Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-16

body but myself to see.l Anyhow, it is so. between New York and Chicago people that Is. the people who count in Society with a biz Sand 1t was a great triumph for my cousin to become the three hundred and ninety-nlnth in the Four Hundred. She did It by buy ing Russian prince"
 Buying a"-
 Yes. love. he was going to the high est bidder, and she bought him. That is, she entertained him 70 gorgeously and did so many nics things for him that he posed as her property, and, as every one was dying to meet him. It made her. Shed been working killing ly hard before that. for wsole year after taking her house on Fifth ave nue and building her cottage at New. port. but 1t was buying the prince which did the trick. On the strength of that episode and It's consequences, she went to Europe with very nice in- reductions, and. as you know. deah. she has made some valuable as we'll as pleasant friends. To live up to them and her reputation, she will have to be busy for while dropping . lot of old acquaintances." |.
 How horrldw couldn't help ex. i claiming, though Mrs. Ess Kay was going to be my hostess.
 Yes. it seems rather miserable to me because I'm weak, lazy. southern being, who would be right down sick if had to hurt any human beings feelings. Yet perhaps 1t looks fair to her She's so ambitious, and she's worked so hard she has deserved to succeed. As for poor me. she just reg. ularly mesmerizes me all through. She mesmerized me into coming up from Kentucky and visiting her this spring. Then she mesmerized me into going with her to Europe. But I'm not sorry I went. for I've had . right good time" I'm so glad you went" said I. be cause if you hadn't shouldn't have met you. I'm sure should love Ken lucky if all the people there are like you. But these things you've been say ing seem so odd. Do you mean to tell me that the people who lead society in New York want to keep their set linn ited to certain number and refuse to know others, even if they're eNtraor dinarily clever and interesting" SThov Inn't lfl.a fhar,, fn h, tno clever because they call such people 'queer-that is. unless they happen to be lions of some sort from England or other places abroad. Then so long as they're not American. they welcome them with open arms"
 I'm glad society isn't like that in England" I said. There the real peo- ple-the people who have the right to make social laws, you know-are de- lighted with any one who can amusc them. Of course deep down in our hearts we may be proud if we have old names. which have been famous for hundreds of years in one way or an other, but we are so used. after all those centuries to being sure of our selves that we just take our position for granted and don't think much more about it. If people who haven't got quite the same position are gentlefolk and amusing or clever or beautiful or anything like that which really mat ters, why. we're only too pleased with them.' ..
 That's all the difference in the world. You've been sure of yourselves for centuries You've said the last word. my deah Out of the mouths of babes Cousin NKatherines finish- ed gushing to that silly old Mrs vau der Windt. We mustn't dare discuss these things from our point of view any more reckon she would faint"
 There are gorA many young men on board, and some of them seemed to be quite devoted to Mrs. Ess Kay the first day out. but she was cold to them all, l couldn't think why, as some of them seemed very nice, and she had always appeared rather to like being with men. 1 asked Sally about it. but she laughed and said might perhaps solve the mystery myself when we were at Newport if ren'H'nhArad # then
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