The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-23

went TO a hotel. OF course, nobody expects
you TO entertain a. / have to do. You are
too beautiful for that. All You have TO do,
% far as largo parties are concerted. 10
simply to come. But you must not overlook
tho fact that while 1t s delightful to have
you come to small and very select parties,
It Is also worry charming TO ~ to small and
very select parties at the homo OF the beau
ful American actress. OF course, II you have
not your own house and cannot give them
why. l don't believe you will be invited to
such parties given by other persons
$50. you see. sven this great beauty
bad To pay Der share. although anybody
would have considered II enough just to
q her about. This year she vent back
to a house, has her parties, and, OF course,
10 more popular than she ever was. But
London would not have had any more Of
her unless she bad lone what 10 expected
OF every American who goes there with
social ambitions. She had to spend or
got out. That's what Americans are for
owe there. b will never make another
mistake like that, even II she has to go
up q floor higher in every Western hotel
and do without a private sitting room for
the rest Of her life.
Then there was the rich American widow
who IN supposed to have penetrated into
the heart VI the FaEbourg Saint German
and to be on terms Of close intimacy with
more French aristocr8ts than anybody
else In the American colonies abroad.
Well, France is very we'll and the a~ristocraoy
10 undeniably very 0ristocrntic. But Lon
don IN smart. II you are going to do any
thing socially that is worth while, you
must go to London to do IL. 1t is better
from a purely social point OF view to know
q snart Australian in London who has been
received at Court and taken up by the smart
crowd than il IN to be intimate with the
oldest Duchess in France.
r $50 this American widow realized that IL
was simply social hara-klri for her to live
10 Paris and never to have met the King.
She therefore decided on a social campaign
In London of which his was to be 10 climax.
II turned out more difficult than she Ind
expected. The whole effort had not been
q failure, but the end Of July came and she
had not met the King. IL was at that time
that the American Ambassador gave two
parties on successive evenings. One was
to be q dinner followed by a small musicale,
20 which fewer than 100 guests had been
asked. Among these vas to pc the King;
He was also at the dinner, which was limited
TO a very few. The second party was to
include everybody in London. 10 was to
this one, to which OF course the King was
not even invited, that the ambitious woman
from America and Paris was asked.
8 II looked az II her last chance to meet
the King was gone. She decided on very
drastic measures. Thus it happened that
less than an hour before the small dinner,
and just 10 the hostess was having her final
talk with Nth her major Dome e. a letter STr lived
pleasure tho kind invitation Of the Am
bassador and his wife for the musicale that
evening. OF course she had not been in
vited to 10. She was to come the next day.
What viii we dor was the question OF
the hostess. This is Of course not a mis-
take, but a plot
1T was too late TO do anything. In due
season my Lady arrived. With the greatest
aplomb she sailed into the room, stopped
for even less than the usual hurried greet
ings with her hosts n then descended on
: his Ma iesty, Edward VII. Do you suppose
she waited for the Ambassador to present
her or for anybody else for that matter?
Not at all. There was too much uncertainty
about that. She swoopsd down on his
~defeIceless Highness and presented herself.
He was 30 much taken aback by such a re-
markable proossding that he was rather
amused and thought her q very entertaining
and original sort of q woman until the Am
b~assadon took psins to tell him tn at she
had not been invited to meet him. Then
with the rpsentment Of any such audacity
that he always shows when he suspects that
he is TO be used for social or other purposes,
the King was very indignant.
The day. after that woman eturn TO
France perfectly delighted. She had met
the King. He had. moreover, talked longer
TO her than he had to most OF the Americans
that he meets. The London season a
been q literal conquest for her. OF course
all the American colony OF London Is laugh
ing at her. So are all the Americans In
Paris who never succeeded in climbing 40
high. Sut she doesn't care. She knows
the King.
-But TO think that it took all that sohem-
ing ON the part OF a woman who is supposed
to have a better position than any woman
who ever went to rance to live. Social
nQuest abroad are by no means the easy
and spontaneous things we think they are,
in spite OF our impression to the contrary.
They need money, OF cc~urse-money. money
money. Then they need some hustling
besides. In one way they are different.
The recognition OF cast Is 80 strong that any
American woman who marries into a titled
family is sure to reap every advantage that
position offers.
If a woman, for instance, Is a Countess,
It makes no difference what kind OF a
Count she may marry. He may have been
absolutely discredited.' But il she II re-
spectacle and marries him she viii be
invited to court and everywhere else that
his position would have entitled her II he
had always been ABOVE fspT0aoh. She
will need money to keep up any kind Of a
position. But she will ave a chance at II il
she marries a rood title and has been a
respectable woman herself, whatever the
bearer Of that old name may have been.'