Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-13
A SOCIAL SHOCK.

Dinner was announced Immediately
after Mrs. Washington Mostyu entered
the drawing-room, and indeed it APP
peared that the party were only await
ing her arrival to put m end to classic
bad quarter of an hour.
MY dear" whispered Mrs. Kendall
IL am going to send you down with "A
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-an 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
and 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 diniug-room
Mrs Washington MoStvn belonged to
she -Four Hundred of New York, if
not by birth, ut 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 browu-stone mansion on
Filth avenue was rs gorgeous as many
of their richer neghborS, aud no one
understood better the art of booming
an entertainment and getting herself
talked about than Mrs. Washington
Mustyn of New York. And then her
cottage at Newport was it not cce-
brated in every paper throughout the
length and breadth of the continent
1t was there that she entertained lavish
migratory members of the English
ariStocacy in quest of amusement,
wives, or sport-thereby forming con-
nections which she meant to push
vigorously now that she had actually
arrived in London.
Had not Lord Brkenhead the duch-
ess of Liverpool'S oldest boy, been one
of these feted and ilattered young
sters? Aud was not the dear duchess
proportiouately grateful and inclined
to open the ducal arms in n 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 so distinguished an ornament, was
it not the most select and "high-toned'
AS the transatlantic scribe would put
to be found on the same coutinentp
But Mrs Washington MoStlvu had still
one uusatisiied ambition, and that was
to become rs much Of Londoner as
her fair friends and ueighborS had con-
trived to make themselves. To London,
of course like every other selt-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.
Aud so it came to pass that Mrs.
Mostyu, leaving her husband to per-
form his vocation of bear in Wall
street, caused several enormous trunks
TO be packed, and, aruriug herself with
introductious to some of the best peo-
pie in London. betook herself her
maid. aud 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.
1t was rather an amusing table,
though it somewhat shocked Mrs.
Mostyn's fastidious sense Of the social
proprieties. Looking round she was
struck with the familiar look of the
faces. aud, rs matter of fact, she
could have seen most of the persons
present by taking 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 has
not inaptly called a ''mixer." She
~ould send down famous poet with