The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
AFTER BIG GAME.
American Women of
Fashion Who
Shoot.
COMMON SENSE IN DRESS.
They Wear Riding Breaches
and No One
Minds.
COMMON SENSE IN DRESS.

This is the season when every woman
possessing natural sporting propensi
ties is abroad with her gun, shooting a
deer, or bear, or clay pigeons. Though
| it is practically only Of late year:
| that American woman of fashion ha:
| taken to such blood-thirsty recreations
she is now actively making UP for los
time. Out in the Rockies there are foul
parties of New York society women, ac-
companied by their husbands, armed
with rifles, living in tents, dressed In
the latest sporting raiment. and stalk
| ing the woods for bear Mrs. Stuyves-
ant Fish leads one, and she and Miss
Greta Pomeroy have picked off one Of
the biggest grizzlies shot this season
Mrs. George Vanderbilt's sister-in-law
Mrs. LIE Roy Dresser, with her husband
has been beating the northwestern
mountains for any game they can get
while those women who are not so keen
to indulge in the acute dangers of sport
are up shooting deer Just now in Corbin
Vermont preserves.
The very crack shots of this deer
range are the daughters of Dr. Grier,
the most fashionable clergyman in New
York, and Miss Hewett. They have
done some very remarkable shooting in
these forests. over in the well-protect-
ed Adirondack woods, where the deer
are now at the mercy of the ambitious
sportswomen, the damsels who invari-
ably make the best records, and who
have come through their buck-fever
successfully, are Miss Caroline Stokes
and the two young daughters of Mrs.
Seward Webb. Both the Stokes and
the Webb families have elaborate
camps in the mountains, and when Sep
TENDERS leaves begin to turn the young
ladies of the family establish them
selves for the shooting.
Not the smallest part of the pleasure
these thoroughly capable and scientific
sportswomen find in their big game
hunting is derived from the costumes
that common sense, as we'll as tasteful
fashion has made obligatory and the
etiquette of the field demands a hunt
ing habit for the Rockies wholly dis
tinct from that necessary in the Adj
irondacks, says the Cleveland Leader
In the western mountains, where long,
hard walking, difficult, often dangerous
climbing, and much riding is done
skirts are wholly dispensed with, and
the women wear moleskin or whipcor0
riding breeches, very full at the hips
and from the heavy laced calfslSin shoes
to the knee extend the stoutest tar
| leather leggins. A broad leather belt
blouse, blue flannel shirt, and a coat
cut in the skirts like that the master oil
foxhounds wears, with SLOUGH fell
or close tweed cap, is the correct, in
fact, the essential rig.
| In the Adirondacks, for this autumn
at least corduroy is the choice mater
ial. Mouse gray English corduroy, spec.
killed. over with tiny white dots, is con
sidered the most perfect blend in tone
with the underbrush and the sight of q
figure so arrayed is likely to stand least
chance of alarming deer. Moderate
| ~ full knickerbockers and leggins OF
veteen shirtwaist Of solid gray and
over this goes a Norfolk coat of spec
killed. corduroy, shaped and belted like
any Norfolk jacket, and differing from
the orthodox pattern only, in fact, thai
its skirts fall well over the wear
er's knee. A corduroy hat, with droop-
ing brim, and a tuft of black cock
feathers on one side, goes with this
and when it rains the wearer of the
corduroy suit retires behind the first
big tree she can find, plucks off her
long skirted coat and puts on an
equally long but clear vermilion red
waterproof This gay train coat is light
Of weight, warm, becoming, and served
the very purpose of the Adirondacks OF
cleaning from afar through the trees
and warning the hunter, who lies in
wait ready to fire at almost the first
twig cracks, that a gentle Diana, not an
antlered monarch of the woods, is
breaking cover.