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Show I "THE INSIDE STORY" J ! ; I A DOINGS OF THE "SMART f $ SET" IN NEW YORK f If NEW YORK, March 2. Dear Muriel: i Hero's a fact that's, funny,, and plenso don't loso your temper ovor tho snob- l i bery o It. Thcro'fl''a" leveling tendency .. In you, Muriel, that all Jjut dl30.imllnes j ' you for taking an nrlstocratia view of ' things. Hoally, dear, you ought 'to como ! back to town and get tuned up to tho , society pitch. " f ' -' v "Are you going to Washington for the , I inauguration of tho president?" I heard I '. one society matron ask of another, 1 "Hot tliat tho newepapors would no- i , tlco," waa tho reply. "I shall ho thoro I . I'v promised Maudo and Hclonc but n3 ; I lookors-on. not as mixcrs-ln. Wo shall seo I tho procession sevoral times over, from ' an automobllo that'll stop at Btreet cor- 1 . - ncro and then cut around to got ahead of ' tho parade again. And tho glrla will go .' to tho ball not to danco oh, of course not but to look at the show. That Is, I ' I hope Maude won't dance, and she Bhon't If I can holp It, but flho docs get 1 ' do skittish whon tho band plays a uvo- I step. I can dopend on Holono, but 1 in HI - awfully afraid Maudo will get us Into H ! print- Really. I wish wo could wear HI mimks at tho inaugural ball, as ray nieces Hfl ' wrlto mo they did at tho Nov.' Orleans Nil ; carnival last weok." iKN ! , Now, I grant you that It Is undemo- HH ' ' cratlo and unrepubllcan, but whats 10 H ' becomo of our aristocracy If wo don t M , strut till our noaoa. If not our foreheads, BH t ' ara above U10 common people? And lsn t HQ , ! , It our duty to amuso thorn with our an- RMI : f ties? Of courso, a Rooaovolt presidential tn a comDllcatcd aucB- mj , , tlon. It must havo boon easy In Abrnham Fill Lincoln's tlmo to scorn tho Whlto Houso socially, for ho was notoriously unfit to MM lead, a figure In a cotillion, nnd Mrs. Lln- MH i coin was oquol to no more than a lr- R glnla reel. But tho Roosovolts, don't you j : know, aro to the arlstocratlo manner H f'l born. And didn't Jack Astor go to Cuba it ' . In .a rough rldor uniform with Teddy HI Roosovolt, his former collego chum? By 1 that good cervico to his country ho ac- H ,! quired tho tltlo of Colonel, and 1 guess I a , mean I fancy hc'3 proud of It. Col. HM 1 Astor said, on starting this week for Palm BIB j ' Beach, that ho would probably stop over mm , Saturday In "Washington and pay his 10- mfl ,' spects to tho President But Mrs. John fl 1 ! Jacob Astor didn't delay her departure for flfl ! Europe to go to Washington with her H j husband, but mado a point of sailing HU away In tho thousand-dollar state-room Hi of a steamship last Saturday talcing U ' . along her hoy Vincent, who, thnnks bo J r to the gods, has recovorcd from tho Dfl ' mumps. Wo wcro much concerned about flj Vincent. It wouldn't havo distressed us so jm (f much If ho'd had a slnglo mump, but to LX havo a whole lot of mumps, Jxlst llko'com-V.fll llko'com-V.fll mon children, It was quite 100 usual for H an Astor. RV Wo had almost had tho President's IB. daughter's debut as an amateur actress 8- last evening. AHco was" willing and eager, Ik but too busy with preparation for tho IK inaugural festivities; and, besides, I'm Ipr told that papa wouldn't havo lot her. It BH was a swell affair, though, for a fashlon- wmr ablo charity, and Alice's cousin, Corlnno mM. Robinson, and Gladys Vandcrbilt, only mm; last weok a dobutanto in society, wore ac- Hk tresses In tho samo little comedietta, "Tho mm, Threo Misses BIddle," In which a rolo Wm- had boon offered to Miss Roosevelt. K 75-. EvosyGeatlml been sold peraonrtlry-to- Iff somo superior person or othor by a com- EJ mlttoo of patronesses, and so tho atmos- V , phere -was kept pure. Still, tho pcrforra- H ance was given on tho stage of the Car- Klr ncglo Lyceum, a regularly appointed mm theater, and practically public, though M theoretically private. That play and a WFM pantomlmo called "Tho Enchanted Poun- 10 ' tain" wcro given exclusively by girls who H had been transformed from society buds BP to blooms formally this season- Twelve I of them were a ballet a decorous ballet fl enough. In a gypsy danco which, how- I over, did flip skirts sufficiently to provo ;1 that the maidens had suoh things as I ankles, though tho glimpses were not J enough to baso critical Judgment on. fl J Gladys Vandcrbilt had one of tho threo jl BIddle parts In tho comedietta, tho Presl-jl Presl-jl dent's niece, "Corlnne Robinson, taking another, whllo the third, which hla daugh-1 daugh-1 1 ter could havo had, was assumed by BR Beatrice Morgan. DtJ I r M Ah, how much depends on tho accident D of birth! Gladys Vandcrbilt wouldn't ui 1 havo counted In that theatrical cntcrlnln- 1 mcnt for moro than did any other of tho B generally comely and youthfully lovely m girls, but for the foot that slio li an EB 1 j heiress In tho particular Vandcrbilt family J ' . which possesses, through tho late Corne-M Corne-M i Hus, about three-quarters of all tho Van. M ( derollt millions. Even wo who aro accus-HBk accus-HBk tomed to tho sight of wealth. porsonJfltfd RIW had moro eyes for Gladys than for "any uJHB four of her companions. Am I envious aiWm Muriel? I don't think so. Yet, why, when Kf I looked at Gladys, did tho regret come to . mo that I hadn't been born next door to UWL c 4ho north from tho houso of my birth? Hir ' Probably I wouldn't havo thought of it, HM ) anyway, If I hadn't chanced to sit In tho III 1 vox adjoining that of tho Chanlcrs, there, Ugl I at ray very elbow, sat Beatrice Chanlcr. ni 1 Sho and I had been born In side-bv-sldo Hjl 1 houses at tho same hour. Why did. the Ml stork discriminate against me? I am as IRJ swell as she, ain't I? except flnanciallv. And this week, right on top of all her B'' , other luck In being chosen1 by the 6tork Me tor a grandaughter of William B. Astor. am , and I for an Inncrly, comes a wad of am i monoy amounting to 5717.0O1 for her purse. f 1 That is her share of tho $6,S0,SS not till MM J ' now divided among relatlva of Laura Dm i Delano, who was a daughter of William Iff I B. Astor, and to whom ho bequeathed hi BH 1 trust some trifles of real estUo thnt havo Hjl ' , grown to be saleable at the sum named Hn 1 I wouldn't mind tho 717 thousands that HX1 j ' Bootrloo gets, nor ovon the nlno hundreds. Id; j . but I do begrudge her that extra four lli. I dollar. She's got enouch without that M saperQous prlco of a theater matlnoo t IX 1 ticket. I ii j Another International marrlaRo seems Imminent. jVnothtr American orlncess np- I J, pears on the horizon. Gladys Mills will I "oon. I hef.o ?- bride to Prince Boarn I ChalalB. Gladys is a twin daughter of a i 'H Jj"" mother. Mrs. Ogden Mills and Mrs. Ji. 4 George Cavondlsh-Bcntwlck, sistfcrs at a I single birth, woro called "GIrolle-Glrofln," , I ?ftcr the comic opera twins. That was In I London and years enough ago that the J J ; a'y on as timely and racy as It would f , V?nov; t0 "I01"10 Gladys niid Beatrice I I j Mills Jocosely. Cora and Encora Their j mother and aunt promised to be duchesca ' i- or .vispountesscs, and leaders in Entrllsh I 'I Bc,y So.1 1un told- Therefore. In spfto It.' of Gladys being Eatlsfied with a foreign I ' 1 alliance, sho may nt the last moment do- 1,1 clde to male wh a moro American. The ( . ! - F.r0i?oh nobility doesn't como cspeoialiy K I h'gh, and Isn't of much valuo socially mm Her mother would have como difficulty ?J?rd m0t nnywaj' a French onel B J??.M0r than hor own name of Mrs. Ogden Mills. Gladys isn't beautiful, but la a I ' y,ery bright, fresh girl and chummy with B , P.yTon3!en But"don and Gladys Vandcr-i Vandcr-i ' blU- I hope she won't exnatrlato herself m , There aro a plenty of nice chaps in her m . rom W S6t p!ck a huab'"l ft - Warnlngl A musical fad Is rushing on us fast and furiously. I want to ft" Mi I you in on it early-It's always so much M ) more satisfactory to bo a pioneer than -i W straggler In fashlonablo crars.' An I this I V' SB0 K,0'. at ,eMt tT,m where I I I 8lt- 8. Jf t is in you, wrlto some versus H m.akc. a tuno. for thcm- nnd bo Tady ivhcn R i Vt0 oCmusIcal composition gets to Wl 8a,t Lake. Like manv 0f the trnn-ion I irrationalities, this on6 com,, s from th"t l. section of stageland which adjoins swell- 1 ,. dom. LI ' Langtry'.s daughter Jonni 0 a K. r "ccnt vlsItor ,,cro- la the composer nt j tho hour-or rather, of half-pas ft e pres- t- ent hour. Don't ask mo tho particulars U I ; I don't know -em. I am hurrvInT the i 1 fact on to you beforo It has entirely cot' t over being a forecast. Yet already several girls I know havo turned out songs llko Jcanno Langlry. Not ono of them that I've heard Htruck me as enough different from tho McDowell things, or dn-Nevln-csquo enough to startlo anybody. They nro of the 5 o'clock, cosy corner, tea and bun variety so much allko that they might about as well nil bo the samo one bnllnd. ' Jcanno Lan.gtry is a girl yet, although sho married a British army chap a year ago. Why do I wrlto about a Langtry In a letter on smart society? Walt a bit, Joanne's wedding was terribly smart. Tho bridegroom was no end of. a toff, uho Jersey Lily gavo tho brlda away. King Edward attended In person, and If ho hndn't forgotten everything in connection with hlmscf as tho Prlnco of Wales, ho could havo given tho Lily away. Jcanno Is supposed to have been tho original or Una Trovelyan In "Tho Degenerates, the sensational drama which Sydney Grundy wrote for Mrs, Langtry. Tho Mrs Trc-volyan Trc-volyan of that play was a fascinating woman in tho edgo of socloty. or perhaps per-haps over tho border In tho midst of the London fast sot. Her beautiful homo was a reproduction of the Langtry mansion in tho British papltal, and, being Impersonated Imper-sonated bv that famous beauty herself, sho doubtlcsH duplicated In publlo at least somo of tho fascinating practices of her .prlvato life. Sho brought tho play here, you know, and so I saw for myself what an elegant creature sho was to hang gowns and Jewels on. Still, sho had outlived out-lived her portraits, and had fallen off from my recollection of her. Over In West Twonty-thlrd street standfl tho most English-looking house In Now York a red brick structure, wldo but low, with a brick wall In front and a gateway opening open-ing on tho 6trcot. When I was a little child, out with my grandmother for a walk, a carrlago drovo out irom mac yard, and In it wcro tho handsomest man and woman I had soon. Of course, I had been on earth only several years, andvslnco then I havo cast my eyes on a priiat deal of beautiful humanity; still I doubt If ovor I havo como 'ncrosfl a pair Ipvoller as Judged by modish standards. stand-ards. -1 asked who they were. "MrsV Langtry and Mr. Gebhard." granny1 replied, as nho stiffly acknowledged acknowl-edged bow from tho man and pointedly disregarded tho woman. Frederick Gebhard Is still ono of our boaus, well-seasoned, but not yet de-caved, de-caved, nnd Lily Langtry still floats without with-out getting soaked. It was freely glvon out by tho press agents that "Tho Degenerates" De-generates" was in a sense biographic. It was into its homo of Mrs. Trevolyan, full of drunken men and horsey women, that Una Trcvclyan camo unexpectedly from a boarding school. Her girlish innoconco and simplicity inspired tho mothor to an act of unselfish nobility. Now, ao this was at a tlmo when Jcanno Langtry went to Hvo in her mothor's house, tho coincidence coin-cidence mado good advertising. All of which seems to show that socloty and tho stngo aro nearest together on tho hazlost sides of each, and that tho boundary boun-dary lino is well-nigh obliterated by crossings and rccroesings. Tho last flash of Fred Gebhard's wit, so far as I havo heard, gavo ah inspiration inspira-tion to tho advertising agent of a certain cer-tain brand of whiskj. "Is your watch handy?" said a friend to Gebhard In a cafe. "Tell mo tho ox-act ox-act time." "I don't havo to look, at my watch to toll you. It's always exactly .the- right tlmo to take a drink." r So ngjcz. wo havo rVa conspicuous Broadway cbrht5irw'nav wo call a whisky clock. Tho face of it is about twenty foot across, Illuminated by electricity, and its hands move correctly around the clrclo Of hours and minutes; but above It is fixed tho unvarying assertion. In huge, bright letters, "Time to take Rotagut's whisky." I don't want to Geem rackotty, and I assure you it wasn't at all In the naturo of a spreo that I -went with a party to Llttlo Hungary, the restaurant ovor In tho Jewish quarter whero tho President recentlv dined with a political association. associa-tion. You might suppose thnt a Roosevelt Roose-velt boom ensued for the place, and so it did with ordinary people, perhaps, but Llttlo Hungary had Its fad tlmo with tho smart set tho year before, and with us thero is no such thing as an encoro In gourmet whims, Wo delight In something some-thing new and strango for our stomachs; or, rather, in tho discovery of unusual conditions and surroundings for tho filling fill-ing of tho same. Ono novelty after another an-other had been onjoyed and dlscardod. An Italian restaurant with sawdust on tho floor and spaghetti peculiarly cooked ns tho novolty on tho tables, attracted us for a, while, and wo learned to cat it right which to lift a forkful of tho stringy stuff and draw, it into the mouth Blowly nnd dreadfully. Tho harsh Italian Ital-ian red1 w'ino caUcd. Chianti norved us to do it. Another find was the Bowery cheap eatlng-hobso' known as Bcofsteak John's, whoso ke'eper and cook know how to brolL a steak- without letting the Juice get out. Of course, any skilled chef can do It as well, but It amused us to charter char-ter Beefsteak John's from midnight on till daylight and gorgo ourselves with thick, hot, tender steaks. Tho liquid filling fill-ing was English bitter beer, Then wo had a spoil a brief one of chop suoy In a Chinatown Joint, the top story of which wo pre-empted, but wo lacked confidence In the hashy viand, for who know that Its apparent chicken bits were not somo Chinese reptile? And tho rlco rum that went -with it wa3 awlul stuff. A Southern South-ern kitchen, with sure-enough chicken fried by a genuine mammy, and baked rabbit pretending to ho 'posaum, dissolved dis-solved in mint jnlop, held us a while, with its waiters singing plantation ballads bal-lads and cakowalklng around 'tho tables. Then camo Llttlo Hungary's turn. I don't know who saw It first, but in a twinkling all of us know about it and were going thero for its Friday eveninn tablo d'hoto. ThlB wasn't a creation of tho smart set, though it thrived eo well on U3 that two adjacent cellars wore opened Into tho ono whioh had been Its dining-room. Tho portion of tho concern orf tho street lovel was an ordinary ber saloon.;. The collar was used on Friday .evenings by such dwellers in tho Ghetto as could afford to spend a dollar convlv-ially convlv-ially at the Jewish week's onVl. There they ate, drank, listened to a Hungarian orchestra, and sang choruses when they had becomo merry. The morrlment was a suro thing for the dollar paid for all the wlno that ono cared to drink with tho meal That was tho peculiarity. Thu viands woro poor, and the wlno wasn't fln but It was a palatablo liquid, rod and white, and it was suspended In big glass globes over tho tables. Wo didn't charter Little .Hungary for our visits. Thoy way to enjoy It was to take a section sec-tion of a long tablo fpr our party, nlbblo at tho stc.wd mcnts, or gouhishes. whlcn mado up tho meal, onjoy the really pleah ant muslc Join ln'Hho singing of popular songs, and especially very partlcularlv fill ourselves up with wine from tho.-, hanging globes., AJ1 one hnd to do was to hold a glnss under tho aucot, turn It on, nnd do that over and over as long as one's hand was steady enough. But, as I said, thero is no such thing ns an encore in a fnshionablo fad. We found the threo collars crowded tho other evening. as"'-a conseauonco of Theodore Roosevelt's recSnf-vislt: but wj eight were tho..Qoly Fifth avenultos ther. and wo didn't get very Jolly.. Indeed, although wl had two -wits ;ri .que part,y, only ono or them said anything- that Reemed funny And yet wo swallowed a lot of the wlnp red and whlto mixed, and somo nprlcoi brandy besides, V"I wonder If Mr.. Robscvhlt hndn't over iiTo ifkcd lt."rC y' remnrk'-(',ad I won't toll you the .chip's namo who replied. I'm as ashamed aS J16 1,uht u be. Hp Indicated a pudgy woman of the Brownie shape, and whispered: "Anywav there Is a woman who looks ns though sho'K been brought up on Teddy Roosevelt's Roose-velt's rough rider ratlons-whon every, thing went to tho front" -r. IDA INNKRL.Y. |