastldous taste OF mi"us'
az do not care to be penned up III ~
show for n dollar exhibition and pay severai nun
drcd dollars for the privilege" said iashio"''D''
., ,b,s xoar a speech which voices the gen
orol sentiment Not that the Horse Sho" wan ~
thereby Its popularity II anything 1t VIII
gain by the change Of sentiment ior Po'p'
go ALL the same but they will so 10 see 'he ho'So''
not the people.
The American nilliner who used TO be such
veIl-known institution. even IN large cite'' WI"
her regular class of customers ior "''oii' Ai0
made bonnets year In and year out eccci"'"s
the season has almost completely disappeared
The great commercial houses have cap'ureu '"'''
class of customers who used 70 frequent her hl''o
shon In little country villages, however lar
>-or, tho ,nadd,ne crowd" she may still be found
and n "summer visitor" the other day. JUST oeio'o
her flight found Of these ancient iadies i'oin
whom during the season she had often purch"seu
wells and ribbons seated at a sunny window al 'he
back Of the little shop busy with a lou Oh ooi'ie''
fnr a
eyes 7 guess trim every hat worth looking az
she said IN answer to her visitors question. It's
kinder comfortable to have the Workers gone anu
to sit down on my rocker and TO get 10 my reg 'a'
work 1t requires a great deal OF 'nous"' "
trim so many and make them dinereh'' i"eio AAo
PRESBYTERIAN bonnets and Methodist bonnets' ana
now they've started up the Baptists. and It'll be
moro mixing than ever, for darsent put the same
ribbon on any two bonnets for tho same church
II did I'd never hear the last or II.
Mrs Foster she played mo real mean trlcK
las; year. She'd always been STEADY Freso'
terian, and when I trimmed her bonnet Khe"
what pew she'd sit in, and all about 1t. so nxed
II I'D with a ribbon that I'd only used once ana
that was on a Methodist bonnet and felt perfectly
safe in nv mind about It. Not long afterward as
was sitting here doing some sewing Deacon Squires
came In to buy some thread for his Wife DID you
hear the news? he said Mrs Josiah Foster has
fined the Methodists" declare you could have
knocked me over with a feather! 'Here'I be
rumpus' 1 said to myself for Mrs. Foster never
could stand having anything common. So. sure
enough in she came the next Monday as mad as a
hornet.
"T think. considering all the years I've trusted
you Kesiah,' she said, that you might have
trimmed my bonnet different from Nancy Whites.
and she so dowdy lookinr and the next thing l
heard was that she'd got new bonnet by cata-
iogue from that big store in Brooklyn!"
Golf talk Is still rampant and It's devotees seem
more infatuated than ever. Il thought you were
roing to the Horse Show to-day" exclaimed
Westchester woman to of her neighbors.
whom she met on the links and who she knew
had taken an expensive box for the season. "No.
I am not" replied the other. II simply cannot