Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-09-05

tion's speeiaitieS. 4 scene viii be yrit-
ten into il which will give the Kansas
heroine full scope 10 smash bottles and
bars TO her hearts content.
Apart from the display of Partisan
gowns and the many other exhibits ar
ranged for the fashion show AT Madison
Square garden. there will be a depart
ment devoted exclusively TO social Gus
toms in their relation 10 the proper style
Of gowns to be worn at weddings. dinners
and afternoon and evening receptions. The
first of these special social functions to
be presented will be a wedding. with a
minister, usfers, bridesmaids and bride
and groom in attendance. each properly
dressed in accordance with the ideas of
fashionable society.
A new gem recently discovered in Cali
fOrnia has been examined by Or Charles
Baskerville, the chemist. and named kun
zite, after +. kunz, its diseoverer.
Beatrice Irwin. who was last year a
member Of the Empire Thpater company.
will soon return from Europe to appear
with William Gillette in The Admirable
Crichton.
The limit Of brilliant and expensive
after-dinner entertainments promises
soon to be reached. 4 Newport hostess.
who has had acrobats and even dOnkeys
in her drawing room. is now thinking of
giving Il ballet. gay with light and color,
for her guests. Her agent at last ac-
counts was trying to learn if an Amazon
chorus and group of dancers could be OBJ
tanned for n single night at Newport. and
at what cost. The matter is still under
inquiry and there really is a possibility OF
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setting provided by one of the most at
tractiye drawing rooms of Newport.
Iargery Rogers. the girl who had the
choice of giving up the stage or forfeit
llg a half-millon dollar Request has
chosen the stage. Jacob Rogers, the mil
lionaire locomotive builder. who gave
over $7,0O0,000 to the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Arr. made Il stipulation that his
gEaud-niece should forsake the stage be
fore receiving a cent of his money. This
WAS done before his death and the girl
told him that she would not give up her
profession for all his money. So she was
cut off. She is only Is ami hasn't even
got m engagement, yet she is satisfied
and hopes for 4 career before the foot
lights. She is a favorite with Sir Thorn
al Upton.
William y Amory. former secretary
of the Third Avenue Railroad company,
has sold his house in East Sixty-second
street Along with the house be disposed
of wall paper which probably IL like nc
other in the country. because it was orig
inally intended to sell for several million
dollars. ArmOry'S wonderful wall paper
was made up of intrinsicnlly worthless
bonds of coal and iron company in
Kentucky. Their owner was before the
public last March and April when hC
made public charges OF fraud against the
Metropolitan Street Railway company
and sued II. II. Nreeland for libel In
his testimony at the hearing Amory as
serted that he was offered 100000 cash
a short time previously by a man who
he alleged, was trying 10 bride him be-
cause the would-be purchaser knew the
paper was worthless. Later they were
used TO decorate the walls of a room in
his house,
Ground has been broken at RhinebecE
cemetery on the Hudson for the erection
of Il mausOeum to the memory of Gen
John Armstrong. who in 1913 and 1871
was secretary of war and United States
minister plenipotentiary TO the court OF
France. 1t is being erected by HenrS
Beekman Armstrong and James S. Arm
strong. grandsons of the old general The
body of Gen. Armstrong lies in an an
Gent vault i'll the cemetery there. Col
John Jacob Aston is his only living great
grandson.
There is TO be no more nonsense on the
floor of the stock exchange. The board
Of governors has issued solemn warming
that members caught throwing paper
wads will be suspended There has beer
q perfect epidemic of this sort of thing
lately. and the more staid members have
demanded action. Whenever anything
unusual happens the members of the ex
change always get moonstruck The
yacht race afforded them their latest op
pcrtunity. At Christmas. Fourth of July
Decoration day and. in fact on all public
holidays, they break out in ali sorts OF
funny ways. Even when Sir Thoma:
Upton arrived occasion was made of il
to cut up capers on the floor. Pretty
soon straw hats will be called in. and theI
there will be high jinks. Indeed. it is il
anticipation of this yearly event that III,
board of governors has issued the wan
ing.
Valet service is not enough nowaday.