Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — A Woman of Modern Society. [ARTICLE]

A Woman of Modern Society.

Mrs. Lasante is a woman wise in her day and generation, and if with the wisdom of the serpent she sometimes combines other qualities than the harmlessness of the dove, she is at least a leader in society, the best dressed woman of her set, and a most fascinating companion for all men with the possible exception of her husband. Mrs. Lasante recently gave a very brilliant dinner party, to which she felt obliged to ask Mr. and Mrs. Mayance, although she distinctly did not desire their presence. “Of course, I shall invite them,” she confided to a friend; “but do you know I feel somehow that they won’t come.” Her manner was so significant that her friend laughingly asked: “How will you manage that?” “Oh, I can’t tell,” was the reply. “I shall not do anything, of course, but things generally happen the way I want them to.” And this is what did happen: On the morning of the day appointed for the dinner, there was dropped into a street letter-box a badly soiled and muddled envelope bearing Mrs. Lasante’s monogram, and addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Mayance. Across it was written in pencil, “Picked up on the street.” And it indicates how unworthy was Mrs. Mayance to shine at one of Mrs. Lasante’s brilliant assemblages, that she really believed that the whole thing was an accident, and sent the most profound apologies for not having responded sooner. As it was, she was unfortunately engaged. Singularly enough, in making out her private list for the dinner, Mrs. Lasante had never thought to write the names of Mr. and Mrs. Mayance at all Boston Globe.