The age-herald., 1901-11-24
 Beauty iR Her Box and Beauty io in The Stall aeM THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN eafua ixQ AsrSeen at the Show and at the Fash Ionahle Places During Horse
 Show Week in New H
 York.
RY ANNIE kENpRIck WALKER.

the nOl pollol ana the nOl pollol BoeS eO see. society,"" was the way well known New York writer recently described this annual event in which national interest was lcentered the past week. He declared that the Horse Show this winter formed the pyre upon which many of the new -millionaires'' burned their money. To quote him exactly; Every one of them is eager to get into society. There is a curious idea among this class of men fand their women) that the Horse Show is an avenue of entrance into the silver gilt set, association with which they covet as intensely as the devil covets qualification. The Horse Show is very good thing in its way, but disappoint- ment faces the new millionaires if they expect to "break into" society by show ing horses or traps that are better than anything the men and women of the sill yer gilt set may possess. The Horse Show is about as useful for purposes of social burglary as is a reputation for din ing an the palm room of the Imperial Hotel" And while this may all be true, it would seem that the multi-millionaire who takes a box at the Horse Show 
 acquiring his millions might escape comment upon this occasion when beauty in the stalls and beauty in the boxes monopolize all the attention. But in New York so much is said of the attempt of the new millionaire to enter society that even at the annual Horse Show his appearance is made the theme for much amused comment and the dear creature is not allowed the liberty of showing his xx7ifh accused h. holy ambition to be considered in the eX- elusive set But with the sleek we'll groomed beauties prancing over the tan bark, the exquisitely groomed beauties in the boxes, even a multi-millionaire probably drowns his troubles and disap- polntments in the intoxicating atmos- phere of the Horse Show.
 NAnd to those who have no social diff ccmties to encounter. those whom the hoi polloi goes to see; they, too drink in this intoxicating atm osphere, this elixir that is no where to be found but at the Horse Show They must have six nights of it annually.
 The thoroughbreds in the stalls-it is their week, too-theirs, and the other thoroughbreds in the boxes. The multi millionaire whom society shuts out, the other, who has the entree, the satin gowned woman leaning over her box at the show to admire the satin-coated beau ty in the tan bark, the throngs on the promenade, somewhere a band every where u glitter women chatter, a mans laughter, and the Show is at it's height.
 Are not the women on the promenade jealous of the women in the boxes of their fine clothes, of their diamonds?' was asked a prominent New Yorker at the Horse Show, who replied with en- phasis:
 ''The women on the promenade are as well dressed and as we'll bred as the women in the boxes. The ones are the edaal of the others in every way" Then as he looked through his opera glasses hs-added: '"The American women aare the most beautiful in the world and the best dressed. I've seen them all"
 The Horse Show was pronounced the npst successful in the seventeen years history of the association, and there was never a larger contengent of representa- tive people from other cities in New York eefor Horse Show week. It is the one week of the year when New York society fits back from the country places and in to this week are crowded the series of dinners ana luncheons that give the New York woman very little opportu- nity, to really enjoy ,le Show. But she finds time for it all, the luncheons with a congenial party of friends at Sherry's Deimonico's or the Waldorf later to drop in at the Horse Show, where envel- oped in. her furs she sits for an hour or two in her box, intent upon the hories There is tea for her to sip later on and she. drives away in her luxurous carriage
 There Is her engagement for dinner and back she goes to her box at the Show a show that she has made the most fashionable event of the world, an event for which she makes herself dazzlingly fair.efor which she wears her faces, her jewels, her most beautiful robes. And if she does monopolize, if it is she whom we go to see at the Horse Show, if we gaze at the beauty in the box in prefer ence to the satin-coated thoroughbred in the ring, it only proves that the Am merican woman is contributing her part to the Horse Show by wearing her most be- coming toilette, 4act Which speaks vol uminously of her approval of the occa- sion.
 Her interest in the Horse Show extends beyond that of clothes, and at the New York Horse Show this week there were number of women who entered their own horses and who carried off blue rib- boffs over the horses owned by men. This was all the more notable by reason that all the entries were representative and were greater In number and higher in class than ever before. Mir William C. Whitney declared on the opening night or tne snow that IL would be the best Horse Show ever held in this county This was the evening of the Alfred Van derbilt sensation, when Mir. Vanderbilt who was an exhibitor in several classes failed to get a blue ribbon His entry Grayr' Cloud, was the first horse turned down. his owner watching him prance over the tanbark from the Vanderbilt box.cIn another class, the entries of three women surpassed Mir. Vanderbilt's four inshand which were fooled to a brake.
 But while the women take so much in- tertst in the Show. the ''horsey young society woman was not in evidence
 one saw only the conventional woma an, who morning, afternoon and evening en- joyed the Show as she viewed 1t from her box or fingered for a moment on the promenade. In the afternoons the boxes were always thronged with women. in the smartest of toilettes. muff1ed in furs. Many of the women wore huge clusters of violets with their furs. or caught against their chinchilla muffs. The evenings at thelShow were the occasion for the most elaborate toilettes
 The, distinguishing feature of the toi- lettes seen on Horse Show evenings and those always seen at the opera was in the high bodiees. In the boxes. the tiers and on the promenade. every woman ap- peorgd in her most elgant and becoming eildA. and in her picture hat, with her