Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-13

New York, Jan. 7.-During the past
year we had the horse show, the cattle
show, the flower show, the dog show |
and the innumerable doll shows, but
ell uf them meant one thing. You are
inclined to think that the horse show
is meant 10 iuCite the breeding of tinor
horses, the flower show to make orchids
more wonderful and chrysanthemums
bigger, the dug show to induce the
bringing furth of smarter puppiea and
the doll show TO make popular hand
work and charity. But that's all n
mistake. They are for nothing of the
sort. They are all for one cause.-the
encouragement OF woman. You get
horsy, or fowery, or doggy. or
many colored background to bring out
her and her best gown. Nobody eau deny
that shR rules the court, the camp,
the grove. probably most Of the men
below, though rather doubt her having
TO do anything with the saints above
She is the acme of self possession and
parades around tho tan bark the soft
dirt or tho linen cover aud invites all
the world TO come and look at her.
Sometimes she is very we'll worth III,
sometimes che isn't. Occasionally she
goes in for being very elaborate 10 her
getup and, Instead Of looking like
gentlewoman, suggests a lady of the
lake; again, she'll aim at picturesque
neHs and achieve dowdinass, but some
times she gains her end. and then she
is 30 overlooking with pride that ono
wonders she does not burst.
1t is very funny thing, but there
are days in New York when you zee
nothing but pretty women, and there
are dayB when you could, with GER
taiuty. bet your luck penny without
fear of losing it that you wouldn't
meet single good looking woman on
the street. New York bias queor ragu-
lations made by nobody knows who.
hut obeyed by the world OF women.
One lie. that woman who counts her
self of any Importance is never seen
on Broadway except de- abe crosses it
TO 60 10 some other street, except 90
Saturday afternoon. Then she os.
sesses it.
You see her starting for tho matinee,
providing herself with sweets ana with
violets, picking un ner chum. and later
on, when the matinee is over, you see
her out for walk. You sne her il she
has not heen TO the matinee. You see
her bowing to this man and 10 that
man while all the gay world is Hurging
w and down and yuu are being punched
10 look at this onB tfnd to stare ut that
one of the many celebrities
First, you meet big, blonde, laughing
May Irwin. She Us dressed in a hand
some, dark gown and wearing huge
chinchilla collar and hat covered with
plumes She 10 No magnetic on the
stroef as,on the stage, aud you feel as
If you must stare at her as long as she
is in sight. Then, looking like lady
in a picture book or one of Boucher's
nymphs in Worth froek, comes Lillian
Russell, in town for the day ana drawn
lIy force Of habit TO the matinee Satur-
DAY afternoon. lier beautiful blonde
hair shows against her rich toque of
purple velvet, and, her gown, simple
one of cloth, fits her as il the king of
tailors had made IT, while hor feet and
hands are perfectly shori and goved.
BEHIND her, and whilo you are trying
10 get over the iutoxieation of her good
lonks, comes fascinating Sadie Martiuot
tby-the.by, how old is Sadie Martinez?
Has she found thu fountain of eternal
youth?) wrapped in some magnificent
sables, and your eyes so from her to
that ladylike looking woman. Mrs.
Burke Roche, who role by in her
fathers carriage as somebody near you
rnmarSs that she il one Of the i meri-
can girls who presented her English
husband with twin Sons.
flowing 10 this fashionable woman
anu TO that one is Johu Drew John
Drew, who, without single feature, is
counted the most distingue looking
man in New York. Perfectly dressed,
he wears his clothes as il they were
part of him and as If to them he never
gave a thought.
contrast in appearance is the young
statesman. Perry belmont - rather
small, with keen, dark eyes, slight
mustache and dark hair He looks az
if he ordered his tailor to make his
clothes and after that gave no thought
to them.
A slender, quiet oulSing girl in a
dark brown dress, brown jacket and d
brown cloth hat, one at whom YOU
scarcely look and who walks by QUICKLY
as IL abe wished to pass unohseryed, is
pratty little Maude Adams, who to day
by her good acting and wonderful mag
netiGm is packing theatre. With her
and talking in the most earnest way is
the creator of "Gallegher, that most
fascinating of young pickles, Richard
Harding Davis. = Smooth faced, ner,
fectly dressed, he haa to perfection that
air OF indifference which, among Ger.
tain set of young men, 10 counted ospe
cially good form.
A tall, dark, slender woman, WHOSE
gown is marvel of good taste and per.
feet tit, is Elsie de Wolfe, at once the
woman of society and the actress, the
wittiest talker off the stage and the
best dressed woman on it. just now,
in the small part she plays in "a, NJ ar,
riage of Convenience, she ia doing I
bit OF fine work--fine because ahe makes
the character of waiting maiu moi
only perfectly correct, but absolutel,
OF it's time Sin the picture, Az thu
professional would say. Following hel
and bringing out her good points BY
contrast ID loudly dressed woman,
we'll known dancer, who wears across
the front of her Jacket her stage nam,
wrought in brilliants.
Here is Hermann Oelrichs, big, blond
and we'll groomed; Willard, the Eng
lish actor, picturesque, IrvineIike ant
utterly unconscious of the looks tina
are being given HIM. Talking az il h,
we're interested to his charming wife
Virginia Harmed, ia young Sothern
There is a certain affection in tn
way We call him "young Sothern,' - TO
do not believe that there is an ucto
to-day whose audiences are as loyal
are those that gladly listen and eagerl
applaud his efforts.
30 they come along, worker AM
idler, those on the mimic and those OF
the real stage. and you and / as W
Drift in to get a cup of tea conclun