The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19
N AMERICAN PEERAGE.
POSSIBILITY OF AN ARIsTOCRACY
IN THE UNITED STATES.

Our Country Would BE Composed
of the VanderbiIts, Astors, SlOans,
Gerrys, LOriIIards, BeImOnts,
MiIIses, Hewitts, Marquands-"DOO-
daddIes" Are Collected by the DOz-
en- to AdOrn Rich Cigarette Cases.
New York Feb. 17.-How long viii it be
before a titled aristocracy like the peerage
of England can be established in the Uni
ted States? That is a possibility candidly
and hopefully discussed in New York So
ciety where any woman nearly who has
the cash and the opportunity will gladly
lay down a hundred thousand or even
more for the legal right to fasten high
sounding handle to her name.
Perhaps never before in the history of
this country have the English nobility
been so passionately envied and so sedu
lousy courted by our great moneyed aris-
tocracy, which is undoubtedly the most
powerful in the world. There is no salts
flying the ambition of a fashionable wo-
man by telling her she belongs to the
wealthiest social circle in civilization. Up
in the ranks of what Ward McAIlister
uSCu " uSille do TIE NV a tAt4C IL hON
the passport to content distinction and
prestige and most unfortunately the lei
sure class of men are beginning to hunger
after high-sounding prefixes as ardently
as the women.
Now New York society is pre-eminently
energetic and ingenious where its desires
and ambitions are concerned, and to wish
for a thing is Synonymous with straining
every nerve to procure it. 1t will prob
ably be some little time before congress
takes upon itself the organization of no.
bility, and genuine nobility is what these
aspiring souls want. They don't banker in
the least after the empty sort of titles
worn in France They want a close copy
of the British institution, with pomp and
powers attached and without actually as
Stunning any of the lordly cognomens they
are preparing to do the next best thing.
Not only are there more plans on foot
than ever for matrimonial alliances with
noble Englishmen but our smart society
itself is growing more and more exclusive
every year.
If you will take pains to follow the wills
of such rich men who have died within the
made their Wills you will be sure TO COM
ment on the fact that the bulk of the for
tune now goes to the eldest son along with
the great city or Newport house, and the
finest jewels, pictures, etc, and the wife
and the other children make no demur If
son is lacking, then the Oldest grandson
comes in for the lions share, and thus per-
fectly quietly a group or great families.
such as the Vanderbilts, Astors, Sloans, Lo-
vf11 ards Poll lie
quands, are being built up as securely as
the ducal houses in Great Britain.
To draw the lines more sharply yet 1t
has been demonstrated this winter that no
man or woman can claim to have place
in New York society unless he or she has
made an appearance in some one of the
six houses on upper Fifth avenue, the mis-
tresses of which are the acknowledged
leaders. No matter who you are, if Mrs.
William Sloan, Mrs. Ogden Mills or one or
two others have opened their door to you
recognition of your place socially is
prompt and rather cordial; without it. you
are nothing, though you may speak with
the tongue of angels, are beautiful and
wealthy and go everywhere else OF
course, there is one other chance for you
and that is to go to London, be presented
at court, marry a title, however impover-
ished and elderly It's weare may be. All
York set, which, as one woman candidly
confessed, is bound to be limited and diff
cult of entrance so long as there are no
titles by which to ticket men and women
and thus discriminate between the classes
and masses.
Fair Cuban and the "DoodaddIes. ,,
From among the Cuban refugees in Nev
York city one, and woman al that, has
found her exile In the United States a bles-
sing unmixed. This pretty little lady lived
in Havana, and what she did not know
| about tobacco was hardly worth know
ing so when in New York her money gave
out, and she went humbly about seeking
some remunerative occupation, her one ac-
complishment was a remarkable facility
for preparing and rolling the most deli
cious little cigarettes. She made a few
as thankzofferlng to a fashionable, ten
der-hearted young woman who had sent
her very substantial aid. The young No-
man smoked them In the dainty secrecy of
her own chamber, but so exquisite not only
was the flavor and the effect of the wee
tissue paper cylinders of tobacco that she
confided her delight and few cigarettes
to a few bosom friends
To make a long story short, the little
Cuban has more orders for cigarettes than
she can fill and the debutantes. this win
ter, with their mothers and maiden aunts
all smoke and carry not at all the sort of
cigarette case the average would-be
emancipated woman affects. Their cases
are very small, because their cigarettes
are small, and the cigarettes are also most
expensive. They cost about Is cents apiece
and hold just enough tobacco to give the
smoker four or six delicious puffs after
meal. Only after a meal are they
smoked, for the reason that fashionable
physician has boldly announced the virtue
of the post prandial cigarette as a digest
i've.
With the tobacco an aromatic herb is
mixed, and 1t leaves the room where these
charming smokers have been redolent of a
most sweet and delicate perfume, while
their lips are as fresh as roses after the
harmless dissipation.
If the cigarettes are adopted for
health's sake, the cases that hold them
| are selected for their richness and beauty
| They are small, usually of gold, and the
! exterior is almost covered with what the
smart girl calls her "doodaddles" A
doodaddle is a minute trinket, miniature
| ieweled souvenir Of some memorable &C.