Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — A Stinging Rotort. [ARTICLE]

A Stinging Rotort.

Speaking of the late Mrs. Paran Stevens, the New York society leader, The "Worcester (Mass.) Gazette says: One story is repeated of her which may be placed here to her credit, although it was not long since it was told in print. An opulent women who had got into society, as it were, by climbing over the fence when the policeman’s back was turned, once asked Mrs. Stevens in a supercillious way about a young lady she was introducing. “ Who is your friend. Miss ? ” she said. “ Miss is a charming girl,” replied Mrs. Stevens, ‘‘well bred, as you see, accomplished, -entertaining.” “ es, I know,” persisted the snob, " but dear Mrs. Stevens, of course you know what I mean—who is she? ” *'* ‘‘My dear woman,” retorted Mrs. Stevens, ‘‘l can no more tell you who Miss is than I could have told those who asked me who you were when you first .came to Newport.”