| Show I j AUTUMN Iri LtiiwA I I I > Dress and Amnspmenls of I I Fashionable People j I I iPRRUDlK i > GBBHARD AND SISTER J I Home Stretch of the Great Matrimonial Handicap of the Season The Pretty Girls Who are in It For TnE SUNDAY HERALD Atrip to Lenox reminds ouo of a certain tale in the Arabian Nights A hero who was seeking the object of his love was directed to sail a stream cross a country drive a distance by conveyance climb a hill climb another hill go through a woods then through another woods goon go-on top of the highest bluff he could find and then look around I When you go to Lonox you will probably have to do ail these you will certainly have I to climb a hill after the train leaves you I and you will be compelled to go through everal woods and climb several more hills C before you come to Lenox itself Suddenly you find yourself at Curtis I of course you will go there because everybody every-body else is thereand a curious feeling comes over you that after all you must be in New York The street in front of the hotel is torn up and greatstones have been brought in wagons and the road is blocked with boulders steam rollers gravel wagons etc exactly as if it were New York and the city were being treated to its annual tearup But it isnt Now York for inside the hotel ho-tel parlor a fire is burning in the big fire placo and half a dozen chilly matrons are gathered around its glowing embers rehearsing re-hearsing their ailments and darting indignant indig-nant glances at the frolicsome crowds of pay young people who regardless of possible pos-sible coughs colds and influenza aro standing stand-ing in the open door way or crowding out on the stuffy little piazza Yot it certainly is very like Now York because here are all the familiar Now York faces And yet it isnt like it at all because Lenox has not a disagreeable clement in its composition while Now York well New York is charming to be surebut in New York one sees people who do not belong to the Four Hundred But at Lenox there are JUST FOUR HUNnilKI AND NO MORE When you got into the diningroom a surprise awaits you You did not expect to rind so many wellknown people there You had the idea that Lenox wcs all cot tago life and that its for the hotel the cottagers were not in it Yet if you look around you will see that they are very much in it and that they come hero three times a day for the refreshment I freshment which even the inner man of the select four hundred requires At one table is Mrs Neilson and beside her sits her brother tho famous Frederick Gebhard and near by aro Mayor Chapiu and his pretty wife they who entertained Mrs Cleveland a few years ago when she came to Lenox as a bride f J4 s t si B fl1L NOT IN MOURNING Mrs Neilson you may remember lost her husband only a few months ago and by some strange fate his death occurred just as Mrs Neilson obtained a divorce from himShall Shall you go in mourning for your bus band asked someone of Mrs Noilson No iudoed I shall not go in mourning offor him Him Why should H I have boon trying for years to get rid of that man Now why should I mourn because ho is gone So Mrs Neilson is as gay as usual and drives a beautiful little cart and appears If anything happier than before sho became a real widow She has a beautiful cottage a little way up tile road and entertains sumptuously sump-tuously on her lawn giving tho dearest little lit-tle picnics and outdoor parties imaginable because her parlors are to small to admit of very extensive doing indoors In spite of disagreeable tales to the contrary con-trary Freddie Gebhard is not only well received in society but is an acknowledged leader He is likewise much sought after by mammas with marriageable daughters and the absurd stories to the effect that Leis Le-is snubbed in drawing rooms are not credited cred-ited an instant by anyone who is permitted to take a glimpse into Lenox society Freddie GouhnrQ has a handsome little establishment ust opposite his sisters and tho only woman servant permitted within j its walls is tho deaf old housekeeper upwards up-wards of sixty years of age who look after tho running gear of the household Mr Gobnard is another cottager who likes to take his meals at the hotel bocause it is so much more convenient to do so than to go to the trouble of managing a chef a kitchen and a staff servants which those entail Then too if you are a mealer you can drop in at almost any time to find a good table awaiting you while if you eat at home the chef is intolerant of delay and goes wild over the possibility of cold soup and savory messes of pottago spoiled by warming over And that is why so many wealthy ptfo v > I pie are content to go without pigeon wing j ana willing to dispense with broiled gold I C fish nightingale livers on brochette stuffed I venison garnished with autlers stuffedof Lacriuia Christi punch i The happiest man in Lenox is MavroyI eni Bey the Turkish minister Ho is al most as dark as the Jack of Spades and looks so much like that gentleman that you keep wondering if at some stage of its I xistenco ho has not figured upon n play ng ard MavroyenI is happy because ho loves the latHes and what is still better I i cause the Indies love him He makes hiru Elf agreeable says such complimentary compli-mentary things in such a distinguished wa y and glances so ardently and passion i tely out of his great black eyes that it is a matteroffact girl indeed whose heart I is not set a fluttering by the magic of his looks He is at nil the hops balls parties nrt receptions and is said never to enjoy a comfortable state of happiness unless he has a petticoat in his near vicinity I Itumor hss it that the handsome Mavroy ni i is permitted by the laws of his country V to have four wives and so tho girls are a lit tle bit wary of him for no free born American woman is going to share the man I of her choice with threo other women if she i i can help it In tho floral parade Miss Colby was i I accounted I THn PRETTIEST GIRL I and the picture she made as she reclined under her umbrella of ferns and hydvanges vas one not to be forgotten Miss Greenleaf to whom all the foreign ministers have been quite attentive paid a compliment to foieign powers by veiling herself as a young Egyptian of rank A society swell was persuaded to be tho running sikh and so the Greenleaf turnout was perhaps the most noticeab of any in tho annual parade Lenox is particularly the place for pretty widow who possess the ad vantage of being wealthy also There are at least a dozen of them there whose fortunes range from a million dollars upwards th 211 ti o f TilE SLOANE MANSION One of the prattieat of these is a Mrs Eggleston Whose house entertainments are so charmingly managed that she has won the title of being as successful a hostess host-ess as there is in Lennox Authur Kotch tho millionaire architect whose delight it is to design the palatial residencfs which are the pride of every place having citizens wealthy enough to build them is frequently seen oy the side of the beautiful Mrs Eggleston and now the gossips aro saying that the reported en pagoment of Mr Rotch to Miss Handy of Baltimore would have boon mora nearly in accordance with the fact if tho name of Miss Handy had been substituted for that of another fair woman Mr Botch and Mrs Eggieston are frequently son walking walk-ing l together and n tall graceful couple they make One must not forgot George Broome who is snending the entire fall season at Lenox and who enjoys the distinction ot possessing THE LARGEST WARDROBE OF ANT MANn I MAN-n America He has trousers to a number It that is beyond counting and his coats vests and ties aro almost equally numerous numer-ous With each change of suit there ii i anew a-new walking stick taken from the depths of Mr Broorne8 luggage and each time he wears a new hat it has been noticed that his shoes are also of a different pattern than any ho had previously worn Mr Broomo aspires to be the new Berry Wall and when be travels he has a van all to himself for transporting his numerous bags valises and trunks In Saratoga every other distinguished loukiug man one sees is pointed out as one of the Hiltons At Lenox he is pretty sure to bo one of the Frelinghuysens Everything is reckoned a such high figures that one is quite disappointed to learn thai tho Frelinghuvsens have rented their cottage for the season for the small sum of 7500 and that they are living in one which they hired lor only 2000 The land round about sells for upwards of 14000 an acre and much of it is not for sale at any price Mrs Sloanes houseMrs Sloane was a Vanderbilt you know cost about two millions mil-lions with the grounds around it and tho Westinghouse mansion and grounds cost half as much again Mr Jessops bnrn is as prstiy as any country villa and Mr Sloanes is as pretentious as the Casino in Central park Mr Westinghouses icehouse with the picturesque Esquimo shivering on top of it is not unlike a country church And the cottages built for the servants are so grand that one is tempted to fall to and become a farm hand General Rathbones place is not nearly so grand but it is more historic Beecher lived there and wrote in one of tho windows win-dows Pierrepont Morgan and Joseph Pulitzer i Pul-itzer have both occupied the house during i various summers It is rumored that the Goelets will soon I buld upon the property which they own and upon which there is now a plain farm house Mr Goelot was anxious to erect a I house there three yoara agO But Mrs Goelet chose Newport as being mora lash i ionable and satisfactory for the money THERE ARE SO MANY I5HIGIIT PRETTY URL at Lenox that ono is bewildered by the galaxy of loveliness Miss Kitty Gaudy is a very fair girl with a frank open countenance counten-ance and a style of loveliness w iioh is neither blonde nor brunette The brightest girls of the season are said to be the Mlssea Ives and their ball mots go the rounds of Lenox society Mrs Turnure she who VaSBS they aay in the countryMiss Lanier is among the sprightliest of young matrons and cuts an awfully pretty figure when she drives out with a crowd which she gay is entertaining as her guests V The Westinghouses do not go in society j as extensively as do the other owners of I largo estates Having no grown up chil dren their interests are less in tho gaieties of the season and they find more pleasure in planning improvements in their already magnificent establishment They have one hilda white faced boy who may be seen each day driving a team of goats along tho hard white roads which characterize the Westinghpuse estate Lenox is so beautiful that it bids fair to h old its own forever Sharon is gone past recovery Long Branch well we all know about poor Long Branch Saratoga is los ing l its hold upon the fashionable world Newport is gay during the hot weather but Lenox is glorious all the season and every body goes there in the fall People who have spent a few seasons there become devotees of the place and are spoilt for all others It is in vain that they travel hence and go to India to China or to Japan They may climb the Alps skate upon the Norway glaciers or perch upon the Rock of Gibraltar yet nothing suits them Sadly they gaze around dolefully they shake their heads and then with Lenox in their mind they turn away sorrowfully sor-rowfully In their love for the place they have much the feeling of tho Chicagoan who was taken to see the Atlantic ocean and who looked upon it long and earnestly and then turning his head avay with a sigh said Its pooty fine but taint Lake Michigan Michi-gan AUGUSTA PRESCOTT |
