Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-22

the non-e1ect. They found at the horse
show last year and the year before that
they were more or less outdazzled, or at
least equaled. by the gorgeous women out
side the paie of the 400. This year, therefore,
the great majority of the women of the
400 have appeared at the horse show in
simple tailored gowns. They have permit
ted the "vulgar!ans" to do the feather
preening. This all seems good deal in the
spirit of the little girl who took her doll
rags and went home. But the costume
withdrawal of the women of the 400 hasn't
appreciably lessened the magnificence Of
the show.
Women Of the 400 Are Plain.
The woman of the 400. after all, are in
mighty small minority when compared with
the great crowd of amazingly lovely women
who prepared for months for the horse
show. And-one is obliged to say this in
whisper-most of the women of the 400 are
actually and absolutely a distressingly
plain-looking lot. even with their gorgeous
feathers. They are in no sense to be COM
pared with the stunning women that one
sees at the horse show whose names one
can never ascertain. with the most pains
taking inquiry, and who are scarcely ever
seen except at the horse shows. No won-
der the chappies of the 400, after a whole,
long year Of mingling exclusively with the
women OF their own set" are so eager to
feast their eyes upon this army of feminine
loneliness belonging to women whom they
[ nave never gazed upon before.
A trade paper stated the other day that
something like 10000 out-of-town fashion,
able dressmakers come to New York every
year to obtain points at the horse show.
one may we'll believe that. They are every
Wnere to be seen, with their note books
out, day and night, throughout the pro-
gress Of the big affair, and some of them
are certainly very energetic Several of
then nave actually gone the length of
mol Of tbn o,,I
wraps OF women whose garments they de-
sired to use as models for the purpose of
getting at little details of manufacture that
weren't outwardly visible nor have they
exhibited the least sign of being withered
or shrlveled when detected in this by the
Wearers of the garments. A dressmaker
VINO devotes herself to the filling of nota
DOCKS during the entire week at the horse
snow is pretty liable to be called upon TO
pay excess baggage when she takes the
train for her home town.
Passing of an Ugly Custom.
1t is pleasant to be able to record the
utter effacement of rowdyism in New York
on the nights following the big foot ball
games. The collegians do not engage in
that sort of thing any more Only a few
years ago the Tenderloin of New York was
IN more or less of a state of terror on the
night following a big game of foot ball in
New York or in the neighborhood of New
York. The eXuberance of the lads from the
university with the winning team was
boundless. and, similarly. the gloom of the
youngsters from the defeated college was
such that its outlet was invariably as riot
Gus as the behavior of the winning outfit
The New York police used to brace them
serves TO meet the contingencies of thesa
nights in spirit that was half panic and
half brutality, and many of the mix-ups
between the cops and the collegians were
little short of deadly. The students would
storm through the white light district cal
md Foo
ana they We're not to be restrained On tns
night following a big Thanksgiving foot
pail game few years ago the police of
the town exhibited so much unnecessary
prutallty with their clubs that on Thanks
giving night the following year when there
mad been another game in the afternoon.
the clubs of the police were taken away
from them and they were Instructed to do
the best they could with the weapons of
nature The result was that there were
Few conflicts between the cops and the stu
dents on that night, the students forbearfne
to rush uniformed guardians of the law
who showed a tendency to be both humane
and conciiatory.
Since then rowdyism on the part of the
stuaents mas been rapidly on the decline
and this year it was seen from the begin
ming of the foot ball season that If had
passed out altogether. There were 20 900
persons at the big game between Princeton
ana ale at Princeton last week, and on the
night following the game the town was
damned with students, but there wasn't a
single instance recorded of rough-house
work, nor single arrest. The lads went
TO the theaters in parties of a score or
hundred or more, but they made no demon
STATIONS. The restaurants were filled with
them, and there was no trouble. The overly
enthusiastic freshman who exhibited any
tendency to work up rowdyish spirit was
Instantly frowned upon and squelched by
his fellows. One of the Broadway theaters
had made great preparations to give the
students hot reception If they attempted
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ignored that theater entirely, and not one
of them applied at the box office for a
ticket.
Lively Session Of Women's Club.
During the singularly humorous and lu-
ridly lobbyistic sessions of the Federation
of Women's Clubs over in Brooklyn last
week the performances were so diverting
and the press In general poked such a mon
umental lot of fun at the performers that
on the day Of the final election of officers
there had been several previous elections
but these were held to be Illegal because
the right ones weren't elected, you know
it was moved and carried that "the press
be excluded" The press. consisting of the
score or more of reporters who had been
sent to cover" the hilarious affair, took it
all In good part and seemed to be only too
willing to be excluded" in fact, to Judge
from the delighted expressions the re-
portor1al countenances when they were
1ncontnently thrust into the outer dark
ness. But it happened that quite a large
number of the female delegates to the con-
vention belonged to the press" themselves,
and these protested furously, yet futilely,
against being pushed out of the doors, after
they'd come all the way from Oswego and
Oneota and Nootvile and Hammertown and
such places, not only in the capacity of dele
gates, but in the capacity of correspondent
of their home papers. Out they had to go,
however while the fierce election excite
ment ragged within Most of them sat on
the steps Of the hall and declared that
they'd resign, so therei
One of the funny features of the series of
sessions was the delightful break that
was made one afternoon by the temporary
chairman-ess of the organization who was
afterward elected its presdent-that is to
say, if anybody was elected the point still
being a moot one in the minds of a whole
lot Of the delegates, it seems.
st. Clair McKelway's Troubles.