Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . Not in Society of society in other cities. This examplehas had its effect. It has had a refining,elevating influence; it has taught thelesson that good taste and the perfectionof manners are more important than os-tentation and extravagance. It is this regard for quietness thatmakes Washington society keep to itselfrather than go on parade. In fact, so-ciety is never on exhibition as it is else-where. There is no fashionable restau-rant famous for its dinners or its after-theatre supper parties. When people en-tertain each ot
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . Not in Society of society in other cities. This examplehas had its effect. It has had a refining,elevating influence; it has taught thelesson that good taste and the perfectionof manners are more important than os-tentation and extravagance. It is this regard for quietness thatmakes Washington society keep to itselfrather than go on parade. In fact, so-ciety is never on exhibition as it is else-where. There is no fashionable restau-rant famous for its dinners or its after-theatre supper parties. When people en-tertain each other they do it in theirown houses and not in public places,where all the world may see them. Thereis no great opera-house whose boxes areengaged for the season, and whose oc-cupants nni!ic< are printed in the pro-. AFTER A RECEPTION TO THE ARMY AND NAVY SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON. 695 gramme, as is the name of the star, orthe dressmaker who furnishes the starscostumes. Society would rebel at thatinnovation, and make any theatrical man-ager so lacking in taste and discretionregret his enterprise. There is norecognized promenade, no Central Park,or Hyde Park, or Champs Elysees, whereyou may hire a penny chair and watchthe great world roll past in magnificentequipages, where women go to be seenand exhibit their dazzling beauty andtheir bewitching costumes. If you area member or an invited guest, you maygo to the country club and meet manycharming women and interesting men,and hear much brilliant talk, but thisis for the select few and not the multi-tude. You may meet the same peopleat embassies and legations and privatehouses, but receptions and teas are forfriends, and not the public at large. Thewives and daughters of ambassadors andministers and Senators are glad to wel-come their friends, but they h
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