The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

extra. The table d'hote luncheon costs
SIPS and the dinner 50, while break
fast varies from 80 to rs cents. Lodg-
ing costs from $3.50 to IS, according to
the room. At first it was the inten-
ton of the house committee to employ
women servants wherever possible, but
they found that the sober, stafd Eng
lish Jeems was indispensable, and so
he was Installed with the most inn
maculate of liveries, the most immobile
of faces and the most discreet OF
tongues. The head torturers of the
inquisition-and there are some ex-
perts along that line on the stats OF
the New York dailies-could not ex-
tract the most remote bit of Informs
ton from his lips. While the masses
may sneer at Jeems, it is only fair to
concede that he has mis- advantages
for the classes. Just supposing Jeems
could be beguiled into telling what be-
sides sugar or cream Mrs. So-and-so
takes in her tea, or whether it is true
that Miss Rose De BudGe really does
smoke ninety-nine Turkish cigarettes
before lunch or after dinner, what
lot of trouble he might makel -
1t is society's club, society with
CAPITAL S for the president is Mrs. J.
Borden Hartman. while the vice presi-.
dents are Mrs. John Jacob Aston and
Mrs Richard Irwin. Mr.. j. P. Nor
membership list includes Mrs. w. K
Vanderbilt, Jr.; Mrs. o. H p. Belmont,
Mrs. Payne Whitney. Miss Mary Har-7
riman. daughter of f. H. Hartmann;
Mrs. Ogden Goelet. Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt Miss Anne Morgan, daughter Of
j. p Morgan: Mrs. Walter Damrosch.'
Mrs. William Jay. Mrs. w. Storrs
Wells Miss Helen Barney, Mrs A s.
Alexander, Mrs. Clarence Mackay. Miss
Kate Brice, Mrs. Egerton Winthrop.
Jr and many others whose names
head the lists Of guests at New Yorlx's
most exclusive social functions. Miss
Eliza beth Marbury, the well known
dramatic agent, is chairman of the
house committee; Miss Marbury, Miss
/ Ethel Barrymore and Miss Maude
Adams represent the theatrical. while
Miss Jeanette Glider and Mrs Kate
Douglas Wiggin Riggs represent the
literary profession. Among nonresi-
dent members of the club-that is,
those not living in New York city
are Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs.
Potter Palmer, Mrs. ]. ogden Armour,
Mrs John r. Mclean, Mrs. Stephen B.
1ll1ins and many others.
Misguided women, rich, but socially
unknown, imagine that membership
in the Colony club will mean their
Introduction to the smart set AS it is
the smart women who control the club,
it is not likely that any save those OF
the socially elect or professionally ar
rived will be permitted to enter the
charmed circle. AS the literary, the
atricaI and musical celebrities can
make themselves useful and are in
themselves a source of perennial in
terest to the much bored ornaments of
high society, the admission of few OF
the most distinguished women of the
professional world need hardly be a
matter of surprise. 1t is perhaps an
other phase of society's change of at
titude since it has been modelling itself
on the plan of Londons smart set
where men and w-men Ct talent are
lionized in the very highest circles.
One feature of tn club. when it be-
gins it's fall season. will be a series of
Tuesday afternoon entertainments at
which a star of the first magnitude in
some one of the serious walks of life
will be asked to be present for the pur-
pose of giving a talk or allowing the
members of the club to become ac-
quainted with him or her.
DIANA DENNISON.