The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02
candlesticks four feet high, most curious,
but remarkably effective. MARcELLA.
FOR MEN.

In New York the Knickerbocker Riding
Club held their first meeting few days
ago at Durland's Riding Academy. AS
usual the fashionable set keep this club
very exclusive, and each year it continues
to increase in popularity. 1t was organ
lied by Livingston Center some years ago,
and is now in the hands of Messrs. Fred
eric Pierson and Edward Thomas. 1t is
an interesting sight to watch the club ride
to music and form figures and quadrilles
in the ring. After the regular meeting is
over the most expert indulge in jumping.
When the season is over the club gives a
dinner, which is always social event.
The Knickerbocker Bowling Club is al
most equally successful. and this season
it is predicted that the com petition viii be
fierce over the ''scores rolled up for the
silver bowl" In San Francisco there
should certainly be riding club well
patronized. as the wheel can never take
the place of the horse, and yet how unsuc-
cessful all attempts have been of late to
form such an organization.
Fox-hunting is very popular in Balti-
more, the clubhouse of the Green Spring
Valley and the kennels of the Elkridge
Club being well attended.
A man writing to Vogue wants to know
how he had best have frock coat made
and of what material, as he is only to have
one such coat. Many are in the position
of this inquirer, so | quote the reply: 'If
you are to have oaly one frock coat it is to
be assumed that you intend to make it last
for long time-say two, three or iour
years. You should get coat which is not
extreme in any respect. The men who
| buy great many clothes go from one ex-
| treme to another. Not SO very long ago
| they were making frock coats reaching
IL. LII Tto--
men now who have gone to the other ex-
| treme and make them far above the knee.
You will be always right. however, and
| look we'll dressed if your frock coat
reaches Just to the knee. There is SUBJ
stantially only one material; that is black
| vicuna."
"Never have trinkets been less worn than
| this season." is the remark of New
Yorker, and such is the case as nowadays a
| well dressed man never allows his watch
| to be visible aud punches of seals are things
of bygone generation.
| The ultra fashionable are again wearing
| long frock coats which have at once be-
| come popular and look well on very tall
men. They are being made in gray with
broad collars of black velvet and cuffs.
| Green is the color in London, all busi-
| ness suitings having a mixture OF green In
| them and as for ties the rage is for black
| ties with green patterns on them, and the
bright green Tecks are in great vogue, and
even cigar-cases are made of green leather,
although cigar cases of polished silver are
considered in good form in New York.
| From New York comes the information
| that the high-banded turned-down collars
| are the favorites for informal dress, and
| vary in height from 2M inches to inches
| For full dress the best shape is the new
straight standing collar. which laps at the
buttonhole, the spacing gradually increas-
| ing until the top Of the collar is reached,
| when the ends are slieh htly poked. The
| collars that stand straight, and break
slightly under the chin, are called poke
collars; however, the bent point collar is