The age-herald., 1901-02-21
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The "Smart Set" is
 instructed in "Chdt."

lHe (OuTleT the following concerning two young wo- men of Mobile and their Journalistic en- terprise:
 Two brilliant society girls of the South have started a society paper.
 It Is published once week, and the first days edition of 800 copies was sold so rapidly that the young editors had to go to work early in the morning of that day and get out another edition of 5oo copies.
 The society element of Mobile and New Orleans Is agog over the social departure, and Chat is receiving about as much To- cal advertisement as any paper more ambitious in size and frequent in publica- ton, could desire.
 Mobile, Ala, an aristocratic and de- lightful town on the Creole coast, is the home of the new paper, but the personal ity of the editors is the chief attraction in the affair.
 Miss Amanda Moore and Miss Hodgson are young women of eminent social fame in the South--in that side South that is bounded by White Sulphur and New Or leans.
 Miss Moores fame as a society favorite Is more than Southern, as she has spent much time in New York and Washington. Her father, Rittenhouse Moore, is as well known almost in New York as in Mobile, and has always been ranked as | one of the successful financiers of the South.
 Her mother was a great belle when she was Miss Randolph of Virginia
 Miss Hodgson Is prominent social fig ure of Mobile, the daughter Of Colonel Hodgson an editor of the leading Mobile paper. He has written many books on the Civil War, notably ''The Cradle of the Confederacy."
 | When Miss Hodgson was only l2 years old she had story accepted and pub lished called "A Modern Ivanhoe." She wrote verses and sketches for Southern papers when at school. Both girls know the best of social life to its score: both are young; both are pretty.
 These young women proposed to under take this paper before Christmas, as a new sensation; for the season threatened | NNA-o way off.
 They didn't take the thing up seriously until one week before It's publication. Then they staked their combined allow ances. wrote every line, solicited adver- tisements made arrangements with morning paper for the printing, put an artist at work for the title page, and went to press on time.
 The first edition was success and they have determined to enlarge the sheet to twelve pages.
 They are at 1t now in good earnest ana working we'll and wisely.
 Chat is the name of the paper and the motto printed on the editorial page IS from Tennyson's Brook.
 The leading editorial is significant
 It tells the story of an old fisherman looking out over the water in a squall. He sees two men put off in a small bote:
 Darn, 'em," he says, they knows nothing; so they fears nothing
 The editors confess to the public that Chat will be frivolous, for it will deal only with frivolity; such as gossip and | society. It will try to be amusing; it will | tell about everybody who Is anybody in | Mobile and New Orleans; where they go, | and who they are with and what they | wear.
 | As for politics and war, it will leave | such subjects to those who do not chat | ter.
 | If there is one thing the south revels | in, it is it's social life. People entertain and are entertained l constantly and in the most delightful way The city of Mobile has charm ing social atmosphere; the people live well; they dance and dine and flock to the | play and the opera with all the vim be- l oueathed to them by a Creole popula- ] tion.
 | These two young women are in the very heart of that life all winter, and | vet have broadened and become cosmo- politan through a close touch with the social life of the great eastern cities. Therefore they know all about the life they will report and present in interest ing form; and they have the talent and ability to do 1t.
 Whether Chat lives or not the venture and the two daring young bellies who are making 1t are the talk of the drawing room and club in the far south at pres ent.