Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-28
Many Keys Fit the Locks of Fashion
able Strongholds.
CAREERS OF AMERICANS IN PARIS
Plenty Of Money and Dash Make
a Good Oh ening.
SOME SUCCESSES
NOTED



PARIS, July II, 1900.
An honest young American in Paris
mourned because his early years had not
been spent at college. He was not uni
versity man, and so, in lonely Paris, he
imagined himself barred from the good
fellowship of the University Dining Club,
an institution that does much. to hold good
men together in the colony. Mourning once
over a gin fizz at Georges bar, l heard him
comforted by br. Tying, one of the founders
of the club, in words that l shall long re-
member.
We We're almost alone-a life insurance
agent, DIR. Tying. myself, the waiter and
the mourner made the party. Jim he
said to the insurance agent, II see you al
ways at our dinners.
Sure replied the hustler
You have been through college?''
yes" was the prompt answer; "once 1
went all through Harvard. hunting a pro-
fessor who had given me his note for an
insurance premium
The kind face of DIR. Tying smiled on the
mOurner comically
Cant you recollect now, having been
through college, too?" he asked.
The young American cheered up. why,
yes he said; II helped to fl the electric
lights in the new buildings of Columbia
College.
What more do you want?" beamed the
most popular man in the colony-unhapply
for us, now gone to his re ward-"you are
eligible. Then, changing to a more serious
tone, he laid down the principles of the
American University Dinner Club in Paris
as he, their founder, understood them
I'VE must not draw the line too tight in
Paris. All of us who try to maintain the
good name of America for culture and
gentle dealing ought to stand on an equal
It's Kindly Principle
While 7
kindly principle remains the acknowledged
formula of the Dinner Club than that men,
bershp in 1t admits to Society in the
colony, 1 am pretty sure that a search
through the clubs latest lists would dis
close large proportion of college men,
who would find 1t hard to Justify" And
Is this not an emblem of Partisan society,
as Tar as Americans are concerned? T
know Of a California girl granddaughter
OF one OF the most prominent of the arts. o.
crats Oh ~ who married hereto the mys-
tihcation of her friends-a Polish German
stock Jobber, speaking French and English
with equal badness utterly without social
connections, yet a pushing person, on the
road TO great wealth by way of the coulisse
OF the Bourse. who has pushed her with
hlmself, into society that even her grand
fathers honored name could not have
gained her access to.
On the other hand we have iuS+ soo,
the great-granddaughte of Betsy Ross.
the woman who made the first American
flag. refused admission to the Lafavette
monument unwilling by the American ex-
position commission. This may seem rather
complicated but it is all in the nature of
data. Richer still in data are the MANY
and varied social adventures of the great
mass of newly-arrved Americans con-
nected with or moving in the circle of This
exposition commission.
There are three chief commissioners. a
good number of directors seventeen aux-
iliary commissioners and the commission
ers OF many state and territory There
are also the representatives of aristocratic
orders such as the Colonial Danes the
Daughters of the Revolution and the Order
of the Cincinnati. What is their position in
Paris society and the society of the col
ony?
None Worthy Turned Down.
Gathering up our data % the principle of
DR.. Tying that no worthy person ought to
be barred, ca the plain fact that a stock
jobbing Sam'el-o'Posen may have the in
fuence to introduce an arstocratic Cali
fornia girl into exclusive sets and CD the
melancholy experience that the great
granddaughter of Betsy Ross NAV he
coolly turned down" on an occasion when