The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-04

may propose at any time with the
confidence that a favorable answer
awaits you"
Representative Chicago Ladies.
What an index to a household the
hall or main entrance is! remarks the
Chicago Inter Ocean. The attendant
is invariably the reflection of the re-
nnement II of the snobbishness of the
inmates. A while ago a special
writer-a woman--for a morning pub
llcation was asked to call on some rep
resentative ladies relative to some ar
tlcles it was desired to publish. 1t
took just two steps into the hall to
decide whether the representative
lady" had any right to the title or
not. The key note was the card of
the writer, with the name of
the paper in one corner. In
every instance the true refinement of
the household was indexed by
the of the servant opening
the door, and vice versa; where aims
and ambitions were above genuine
worth the fact would be betrayed by
this Index" glancing at the card and,
discovering that it was only one of
those newspaper persons AT the
former houses all callers were treated
with the same kind courtesy. In the
latter-here is an illustration of the
| latter.
1t was at the house of a par
ticularlv we'll known woman. The
servant glanced at the card, and
said:-
81 don't think Mrs. - is at
home"
will you ascertain?n
well, I'll go see, but she never
sees-hadn't you better tell me what
you want?"
ii want you to take that card to
your mistress"
We'll, come in, then" The jour
%nalist, who has a charming home of
her own, and the entree to circles that
would blush to have such an impress
sion given Of their own households,
was left standing in the hall while the
maid numbered slowly mp the broad
staircase. : After a while the maid
dragged herself down the stairs and
said, 'She will be down soon.n
The journalist could have helped
herself to a seat, but she thought she
would see how the Representative
lady" would take the rudeness of her
having been left standing in the hall.
The representative lady came down
the staircase with the card in her
hand. AS she reached the bottom
stair near the glass entrance
doors she saw a handsome
coupe out in front. She stopped
and peeked through the draperies to
see who was going to alight. No one
alighted, because the occupant of the
coupe was standing there waiting for
the lady" to turn around with some
kind of greeting. The position be-
came embarrassing to the newspaper
woman, and she finally said
Mrs. --?n
Yes said Mrs. -, without turn
ing her head.
1t was too much for even an ex-
perienced journalist. She finally
said:-
Madame, I came in that coupe my
SELF
The representative lady turned with
a jerk and walked up to the represen-
tative Of one of Chicago's largest pa
pers and said:
well, what is it you wish?n
r came to interview You as one of
the representative ladies of Chicago
said the journalist.
The emphasis on the word ladies,
and the direct look into the eyes of
the mistress of the household brought
her to a latent sense of a rudeness.
She stammered something ~incoherent-
ly and invited the newspaper woman
into the reception room, where she
spent the next half hour trying to
impress upon the mind of the writer
what truly refined, exclusive and
best society really meant,