The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-04
SENATOR CLARK
WIFE GETS EVEN
mot at Home" TO Grand Danes
Who Snubbcd Her
WHEN SHE WAS POOR
BUT THE DOOR SWINGS WIDE TO
FRIENDS OF HER olRLHooD.
MONTANA SOCIETY is
TORN UP

Butte, Mont, June 3.-Not since the
day when Mary MacLane, Bu;te's as
pirant for literary fame, insulted the
socie Y leaders OF the city invited TO
reception given in her hon by Mrs
Sam Johnstone, has the fash enable
set here been so dismayed as it is
today because several Of its member
have been refused admittance 20 the
residence of United States Senator w.
4. Clark by the senator young wife.
In company with her husband s..e re-
urned to Butte several weeks ago af
er an absence of several Yeas
Grand Danes Snubbed
The other day three of the most
prominent women of Butte cociety
called at the Clark mans on TO pay
heir respects 10 Mrs Clark. butler
took their cards, and while they wait
ed, the women say, thev heard gen
lie, fam.l ar, voice, instructing t1'
servant to convey TO the callers Tho
Information that Mrs. Clark was no
at home. The butler obeyed orders
and the three leaders from the ives
side flounced down the steps will
feelings too turbulent for words
| Tell Their Troubles.
/ Thaey hastened to pour forth the,
| indignat on to the other members o
the Smart set" The otter me nbers
were sympathetic. "Ilow rude" o
Mrs. Clark, the idea." were some 0
the comments mo indeed, they woul
not cali' But they did. The fact tina
hree df thair fellows had been spul
bed did not deter others from hsvin
Ia try at making the way into th
presence of the wife of Mon ana
senator.
Girlhood Friends Welcome.
i Some Of them In, every instanc
those who had known Mrs Clark du
| Ing her girlhood, when she lived |
poverty with her parents here, wer
admitted and welcomed cordial!
Then it leaked out that Mrs. Clark PR
ferred the friends of the old days |
! hose who seek 10 pay her homag
: now that she is wealthy, but VIII
failed to recognize her or any men
her OF her family at the me whe
} she was Miss La Chapelle and know
only as the daughter of pocr Frenc
physician, struggling to support HI
family.
And Society "Fumes."
, Thus came about that the 'e
! elusive" set In Butte has suffered
division from which II Is not like
to recover in months. A dozen or I
of stately DANES, who have been r
fused admlttance into TIE Clark hous
land their immediate friends who ha'
never known Mrs. Clark are loud
heir denunclat on Of her action in T
pulsing their advances, Many Of the'
women have been leaders in soci
affairs here for many years.
Old Friends Are Welcome.
Another contingent composed in
large part of women who have la
: ella m to social prominence only du
!, Ing the past few years, and In mo
! instances were friends Of the
4 Chapella family, and firm friends
the old days, have been welcomed
he Clark house. They. in turn, a
e inst as loud In their praise of MI
!, Clark as the others are In their co
!. .Idemnation. And Mrs. Clark. by h
V attitude of independence and h
r declaration that the people who we
!. her friends when che was M So
q Chapele are good enough to be h
!, friends now, has won the approval
!. the ordinary individuals who wat
d the doings Of Butte society from aft
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