Show LENTEN AMUSEMENTS r HowtheTime Is Whiled Away In New York + RED I AGE OF COURAGE I + I DAINTY WOMEN DO DARING TRICKS ON HORSEBACK iI i I I t A French Master Has B en Imported to Teach Circus RidingRink Hockery Is Very PopularAt Societys Great Midwinter Fair Lenten Lectures 4 Lenten lectures in priate houses in New Yollv City are in full swing For a series or seasons f shlonable womeaall draggled and fagged from exhausting frivolities have been invited in-vited to sIt on uneasy little campstools camp-stools in stuffy gaslighted parlors and hearlten to the futile chirrupings of acme wellintending female on medieval architecture Qr coptic chill zatlon This spring revolt has ap peaied all along the line and the women wom-en aTe crowdin to Mrs Frederick Van derbllts aJt 10 a head to hear and vote upon the burning question of the thouI There is something very serious and attractive about these morning with the Dreyfus Trial Discussions of the War With Spain Are We Or Are Va Not Ready For Colonization What the British Are Doin In Africa Af-rica etc Those are some of the subjects sub-jects under examination by the lecturer lectur-er and so popular are they that when a ticketholder falls ill or is unable to attend sills can usually dispose of her card of admission to a frIend at a price that wQuld make a theatre ticket speculator spec-ulator open his eyes Mrs Vanderbilts long drawing rooms are open to the daylight on lecture mornings they are decorated with pots of blooming tulipS > etc and if you dont arrive on time for the beginning of the lecture you simply are not allowed In the rooms The lecturer is a man 01 a woman as the case and subject may demand For the Dreyfus affair a well known legal light was persuaded to tell the whole story 01 the great Fench if u 1i 1 i C I 1I 1 > v I 7 r 1frii JJ frii L P I F i7 CINDERELLA UP IO DATE army scandal a soldier and a war coy respondent was selected to explain the causes anti progress of the war with Spain and an able politician expounded the advantages and drawbacks of imperIalism im-perIalism for the United States At the end of every lecture a vote is taken to test the effect of the argu mont sct forth but lIIrs VanderIJlts scheme has not proven a bit more successful suc-cessful than of Irs Oclrlchs who wIth twenty congenial souls drinks weeklY drafts of knowledge at the fount of scIence One week an the ambitious ladles turned up in Teslas laboratory and faw stunning experiments with electricity Another week they tray clod to the studio of an uptown cientlst and saw air compressed until it drlppl lIke a liquid and for all of the remaining weeks in Lent excursions excur-sions are arrange to conclude with a talkitallover luncheon at a smart restaurant I THE GREAT MIDLENT SALE The midLent fairs have wrung the poOkets of the generous quite dry since for once the lady patronesses including 1rs Astor Mrs Parsons IIIls Mills and a score of others thduht out a scheme for a bazar that showed ote T d I 1 t Z l mNIT IT AJ LOVE sup ror business talent The great mid Lent sale held In the ground floor 01 a famous Fifth avenue caravansary war no common yr gardep affair so tospeakIth foolish uSlss trInes cluttqring the tibles 1 The visiting worneJl mtsht cpsi1Ylhnve a 3 t ac imagIned themselves In a ParIsian street with gay irresIstible little shops on either side In one booth not only were the most exquisite models in Frej1ch hats displayed but a corps of expert trImmers under a well known milliner would CODY anyone of the models while you waited At another booth skilled fingers wove ribbons spangles tune etc into the most fetch I A 4II tk ii 9 i L frJL = = rl 1 1 f u k J Jul 1 tll THE NEW WOMAN SPECULATING ON THE DESCENT OF NAN lag topknots for the head At another counter neckwear stocks and novelties in collars were twisted Into shape and sewed or pinned right on to the customer custom-er gown If she wished There was a hairdressing booth where you could go right in and have trained hands crimp and comb your locks after the last mode and in a charming little motor basket phaeton a man would for a dime give you a ride on a cleared circle round the hall and for another fee teach you how to work the leers yourself your-self Quite the most profitable booth In the place however was a shoe parlor presided pre-sided over by a halfdozen of the most fashionable young men in society Every stately salesman was provided with a gorgeous spangled white satin slipper and every woman who entered and asked for shoes was obliged to paIl pa-Il fee and submit to taking off her right shoe and attempting to put her stock inged foot into the slipper the salesman carried If in the opinion of all the other salesmen the slipper was an ex ad fit then she received as a reward of possessing a charming foot a pall of the smartest new black satin dancing danc-ing shoes tied together witn broad blue rIbbons If her foot proved too big or too broad or too narrow to fit exactly then she was obliged to put a forfeIt in the head salesmans bank In spite of the well known delicacy of the American womans foot it was at this booth that the greatest amount of merriment mer-riment and money was earned and the men proved admirably conscleutious sticklers for enforcing the rules of their shoe shop BIG HOCKEY SKATES Every day an ambItious girl with a I 1 Ii 7 t1 iWA1 wS H I I 1IA pound of muscle worth encouragIng Is working with her might and main at the skating rink or the riding club in order to take part in the wonderful games to be held in Easter week At the rink hockey is the idol of the Lenten I Lent-en hour There is to be a great ar only match played on in the spring ana I one night in every week the cohorts of society gather to see Miss Post Miss Vanderbilt Miss Morton and a dozen I other sylphs go whizzing round the Icebound Ice-bound arena between the goal pasts It is not however their really superb I su-perb velvet and fur costumes and their agility with the sUcks that at first glance is the most surprising point about the skaters but it is their really monstrous hockey skates Stud the time they make on the elongated steel runners run-ners A slip of a Girl with a waist that would fit between your thumbs add forefingers and a pair of cinderella feet goes whizzing along the ice on a pall of skates nearly as long as her arm and curled up Outch fashion at the tip They cost her a half dozen dollars or more anti they certainly look amazingly amazing-ly out of proportion to her fairylike extremIties but she wouldnt wear any ether and no more would anyone of the fashionable young women who make the smallest pretense as skaters They scorn to clamp on their feet the cheap short club skates and if you put on a pair 01 the short fellows and try a take a girl ill long skates rOund the frozen floor you very soon realize why hockey runners are worn The girls on the long curly steel blades simply leaves you first feet then yards then rods behind and she does this amazing pace without a pound of extra pressure or strain on her muscles mus-cles BesIde the advantage of swiftness swift-ness there seomethlngvery quaint and afnusin in seeing a pretty wonian rush round and round on these enQrmOtlS shining blades that bear about the same relLtlon to her feet that skis do to the feet of a Norwegian Hercules ACany rate the long stretch skates have made hockey possible as a paUte accothplish mont for the damsel who now considers It as impqrtant to her life to slate as to waitz welL JEll DE BAL Motor vehicles may arrive and bicycles bicy-cles have their way but society still clings to the horse and never before this winter has so much riding been done in clubs and classes in New York as one sees duringLent Not atall content con-tent however In merely parading round the tanbark on gray days and slopping through the park paths on bright ones a corps of the most daring women riders rid-ers who belong to the smart Knicker bocker club have imported a French master to teach them to do haut ecole or high school ridIng like the ladles in the circus It Is an impressive sight when the band begins to play to see Miss Lila Sloan the Misses Dodge Miss Hoffman Hoff-man Miss Fair and the Misses Stokes go round the ring waltzing their mettlesome met-tlesome Kentucky thoroughbreds and followed in perfect step by the men But the French master of horse by I special appointment to NeW Yorks nobility no-bility has gone a step further than haute ecole and he is practicing some of the most daring of the young we men mentioned above in the graceful and dangerous and exciting game of iou de bal A woman must have nene tough steady wrists qUick eyes and a clever horse to engage in this tussle for a rosette Three enormous ribbon rosettes are worn in iou de bal by three players One pins a white one on her left shoulder shoul-der player No 2 years a blue one in the same place while the third rider wears a red one on her right shoulder For that red rosette the blue and the white ride to capture it If they can and relentlessly pursued the red rosette ro-sette Is oblIged to use every bit of her bridle lore to evade her pursuers It is just a little less difficult and less dangerous than a game of polo and the horses must understand the niceties nice-ties of the struggle almost as clearly as theIr riders There are rules and regulations time called and fresh horses brought up as in polo with eXj actly the same opportunities in a very slightly Ices degree for broken heads and limbs and overstrained and sprained muscles but the element of danger is not at all a drawback to any onlooKers but the parents Of the young women In dead black habits with caps instead of hats on their heads and coats so easy in sleeve and seam as to allow of long reaching the players play-ers are practicIng weekly for the great Easter show game when the gate 11 LJ 4 j THE JEll DiE BAL money will be devoted to charity and somebody will win a silver testimonial to her masterly horsemanship In never gin up the red badge of courage EMILY HOLT |