Evening star., 1896-11-28


man trusts you. he Is likely to trust you
a second time. rather than by offending
him on the first deal. An occasionally be-
slowed s. or SO will thus enable you to
dress at a cost to your tailor OF many times
perience. You may have to begin with
new tailor each season, but this Is only
trihing Inconvenience. and by the end OF
the second season you ought to be In shape
to dress at the expense OF your wealthy
wife.
How to Get Into Society.
You may wonder now how. even with
residence and wardrobe provided for, you
are to have the luck to meet the wealthy
wife.
This is not matter of luck. 1t is the
exercise Of poor nerve.
Make calls.
But you don't know anybody and nobody
knows you.
Fudge and nonsense! What does that
count in Washington Load yourself with
cards and simply sail in. Begin with the
| hotels. 1t is rather easier to get your
nerve in condition for besieging private
houses.
On the days set aside for the several
departments of official society to receive
you will find large punches of influential
"cong1 essonal ladies'" receiving at any OF
| the well-known hotels. Make a heavy
front Of being delighted to see anybody
and everybody. AS soon as possible ac-
| quire the impressive manner Of greeting a
woman which is SO popular among men,
bers and attaches of the diplomatic corps.
| Clasp her hand fervently and bow over 1t.
| bending from the waist so eagerly ami
| impetuously as to convey to her the i'm
| preston that in your joy to behold and
| greet her you are barely restrained from
| embracing her, and desire above all things
| in the world to kiss her hand, only SO
| many persons are looking. This manner of
saying how d. you do will go a great
way In causing women to remember you
| for your distinguished bearing.
After you have talked with great many
women and pretty girls. being careful ali
| the while to acquire the names of as many
| as possible. do not fail to leave your card
| before departing. This is absolutely indis-
J pensable. 1t is in doing this that you lay
| the foundation for your future social great
! ness You might better neglect to cultivate
| your tailor at this stage than neglect SO
| important an act as leaving your card
| Having done this everywhere that you
call, you will doubtless complete your first
round hungry and disappointed that after
| all you have read of the free lunches Wash
! ington society affords, you have had moth
Ing substantial to eat. and in but few
| places had SO much to sustain the inner
man as a cup of wretched tea. You should
not then abandon hope Of being able to
make your social career supply you with
| meal tickets In less than a week after
you have made your first calls your card
will bring to the address Of the smart hotel
inscribed beneath your name an invitation
| to Mrs. Senator This-and-That's and Mrs.
Representative The Others feeding func-
tions. You will not at once be asked to
dinner But by pleasant stages you will
pass quickly from tea and cakes and salad
| and biscuits to dinners, luncheons and
| breakfasts.
| What to Avoid.
Realizing that men cannot live by nerve
alone to the exclusion of food and drink.
you will be careful how you associate with
the families Of Senators or Representatives
who board. You know the young man I
mentioned at the start having on a cap
ital of nothing but nerve and the possibili-
ties Of Washington society realized profits
to the extent Of millionaire wife. You
would do well to follow exactly in his foot
steps in this matter of considering how
and where distinguished people live. I re-
call walking with him through Lafayette
Square one day near the close of his first
season. when he already knew a great deal,
though not quite everything belonging TO
his business and he pointed out hand
some house to me, saying, My friend Sem
ator - lives there; he has a fine resi-
dence, has he not?'
| The Senator was q man very close to the
| administration, but not wealthy and /
happened to know. as 1 said:
| THAT is not his residence; that is Mrs,
IS boarding house"
you don't mean it?' gasped the young
|
truth. he exclaimed: well, by jove! that
was a narrow escape for me. That Sen
ator has been very civil to me and has in
vited me to call on his daughter. but I'll
just cut the whole lot now, If they live I'm
! a boarding house. Too bad, really; Sen
ator,s nice man, and the daughters jolly
| pretty
i A Marble Front.
The sang froid OF this is not a circum-
stance compared with what this young
Napoleon of society was capable Of In
patronizing great people. He was at re-
ception one evening at the home Of a men,
ber of the cabinet. whom he had never
so much as seen. During the evening he
was very attentive to pretty girl, whose
name he didn't know. and the girl was so
| exceedingly pleased she wanted to intro
duce him to her uncle.
, Certainly. certainly, with pleasure" he
| answered conveying by his manner q bit
of delicate f1attery to the girl in his In
, sinuated willingness to condescend to meet
| anybody who was kin to her.
Then the girl took him up to the cabinet
member, who was very cordial, and said:
''Glad to meet you. sir; glad to meet any
of my nieces friends. But it seems to me
/ have met you before; your face looks
| familiar
Dare say: dare say" answered the
! young man, with lofty tolerance; cam
we'll recall you, for the life of me. though
: don't you know. but fellow meets Sc
.
Then did the secretary, and intimate o1
!. !. | all the great men of the country, turn thi:
! | young man down?
? Not a bit. He was so tickled with his
!. | beautiful marble front of social superiority
! that the young man became frequent
. | visitor at the cabinet minister's house, and
= !. | married the cabinet minister's niece.
s Not En- Famille.
At receptions and similar mixed function!
{ q young man entering upon society a
n Washington must expect to encounte
: uncles that are not cabinet ministers, ant
9 even things Of so little Importance a
u fathers and mothers OF pretty wealth,
. | girls. Do not fancy, however, if the girl
> invite you to dinner you are bound to suf
n fer the annoyance of a meeting with he
y | parents. heard a foreigner the other even
= | ing express pain over the common habi
n | the girls here have of suppressng thei
:. | parents at home. Il go to dine en- famile
Il and 10! It is tete-a-tete with the young lady
Papa and mamma 1 catch rare glimpses OF
r passing stealthily in the background, bu
they are not permitted to come to the table
O. There Is nothing to hinder me carrying OF
2 both the young lady and the family silver
q il l take the fancy"
Now YOU. nv dear brothers in Wyaloos