The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-24
Skill in Games Worth More
Than Money to Climbers.
CARD PLAYER POPULAR
Tsnri3 and Polo Setter Than Story
Telling and sinsing-Deference to
Older People Pays--Skill in Ath-
lctics a Social Open Sesame for
Wemen as Well as for Men.

Sons who should know that the ability
to play games well is an easier means
of getting into society than the pos
session of money. 1t is not difficult
10 point to many cases in which men
merely through expertness in sports
have won place for themselves
in the highest society.
This has been especially true OF
tennis" says clubman in the New
York Sun. The process of becoming
socially popular through this sport is
not difficult to explain.
THE men who play well take part
ia tournaments at Newpork and other
sumner resorts. The victor or even
the very good player must be very
much Of n bounder not TO be wei
cJmed at the first houses in these
places. In this way they make friends
that remove from their paths many
dimcultes in the social ascent These
men are always welcomed as members
OF good clubs because men who play
genes well are in demand every
where.
Good polo playing is a mighty cid
arc adopts in this game must have
other very Objectionable qualities not
to be received cordially everywhere.
zone great advantage of the man
who succeeds socially through his
skill in sports is that he arrives
through the men rather than the
women. Men of the set which so
many are striving nowadays to enter
have much more respect for the new
comers that are introduced hy men
than for those introduced by women"
This was the opinion OF a man who
has seen many young men climb to
the social heights on which they had
set their eyes and who himself many
years ago accomplished the same
tourney. He is a mine Of social wis
dom. produced first by his own strug
giles and then by observing the efforts
of others.
II must be said in his favor that
he has always offered helping hand
to his juniors setting out on the same
way he Travelled so long ago. He Is
an exception to the rule that social
strugglers kick out the rungs Of the
ladder as they mount.
1T is not only by means Of athletics
that the young man may make himself
popular with his own sex, this social
sage observed. "He may follow the
serious and business policy.
They say that oldish women are
always complimented by Difference
and attention from young men. Well.
! am surely not mistaken when I say
that oldish men are just as suscepti-
bic to these attentions. They like to
have young men listen to their opin-
ions, question them as to their expert
ences and above all to talk to them
about business matters.
"The necessary preliminary to this
sort of social success for climber Is
membership in a good club. He can
not find the old men to talk to until
ne gets in. Then II he Is attentive
to the old members in the way have
described he will soon find that he
Is one of the most substantially popu-
lar men in the place.
Younger men will soon look up TO
him once they realize that his seniors
like him. knew young man to be
elected governor Of one OF the most
important clubs socially In this city
merely because he had cultivated the
older men from the time he Joined
the club.
THAT popularity is moreover OF
very substantial kind. 1t means much
more than invitations which are OBJ
tained by assduous leaving OF caros.
endless drinking of tea and much
talking down the back of women's
necks in opera boxes"
The new avenues to social impor-
lance opened by skill at bridge have
introduced number Of persons who
would never have been thought of five
years ago and there are men as well
ss women among these newcomers.
The game Is generally more difficult
among women than men. Men are
much more in demand always.
Athletics have proven nearly as
much of an open sesame to women as
to men. A girl who can ride we'll or
plays good tennis will find herself al
most as acceptable to any society as
one who plays good bridge.
Singing or musical talent in any
form will not be OF much use to her.
Games. games and still more games
win make her an appreciative visitor
at country houses or guest at dinners.
Both men and women often combine
the ability TO play very good bridge
and athletic skill. Those fortunate
persons who unite for instance bridge
and tennis have a great advantage
over their rivals.