The times., 1899-10-22

NEW YORK Oct. 21.-Tha golf playing
society girl is 20 more. This winter the
excessively feminine. shrinking. cIiaging.
essiIy-fainting, ana quickly y-1noved-to-tears
young woman is the mode and the social
power. II you have a d=butante daughter
who insists on rushing about windy links
wearing broad-uibbad shoes. encouraging q
miliInaid color. and big waist. look out for
her future Men and society at large have
grown weary Of the salf-reliaut, healthy
sinswy muscled Miss Sampson. The girl
who knows the side Of her society bread on
which the butter OF success and good
matrimonial chance lies is a perfect sensi-
tive plant, as frau Of constitution as a
violet. Her waist has suddenly shrunk from
twenty-six 10 nineteen inches in circum-
ference. her feet are no longer garbed in
pigskin hohnails. but the highest-heeled,
thinr1st-soled shoes she can find, and she
is able to drift OF in the most bewitchius
swoon when her pet dogs illness declares
itself or the dressmaker keeps her stand
ing longer than three minutes at a time
She dares not trust herself beyond the linn
its OF her own sitting room without pair
Of tiny crystal jewei-tOpped TASKS strung
on her neck chain. One holds powerful
salts and the other sol volatile and the
men who became proficient ia carrying golf
clubs and pumping up the tires for fair
damsels are now learning how 10 apply
these two potent antidotes for fainfiug fits.
Added to this pathetic fragility. nearly
every miss and matron IL society Possesses
some pet ard particular afiiction, and does
wonders with her suffering TO render il
appealing and beWitching to the strong
stupid masculines who never see the IN
nocent hypocrisy under the light masque of
invalidisn
For instance. there is one girl in New
York society who has a weak ankle. II
has never been so badly of as to need
any ether support than a very hne silk
hose and a high heeled kid tie Of Gin
uerella proportions because its owner
uses a crutch. Such a beautiful Crutch
an art treasure with an arm rest and
handle Of ivory inlaid with gold and
mother Of pearl, and the uprights of
the crutch are invariably wound with a
ribbon that exactly matches It's proprieuor's
every change Of costume. OF course one
crutch is not enough support, so the pretty
cripple always has mans arm 10 rest
her other hand on. and talk of her trouble
always brings the perfectly formed suf-
feTlnE ankle into mOmeutaTy view. and
there you have as pretty beginning for
2 love affair as ever the golf links sup
piled
Another miss. whose most faultless fea-
ture is her long, round, snowy arms.
always wears a tWo-inch wide band of
solid diamonds on the upper portion Of her
lovely night member. Because why2 Well,
because those diamonds conceal q dreadful
scar received in childhood, the cicatrix Of
a dreadful wound that nearly cost her her
source Of grief 10 her, and that is a scar
so entirely terrifying in appearance that
neither By night nor by day is the diamond
band removed. Not one. but the majority
q newly budded debutautes carry each
silk enclosed. violet scented down pillow
10 church and theatre. and when driving
and calling This little pillow is about
twelve inches square and bears the owners
initials IN embroidery IA one corner. and
its purpose is to protect a neuralgia shoul-
der. The pillow must be placed exactly
over the eXcitable nerve Of the left shOul-
der. else 2 draught creeps in and a killing
headache is the result.
TEe country house party season is stiIl
wide open, and the moonlight nights are
utilized TO their fullest extent to satisfy
the demand Of the Young people for picnics
OF a kind that have rarely proved to be
other than successful in this their initial
season Of adoption. In reality they are Ian
tern nutring parties, and are so carefully
pre-arTanged that il requires q WelI-equip-
ped hostess to provide one.
in q country house where dozen guests
OF both sexes are visiting, the hostess sends
her men servants twenty -four hours in ad-
vance Of the entertainment 10 sCOur the
woods and find and mark the trees that
show the bez- crop Of ripe nuts and in q
choice spot il the forest a clearing is made,
q r5 F7Er aud hfa
scientifically. knock up a few rough tables
near the bonfire, roll up stumps and logs
for seats, and set up staples and dig pits
for cooking food, and On crisp. dry, moon
light evenings couple Of coaches drive The
guests 20 the woods. To every woman in
the party an agreeable masculine escort is
given, and on every pair an old style TN
lantern holding an inch and q hall OF light
I'd candle is bestowed, along with a
bag or basket for holding nuts. Now, the
gisJ Of the fun is that by the dim light Of
the lantern and the aid OF the moon the
couples are 10 hunt for nuts. finding the
trees BY means Of white cards tackled 10 the
franks and trusting to sharp eyes and their
training Ia juvenile years 10 secure their
prizes in the dry leaves.
When a coach horn is blown at the bon
FIRE. everybody must answer its summons
IL the picnic rendezvous and have their
D
gathers the greatest number wins prize
Desperate and heroic are the eudeavors o.
those who struggle 20 get the lrst prize
because the inch and q half OF candle burns
down all too rapidly and gives light for a
very little while Il IS the business Of one
lively matrOn with an escort TO prowl
about with q bulls eye lantern and fash
IL upon suspected hirtatons and drag
forth the offenders.
When the coach horn calls in the last
straggler, the servants touch Of the big
bonfire, light pine torches. and cook the
game and other meats for the supper in
barbecue fashion.
II no nuts are 10 BE had, the supper by
t0rchllght is carried out just the same
washed down with cider. and on some o1-
Casions oysters potatoes etc. are roasted
by the women in the ashes Of the big
camp Gre and the servants are left al home
rs formal uuisauces. that contribute 10
Eo5oiy's pleasure.
By their iudiyidualitigs in dress nav an
obEervant person distinguish the great la
dies Of the land A stranger in New York.
for example who drops in at the Metro
poIi,an OF q gala night, won't have the
least difficulty in picking out the fair
Young hostess in the Ast0r box. This is
because Mrs Jack is always the most
plainly gowucd woman in the horseshoe
galaxy Of beauty. Perfectly simple satin
and diamonds is her iuyariable choice.
The satin so rich 10 can stand alone. Of a
lovely shade OF rose or mauvre or PALE
blue, fitting from shoulders to ankles wi h.
out q Whit Of lace or q pinch Of drapery.
and the diamonds never mixed with pearls