Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-17
GETTING INTO SOCIETY"

GETTING INTO SOCIETY"
What 1t Costs to Storm the Social Cit
& adei in London.
Those who are on the inside say
| that one of the most interesting feat
ures OF the coronation season In Lon
don will be the spirited and energetic
campaign of certain rich Americans to
break into the inner circle, writes Ger
aldine Bonner in the San Francisco Ar
gonaut. 1t has for some time been a
| growing custom for native million
aires, fresh from pork packing in the
warm, wild heart of Chicago, or with
the mud of the mines of the great
northwest still clinging to them. to
storm the fort in London instead of
New York. With few good introduc-
lions and cheerful willingness to
spend money heights can be quickly
! scaled in the British metropolis THAI
take years to attain in the Empire
city,
The English spend no unnecessary
time beating about the bush. All Amer
leans look alike to them. The vital
question is, how much money have
they got and how willing are they to
spend it, When this issue is satisfac-
torily settled the trumpet blows, the
walls of Jericho fall and the family
that in New York would SILVER in outer
darkness for several decades sweep
triumphantly into the place where
peers are thick and duke is detail
Thus established they come back
and patronize the world which would
hardly take off its hat to them in the
days when they were only innocently
: and ignorantly rich
We are wont to accuse our English
cousins OF want of business enterprise,
but on the commercial side. in matters
of society. they are far ahead of us.
We have not arrived at regarding the
fashionable world as one into which
| the stranger can buy his way as he
could into a theater. There are men
in this country who tentatively and
society and sometimes get paid com
mi. 5ions by caterers and wine mer-
chats, but as rule they are content
to take dinners and cigars for their
services. Aspiring outsiders have, 1t
| is said, sought their help to boost
budding heiresses into fashionable
recognition, and received in return pc
sitions for poor relatives, If not for
! themselves. Even II there are stories
l'afloat that they were given cash down
, for their services, they are darkly
whispered as matters of discreditable
! If not scandalous kind
Not SO among our cousins across the
seas. There you may buy your way
into the citadel as you buy your prefer
| ment In the army. 1t requires money
| and it also requires certain degree of
! fitness in the aspirant That old adj
age of the silk purse and the sow's ear
holds particularly good in this line of
endeayor. A hopeeosly vulgar family
cannot buy their way to anywhere
worth winning, nor can a family who
have not enough money or are not will
ing to spend 1t. But given suitability
to the career desired, large means. a
knowledge of how to live splendidly
and willingness to do it. any one may
go far.
How recognized this business has
become and how openly IL is pursued
as a legitimate and profitable branch
of trade is every now and then shown,
not only by the stories which are re-
peated on all sides, but by law cases
that now and then rise to the public
eye. A short while ago one Sir Fred.
erick Miner brought suit against the
house agents who rented his house
near Park Lane to Mrs. Brady. Mrs.
Brady had not paid her rent, and gave
as the reason for this delinquency that
she had taken the house on the repre-
sensations of two American ladies who
were to ray her rent and salary II
she would get them into good gociety.
Just what happened to disappoint the
ambitions Of the American ladies was
net forthcoming. Evidently Mrs. Brady
had not been able to get them into
Just where they wanted to go, and so,
being OF business tendency. they had
refused to fulfill their part of the bar
gain
me Americana are not always In the
place OF the Introduces. but some
times when the British peers they
nave married are in want of funds act
as the introducers. One of them is
known to guarantee a good social POI
sition to any presentable girl who Is