The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-28

Matrons and maids are at issue with
tissue and half hundred society
women purpose fighting it out on that
line if it takes all winter Health is the
subterfuge, reduction the reality. The
laudable object is to be attained by
cross-country runs, in imitation of the
Countess de Castellane and her set.
Dwellers need not be astonished any
fine morning to see a bevy of beauties
garbed in track suits and the con-
sciousness of rectitude speeding along
the path under the eye of a coach. The
home of the Women's Athletic club is
not finished, so even social queens, II
they wish to combine the winged foot
with metropolitan delights, NUT take to
the open. Park patrolmen have been
warned not to start out of their beauty
sleep at sound of rending pipe iron, for
the fair athletes intend to take the
fences flying, and it is prophesied by
cynics that choppers will be more
abundant than record leaps. 1t is pre-
dicted also the popularity of early
morning strolls besides the river will
show tremendous increase among
club men-all OF which demonstrates
the far reaching effects of a health
movement when once a pIucky pioneer
casts a pebble in the pool.
Everybody in the establishment Of
Idle Hour last week, from the super
intendent down, was in a 1utter OF ex-
citement, not unnlingled with fear
that the beautiful country house of the
w. K. Vanderbilts would not be ready
for its owner at the appointed time.
Emphatic commands that the whole
house must be in order by Oct. 20 were
received. They threw the major dorno
into despair. Train loads of eIabI
crate furnishings and an almost
equal quantity of casts for stat
uary to adorn the grounds were
arriving steadily. Where to put the
enormous influx was the question.
Workmen were hurrying through room
after room, yet not one suite was COM
plete. And the whole must be ready for
Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt within five
days. The situation could not have
been worse had the proprietor con-
templated inviting large house party.
Indeed, the superintendent doubtless
would have welcomed the additional
confusion, as supplying a possible ex-
cuse. His instructions were that Mrs.
Vanderbilt's boudoir suite must be the
pink of perfection. Somehow the idea
gained ground the former Mrs. Ruth
erford would pass a much more retired
London before the millionaire
ended her widowhood. Retainers who
recalled their masters wishes in the
early years of his first marriage and
remembered how he welcomed each lit
tie stranger in turn were particularly
in demand. A person of special inn.
portance in the belowStairs brigade was
she who could tell how the advent Of
Willie K. Jr. was celebrated. The air of
ton rrf Of he
ordinary.
More elaborate than ever before will
be the settings of the jewels worn at
the opera this winter. Fashion has so
ideereed, and society is having it's jew
els reset, taxing the jewelers. brains
for Original designs. Mrs. Herman
Oelrichs' yellow diamond, one of the
finest in the world, is to be fitted in a
new and ornate setting. OF great cost
will be the corSage ornament ordered
by another woman Of fashion. 1t will
represent wild rose branch with flow
ers of pink tourmalines and leaves of
emeralds. Mrs Whitelaw Reid will be
seen this season wearing a stomacher
of diamonds, emeraids and amethysts
in the design of a peacock with lifted
wings.
Despite the popular prejudice in
England against woman lawyers, and
which will not down even with the
younger practitioners, all hats and ju-
dfcial wigs are doffed to Miss Cornelia
Sorabji, the woman advocate of Ben
gal. She is not only wonlanly wom-
an. and without trace of that man
nish manner that SO many women in
the professions insist upon affecting,
will, the absurd notion that IL Indicates
mental power, but she is the superior
of any lawyer in trousers in India.
Miss Sorabii is a Parsee woman. She
speaks six distinct dialects, which are