The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-22
UP THE SOCIAL LADDER.
WHAT WOMEN ENDURE TO REACH
SOCIAL GLORY.


Different Rungs of the Ladder-How
Woman Cuts Woman-The Woman
Whom Women Dsspise-Rider Hag-
gard and His WIDTHS Author of
"She" Captures New York's Good
Opinions as They Look in
Their Portraits-Rudyard Kipling's
Face-The Latest Game of Chess
Bsrnhardt in New York She Has
Not Changed, and is the Same
"sarah"-Some Things Which Make
Us Tired.
tCoppight.l
NEW YoRK, Feb. Give hear every
day Of people who get black and blue in
their efforts to climb the social ladder. We
hear of people who are scornfuIly spoken OF
as among the social climbers" and every
now and then somebody wonders IL they
will reach the hight to which they are
climbing. They will IL they have skins
like hippopotamuses and plenty OF money /;
il they do not mind being snubbed
by a woman, and then approaching
her the next day with O smile, ex-
pecting another snub. willing to take it, and
yet to smile again the day after. They
must also learn that two kicks down the
rounds Of the ladder which they wish to
climb must only give them impetus to fly
up Ave more. They must be willing to spend
money. and spend it in great quantities.
and they must run after a lion, try TO cap
ture him, aud exhibit him in golden chains
in their drawing rooms; but. above all,
they must feed their guests we'll, and that
is where the social climber too often makes
a mistake.
RUNGs OF THE SOCIAL LADDER.
Mrs. Blueblood can afford to offer her
guests pale claret cup and waters, but Mrs
Climber cannot content hers with anything
less than flzz, terrapin and game. TO make
| her people satisfied with themselves she
must give them Of the best in the land. Her
rewardf Well Ii is in the hereafter. When
she gets where she wants to go, when she
has reached the hight of bliss she eau suub
women who are trying to follow her ex-
ample, and she can cut off her visiting list
all those who helped her in her early strug-
| giles. but whom she counts as belonging to
the ineigibles nowadays. There are always
| few women who viii not assist the
climber, no matter how much money she
may spend or how entirely she may submit
to being d-.metaphorically, OF course.
HOW WOMAN OUTS WOMAN.
One delightful woman here will control
the people who visit at her house, and once
when well-known climber went up to her
and said, ~ am going TO do myself the
| pleasure OF coming to your next Tuesday, y
she was looked at through pair OF
| lorgnettes by a pair of piercing gray eyes,
and the answer casne with beautiful clear
ness: 81 do not admit TO my house people
who are not on my visiting list"
| Another woman, who Thought that by
| gushing and giving great deal Of personal
| information she could get to where she
wished, grew very familiar with q young
married woman and said 10 her, ~ won
der that you use rouge; didn't know any
body but the domi-monde did that With
a sweet smile the naughty young matron
| answered, You are very fortunate In know
ing anything about their habits or them my
acquaintances have always been 10 differ
| ent SET" AS this was audible to the entire
room, the would-be familiar friend was
most beautifully cut.
TWO KINDS OF WOMEN.
That woman is an abomination upon the
face of the earth who goes around Rossiping
| to the rest of womankind about the habits
costumes and special friends Of wome OF
| the other world. She can never really ac-
count creditably for this knowledge, and
her listener has a perfect right to conclude
that she has acquaintance among them,
although it is most probable she has gath
| cred her stories from different men. Ameri-
can women are learning to do like their
French sisterf-i. g., to entirely ignore these
ladies', and when they meet them 10 stare es
blankly as IL there was no material figure
near them. This Is the art of the woman Of
the world, who never secs the disagreeable
in life.
RIDER HAGGARD LEAVES AN IMPRESSION.
IL ia probable that nobody has loft such
pleasant impression of hjmsof-that IL, no
English body-ns Rider Haggard. He was
only here little while, but during that
time both he and his wife were made much
of and entertained, and they showed that
they thoroughly liked 1t.
Wide travel has taken away from them
the insular prejudlces of the average En-
glish, and they are prepared TO meet the
pleasant smile with pleasant, not conde-
scsnding one. and TO find good wherever
goodness and kindliness are TO be met
Mrs. Haggard Is a most devoted wife, hsr
husbands compa dion wherever he goes. and
so pleased were they with the people whom
they saw In New York that they think OF
returning this way to meet their new
friends again. Haven't you e great liking
for the man who wrote "KinR Solomon's
Mines" and "Cleopatra7"s Aud haven't you
great scorn for those people who,
worn out mentally, talk of imaRina-
ton as IL it was q language that could
be learned, rather than a gift straight
from God at one's birthl And don't you
think these same priggish writer's, who will
give you reams on the family purse, discuss
woman's position in tho political world.
whether society women ought to wear low
neck gowns. ministers white ties, and act
ors fur-lined overoaats, would be much
more desirable IL they had little imagina-
tionl Don't you suppose that all the people
who have given delight in books, from
Shakespeare to Mother Goose, have been
people Of vivid imagination Ii makes me
fell as il should like to be John L. Sulli-
van, and fell to the earth those common
place, matter-of-fact critics who dip their
pens In acid and write words that mark
them asses.
SOME PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS.
Apropos OF writers, it Is curious to hear
the discussions about them when their pict-
ures have been seen. Mr. Haggard is ex-
trenely picturesque-looking, and a picture
OF him with an orchid in mis- buttonholo is