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Show . . , Th Latest $ocuty Stasatlon. Newport society has had a scare and the country coun-try has Jiad a good baugh. That favorite abode of the ultra smart set was shaken from center to circumference a few days . ago by the report that one of its most exclusive and wealthy members had been ribbed of jewels valued at $2O0,00a. ' The name of the victim was not given, but when the list of the. missing gems was published pub-lished later all society andalj the gaping society , , w orshipers who daily devour the accounts of the doings of the 400 in the "ew York newspapers knew it was Mrs. Ogden (toelet, for the catalogue of hei' jewels is more familiar to such persons than the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. Then there was a to do. Manhattan was agitated1 agi-tated1 as it had not been since its last murder mystery mys-tery and. Xewport even forgot .to talk about Ilarry Lehr s evening dress red -necktie. Three thousand detectives, each with several hundred theories, were ptit to work on the case and the saffron journals issued is-sued extras as fast as a new theory'was advanced. There is no telling what would have happened had not Mrs. Goelet remembered that she had put - her jewels in her safe before leaving Jfew York for Newport. She found them there when she looked. But what would you havef When men and women have to use their brains planning, monkey dinners and barefoot teas and the like they cannot be expected to remember little things like the whereabouts of jewels worth a fortune. It requires a peculiar kind, of intellect for the higher life of . Eastern society. j |