The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22

least, that it is necessary to be provided
with valet. The Vanderbilt, Aston Goe-
let and Gerry ladies never travel without
their Wallets, and the man who serves them
is a person of many accomplishments. Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilts valet is an Eng
lshman who once served royalty, who
knows every inch of Europe, North Africa
and Eastern Asia, and who, when the fam
lily are living in town, acts as a sort of up
per butter or secretary. He speaks many
languages and when the Vanderbilt ladies
wish to travel they merely tell him when
they wish to leave, and he does all the
rest
Mrs. Oliver Belmont, who has the best
and most snowy and expensive servants
in America, employs an East Indian as
her head butler and valet. He is mag
nifcent, capable fellow, who learned his
business in the household of the viceroy
of India, who preceded Lord Curzon, and at
dinner parties, in a gorgeous embroidered
robe and loft turban, he stands behind Mrs
Belmont's chair and serves her only.
In the household of Mrs. Seth Barton
French noble looking cossack, who wears
his native dress, is the valet for the la
dies and the major-domo. These fierce
looking warriors from Eastern Russia are
coming into great popularity in New York,
for despite their savage beauty they are
the tenderest nurses, devoted to children,
passionately faithful and grateful for
kindness and so enormously strong that
they can carry heavy men around easily
in their arms. Better than all, however,
these servants in their foreign costumes
lend picturesque beauty to a fine house,
and posing about at great functions, they
are more ornamental than the costliest
bric-a-brac.
Women's Stables.
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wealthy and fashionable women in New
work as well as London. The great and
sensible public may be as devoted TO 1t
as ever, but the sporting instinct OF the
easily ennuyed American noblesse has
turned again to horses and any one who
is on Fifth avenue or in Central Park III
the afternoon will not fail to observe
quiet, but none the less sharp rivalry Oh
among the carriage riding women.
A year or two ago the desire OF the
social leaders was to own pair OF per-
fectly matched brougham horses, whose
skins were like satin and whose act"h
was exaggerated, nervous and coquetlsh
to the last degree All the horses in 1ash-
ionable service had the tendons OF theA
forelegs cut to induce absurd high step
ping, check reins were cruelty short ana
bits hard and close. But the fashions oI
this, world pass away-Mrs. Ogden MINIS
came back from EDgldilu Will d OiiO7''
pair and filled the hearts of her fair COM
temporaEies with envy. Her broughdm
horses were hands higher than any others
in New York their tails were banged ho'
locked, their necks were long, their heads
small and when her equipage swept up
The avenue at a pace like cavalry chats-
ing. a sensation was made. Mrs. Mis-
horses by their pace and stride and ap-
pearance showed the English hunter bood
| in them. and this winter the beauty horse
has been run out of the traces for the
| sake of a horse than can get over grouIi
| in the shortest possible space
The rich woman's carriage cab no lon8e.
minces by, but goes with stately WIN
| that leaves the foot passenger breathltsS'
| Mrs. Mills horses cost 800 apiece, MIS-
! John Jacob Astor's cost more, and MIS-.
Elisha Dyer, who raises her own carriage
| animals and breaks them with her own
! hands, has the finest grey pair and next
| to the swiftest in the city. Nearly e'eis
| private carriage has a stop watch in u
! these days, and dainty creature WI"
| come in smiling for a call and announce
| the minutes and fractions of seconds III
which her pair brought her up the ave
nue.. The fastest horses and the smart
! est, newest establishment kept up by any
| New York woman, however, is the Rus
| sian cab and three bays, harnesseu
abreast. driven by pretty Mrs. Stokes
| who like Mrs. Dyer, is one of the So
| cial personages who takes horses ~.
only seriously and personally, but very
profitably on her big stock farm.
Emily Hot