The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-27
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.

Senator Clark's daughter, Mrs. Ev-
erett Mallory Culver, who is suing her
husband for divorce. Is the mainstay
and support of circle of friends who
subsist on her bounty. One woman
says Mrs. Culver is ''ridicuulously gen.
erous." On Christmas Mrs. Culver is
always willing to distribute checks to
genteel and impoverished friends, and
all this is done with an unobtrusive-
ness that makes the gifts doubly well
come. A story is told about one of Mrs.
Culver's satellites and chief benef1-
Charles. This woman, who was almost
a fixture in the Culver apartments, one
day spied a diamond crescent of Mrs
Culvers dressing cover. "Oh, how 1
should love to have diamond crescent
like this, DEAR" purred the friend
81 suppose it's quite out of the question
for me ever to have one again" The
friend sighed and Mrs. Culver, yielding
to her sympathetic impulse, said, "Take
mine, my dear. 1 can have another,
and, besides, 1 am tired of crescents."
do you mean that?" cried the woman.
ooh, you are so good. Let me kiss
YOU" Exit friend with crescent.
One of the fixtures at the Metropol-
itan opera in past years was Mrs. As
tors magnificent tiara of diamonds,
but this collection of gems will never be
seen again. Mrs. Astor has broken up
the famous old ornament and the dia-
monds are now applied to other pieces.
Mrs. AStor was among the first New
York women to wear a mass of dia-
monds in her hair, and when she ap-
peared with her dark brown hair aglow
the critics cried, "She is aping a
queen" Mrs. Aston was always obliv-
ious to these comments. The tiara con-
sisted of a mighty yelloWish diamond,
with smaller stones grouped about it.
Five oval diamonds formed the top.
But now Mrs. Astor's huge yellow
diamond does service in large brooch.
carats and was bought thirty years
ago in London. The yellowish sheen
does not improve it's value, either. In
the brooch this immense jewel is sur
rounded by twenty good sized dia-
monds. The whole IS a brilliant mass
and Mrs. AStor wore it for the first
time at the Roxburghe- Goelet wedding.
Diamonds are her favorite gems, with
emeralds close second. Mrs. Astor
wears again her we'll known earrings
two perfectly matched diamonds of
pure white color and of great size.
They are almost too large for ear
rings.
Dealers are showing another novelty
in furs. 1t is called caracal or Per-
sian lynx and by means of dyeing and
pressing under hot irons 1t may best
be compared to baby lamb. Usually
| caracal is softer than the average
lynx, and, therefore, is quite expensive.
Black is the usual color of the COM
mercial article, but when the small ami
NAL roams at large its coat is between
a wine color and brown. When press
ed it shows a glossy coat, but this ar
tificial treatment is not regarded as adj
yisable usually. Caracal thus treated
soon regains its natural appearance.
Furriers are at a loss to believe that
Miss Annie Morgan, the daughter of J.
Pierpont Morgan, will actually wear a
coat and muff of leopard, as Fifth
avenue dealer says she will. Miss
Morgan is noted for her quiet TASTE and
any woman who dares to flaunt the
pelt of this brute of the jungle is sure
to attract undesirable attention. There