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Show o MRS. POTTER PALMER HAS MANY RIVALS. Chicago Society Women Dispute Her Leadership. Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago's social so-cial leader has many ambitious rivals, riv-als, says The Delineator for January. She first asserted her right to her present position in society during the famous Fair of 1893. A World's Fair, it will be perceived by now, meant more back in the last century than it means today. At all events, "Mrs. Palmer proved her right then to her life crown. She has worn it, ntver arrogantly, but always with the most delicate tact, a gift of the gods which never deserts her, however how-ever trying the hour. In a new state of society, the social arbiter is called upon for the most sudden decisions, which, more often Mian not, reach farther than the eye of man can discern, dis-cern, and Mrs. Palmer has made her full share of them, all distinguished for good sense and for level perceptions. percep-tions. Chicago society women, however, how-ever, are daring enough to be the one body in the known world to cast the shadow of a doubt on Mrs. Palmer's prestige in her home town. And since they cannot beat her at her world game, winch started far back in 1893, that memorable year when social lines were drawn in Chicago for practically the first time, Chicago women have been attempting to decide de-cide the question, at least to put the question to popular vote, by means of charity. It is an odd condition of affa:rs, something peculiar to Chicago, Chica-go, and it has grown to such proportions propor-tions that the coming Winter may see the death blow dealt to the char-' char-' ity fete in Chicago. o |
