Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Rude Fashionable Women. [ARTICLE]

Rude Fashionable Women.

By incidents like the one related below, Oscar Wilde justifies his assertion that American society is rude even to boorishness: “In Saratoga last week I stopped at the States and Congress Hall—two of the best hotels, which one would suppose would be patronized by cultured people. While talking with Judge Brady there a great crowd came around us, mostly women, and, finding it a bore to be thus stared at, T moved on into the office. There they came flocking in after us. I went to the billiard-room, but found no refuge there. The women rushed there—ladies in silks and crapes and laces, with diamonds in their ears, bringing their daughters with them. To balk the pursuit utterly, I fled to the bar-room.

Will you believe me that they came there—in ten minutes fifty to one hundred .of them—filling up the place almost? It seemed to me a most painful and dreadful thing—the bold-fiaced staring and half-audible commenjr It seemed much worse than the conduct of abandoned women. Why didn't I say,‘What’ll you have ladies?’* Oh, it wouldn’t have done any good, and aU the country would have said I had insulted the ladies at Saratoga.”