The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-18

Western newspapers have it that
Mrs. Frank Norris, the stately young
WIDOW of the California novelist, who
died about year and a half ago, is to
become the bride of Joe" Letter. who
had a meteoric course in the Chicago
wheat pit some years since-a course
similar to that of Curtis Jadwin, Nor
ris' hero in THE Pit the second novel
in what the author destined to be the
Trllogy of the Wheat" Mrs. Norris,
however, has denied the rumor, going
even SO far as to say she never has
met Mr.. Letter. The report is believed
to have originated in the similarity of
the business experiences of the broth
er-in-law of Lord Curzon and of the
hctlon hero, and in the fact that Mr..
Letter took an active part in supervis-
ing the stage production of the ex-
change. scene When The PITT was put
on the boards in Chicago.
Newport is not to have the pleasure
of the presence of the Peter D. Mar
tins this summer. Mrs. Martin, who
was Miss Lille Oelrichs, has gone al
ready from their winter home in San
Francisco to Burlingame. the Lakeside
OF the San Francisco coast, and will
spend the simmer. there. Report
comes that she is more charming in
appearance than ever, and that she
and Miss Frances Joliffe, the clever
sister of Mrs. Rudolph Spreckels. are
inseparable. Shesf has become quite
conspicuous by reason of her fondness
for automobiling. She spends at least
an hour each morning in big white
touring car, and it is said devotes an
other hour as regularly to calisthenics.
To these two recreations credit is Civ
en- for her trim figure.
Evidently Lily Langtry had a profit
able visit to America last winter, be-
cause she bought for her husband,
Gerald de Battle, some shirt studs that
a duke might envy. These are cabo-
chon rubies of good size and each is
surrounded by rim of diamonds. The
studs were purchased from a Fifth
avenue jeweler and the price was more
than $1,000. Gerald de Battle is known
in London as one of the best dressed
men in England. He affects conspicu-
GUS clothes but there is a certain dis
tinction about his appearance that
counteracts the effect of his loud
clothes. To his friends he is known
as "Jiggy" de Battle. The Jersey Lily
refers to him as "Jiggy.' They see
little of one another. "Jiggy' counts
the king among his friends, but he has
never entered the set in which his wife
moves. He loathes anything that APP
proaches society, but is something of a
clubman.
Single pearls for studs are no longer
as smart as large colored stones, but
this fad has not made Roadway in this
country. Only a few ultra jewelers. are
selling emeralGs. fpbies and even tur-
quoises for this purpose. and the well
dressed New Yorker is apt to shy at
a fashion which destroys the black and
white symmetry of his dress togs. Err
nest Iselin received colored studs from
the Duke OF Roxburghe for a wedding
gift and last winter Robert Goelet
amazed his friends by wearing moon
stones surrounded by diamonds Goelet
is known for his i'll fitting clothes.
Clyde Fitch wore turquoise studs and
waistcoat buttons for more than year.
and all things considered, no man in
New York pays more attention to these
little niceties than does Fitch. The "a nix
and file of men about town, however,
wear single pearl studs.