The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-06

and Gravesend bay, came to the rescue
with an offer of shelter-the best that
ne could give.
1t was from this cabin, on bleak
winters day, with the salt wind sweep
! ing through the dead marsh grasses,
that the soul of Red Kate Leary
passed to its final accounting; and it
was retired pickpOcket and his wife
! who closed her eyes and folded her
withered hands across her breast
And the town is still full of writer's
looking for local color
THE CHANGED HABITS OF THE
FOUR HUNDRED.
! OF course, 1 recognize the fact that
no New York letter is complete with
out its quota of information concern
ing the habits and doings of that IA
nous group known as the Four Hun
| dred, and 1 well remember that in. a
| letter which 1 contributed some years
| ago TO western paper, / made it q
! point to furnish some of the most re-
markable imaginative matter that has
ever been printed about New York So
clety; but 1 was young then and wrote
over an assumed name. Now that the
flres OF youth are beginning to burn
low in my veins | desire to state with
a contr1te heart that a great many
raise statements have been made and
cluD men,, bellies of Murray HILL"
society leaders" and others who con-
stltute our most exclusive and bril-
liant social circles AS matter of
fact, 1t is sometimes difficult to distin-
guish between a Murray Hill belle and
the young lady who earns her living
IN some position like that of cashier
IN a hrSt-cIasS restaurant, except that
the latter is liable to have a little more
CHI
the very focus of the public eye. than
her Weather sister. 1 am told, more
over, that one can find in the personal
adornment of the young girls who are
employed in the fashionable stores the
very latest wrinkles in the way of hair
dressing, ribbons, buckles belts and
other comparatively inexpensive details
OF dress. though in the matter of gowns
they follow rather than lead the STYLES.
III may deprive my New York CORE
spondence of certain spice of interest
Dul candor compelS me to state that
the bellies of Murray Hill-there are a
great many people in New York who
don't know where Murray Hill is-are
very much better behaved than the
Hash weeklies and lurid New York let
tiers would have us believe 1t is by
no means common to see groups of
1ashlonable and Well-known women
smoking opium in Pell street, or tread
ing the mazes of the merry skirt dance
on Fifth avenue after nightfau. OF
course, there are some who cling to
the old-fashiOned New York CORE
spondence habits that were fastened
upon them several decades ago but
the majority of them lead peaceful and
temperate lives and seldom do any
thing that would entitle them to a
place in an illustrated police weekly
In TACT, 1t is the very monotonv of the
-Four Hundred and their COMMONPLACE
methods of life which make it difficult
Tor man with proper respect for
the truth to write ENTERTAINMENT about
then, and L have often noticed that
people who see them for the first time
are terribly disappointed.
When the Cherry sisters were in town !
L TOOK them to drive, in the interest |
OF great metropolitan daily. and one !
OF the young ladies, while comparing |
the society of New York to that of
CEDAR Rapids, remarked: Those Van
oerplltS don seem to put on as much /
style as we expected saw Mr. Van
derbilt the other day and he want q ]
OIL better dressed or half as stylish |
as Mr.. Slocum Of our town. who runs |
lhe square Deal collar and cuff Mace !
on Main street, and is a great society |
man: Why, L should think that Mr.. |
vanderbilt would dress up a little more /
lelcy When ne went out in the park !
of morning."
anxiously. for the honor of New York |
society was at stake.
Nothing better'n what you've cot !
on, she replied, as she cast a CON
telliptuous eye over the neatly brushed /
and carefully mended Sunday suit 7 /
had put ON in honor of the occasion.
An, WELL" L rejoined boldly. won
PROBABLY saw him in the morning. In T
the AFTERNOON he wears his crimson vel
vet suit and looks perfectly erar6 >,
and then 1 hastily changed the conver-
satlon by directing their attention 70 {
st. Patrick's cathedral which we were |
passing
L guess We'll have to come and in
spect that building some day." said tbe
r1pest of the Cherries. rs it Protest +
ant or Catholic?"
WHAT BACHELORS NEED.
Well, today the only fresh news that
l can get regarding the members of
the -Four Hundred relates to a lady
VINO is vaguely described in the con-
lenpOraneOuS press as a Society lead
er, and who has determined to take
I'D the decoration of bachelor apart
ments as means of livelihood. | learn
from local chronicles that society is
oNo "4A1ICNCI IHdI may De-at the
thought of one of its component parts
actually going into trade But I am
not much impressed by this statement.
because 1t has seemed to me that to
De agog was the chronic condition of
society, since its members took to open
ing hover stores. and tea rooms and
rentlng their names and crests to dress
making and bonnet shops.
do not know what qualifications this
lady possesses for the profession that
she has undertaken, but 1 do know
about the taste of a bacha-
or and L solemnly warn her not to
attempt to soften our lives or change
our habits by the introduction into our
-enements of any of those gimcracks in
which the feminine soul delights. We
want no ribbons attached to our chair
egs, no dainty" contrivances for the
and serving of tea, though a.
copper kettle that can be quickly placed
over gas jet can be employed to great
advantage during the winter months
Gilt furniture we abhor and we will
nave no table that is not strong and
steady enough to dance on. Desks that
unfold an uncertain leaf and tables
with a rickety extension that trembIe
visibly while the guests are sweetening
the pot have no place in the quarters
Of any well regulated bachelor We de-
sire above all things comfort and so
idity We believe that sofas were made
for our belated friends to sleep on. and
that easy chairs should be so construc-
ted as to afford rest to the weary and
ease and security to the bibulous.
JAMES l.. FORD.