Life — December 2, 1897 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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ALBERT GooDENoUGH. ‘The miscreant who was shot for keeping a journal. dered a free lunch, and they forgot them- selves for the time being. Icicles are al- ready beginning to form on the chain plates. To-day is Sunday and we had services, The chief cook delivered a sermon, and took his text from Nansen's book. Nov. a9.—The quartermaster tells me we are passing Cape Cod, but I cannot leave my meal to view the scenery. The interests of science demand that I remain below. Have thought it best to start the practice of deliv- ering an after-dinner speech every evening. I need to be thoroughly equipped on my return, I started to-day to dictate the open- ing chapters of my book to Miss Bunker. She has, however, been employed in an iron foundry, and is not familiar with culinary terms, She is now studying ascrap-book of menus that I thought to bring along with me. What a pity I cannot use a billiard table! It's the one thing I need to make this voyage comfortable. Impressions of the Horse Show. FROM ACAREFUL PERUSAL OF THE PRINCIPAL DAILIES. The famous ‘‘Fatty’’ Bates aroused the enthusiasm of his stable claque again by tak- ing the highest award in the class for pairs of high steppers. Mrs, Ogden Mills, in dark heliotrope cloth, with a vest of violet and white satin, sat with Miss Anna Sands, the latter in black cloth, heavily trimmed’ with braid, and Dr. W. Seward Webb. not under 14 hands 2 inches and under rs hands 2 inches; all-around action only con- sidered. Mrs. C. Albert Stevens, in a smart tailor- made gown, was in her box with several Hempstead people. Mr. and Mrs. G. Howard Davison, Florence Baker, in a cloth, who walked ‘W. Goadby Loew. William L. Elkins's Lady Primrose and Glo- rious; highly commended, Louis W. Worm- Miss lain costume of black ut with her fiancé, * LIFE: ser's Superior and Surprise. Mr. Bates drove his own pair. Miss Evelyn Burden, Miss Louise Webb, Miss Knowlton and Miss Marie Winthrop, in the box adjoining; Harry S. Page, the Misses Wetmore, Francis J. Otis, Alexander M. Proudfit. weight of 140 pounds. Third prize, So, won by Ralph Pulitzer's American Beauty, highly commended, Harry Payne Whitney's Hur- ricane. who sat in a box with Nelson Brown, of Philadelphia, and Frederick Gebhard; Srs. John Zerega, Mr. and Mrs, Walter Watrous, $30, won by E. D; Jousdan's Dainty Lady: by bly commended, F. G. Bourne's Princess ga. Mr.and Mrs, Frank Egerton Webb, the lat- tern gray velvet and fur, satin a box with Miss Cora Randolph, who was in a hand- some gown of violet moire and velvet. Mrs. Dillon-Oliver, in a rich costume of black velvet. 40, won by T, L. Watt's Gladys; third prize, > TL. Watt's Jewel, bred by lard; highly commended, Mas- ter T. L. Watt, Jr.'s Nannie. Mrs. Louis Lorillard, in a superb gown of deblia-colored cloth,’ embroidered with a dull gold, ‘and a small toque to correspond, was the guest of her niece, Mrs. Richar McCreery, who was in a costume of silver- gray silk and white chiffon, elaborately em- broidered with steel. Etc., ad nauseam, for six days. It may be worth mentioning that all information pertaining to fashion- able women and their clothes was invariably in larger type than matter relating to horses and their prizes, Joseph Pulitzer. T is enough to say of Mr. Pulitzer that he is editor and proprietor of the World, HERE has been some agitation of the public mind over the action of the Harvard football authorities in stripping the big ‘ H’s” off the jerseys of the players after the Yale game, but the conclusion seems to have been reached that if the team could stand it the public ought to. The team doesn’t mind a little thing like that. No foot- ball man minds anything. That is what football is for—to accustom men to sore trials, scrapes, and bad breaks. The report in the Evening Sun that Li Hung Chang had cabled his condolences to the Harvard men was good enough to be true. —~— — ‘YOU'RE GETTING TOO STOUT, CHESTERFIELD, YOU MUST RIDE A WHEEL.”