. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. zed andauthoritative purveyor of the news ofsociety. There are other society re- porters, plenty of them, and many whorenort more news and write more gos-sip then he, but whatever Keim writesgoes unquestioned as to its accuracyand undoubted as to the authority bywhich it is given publicity. Some- 720 THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. times Mr. Keim is called the courtJenkins, but there is nothing ot theprig or the dandy in his is simply a polished, earnest gen-tleman, whose specialty in his chosenprofession of journalism is the d
. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. zed andauthoritative purveyor of the news ofsociety. There are other society re- porters, plenty of them, and many whorenort more news and write more gos-sip then he, but whatever Keim writesgoes unquestioned as to its accuracyand undoubted as to the authority bywhich it is given publicity. Some- 720 THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. times Mr. Keim is called the courtJenkins, but there is nothing ot theprig or the dandy in his is simply a polished, earnest gen-tleman, whose specialty in his chosenprofession of journalism is the doingsof society, and whose careful methodshave commended him to the confidenceof the public. Mr. Keims traininghas not been that of a carpet has been in more serious campaignsthan those which begin New Yearsday and come to an end with the ad-vent of Lent. The reader may besurprised to learn that the most suc-cessful society writer of Washingtonis a man, but I am told that a womancould never attain the position whichthis gentleman DEB. RANDOLPH KEIM: A woman may be successful as amere reporter of costumes and smallevents, but in the larger range of so-cietys activities none but a man canwin the confidence of the chief actorsand be able to write authoritativelyand semi-officially. A man was the first society corre-spondent in Washington. About 1830Washington society letters made theirappearance in the New York were the first of their kind, andcreated a mild sort of sensation. Soonthere were many imitators, and thebusiness of reporting the society of thenational capital had made its start. These letters to the Mirror werewritten by Nathaniel P. Willis, thepoet and literateur. Willis was at that time a foppish, slender youngman, with a profusion of curly, lighthair, and was always dressed in theheight of fashion. Having traveled inEurope and there mingled with thearistocratic classes, he affected to lookdown upon the common people; butwith all his s
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