Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-01
By EDWARD ICLEHART

I married an unconscious beauty.
 Now, everybody knows that beauty 1 if it is unconscious is a very niee | thing. but as soon as it becomes con scious it breeds vanity, and vanity is 1 the mother of large brood of troubles. ! My wife and myself we are both l Vans belong to the older aristocracy | of New York. None of our ancestors ! would have thought of associating with the ancestors of persons who are now in the swim and to whose circle | we were not admitted. They care nothing about our ancestors. though | many of them have heard of my ia ther. who was a distinguished com modore in the navy. and my wife'a grandmother. who was a celebrated New York belle The places once oc- cupied by these worthy people are now filled with the descendants of those who sold them oysters and fish and whose wealth runs away up into the millions
 But my wife and I were happy un- iii a certain remark was repeated to her One of our old family connec- tions who owns a box in the diamond horseshoe"-so called from being that gallery of the Metropolitan Opera House occupied by the multimillioE- aires gave us the use of it for one night The favor nearly caused our ruin. Soon after that night at the opera Gertrude's cousin. who gave us | the box, said to my wife.
 ''rhe Earl of Chapperton. recently ! from London, asked mo who was the ! lady in my box on Thursday night. ! saying at the same time. She's the most beautiful woman I ever saw. ! London could not furnish anything equal Co her:
 ! The remark was not only repeated Co i ms wife but was talked about at ev- cry function held by the golden set ] It finally came to Gertrude. added t0 ! in this wise "What a pity that Mrs Van valEenburg doesn't take the po- sition in society that half a century ! ago was occupied by her graudmOther. , the beautiful Betty Van Wyke."
 From that moment my dear wife got l the society bee in her bonnet ''Cur family has always kept up in the world till the present Generstion.' shc said "We have S1QOQ0 year. and on that we coUld get on in society. 1 Connections of ours ln the swim world ! introduce Us. and our csQe-ial ae atcs would be of the older aristocraUc set who are not SO rich as these new commercial people"
 My dear" I protested ''our SlOoOO income would not keep us in the swim a month"
 'Not with your management" she | retorted. but a woman can always make money go further than a man. Let me try. I will show you what can do"
 Like fool l was persuaded My wife had no trouble in penetrating the society skirmish line because of the remark of the Earl of Chapperton. which was on every one's lips She re ceived a number of invitations, but found that she must make consider Abie outlay for costumes before she could accept any of tleIn. And since the costumes she must rival cost all the way from several hundred to sev- eral thousand dollars, and she must have a different costume for each function, the amount soon ran up to a third of our total income. Since our ordinary necessary expenditures re quired the other two-thirds, it was evil dent we would soon run upon the rocks But what is the one matter of a wOman's costumes. expensive though they be, compared with the thousand and one other luxuries that must be provided by people of fashion. One dinner alone we felt obliged to give cost us $500. and it was considered plain at that
 We permeated the outer social line and were making some headway into the inner circle. We were both disap- pointed in discovering that We must be civil to a number of the wives of young multimiIlionaires who had married actresses, and my wife had discovered that society was not composed of such persons as her grandmother had shone among. Then something happened that called a halt to our advance.
 A certain Mrs. Van Valkenburg whose income was some $2,OO0OOO a year and who was as hOmely as a hedge fence, caused 1t 10 be given out flor a consideration, the price being invitations to certain social climbers tC her soirees-that a mistake had been made in reporting Earl Chapperton's remark as to the most beautiful won an in New York. The Mrs. Van Val kenburg referred to was the lady with the S2COO.O0O income.
 Everybody sneered, but as all m derstood taet Co -ainsay this edict would cost them the enmity of one of the most powerful women in New
 York society no one dared to lisT a word to Che contrary. The earl had returned to England and was not to be even questioned on the subject The moment his lordship's compliment was appropriated by another my wife ceased Co be an object of curiosity and. as she had no other claim to b; admitted to society. was dropped Be
 sides. any further attention to her was
 sr.ra fo ba resented by the other Mrs