The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-01-04

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less IN themselves, worth hunured
dollars; and so all along the line one Is
tempted to financial ruin by the allurlng
gifts that lie on either hand. The extent
Of purse measures the standard of wants,
bnt the Christmas tree blooms alike in the
homes Of Dives and Lazarus.
The week has been notable by q great
number Of important social events, but
there was one I passed over last week |
which is worthy Of more than passing
mention. l allude to the Patriarch's Ball.
It was made remarkable by the return to
our fashionable social life or Ward Nc
Allister, the king of the -Four Hundred
Elite, and exclusive association which is |
supposed to contain all there is ofreal blue
blood and genuine respectabiity in the
arstocracy of New York. Mr. McAllister
was supposed to have received his ereguG-
tur at our last Centennial, when he was
deposed from his position of supreme
dictator and a man Of straw put in his
place. But the meu who sought to take
his place dug their own social graves and
are quietly sleeping there to-day, No hope
for them at any social gathelngr of the
Four Hundred till the next Centennial;
they are all dead socially as Julius Ceaser,
or herrings which are red. A hundred
gentlemen Clipped in two hundred dollars
each, which entitled them to twelve invita-
tions for their friends, but to Mr.. Me-
Allister alone was entrusted the important
duty of inviting those outside of the
charmed circle. Now, when you are
aware that to be seen at the Patrarch's
Ball is considered the highest social en-
dorsement, you may judge how the inyta-
tions are coveted, We have our own
social traditions, and we don't care whether
outsiders like them or not. They are OURS
and that is enough. A lady or gentleman
who has been honored by an invitation to
Mrs. Astor's table has carte blanche to
everything good for the season, for who
ever has passed her inspection is supposed
20 be all right up to tnat time, aud no one
calls that PERSONS social standing in
question.
In the management of these distingue
fairs Mr.. McAllisters voice has been
creme for years. His outlaws have
neysr been questioned. This time twenty
thousand do lars iD cash was put in his
hands TO let the Four Hundred and their
friends have good time, and they had it.
II he should make it forty thousand, not a
living soul of his set would question him;
ne would simply draw his check on the
: committee, and that would end it. 1t
would be considered a piece of inexcusable
! impertinence TO say, Mac, what have you
done with so much money! This was
Y what the Centennial committee attempted
S to do. but Mr.. McAllister did not propose
to soil the tips of his six and three-quarteI
kids with a set of paltry shopkeepers,
8 pedlars, mechanics and such like persons.
: No, sir; he was not that kind Of mahogan;
! SO he shook the dust of the Centennial
p from his No. patent feathers and left the
plebean crowd TO financial ruin and
social obscuritY. But lie came to the tor
last week and enjoy ed great revenge
, he led the opening cotillion with Mrs.
Astor, and she bazed with diamonds like
a veritable Noun tain of Light. In the
J same set was Mrs. Bradley Martin whose
i Effel Tower of costly jewels might have
! drained the mines of Ormus and Golconda,
E and have exhausted the glittering treasures
4 of the Persian Gulf One enterprising
S young female feuilletonist whose literary
e pin feathers have just begun to spro ut, in
e forms us ''that the superb Mrs. Elliott
r Roosevelt was GARMENTED in an investurt
g Of rare and costly satin" Ow, ow; but
+ that's fine. She wasn't dressed, she wasn'l
d atLired. She was "garmented." Garmented
+ goods; that goes into my scraDbook fol
n future use.
t Rosebud parties are quite the go. What
n are they? Well, they are for the specia
d entertainment of young girls on or about
n the eve of presentation 10 society. "Mrs
}. Pendleton Simpkins requests the pleasur,
of vouI company TO a Rosebud Tea, gver
y in honor of her daughter Mabel, Thursday
l, afternoon, Dec. 10Th, four o'clock, 9S4(
: Madison ave." RosebuGs of various kind.
e constitute the sole adornment. and at part
Y ing each visitor is presented with a smal
: bouquet of buds. The sudden populariL,
}; of these entertainments has driven Klun
a der, our principal fashionable florist, al
e most crazy--a single party using oyel
e fifteen hundred dollars worth of thes,
d beautiful flowers. It's nice conceit, anC
d 1 wish 1 were rosebud.
d We are frequently exercised here be
:, cause of the bitter prejudice and socia
$ ostracism of our colored brother in th,
b South. 1t would not be much to our dis
IS advantage if we occasionally took a lool
!! AT home. Last week three thousand Dock
laborers signited their intention to slrik,
IS because negroes were employed in un
J. loading steamships, and they demand Of
e the steamship companies that all negroe,
e shall be discharged, and that none bu
a white men who are members of their union
e snail be employed. Nine tenLhs of thr
q strikers are lrshmen. The negroes TO !
man were born on the soil; Americans b
heir birthright, whom these foreigner,
pose TO drive out to starve. The Soutl
b. 1one nothing as bad as this, and lei
:, ns n pc that New York will not disgrac,
n itself by preventing an, native citizen from
J.; earning his bread at the behest of any
Il foreigner, no matter what land he hail
d from or what his political pull.
b We have had rather a peculiar expert
Il ence with our Faith-Curlsts. Jansen, o
r whom l spoke last week, was fined fly,
d hundred dollars for den, ing his children
is who had scarlet fever medical attendance
3, which is penal crime under the statute
II There was a thousand dollars In The Fail