The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-19
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM

My lady now doth affect half hose
no, not for street!-for her morning
negngee. Before she formally dons
her panoply of corset and attachments
Tor the day fashions votary is apt to
ind annoyance in wrinkles of unsus-
pended hose that spoil the trim effect of
ankles half disclosed Negligee is no
comfort if stockings be negligee. if one
has not the soul-warming comfort of
knowing that one looks neater even
IMAM IN tailor made, SO there has arisen
cry for hose that will not lapse from
good form and yet needs no hose sun
porters that doth hang upon a corset.
10 meet this need Mile. Parisienne has
adopted the half hose that children
wear in summer to her own use. Miss
New York has followed literally in her
dainty footsteps. and so the peeping
hosiery Of morning is frequently plain
sockS-to use the rough mans term.
The new under coverings are in light
shades mostly and of length sufficient
to make them hold on the swell of the
calf. Neat they are about the ankle
when the morning robe slips shyly up
ward, and the women of France are
not 1napt when.they classify these foot
ings among the ''coquetries Of home"
They are pleasing-but there must be a
calf.
Mrs. Leslin Cotton. who would rather
be mentioned as portrait painter than
as society woman (Which she is by
right Of btrth), presents striking con-
trast when at her easel to that COM
mon idea of woman artist as being
In faded, formless draperies. Her work
Ing costume Is smart sailor suit of
navy blue serge, open at the neck like
the blouses of our navy men in the
summer time. The sleeves have tight
bands at the wrists and ornaments of
fouied anchors embroidered above. AS
she moves around the studio while at
work She looks more like a girl ready
for yachting party than one of our
most successful painters to society,""
In striking contrast to this trig cos
tune is that of Mrs. Cotton's studio
companion and fellow artist, who wears
demurely a loose kimone of a satanic
shade of red
Louise Vanderheef, sister of s.the girl
with the beautiful hand" has the pref
TEST foot in the world, say those who
have seen, and her friends attribute it
to her fondness for sandals. AS a tiny
girl the present belle yearned for pedal:
freedom, and, since her mamma would
not hear OF such a thing as letting her
go barefoot, even in the country, she
cudgeled her youthful brain for a COM
piofiiASc. one IOuuQ II IN a roman MIS-
| tory illustrated with woodcuts. in one
of which works of art was shown the
graceful neither extremity of a patri-
clan natron confined only in sandal.
That appealed to little Louise at once.
She begged and begged and begged un-
til her mother had made for her an ex-
perimental pair of the openwork Shoes
which the future debutante wore with.
out stockings when enjoying the free
dom OF the family's country home. So
bepeHefal was the result, that Mrs.
Vanderhoef kept both her daughters in
| sandals through most Of the warm
weather. and In consequence their feet
freed for long periods from the leathern
prisons Of civilization, grew more and
more beautiful every year. Louise Van
i derhoefs foot. as seen on the sands OF
Newport, IS like that of Diana. Her
sisters Is finely formed. too, but hers
has the true Spanish instep. A stream
of water can trickfe under the arch
withou< wetting the sole.