The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
Believed the Affair May Be
Kept Out of Court.
Mrs. Sloane and Children to Go
to Europe.
ALL SOCIETY SILENT.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Sloane
Refuse to Talk.
Mrs. Sloane Much Given. to
Dress Display


New York, Dec. 27.-What all society
| is asking about the Sloane separation
is:
"WiIl there be divorce proceedings? ''
All those most interested declined yes
terday to give a definite answer.
Although Lawyers Brown and De
Lancey Nicoll, representing Mr.. and
Mrs. Sloane, respectively, refuse to say
whether or not divorce proceedings are
in contemplation, a member Of De Lam
cey's NicOPs firm is authority for the
statement that no papers have as yet
been drawn up in that office. A repre-
sentative of Mr.. Sloane is responsible
for similar assurances regarding that
side of the case.
Mrs. Sloane is still i'll in bed with the
grip. She declines to see all callers.
Some of the published statements
about Mrs. Sloane have caused amuse-
ment among society people who know
the facts.
There never was any more ridiculous
statement than to say that Mrs. Hen
~ T. Sloane was a social leader in New
York said a real social leader yester-
day. ''She is nothing but a social fol-
lower in a very small clique. Fifteen
years ago she was a pretty Brooklyn
girl with no especial social position. Mr..
Sloane married her, and since then she
has gradually made for herself a cer-
tam position in small set in New
York. It is absurd to compare her with
Mrs Aston, for Mrs. Astor is really a
social leader in the brOadest sense haV-
ing family, money and social tact, and a
disposition to use them to the best adj
vantage.
Again the statement is made that
Mrs. Sloane and Mrs. Ogden Mills re-
vlsed the list of the -Four Hundred and
cut it down to 'seventy-five' While
Mrs. Ogden Mills might be able to 10
this, Mrs. Sloane certainly would have
every reason to be grateful if she was
included in the 'seventy-five.'
Acc t. -E.-
dressed woman in New York, and again
the best dressed woman in America
two perfect absurdities. There certain
~ are one hundred women in New York
and many hundreds in America who
could give Mrs. Sloane points in the art
of dressing.
Again it is stated that Mrs. Sloane
has three children. She has two, both
girls.
Again it Is stated that Mrs. Sloane
ordered 80 ball gowns, ETC., etc, in or
der to make social display and to in
tr0duce her daughter into society this
winter. AS her daughter is not more
than Is years old, it is needless to say
that it was not intended to introduce
her this winter.
Mrs. Sloane largely owes her reputa-
ton as social leader to the kindness
Of a few Well-meaning but ill-informed
newspaper writers, who have been in the
habit Of printing her name as being
present in houses and functions in New
York, whether she was there or not In
many instances, she was not even on
visiting terms with the people giving
the entertainments.
Mrs. Sloane has always been fond of
display. Not long ago liveries were or
dered from England for her six male
servitors. The liveries attracted atten-
ton. They were made up of black satin
knee breeches, gorgeous fancy waist
coats and long coats with frOggingS and
crests on the gold buttons Silk stock
ingS and gilt garters were worn with
them. AS no entertainments are likely
to be given at the Sloane residence this
winter these gorgeous liveries will be
laid aside.
Before Henry T. Sloane bought Reef
Point at Newport early last month he
and Mrs. Sloane leased one of the cliff
villas, generally the Carey cottage. dur
ing the summer and early autumn. Mr..
and Mrs. Sloane usually went abroad
late in the spring and returned to New
port in July.
Mrs. Sloane would return with guam
titles of French finery in which she ap-
peared during the rest of the season.
Some of her costumes caused comment,
not because of the taste displayed es-
pecially, but because they were con-
structed to attract attention-rathar
gaudy, some people called them"
At the house, No. East Seventy
second street, the servants declined to
take cards to Mrs. Sloane as she would
see no one. It was learned elsewhere,
and authoritatively, that she had made
plans to make a journey abroad as soon
as she should be sufficiently recovered.
She will be accompanied by the children
whose interests alone have averted 50
long the shocking denouement of this
painful affair.