Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — Why Some Folks Go to Europe. [ARTICLE]

Why Some Folks Go to Europe.

When New York society doesn’t know what else to do it goes abroad. An ambitious woman gets wind of some rival’s intended function. Not to be invited or not to be seen among the guests means a slight easily endured if the world be not cognizant of the fact, but intolerant if it is; therefore the ambitious woman sails away to Europe. She may not be gone six weeks, but her absence Is thus to be accounted for. In other cases it is known that society takes this absent treatment to cure heart troubles, to escape social obligations that weigh too heavily ftn the income or, again, from sheer ennui it departs. This restlessness of certain sets In society would be dangerous were it not for the safety valve which that really overworked Atlantic ocean has become of late years. When all else fails, go to Europe.—Boston Herald.