The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-10
coNcEALINe PARENTS.
a Fashionable Accomplishment Not Un
-. Irnasrra IN a tup ricc,.

Oscar NiIde's now play "a Woman
of No Importance" contains, among
other clever passages, the following
para graph, which has a peculiar sig
snificance in Washington society:
american women are wonderfully
clever in concealing their pirents
When a young woman becomes thor
oughly innoculated with the idea that
she is destined to shine in thc fashion
ablo world, the fact that she may be
hampered with an undesira be parent
aor two does not by aair means prove an
sinsu perablc barrier, though !tmay be
rather in tile nature Of. q drawback at
the start. a ease which shows what
may be accomplished in this line IS
that Of a young woman whose doings
few seasons ago were as regularly
chronicled in the society notes OF the
leading papers as though she were one
of the mainstays OF tie structure upon
which the complicated machinery OF
the fashionable world was based. 1T
must be understood 1T tie tart, OF
course, that comfortable bank &C
count is an absolute essential to sue
cess in such a cam pa:gp. For one not
blessed with this backing Of the al
mighty dollar to atte;n.5t such 4 feat
would be to emb.azon ii, advance upon
her banner. the word 'sdefeat.' The
successful young woman having no"
contracted an alliance that was chroa-
icled in court journals, hc' pan OF op'
GRAFTON will be OF interest.
settled it in her OWL MIND
that she was to bee one fashionable
woman, and realizing that the most
potent aid to this end was to be looked
for in the fullness OF the family cctieri'
she laid her plans with TIE utmost care
and forethought. After a few years a
foreign travel she came to Washing
ton, and leased a house in ono OF the
best neirhborhoo4s in the city Tie
first few seasons, though by no means
altogether failures, hardly held til;
amount of success craved By the a'c'
bilious spirit. 1t did not take her a
Hong to discover th.;t her co.npiacei't
rooa-natured mother was hardly the
valuable assistant she could have DC
sired in the matter. After various dc
vices for ob!iterating her parent IN hel
afternoons at home, such as seatln@
her in the tea room or in sundry dark
e1ed and well-protected corners. where
the majority Of the callers were hard y
lilSelv to discover or modest the pictur
esoue1y arranged solitude, She finely
hit upon a successful way out ct the
difficulty
From time to time lunors were SCI
afoat concerning the delicate state OF
the mothers health, until the gay
world came to look upon the robust
matron as the victim Of some insid:ou'
uialady that was sapping her vitality
in the most insidious manner, albeit II
a way that was elninently becoming
as it did not in the least cause her
cheeks to lose their ronndncss nor the
hue of perfect health. Finally, wier
the cood-natured dame failc | to ap
near at all during afternoon receptions
and ceased to era eron her daughter
to evening functions where The lattc'
was under the besro!:en csp!ona-e o.
prominent society women, it came tt
be understood in tho most natnra
manner that she was invalidcd out OF
service.
The young woman's social star rose
in the ascendant and her desires wert
gratifed She duly accounted for hc1
mothers withdrawal from the fashion
able world in most plausible manner
One season the matron was ru!norad tt
be suffering with tonsilitis that being
the leading fashionable disord, n at the
time Afterward, having run the ganu1
of polite disorders tie poor woman's
social detection was sot down to {
mysterious complication that baffled
the skill of a,tendant physicians. whose
reputed fat of the sole hope of recovery
lay in the rest cure" of the most rigid
Observation-Disclosures Post.
RESEMBLANCE TO NOTED MEN
A Natural Gltt WI,ose Cultivation is Likely
to Provo Somewhat Expensive.
Almost every family has a member
who boasts of q resemblance to some