Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1891 — TWO BRILLIANT WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

TWO BRILLIANT WOMEN.

Sirs.' Whitney and Sirs. Pulitzer ns Social Leaders in New York. kS ' Of the people who are likely to be brought forward this winter more prominently than ever before as social leaders in New York none will stand a better chance of success than the wife of ex-Secretary Whitney. She has already given a few breakfasts and dinners that have been attended by the best people here and in Washington, and she promises to give the Astors, the Vanderbilts, andtheothers a very lively chase in the matter of elaborate entertainments. Mrs. Whitney is pecul arly fortunate in having a house to entertain in—a house built on a princely scale, filled with rare pictures and works of art, a veritable museum of treasure. And to these may be added, a superb chief, a retinue of well-drilled servants, and a dining-room large enough to seat forty couples at dinner, Mrs. Whitney is as clever a diplomat as was Talleyrand, and, with a, fortune that brings her an income of half a million a year, she may he depended upon to more than hold her own in the contest. One of her most Intimate friends at present is Mrs, Joseph Pulitzer, the wife of the owner of the World, who is also likely to be heard of during the winter as an ex*> tensive entertainer. Mrs. Pulitzer is a Singularly attractive women, a delightful conversationalist, and Bl i charming a friend aa one need have.