Semi-weekly herald., 1914-03-23
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Hociety ladies' In our town show
aeA unfailing courtesy to the chron-
e1ers Of society doings, will doubt
- be interested to know how unlike
thsm are the ladies of some other
cities. One Of the society editors
'who cast her lot in one Of the places
where good manners are not found as
fhey are here has told her troubles
fn print, the story being Society in
Our City," published in a recent is
(sue of the Saturday Evening Post
The point made by the unnamed
writer Of the story in the Post is that
|ths "Who's Who member Of the cdi-
|torial staff is quite human and is not
an inanimate object at which to hurl
rudness. She shows that there comes
10 time when patience ceases TO be
= virtue" and social scribes deal with
offending members in their own pc
culiar manner. For example, three
young ladies', daughters of wealthy
western cattleman, who had been
thoroughly finished in an eastern
school, visited in this particular city
to attend charity ball, large and
fashionable affair. When approach
ed by reporter who asked them to
favor her with their names for the
paper, they give her a combined stare
and this ensues:
'.I-I want them for the paper"
she explained tremblingly.
"Oh," said one of the girls with
great hauteur, 1--WE don't care to go
in for that sort of thing"
"No, not at all" declared another
"You cannot have our Names"
Dear me, how impertinentl7
echoed the third; and the poor girl
crept back to US utterly crushed.
"Of course we found out that they
were the Cary girls and we were all
quite indignant, thought we know
that attitude-that Don't care for
that sort of thingv-very well. 1t is
a common attitude on the part of near
society people. They seem to think
it impresses US with the idea that
they are different and somewhat
above the ordinary run of people and
customs, though frankly it merely
gives US headache. We knew very
well they do care for that sort of
thing.
$50 we plotted plot agnins the
Cary girls. We dressed them up.
Had they been polite to that shrink
ing new girl they would have ap-
peared in the four newspapers of our
city, in their proper alphabetical or
der, about as follows:
"Cary, Miss Grace--Lavender char
meuse, with tunic of pearl-embroid-
cred lace.
"Cary. Miss Lucy-Cream chiffon
over gold colored charmeuse.
Gary, Miss Alice-Pale green bro
caded crepe de Chine, with frills of
tulle, edged with rhinestones.
"As matter of fact, it was printed
IN eacn paper ike this;
Cary, Miss Grace-Lavender serge,
trimmed with self-toned braid;corsage
bouquet of gloria roses.
Cary, Miss Lucy-Yellow brillian-
tine, made en- princesse; necklace
and fan chain of large corals.
Gary. Miss Alice-Green velvet,
with large white lace medallion gar
niture.
Nov, the general color combi
nations were the same in both in
stances and there was method in
this. We figured that woman read
ing the latter descriptions the follow
ing day would perhaps try to recall
just what those Cary girls had worn,
and vaguely she might bring to men,
ory the fact that those were the color
schemes but in the rush and hustle
of big ball details of dress are not
likely to be remembered long. You
see, we did not want to lay ourselves
open to the charge of deliberate per-
version of facts.
"For the benefit of any man reader
who may be interested | might say
that the costuming of the Carys as il
appeared in our papers was atrocious
particularly for such an event. Ask
your wife!
"As for the Cary girls, little Miss
Jones. whose house guest they were
tells me they seemed very anxious te
see the papers the next day, which
was strange in view of the fact that
they did not care for that sort OF
thing; and that they seemed greatly
agitated after they had seen them
ALL"
In some communities, an idea pre-
walls that if social items do not ap-
pear in the papers, they are quite un-
heard of, and no feelings are hurt
And that in small aggregation
Among those NOT present, are to
be found the complete details.
In direct contrast to these
naughty persons" are the climbers,
an unknown quantity in our midst,
though quite common in the larger
cities. The article continues thus:
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