The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-17
NEW YORK SOCIETY
HELD UP TO RIDICULE

LONDON, January 26. 49, Saturday
Review: The American press has
received the Duke and Duchess Of
Connaught with characteristic emo
lions, and from the accounts in
our own English newspapers one
might think that America is popu-
lated chiefly by photographers. The
fact, however, energies from the in
quisitiveness and social recrimina-
lions of which the visitors are said
to have been the innocent cause that
the United States received them with
deep pleasure and enthusiasm. For
this every Englishman will be gratc-
full. We cannot help entertaining the
possibility that the King and
Queen might be able to visit
America, and we can guess the
greater enthusiasm and affection
with which they would be wei
coined. There is no doubt that ii is
not easy or desirable for the King to
leave the United Kingdom often yet
the American visit would be an Incl
dent of great value. We know that
in case such a visit were seriously con
sdered, and the King felt obliged to
decide against it, the reason would
certainly not be any want of good will
toward the American people"
An article in the Weekly Outlook
says:
MANY pictures have been drawn by
travellers and novelists of New York
and it's society, but none of them IL
half so amazing as the pictures that
from time to time, and always uncOn
sciously, New York draws of itself
Never perhaps is the American me
tropolis more innocently revealed
than when trying to adjust itself tC
the visit of some distinguished foreigl
parsonage. Within the past week /
treated the world to an exhibition 0
manners such as no other city o.
earth could hope to rival. The visi
of the Duke and Duchess of Cor
naught and the Princess Patriot
seems, if one may Judge by the pa
pers, to have turned New York Cit
Z. into a city of snobs, with the antic
of children. Squadrons of reporter
and photographers followed the
royal highnesses all over the city, d.
= scribing every movement, their a
q pearance and dress with naive fami
/. iarity. This is a feature of America
hospitality which every wellknow
J. European must necessarily expect
encounter, and it is one of the re
7 sons why wellknown European
!. make the point of avoiding New Yoi
/ like they would plague.
d But besides filling newspapers wi
8. fv and six columns a day of imper
/ nent inanity, the visit of the Govern
2, General and his family seems to ha'
;. produced something in the nature OF
d social cataclysm. New York's 6
;. ciety', h appears, has been grown
- mixed, and the advent Of royal Dul
T. Is taken advantage of to effect pl
5, scriptions and realignment. Nobo
g theneeforth is of any account in Nc
J, York who did not receive an invit
r, ton to meet the Duke and Duchess
e Mrs. Ogden Mills dinner Such strl
ie giles on behalf of the coveted cards
s. qualify as members of the new 400 C
r. only be found in a republic dedicat
II to equality"
S. Foreigners, especially Englishm,
in New York become conscious Of
atmosphere Of fUssy and grandiC
h. pronunciatial air which we call @
in mopolitanlsm. the repose and tol
Il. ance that come from wide eXperieu
r. land an easy and assured outlook, te
lpered the enjoyment OF finding a 70