Show SOCIETY IN TH8 SLUMS Lent nDuty of fashionable American Ameri-can Lordlings t T WORK AMONG THE POOR 7t CRIMINAL ASSES ALSO ENGAGE I GAG mm ATTENTIO I t Me Snart Millionaire Set Energetic geti In Various MissionsScv i oral Effective Racipex For Gaining Entrance to the Most Enclusive ocietyneV Modes 4 I Special Correspondence New YOlk March SThe cause of I the Door has become a tremendous interest in-terest to the most dandlIled merlcan j lordllng If you doubt this just lead the conversation round to philanthropic work and dIscover that your delicately perfumed Londonclothed companion at a dinner Jarty has got what he calls his stale in the New York slums The vleasantest phase of this philanthropic philan-thropic craze now atits pplht in Lent Is that most of the smart young men arc genuinely earnest in their work The mirror of fashion and mold of form in the young dancing set is Alexander Alex-ander Hadden whb comes of the very most aristocratic family in New York and who devotes his spare time to working among the boys In the reformatory re-formatory on Randalls Island Once a week it is his Lenten habit to toll over to the dreary building on the East river island and have dinner with the boys One of his finest accomollshments Is carving and he delightS the inmates by standing at the head of a long table I and juggling the last shredS off fowls doing artistic feats with joints and gossiping along In cheerful elevating talk with his prote e5I as he vortlons out their meat Once a year he is host at Hanc1alls island and the boys his guests for he lays them such a feast of good things toasts and compliments warns and encourtges so heartily that they I obey him imiicitly and follow I ills advice when thou period of reforma thin Js over Norman Goddard and John Hammond Ham-mond who are both social lights of no small magnitul and the former possesses pos-sesses a fortune give the best Dortlon I j I I I I i PhilanthrophyCarving For Som Bad Boy I of their time and energy to working among the East side boys Young Mr Goddard lives a portion of every ear in two plain rooms practically disappears disap-pears from the ken at his equals ant courts the acquaintance of any sorrY youth who needs guidance in the art of plain living and high thinking Mr Hammond is the moving spirit In a boys Glub associated with Hartley House Joel Thorn whose father Is one of New Yorks most nromlnent millionaires devotes his 51are energies to the neighboring guild and young Ansoll Stokes has pretty well made up his mlnd to forsake society for tho pulpit He has a mission of his own In helping boys to get educations PALATIAL STAIRWAYS The way into the patiOr of niiunlfi cent new houses rising to adorn the upper reglons of Ne Yore City with almost palatial sblendor IS ostairs that whether they wind or not are magnificent beyond anything ever seen before In America When Levi P Mor ton Collis P Huntington Mrs Belmont Bel-mont Mrs Paget and scores of other house builders interviewed their architects archi-tects they deeply impressed the men 9f plans with their desires to own rand stairways The Huntingtons actually set thb fashion and stirred up envious Emulatlon bspadlng15OOOu on the stairway of theIr Fifth avenue Jalace 111 Victol Newcomb hardly sDimt a3 much but he got as goodan effect bv using richlycarved rose and black marble paneled With mirrors That was the top notch reached until the Astors and exCovernor Morton adoot ed curving white marble steps the balustrade running to the ceiling but opening at intervals 1n ovals through the retted marble so that the stePs seem in reality to be a series of cx qulslte Juliet balconies A later fashion however has arrived ar-rived The first time It appeared was In James Spe ers the millionaire bankers house Out of the hallway of this Madison avenue home sprIngs a lOfty path of wonderfuliy < < wrought black Iron The design for the ba1lus trade was done In France and the pattern pat-tern of Iron is as rIchly ornate and seemingly almost as delicate as Venetian Vene-tian rose point The steps are all open work of Iron with a verdant way of emerald green velvet running up the center while the top of the rail Is bound with green velvet A stairway of this type costs about 25000 and seems really more in keeping with do I ce s4i e t or woman eligible tD adorn society languishes without its charmetUo9rta foin 1fbf a properYe rt1witliwhi to storm the door Still there are ways of admIssion I One13 to go In on vhilanthtoprs helping help-ing hand Itls perhaps tie best way because your ambition Jutstaod2 into hungry mouths and fuel into cold fire Jlaces To resolve the method to n mere receipt join a fashionabl church That Is easy Rent a costly Jew and go regularly In quiet dress to service Put a good contribution in the olate then the minister is your friiiffRffd you get on the committees with smart folk Go on the committees and WQrlc tooth I and nail letting the fashionablemem bers have glory while ou take tht trouble Toll over fairs and open your purse to supply all deficiencies Dont get discouraged think up a charity scheme of your own and beg the most fashionable woman in the church to head it Jay out lots more znqney and In good time youwlll begin tocreep Inhere In-here and there The system is well wClrkecl erer year But you must buy all tlcets sent you subscribe whenever you arc asked purchase largel at the fairs and in due course you will get as far as the man who makes coIltcJjons or writes a book itIslmortant to collect col-lect books pictures 01 pottery antique Iron rare glass Society does not care for other kinds of collections ir ou rletl1 lt ci rsrsOt collect any one of these thtmgs persistently persist-ently and lavishly you will be talked of in the Japers and other men fashionable fashion-able men such as Ueber BishoD Morris Jessup Henry Marqpand etC will take an Interest help yduto select and finally when You have bought ta costliest picture qr the most xaluable piece of Chinese ware you wlll find yourself riding at anchor easily with the smart set But If you hay neither money nor I l st C I r tlIr rat 5f1 t 1 f 14ll 5n QL V J P I I l y r I d 1JR L 1 I ie k t II I I RECEIVING ON TEE STAIRWAY mestlc Interiors than the marble gorgeousness gor-geousness MRS PAGETS DININGROOI Housebuilders and owners have put some of their fads behind them It Is I too easy for a dweller In a flat or a I gingerbread seaside cottage to have I cheap ImItation of Japanese and Turkish I Turk-Ish rooms for their charm to retain any hold on the exclusive New Yorker so the Jap and French rooms are faded I fashIons The fancy now Is to dwell i in domed apartments to have rooms I with the wails left in the rough and I then absolutely covered with mirrors or tapestry Mrs H F Dlmoclc for I example possesses the finest hall of I mirrors in New York It is a mini ture imitation of the galerle des mir airs In the palace of Versailles It is I similarly lighted and Is used for a ball and receptionroom on great occasions In Mrs Belmonts Mrs Rhlnelanders and Mrs Clews houses the walls of the l1 V = drawingrooms are absolutely unseen for the rich tapestries that hang from ceiling to 11001 as they did In medieval days chiefly then to keep out drafts and hold the heat One of the very mosttakedof rooms this winter In New York Is the dining hall In Mrs Pagets house It is the first of a series of Vedgewood rooms Others have been patterned on this one but none are so beautiful for the I dininghall Is long and lofty and the graygreen walls halfway paneled with carved oak arc decorated with lovely white Wellgewood figures The I doors In this apartment are 50 adorned that when cloned the wails arc uniform uni-form and only one acquainted with the room can tell where the doors arc and find the concealed knob that springs them open Not only does the carpet and oaken furniture exactly harmonize with the walls but Wedge wood china and the riahest cameo glass are used in servIng the dinners celebrated cele-brated at Mrs Pagetf1 hospitable board HOW TO GET INTO SOCIETY There Is no denying New Yorks so clal precedence among American cIties i Phlladelphlas society may be more truly aristocratic that of Boston more cultured Chi agos more hospitable I but whoever would reach the cry social so-cial apex In the United states must be I known in New York Every year the POPulation of the metropolis is swelled by the families of those men who have made their pile harth south east or west and who equipped with money I desire to get Into New Yorks inner fashionable circle The rEcelpt for achievIng thIs flat In I a question these newcomers ponder long and earnestly Of mon y tlii smart set have enough and to spare beauty is not so uncommon uncom-mon among them that the possessor of a fall face can on thufwone claim admission ad-mission and therefire many a man J fTNdcii rr 1 f I looks get the ear of one only one I great lady with your good jokes and your storIes and she will help you on Society greatly needs amusement nra if you are a skillful mimic if you can I sing an endless repertory of gay songs turn your hand to every instrument doa do-a dozen dances in the drawing room I after dinner think out new and delightful de-lightful scheme for entertainment your social position Is assured It is a long and dIfficult road to climb but once socIety in New York opens its portals your position Is as firmlY established as the rock of Gibraltar EMILY HOLT |