Gilpin observer., 1907-04-25
UNS0CIABLE U
new YORK
An Indiana Woman's Impressions

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woman wrote home. When l came
to visit Kate 1 expected to meet a
number of pleasant people and be en-
tertained by them, as she is when she
visits me.
AS matter Of fact have met no
body The only woman acquaintance
OF hers l have seen was one we hap
pened to meet in shop. Then Kate
hurried me around the other way, be-
cause, she said, she only happened
to know her because they sat at the
next table in the apartment hotel
where they used to live, and she did
not care to keep up the acquaintance.
The reason for this seemed to be
the fact that the woman always
seemed to have got all her clothes
last year.
"I'have been in every shop of any
size in the city, and in nearly every
department of each one When inter-
est flags Kate takes me to have my
hair marcel waved, to the manicure,
or even, as last resort, to a Turkish
bath. She is taking lessons in physical
culture to keep down her flesh and.
studying theosophy under the most
fashionable Swami in town.
She has bridge lessons and at.
tends a series of morning lectures
upon the art of the fourteenth century
and another on the true ideals of
Bach. AT each of them ethereal sand
wiches and anaemic tea are served in
china which looks as if it would
crumple in your hand. But none of
the women present betrays by the
flicker of an eyelid her consciousness
Of the fact that there are others in
the room.
I'VE lunch at restaurants of which
we read in society novels in Indiana
and take tea at places which have no
sign above the door, are located in
out of the way side streets and never
! seem to lose the odor of violets worn
by their patrons. Kate never, by any
| chance. knows any one personally;
but sometimes in an excited whisper
she points out woman whose name
is written among the first ten of the
Four Hundred.
THAT evening at dinner she tells
her husband about it and says what
| lovely day we have had
Sometimes we dine at restaurants
deafened by shrill music, where the
only person to whom we can speak l.
the velvet shod waiter. who politely
snubs us. There noted divorcee or
leading man in society drama with his
rext wife is pointed out to me with
, -xaltatiou.
Kate seems perfectly happy and
her husband apparently enjoys it as
much as she does. She wonders re-
reatedly whether the woman at the
table back of us is or is not the beau
ty whose portrait Is frequently print
ed She also decides that her new
hat with the huge rose in front and
little to the left is already out of
style. r.
"Her husbands contribution to the
gayety of the evening Is the pointing
out of fat man whose business meth
DDS in the forming of subsidiary CON.
panies are about to be investigated.
AS for me, I am so homesick that l al
most weep into my demitasse when l
remember the jolly little chafing dish
parties for ten after the Tuesday lee.
ture on art which we give by turns at
home in Indiana.
"Once we went to the opera, ana
Kate was well nigh hysterical with
delight when she was able to fit names
to half dozen women in the boxes.
There, when you go back to Indiana,
you can tell them that you saw Mrs.
Wastor and two of the Gouldorbilts,'
she triumphed. -
Yesterday We were invited to lunch
with a woman we used to know In In.
diana. who had heard of my presence
in the city through letters. l expect
ed . nice. honey time. talking of peo-
! ple we ali know; but 1 was disap.
pointed.
I'VE lunched in the public dining
room of the apartment hotel, on made
over dishes with French names.
While We ate It our hostess and Kate
discussed the trousseau Of bride
whom Kate thought she had once
seen,
after that they ieid each other how
often they dlned at fashionable res.
taurants and how particular each one
was to have particular table engaged
for her each time. When we went up
stairs they compared all the new
plays until 1t was time FOR us to go
home.
"once or twice | have gone with
Kate to her dressmaker, who brags
about her fashionable patrons and
tells Kate her figure is exactly like
| TINT ne MTS Earrimnn Then thora ic
the beauty doctor who wakes eloquent
and persuasive over the very newest
shade of hair.
Tomorrow l return to Indiana.
Kate pltiee me; she says she would
rather die than go back. and wants me