Show women at hall what do I 1 think of the position of women in society said the debutante why ita it Is just perfectly hoi I 1 should love to go to balls and dances it if it were not for the dreadful incubus of lading finding partners for the german or tor for supper and awl tor for the miserable fear ear of being left out As for the men they need not flatter themselves that being in a manner lords 0 of the situation adds to their attractions it makes the tile girls just look upon them as things LO 10 dance with and one t Is as good as another and as for any natural conversation it simply paralyzes it IL how quite too ions it la Is tor for girls of 0 our age to be BO so abjectly help lessi why IN by the other night nigh t adele L and I 1 were taken down to supper at the patriarchs patriarchal and were deposited together at a table after our escorts who were sort of men had bad seen that our plates were yere filled they disappeared and never came back at all every one left to RO go up stairs and we were left in the lurch we were wretchedly uncomfortable but we actually did not dare to go up the short flight of steps and enter the ballroom alone finally that dear sweet rist bi br B i r saw our embarrassment and came over to us with her part partner neF and under the agis a gis of his masculine protection we crept rather consciously up stairs new york tribune |