THE NEW YORK SMART SET.
UNDER THE LASH.
About two months hence some of the members of the “smart set” in New York known as the “Four Hundred” will feel tho lash.of an Englishwoman who intends to tell them “just what she thinks about them.” The Englishwoman is Lady Auckland* who recently paid a visit to New York, and was most unfavorably impressed both by the society folk and by tho methods of New York newspapers. ’ t Lady Auckland has written a book, entitled “Six Weeks in New York,” which will be published shortly. Meanwhile she has announced through an American newspaper that she will visit New York under another name, and will pay £IOO to any journalist in that city who finds her. “I cannot give you any clue as to the means by which I shall elude the New York journalists,” Lady Auckland told an Express representative. “That would be a double risk. It might help thepi, and it might also tempt me to say what I think of their methods. I am sure I could not say anything bad enough about them. “As to my book, it is really a faithful collection of daily letters written during my stay in New York to a very dear friend, whose name will not, of course, appear. , , , “I have made not only verbal but pencil sketches of all the social celebrities in New York, and I have not spared them. If the victims do not recognise the caricatures I have made of them they are bound to recognise the word-pictures of themselves and their friends. “There will be no occasion to advertise the book in New York. .Tho society women will pounce upon it. Some of the sketches are very clever, but whether the victims will appreciate them is another matter. There are fat females in absurd directs ire gowns, diminutive society belles overweighted by enormous hate, sg" gressive looking millionaires, alio some blatant types of the New York “dancing men.” *• . , .Lady Auckland, who is a very handsome woman with artistic tastes, opened not very long ago a furniture shop in Baker-street, but the trials and tribulations of trade were too much for her, and she closed the establishment. -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2438, 1 March 1909, Page 5
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369THE NEW YORK SMART SET. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2438, 1 March 1909, Page 5
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