The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05
A Clever Woman's Ideas
 About Climbers-Charity
 Ball NOtes-PrOspectiye Parties-Nuptial Plans
LuncheOns at the Clubs. Saturday Events-After Theatre Supper-Dance at Southern Club to Be Well Attended-Other Topics

We were talking about climbers, = climbers not in the dictionary sense, but as indicating the people who are always trying to get into "socety"-society in it's restricted sence, of course
 recall that at a rehearsal of his dram at;zed book, Frederick Townsend Martin is quoted as having told recently whim- sical little story about climbers. He said it is a mistake to think that climbers never succeed in getting into the high est society. 'They succeed often," he declared, If they have the necessary wealth, perseverance and cheek. They must be like Mrs. Sraggs of Center City A society leader said with sigh of Mrs spraggs:
 That tiresome woman still keeps calling
 "'why don't you snub her?' asked q friend. -I.
 "I do.' --..t . .tf ...
 "wen the next time She calls don't offer her chair.
 70. tried that I tried that last month.
 "'wen@
 "'Well, she always brings camp stool now"
 Said a candid young woman the other day. when an estimable matron's name was mentioned, q don't like her; she's a climber"
 But so are we all," returned prom inent member of one of the women's club, or at least we try to be-" "o!' was the impatient reJoinder, tits the kind of climbing-it depends on where you want to get to-" We all fell silent after this. We were at party and SO could hardly have had better oppor- unity for studying the genius climber. The club woman, it easily to be seen. does not share hsr friends con tempt for the climber, She showed, in fact, after the remainder of the group had replaced their teacups and passed on, leaving the three of us, a sort If envious admiration for him her
 Fitted by education and family pres tige to grace any circ,e. she confines her activities chiefly to club, work. Her friend, who usually differs with her in almost any discussion, has on the contra ry, the social tendencses of the success fy. She has one solution for the success
  ir,o alculabe cheek" and she will allow no shades and no degrees. The social climber, the money climber and the lit erary climber she puts in the same boat. Sine, however, belongs to type, com- mon enough in a past generation, but getting rarer every day Her code is, If the world does not xnow you without tfe beating of drums, then let the world pass you by" I must say that the world takes her code quite seriousy-it does pass her by and she is only amused that fl does so. The club woman, however. looks upon the matter of climbing rather with T students eye. She takes a certain ma licious pleasure in contemplating the quality of the heights attained by the more strenuous folk about her, and the respect she has for their determination aud patience is whimsical She insists that the ascent is not worth while be- cause there is always height just a lit tie out of reach to which one still looks with longing eyes. She said very se- riously. The trouble about the life of the climber is that she must, in these Adays. spend her income not according to Individual taste, but in some intangible v&y, finds herself trying to do what someone else Is doing.' q do not sneer.' she said emphatically, lat world ly advancement: if the opportunity of making or getting money or position comes our way we all seize upon it. But 1t is no harm to put to ourselves the question; Is the spending worth while that is done for others instead of ones self? If climbing has to be done, must all the scaffolding be done away with? Need a new drawing room be made un- comfortable for old friends to sit in? Need the motor car be so stupendous that it canont stop at small houses? Need, in word, climbing to rhe top be the negation of everything that is modest? In the old days the increase in ones in- come meant a consequent increase in rawlings. Today the more money that