The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-31

private and public benefits for everything
under heaven, from Jewish refugees to
broken-down actresses, and voiuminouS
begging letters from Omaha and Timbuc-
too, from food sufferers and drought suf-
ferers, aspirants for the stage and candi
dates for the ministry.
Indeed, the society women of any prom
inence would verify be buried beneath
the avalanches of manuscript were it
not for a most remarkable woman who
goes about from mansion to manson set
ting everybody straight as TO addresses
and marriages, deaths and departures,
pushing society impOstOrs and unreliable
charity organizations For nearly a
score of years this clever woman, whose
name is not known outside the inner cir
Gle whose mechanism she manipulates so
adroitly, has been doing this sort of
visiting secretary duty, until her mem
ory holds the genealogical tree of every
family in exclusive circles and not few
outside, ana her head is a sort of COM
bined City Directory and Almanach de
Gotha. When the books are opened and
the secrets of hearts revealed, it may
transpire that she has known all along
more about who belong to the very first
set than the potentate of the patriarchs
himself
To some of the great leaders she goes
every morning and looks over all but the
personal correspondence, makes up the
engagement lists, writes checks to be
presented to the various charities, cor
reefs the address book for each year,
marking off the dead and adding the few
new names that society admits each sea-
son with more than little reluctance.
Society is getting in spite Of its defences,
very unwieldy, body and family is become
ing more and more regarded as il becomes
more difficult for the nOuveauX riches TO
get within the pale. Many of the So
called social set whose names were men
toned at the high teas and receptions
are only within the court of the temple /;
they never can gain access to the interior.
To enter society one must come not only
with means to live handsomely and en-
terrain richly. but must come with pow
erful friends among the elect to intro
duce them. .. .-
The Heber Bishops are a good ex-
ample Of this. Coming on here from Cal
ifornia, with plenty of money and two
attractive daughters, and few friends
among the leaders, they married the
daughters into two of the first families in
the set, and the rest was all plain sail
ing. But many other families, perhaps
equally well equipped, but lacking the
few friends at the start, have been
obliged to take their place in one of the
of rings within rings, and from these
outer circles rarely is promotion made TO
the charmed inner sanctuary whose por-
tails are so carefully guarded against the
intruder. There is particularly refined
species of cruelty in the way society
ignores those whom 1t chooses to
reject. 1t is said that at one
of the Patriarch's balls gentleman who
had been invited with his daughter found
on his arrival the friends who had in
vited him were not present Nobody paid
the slightest attention to him or to the
pretty daughter. She had not single
invitation to dance. Everybody seemed
to know everybody else in the room. They
alone were strange. When the supper
was served he took the girl down, and
very soon after it he left the ball. Some
of the gilded set, who had noticed it, said
it served him right No one should at
tempt the Patriarch's without being sure
of his reception. Still, it must have been
known that the gentleman was well in
dorsed or he could not have been present.