The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-31
ATTRACTIVE WOMEN is
WHAT new YORK WANTS
And Doesn't Care About Your Morals Your Pockebook
How to Get Into Society There

! old story to one another after they have
| been acquainted for several years. A
great many of them have been friends
from childhood. A woman who is at
tractive bright or beautiful is very
welcome change to the customary num-
Der of faces they are certain to meet
| at all times. The women are likely
to greet her with as much enthusiasm
! as the men. She will be welcome as
she entertains them. There is no
| trace of the pushing, struggling and
plotting commonly supposed to be the
most important factor in the game of
| getting into society. Once introduced
under the proper circumstances man
or woman who can afford the pleasure
| society is seeking is
GOING TO BE POPULAR.
sit may be that a man or a woman
has wealth enough to entertain with
| luxury that is interesting because it
is so unusual, but a pretty woman who
can be amusing has just as good a
chance of being accepted as man with
millions. Only a short time ago a
woman told me she thought it was out
rageous that a certain singer with a
very shady reputation had been asked
to most exclusive private house. How
could she do it,? she said. and Mrs X,
who pretendS to be so particular. The
woman she had there is notorious from
one end of Europe to the other and she
must know it, OF course, she knew
it, but it amused her fancy to invite
this woman to her house, and it amused
her guests to come there and meet her
1t made no difference to them that
in her own life she had been very much
talked about under circumstances that
made her seem more than the mere vic
tim of the gossip of her profession told
her that only a few months before a
guest at this house had been a woman
who made no pretnce to decency. She
was entertained there under very form
al circumstances, and l do not believe
that she ever in her life before sat
down to a table with persons of such
high standard of morals and conduct,
but they were all very much amused
by her, and it did not occur to one of
the women there to leave the house on
ACCOUNT OF HER PRESENCE"
but she was there as a profession
al, interposed the Innocent.
mot at all" resumed The Man-of-
the-world, "she was asked there mere
ly on account of her personal qualities.
l have always observed that the peo-
pie of the stage likely to be taken up
by society are usually those whose rec
ords in private life recommend them
least to this sort of distinction But
so long as their personalities are in
teresting and they help to vary the
ordinary course of affairs they are well
come. Society will be exacting only
in one particular. If it takes up a per-
son, be it man or woman, because it
wants to be entertained, the thing must
be done in the best fashion. Any dis
appointment in the person will result
in humiliating rejection. If the wo-
man isn't bright or pretty when men
think she is, and if the man is not will
ling to spend his millions in way to
attract friends, both of them are GER
tain to fall out of sight after they have
once had a trial.
Il saw this attitude toward new com
ers expressed very interestingly at a
dinner to which l went about three
years ago. A man of great wealth and
good family moved to New York from
neighboring state. He was known
by name to nearly all the persons with
whom he desired to associate, but they
had no personal acquaintance with him
1t was necessary for him to be launched
here under the proper auspices. A
friend of his, influential in society,"
volunteered to do this, and invited the
desired guest to a dinner given by this
man at his beautiful new house. 1
never saw
A MORE BRILLIANT PARTY
gathered about dinner table than the
eighteen there. Everything looked
promising for a triumphal entry into
just the social set this man wanted to
move in. The oysters were warm, the
soup came up cold, so was the fish and
the champagne was tepid It was plain
that some crisis must have happened in
the kitchen. The dinner was bad be-
yond description. The guests looked
at one another significantly and said
nothing They left as soon as possible
after the dinner, The evening had been
an indescribable f1asco. 1t was after
ward learned that the French cook had
gotten drunk; that the dishes served
upstairs were brought up as it were
over his body, for some of the servants
held him down while others brought up
the meal. But that made no differ
ence; the millionaire had lost his
chance and shown his unftness to
entertain a collection of New York s
most distinguished people, and the ex-
PLANTATION of an Incorporate cook could
not atone for that failure. He was
never admitted, although his birth and
millions entitled him to a place in So
ciety. But he did not succeed in
amusing it or entertaining it as he
should have. That is the one thing
which society would not forgive, and
its indulgence and favor toward the
people who do not entertain it are pro-
portionately great"