Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07


Poor Louise and left the house, with tears of in
dgnation think that her friend should prove herself
of the Queens of Snobs.
The next morning the old concierge at LOulSeS dwell
ing place totterng into the where Louise sat-
taking her simple breakfast of a cup of coffee and
roll Among the letters which the old concierge brought
her she recognized the handwriting of her great
friend Madame x:
My dear Louise. have been unhappy since I
cruel to yesterday am sorry from my heart
and send you the incosed check. that to
the most fashionable dressnaker in Paris and get beaut
full gown
And when this maiden lady told me this story said
to her, u hope you didn't accept the checkafter such
treatment as you had received
But she replied "Mr Fred Martini my gown is so
old and shabby and if it should come to pieces have
no more money to buy another The temptation
great for to buy gown in which could hold my
with anyone in the world that have been used to
mix WITH that could not refuse, and wrote her
charming note accepting it, and went and got the
gown. So that instead OF having only one now have
two. And the unfortunate part of it all is that myself
have become a snob because my gown wear only
at certain places where think am going to meet the
smartest people, and my old one wear when / 60 to
places where am sure to meet friends nearer to my
heart who smart So that the result of the
whole thing is that have become snob myself
We had a good laugh this, and l said to her,
@The phantom of snob is always knocking at the door,
ready to creep into any home
THE heartlessness of the snob is truly appalling He
would stop at nothing to attain his ends. The
other night friend of mine, Miss Robbins told me
that about week since she engaged to dine with
friend whom she thought loved her. On the of the
dinner she called up her friend and said that she had
just received telegram from Baltimore telling her that
her only sister desperately i'll, and that she must
therefore give up her dinner engagement that night.
Her friend gave expression the telephone to what
almost shrek of despair, and exclaimed:
"What on earth can | do? You will break up the
whole dinner! Can't you make effort and conner
Your sister may not die tonight"
A GREAT friend Of mine was one of the most charm
ing women of the smaller set of the social world
Madame N, who, small child, had been so petted
by her family that she had been almost spot and later
in life had been very much petted by her husband
Everyone, however, made allowances for her.
At luncheon one day the hostess who had invited
her was annoyed because they had waited twenty
minutes for Madame n to come in. The hostess and
her guests actually entering the dining when
at last in Madame n and sad
"Oh, you must for being late but have
been to the smartest funeral that have in
my life! And, Dear, who sat next to me but Eliza
Williams, and all the very smartest people there
She gave me such nudges that she nearly knocked me
off the seat and was so afraid that Others would
it! And altogether the excitement of watching others
coming in such that for time both forgot the
corpse and why there!'
The soemnity of the funeral was Immediately for
gotten amid the of laughter the guests entered
the dining for the luncheon and they all decided
it the most cheerful of funeral that anv
of them had ever heard
NOWHERE, perhaps, is snobbery in such evidence
~ as at Newport the summer center of society of
luxury, and-of snobs. One day l was driving down
Bellevueave. with great lady of the social world of
New York, when we passed one of her
friends, and thought dear When we got nearer
she suddenly dropped her shade umbrella. She thus
avoided actually cutting him; but it practically
amounted to the same thing.
was amused and said to her, "Why, there's your
friend, and she replied
ayes | saw him; but he with such queer pro-
vincal people that of couldn't think of bowling
to him.
Later on in the afternoon this gentleman met nv
lady friend at polo. ooh, Mrs So and So" he said to
her, II did my best to bow you the avenue this
afternoon; but you practically cut me-