The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12

A young peeress, famous for her many
ducatS and her audaCity, having lost the
other day an emerald worth G150 out of
her ring, went to an eminent firm of Jew
elers in the West End and asked for an
imitation one to be put in its place
Leave the diamond setting" said her
ladyship, land put glass emerald where
the other one was"
"But-ah my lady, "ventured the man
ager, unwilling to lose the opportunity of
making a handsome sale, would not your
ladyship prefer real emerald"
Il don't want real one," replied the
petulant peeress. Suppose / should lose
that one, too? l can't keep buying gems
to lose; and when one loses ones Jewels
In society, oddly enough. one never hears
of them again. Nobody ever thinks of
bringing them back to you. A glass
emerald will look just as well, and YOU
don't suppose, do you, that any of my
friends would dare suspect that it isn't
real?"
The shopkeeper gave her a glass one!
Social climbers" although they NAV
be regarded as a distinct species in our
modern civilization, says writer in the
New York Tribune, are subdiyided into q
number of different classes. First. there
is materfamilias, who hopes to see her
sons and daughters enter the sacred inner
circle, although she herself has never
penetrated further than the outer courts.
Such one gains her end by association.
Her children are sent to the most fashion
able schools and colleges, where,
although they are furnished with
rather more than the aver
age amount of pocket-mOnev
she is too clever to allow them to be ylil-
carly ostentatious, and where they are
encouraged to- form friendships with
children the position of whose parents is
assured in society In the summer, if she
is able to afford it, she takes a house in
some good neighborhood- small and ex-
elusive watering place is the best ground
to work upon. There the advent of a
newcomer is sure to attract certain
amount OF recognition, and fairly nice
people are apt to obtain social foothold.
particularly if they interest them
fclves at once in church and local
affairs. Such strategist never commits
the blunder of taking her family to sum-
mer hotels, where they can never hope to
obtain any Individuality and where they
may be thrown with undesirable people.
1t is better that her own life should he
somewhat dull than that her children
should make questionable acquaintances
''Iotu Went point ceux qui savent at
tendre," and soon or late the tactics of
this good mother are rewarded, and her
boys and girls who have grown up to be
well-bred, well-educated young men and
women take their position within the
magic circle.
Another type of this aspiring sisterhood
IS the pretty young married woman, who
desires the good things of this world for
her own especial individual delectatiop
With her, it is no waiting race. for her
youth and beauty will not score to her
advantage for many years. If she is wise
she Will seek to gain women friends. rath-
er than those of the opposite sex. and n
goes without saying, that she dresses ex-
qulslteIy and entertains with consummate
skill. She is clever enough to see that
well accredited foreigners are good
cards, If well played and such woman
Is apt to go on to Washington
and to make the acquaintance of
members of the diplomatic corps, and the
upper strata of the floating population Of
the capitol, which has a sort of easy ey-
cIuslYeness of ITS own. On her return to
new L DIRK her progress is comparativeIv
easy. She IS known, she is admired She
mas been discreet. Perhaps some ambae-
sadress visits her, or some English person
OF distinction. Cards are left bv the
most exclusive people, whom she imme-
ulateIy invites to the most charming din
ners, and VOLTA the game is won.
MOI so easy is it, however. for the |
aspiring maiden, who feels that she foo
would like to be smart" in the latest ac' |