The sun., 1903-12-06
NEW YORK.

that this work will be done, as the French
would say. not for the sake Of their beauti.
ful eyes, but for very substantialreward.
, One OF these married some years ago in
England, and her husband has always
held place in the set that most Americans
desire to enter. 80 she is able to be valuable
70 anybody she may take under her wing.
The woman who can afford this luxury
Wall be able to see almost az much OF the
right Kind OF London as she wants, although
to take permanent advantage of these in
PRODUCTIONS great deal Of money and
time are needed.
ltused to be in the little house of an Ameri.
can widow in London that many of her
were anxious to conquer. There were
musicale every Sunday afternoon in this
little drawing room, at which the most
famous singers would appear. Very often
they we're American, noted perhaps here,
put unknown IN London as singers at pri-
Tate entertainments and anxious to meet
hostcssee. There were usually other guests
with mercantile ends. They had railroads
to noat or patents and mining stocks to
sell, ana they were there to meet Million
aires, or men who knew millionaires who
might be induced to invest.
Nobody ever doubted that in this house
the most business-like understanding ex-
listed between all parties, except perhaps
on the part Of the rnillionaires, who may not
have known thst the hostess got a rake-oR
on all business transactions which had
their inception at those CHEEKY Sunday
afternoon, entertainments. This estab-
lishment has been heard of much less fire.
quently than IL used to be, although its
mistress really holds high place in the
smart world Of London.
Another social promoter is also of Ameri.
can birth, and only began this interesting
social industry after she had married q
more or leas impecunious peer. She il
quite young. with none Of the social prestige
o. the older women, and less position than
! efforts very favorably in the peculiar man.
ner in which these subjects are discussed
| "Oh, she's nice little person. said q
woman at the opera the other afternoon.
when her possible return to New York
for visit was discussed, and they do say
she has done so we'll over there and has
introduced three or four women very nicely.
OF co,irse il wasn't her fanlt that that ter
ribly 0aache Mrs. Smith should have gone
around the Duchess OF, sQueensberry's
house inviting everybody but the servants
to come and visit her The dear little
woman couldn't have heen expected to
know abe WOULD do ANYTHING Of that kind"
Aside from these friendly lifts for con-
siderotion the average American woman
cold shoulder or her ambitious compa-
triot who has come over to conquer
Mayfair They have TO he very sure of their
own position before thoy attempt launching
anybody else Only those who need money
are willing TO undertake 1t.
One of Tho women who has been most
active In this way Is wealthy, but she can.
not be expected TO be proof against $50, 900
pearl necklace, or similar tokens of grati-
tude, Last year she carried around Lon.
don one attractive New York woman.
whose husband, according to common
gossip, inmle her present as handsome
as that. The London fling may have
been worth IL. b,'t 80 far as New York in
concerned tue visits of this charming
matron have not extended an iota in tho
direction she wanted them TO stretch.
THE most amusing phase Of this b'Isi-
ness," said the New Yorker whose opinions
have been quoted already. -is the absolute
frankness OF it ALL Everybody knows that
Mrs. X. or Lady Y, is trotting somebody
il viii be in diamonds, or It may be in monev
or even In tips that the husband is able 10
give on the stocks he owns, but the busi-
ness element of the whole affair is plain:
Il rather fancy that here 10 New York
any man would be indignant if one of his
friends brought into his box at the opera
or to his house to dinner any man or woman
who paid him, as the London aspirants do.
for this service. ] can see the average
New Yorker Of position and wealth getting
very hot under the collar at the thought Of
is entirely different. All hands turn 70
and do all in their pos, r 'lr the chap ron.
Poor old Lacy "! their attitude seems
to say. She's so hard up; She has to in.
troduce a millionairt g " ife from Chioa ago.
Let e help her out all We can
Then they ask the American about
until her money gives out or abe gets tired
of the game. 1t makes no difference how
long she stays III London or how liberal
she may be, there is very little chance
that the sort OF English people she wants
to know will ever feel toward her any dif.
ferently than tliey cid when old Lady B.
was first putting her through the PAGES
DO YOU wonder that a woman with a
New York position is perfectly satisfied
with il, and has 80 inclination to waste
her time and moray breaking into tho
smart world Of LoDdop, lot to mention
the loss Of her sclf-respeot ard dignity"