New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-27
Difficulties or ROMAN SOCIETY.
THE SOCIAL CHAsM BETWEEN THE "bLAclls"
AND THE WHITES
From The London Telegraph.

AND THE WHITES"
From The London Telegraph.
An unfortunate instance has been recently
given here Of the suit mat still separates the
Papal party ana tnc hng!y party sceia..y -
well as politically. All extremely ron l'4t.a"
C,uY!t.-. l hu has many trI r. us 10Th dn1H- inc
Blacks and Whites. ana who = noted I'l lAe
costl.ress Il der coti'n presents. sent out cards
for week. dances for The whole u the season.
Tn. first dance, passed Oh brilliantly, TIE rooms
belng cr,Ad.d with people II every variety OF
opinion Before the next dance took place IL
was rum1red that the Count Of Turn would De
present with the result that Jew Ol the blachs
put in appearance. The folloWinS week me
general attendance was 50 small that the hostess
has made the royal bail at the Ceulflha! the
excuse for not rece. wing this We X. and has gone
to Florence TO nurse sick sister, without
am told giving any intimation that her recep-
tons are discontinued. Seeing that her position
in Rome was assured. the lady in question
has some grounds for the indignation she IS
said 10 feel. since. being foreigner. her palace
was neutral ground.
Some years a similar incident happened
20 an American woman who had been honored
by the appearance Of the Duke d AOsta at one
# her balls She had issued invitations for
second ball but before it took place she learned
that the presence Of the Duke had caused much
senseless gossip among the Pontifca Romans,
and that a great many peOp.e VINO nac ac-
cepted her hospitality were publicly giving out
that they did not intend 70 go TO her house
again. The woman took no notice OF the ru-
dred or three hundred carriages drove up to the
door, their occupants were informed that
MADAME did not receive" Nor did she ever
entertain the Romans again.
The foreign hostess In Rome is certainly IN
4 position Of great difficulty. II she receives
royalty the Black party refuse to attend her
parties and where the Blacks. among whom are
the noblest and oldest Roman families. DO not
appear many Of the Whites. and certainly all
the lesser fry. have trick Of shruSs ne their
shoulders and saying that the woman whose
hospitality they are enjoying cannot DE blen
vue because there are So few Romans here"
their doors on Blacks and Whites alike, and
either shake the dust ~ the Eternal city from
their feet or satisfy their hOspitabe instincts
by entertaining the foreign colony. but every
winter there are one more Instances Of the
kind II either the Blacks or the Whites had 4
definite line # action these c0ntretemps-wh
undoubtedly give foreigners the opportunity II
criticisms the reverse II acknowledgements not
occur. But In society. in every other Depart
ment Il Italian life the old is struggling against
the influence Of the new. and these recrudes-
cences u the bitter division between the Pope's
followers and those # the King really the
resentatives Of the Black party rigidly kept
aloof from all society which was not solely On
the Pores side did their fathers. f0r~
eigner living I'm Rome whose sympathi's were
not wholly Papal. would never be- admitted
within their circle Time viii probably bring
about the desired fusion. but In the mean time
II is distinctly hard IN foreign hostesses With
out whom the winter seas for tn L mans
would be shorn Of much # its briiiiancy and
the present distinctly chaotic state
Of things should lead 20 their humiliation