Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-02

Special CORRESPONDENCE OF Gazette and journal
At Summer Hotel, Aug. 81. The |
summer place brings out the woman |
who gets black ana blue in her efforts |
70 climb the social ladder. She is the |
woman who is scorned by the people |
With whom she wants to associate, and |
she would do anything, provided the
worst were not found out, TO get bow
from some leader in the exclusive
coterie. Ons cannot but wonder if she
will ever reach the height TO which she
ia climbing. She will if she kills in
herself every bit Of womanly pride,
everything that is sweet and real and
true. She will il she has skin like a
hippopotamus and plenty OF money.
She must not mind being snubbed by
a woman one day and then approaching
the same woman the next day with a
smile, expecting another snub, willing
to take IL and yet ready to smile again
the day after. Sne must learn rhat
two kicks down the rungs Of the ladder
which she wishes TO climb must only
give her impetus to iy up five more. She
must be willing to spend money and
spend it in great quantities. She must
run after tho lion of the day, try to
| capture him with golden chaina and
| exhibit him 10 hcr drawing-rooms.
But, above all, she must feud people
well, and that is where the social
| climber too often makes a mistake.
Mrs. Blueblood can afford to offer her
| visitors pale tea and waters, but Mrs.
Social Climber cannot expect hers to
be contented with anything less than
champagne, terrapin and pate de foie
gras. To make people satisfied with
| themselves she must offer them the
| very best in the land. She must be-
satisfied il she can get Mrs. Blueblood
to her house to hear u great singer or
great actor. She can scarcely expect
her to take any notice of her hostess.
After she has spent her money and
degraded herself shu may get her re-
ward. Just now it is in the hereafter.
But when she gets it how she will ap-
Dreciate it! Aud the height OF bliss
will be reached when she can snuh
other women who are trying to follow
her example and can cut oil from her
visiting list all those who helped her
in her ealry struggles, but whom later
on she will count as ineligible. OF
course there are always a few women
who will not assist the climber, who
will not invite her to their houses. no
matter how much money she may spend
or how willingly she may submit to
being kicked - metaphorically, OF
course.
One delightful woman staying hero
will control the people who visit at her
house, will not admit Mrs. Social CHM
Der and refuses to be anything but
frigidy polite to her. Once, when Mrs.
Social Climber felt particularly brave,
she went up to her and said, 81 am
going to do myself the pleasure Of COM
ing to your next Thursday. The over
brave lady ~ was looked at through a
pair of lorgnettes by pair of piercing
gray eyes, and the answer came with
beautiful clearness, "My servants do
not admit to my house people who are
not on my visiting list. +"
Another famous climber, who thinks
that by gushing and giving a great deal
of personal information she can get
whore she wishes, grew very familiar
the other day with young married
woman and said to her,: ;" | wonder that
you use rouge. | didn't know that
anybody but the demimonde did that.
With a sweet smile the naughty young
matron answered You are very fortu-
nate in knowing anything about their
habits or them. My acquaintances have
always been in different set. " AS
|
10 women, nobody was surprised to
hear that the climber considered the
young matron "a nasty. stuck up thing
whose acquaintance don't want. "
That woman is an ahomination upon
the face of the earth who thinks TO gain
friends by gossiping about the habits
aud costumes and special belongings oil
the ladies' of the half world. She car
never really account creditably for this
knowledge, and her listener has per-
feet right to conclude that she has
, acuuaintances among them, although il
is most probable that she has gathered
, her stories from servants, dressmakers
and men. The well bred American
woman has learned from her French
cousin to ignore these iatiies entirely,
and when she drives past one of them
she stares as blnnkly as if there were
no materiSl figure in the carriage OPP
posite hers
} EARLY as it ia, the buds are begin
i ming to get ready to be taken from The
3 hothouses in which they have been sc
8 carefully kept and, surrounded by bt
. many other flowers, to appear in thu
a drawing room. Poor little bud From
: the day that its mother rose electet
/ that it was to be Tout" it knew per
:. fectly well that it meant the waiting
: for the gallant prince who, seeing IL
beauty and admiriug its grace, woulC
bear it away close to his heart.
One can't help but feel sorry for thu
r buds, and next to them one feels sorrl
!, for the pnor princes who come a. wooing
: 1t is a recognized fact that ever!
? woman with daughter longs for he
to make a GREAT marriage. Many thinl
the average New York matron is crud
9 in her management. She doesn't do a
tine Southern or Western woman dos
just let the girls alone, allow then
i to attract and hold by their own sweet
Il nass---aut overmanages and overcon
9 trives. She lacks the simple diroctnes
" OF the English woman and she has nc
d the tact of the French one. 1t ism
). go much that she doesn't try, for sh
d does. but her trying is too pronounced
Not long ago at bud reception
saw the greeting rendered very nice
rather young and ever so many time
&c millionaire. He was offered everything
VI from claret punch tn angel food, from
}. smiles TO flowers, and he was made 8
n thoroughly nervous that ] am perfect
sure he will never enter that over hos
pitable mansion again. You see, tina
woman's idea of how to catch a mil
10 lionaire was based on her idea of hoy
n to catch a mouse. The way she di
o this was to put piece of cheese in
II trap and when, Mr.. Mouse entered, tn
door flew down, and he was hers. |
ie very ignorant mouse that can b
!. trapped in that way. And millionaires