The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-11-07
A SOCIAL SHOCK.

Dinner was announced immediately
after Mrs. Washington Mostyn entered
the drawing-roon1 and indeed il ap-
peared that the party were only await
ing her arrival TO put an end TO classic
bad quarter Of an hour.
Ny dear, !" whispered Mrs Kendall
Il am going TO send YOU down with q
most charming Young man. Algie Up
ham. cousin of the duchess of Liver
pool. / think he's quite one of the
incest men in London-and so artistic,
don't you know"
Mrs Mostyn raised her tortoise-shell
lorgnette IN the direction of the gem
tleman Indicated. and was pleased to
make an inspection and give an opinion
IN not more than two seconds
Charmed, am sure. What good
looking Young man. All. | see-race
aud Intelligence
yes. both. But allow me to intro
duce YOU. said Lady Kendall In an
other minute or so the women were
trailing their silken and velvet skirts
downstairs to the dining-room.
Mrs Washington Mostyn belonged to
the Four Hundred of New York, if
not bv birth. at any rate by wealth.
Her husband. who was content to pur-
sue operations in Wall street most of
the year round, was wont to leave the
Cultivation of society TO his handsome
wife Their brown-stene mansion on
Fifth avenue was rs gorgeous as many
Of their richer neighbors, and no one
understood better the art of ..booming''
an entertainment and getting herself
talked about than Mrs Washington
Mostyn of New York And then her
cottage" at Newport, was it not cele-
brated IN every paper throughout the
length and breadth of the continente
tt was there that she entertained lavish
migratory members of the English
aristoeracy in quest of amusement,
wives. or sport-therebv forming con-
neetions which she meant to push
vigorously now that she had actually
arrived in London.
Had not Lord Birkenhead the dueh-
ess OF Liverpoors oldest boy. been one
of these feted and 1attered Young
stersP And was not the dear duchess
proportionately grateful and inclined
to open the ducal arms in a manner
that she was not wont to do with GER
tain dear friends and rivals from New
York and Washington? And as to the
society OF which this fastidious lady
was 50 distinguished an ornament, was
It not the most select and 'high-toned'
las the transatlantic scribe would put
ito be found on the same continents
But Mrs. Washington Mostlyn had still
one nnsatistied ambition, and that was
to become as much of a Londoner as
her fair friends and neighbors had con-
trived to make themselves. To London,
of course. like every other self-respect-
ing American, she had been, but it was
with the London of hotels, parks. and
theaters only that she was familiar.
Into its society she had never pene-
trated.
And so it came to pass that Mrs.
Mostyn, leaving her husband to per-
form his vocation of bear In Wall
street. caused several enormous trunks
TO be packed. and, arming herself with
introductions to some of the best peo-
pie IN London. betook herself, her
maid. and her courtier by the next
steamer to Liverpool. landing on these
shores by the beginning of May. Lady
Kendall. who loved above all things a
new face, had been one of the first
hostesses to make much of her.
It was rather an amusing table.
though 1t somewhat shocked Mrs.
Mostyn MS fastidious sense of the social
proprieties. Looking round, she was
ctIuGA viii tue ldulildI EOOk VI Tile
faces, and. as a matter of fact. she
could have seen most of the persons
present by taking a walk down Bond
street and glancing in the photograph
er's windows as she went along.
Lady Kendars parties were cele.
brated in their way. for she was what
an irreverent modern journalist ha:
not inaptly called a s.mixer." She
would send down famous poet witt
an ambassaaress. a cabinet minister
with a pretty actress. or consign &
great lady to fashionable singer. Il
was a social salad, and people were
pleased. once in a way, to meet cele-
brities of whom they had heard q great
deal. Now Mrs. Mostyn. like other.
f the -Four Hundred, knew little
and approved less Of mixing" She
would as soon have asked Ii Sing. hel
laandryman, to dinner as some Of the
actors, iaafnalists. aud painters whom
LADY, Kendal liked to see occasionally
!. at hew tab1A To night for instance,
across the banks of mauve and white
orchids, Mrs Mostyn eenld 1atch ths
profile Of her pr
on d hanss~