The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20

never have and never VIII discover the small remnant of the now almost extinct species, the real old New Yorker.
 It gives the desired appearance of up to dateness to the magazine wherein 1t ap- pears, the story with New York color.
 It may help real New Workers to real ize what they might be If they followed the lines laid out for them by their new neighbors, neighbors who are sweeping up all the neighborhoods to themselves.
 There Is no objection either to the New Yorker travelling a bit in these up to- date stories. if he goes in a palace car over a railroad of his own, or if he rents villa near Florence under the blue Ital- Ian skies, or a castle in the Hebrides. It is quite the thing for him to take out the heroine. and the chaperone. and the rival and the rest in his yacht: The main thing Is that he always is well dre sed. his changes of suits must be described every half dozen pages, that he has lots of money and spends lavishly; the ingredi- ents of his perfumes and the temperature of his bath Is often given.
 Even a widow, who dresses always in black, we are told that she affected black before her widowhood has numerous pas sages throughout one of the most popular novels of the day given to her attire. Though the intense deep black of her gowns Is always unrelieved by any color | yet our interest Is clinched by informa- tion concerning the different lengths of her costumes.
 In n novel of New York that has sold far into the hundreds of thousands many pages are given over to the dress of one woman therein. We see her in q very becoming street suit of brown, in a de- Hciously fashioned gown of flesh-colored cllnglng silken fabric. in a garment of furs reaching to the hem of her gown. in we'll Is 1t not written where all may read and many have read?
 These two especial books are by men, | It seems strange to find men so volu- ble about womens clothes. But as has been remarked 1t Is the style. 1t must be done to bring a book up-to-date. | It would be interesting to know If the men work out the designs of these crea- tions of millinery and costuming them selves or if they employ specialists, some modiste. we'll up in fashion to prepare 1 these pattern-shect passages for insertion in the novel. However we take back even this hint of possible weakness of the man author to accomplish the whole of his work for himself. Some of the best and most world-renowned designers of women's clothes have been men, Worth and others.
 A man author should be as able to de- sign good gowns as a man-modiste, and Indeed from the way such books sell, it is Go paying a business.
 For my part am little tired of sto- ries of "Tail1r Made Gown" a Natl nee Hat" of His Prince Albert" His Cassock," and The Slippers She Wore. {"
 Besides I have personally a great love for the Real Thing, which no one seems to share. don't care for a man reared on Southern plantations to write for me of the doings of the inner circles of old New York society. or for man fresh from the foot hills ot the Rockies to give me sketches of the cottagers at Tuxedo, or for a girl just in from a manufactur- ing town of New England to write mo romance of the Bench Show in the Garden, and the people who owned the dogs.
 l had much rather hear stories of the things they left behind them. Things they ought to know more about than do. Things they ought to be able to tell about vividly and strongly. Even if they described dress as "she Is thore worn 1t might be something different from what we could see in the shops, or shall we call them Emporiums. here.
 But don't send such stories to my ad- dress for I have no money to pay for them.
 And if were a literary agent l shouldn't advise that such stories be sent
 to any magazine just now while the vogue Is for metropolitan color ana Ne" York Nomenclature.