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aided exertions. A full discussion of
this question is invited by the news
papers. If both sides, are heard from
there will surely ber much dissent
from the projected amendment of the
section reducing the number of coun-cilmen.
LADY MODISH AT THE HORSE
SHOW.
Princtton, N. J Nov. 29.
Dear Courier and People
a msa named Thompson wants to go to
the senate from Nebraska, and the
thought of the possible success of his
aspiration brings scalding tears to my
eyes.
There was a time when only honest
mea repreeented their districts io the
government of these United States.
There was a time when men were chosen
to serve the people only after they had
provea their integrity. In those joyful
dsys it was demanded that a maa should
first show righteousness in life aaaprt-
I doa't know when I have enjoyed aa
afternoon at the Horse Show aa mack
as I did that of yesterday. All the peo
ple one knows was there, and all the
per pie one does not know stayed away;
I hear that pk Ie88t' gret H,8i"t3r of th"'
Jt course, society, even wnn its mugs
cannot fill a big place like the Gardes,
so the absence of the rank and file left
plenty of room for one to move about
in caaafortably, and without becoming
part of a seething mob of people that
one is not keen about touching elbows
with.
The Horse Show was originally made,
so to speak, by the Few the Select
Few. It wsa afterwards unmade from
a social standpoint, by the Many the
Mutable Many. It look d oa Monday
frr iff coiallj If Erelya only kaew hew Oelriebs were wearing chinchilla teqaei
black gawM reduead the else of her with bunches of violets aad gardealee
aose aha would sever affect any other oa the stde, made exactly alike. Mies
color. Shaw, who is engaged to young George
Mrs, Arthar Kemp is another girl who Myers, wore a similar eae.aad I saw
will never be aa chic aa her mother; bat half a dosea women hatted is the sasae
thea there is oaly one Mrs. Fred Neil
son, and "Baby Belle'' has plenty of
charm of her own, so she can afford to
be surpassed by a generous rival like
her mother. Oa Monday, Mrs. Kemp
wore a white cloth Eton jacket brocaded
maaner. As for sable hats, they were oa
every side.
Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes had one of the
few good spangled gowns that I saw,
aBd with it she wore aa all black hat.
Mrs. Stokes affect black aad t suits
closely all over ia black; a plain black her admirably, but I cannot admire the
,.- w Z , m LLk for "though the Select Few had come to
vate citizen bufore he could seek ror .... ...
honors in public office. Nowlreedthat the conclusion it was time for them to
this man Thompson has been promised
the highest honor the representatives of
the people can give, and I feel that if
there w any troth in the report the peo
ple of Lincoln have been disgraced.
What, I wonder, can be the good of
Lincoln's vaunted morality if the people
are to gratify blindly the cupidity of the
greatest charlatan in the state. Of what
account is the watchword of decency,
that has been for years the eafe guard
of the city, if this man Thompson's avar
icious nature is to be pampered?
Who was the only man except the
pawnbrokers and the chattel mortgage
sharks who prospered in the years of
Lincoln's adversity?
Who was the man who saved Mayor
Giaham from nominal impeachment?
Who was the man, who, holding the
assume control again.
Of course, this is only the first twenty
four hours point of view, and by the
end of the week the Mutable Many may
be out in force, and the Clothes Walk
will have as many freaks aa ever, crawl
ing round and round. In the mean
time we had one day to ourselves, aad it
was charming.
How cross the Mutable Many will be
when they discover what they missed,
for there is nothing they love so much
as the Select Few.
I have rarely seen so many of the
smart set at a public place at one time
before, and as a rule, they were exceed
ingly well turned out. The flashy,
dasby atmosphere of other years was so
little in evidence that one could easily
ignore its existence,
Some one asked me whom I thought
cloth skirt; a roaad black hat encircled
with black ostrich feathers about her
throat Mrs. Willie Jay and one or two
others wore similar feather boas, but I
cannot think them smart.
One of the best gowned women at the
show, ia my opinion, was Mrs. George
Gould.
bluet blue, you know made very
simply. It hsd a little gaimpe of white
lace, was buttoned over on one side with
crystal buttons, plain tight sleeves,
plain tight skirt with a long row of
buttoaa down the back. Her hat was
angle at-which she wears ber hat tipped
over her nose.
One of the smartest lookisg women
that passed the box was Mrs, Grsavtlle
Kane.
She certainly improves with age. I
have never seen her look better. Her
She wore a cloth gown of blue gown was very goodblack aad white
aad with her fresh skin snd glorious
hair, it is hard to realize there is a debu
tante, Mies Kane, on thic Winters social
horizon.
Mrs. Cooper Hewitt wore a black
cloth gown studded with steel last
very becoming; it wsa a toque of bluet season's model, but very good lookisg.
velvet spotted clesely with white silk Over it she wore a long putty colored
dots; two stiff feathers of the same color coat a loose baggy rffair, that is very
were fastened towards the front with
a brass ornament.
Mrs. Gould has grown very slight,
and is as good looking as she was years
sgo whea she made a reputation for
beauty. The whole Gould family oc
cupied seats. So did the Frescott
practical and very smart for evening
wear. These coats have scored among
the successes of the season, One women
told me she thought they were night
gowny in cut, and they are; but they
are still smart.
Mrs. Lee Taller wore a black spaagled
Lawrences and sny quanitty of the nic- gown, too, but it was not as smart aa
est people. Indeed one saw as msny it
not more, peoplo lhat one knew in the
seats than in the boxes.
Mrs. Henry Hloane and Miss Blight
were together in a box. Mrs. Sloane
had on a claret colored velvet gown and
a velvet toque. It seems to me that
Mrs Stokea's. Spangles today must be
beyond reproach in their execution or
they are utterly impossible.
I noticed a lot of women with trans
parent sleeves and the rest of their
gowns lined throughout This is a fatal
mistake and nothing gives worse lines.
. -- M.Manr in hu nllllf.fipa
, . . ij :u . ; the smartest looking woman there, and
caused men to he employed with a view f t1
.: nnuf!.riir.lnn uowoiou piutuptij. uir. x ikwih
Lawrence." It is impossible for Kate
to making the service unsatisfactory
that he might be gainer thereby?
This man Thompson has been run
ning a bluff on Lincoln until Lincoln is
almost irrevocably in the toils. You
Baw the city press attack the water com.
m'weioner and the mayor last spring.
Don't you know that the man behind
the scenes who pulled the string that
wiggled the legs of the water commis
ioner snd the mayor was this man
Lawrence to look anything but patrician
and her gowns are always perfect. I
love them because they look like her,
and seem really to belong to her; that
worn-by-the-courtsey-of-my-dreesmaker
look that stamps the women who wear
model gowns is conspicuous by its ab
sence in the case of Kate Lawrence.
Mrs. Ollie Belmont as an example of
antithesis wore a pretty colored cloth
ft'ra. Stoane invariably wears a velvet one elects to wear ones sleeves a jour
gown and velvet toque. Mrs. Blight ia there must be a jour effect about the
evidently out of mourning for her neck. This is abeolutely important,
mother, who died a year sgo. Both she Tn mo of a guimpe effect one gets
and her sister, Mr. William Page d makes a j'our with the sleeves the
Thompson, were gowned in black velvet .better.
and looked very smart-only I never Mrs. Walter Maud, who looked chsrm-
look at them that I do not wonder how "8 otherwise, ruined her black toilette
m A rA Ann't vnn know that
the citTireea was actually afraid to gwn on Monday, and I counted a dozen
pitch into him?
Don't you think it about time for Lin
coin to call bis bluff?
L. H. Robbips.
TEMPTED.
He came few browed and
sullen from his place
No mark of high resolve upon his face;
He fkeag his yellow gold upon the floor
Aad cried, with menace m his blatant roan
"Give me the honor
I would rule thestatel"
Aad dumb hi fear the tempted senate sate.
If gold were God, thea
such a thing were right,
Btft mark you-gold will
sometimes curse and blight;
Htafcstaaeaate prostitute Badf
For thai man's sweaty, evil smeffing pelf,
Its cursed infamy will swelling rise,
A monument of ruin to the skies.
Beware! be warned before k is too last!
Nerscfl the priceless honor of the state,
Nor like a fell assassin in the swat
Strifcerfeaih to that which
ave you power and atigfeu
e o and seura this bribe
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red hot from belli
Be men not slaves that
greed can buy or sell!
WOUam Reed Dtsaroy.
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or more like it during the afternoon and
evening, and every woman's face wore
an appealing, questioning, doubtful ex
pression, that said plainly: "Do you
think my gown is just like Mrs. Bel
mont's, and Mrs. 's, and Mrs.
's?"
The-more I observe clothes and the wo
men that wear them, the more I am
convinced that what a woman wears is
the surest key to the puzzle of a wo
man's nature.
Imagine Mrs. Lawrence a the Show,
of an afternoon, in an almost white cloth
gown, elaborately embroidered, and a
white tulle hat with a big chou of pink
velvet on her head!
Yet Mrs. Fred Benedict was so
attired, and it quite suited her; indeed,
she looked unusually well, and inci
dentally, her nature was faithfully re
flected. Mrs Lawrence wore a snuff color it
might have been whipcord made very
plainly and severely with an irreproach
able cut.
Her hat was a turban of pheasant's
breasts, worn well over the face.
Mrs. Warren Whitney, Mrs. Louie
Rutherford and Evelyn Burden came in
together. Mrs. Warren wore a little.
they live with those tiny waists. And
their best friends rwear they do not
lace.
Miss Fair looked very well. Her
gown was black cloth with a short
jacket, and her hat was a bright red
turban.
The ebort coat was universally worn
by the best dressed women, and it looks
aa thoueh mv nrediction about the lone
or three-quarters coat would be fulfilled, abut. Mi9B Sedley.who deserves her
by this radical mistake. Apropos of
spangled gowns, it will probably be
news to many, women that their vogue
is of American creation, and they are
another instance of Paris copying from
New York.
A word about the younger set. Their
bad gowning was quite unpardonable,
and made one wonder whatever their
parents or guardians were thinking
except perhaps a limited few.
Mrs. Duncan Elliott was at the show
both afternoon and evening. I did not
care for the gown she wore in the even
ing it was a black and white striped
affair, very fussy and dowdy but the
reputation tor Being a Deue and a
beauty, wore in the evening a gown
spangled with silver and covered with
an elaborate design of black lace. She
walked about a good deal, and the bad
taste of thp gown ratbei than her good
brown gown of cloth with white embroi- lookB mada her OTer conspicuous for a
ifered reran that she wore in the after- young gin.
noon suits her particularly well, and I
thought I had never seen her look better.
She, too, has grown thin, and her figure
has gone back to its girlish slightncas.
Tn the evening I dined with a lot of
people and so was late getting to the of being seen in all tnree rings. lathis
Miss Adele Fitzgerald's frown
black net with a serpentine design doaa
ia silver epangles that would have been
a little too much forBarnum's circa
unless it was designed with the object
Maud You write to each other every
day! Why, what can you find to write dinky cape of velvet and silk about her
about? shoulders and looked anything but
Marie Oh, I just answer the things Bmart: She used to be such good style,
he says in his letters.
Maud But what can he find to write
about ?
Marie He just answers the things I
eay in mine.
too.
Evelyn Burden grows more like her
mother every year, only she will nsver
be so good looking. She had on a pur
plish blue cloth gown that I did not care
show. Nobody smart walks about in
the evening, so we went directly to our
box and I saw comparatively few women
that I knew. (Of course men do not
count in a fashion letter.) The Clothes
Walk was much more crowded than in
the evening and the proportion of freaks
had increased a trifle, but the Select
Few were still in the ascendant.
J t is too droll and also a bit pathetic
to see the dressmakers and milliners
one deals with standing about, gaping
at the women and making mental notes.
I really think they take the Horse Show
more seriously than anybody else, and it
amounts to so little when all is said and
done.
Mrs. Harry Whitney was very elabor
ately gowned in blue velvet covered
with embroidery.
Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Herman
case it would have fulfilled its destiny.
And then there were oh! a lot of
others; but there is a printing press
waiting for these words of wisdom, so
I'll epare them, though neither they nor
their relation deserve it. A gaudily
dressed women is a blot on the vision.
A gaudily dressed girl is is beyond
words. Town Topics.
Attendant Shall I put a ticket "Do
Not Touch" on this picture?
Gallery Superintendent What pic
ture is it?
Attendant Portrait of a millionaire.
Jollydog Our American heiresses
appear to have the same trouble as oar
candidates for office.
Polly wog What's that ?
Jollydog They find it very hard to get
a square count.
