Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY Is. 1918

it much better that she make her social reentry from
Paris and London preferably the latter. Naturally she
would have to wipe out all the past and there would
have to be several radical surgical operations When
she did return he could take up with any of her
old set. She would have to shed them the worm
does cocoon before it becomes butterfly l thought
l could eventually arrange it for her in London.
- Just then knew that there was stopping in New
York an American woman with good English title.
She was shrewd and clever, and of several
ladies who had married the British aristocracy and
not being endowed with wealth had made secret
of the business of promoting Each year she
to look after little schemes that she had laid
New York. The Lady from Kansas would be COOL
subject for her, and quite willing to be unselfsh
and generous and to deliver her into her hands. Of
course the husband would have to in for some
consideration; but the Gentleman from Kansas could
go for visit in the or his wife might make
a short trip to the States New York happily has
short memory, and even if the past recalled it
would be too remote for disagreeabe memories.
But it needed more than the water of Lehe to wash
them away. | fear that my Lady from Kansas had
sharp tongue at times and that she had put sting into
her epigrams. She had almost forgotten to be anabe.
And then the people she wanted to know would
stand her artifciality. 1t was fatal In woman with
assured position it might be regarded fad or
failing to be passed lightly At that time it
not the vogue to take up reform questions and there
was decided prejudice, except in a few favored in
stances, against clever people. Society patronized
artists, and and then would go to studio and
regard it descent into lower order of life; if it
was mlnglng with the Bohemian element. Writers
focked by themselves and singers, when they were
hired to appear at private concerts, were roped off from
the elect fed separate roon and their checks were
handed them by the butler
In that of great extravaganza extolled by Ward
McAllister it had been long cry from Washington
Irving to Marion Crawford. Mrs Sherwood with her
readings and talks travel and polite literature stood
out beacon light until Mrs Cruger, Mrs. Clarence
Mackay, and Mrs Wharton defed these conventions
and came out boldly writerseach in her field widely
differentiated changed the current of that day. The
small colony of writer's and artists who had made New
port their summer home were driven out by the
element of the superatve rch and the site of their
structions of stone and marble. SALON. Absurd 1t
stood for long, dreary evenings, with dreary people,
with such odd clothes, mild punch, and sandwiches!
A number of clever girls in Socety-and the women
were much more brilliant than the of that epoch in
that special appealed to the wife of railroad mag
nate, whose husband dislikng Society," had gathered
about him of the strong brany men from the
West who were then making history. They were tired
of the Tommy Popguns, the eunesse doree of club
and hunt and ballroom popularity called They
wanted to meet the who doing something So
this hostess gave dinner, and her guests were the
brightest OF these young and the celebrated
of these men, The affair dreadful failure The
had nothing to say to their fair dinner companions
and the latter dreadfuly bored and welcomed the
opportunity to make early escape and wind up the
evening at dance of the Howling Swells.
THE Lady from Kansas not strong enough to
bring about the revolution which has COM
after all, New York not everything. The Lady
from Kansas should go forth and conquer other worlds
and then return if she wanted with Victory perched on
her banner She could then easi1v command that