Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Mrs. Reginald
de Koven will burst upon society this
winter in barbaric splendor. Mrs. de
Koven always has admired the eastern
manner Of adornment and on her
travels has gathered many rare Baby
lonian Jewels with the assistance Of
an oriental jeweler in washington Mrs.
de Koven has reproduced some of the
sets used in the time OF Babylon's
greatness
They remind one Of those worn by
Princess Helen Bariatinsky OF Russia,
who was lady In waiting to the old em-
rress on state occasions.
Mrs. de Koven's Jewels cost kings
ransom. Chief among them is a black
pearl, pear-shaped brooch and a carved
necklace, set with uncut sapphires. The
weight of the massive gold with which
1t is wrought would seem to the lay eye
to be painful to the wearer.
But in clothes so as in jewels-one can
endure much IL the end to be gained is
to look beautiful
The oriental sign of wisdom, the SER
pent, plays an important part in the
armlets and bracelets and good luck
amulets encircled with jewels hang
from the bangles. In fact one bedecked
in oriental dress makes, with each
movement, a Jingle faint as fairy bells.
Love and Bird Quite Popular
Fully 5000 foreigners change their
names at the New York court house
every year. For instance, Solomon
Graballofitz drags his name with him
to the clerk of courts and walks out as
Samuel Karatstone and Guiseppia
Stilletoo, after signing a paper, is
transformed into Joseph Still-that is,
unless he thinks of the names Love or
Bird. "I WISH" said a clerk in the
court house, that some one would eX-
plain to me that mental process where
by foreigners who wish to change their
names hit upon the euphonious appel
lation Bird Two-thirds of the peo-
pie who come here petitioning for a
change of name from some unpro-
nounceable aggregation of consonants
to an Anglican cognomen express pre-
ference for either Bird or Love. Since
it seems to be inadvisable to turn so
many Birds and Loves adrift In new
land we suggest less fanciful patrony-
mic, and finally persuade the petitioners
to try Smith, Brown or some other
commonplace American name. This
they do willingly, however, and no
doubt to the end of the chapter they
harbor a wish that they had insisted
upon being called Mr.. Bird
Thinks Golf Beats Riding
Andrew Carnegie has ample oppor
tunity since his return from Skibo
castle to witness some excellent horse
manship, of which pastime he is pas
sionately fond. From the windows of
his palatial mansion at Fifth avenue
and Ninetieth street the retired steel
king watches the exquisitely groomed
men and women on their spirited
mounts dashing along the bride path in
Equestrianism, Mr.. Carnegie thinks, is
fine sport, but is tame compared to
driving ball over the golf links.
Rings Out of Date
Perhaps because rings as simple or
naments are so completely out of
fashion few married women of New
York wear the symbolic gold band at
present" said fashionable manicurist
the other day. "Of the several dozen
patrons who frequent our establishment
in the busy season every day not one
in six or seven Of the married matrons
is so distinguished. The fragile look
ing circle which in past years has
gradually been losing something of Its
solidity is carefully preserved, no doubt,
with other interesting souvenirs and
keepsakes. 1t is seldom worm
Women Finally Admitted
Is the old rule excluding women with
out male escorts from certain expensive
restaurants after dark to be abolished
formally? An indication of a change
that has occurred in the past few years
is found in the following announcement,
conspicuously displayed in the hall of a
fashionable Fifth avenue hotel: Ladies
served in the south cafe after 1880 p.
M" This announcement does not mean
that women without male escorts are
admitted into the cafe. The change is
less radical than that. Until recently,
under no circumstances, were women
permitted in the south cafe at all. After
dark it was mans particular province,
distinguished from the main restaurant
by less formality, chafing dish suppers
and thicker tobacco smoke. Not long
ago the man who took his wife or
sweetheart to the hotel to dine was
barred from this cafe. He had to pass
to the regular dining room. An EvelesS
Eden was the south cafe, the entrance
guarded by liveried attendants, who
firmly DETECTED anything done up in
chiffons and picture hat to less in
teresting part of the hotel. Properly
escorted, woman is now as welcome
there as man. "And now that / am al
lowed to enter" remarked fair patron
of the hotel II don't care to dine there
so often as in the main restaurant. :"
And that is the woman of 1t for you.
Life of the scrubwoman
The Broadway policeman was awiting
his relief the other morning and found
time to discuss the numerous scrub
women who frequent lower Broadway
in the early hours. You would be sur
prised to learn how far these women
come" he said. "Some come from Stat
en- Island, and not few from Jersey.
One woman makes her daily trip in
wooden slippers, the reason being that
she has turned her toes in such man
ner from scrubbing that 1t is impossible
to wear shoes" At that moment an
old, white haired woman passed and
nodded to the patrolman. THAT one, -
he said, sis rs years old and has
scrubbed in buildings in this section
for forty years, but she is as strong as
ever. / can't see how 1t pays them.
They get at most only a dollar day
and out of ii have to come ferry and
car fares"
One-Legged Girl Dances