The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-20
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.

Few items of interest escape the
women who read newspapers. The
well written advertisement holds
place of Importance with them, not Sec
ond to a human-nature story. Some
women look for bargains in husbands
as well as in dry goods. The best re-
cent testimony is In the news of yes
terday, relating how 600 women in
Chicago responded to an advertisement
inserted by a clergyman who was anx-
1ouS to find a well educated wife for a
wealthy ranchman. Single women of
some fortune and refinement confessed
their desire to take another name and
widows not long bereaved offered to
prove their right to second husband.
At a recent forced sale of small
yacht one-half of the bidders were
women. They have learned to sail
small boats as they have learned to
play golf. Give a woman bargain in
a sloop or camera or an automobile,
and her pleasure in the use of any one
Of them is doubled.
OF the popular young matrons who
have been missed from society none
will be more welcome in the gayety Of
the early summer than Mrs. Clarence
Mackay, whose period of mourning has
permitted her to make a study of
gowns best suited to her style OF beau
ty. Mrs. Mackay always was a study
in hats, but if report be correct her
friends will soon talk Of her tea gowns,
which are said to be dreams. An av-
erage price of $500 ought to make a
dream of a dress, and the stunning eff
fects designed by New York modiste,
not based on Paris models, will serve
as a contrast for discussion among the
women back from Paris and Cannes,
who have been raving about the gowns
worn by the Duchess Of Roxburghe,
who was Miss May Goelet.
Another illustration Of the love ex-
listing between the Countess de Talley-
rand Perigord and her mother, Mrs.
Levi p. Morton. is shown in the count
ess' present trip to this country, be-
cause Mrs Morton's Illness, and her
intention to stay here until her mother
is well. The countess is as handsome
as she was four years ago, though a
trifie matronly looking. Always ath-
letic, she shares her husbands love for
autonlobiling and has become an ex-
pert. When girl she could sail small
boat with any man, and her tennis
and golfing found high approval. A
fine shot, crack whip, and one of the
most daring cross-country riders, she
won admiration from the men, and had
enough offers of marriage to turn the
head of a less sensible girl. No. was
her invariable answer, and when she
organized q society of fashionable
women to raise funds and prepare
supplies for the Red Cross work In the
Spanish war many persons predicted
she never would be married, but would
60 in for charitable work. The an
nouncement of her engagement really
surprised her friends.
Neither the "Grecian bend" nor the
exaggerated Kangaroo" is the walk af-
fected by fashionable women. Theirs is
the "glide and spring" It is too slow
for women who have to trudge far
through crowded thoroughfares. Per-
haps that is the reason for the favor
1t has found with exclusive folk 1t
really is graceful when a woman is
crossing her drawing rooms or passing
out to her carriage, but If she were
called upon suddenly to hurry the
glide and spring would have to end
right there.
To drive a public coach is the ambi-
ton of many a woman Of society The
Dorcas Coaching club affords an oppor-
tunty for the qualification of that de-
sire. Daily trips will be made from
the Plaza hotel to the Turf and Field
club for the spring races at Morris
Park Although the coach-and- four
will be called q public conveyance,
seats will be given only to those who
have been passed upon by the club.
Three women who have distinguished
themselves in this sort of driving are