Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-29

ciety. They came into my hands Wt
through my friend, the former WA
Ambassador, who in way nv
responsible for my career. 1t NJ
was indeed an undertaking OF
much magnitude. AS for the
Bnns themselves land | =
going to here that Blinn 10
not their anything like Il
it,, they not in the least III
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impossible On the contrary, Gft-SXA
they were family, somewhat M-WE#
quiet and inoffensve people, GmHNS y4S
with the least suggestion OF ~ Mz
vulgarity about them and not nm WIN
the first evidence OF being non- yVS MX
sednr riches WlVESH Fiji
Bmm had become conspicl- VrgN W
figure in the financial world OF .WWE# "
trusts, had been written up :, IA WA
distinguished company, and his l.HsE VyS
picture had been published more %sf VeE$5sz(
than once. A1U
But the suggested furtherance
of the social ambitions of the
House of Blinn just at a
time when millionaires and multi III
rnilonaires began to be drug NE liz
in the market. 1t practically UN
impossible then to break into XII
Society with money alone-and NN
absolutely impossible to break in t'E
without it. Money getting wiz
too common, and you could not him.
buy your into Society with M
it. The jaded appetites of the ~ n
elect could not be tempted by " ~
dinners one was very
much like the other and there
plenty of people with fat
purses eager to entertain but it
hard task to persuade anyone to go to their
tertainments. The hour was not proptous.
Blnn not Western man. Indeed, the family
hailed from city within days journey from New
York The former Ambassador had been Senator, and
l had suspicious which afterward verified that
Bnn and he had been in more than DEAL financial
and otherwise.
The family all right. Mrs. Blinn quiet,
cultivated woman, not in the least pushing, and quite
acceptable anywhere. A daughter, Mariana, not
beauty, but girl with much charm, clever and accom-
plished and all that She had been educated in French
been in Paris with the Countess, delightful American
woman. an old friend of mine, who, by the way had
unfortunate marital experiences and had long di
vorced the Count at sacrifice of large slice of her
heritance. She suspected of not being to
launching American heiresses in Paris Society with
view gathering in title and neat commission
But, in the presentday vernacular there had been
nothing doing for Mariana Then the girl had two
winters at Washington and she and her mother met
great many people, had gone about good deal, and
had entertained in the free and open way that the
fashion during previous administration.
Now that Blinn was becoming more or less of
tional character and had the reputation of having
finger in number of embryo trusts, New York the
logical sequence of the family And the former Am
bassador and the Ambassadors and the Countess had
further informed that money was no object Blnn had
made up his mind that social position was absolutely
necessary the furtherance of his different schemes
and he perfectly willing to pay for it.
IFOUND that Blnn himself had an odd presence and
physiognomy. There strength in his face and
that he was character and could easily understand
how he could be power. think we called them Ma
poleons of Finance such fantastic those
days The ladies bit coorless; although girl
bright and amusing when you could draw her out of her
she'll She and her mother perfectly gowned, and
if they lacked the strong personality of the father they
were not obtrusive.
During the dinner party when first met
touched the difference between metropolitan and
Washington Society and that abroad and other kindred
topics. The Bnns attentive listeners; but they
took little part in the general conversation However,