Show she held the first salon the late mrs coventry waddell was said to LQ tho first new yorla lady who ever held a ealon by birth and fortune she was eminently fitted lor the place she held in society before her husbands loss cf fortune every one of note in fashionable artistic or literary circles might bo met it her receptions of lato years since her husbands death mrs waddell had gone into society a little and had entertained quietly at her bouse in fifteenth street she was generous to a fault and in spite 0 her reduced circumstances gave largely to objects Harpers bazar |