The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-06
uNsociAsLg NEW York.
An Indiana Womsn's Impressions
Nobody Knows Anybody EIse.

What impresses me most In New
York is the fact that nobody seems to
know anybody else" the Indiana wo-
man wrote home. when / came to
visit Kate expected to meet num-
ber Of pleasant people and be enter
tanned by them, as she is when she
visits me.
AS matter OF fact have met no.
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 happened TO
know her because they sat at the next
table in the apartment hotel where
they usel to live. and she did not care
to keep up the acquaintance.
"The reason for tins seemed to be
| the fact that the woman always
seemed to have got all her clothes last
| year.
II have been in every shop OF any
| size in the city, and in nearly every
department Of each one. When in
terest flags Kate takes me to have my
hair marcel waved, to the manicure,
or even, as a last resort, to Turkish
bath. She is taking lessons In physi-
cal curture to keep down her flesh and
studying theosophy under the most
| fashionable Swami in town.
"She has bridge lessons and attends
series of morning lectures upon the
| art OF the fourteenth century and an
other on the true ideals of Bach. At
| each of them ETHEREAL sandwiches and
anaemic tea are served In china which
looks as II it would crumple in your
hand. But none of the women pres
ent betrays by the flicker of an eyelid
her consciousness Of the fact that
there are others in the room.
I'VE lunch at restaurants OIL 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 violets worn by
| their patrons. Kate never, by any
| chance, knows any one personally;
but sometimes in an excited whisper
| she points out a woman whose name
is written among the first ten Of the
| Four Hundred
That evening at dinner she tells
her husband about II and says what
lovely day we have had.
Some lines we dine at restaurants
deafened by shrill music, where the
only person to whom we can speak
is the velvet shod waiter, who politely
snubs us. There a noted divorcee or
leading man in society drama with
| his next wife Is pointed out to me
| with exaltation.
Kate seems perfectly happy and
her husband apparently enjoys it as
peatedly whether the woman at the
| table back OF us is or is not the beau
ty whose portrait is frequently print
ed. She also decides that her new
nat with the huge rose in front and a
little to the left is already out OF style
Her husbands contribution TO the
sayety OF the evening is the pointing
II
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ONNi Wllu names.