The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25
CLIMBING SOCIAL LADDERS.
HOW THE WOMEN CUT ONE ANOTHER.
''Bab's" Weekly Budget OF Gossip-Rider
Haggard-Authors-C Chess - Bernhnrdt
and Wherein She Is Strong-Some
Things That Make One Tired.

anu due III lilclI thofNS 10 ClllliD but SOCldl
ladder. We hear OF people who are scorn-
fully spoken of as among the social
climbers" and every now and then some
body wonders il they will reach the hight
TO which they are climbing. They will if
they have skins like appropriateness and
plenty of money; if they do not mind be-
ing snubbed by woman, and then APP
preaching her the next day with a smile,
expecting 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 FIVE more. They must be willing to
spend money, and spend it in great guam
titles. and they must run after lion, try
10 capture him, and exhibit him in golden
chains in their drawng-rooms; but, above
all, they must feed their guests well. and
that is where the social climber too often
makes a mistake.
Mrs. Blueblood can afford to offer her
guests pale claret cup and waters, but Mrs.
Climber cannot content hers with any
thing less than fizz, terrapin, and game.
To make her people satisfied with them
selves, she must give them of the best in
the land. Her reward? Well, it is in the
hereafter. When she gets where she
wants to 90, when she has reached the
hight of bliss she can snub women who
are trying to follow her example, and she
can cut oil her visiting list all those who
helped her in her early struggles, but
whom she counts as belonging 10 the iu-
eligiblrs nowadays. There are always a
few women who will not assist the
climber, no matter how much money she
may spend or how entirely she may sub
nit to being kicked-metaphorically, OF
course.
One delightful woman here will control
the people who visit at her house, ana
once, when a well-known climber went up
to her and said II am going to do my
self the pleasure of coming To your next
Tuesday" she was locked at through a
pair of lorgnettes by Il pair OF piercing
gray ewes, and the answer came with
beautiful clearness, Il 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 a young
married woman and said to her, 81 wonder
that you use rouge; | didn't know any
body but the deml-mOnde did that" With
Il sweet smile tie naughty young matron
answered: y on are very fortunate in
knowing ANYTHING about their habits or
them; my acquaintsnces have always
been in different set" As this was audi
BILE to the entire room, the would-be ia
mlllar friend was most beautifully cut.
That woman rs an abomination upon
the face of the earth who goes around Cos
siping to the rest of womankind about the
habits, costumes, and special friends of
women of the other world. She can never
really account creditaOly for this knowl-
edge, and her listener has perfect right
to conclude that she has acquaintance
among them, although it is most probable
she has gathered her stories from different
men. American women are learning to
do like their French sisters-i. e., TO en-
tirely ignore these ladies' and when they
meet them to stare as bankly as il there
was no material figure near them. This is
the art of the woman of the world, who
never sees the disagreeable in life.
1t is probable that nobody has left such
a pleasant impre sion of hmself-that is,
nO StlSil DONN MT DttltT I1dgESTu.
He was only here q little while, but dur
ing that time both he and his wife were
made much OF and entertained, and they
showed that they thoroughly liked il.
Wide travel has taken away from them
the insular prejudices of the average En-
glish, and they are prepared to meet the
pleasant smile with pleasant, not con-
descending one, and TO find good wherever
goodness and kindliness are to be met
Mrs. Haggard is a most devoted wife, her
husbands companion 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 a great
liking for the mau who wrote liking Solo
mons Mines" and Cleopatra" And
haven't you great scorn for those people
who, worn out mentally, talk of magma
tion as if it were a language that could be
learned, rather than a silt straight from
God at ones birth? And don't you think
these same priggish writers, who will give
you reams on the family purse, discuss
womans position in the political world,
whether society women ought to wear
lOw-neck gowns, ministers white ties, and
actors fur-lined overcoats, would be much
more des able if they had a little magma
ton? Don't you suppose that all the peo-
pie who have 8. IN delight in books, from
Shakespeare e Mother Goose, have been
people of vivid imagination? 1t makes
me feel as if l should like to be John l..
Sullivan, aud fell to the earth those com
monplace, matter-offact critics who dip
their pens in acid and write words that
mark them asses.
Apropos of writers, it is curious to hear
the discussions about them when their
pictures have been seen. Mr.. Haggard is
extremelypicturesque-looking, and pict-
ure of him with an orchid IN his button
hole is that of a man earnest, bright, i'm
aginatiye, and agreeable. Two other pict-
ures furnish curious contrasts; they are
those of Jerome X. jerome and Rud yard
Kipling. One thing that makes them look
alike for a second is that each man wears
a mustache and eyeglasses, and yet when
you look into the faces closely you dis
cover how absolutely dissimilar they are
Jerome's face is that of a man who is Iowa
BILE, and who would be loved by everybody
around him. There is q keen sense of
humor and 4 bit of a pathetic look that
reminds one, even when he is funniest,
how little pathos will creep in. He
looks like man who would be delightful
to live with, who would have good and
gentle thoughts of all people. and who
would do his best wherever ne might be.
Now. Rudyard Kipling. There is an
immense amount OF originality in that