The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-07

for the hest Of reasons. Has she not had
more personal admirers than the average
beauty? She has avoided reiigiously the
photographer.
Mrs. Gardeners drawing room at homes
haYe been the nearest approach to the
sai6on OF Nine. De staei of any American.
All the lions (two-footedy have roared there
at her bidding. Her New York training
as a girl did not seem to fit into the fos-
SLICED conventionalities OF Boston society
and she spurned them all at the outset,
setting up her own standard, which proved
the popular one. At the same time she
did not fail to break down certain social
barriers and to get there" She injected
new life and created new ideas. She be-
lieved society to be vehicle for the cul-
tivatlon OF art, intellectually, music, and
she started social renaissance, which in
part took the place OF antique genealogfc-
al distinctions and exclusive standards.
Some of the unique things Mrs. Gardner
has done TO make her name a synonym
for a sensation are as follows:
She paid Paderewski 81 900 for a private
concert In Boston, at which the music
teachers and students were her guests.
She was the first woman to make a per-
sonal examination of Shadows muscles.
She has hired the Symphony orchestra
at fabulous rates to play for her private
house.
She is the first and only social leader
In Boston to encourage and entertain at
tsrateurs, musicians and theatrical stars.
She hired Carmencita, when in the
height OF her glory. to dance before a
select party of society folks.
She Is the patroness of Boston's most
ritualistic Episcopacy, the Church Of the
Advent. and during Lent attends early
penance it is said, donned an old gown
and scrubbed the steps of the church
She is the only society woman known to
vent during a period of religious humili-
ton.
She chartered special train and rode
in the engine cab from Boston to Beverly
one day on wild chase to overtake a
coaching party which she was unable to
She pre-empted one evening the Chinese
theater on Harrison avenue and hired the
Celestials to give q special performance
for her friends and herself
painter of society folks through her
which she paid Zoo. This portrait adorns
She raises her own violets cher favorite
howers) and always wears them She
has had flowers named for her at the
a prize for the products exhibited from
her own Conservatives in Brookline.
At one OF the artists festivals she was
attended by diIninutive colored page
She has stood at the door of concert
halls and attributed programmes at reci-
tails given by some pet protege.
She Is said to be the heroine of several
novels, notably Crawford's ITO Leeward."
Aides Voyage of Discovery" the late
Count Zubofs MRS. Harry st. john and
Phillip st. Clare"
She hired a box to witness the theatre
cal performances Of Corbett, the price
fighter
She captured M. Paul Bourget MAX
O'RelD as a guest for several weeks at
her summer home in exclusive Beverly.
She gave musicale and secured the
De Reszke brothers. overcoming their de-
termination not to sing at private func-
ton.
She visited the Boston Zoo, led big
lion around and carried home baby lion
in her cab
CARRIED in yellow. she posed for Zorn,
the italian artist. and thus added to the
fame of the impressionist.
Year by year she adds protege to
the list, and year by year she gives SUBJ
stantial assistance to worthy and talented
young students of music and art. She
Is liberal patron of all that elevates and
amuses, and she encourages local chari-
ties.
She attended recital while suffering
from broken leg, and was conveyed to
the hall in an invalid chair. Held al
homes in her boudoir while confined to
her house.