Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-14
FROM THE SOCIETY EDITORS
VIEWPOINT,

Many Rock Island people must have
read in the Sunday Tribune the story
of Chicago society folk as told by
society reporter of that city under the
caption Of Names of Your Box Party,
Please" and It was read with interest
by Rock Island society reporters with
a genuine sympathy for the writer
The society editor of an exchange
comments on il In way that hits the
nail on the head, and while Rock Is
land isn't Chicago, as she says, So
ciety is society, women are women,
men are men, and reporters are re-
porters. Among other things which
are most apropos she comments:
Whether the woman who is max
ing her living writing of who's who
and what's what aud what they are
doing IS rightfully regarded by Mrs.
Money as the scum of the earth and
an inGuisitive 'snoop and purveyor of
tattling, or whether she has an in
alienable right to the Difference due
her as the lady she must be to hold
her position on any well-reguiated
newspapers staff, and the courtesy
and respect due the normal intelli-
gence she must possess to I'LL her Of
fee. is not the question, either. The
colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are
sisters under the skim but whether
the colonels mate has taken advantage
of the opportunities that Mrs. OGrady
probably has not had and to the in
stinctive courtesy to which the former
has probably been born, may readily
be determined in her manner towards
newspaper women. And the real
question becomes whether Mrs. Mon
ey is a lady or not and belongs in the
columns reserved for the representa-
tive peoples doings.
If it weren't that the gracious, cour-
teous women in society are in the
great majority and have the upper
hand of the-well, the other kind
society scribes would long ago have
put aside the typewriter in disgust
with themselves, their jobs and wo-
mankind In general; for that's what
the most patient of them feels once in
a while like doing when her good
morning welcome comes over the
phone as a 'What-did you-use-my- par
ty-for? don't-you- know-that-yo have
made things most -embarrassing-for-
me when I-had- only a-fewto dinner
m 10 hIiJ n -
-I-wish you'd call LIME when ou-want-
to-write- something- about-me - more
dashes and smashes and slashes and
a bang Of the receiver
Some women have proved that they
can be polite about such things even
if their temper is, perhaps Justifiably,
e bit ruffled Some of them are intelli-
gent enough to understand that every
body has 'em-these little few friends
dinner parties, and to know that ii
they weren't included in this particu-
lar party they may be included in the
next one. Some of them aren't. Some
of them know that Mrs So-andSo's
dinner party is the least important OF
r. stack of news notes that come into
the office daily and that when the
source of the information about the
affair is unquestioned, valuable time
IS thought better spent than in asking
my permission If the facts are au'
thoritative, the item is social news
and that's a good papers stock ir
trade and an interested readers re-
ward
ARTIST ARRIVES FOR RECITAL.
Ignace ]. Paderewski and Madam
Paderewski arrived early this morn
ing in their private car Common
wealth from St. Louis and the grea
pianist will be heard this evening il
recital at the Moline theatre. This at
ternoon public reception is bein!
held for Madam Paderewski in Allen
dale. the home of Mrs. F. G, Allen il
Moline Assisting Mrs. Allen in receiv