Show 18IGFI H FOR F RJRONETS I New Yorks Wealthy Set Want An American Peerage 4 BOW TO FOREIGN TITLES J WILL BE HAPPY ONLY AS LORDS AND LADIES Boodaddles For the Cigarette Cases of Wealthy Girls millionaires I million-aires As Fad Farmers With An I Abiding Love For Vegetables As Well As Hare Flowers How long will It be before a titled aristocracy like the peerage of England Eng-land can be established in the United f Strawberries a Dollar Apiece States That is a possibility candidlj and hopefully discussed In New York society where any woman nearly who has the cash and the opportunity will gladly lay down a hundred thousand or even more for the legal right to fasten a high sounding handle to Tier name Perhaps never before in the history of this country have the English nobility nobil-ity been so passionately envied and so sedulously courted by our great moneyed mon-eyed aristocracy which Is undoubtedly the most powerful in the world There is no satisfying the ambition of a fashionable fash-ionable woman by telling her she belongs be-longs to the wealthiest social circle In civilization Up in the ranks of what Yard McAllister used to define as the 400 a title is not the passport to content con-tent dictinction and prestige and most unfortunately the leisure clots of men I are beginning to hunger after high sounding prefixes as ardently as the women Now New York society is preeminently preemi-nently energetic and ingenious where its desireS and ambitions are concerned and to wish for a thing Is synonymous with straining every nerve to procure it It will probably be some little time before be-fore congress takes upon itseJf the organization or-ganization of a nobility and genuine nobility Is what these aspiring souls wants They dont hanker in the least after tho empty sort of titles worn in France They want a close copy of the British institution with pomp and powers pow-ers attached and without actually assuming as-suming any of the lordly eognomens they are preparing to do the next best thing Not only are there more plans on foot than eer for matrimonial alliances al-liances with noble Englishmen but our smart society itself is growing more and more exclusive every year If you will take pains to follow the that no man or woman can claim to I have a place in New York society unless un-less he or she has made an appearance in some one of the six houses on upper Fifth avenue the mistresses of which aro the acknowledged leaders No matter mat-ter who you are if Mrs William Sloan Mrs Ogden Mills or one or two others have opened their doors to you recognition recog-nition of your place socially Is prompt and rather cordial without it you are nothing though you may speak with the tongue ot men and angels are beautiful and wealthy and go everywhere every-where else Of course there Is one other chance for you and that Is to go to London be presented at court marry a title however Impoverished and et deny its wearer may be All that opens a door to this exclusive New York set which as one woman candidly candid-ly i confessed is bound to be limited and difficult of entrance so long as there are no titles by which to ticket men and women and thus discriminate be tvvesn the classes and masses THE FAIR CUBAN From among the Cuban refugees in New York City one and a woman at that has found her exile In the United States a blessing unmixed This pretty little lady lived in Havana and what she did not know about tobaoco was hardly worth knowing so when in New York her money gave out and she went humbly about seeking some remunerative re-munerative occupation her one accomplishment ac-complishment was a remarkable facility facil-ity for preparing and rolling the most delicious little cigarettes She made a few as a thankoffering1 to a fashionable fashion-able tenderhearted young woman who had sent her very substantial aid The young woman smoked them in the dainty secrecy of her own chamber but so exquisite not only was the flavor and the effect of the wee tissue aer cylinders of tobacco that she confided her delight and a few cigarettes to a few bosom friends rends To make a long story short the little Cuban has more orders for cigarettes than she can fill and the debutantes this winter with their mothers and their maiden aunts all smoke and carr not at all the sort of cigarette cases the average wouldbe emancipated woman affects Their cases are very small because the cigarettes are small and the cigarettes are also most expensive They dost about 25 cents apiece and hold just enough tobacco to give the smoker four or six delicious puffs after a meal Only after a meal are they smoked for the reason that a fashionable fashion-able physician has boldly announced the virtue of the postprandial cigarette cigar-ette as a digestive With the tobacco an aromatic herb Is l mixed and It leaves the room where these charming smokers have been redolent red-olent of a most sweet and delicate perfume per-fume while their lips are as fresh as roses after the harmless dissioation If the cigarettes are adopted for healths sake the cases that hold them are selected for their richness and beauty They are small usual of gold and the exterior is almost covered with what the smart girl calls her doodaddles A doodaddlc is a minute trinket a miniature Jeweled souvenir of some memorable occasion or locality local-ity or a memento of some one and they are all offerings from the young womans friends of both sees A perfectly per-fectly new English threepenny niece its Dierced center filled with a smell gem a tiny gold golf ball and such like trifles fastened by a few fine gold links I to any part of the exterior of the case Is where the fashionable young woman wears her doodaddles instead of on a chain around her neck To such a pitch has this passion for collecting trinkets arisen in society that in some Instances the really oretty cigarette case has become the foundation founda-tion merely for a bunch of jingling trifles and at dinner parties the cigarette cigar-ette cases are passed about the table I ostensibly that your friends may try your cigarettes but in reality to afford an opportunity of displaying the I oportunl number num-ber and great splendor of your keepsakes I keep-sakes MILLIONAIRE FARMERS Every fa of the immensely wealth cannot be condemned as an extravagance extrava-gance but often hailed gladly as a means of circulating hard cash and giving giv-ing occupation to many working folk That is the way you should regard the almost absorbing passion the wellto do New Yorkers show for supplying themselves with unheardof luxuries from their own country places The luxuries to specify are chiefly flowers and fruits and vegetables out of season While the January snows lay deep on the ground and turnips froze In their cellars Sirs Samuel horne Mrs Goddard and scores of other women I were serving strawberries as big as plover eggs for dessert and artlchokec for salad and they had not ransacked I the city markets for these dainties II I I I r I irz L 14 1teji nr J u 1 L 7 i tP I I l I r e 1 New YorkersBeaching For Titles and Corn < tr I wills of such rich inca who have died I within the past two years or who are i known to have made their wills you will be sure tocomment on the fact i that the bulk of their fortune now goes Ito I-to the eldest son along with the great city or Newport house and the llneut jewels pictures etc and the wife and I the other children make no demur I I a son is lacking then the oldest grandson I grand-son comes in for the lions bare ant i thus perfectly quietly a group of great I families such as the Vanderbilts As torsv Sloans Lorillards Gerrys Bel monts Mills and Marquands anybeing built up as securely as the ducai houses In Great Britain t To draw theJlnes more sharply yet It has ben demonstrated this winter The best food on the rich mans table now comes from his own farm and at a Lenten luncheon your conscience is rather overwhelmed when you realize that one course of fresh green peas or I string beans has cost your hostess rt the rate of 1 per pea pod and about to cen s ncr bean However farming is the fashion and every one who goes into i Is expected to study a specialty Mrs William As I tors specialty Is the pink violet A marvellous flower the recent secret of I its production Is known only to the gardener a her Rhinebeck place and a very few of them at 10 cent apiece ever find their way Into the market Mrs Robert Millbank stands unrivaled with her peaches that are produced under glass at the rate of one peach to a tree Just as in Mrs Constables huge greenhouses only one rose is ever asked of a bush I To display a flower or serve a dish at the table that your neighbors cannot rival and that Is the product of your j country place is the keenest excitement 1 Iin society during Lent This is what has inspired the cultivation of specialties I special-ties and the hiring of gardners at fabulous fab-ulous prices Mrs Elliot Shepherd at Scarborough pays In salaries something near 25000 a year to her head gardeners and laborers labor-ers under them In return they produce I for her bigger gooseberries than you can find In English gardens and remarkable markable little golden tomatoes absolute I abso-lute spheres in shape and hat are served at her table as relishes with t t n l t I meat Pierpont Morgan gladly pours out thousands a year at Jllghlard Falls on the Hudson In order to rats more gigantic i chrysanthemums thai any professional or amateur gardener in the United States while Irs Erst Crosby cultivates with her own hands 1 y z t I THE PAnt CUBANS BLEND pay Tadema SSOOn to catch their like and an expert Frenchmans aid a greect grape the bunches of which rrrst weigh twelve pounds each The minature painters have a rival In the oval portrait painted on glass Alma Tadema demonstrated the beauty and effectiveness of the glass portrait b y painting one for the princess of Vales another for the beautiful Lady Naylor Leyland and now all th > r h American women who go to London nesses on polished crystal ovals Lady Terence Blackwood and Miss Emly Hoffman were the first of the New Yorker to sit for glass portraits and to set the fashion on this side of the water of every womans wearing her own picture One of these novelty likenesses 3 done on an oval of faultless t ryst il about a fourth of an Inch thick about four or five inches long and three inches to three and a half inches wide The crystal is slightly convex and the painting is done on the concave side so artfully that the face looks at jou through the flawless glass The crystal has a back of gold and a frame work of gold beads pearls < I brilliants By a ring In the top of the I picture an inchwide ribbon or a beautiful chain is run and the ivrk of art is allowed to hang free nearly to the knees or can fit into a little satn I bag at the waist However you ele t to wear one of these portraits swinging swing-ing from ribbon or chain or pinned asa as-a pendant on the front of your gown I you always make a point of carrying none but your own likeness |