Show Great millionaire Babies Small Goulds With Little Astors Whitneys and Hooker Hammerslys Create a Sensation When Taking Their Airings Young AstorLord of a Princely Nursery Special Correspondence New York June 3Tbere are several sev-eral morsels of humanity whose ages range from six months to three Years who never drive in Central park or wheel about In the sunshine without creating a respectful stir among the recognizing crowd These are the infant in-fant millionaires such as Harry Paine Whitney jr William Astor George Gould Jr Hooker Hammersiey jr and a dozen or so more and a number of them minute mademoiselles Their fortunes run all the way from ono tQ a dozen millions apiece and in happy unconsciousness of the curse of gold they get through life in luxurious nurseries and swell about the park in a stvle that makes their perambulator riding contemporaries stare The young New YQrk mothers give a good deal of time and thought to what they call the entourage of their babies I and few young princelings live in one half the sumptuous artistic security enjoyed en-joyed by these infant Croesuses There is for example the heir apparent of the house of Astor He has never beer a very hale hearty individual hut he is the very apple of his mothers eye During the winter in New York she spends a goodly portion of every cay in the nursery with her boy and for his nursery young Astor IH to bt certainly cer-tainly envied That big sunny room Is done up in pink with white dotted swiss which are put on freshly laundered every week just as the white curtains are renewed every seven days A white velvet rug adorned with a pattern of pink roses lies on the floor plants putting put-ting out pink blossoms onlv stand on the broad window sill anti a downy cockatoo with a pink topknot broods in a white porcelain cage The children of Mrs George Grrd romp in a nursery of no less studied loveliness than this and the nurses for camera for occupation but far the time there is a very clearcut method in tne photographic madness Every woman has chosen a subject of which she makes a specialty and even the ver iest tyro disdains to draw her snap hot on even willing and unwilling photographic pho-tographic subject that crosses her path The woman who elects to perfect herself her-self as a landscapist looks for views and nothing else while another who is In and out of action wouldnt waste a plate on the noblest view that over wrung verses from a poet Mrs Jonathan Jona-than Thorne for example studies ani jaj 7 35 tei p k iW i 4 t titIiirI 3 11 1 I Jnp jJ I I > 4Jff p I kiL i 1 I I SHE PRESSES THE BUTTON AND HE DOES THE BEST I mal life alone and will drive twenty miles to get a shot at a group of fine livestock or sit all day in the bushes for a chance at a deer Miss Eleanor Hewitt carries her camera only for street scenes and Miss Helen Benedict devotes all her talents to photographing photograph-ing yachts under way To such an extent has tho nhoto graphic mania seized on the inhabitants of Newport Bar Harbor etc that the owners of valuable lenses drive themselves I them-selves to and fro in light runabouts their cameras setup before them over the dashboards searching with eagle glance and the aid of a devoted masculine mas-culine retainer for some new and alluring al-luring subject in the cherished individual individ-ual line Perhaps no subject however has more profound attraction for these ambitious am-bitious photographers than the study of moonlight scenes Miss Elsie Mitchell Miss Clews and almost a score of girls are devoting themselves to lunar effects ef-fects with a praiseworthy ambition of fidelity Some of them IndeH will gladly sit up all night in orde to watch the progress of a promising exposure and already this occupation has been productive of several moonlight picnics about the cameras and interesting engagements en-gagements as will have developed not on the sensitive plates of the cameras hut between the fair enthusiasts and their masculine sympathizers who also elect to sit up through long watches on cold dewy lawns to ward off any fears of the darkness and loneliness that might menace the gentle young artists The Belle and Her Rifle With little rifles of 22 ½ calibre the fashionable younger set of women that already rides drives golfs and photographs photo-graphs have found a new mode of making mak-ing summer holidays fly It is the ambition am-bition of this set to organize small parties par-ties of nimrods and Dianas to go out for the shooting season In the Rocky mountains and the girls who hope toe to-e a gun record this summer have sa I been quietly i practicing all spring at a shooting gallery In New York Their chosen resort is not in any one of the stately sporting clubs but a little basement base-ment gallery where twice a week a group of them in soft silk frocks and damtilycoiffured heads drop in with their cousins brothers etc and do some really remarkable rifle work At the end of the gallery swinging glass birds glass eggs on jets of water animal ani-mal automatons and crystal balls supply sup-ply target practice for the Mlsess Webb Stokes Hodge and others who use these as mere stepping stones to higher things in the shape of Rocky mountain goats grizzlies and their ferocious friends By the time the western shooting season I sea-son begins these markswomen hope to be proficient enough to take their I part I in the long hunts and just as soon as the Adirondack season opens they will undertake to bring down the noble stag or even go up into Canada later on for cariboo and moose To so lofty a point has the ambition of some of these fair huntresses mounted that rumors of nothing less than a trip to India for a try at tigers is whispered about Perhaps Per-haps that exploit will be successfully carried out in time but just at the moment mo-ment the chief thrill of the situation is felt over the getting up of the new hunting dress and the discovery that the proper costume for the Adirondacks shooting season is to be brown canvas cut exactly like the uniform of the rough riders with the addition of course of a canvas skirt just to the knees Wonderful Resemblances An Englishman of high degree spent the springtime in New York whoso women he found notably beautiful but many of them he assured his gratified hostess might pass as the twin sisters sis-ters of ladles who by portrait or their existent selves enjoy an almost international inter-national fame for loveliness of feature So strongly was he impressed with some of the likenesses that he is collecting photographs of the fair doubles merely to prove his interesting assertion He has found that Miss Edith Clapp might easily be taken for the twin sister of that famous duchess of Devonshire whose beauty Gainsboros brush immortalized im-mortalized while opposite a handsome photograph of the vlcer ne of India he has placed a portrait of the empress of Russia and the most careless glance can at once detect a startling likeness between these two Mrs Charles Have meyer shows almost featyre for feature the counterpart of those in the beautiful beauti-ful duchess of Portlands face and it did not take this Englishman long to discover that Mrs BurkeRoche and Lady de Grey are as like as the proverbial pro-verbial two peas j Butasa njaUer of fjct Insists this enterprising Britisher nature so often repeats herself in the process ot making her fair women that when I see a pretty American I have not long to wait before I can find her almost perfect double across the water Perhaps Per-haps you do not know that Mrs Lawrence Law-rence Tunure whose maiden name was Romaine Stone and who was a celebrated cele-brated beauty in London as well as New York Is a perfect counterpart ot the celebrated Mme Recamier and if you were to see the Grand Duchess Serge of Russia and Mrs Edwin M Post together you would be surprised at the likeness between them To follow this up Ive found that though one Is blonde and the other dark the Princess of Wales and Miss Emily Hoffman are like enough to have had the same parents and the portraits por-traits of Queen Louise of Prussia show an amazing resemblance to every contour con-tour in the face of Mrs John Jacob Astor Now at first this seems rather amazing and I couldnt quite figure It out but Ive come to the conclusion that the mixture of races as exemplified exempli-fied iji America is wonderfully fertile in good looks and it is sad but true enough that in a single city and generation gen-eration the American soil does develop women who in feature and coloring quite rival the finest product of luxury and aristocracy not only in a century of foreign cultivation but in the very cream of all our European capitals and courts EMILY HOLT |