Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13

She insisted that and provincial and then
she added, to my surprise al have right to say what
please, because | am New Yorker by adoption. My
husband came to New York five years ago the inter
of his business. and home is there now The
name an ordinary one: but had not remembered
to have recalled the Lady from Kansas from my men,
DRY of the pages of the Social Register Where could
she have kept herself?
From that afternoon she never stopped talking of
Society She told me that she had been guilty of
reading the Society and had seen my name men
toned frequently. believe she had Social Register
on board, and had looked me up the moment we be-
came acquainted She asked question after question,
and there was no limit to her thirst for information.
have always possessed the power of inspiring con-
dences from other people, almost utter strangers
And before they hardly know they apt to have
their hearts their sleeves and tell too much about
themselves, boring me greatly to me to seek
kind of counsel suppose it is the social faculty
that no doubt possess to a marked degree.
AND here it was! The Lady from Kansas and l had
y just become acquainted in the most casual way
after three days meeting table steamer
and holding general conversation when at luncheon she
asked me if would not join her the promenade deck
that afternoon, she wanted my advice an impor
tant matter. There nothing unconventional in her
request. She not firtatous. The sea had become
much caner and many of the passengers had come up
from their burrows and stretched out IN their
steamer chairs in long the most agreeable side
of the vessel. We found place in quiet corner, and
then my Ladv's confession began She had daughters
debuts. She did not want to go back to Kansas and
bring them out in their old home. They pretty
girls, and they wealthy in their right. AS
who held the social position did, and who
knew his Society thoroughly, she wanted me to tell
her what she to do Il am sure she added @that
have never been able to find the magic formula, the
Open Sesame, to New York Society"
asked her if she had tried.
@Yes," she replied al have; but then there is Sc
rious obstacle in the way. / have past!" This was
startling but she laughed and continued, IL do not
the unconventional past If it had been like that,
respectable bourgeois past with the breaking of every
commandment in the Society decalogue. | have done
everything that should not have done"
And she went through long list of her social sins.
Through few people, associates of her husband in his
business enterprises she had landed in the beginning
with the wrong She clever ambitious, and had
wild idea of having salon, scheme not in the least
practical at that PERIOD when Society resored to
called intellectual amusements only in Lent. These
consisted of readings by subscription the reader being
rule, enterprlsing young woman with fashionable
connections Sereoptcon lectures foreign travel
Even these wildly delirous diversions beyond the
reach of the Lady from Kansas because the subscribers
picked out from the fashionably elect. So she
into womens clubs; those of the kind which meet
at large hotels and have luncheon with and recita
tons and a Harlem membership. Her salon was SIM
ply the rendezvous OF few poets, called painters,
and actors and for these she had evenings and
times dinner. At first she persuaded her husband to
buy house in that then terra fnCognid, the upper
Riverside Drive Grants Tomb and afterward, in
sheer desperation, there move to an old mansion
not far from Washington Square. This disastrous.
Just then, however, she fell into the hands of Madam
the Major General, certain matron of excellent
family but devoted to promscuous social
promoting is known to Society With her
as sponsor, she had box at the Horse
Show. and she then became acquainted r,..
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