Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-12-15
SPECIMEN PAGE FROM NEW
YORK "HIGH LIFE"

Two fashionable Divorces of New
York and Philadelphia society gave
an exclusive entertainment In the
former city few days ago, one TO the
elite of their set, which in itself rep
resented one of the creamy" elements
of metropol tan high life.
Metropolitan high life is different
from the sam seort of society in any
thing but a very few of the largest
cities of the world. That is fortunate
for society in the smaller cities of
this and other lands. Some observers
ms st that society in New York, the
society that figures most in the papers,
| is a very decadent and degenerate So
ciety. Whether this is so or not may
be judged from some extracts from
the descriptions of the entertainment
the two favorite cotilion leaders Of
that and the Quaker City gave. Here
they are:
IF elite and exclusive Philadelph a
society could have seen their two faV-
orite cotillion leaders, Charles Gllpln
and George Lee Thompson, the recent
/ " divorced husband of the beautiful
Julie Phillips, escort Nance GWin, the
actress, Titan haired and from Aus
rraila, to an entertainment given by
Mrs. Jackson GouTaud last evening
they would have opened wide their
Eyes
/ But if they could have seen Miss
Gwyn dance the Dance of the Seven
/ Wells a little later just after the ter
pischorean efforts climax, they might
have gotten their eyelashes seriously
tangled up with their eyebrows.
Miss Gwyn was named as core
sDondent a year or so ago when MS
Frederick Berwind Gilpin won her ii
yorce suit from Charles Gilpin. Mr..
and Mrs. George Lee Thompson were
divorced only TWO weeks ago
The hostess has as an entertainer
for her guests the woman who was
the wife of her chief guest had
been named as a correspondent II
few weeks before in securing a di-
yorce. Think of that! And that
guest escorts his former alleged mis-
tress to the house.
"A native Igorrote in his native cos
tune, mostly ads, electrified the
company in La Danse des lgorrotes.
Mrs. Gouraud herself appeared in
Danse de Cobra. and with NJ. AgarioT
danced lie Madrilena. and Nance GWyn
did the lie Tango ATgentin.
But this was too much like a hymn
at Christmas TO suit Miss GWyn. The
company cheered her as she started
her greatest dance, and, vel by veil,
unwOund the seven wells.
The last veil was just whirling III
the wind of Choplin's music when
Miss GWyn espied a reporter for The
World over Mrs. GOurauds shoulder
Escaping from the entangled meshes
of that last, thin, filmy veil, Miss
Gwyn, with a Shrek, fed into the
dining room.
Really, you know, you mustn't tell
about this she cried.
CARRIED like another Helen in the
classic robes of Greece, the only clas-
sic robes of Greece, Mrs. GOuraud
thoroughly delighted an applauding
company when she danced LIE Madriel-
ena with NJ. Agarioff
"A little later Mrs. GOuraud, alive
with the abandon of that dear Paris,
twined round her neck a twelve foot
living cobra and danced and danced.
Frankly the guests were afraid of the
cobra, even if Mrs Gouraud was not.
They backed away from its emeraled
eyes and its darting fire-like tongue.
But when the lady of the house patted
the cobra on the head and told it to
behave they drew near and asked
questions.
Its as gentle as a powder puff
exclaimed Mrs Gouraud in disgust.
Isn't UNI, muzzer's darling, angel
child?' She handed her twelve-foot
pet to an agitated fOotman.
Put him to bed, Henry she order
ed And be sure you wrap his silk
comforter around him this cold wealth
err
Whether Henry did or didn't re-
mains mystery"