The age-herald., 1901-12-01

New York. November -lspecial)- Now. that the annual parade of my friends at the. Horse Show Is ssover, the season of 1901 and 1902 has properly be- gun. If there is any one thing more than another that wearies me to death it is this annual autumnal round up of the social forces and the would-be's, A little of it goes a great way. The trou-
 ble of 1t Is that man of my position
 must be obliging as well as constantly
 obliged. When my hostesses of the past
 summer ask me to run in during the
 morning and take them, I have no ex-
 cuse to offer. I have to do Il. This Is
 one of the seasons when the thought
 to summer hotels-ah. well. even fash ion imposes obligations. I went to the
 Horse Show three times a day. In the
 morning I would stop for some young
 matron and take her down behind my
 tandem Then to lunch at Deimonico's, and back again. Dine somewhere with somebody and back for the evening with my hosts. dinner. party.
 1 did not. think much of the horse flesh dS WHoit. nat BOSLO0 lOAl Lawson, the Copper k.ng, as they call him, won yards of blue ribbon. must say he deserved the awards. His ex- hibit redeemed the show; indeed with a few exceptions to raise the standard. the quality was low. Alfred Vanderbilt, who brides himself on his stable, had better sell off all his belongings and begin anew. It was too absurd to see how peo- pie toady to the Vanderbilts Half sthe women pronounced 1t a shame to awArd Lawson instead of Vanderbilt the pfize.
 As to clothes. The women have gone crazy this year. Taken as modisfe's exhibit the show was a tremendous snc-. cess, as a beauty show I have Afen better. There were the regulation&lot of well-dressed and well-groomed Wem-s en. They came arrayed in all the latest glory of new gowns and the latest hats They were the same old fashionHble standbys, looking just a little olderS | don't recall a new face that pronflses. anything. Among the young girls Who. are to step on the thershhold of fashion this winter, I can't say I saw one that suggested to me the possibility of great belledom by reason of great beauty.
 One thing I did notice. Children.# It seems to be the desire of ambiupqs mothers, particularly those who HAyei climbed from the outside over the social renee, to IOfce InelT DOyS anu BITls IEofn ten years upward to the front. Many of these children were exhibitors, and a more precocious lot of pups and prigs have never seen. Like 8 job loks of apes they mimicked their parentss In. speech and manner, and most of ti4em were dressed like pigmy imitationss of their parents Boyho6d and girlhbod traits were conspicuously absent, they looked like a lot of dwarfs. The season for all this forcing is to challenge atten- tion, and to make the youngsters know one another. "A
 The result of this sort of thing is shown in the present fashionable set of young people who have come uponHthe stage believing themselves something quite .superlative.. Their ,arroganfe. and assumptions of superiority is destined to make class distinctions which will be productive of trouble. They in no way resemble their parents, and have most extraordinary idea of themselves. I have lived in England good deal, and have been on familiar footing with men of title. It Is the exception when an En- glish nobleman's son Is anything else than a gentleman. Our rich and fash ionable mems children are fast becem- ing a race of offensive egotists, careless of the feelings of others, inconsiderates and intolerable. a
 Tn my last letter I spoke of the people one sees. They are the same who ih a, few days will be found in the boxess of the opera house in the full glory of even-s ing dress. Indeed, it Is no jest to Bay, that at the Horse Show we see them dressed and at the opera, undressed4
 Lanfear Norrie is going to havs a. squash ball court back of his city house The lots back of his house ex-s tend to the next street. It will allow a court -thirty-seven feet five inches shy eighteen feet eleven inches. Norries Is striving hard to do something notidea- ble He is a child of luck His father is wealthy and belongs to one of the old families of the city. Norrie graduated from the school of mines,- Columbia Col lege, and went out on a shooting trip in the Northwest. He noticed surface croppings of iron and copper. Having them assayed he went on little further