The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-27
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM

Opinions are divided whether Mrs.
j. G. Mallory will succeed in her deter
mined effort to revive the fashion of
walking sticks for women. Attempts
have been made to restore the long
cane of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, and the graceful staff has
many admirers among the esthetically
inclined. Mrs. Mallery's idea, how
ever, is more practical. She carries a
stick much like that affected by the
average man of the younger generation
"a stout prop as well as a weapon of
defense 1t was in Newport she be-
came an object Of especial interest by
appearing in public with light cane
and using 1t as a support instead Of a
mere ornament. She made a genuine
sensation every time she walked
abroad, yet none of her fashionable
neighbors-not even such daring adopt
ers of innovations as the women of the
Lehr set-yentured to follow her ex-
ample. DOWagerS and matrOns of adj
vanced years looked on the idea with
approval, many of them frankly ex-
pressing the conviction it would be adj
vantag eous to elderly women to make
such a custom general, since govt or
: deerepitude then would be less con-
spicuous. But the younger bellies re-
belled, and it is feared Mrs Mallory
will have trouble in inducing them to
make the woman's cane a style. She
points out stick would be a handy
article for woman attacked by foot
pads, and even hints mysteriously at
sword canes to follow the solid sort.
But the youthful beauties say they pre-
fer to keep to beaten paths.
Every woman versed in the gentle
art of modish dressing will give par
ticular attention to her sleeves through
the coming winter, for it is on the style
of the sleeve the success of the cos
tune depends. The initiated always
have been able to form a tolerable idea
of a sisters fashionableness-o lack
of it-by glancing at the covering Of
her arms. More than ever this season
is that the case She who wishes to
economic must do so on something
other than frocks If she wishes to es-
cape the compassionate glances of the
well to-do. Made-over gowns are GER
tain to be detected instantly. The sleeve
with the seamless shoulder this year
has a butterfly wing effect. Stunning
for reception and evening wear is the
three quarter of this winter The coat
sleeve is loose and gathered in at the
armhole, while its stitching is arranged
for panel effect. The big, square Chi
neSe coat sleeve again is seen on the
opera wrap. A mannish sleeve for tai
lor gowns is cut little fuller at the top
than at the hand, and has a bias piece
stitched on for cuff, which gives the
desired severity for that sorr of gar
ment. The sleeve, the sleeve and still
the sleeve is the all-important consid-
Grafton in 1904 and is likely to be
throughout 1906.
There has been so little said recent
ly about the Elbridge T. Gerrys that
they seemed to 'have fallen off the rim
of society,"" as an envious critic put it;
but there is no truth in the suggeS-
ton. The commodore is as big man
in the social swim as he ever was, and
it is not true he is going abroad with
Mrs. Gerry The Fifth avenue man
sion, adjoining the Millionaires' club,
will be opened for a gay season early
in November, and the Misses Gerry will
be the charming hostesses they always
have been. 1t has been remarked that
the Gerry house, a pioneer among
Fifth avenue mansions, is superior in
many respects to great majority of
the more modern houses and possesses
a broad suggestion Of hospitality and
comfort which is in marked contrast
with Andrew Carnegies cold brick and
mortar palace or the architectural ex-
crescence built by Senator Clark, of
Montana. The Gerrys may not be fond
of notoriety, but they certainly are ex-
emplars of old-fashioned good taste.
Our Canadian cousins are frank
enough to admit that, besides being
one of the cleverest golf players on this
continent. as she proved herself to be
on last Thursday, Miss Georgianna
ic a H.
tional charm in the drawing room. She
possesses the rare faculty of consecu-
tivity in conversation and is the direct
antithesis of Miss Flutterly, portrayed
as type of the American girl by
Charles Battell Loomis. When it
comes down to solid argument, Miss
Bishop can hold her own with an OPP
ponent of either sex. But it is not her
intellectually that makes here SO pop
ular with her own sex; it is her splen-
did physical development, her muscu-
lar strength and her remarkable judg-
ment of distances. She has an eye like
a hawk for seeing and for calculation,
and her graceful poise and swing when
she yields the club are the points that
excite admiration.
The deplorable blunder made in the
diagnosis Of the condition of Miss Web
ster, who, it was asserted, was suffer-
ing from alcoholism, when she was
fainting from fatigue. has aroused In
tense interest among women who con-
tribute literally to hospitals, of whom
Mrs. Russell Sage is the most promi-
nent. The suggestion has been made,
and 1t will receive especial attention by
the Women's Federation of Clubs, that
every hospital In New York have a
woman ambulance surgeon, just as
Gouverneur has had in the person Of
Emily Dunning. Hospital rules, Of
course, provide that the ambulance
surgeon, no matter what the sex, shall
go through the regular gradations and
eventually become the house surgeon,
but 1t is maintained that a sufficient
number of women juniors could be held
for just this sort Of duty. There is no
danger of a wild goose chase if the po-
liceman or other person who calls up
the hospital by telephone exercises Or
binary common sense. 1t is easy
enough to name the sex of the pros
trate patient and q woman doctor
would be just as capable of determin-
Ing whether it was case of alcoholic
intoxication as man. DR.. Dupning
never made such a blunder in her am
bulance experience as that made by
the surgeon who said Miss Webster
was under the influence of liquor, when
in fact she was on her way to her ply
stefan and had fallen exhausted.
Little Margaret Carnegie though she
lacks years of facing her teens, feels
dreadfully, dreadfully old these days.
Childhood's untrammeled joys have
passed for her, for this year she will go
to school. No longer can her mornings