Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-15
MRS. JACK GARDNER.
STRANGE CATERS AND BIZARRE. Do- lNG6 oFA BOSTON SOCIETY WOMAN.

She Has Diplomacy, Daring, Tact, Talent, Heart and Human Nature In Generous
 Proportions-A Lion Hunter-Some of
 Her Odd Conceits.
 Boston has remarkable woman, and her name is Mrs. Jack Gardner; wo- man who does the things that are called outre and bizarre, who seorns eonven- t1onality, who is as prolific ill pictur- esque caprices as she is indulgent in ev- cry odd whim and yagary, q woman with the temperament of a bohemian, the finesse and tact of q diplomat and the daring which rides rough shod over rigid social preprieties, yet which charms the stiff necked opponents of the Puri- tan civilization by the frank originality of its innovations; a woman who is not beautiful, yet fascinating; not cultured (1n the Boston sense), yet most invet- crate patron of aesthetics who is not hlghborn, yet the queen regent of the Hub most exclusive and blue blooded society.
 She is rich. She is married She has no children. She is not young. For 20 years and more she has kept Boston so- eiety talking about her. In the Hub her eccentricities arc we'll known. They are expected. In New York she is only half known or not known at all, although she was born there In New York there is no woman like her.
 Some of the more remarkable facts which have made Mrs. Jack Gardner s career unique and her name a synonym for social sensation are these:
 She is the first and only social leader i'll Boston to encourage and entertain at her homo the bohemian set of artists, htterateurs, musicians and theatrical people
 She is the patroness of Boston most ritualistic Episcopacy, the Church of the Advent, and during Lent attends early mass, and it is an uncontradicted tradi- tion that on one day of penance a few years ago she donned the modern sack cloth and ashes of an old gown and on her knees scrubbed the floor of the church.
 She is the only society woman ever known or reported to have gone into the retirement of convent during a period of religious humiliation after gay sea son of social dissipation
 She was the first woman to make a personal examination of SandoW's mus cles
 She paid PadereWslzi $1 GOO for pri- Yate concert at Bumstead hail. in Bos- ton, at which the music teachers and music students of the Hub were her guests.
 She has hired the Boston Symphony orchestra at fabulous rates to play at her house for her private entertainment.
 She chartered a special train and rode in the engine cab from Boston to Bever- ly one day on a wild chase to overtal1e a coaching party which she was unable to join at the start.
 She hired Carmencita, the Spanish dancer, when in the zenith of her glory, to dance before a select party of Boston society people,
 She pre-e -empted one evening the Chi nese theater on Harrison avenue, the Mott street of Boston, and hired the Ce- lestial actors to give a special perform ance for her friends and herself
 She was the first society patroness of Sargent, the artist, to whom she paid $5, 900 for painting her portrait, and thus gave the impulse to his popularity as q painter of society women's s portraits
 At the artists festival several years ago she was attended by a diminutive negro page holding up her train. Rumor had it that she would lead tame leop- ard or tiger. Her queer conceit was the talk of society for weeks thereafter.
 She is the only woman ill New Eng land who raises her own violets, and she is seldom seen in public without great bunch of the purple beauties
 She stood at the door and distributed programmes at a recital given by her protege, Clayton Johns, the musician
 She is said to be the heroine of Marion Crawfords famous novel "To Lee ward, {" of Hamilton Aides Voyage of Discovery, of Mrs. Harry St John" and Philip St. Glare, novels of Bos- ton society life by Count zubof.
 She is the only prominent society wo- man who has ever attended theatrical performance by Champion Corbett. This she did ill Boston and sat ill box.
 She captured M. Paul Bourget, the French novelist, summer before last as soon as he left Newport and entertained him at her summer residence at Beverly Farms for several weeks.
 She gave a musicale one evening and invited the De Reszke brothers, who were then singing in grand opera in Boston. No other society woman had succeeded in overcoming their determi- nation not to sing at social function, but Mrs. Jack Gardner did.--New York World.