The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-05
SOCIETY KNOCKED HARD
Mrs. StuyveSant Fish Says She
Prefers Brains to Money.
TERMS SOCIETY DEADLY

II
The Fashionable Resort of Newport
Ruined by Mere Money, and New
York Social Leader Is Going to
Snub 1t. Funny Little People
Who Think Themselves Queens.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish declares New
York society is deadly and Newport
has been ruined by money, says
New York press dispatch. She an
nounces she will no longer be a
ladder for social climbers, and she
is going to snub Newport by giving
II the cold shoulder. All this is
spropos to a statement by Frederick
T Martin that New York society is
in a transition state. He says the
metropolis is too big to be ruled by
mere money, and that brains, tact,
magnetism and personality are to be
the standards there as in London
and Paris.
In commenting on this statement
Mrs. Fish says:
If there were a little more kind
Iiness shown in New York society
there would be more real hospitality
which means real society. Real
hospitality is kindness,
Wealth Not Enough.
TO be rich alone is not enough.
Very often to be rich means to pos
sess brains. There are plenty of
people who have both brains and
money. We must not bar them.
But the time should come when
brains will count for more than mere
money. Mere money is running New
port today
Nobody is more tired than I of
these funny little people who think
themselves queens. They're too alb
surd, too ridiculous. They are MAX
ing Newport the laughing stock of
the country today.
Personally, l am tired of New
port, 1t is dead, barren, spoiled,
We are not going there this summer.
We shall tarvel in England instead.
What do we find in Newport now?
Climbers? Yes, to be sure. Any
body who wants to get into society
and has enough money only has to
90 there for four or five years and
hey will get into society-if they
are willing to take the snubs and
insults which are dealt out to them
day after day.
Why, in Newport people actually
talk about one another right at the
able, They don't wait even until
icy get home. They do it even in
Inc house of their hostess.
Mrs. Fish Gives Test.
/ don't want people at my house
because they give me things. They
can't give me anything. I want peo-
PIE to dine with me, to dance with
ne, to 60 to the play with me, be-
cause l like them-nothing more.
don't care what people are or who
-nelr friends are, if they are friends
Of mine.
The proper maxim for society
should be; Anybody who is good
enough for me to know is good
enough for my guest
Yet some peoples idea of society
is 10 hand you the tip of their finger
Snen you are their guest and then
make faces at you behind your back.
had new man at one of my
"hners last winter. He was clever,
sood looking, we'll dressed Yet one
woman said to me: oh, Mrs. Fish,
LOW could you invite that man? But
"en You are so original
Terms Society Deadly.
What is New York society?
DeadIy, most of the time. The aver
aye dinner is a bore. You may count
vi meeting certain sets at certain
Twooses You are invited to dinner.
-9u know almost to a certainty
MON You will meet there; YOU can
wen guess who will sit next to you.
~, AND when you invite these peo-
s.7 back to your house you wouldn't
o'.e ask any one else to meet them
aIey would really shudder. They
rJ,uldn t think Of meeting anybody
w g1o might be strange to them. That
]" New York society.
But is it real society? Isn't it