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t Mrs. Utile in Her Favorite Opera, WW - 1 if' oI MB Omaha Sunday';Be Magazine Page -1L -LL-JL'flB Copyright U1I, br the Etar Company. Great Britain Rights rteserveO. 3 t-XK vs I' -8-J V' o u u Oo at4? fjo, .0, 1W N IV hy Is Better to Drop Out of Newport Than It Is to IQeep on Going Up Newport, May 20. HAT," ask ed Kather ine Elkins of the Duke of the Abruzzi during the heyday of their frost-nipped romance, "what impresses you most about New port?" "It is the city of exciting and peril ous pyrotechnics," said the Prince. "And what do you mean by that?" asked she. "Everybody is going up all the time like rockets, and more or less of them keep coming down like sticks," answer ed he. "There Is something in what you aay," said Miss Elkins, "but the metaphor Is faulty. People can't keep on going up like rockets all the time and there are scores hero and there who have never fallen." "Ah," replied Abruzzi. "But every one of them runs the risk of falling. How else could it been in a society which is based primarily upon wealth and frivolity. A society that hss no real traditions, no real caste; where everything is make-believe. It will take centuries to evolve a real aristoracy." "You don't admire the pyrotechnics, then," said Miss Katherine, rather piqued. "I admire the sticks," said the Duke. "I think they have all the best of it. They get down to real earth and actually get a chance to become something real." All of which is apropos of the fact that Newport, taking stock now that the season Is opening, of what pyrotechnic displays will be missing this year, has already marked off three that throw out clouds of golden sparks in their rush upward. And the first of these Is Mrs. Julian Little, the most striking and spec tacular blonde in the circus set Miss Little began life as Fanny Jones, the fascinating daughter of the Lewis Quentln Joneses, of New York. She married Henry Spies Kip, a young millionaire whose family was as old as it was wealthy. As Mrs. Kip she sparkled and sparked with the showiest rockets of Newport Then she decided to take a trip to Reno, and out she went. There Bhe got rid of one husband and her six-year-old son, but ac quired speedily the present Mr. Little. Mrs. Klp-Llttle received no alimony from Mr. Kip and Mr. Little isn't overburdened with wealth. Nevertheless the Littles reappeared at Newport and coruscated again with the mightiest They've done it for the last three years, and now Bump! "But I think you're unjust," said Miss Elkins to the Duke of the Abruzzi. "There are hosts of nice folk in Newport who haven't any money at all and yet they go everywhere." "Shining by the light of the other rockets and all their own powder gone," said the Duke. "I haven't a bit of respect for them. They're only real when they come down like a stick, bump and become something real." Mr. Little has gone into the Harlem Opera House Stock Company in New York. What will Mrs. Little do now they have sublet their Newport palace? Even if she has used all her power she doesn't have to leave Newport She has two choices to go on the New York stage with her husband or go to Paris and prepare to go on the stage this Winter in one of the light opera com panies. The latter Is what society thinks she will do, "What do you think of the stage girls who have married rich men and are what you call rockets at Newport?" asked Mss Elkins of the Duke. "I've a lot greater liking for the women who married rich men, lost it and then go on the stage," said the Duke. "They're being real at last, you know." "Nevertheless," said Miss Etklnsi "it's much harder to give up what you have not It's one thing to sigh and say: 'I can't buy a fifth motor car this season,' and it is quite an other to say: 'I must sell my one motor car this season." "It is indeed." said the Duke; "it is the difference between Sparta and Sybaris. Between intelligent wQl and pulling luxuriousnesst" It is six-thirty in the apartment where the young Austen Grays aro living. Mr, Gray is a son or Judgo and Mrs. Clin ton Gray, of Newport and New York. Mrs. Gray is the daughter of the very wealthy Charles Burnhams, of Rhode Island. They ran away and married against the will of the Burnhams six years ago. Mr. Gray was and con tinues to be a close and Intimate a friend of Alfred and Reggie Vandorbllt; it was from the Vandorbllt homo that the elopement oc curred, by the way. After this hasty marriago the young Grays settled down to lead tho same life that their friends did. Father Burnham camo forward and mado an allowance at least be Bottled a certain amount on his daughter, and tho young couple began spending It without realizing that is Is impossible to spend your principal and have it too. They Bet up a New York establishment and spent their Summers in Newport. Mrs. Gray took part in all tho pleasure of the colony, and life was ono grand rocketing of galty and extravagance. Austen was a favorite cotillon leader, and tho day he thought of no new and charming figure was a day lost They spent quite as much as Mrs. Klp-Llttle. Bumpl "But after all we are society in the moulding," said Miss Elkins to her Duke. "The laws of two centuries from now are now being cast at this moment." "There aren't any laws except the eternal laws," said the Duke. "You'll never have a real society until you recognize this. The moment you do you will have taken your first step, and your second step will be to cast aside all the laws you're now making." "But there will always be one law," ventured Miss Elkins. "The law against work." "Not at all," said the Duke. "You'll see then that it will not be that you do work but the way you take your work." But it is now six-thirty in tho Gray's apartment There is a stirring In tho kitchen, another stirring in tho blue and white bedroom sacred to tho head of tho family. There'B a splashing in tho bathroom. It is seven by tho clock in the kitchen, and two sleepy-eyed people ap pear in the dining room; they are Mr. and Mrs. Austen Gray. They sit down to the table and consume grape fruit and eggs and coffeo. At seven - thirty Austen takes his new sailor hat and goes forth to his day's work. Ho has a job in one of tho big de partment stores and his hours aro from eight to six with an hour off for luncheon. "How does it feel to lose your money?" asked a thoughtless friend of Mrs. Gray just before Austen began his apprenticeship at the de partment store. "Just like a skyrocket that went up with a hurrah and cams down with a bang," replied Mrs. Gray 'and the bang hurts." But here come tho Newton Adamses. Who are they and what are they doing? To get their story we must drop in at one of the big shops and say that wo want to see their latest French hats. We will be taken to a tall, gracious young goddess who will turn out to bo Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Adams selling hats when a year ago she was voted the real leader of the youngest division in the Circus Set? Selling hats when a year ago she was giving dances for one and two hundred guests at the Casino, and when her presence at any entertainment was necessary to make it a Buccess? But ye3 1 You see it happened thus. Mrs. Adams was Alice Potter, a daughter of Frank Potter, who was one of the most popular men of his day In New York as well as in Newport After his death Alice was brought up by her aunt, a prominent Newport cottager, and when she fell In love with a poor but am bitious young lawyer, her aunt told her to marry him and be lrappy because all her money and the house in New port would be hers anyway. And then Aunt Serena took to her bed and died, but on her death bed she Insisted that Allco and New ton bo married at once, and they were. It was so romantic, and Allco proved a clever goneral; she became a leader X mm rHOTO (JV NY Mrs. McCarty Little, Formerly Mrs. Spies Kip, Who Has Two Choices To Go to a Mining Camp with Her Husband or to Go on the Stage by Way of Paris. store and mado them boo that she could sell hats, and to-day sho has tho croam of tho customors who want "Something different, do you know, from the ordin ary hat, my doar." 8-s-s-B-Bhl It Is no secret to admit that this former golden butterfly more used to ballrooms than work shops, has mado good and that sho Is making money for her Arm far boyond their expectations. "How doos It feol," sho asks, "to loavo my Nowport friends and pleasures? Woll, I simply had to do some thing, and I did not want to sit homo and make boudoir caps and satin pin cushions for my friends who would only criticise thorn and perhaps forgot to pay me, so I prefer to be insultod by strangers rather than by my frlonds and acquaintances and I got paid every week." "Up in Newport," said the Duke, "I revise the Holy Writ for them. I say: 'From her who hath shall be taken all she hath; but to her who hath not shall be given mightily.'" "Given what?" asked Miss Elkins. "Courage, independence and reality," said the Duke. "I bow to tut, sticks I They have to workl" The Origin of "Show Me!" Mrs. New ton Adams Who Would Rather Sell Hatt SOME days ago a woll-meanlng critic of St Louis Informed tho business mon of that city that thoy had outgrown Us stlck-Jnho-mud slogan "You'll have to show me," and that tho flrBt stop of prog ress would be the selection of a loss slow slogan. Many of thoso prosont nrnfflntnn thnt "ahnw m n" nmrAH .1 -1 .. i . . . . . in k '-- , . . . umviut; m rno aust laaea archives Detriment aB tLo r?Prty ot u'a' et tried to show proof that there wis Uepartment hv wnmn't um- (mm wVin u v. . . " .tutJla " Storo Than u nucu cniw hb lumun Hnome. Ha mu! Pink came, nor why. Thoy could rocall contonded that his were the t Make rinlC vnmiolv fhn If hlnnr thr. . ..oro luo lruB ;,v. . .;, , """?6VU . y "D 01 "e cbbo, wnicn came about State of Missouri, surely not to any In this way. noout on,o cltv , , When Omaha first talked of hold- Tho speakers wordB appeared n inir a rnn.xfi.i..ii ..i?ia . tfiB ,lallv nnnnra nnr! n,,VanMmo JT"" -..""'''" P"'UOn. iu we coiony, ana Newton aovotea him- " 1,1, , :, " VT ji , w"vvv,""" "y ""oi'ujJurH in uansas city in. pif n.i.. .1. .-1 ,.. , With a fondness for dlcclni? Into thn dulppri In n fn.n.j. - --w- . - w-- -- uuiuuu ui Hnrcastir ausi iaaon records 01 local history, j bes. Tho idea of Omah. appeared with tho Information that one, bestirring Itself JnouJh t the challenge, "You'll have to show Up a worwK mo," was a corruption of the name terous to bo accepted as serious o a famous Indian chief of the And so, when the fair Came a ?'SU iTb,t oIdulYumuB Shome, who fact and Included among Its ds a ' f Hero, y A.IHK PVWNT. Satin Pin Cushions at Home. SOU to DrivatO tlloatrlcalH nnd to work. " twi '6buK imu uiu uuiueu in a lUBliadO Of narrauttn 1 . Si II a t nrinn ynrrvA a n 9 lAAnl -.. Jit . . . MB up a Newport practice. But alas, Aunt Sorona's money gave out all of a sudden; It couldn't Btand the strain of such a pace as these young people sot, for It takes a big income, lndood, to hold any sort of leadership in Newport And so last Fall tho Adamses found their fortune depleted, nnd nothing but work and economy staring thorn in the face. As it takes time for oven tho moat Kansas flliv Hv . T7, 'J.?? . . mhj u uuau U IlItTlrMTlriFl janas Deiow tuo mouth of tho Illl- went up from the Kaw inwn .1 wo imwuh v4 uuu nuauuK ft UUllOn Willi thft IP pah heads from tho Mississippi to tho "I'm from Missouri. You will have' Missouri, and thuB giving tho name to show m tv, ambitious lawyer to work up a practice, to the historical old French town, caught tho public fancy and in a and In the meantime ono must oat, Mrs. Portage des Sioux. nuio tlmo Missouri was known tha Adams said to horsolf: Yumuu Shome, It is averred, Is world over as tho "Show Me State" "I like hats! I should adore selling hurled at Wostport, Jackson County, So it was Kansas City, not St Louis- them; I will sell them," and straight- Missouri, and his name carolossly that started tho etlck-ln-ths-mud' way went down to big department pronounced, "you muB show me." slogan. I VV has passed Into the vernacular 81 the State. That Is a vory probablo story, and ono that ought to hold belief, but alaB, thls Is a practical age, and sooner or lator soruo ono Is sure to come forward with proof that thero was never such an existence, and such it was in this case, -whnn an other gentleman with a fondness for