Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-07-10
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he Played e TO Win an Entrance Int
an Almost ImPenetrable Society.

He Played &c TO Win an Entrance Into
an Almost ImPenetrabIe Society.
/ got into a pleasant section of so
eiety by shrewd manipulation, said a
young man who is now a member of
the most fashionable New York circles,
and is well known in the artistic world.
OF course there was nothing to be said
against my birth ol my record when ]
anne here to live three years ago, but
l did not have recommendations suf-
f1cient to make M eligible at once.
In the first place l was very poos
No one knew it, but l was. My father
allowed me a sum upon which l could
just manage to dress decently and live
in a back Don in an uptown boarding
house. l lived on crackers, devined
ham and tea / loved tho theatre, and
used to go into the top gallery to see
all the good productions I had a let
ter to one very nice woman. who in
vited me to her afternoon receptions
There l met the real swels, but none
of them knew me or thought of me aft
erward- l would have sunk out of
sight had l not resolved 10 make a pro-
nounced effort to attract attention.
AT just that time the craze for Brown
ing readings was in progress | wa a
stodent of Browning, and 1 had read a
good deal at college with considerable
success, 90 / determined to give a
Browning reading in my room to very
select gathering. Now, my room vas
very handsomely fitted up. All my
lie I had been collecting tapestries old
paintings, unique ornaments and n
Eque furniture, and though my entire
collection would not sell In an auction
room for 81, ZOO, it looked, crowded
into my apartment fit for the recap
ton oOm of a duke. 1 engaged the
colored man of the boarding house to
act as my servant and, as ! wished
him to look very fine, he wore my dreS
suit, while | was attired appropriately
for ar afternoon event of this kind
By very careful maneuvering 1 sue
ceeding in getting a full dozen excel
lent women to attend my reading, and
when they saw my curios and had heard
my eloquent rendition of the great poet
they Immediately thought / must be q
very extraordinary young man. And
then when the colored servant, looking
extremely neat in my dress suit, passed
an entirely sort of biscuit about
among the company, with overland tea
served in cups that could not be dupli-
Gated this side of Rome, my triumph
was complete. The entertainment was
entirely elegant, and yet there was
originality in it. My household gods
and my edibles were out of the common
run, and those dozen women made up
their minds on the spot that / must be
taken up. They had known before
that / was respectable, and now they
knew possessed taste, and they
thought that l must be afiuent.
The very next day 1 received invita-
i7ons to really swell affairs. WhereveT
went l heard myself spoken of as the
accomplished young Browning student
who lived in a nest of tapestries and
ilken cushions where tea that had the
cent of roses and biscuits of a new
md exquisite sort were served upon
perfect china That was my start and
low they r after me TO lead cotilliona
md / can't paint pictures enough to
Keep up with the demand l have
apartments and crowds come
o my afternoon teas. Me- Of them
Inows how. at the outset, / put every
hing 70 the touch to win or lose il all
The bill for the biscuits that / had
of a little French baker In Sew
nth avenue wa not paid until six
weeks after they were eaten.-Nev
fork Sun I