THE SMART SET.
tiik lash i-'oi: the -foci: HINDI! ED.'' London, December -o, About two months hence some of the member* i>i the "smart set" in New York known as the "Four Hundred'' will fed the lash of an Englishwoman who intends to tell them "just what she thinks about them."
The Englishwoman is Lady Auckland, who recently paid a visit to New York, and was most unfavorably impressed both by the society folk and by 'the methods of New York newspapers. Lady Auckland has written a book, entitled "Six Weeks in New York," which will be published in about eight weeks, and she intends to visit New York again in the middle of January. Meanwhile she has announced through an American newspaper that she will visit New Yfork under another name, and will pay £IOO to any journalist in that city who finds her.
"I cannot give you any clue as to tl.ci means by which' 1 , shall elude the New York journalists," Lady Auckland told an ''Express" representative. ''That would be a double risk. It might help them, and it might also tempt me tu say what I think of their methods. I am sure 1 could not say anything bad enough about thorn. As to my book, it is really a faithful collection of daily letters written during my slay in New York to a very dear friend, whose name will not, of course, appear. 1 have made not only verbal but pencil sketches of all the'social celebrities in New York, and 1 have not spared tliein. If the victims do not recognise the caricatures I have made of them they are bound to lecognise the word-pictures of themselves and their friends. There will be no occasion to advertise the book in New Y'ork. The society women will pounce upon it." Some of the sketches are very clever, but whether the victims will appreciate them is another matter. There are fal females ill absurd Directoire gowns, diminutive society belles overweighted by enormous hats, aggressive-looking millionaires', and some blatant types of the New York "dancing men." Lady Auckland, who is a very handsome woman with artistic tastes, opened not verv long ago a furniture-shop in Baker-street, but the trials and tribulations of trade were too much for her, and she closed the establishment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 17, 13 February 1909, Page 3
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385THE SMART SET. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 17, 13 February 1909, Page 3
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