The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-07-12
FAKES OF THE RICH.
How Mill1onaires Pull Wool Over
Peoples Eyes

How Millionaires Pull Wool Over
| Peoples Eyes
! Cheap Musicians Hired and Called The
/ Hungarian Band - Hunger Amid
! Plenty-Nabob Flower Dealers
Tricks Of Society Leaders.
tsAll is not gold that glitters," and
frequently the more glitter the less
gold, writes Marian May in the New
York Journal. Some of the New York
society people have not the inexhausti-
BILE wealth they would have a trusting
public attribute to them.
| It excited great Zeal of wonder in
the breasts of the INITIATED how the
Hungarian Band could, with conven-
fence, play at wedding in Fiftieth
street, reception on Washington
| Square, ball in Brooklyn and dance
at the Westchester Country Club at one
| and the same time.
But at the reception ''the Hungarian
Band played behind a screen of palms
and tall plants:'' at the wedding 'sthe
music stole softly through the leafy
foliage of plants and trees and SO on.
| OF course, they were hidden. If the
! yellowhaired ''Hungarians, f" who spoke
German all the time, had been seen,
not even their red coats could have per-
suaded the guests that the band was
what the jewel-decked hostess assured
them was ''the only and original Hun
garian Band
The truth is, there are numbers of
cheap bands all over the city who have
uniforms patterned after those of the
Hungarian Band, and when the clever
hostess has so hidden them behind the
leafy covert that the guests can only
catch the CLEAN of a crimson coat, the
delusion is complete, except as far as
the sound goes, and the music-loving
girl was right when she pronounced it
ssthin.''
But perhaps the worst case of all, is
that of the weary and hungry little
woman who has been attending lunch
cons and high teas 1ll day, and because
of the crowd of people and the rushing
from house to house has not had one
taste of bouillon or single sip Of tea.
She flies homo at night pale and too
tired to eat, slips from her visiting CO.'S
tune into her evening gown and goes to
"a much-discussed and long anticipated
reception.
81 know shall get something good
to eat, for they are awfully rich, and
Mrs. Blank said that the SWEETEST caterer
in New York would serve it.
Alas for the hungry, and for those
who came for the feed! The salads are
wilted, the ices warm and the pates
chilly. All of the guests determined
that the SWEETEST of swell caterers shall
serve them never more. The fact is the
swell caterer never even received a
sealed proposal After noising abroad
whom she had deigned to allow to serve
her, the society leader and many times
millionaire goes down to one of the un-
ostentatious avenues-not Fifth-no1
even Sixth, and having six economically
designed menus, she leaves one at each
caterers, and then goes home to await
the estimates. 1t is needless to say
which is accepted.
1uG PAPERS Oll0 d1t0L oA0 4OdoO e1u
nounce that the swell caterer served the
supper, for did not the hostess say sc
with her pretty lips? And then, for q
week the unfortunate reporters are
deluged with letters from the Third
Eighth or even Ninth avenue tradesman
at first entreating, and then waxing
holder, and demanding that a correction
shall be made and justice done him.
''Sell fower!'' you exclaim. "Whe
would sell flower?" Not the people
who arc classed as the genteel poor
they would give you your hands full:
from their country gardens. 4
But the many times millionaires who
have such magnificent villas and cot
tages along the Hudson and Long Island
Sound do prosperous and thriving flow.
er business.
They VIII tell you about the acres oil
glass which shelters their wonderful
collection of flowers, brought from Cal!
ifornias gold-fecked shores and from
South American forests They will tell
you about the eight gardeners, with
their assistants, who keep the conserva
tories in order, but very few will tell
you how much money they clear every
day by the sale of those flowers.
All of the ragged little urchins who
thrust fragrant violets, spicy carnations
and delicious roses right under your
nose, as you ascend or descen d the ele:
waited stations, buy their flowers from
wholesale dealer, and he, in turn, is
supplied with fresh flowers every even,
ing by the gardeners who work in the
millionaire Conservatives.
Enough money is realized from the
sales to pay the garde ners, defray ali
expenses of the flowers, besides afford.
ing the owner flowers in profusion at ali
times of the year, together with the in.
tense satisfaction of impressing all OF
his friends and neighbors with his vast
possessions.
The lords Prayer on His Arm.
s'We find strange mementoes on some
of our bodies,'' said an undertaken OF
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