The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-02
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An indiana won,an's lmpres sions

hHoN any DOuN else, the lnulans
woman wrote home When ! cam,
10 visit Kate expected TO meet
number Of pleasant people and be en-
tertained by them. as she Is when she
visits me.
AS a matter OF fact | have met nc
body The only woman acquaintance
OF hers have seen was one we hap
| pened TO meet in a shop. Then KATE
hurried me around The other way be
cause, she said she only happenet
to know her because they sat at tn,
next table In the apartment hote
where they used to live. and she die
not care 10 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
j 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
|
culture to keep down her flesh and
studying theosophy under the most
fashionable Swami in town
She has bridge lessons and at.
tends 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
witches and anaemic tea are served in
china which looks as If 1t would
crltmple In your hand But none Of
the women present betrays by the
Kicker 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 yiolets worn
by their patrons Kate never. by any
chance knows any one personally;
but sometimes In an excited whisper
she points ont woman whose name
Four Hundred
THAT evening at dinner she tells
her husband about II and says what a
lovely day We have had
Sometimes we dine at restaurants
deafened by shrill music where the
only person to whom We can speak ~
the velvet shod waiter. who politely
snubs us. There a noted Divorce or
leading man In society drama with his
next wife is pointed out to me with
exaltation
Kate Seems perfectly happy ard
her husband apparently enjoys II as
much as she does She wonders re.
peatedly whether the woman AZ the
table back of us is or is not the beau
ty whose portrait Is frequently print
ed. She also decides that her neM
hat with the huge rose in front and
little to the LETT is already ont OF
style
Her husbands contribution to the
gayety of the evening is the pointing
out of a fat man whose business meth
DDS in the forming of subsidiary com
panies are about TO be investigated
As for me. | am so homesick that | al.
most weep into my demitasse when
remember the Jolly little chatting dish
parties for ten after the Tuesday lee.
tire on art which we give by turns at
home in Indiana
Once we went TO the opera, and
Kate was well nigh hysterlcal with
delight when she was able 10 fit names
10 half a dozen women in the boxes
There. when you go back to indiana.
you can tell them that you saw Mrs.
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. ! expect.
ed a nice. honey time. talking of PEG.
pie we all know; but | was disap-
pointed.
We lunched in the public dining
room OF the apartment hotel. on made
over dishes with French names
While we ate # our hostess and Kate /
discussed the trousseau Of bride |
whom Kate thought she had once
seen.
After that they told each other how |
often they dined at fashionable res /
and how particular each one |
was to have a particular table engaged 1
for her each time When we went up
stairs they compared all the new [.
plays until it was time for US to go (
home.
Once or twice ! have gone with I
Kate 10 her dressmaker. who brags 4
about her fashionable patrons and I
tells Kate her figure Is exactly like /
that Of Mrs Farriman Then there Us /
the beauty doctor who WAKES eloquent |
and persuasive over the very newest +
shade OF hair.
Tomorrow | return to Indiana
Kate pities me- she says she would t
rather die than 20 bach and wan me-
70 induce my husband to sell Out his /
business and come 10 New York AS
Tor me. ] am counting tho hours 10 .
rain time
Not because do not Ike New York. .
,ut because want 20 ger back among