The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-02

;'ome ol them went. or at least prom l ised to go, but when they heard the stand that the hostess took, they either l declined or ignored their acceptances. The hostess was curious.
 Do you know what that catty l American woman did?' She asked eve rybody she met for six months after ward. She came to my house merely because she had been generous to the wife of friend of mine, and for his mothers sake asked the American to come for week as was told that was the one thing she was most anxious to ! do. Instead of being humble and hold ing her tongue she invited every person she had met that week to come to some place in Warwickeshire she had leased l for year CT two.
 Of course none of them went, be- cause I explained that really knew very little about her except that she ] was very rich and had been very gene rous to compatriot of hers who mar ried the son of an old schoolmate of mine They are as poor as church mice, so I was willing to invite the woman for their sake, and that was the way she returned my kindness.
 Tt would be hard to see the offence l in what this woman had done, but the English view of such cases is that she should have been grateful for any at tention and only that.
 ''The woman who made this mistake did not drop out any more completely I or, ,DfJ LoI l. sx- London society. She gave very valua-
 ble jewelry to the woman who launched her, in addition to paying the expenses of all the parties to which they went together. She got to know lot of peo- pie, and some very smart ones, too.
 She had a little spirit left, and may be she was over-confident At all event l she dared to refuse something that her 1 sponsor demanded. and there was TOW. There were no signs of trouble until the American woman gave a party and wanted to invite the friends she had made during the earlier part of the London season To a woman and al-
 most to man they declined. They had known this American, gone to her house and enjoyed her hospitality merely as a friend of their friend. Not one of them I took any interest in her personally be- yond what her wealth might do for them. She made one or two other ef- forts after that, but finally, convinced
 of the futility of trying it again, she
 came home.
 l 50 very little suffices to give the i'm
 pression that this person or that is in | co of .f I.- ,.4.., l glers try it through the charity racket. No beggar is equal to the lady who wants to raise money for this charitable purpose or that, and there Is nothing at which they will stop! So this actress
 or that, If she wants to stand behind an
 American bar or sell tea at bazaar, will have plenty of American women
 there to do it with her, and plenty of titles scattered among the names.
 Then the story goes forth that this ac- tress is popular in society and on terms
 of great familiarity with the British ar Iistocracy.
 AS matter of fact not one of the
 women whose names appear on the pro- l gramme with hers would speak to her on any other occasion or allow her to ienter her house except for some such purpose. There is lots of this kind of society to be had in London without any
 trouble. One need only have the money
 to subscribe 1iberally to be able to
 know all the social riffraff and aristo-
 cratic derelicts hanging about London.
 Your name may appear along with
 lords and ladies in lists of patrons and
 patronesses, but the intimacy will never
 be any closer
 One more woman than a score of
 years ago went to Europe to spend her
 husbands millions in gaining the posi-
 ton she wanted in the social world
 She was not New Yorker, and here
 her progress upward would have been slow and it's result uncertain. In Flu rope she entertained impecunious peo- pie of title and the people she really wanted to know laughed at her. She kept her purpose in view, though, with a tenacity worthy of more heroic am bition, and never gave up.
 Her liberality and kindness gradually caused change of poinion toward her and to-day, after more than a score oi years, she is recognized abroad by the people she knows as a person of req position. She can have now at hel house in Paris or London almost any. body she wants. It is her example tha, has sent to Europe many American wo- men with less money and less tact t attempt the same career.
 Most of these who go to London lool to one of three of their compatriots fol introductions, and in every case they know that this work will be done a. the French would say, not for the sakt of their beautiful eyes, but for very substantial reward
 One of these married some years agt in England, and her husband has al ways held place in the set that mos Americans desire to enter, so she il able to be valuable to anybody she may take under her wing, The woman wht can afford this luxury will be able tt see almost as much of the right kind O | 7f,rr rx1,a