The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18

for the first time In my life I began to wonder
II there was anything about me that un-
fitted me for the society Of those women.
At home a woman would have been intro.
duced to all the members, they would have
called on her, and so long as she was a lady
there would have been no limit to the cor.
diality with which she was treated.
Il never Q back to the next meeting.
The clergyman, when he was at my house,
asked me why.
Those women scarcely spoke to me-
I said. I'm not going back there to be
snubbed.'
"'You misunderstood Them he said
They didn't snub you. They only meet
there for the guild business and very lew
parish work. .
That was enough for me. If was not
good enough to be known outside Of a
guild meeting by those women | deter
mined not to let them be contaminated
even by having to be with me there in the
chapel: ] never went through such an
uncomfortable hour in my life"
Probably his woman, now hat b has
lived so much longer in New York, would
be just as chilly. herself to anybody that
came to her guild.
II is almost incredible to strangers COM
ing here to learn that neighborliness Ia
impossible in such a large city. That
persons living in adjoining houses should
be u~nacquainted seems surprising enough.
i mat UWpll6TS III 'Jle tdIHS l.dl Dullt2liB
should be unknown to one another seems
beyond belief to the more hospitable
natures Of men and women from other
cities.
There are many shocks to this feeling
when attempts are made TO create this
n%eighborly feeling, One instance Of the
kind had its soene in an ar artment house.
A Southern woman who had repeatedly
met two cir Ia in the elevator and began to
bow to them one day entered when they
were in the lift with their mother.
There comes that horTid who
Will bow to US all the time one Of the
women who was well over 20, said to her
mother. what shall we do about itf She
BOWS to us all the time" 49,,
They were never troubled by any saluta-
lions after that day.
Strangers who come to New York do not
realize that the persons they are likely to
know are often not the kind they should
be acquainted with. IS
"1here is such a nice little woman in
the fat under us" explained a Western
wedding. -She is q great contrast to
the rest Of the people there. Most OF them
are horrid and always look afraid you're
going TO speak to them. met this woman
In the elevator and afterward at, the
butchers 40 often that we began to bow.
She's coming TO call on me-
Further conversation proved that this
cordial person was q widow who lived aloha
in the rather expensive az artments, DC
casionally her mother came from some
where back Of Brooklyn to call on her and
her little brother used to come down from
boarding school occasionally. The next
time the Western woman visited her friend
she had a great deal 10 tell.
why it was perfectly awful, y she began,
and you know | went to the opera with
her once Several times she sent me beauti-
full flowers. [ did not know a thing about
il and she seemed so much OF a lady. But
sh: moved out very suddenly last week
a,'d sne agenI 5o1u IN me me me mao tol Deen trSiSg
the FIRST time she let her rent get a day over
due they dispossessed her. Awiull'