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THE PRICE WOMEN PAY
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every day, and hunt up friends they had
met at various places during pilgrimage to
different Society shrines. Was it going to
be gay at Newport? Yes, it was. | told
them that a royalty would be there in Au
gust, and that ball would be given in his
honor by a new hostess in big new house
which had sprung up like mushroom on
the Via Appia-l meant Bellevue Avenue.
Everybody would be there, and it was no
place for newcomer. A beautiful woman
might have some chance; but it took years
of patient work now to obtain the slightest
tooth II. | had known a young couple very
much like lack and A1ollie. They had begun
in an uncompromislng neighborhood In
Westchester; but after seven years they
did get some Roadway Then they insisted
upon going to Newport, and they had the
assistance of two wealthy women there who
really did everything for them. But no one
went to their entertainments, and they were
left out of much that was going on. There
was no reason for it, except that Newport
was overcrowded-an unless you can make
a spectacular splurge it is the last place in
the world for a squirt, | would advise them.
Perhaps Mollie would not like it, but
really her hope was in Jack. Sport, like
charity, levels all ranks, and every true mans
heart goes out to good shot, good rider,
or a good yachtsman. In time the ambl-
tious woman is recognized as So and Sos
wife If she has brains, and money as we'll, II
and Mollie had these, with the valuable as
set of beauty,-the form IS sooner or later
reversed, and So and So becomes known as
Mrs. So and Sos husband. Dinners are
given in town, and those who are friendly
out of town cannot always plead previous
engagements. Gradually the ascent of the
ladder is made, and at last an Assembly bid
the Patriarchs had then gone out of ex-
istence-is obtained. But even if you have
pull financially with great family of the
Newport class, it is a hazard.
Some years after had given this advice
which was not exactly original and Mollie
said that it was culed from the opinions of
an old fogy-no less parsonage than Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish proclaimed that her good
nature had been exhausted, and that she
would no more serve as ladder for Others
to climb on. And that year there was a
dearth of ladders at Newport But little
was to be gained at Bar Harbor, and |
would not recommend Lenox. 1t would be
much better if Jack leased or bought a
country estate near Piping Rock, or in the
Locust Valley neighborhood of Long Island,
or again near the Cedarhurst Club. There
were excellent prospects for young couple
at any of these places, and it would be
only matter of a few years at most. The
Westbury neighborhood was shaky, and
many social choppers had been come in try
ing to follow the Meadow Brook Hunt.
Tuxedo might do; but it was slow.
1t is needless to say that Mollie laughed
at my advice. She had it all her own way.
She was going to do things as they did them
in the West. She had wisely relegated her
sad experience there to oblivion. The very
gamble of it all pleased her. | was sorry.
| had nothing more to saw.
A FEW words can be added as to the dis
= asters that followed in the wake of
Jack and Mollie. | caught sight of them at
the Horse Show at Newport, wandering dis
consolately about, knowing practically no.
body, and yet there was not prettier or
more attractive woman at the Casino that
day. They insisted that should dine with
them, and went although l had my book
filled with engagements-fo the very pity
of the thing, putting off another new rich
woman at the last moment with plea of
illness. They had taken big villa, and had
a retlnue of servants. We were six at din
ner, and they had been obliged to call in
from boarding house one lady of excellent
lineage but limited means, and a very
doubtful man. | do not know where they
picked him up.
Mollie was miserable but l rather con-
soled her the next dav by borrowing one of