Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-09-13
Mrs. Astor is the Reputed Head,
I but it is Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
who Entertains Most Lavishly,
! Introduces the Novelties and
Spends the Most Money.

10 come to the point at once: For all
that Mrs. Aston is the recognized head
OF the famous -Four Hundred" Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, of Newport, New York
and the -Four Hundred" is America S
leading society parsonage.
She has spent bigger fortune on So
cial entertainments than any other wo-
man of her day and generation, probably
than any other woman who has lived in
America.
She was one of the-summer pioneers
at Newport, and her social life there
has helped most powerfully to make that
hot weather city by the sea famed on
two continents.
She is the most consistent, most regu-
( lar entertainer in this country. Mrs.
Aston gives one or two big functions in
the course of twelve month; Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish does not average. less
than a half dozen year, and her small
dinners, receptions and other lesser en-
tertainments are several times more num-
erous than the weeks. No other member of
the socially elect is so much the hostess,
and but few of the titled social lights Of
Europe, where entertainment is more
heavily gone in for than here, can equal
her record of functions, big and little, of
the past ten or fifteen years.
The various epochal steps in her So
cial career are marked by the most ex-
traordinary entertainments, embracing,
as the alliterative circus press agent
would put it, startling, stupendous,
Supplying, stunning innovations.
"Only Mrs. Fish would dare to do
such thing" is stock comment by
her associates.
In brief, it may be said that it was
she Who set the style of entertainment
and amusement that has been in vogue
among the millionaire and multimillion-
aire social devotees of recent years, and
us of little money, too. The cakewalk,
rymhkana races, society vaudeville, pri-
vate theatricals by professionals on an
elaborate scale, costume and syrnbolical
darces, and festivals on a scale even
more magnificent, and true to times past
to the slightest detail; the engagement
of the worlds most noted and high
est-priced song-birds for an afternoon or
evening of music-all these widely
copied features of present day big 81
society amusement she either planned
out and introduced, adapted to her uses,
or was instrumental in giving them their
popularity.
Mrs. Fish is, in truth, the genius
one may almost say, the brains-of the
-Four Hundred" And, strange as it
may seem, she is one of its bitterest
critics.
She is easily the busiest society de-
voice in the country, and yet for all her
ramifying interests in this butterfly sort
of existence she somehow finds great
deal of time to devote to charitable and
philanthropic work. This, however, does
not attract the attention that her I'M
usual modes of entertaining do. and nat
urally, so that Mrs. Fish could be easily
misiudged by one not familiar with her
except on her social side.
Society counts her one of its most
open-handed members. Many young
woman. now safely launched on bush
ness career, owes her start to Mrs. Fish
She is particularly keen to help young
IS. with talent for the arts bat with no