St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
How Mr.. and Mrs. Ryder Hag-
gard Created a Favorable
American Impression.
Authors as They Look in Por-
traits--Latest Style in
Chess Playing.
The Eternal Sarah Looking
and Acting About the
Same as Ever.


the social ladder. We hear of people
who are scornfully spoken of as among
the ''social cllmbers," and every now
and then somebody wonders if they
will reach the height to which they are
climbing. They will if they have skins
like appropriateness and plenty of
money; if they do not mind being
SDubbed by woman, and then ap-
preaching her the next day with smile,
expecting another snub, willing to take
it, and yet to smile 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 an
impetus to fly up five more. They must
be willing to spend money, and spend
1t in great quantities, and they must
run after lion, Try to capture him, and
exhibit him in golden chains in their
drawing rooms; but, above all, they
must feed their guests well, and that is
where the social climber too often
makes a mistake.
Mrs. Blue5lood can afford to offer her
guests pale claret cup and waters, out
Mrs. Climber cannot content hers with
anything less than tiZZ, terrapin and
game. To make her people satisfied
with themselves, 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 go, when she
has reached the height of bliss, she can
SnuD women who are trying to follow
her example, and she can cut off her
visiting list all those who helped her in
her early struggles, but whom she
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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 submit
TO being Neutrality-suspicious. of
course.
One delightful woman here will con-
troll the people who visit at her house,
and once, when well known climber
went up to her and said, 81 am going to
do myself the pleasure of coming to
your next Tuesday," she was looked at
through pair of lorgnettes by pair
of piercing gray eyes, and the answer
came with beautiful clearness, II 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 per-
Sonal information she could get to where
she wished, grew very familiar with
young married woman and said to her,
Il wonder that you use rouge; didn't
know anybody but the demi-monde did
that" With sweet smile the naughty
young matron answered, You are very
fortunate in knowing anything about
their habits or them; my acQuaintances
have always been in different set"
AS this was audible to the entire room,
the wouid-be familiar friend was most
beautifully cut.
That woman is an abomlnatlon upon
the face of the earth who goes around
gosSiping to the rest of womankind
about the habits, costumes and special
friends of women of the other world.
She can never really account credkably
for this knowledge, and her listener has
perfect right to conclude that she has
acquaintances among them, although it
is most probable she has gath cred her
stories from different men. American
women are learning to do like their
French sisterS-i. e., to entirely ignore
these ladies, and when they meet them,
to stare as blankly as if there was no
material figure near them. This is the
sort Of the woman of the world, who
never sees the disagreeable in life.
1t is probable that nobody has left
such pleasant impression of himself
that is. no English body-as Rider Hag-
gard. He was only here little while,
but during that time both he and his
wife were made much of and enter
tanned, and they showed that they thor
oughlY liked it.
Wide travel has taken away from
them the insular prejudices of the aver
age English, and they are prepared to
meet the pleasant smile with pleasant,
not understanding one, and to find
good wherever goodness and kind
illness are to be met. Mrs. Haggard
is most devoted wife, her
husbands companion wherever he goes,
and so pleased were they with the peo-
pie whom they saw in New York that
they think of returning this way to
meet their new friends again. Haven't
you great liking for the man who
wrote king Solomon's Mines" and
"Cleopatra?" And haven't you great
scorn for those people who, worn out
mentally, talk Of imagination as if it
were language that could be
learned rather than gift straight
from God at ones birth? And don't you
think these same priggish writers, who
will give you realms on the family pnrse
discuss woman's position in the politI
cal world, whether society women
OuSHI W wear loW-HeCk GOWNS, HiulS-
tiers white ties and actors fur-lined
overcoats, would be much more desira-
bic if they had little Imagination?
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? 1t
makes me feel as If l should like to be
John L Sullivan and fell to the earth
those commonplace, matter-Of-fact
critics who dip their pens in aid and
write words that mark them asses.
How soon, under the cloak of charity,
will game of chess be played with the
pieces represented by the handsomest
of women and the best-looking of men,
with small children as pawns? 1t is the
last fad in London and the crush to see
the game was something marvellous.
The costumes were founded on dresses of
the Tudor period. were perfect in every
detail, while the red king and queen
were absolutely superb. The game was
played by two expert chess players and |
long gold wands were used to touch the
pieces as cue for their moving. This |
was done in the most stately way. pc
culiar, slow step being chosen and ad- !
hered to by all. 1t is novel idea, and |
whoever first gets it up here will GER
tainly make much money for whatever |
charity it may be played for. The most |
religious persons in the world can't OBJ |
ject to it, they might to a game of pok- |
er, while the artist who delights in pic |
turesque effects in seeing beautiful |
women beautifully gowned will have !
mar velous treat for his eyes offered to |
him at what seems a marvelously low |
price.
Nine. Sarah, as she has announced |
she prefers TO be called, is once more |
with US, and once more her marvellous |
personality has to be acknowledged. |
Putting aside for moment her great |
genius, forgetting for while how she |
really makes you feel that she is the |
character she represents, what woman |
is there to-day who has such a strong |
individuality, an individuality indeed |
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