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

Of her countrywomen met the titled folk they were anxious to conquer. There were musicales every Sunday afternoon in this little drawing room. at which the most famous singers would appear. Very often they were American, noted perhaps here, but unknown in London as singers at private entertainments and anxnous to meet hostesses. There were usually other guests with mercan- tile ends. They had railroads to float or patents and mining stocks to sell, and they were there to meet millionaires, or men who knew millionaires who might be induced to invest.
 Nobody ever doubted that in this house the most business-like under standing existed between all parties, ex- cept perhaps on the part of the million aires, who may not have known that the hostess got rake-off on all busi- ness transactions which had their in- |ception at those cheery Sunday after noon entertainments. This establish ment has been heard of much less fre- quently than 1t used to be, although it's mistress really holds a high place in the smart world of London.
 Another social promoter is also of American birth, and only began this in teresting social industry after she had married a more or less impecunious peer. She is quite young, with none of the social prestige of the older women, and less position than either, but it is customary to speak of her efforts very lfavorably in the peculiar manner in which these subjects are discussed. "Oh, she's nice little person." said al 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 well over there and
 has introduced three or four women very nicely Of course it wasn't her l fault that that terribly gauche Mrs Smith should have gone around the Duchess of Queensberry's house invi- ting everybody but the servants to come and visit her. The dear little woman couldn't have been expected to know she would do anything of that kind Aside from these friendly lifts for a lconsideration the average American
 woman married in England is likely to 1 turn the cold shoulder on her ambi- tious compatriot who has come over to conquer Mayfair. They have to be very sure of their own position before they attempt launching anybody else. Only those who need money are willing to un-
 dertake it.
 One of the women who has been most
 active in this way is wealthy, but she cannot be expected to be proof against 1 a thirty thousand dollar pearl necklace, or similar tokens of gratitude. Last i year she carried around London one att 1 tractive New York woman, whose hus-
 band, according to common gossip,
 made her present as handsome as l that The London fling may have been worth it, but so far as New York is
 concerned the visits of this charming matron have not extended an iota in the
 direction she wanted them to stretch. "The most amusing phase of this bus
 iness," said the New Yorker whose I Iopinions have been quoted already, lis the absolute franlsness of it all. Every 1 body knows that Mrs. x, or Lady Y. is trotting somebody about because she is paid for it. Maybe 1t will be in dia-
 monds, or it may be in money or even I in tips that the husband Is able to give
 on the stocks he owns, but the business
 element of the whole affair is plain.
 'I rather fancy that here in New 1 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 ser
 vice. I can see the average New York CT of position and wealth getting very
 hot under the collar at the thought of
 such a thing. The London point of
 view is entirely different. All hands turn to and do all in their power for the
 chaperon.
 Poor old Lady Y.!' their attitude
 seems to say. She's so hard up. She
 has to introduce a millionaire's wife 1 we can
 Then they ask the American about
 until her money gives out or she gets
 tired of the game. It makes no differ
 ence how long she stays in 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 differently than they did when old Lady B. was first putting l her through the paces.
 'Do you wonder that a woman with a
 New York position is perfectly satisfied
 with 1t, and has no inclination to waste her time and money breaking into the
 smart world of London, not to mention the loss of her self-respect and digni- y?"-New York Sun.