The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-18

overcomcs the handicap of birth in this city, but for
many reasons they are likely to come from the
the SOUTH and if from the latter section
with the right kind of an accent it is douby hard for
her to fail No two of them come to town for just
the reason, but it is only difference in detail
and no of them with plan of campaign
mapped out
class A. Her father is not "a but 'the" distinguished
citizen of some small city. She has been educated
in of the fashionable schools of the and has
become acquainted with wealthy New York girls,
who love her for that charm which is to become SO
essential to her. They correspond with her when
she they go to Europe and she has standing in
vitaton to visit the homes of half dozen of
these friends whenever she is in the city.
so NEW YORK GETS HER
With old age that hard headed father gets it in his
head that he can make the New York inanciers look
like cashboys in department store he sells to the
Patten of his day lot of wheat he does not
When the estate is settled this young who
has always been put in the heress class finds she has
a few thousand dollars and income which would
keep her nicely in Mpitas whatever city it may be-
She has New York, and while she is not inn
bued with the idea that she would rather be lamp
post in Broadway than the whole electric light works
in Chico she decides to take the few thousand dol
lars in cash and the small income and study art
III new OK LOT time, WhcIc SHc Can i've with dH
aunt, and later in Paris.
With her artistic tendency and ability, if she had
been she might have become the best barn
painter in her native county, and after years of toll
might have aspired to paint patent medicine signs
rocks and fences. AS women have not yet entered
that field of endeavo matter how earnest she may
be art holds little future for her.
When she arrives in New York she calls on her old
school friends. Her charm wins all she comes in
tact with, and there are invitations to teas, uncheons
dinners bridge parties and to the opera. She is
thrown into social whirl that bos out all thought of
art, and the fact that she not very strong for it
helps the process. She has friends in the different
social clfques and she is popular with all.
1t takes clothes to do all the things she is called
upon to do, for shabbiness will not be excused by
those who admire her most for her cleverness and
her charm She has large wardrobe, and with
seamstress the old clothes are made to look like new
particularly she is one of those rare women who
look well in anything She finds an inexpensive
milliner and designs herself the hats that look like
Paris models She goes to the hairdresser, for she
has unconscously came to the realizing sense that
there must be no backward step in her personal APP
pearance.
So, after ALL it is no great wonder that women ask
the question. They will see this young woman, who
IS keeping engagement perhaps at the Waldorf
Astoria, bowling gracousy to this friend and that
as~she walks through the corridor, dressed in such
elegant taste that it looks if her outfit cost lot of
money. The members Of the club have found out as
women always find out, about her financial re-