Show UP THE HIGH SOCIAL CLIMB cab bab on haiat women failure endure to reach social glory clory DIFFERENT RUNGS OF THE LAUDER LADDER ilow how woman cuta cut woman the woman whom women despise eider howeard and ills hi wife tho the author of she capture capter e new yorks good opinions A authors u theirs an a they look in fit their portraits bernhardt in ID new york istl by the rok bole press ork I 1 NEW KEW YORK feb 16 1891 we bear every dy day of people who pel got black anil and blue in their efforts to C climb hall the social ladder wo we hear bear of people p who are scornfully spoken ot of as among the social climbers and every LOW and then somebody wonders it if they will roach reach tile the bight to ta which they are climbing they rill mill if 11 they have skins ikins like lit hippopotamus uses es and plenty of money if they do not mind being snubbed by a woman and then approaching her ber the next dext day with a baillo expecting another snub willingly to take it and yet to sallo again the day after they must most also learn that two kicks down the rounds of the ladder which they wish to climb must only give them impetus to fly up five more they must be willing to lo spend speed money and spend it la in great quantities and they must run a atler fact S lion try to capture him and exhibit eibl bit him in golden chains la 14 their drawing rooms but above all they must an us t teed feed their guests well anil and that I 1 Is 1 chero here the social climber too often makes a mistake or OF THE SOCIAL LADDER LAb VEIt mrs Blue blood can call afford to offer her guests pate pale claret cup and wafers but mrs climber cannot content liers hers with anything less than tin fizz terrapin and game to malfo make her people satisfied with will themselves she h must Us give them of the ibe best la in the th laud iler her reward well it is in the hereafter when wheat she eho gets where shearls she sh blants eanls to KO go when tho has reached the light of alisa she can on snub u b women who aro are trying to follow her example and elio can cut off her visiting list all those who he helped bellied her III lier her early struggles but eliom hom silo she counts as belonging to the In ineligibles nowadays TI there nol 4 ere are always a few ew omen N who he hlll 4 ill not assist the abo climber clfo iber no matter how much doocy the she may spend or how entirely she way may submit to being kicked of course HOW WOMAS CUTS one delightful woman bore will control tho the people who visit at ler her lie use and once in when hen 0 a well known ell climber m her went up to her and said 1 I am got going n R to do myself the pleasure of coming to to your year next tuesday she ws was looked at through a pair of lorgnettes lorg by it a pair of piercing cing gray eyes slid aid tile the aelier anlier came with fill clear noa 1 I do lot dot adult admit to MY house people who are not on any visiting list another woman who thought that by rushing gushing and riving giving a great deal of per fondi information sho she could get to v hero here the she wished grow grew very familiar a young married woman and said to her si s 1 I wonder that mi enu it I 1 1 I know anybody but the deml mondo did that ill till ith a sweet smile tho the haughty young matron answered Youa you tre very fortunate in knowing know ovIng inn anything about their habits or them my acquaintances havo have always been in set As this was audible to the cetire room the would be familiar friend aa nas most beautifully cut TWO tm 0 KINDS or that woman Is an abom abomination upon the it face of the earth who goes around gossiping gossiping to the rest reft of womankind ab about 1 ut the habits costumes and special friendson friends friend of lomon of the other world she can never really account creditably tor for this knowledge and her listener has a perfect right to conclude that she has acquaintances among them although it li is most probable she has gathered her stories from different men american bornet women are arc learning to do like their french re ile sisters L e to entirely ignore I 1 these hese ladles ladies and when they meet thern them to stare as blankly as it if there was no material figured near them this Is the art of the tha woman of the world who he never the disagreeable in life HAGGARD LEAVES AX AS IMPRESSIO 4 it Is probable that nobody has loft left such a pleasant impression of himself that Is no english body as mr RI rider der haggard ila ho was only here a little w while title but during that time both he be sell and his wife were mado made much of and entertained and they showed that they thoroughly liked it wido wide travel has ha staken taken away from them tho the insular prejudices of the average english and they are prepared to meet the pleasant smile with a pleasant not condescend condescending hIg one and to find good wherever be rever and kind gilness are to be met mrs haggard Is a a most at devoted wife her husbands husband ji corn com canlon wherever he goes and so pleased were they with the people whom they saw in now new york that they think of returning this way to meet their now friends again you a great liking for the man who wrote king solomons mines and cleopatra and you a great scorn for those people who worn out mentally talk of imagination as it it were a language that could bo be learned rather than a gift straight from god at ones birth and dont you think these o same priggish writers who will rive give you reams on the camly purie icuss womans comans position in III tho the political world whether bother A society women ought to wear low neck gowns ministers white ties and actors fur lined overcoats overcoat would bo be much more desirable it if they had a little imagination dont you yon suppose that all the people who have given delight in books from froin shakespeare to mother footle have beon been people of vivid I 1 a gi nation it makes me m feel eel as if I 1 should u 1 d like ilka to bo be john L sullivan and fell to the earth those commonplace matter of fact critics who dip their pens in I 1 n acid a c id and write word it that mark thorn them ass absei e s HAITS or OF AUTHORS apropos of wr writers it II Is curious to licar bear tle the III discus alons about them when their pictures hivo have boon been aoi mr haggard Is extremely picturesque look ing and a picture of him with an all orchid in ills buttonhole Is that of a mail enan earnest bright imaginative and agree ablo able two other pictures furnish curious contracts cool rala alts they are arc those of jerome K jerome said and rudyard kipling one thing that makes phoui look alike for a amond Is that each man wears a mustache inu tacho and eyeglasses and yet when you look into the faces fac 9 closely you discover bow absolutely aliey are geromes Je romes faco it Is that thai of a man who Is lovable and who would bo be loved by everybody around him thoro thera Is a keen of and n hit tf f pathetic look that reminds one even when he Is funniest how haw a little pathos will creep in ila ho looks like a mm man who would be delightful to live with who would have good and gentle thoughts of all people and who would do ills his best wherever he might be killings EirL Kir tSOa LINGS FACE now rudyard kipling there Is in an immense amount of originality in that face it is the face of a man who at twenty six Is 19 forty and yet it look as it if he wore were mirroring his own experiences perien ces but those of other people its a face that could bo be hard or could be very attractive its a lace of a cynical man but not a cynic and a cynical man Is the one who Is at the expense of the world because his dearest friend suffered to my mind it Is a S ime face that suggests that the great knowledge of 0 woman that the man has has come coma to him through his big acquaintance with an older woman and I 1 wonder it if mrs hai had a prototype in india and it II rudyard kipling pling ever know knew her bor well it Is 19 a complex lace face you can keep on looking at it and you dont seem to solve the riddle of it but hen you remember it ills Is the ace of a man who wrote danny deever you loci feel like taking ol off your hat bat and bowing to it IL the way the pictures of 0 three well known men affected me and I 1 think you will agree with me about them cut SS ia M A SEW DRESS how soon under the cloak of charity will a game of chess be played with the pieces represented by the handsomest of women omen and the best looking of men with small children asp as banns avias it Is the last fad lu in london and the crush to see the game was something marvelous marve loiis the rho costumes were founded on dresses of the tudor period wore more perfect in every detail while the red queen and king were absolutely superb the game vas as played by two expert chess pa players and long gold wands were used t to 0 a touch the lie pieces as a cue for their moving ving tills this was done in the abo most stately luo way a peculiar slow stop step being chosen and adhered toby to by all it isa Is a novel idea and whoever first gets it up hero here will certainly make laake much money tor for whatever charity it may be played for tho the mose religious persons in the world cant object to it as they might to a game of poker while the artist who delights in picturesque effects in III seeing beautiful women gowned will havo have a marvelous marve loua lor for his eyes offered to him at what seems a marvelously low price BEEN THE DI ME mannino sarah as she sh has announced site she prefers tu to bo be called Is once more althus A ith us and more her marvelous personality has bas to bo be acknowledged putting aside for a moment her great genius forgetting for fora a while how site s lm really makes you feel that she aibe Is the character sha represents what whal woman Is thorn there today to day lie has haj such a strong individuality an individuality indeed that thab extends over tho the world A lie ho havo never heard hard or never thought of tho the clai ina of russia read eagerly eat corly every word that Is about sarah who dont care about tho the toppling luR of thrones th coties or the up of nations seek fur thelast the labb now new critien s u of a play in which she has performed of the alio last book that thai site has or thu tho last pla peature ture that has bs pleased lor her it Is tile tho who commands this aud and this very fact ought to bring lier her greater delight than it if it were the tor for it proves that different from all other w 0 nak n sho she yet has a kingdom that thai of tb the 0 world and her subjects are ar all 0 or IL no woman ho be wore f tint lod ahn feneht I 1 has bag and that Is 1 saying morn more than r much a u she has boon been written of by the gr e a st writers of the day she bag baa boon been painted by the best known artists and though they come and go they are here today to day and nd there tomorrow to morrow madame madama bernhardt Us like the th sphinx la Is the same except that she Is better belter looking now than when she dho first came cama to us there Is but change in her and the report of 0 the fat one Is pleased to chronicle Is simply a filling up of the angles that Is most becoming boc omiDi LIES STRENGTH A man asked me tf rt I 1 could understand her ho he might have hare asked me it I 1 had a secret of that woman AN ho he looks out on the egyptian stands sands who was old wh when on cleopatra was young and who has never opened her lips lipa to disclose dist lone lose that which she knows so well there hiis has never been a woman like madame bernhardt bernhard t before she like tho the orchid in its finest state of cultivation Is the product odthe nineteenth people talk about rachel of her wonderful genius of the tragedy that her life was but it can never bo be said of her salt as it Is of sarah that she Is mistress of anything she wants wanta to control I 1 sea am firmly convinced that if tomorrow to morrow sarah concluded to go in for grand opera silo aha would rival patti anil and the tha whole world would bo be convinced that there had never been such a voice madame madama sarah is a woman of successes and to success every human bureau being in this world must bow down that Is this ibis sort of success the of the intellect SONIC SOME THINGS TUAT THAT TIRE OSK ONE its the time of year v lien hen people dont feel very well and complain of being tired vl when hen the massage ma xai woman tolls tells you in broken english that all tile tha people in this country are so and raises her hands up high and then puts then them a y down and you that sho she means thil that ono extreme or the other as tar far as health or happiness Is concerned hut but we alt all do got tired I 1 am tired hearing tile weather disc disused ans used el you are tired of discussing it I 1 am tired of hearing people who he dont donl don L know tho the first moaning meaning of consideration wonder whether lothar A other people live up to their creeds you are tired of knowing that they dont I 1 am tired of hearing women talk talk talk about nothing but themselves their gowns and their admirers you ion ire are tired of 0 being among those women I 1 am tired ot of clergymen who trouble themselves about everything but the poor of 0 their parish pariah you are tired ot of being the poor I 1 am tired of men v v he talk well and a e you are tired of knowing the tr truth uth about thorn them I 1 am m tired 0 of politicians who write their promises in the sand arad you are tired of seeing the kroat great ocean up and wash them away I 1 am tired of seeing children who don dont I 1 t respect their parents lott i oil are tired ot of swing mooing parents who do oot not consider their children hut but there wo we will got over the t tired ired feeling after a while wo we will tak take a doo of quinine and sunshine and we will discover that there are things in this world good and of which wo we never tire books babies sweets lions pictures music aud and good acting wo agree about this dont say you aro are tired of HAD allu |