The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-02
GOTHAM GOSSIP
fRy Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Yo

New York, Doc. 2.-Hist! All the local Leonardo da Vincis, Rem brandts. Velasquezs, Van Dykes, Key holds and Raphaels, who use the ar tistic slapstick and have been p1n1ng this fall for lack of employment need take courage and come out of the dumps, Society has evolved , a new that unlike the ordinary embenish- ment of its kind it must be painted instead of pasted upon the face. Ana it must be done by no common kal- sominer but by a real landscape ar list who has the true eye for the rem naissance.
 Sticking plaster is tabooed, also charcoal, black cork and other once favorite resources of the esthetic matron to whom beauty is next to hailed by the beaux monde of the town as one of the most delightful novelties of the season and is now in vogue, among all those who pride themselves upon being strictly up to date. The idea is said to have been evolved by one of the prominent wo- men memebers of the "400" who has a strong imagination for odd fancies of this sort. It was brought out t the Horse Show and became instantly popular.
 In twenty-four hours everybody who
 
 appeared. in her. arena box with the fetching little dab of paint on her 'dimpled Some wore them high up near their ears, while others had them we'll down near their chin. As might be expected the demand for them glutted the market for artists, one of whom had so many engage ments that he had to give a taxicab company an assignment on his pros pective earnings in exchange for the use of one of it's machines to whirl him around town from house to house. -7
 As the work of art has to be erased every morning with the matinai wash down. the paint pusherss foresee an era of prosperity ahead of them, that hard times that have been their lot of late. The widespread adoption of the novelty, as is usually the case when some radical innovation in ral ment or cosp1etics is introduced, has provoked much hostile comment such idiosyncracies as indicative of moral atrophy and social decay.
 Indeed. the tendency Lzshown this year-more marked than ever-for the ostentatious exhibition of costly clothes by the women who patronized the Horse Show has furnished the critics of the wealthy classes with food for no end of sermons on the folly of extravaganza. An expert who viewed the gorgeous costumes worn by those who made the show the most brilliant in history declared they represented an average expenditure of s1,305.. This did not include furs jeweled shoes or jewels and was itemized as follows: Hat, $50; Gown $500; ordinary cloak, $500; lace stockings, s20; lingerie, $125; Gloves $10.
 Gossip continues to be busy arrang- ing for the yearly marriage of Vim cent Astor and Harold Vanderbilt, two of the wealthiest young eligibles ir town. While denials are in order, il !. generally beelieved they are only tentative and will be withdrawn as soon as. the prospective brides inti- mate their willingness to have the formal announcements issued.
 Young Astor, as the only son of Col onel Jacob Astor, by his first wife and a nephew of William Waldorf Astor of Oliveden, England, will in herit something like $150, 100000 on, of these days and is looked upon as one of the most promising catches in town. His name has been linked with that of Margaret Andrews, thu attractive daughter of Paul Andrew of this city and Newport and although the family of the young women de precate the suggestion that she is be throthed, it is believed that a definit understanding concerning their futurf exists between them. The fact that