The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-12
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.

Beauties of twenty years and charm
ing women, of say, few more winters
than that ceased to draw stares for
ten minutes yesterday afternoon in
Peacock alley, in the Waldorf
while all gaZes were conferred upon a
little girl. She was pretty and she
bore herself with an air of high i'm
portance, but it was neither her man
ner nor her babyish good looks that
caught the attention of the Peacock al
ley loungers. On her yellow curls was
perched a huge white straw hat, and
dangling from that by a bit of pink
twine-so that, like the other little
girls curl in the song. tt hung right
down in the middle of her forehead
was price tag! Her serene uncon-
seriousness of the fact that a careless
mother or maid had permitted her to
appear thus ticketed in bargain coun-
ter fashion gave the final touch to the
picture. iE"
One of the freaks Of fashion, as OBJ
served on Broadway and Fifth avenue
these days, is the number and variety
OF colOred boots worn by women These
are not of the ordinary tan shades,
though there is strong revival of
tan boots and shoes; the freakiness is
shown in the wearing of such cOlored
feathers as red and mocha brown. An
other variation of this colored boot fad
is seen when the stroller catches
glimpSeS of patent leather boots with
white cloth uppers That this expen-
sive whim has come to stay for at
least as long a time as most whimS
retain life is shown by the windows of
the fashionable shoe shops. There the
colored footwear blossoms forth in such
variety as to make the spots fair rivals
to the windows of florists shops.
Miss Elizabeth Emmett, whose going
on the stage a year ago was a sensa-
ton in society, had the most trying of
her experiences on Saturday evening
Since her debut, about a year ago, de-
ferred in Difference to her fathers op-
position, but accomplished after his
death, Miss Emmett has undergone the
heroic treatment in theatrical life of
playing to one night stands all over the
United States. The long and rapid
itinerary of 1.-THE Girl With the Green
Eyes in which she is playing, carried
her on Saturday night to New Rochelle,
where the kith and kin of the cele-
brated Irish patriot, have lived for gen.
erations, the half dozen Emmett houses
along the choicest part of the Shore
road on the sound being the most ia
nous as well as the most beautiful
places in Westchester county.
Miss Emmett says that the hardships
of transforming every night, with long
railroad trips between daybreak and
sunset, are a luxury to one whose an
cestors hardened the muscles of their
race on racking Irish jaunting CARTS
and she thought after year of facing
strange audiences in strange places
she was in the pink of condition for
facing anything with composure, ex-
cept an Orangeman. In New Rochelle,
however, she came -very-near to col
lapsing with stage fright at confronting
not a strange audience in strange
place. but an audience in her own
home and of which not a face was
strange to her. The house was packed
to the doors with thet population of
New Rochelle, and every one, from the
most distinguished citizen to the small
est stable boy, acted as iSnobody was
in the play but Miss Emmett. This re-
ception was so embarrassing>-%@r her
that she had not recovered from it