Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-08

SiCll VI may <iSho,s
and on the day of the tea it seemed
that each person whose acquaintance
l had made had remembered me with
a cartwheel of yiolets. All my flowers
were placed in vases on tables in the
big drawing room. adjoining the bower
of violets, and as card was attached
to each bunch, pinned on the masses
of violet satin ribbon which trailed
from it, each giver could have the
pleasure of seeing how his gift com
pared with his neighbours. 1t was a
wonderful .display-a violet show.
And, as Mrs. Ess Kay had said. lit
was not the right time of the year for
yiolets.'
We stood on our feet for hours.
same things over and over again so
many times that began to feel like
q monograph doll which l saw in nv
first New York shop. Only when l
ran down nobody wound me up, and
had to go on by myself as best
could. which was fatiguing and made
the machinery squeak.
But everybody said it was huge
success. The New York papers had
| each more than column about the
function" as they called it. and Mrs.
Ess Kay was piously happy.
l had thought We We're very gay be-
fore, but after the violet tea, from get
ting up to going to bed. we never had
a moment that hadn't its own appoint
ed place in the procession of hours.
| like the bead in long rosary.
After breakfast we went to the Ca
sino TO play tennis. to listen TO the
concert or pretend to and to gabble.
| There we would meet everybody we
knew, and it was odd to see the calm
but slightly conscious air of superior
| ity with which the everybodies. going
| in or out. passed the poor nobodies as
sembled to watch the Casino entrance.
| Just as the middle and lower class
people stand till they are ready TO
drop only to see the queen drive into
the park or leave Buckingham palace
| dreadfully. bored to open Il bridge. so
| these Americans jostle each other to
see their millionaires and especially
millionairesses going to enjoy them.
selves. Fancy if Londoners reduced
+. themselves to state of collapse for
| the pleasure of seeing Mr. Belt take
off his hat to Mrs. Wertheimeri But
| the millionaires in America seem to be
/ like our aristocracy. only more impor
tant, for the nonmillionaires take q
| great deal more trouble to stare al
/ hor ho do of
After the Casino there was always
the beach, and the most delightful
things happened at the beach. 1t wa:
| never twice the same. Then we would
| lunch with some one or some one
would lunch with us at the Moorings
Afterward there would be a drive
calls TO make. perhaps two or thret
wonderful lat homes or concerts
with great singers and entertainer!
from New York. twenty minutes res
and then a scramble to dress for din
ner. with a dinner dance" to follow
or amateur theatricals.
OF course, as | haven't been pre-
sented yet and don't know anything
about what the season is like in town
except what Vic has told me, cam
judge of the differences at first hand
but then Vic has told me a lot. and
have heard Stan and Loveland talk
besides one seems to know ones owl
. country and country people by instine
without having actually to see wha
they do, and I'm sure that even in tn
smartest set at home they don't dream
of bothering their heads to think o
such original entertainments as
| America.
In England there are just two o
: three kinds of parties! You give
crush. which is grand if you have
big house, or you ask few brigh
particular ones and enjoy yourself. O
in the country you have a house part
and pick out the men because the
can shoot and the women becaus
, they are pretty. or else, if it's winte
. You hunt and you have theatrical.
But the Americans at Newport tur
up their noses at that slow. old fasl
. toned kind of thing. They lie awak
. nights Q'm sure they must to thin
of something so original that nobod
, else can ever have had anything th
least like it before. 1t is better. to,
TO have it very sensational and sta
i Ting. If you are invited to part.
you never know bit what it will /
!, like. whether you will dance in
/ barn and eat your supper on horsebae
out of decorated managers, whethe
/ there will be captive balloons at
! garden party. whether a Noah's ar
:, will have been rugged up on mini'
: ture lake or whether you will have
: pair of skates provided for you an
/ find yourself cutting figures on the ie
; in gorgeously Illuminated skatin
rink, with the thermometer UP to goot
, ness knows how many degrees outsid
OF course. in a place where ever!
! body gets nervous prostration tryin
} ito Guido everybody else in originate
: and extravaganza, it wouldn't be lik
l Mrs. Ess Kay to let herself fall benin,
She simply made up her mind ths
I her big entertainment should be til
d affair of the season before she decide
what form it should take. She though
4 instead of sleeping for several night
and began to wear the expression @
4 her face which I have In motor cal