Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-11-27
MRS. PEMBROKE Jones.
SHE IS NOW AT THE HEAD
OF NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Three Years Ago She Was Practic-
ally Unknown; To-Day She is at
the Head of the Social Set
Carried Off the Honors
at the Horse Show.
Viii. Dispatch.

i VII. D1opatch.
Last Fridays New York Journal
| contained the following compliment
| tary reference to Mrs. Pembroke
| Jones, which her hosts of friends in
Wilmington and all over the State
i will read with great pleasure and no
less pride:
"Cathleen Nelson, among the
young girls, and Mrs. Pembroke
Jones among the married women
may be said to have carried off all
| the honors at the Horse Show If
not in the ring, at any rate in the
bOxes-and for each of them the
| week has been one Of social triumph.
EThat Cathleen Nelson should be
a centre of attraction, not only as
remarkably handsome girl, but like
wise as the fancee of Reggie Van
derbilt, was only to be expected, for
society always entertains a certain
amount of sympathetic interest for
lovers, especially When they happen
to be endowed with millions. Love
in Fifth avenue mansion is so much
more fascinating than love in cot
tage.
''But the triumph of Mrs. Penn
broke Jones, while equally deserved,
is more surprising, owing the fact
that few years agos she was astranger
to New York, whereas she may now
be regarded as one Of the leaders of
the fashionable set. Her success in
three years has been wonderful.
"You must remember that it was
i about thaJ period Wnen she went to
Newport. She had only a few friends.
She had that same Southern adapta-
bility. The difference was only that
in her own State Mrs. Pembroke
Jones. as Miss Greene, had come
; from very long line of ancestry. I
, believe one of her ancestors signed
the famous Declaration OF Indepen-
dence, and that means great deal
, in the little conservative colonies of
. North and South Carolina and Geor-
gia. There the aristocracy remains
as it V,as in the Colonial days.
"Mrs. Pembroke Jones had an un-
exceptional position in the South.
The North she had to conquer. 1t
| was rather difficult proposition, as,
owing to the excellent matches made
here by Southerners- Wilson's
having taken in all the best that the
matrimonial market afforded-NeW-
port was bit wary Of pretty South
! ern women with sweet, cooling
voices and the manner of another
| age-that OF minutes, powder and
! patches ana chiVaIry.
''The conquest of Newport by Mrs.
Jones, however, was SO sudden that
| the Newporters themselves hardly
| realized it. The shore of that his
toric bay is strewn with the skele-
| tons and debris of wrecks of social
ambitions. But Mrs. Jones arrived
and conquered in a season. People
had hardly finished asking who she
was than they were demanding and
| begging from friends who knew her
invitations to her entertainments.
"The winter before last Mrs. Penn
| broke Jones came to New York.
She had box at the opera. On the
opening night she began modestly
with Mrs. Oelrichs 80 a guest. To-
day she is absolutely one of the
leaders. Her box has been the centre
! of attraction at the Horse Show.
There you found Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish, Mrs. Duncan Elliott, Mrs.
Orme Wilson, Mrs. William e. Car
ter, of Philadelphia, and, in fact, all
| the stars in the social armament.
esMrs. Pembroke Jones possesses
the secret of being a perfect hostess.
Her success comes naturally to her,
and she is the same as she always
| lwas.'