. The Saturday evening post. dancedwith her, the youngsters followed suit; and provided shecould hold her beaus, she found herself an established suc-cess, with every cotillon and supper engaged monthsbeforehand, with bouquets galore, which she carried todinners, operas or balls—daily boxes of violets and ava-lanches of flowers when the holidays came round. Everygirl throughout the season, on Sunday afternoons, ifthings were going well, considered twenty to thirty young-men callers a proper number. Besides these acquaintances, there must be formed agroup of more intimate friends, who, however
. The Saturday evening post. dancedwith her, the youngsters followed suit; and provided shecould hold her beaus, she found herself an established suc-cess, with every cotillon and supper engaged monthsbeforehand, with bouquets galore, which she carried todinners, operas or balls—daily boxes of violets and ava-lanches of flowers when the holidays came round. Everygirl throughout the season, on Sunday afternoons, ifthings were going well, considered twenty to thirty young-men callers a proper number. Besides these acquaintances, there must be formed agroup of more intimate friends, who, however poor onewas and however little one entertained, dropped in tolunch or dinner out of season, took one walking on FifthAvenue, made long evening calls in the off season andseemed to enjoy a cup of tea late of an afternoon, evenwhen the carnival was at its height. To me, after Europe, there seemed a delightful infor-mality about all this, and I fitted into the customs which—compared with those of present New York—seem of. General Frederick Dent Grant, at the Timeof the Spanish-Jl merican War another age. I had a kind protectress in Mrs. Rhinelander,who was a real personage and a great power in the were the quaint looks and attitude of an earliergeneration, and she could boast the blood of ancientcolonists, of course. It was she who saw to it that I wasinvited to my first Patriarchs and to two or three other ofthe ultra-smart functions in the early season. At herhome high tea on Sunday evenings was an establishedcustom, and there I met and made my first friends. Hersons and their comrades were of the all-powerful club set,while the younger women of their group were distinguishedboth for looks and for fine breeding. A background ofancient family portraits and old silver brought from Dutchor English homes by the patroons added their charm tothese high teas, while the conversation, which neverflagged, proved the entertainment to possess a clingingatmosphere of long ago
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