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THE SOCI AL CLIMBER
By Dorothy Dix
■ "Other times,
other manners,"
quoted an elderly
woman the other
day, as she gossiped
over her tea with a
few cronies, "in a
way, I have always
been a looker-on at
life, and it is a
source of never
ending diversion to
me to observe how
customs change
with the times, and
how differently
each generation
does things. Of
course humanity is the same. We
have always the same types of people,
with the same aims and aspirations,
but they go about getting what they
want in different ways.
"Take, for instance, the social
climbers, the men and ■ women who
are trying to break into society, and
■who are dying to know the people
who don't want to know them.
"Now, when I was a young woman,
the open door to smart society was
through the church, and religion was
In u* many stratas as a layer cake,
with the most fashionable brand of it,
the icing, on top. There was just as
much social distinction between dif
ferent denominations as there is be
tween a Fifth avenue restaurant and
a Sixth avenue quick-lunch place.
"Therefore, when the social
climber acquired money her first step
up the ladder consisted in forsaking
her old faith and espousing a fashion-1
able creed. She'd join the smartest
church In her vicinity, and become an
enthusiastic missionary worker, or
head of a guild, or the leader of the,
women's prayer meetings.
"And the first thing you knew the
coupes and broughams of her fashion
able sisters in the church would be
stopping at her door, and she would
have neatly turned the trick of get
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ting into the local four hundred.
"By and by the religious path to
society played out, and I often wonder
if the falling off in church attendance,
of which ministers complain so much,
isn't largely due to the church beii.g
no longer the open sesame to society.
At any rate, that method of forcing a
way 'ladder the right awnings,' as
Richard Grant White used to say, be -
came an unproductive vein to work,
■and the social climber passed it up
for Philanthropy.
"About twenty years ago,'if you will
remember, all the new rich awoke to
the woes of humanity, and they fell
over themselves'to respond to the call
of the needy, when the call was voiced
by the rich and fashionable women
of their home towns.
"They espoused causes, and went
on hospital boards, and worked them
selves to death at bazars, and opened
up their purses and gave ostenta
tiously every time the local leader of
their '4oo' passed around the sub
scription list.
"And it worked like a charm. Mrs.
Croesus was hound to take notice of
Mrs. Parvenu, who had just come
across with a big check for her favor
ite charity, and in this manner did
many a woman whose name now
stands at the head of the society col
umn buy her way into the charmed
circle to which she aspired. Believe
me, the heathen has done more for
many a social climber than she has
ever done for the heathen.
"Finally, however, too many shrewd
women began working the philan
thropic dodge to get into society, and
it became overdone.
"Then heaven, in its mercy, sent
the Woman's Club mania, which swept
the country like a prairie fire.
"The socially ambitious woman saw
the opportunity that it offered her,
and she went for it. She Immediately
became hlghbrowed and Intellectual,
and she organized Browning clubs
with trimmings on the side of terrapin
low skin, severe colds, everything that
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and champagne, or sandwiches and
tea, according to her mwns, and she
employed mystic interpreters who
used strange and occult language, to
come and expound the meaning of
what the poet thought he thought to
the assembled audience of ladies, in
their best gowns.
"It gave the women a delightful
sense of culture, and as most of them
were too honest, and too simple, and
too much afraid of making mistakes
to force themselves forward, it gave
the woman with nerve and ambition a
clear Held. She instantly ascended a
pedestal, and become a ruler, and a
power among her sex —and her sex
makes society in America. «
"Oh, the Woman's Club has been a
most effective club in the right hands,
and many a woman has broken her
way into society with It. But as'a so
cial weapon the Woman's Club has
now passed into innocuous desuetude,
so to speak. The way to the get into
society nowadays is through the Coun
try Club. That, and not a sudden love
of rural life, explains the back-to
nature movement among the new
rich.
"As soon as a man makes money
nowadays the first thing he does is to
buy a country place. There's always
a general letting down, more, or less,
of the social bars in summer, it's no
trick at all for decent people, with
decent manner, and unexceptionable
motor cars, and money that they don't
mitjd spending, to get elected to the
country club.
"Then the highball, and tennis, and
golf do the rest, and before you can
say scat the social climbers are in
society, and turning up their noses at
those not in it.
"It's a funny progressive game the
social climber has played, isn't it—the
church, philanthropy, the woman's
club, the golf links—l wonder what
will be next?" sighed the old woman.
"My principle objection to dying is
that I don't be here to see."
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Drugged by 1,,8 uesp;?rate stubborn
ness, Westerling was believing in his
star again when he returned to the
library. All the greater his success for
being won against skepticism and
fears! He summoned his chiefs of
divisions, who came with the news
that the Browns had taken the very
redoubt from which the head of the
Gray charge had started; but there
they had stopped.
"Of course! Of course they stopped!"
exclaimed Weaterllng. "They are not
mad. A few are not going to threw
themselves against superior numbers
"A Whole Brigade Mine! I Live.
—our superior numbers beaten by our
own panic! Lanstron le not a fool.
You'll find the Browns back In their
old position, working like beavers to
make new defenses In the morning.
Meanwhile, -we'll get that mob of ours
into shape and find out what mads
them lose their nerve. To-morrow
night we shall have as many more be
hind them. We are going to attack
again!"
The staff exchanged glances of
ajnazement, and Turcas, his dry voice
crackling like parchment, exclaimed:
"Attack again? At (he same point?"
"Yes—the one place to attack!" said
Westerling. "The Test of our line has
abundant reserves; a needless num
ber for anything but the offensive.
We'll leave enough to hold and draw
off the rest to Engadir at once.
"But their dirigibles! A surprising
number of them are over our lines,"
Bellini, the chief of intelligence, had
the temerity to say.
"You will send our planes and dirig
ibles to bring down theirs!" Wester
ling commanded.
"I have —every last one; but they
outnumber UB!" persisted Bellini.
"Even in retreat they can see. The
air has cleared so that considerable
bodies of troops in motion will be read
ily discernible from high altitudes. The
reason for our failure last night was
that they knew our plan of attack."
"They knew! They knew, after all
our precautions! There is still a leak!
You—"
Westerling raised his clenched
hand threateningly at the chief of in
telligence, his cheeks purple with rage,
his eyes bloodshot. But Bellini, with
his boyish, small face and round head
set close to his shoulders, remained
undisturbedly exact.
"Yes, there is a leak, and from the
staff," he answered. "Until I have
found it this army ought to suspend
any aggressive—"
"I was not asking advice!" Inter
rupted Westerling.
'But, I repeat, the leak is not neces
sary to disclose this new movement
that you plan. Their air craft will dis
close It," Bellini concluded. He had
done his duty and had nothing more tc
Bay. i
"Dirigibles do not win bettles!"
Westerling announced. "They are won
by getting Infantry in possession of po
sitions and holding them. No matter
of we don't surprise the enemy.
Haven't the Browns held their line
with inferior numbers? If they have,
we can hold the rest of ours. That
gives us overwhelming forces at En
gadir."
"You take all responsibility?" asked
Turcas.
"I do!" said Westerling firmly. "And
we will waste no more time. The pre
mier supports me. I have decided. We
will set the troops in motion."
With fierce energy he set to work
detaching unite of artillery and in
fantry from every part of the line and
starting them toward Engadir.
"This means an improvised organi
zation; It breaks up the machine," said
the tactical expert to Turcaß when
they were alone.
"Yes," replied Turcas. "He wanted
no advice from us when he was taking
counsel of desperation. If he succeeds,
success will retrieve all the rest of. hla
errors. We may have a stroke of luck
In our favor."
• *•••• •
In the headquarters of the Browns,
Junior officers and clerks reported the
words of each bulletin with the relief
of men who breathed freely again. The
chiefs of divisions who were with Lan
stron alternately sat down and paced
the floor, their restlessnees now that
of a hajjpincss too deeply thrilling to
be expressed by hilarity. Each fresh
detail only confirmed the complete
ness of the repulqp as that memorable
night In the affairs of the two nations
slowly wore on. Shortly, before three. j
when the firing had died after the
Brown pursuit had stopped, a wireless
from a dirigible flying oyer the fron
tier came, telling of bodies of Gray
troops and guns on the march. Soon
planes and other dirigibles flying over
other positions were sending in word
of the same tenor. The chiefs drew
around the table and looked into one
another's eyes in the significance of a
common thought.
"It cannot be a retreat!" said the
vice-chief.
"Hardly. That le inconceivable of
Westerling at this time," Lanstron re
plied. "The bull charges when wound
ed. It is clear that he means to make
another attack. These troops on the
march across country are isolated
from any immediate service."
It was Lanstron's way to be sug
gestive; to let ideas develop in coun
cil and orders follow as out of council.
"The chance!" exclaimed some one,
"The chance!" others said in the
same breath. "The Ood-given chance
for a quick blow! The chance! We
attack! We attack!"
It was the most natural conception
to a military tactician, though any man
who made it his own might have
builded a reputation on it if he knew
how to get the ear of the press. Their
faces were close to Lanstron as they
leaned toward him eagerly. He seemed
not to see them but to be looking at
Partow's chair. In Imagination Par
tow was there in life —Partow'with
the dome forehead, the pendulous
cheeks, the shrewd, kindly eyes. A
daring risk, this! What would Partow
6ay? Lanstron always asked himself
this in a crisis: Wbat would Partow
'say?
"Well, my boy, why are you hesitat
ing?" Partow demanded. "I don't know
that I'd have taken my long holiday
and left you in charge if I'd thought
you'd be losing your nerve as you are
this minute. Wasn't it part of my
plan—my dream—that plan I gave you
to read in the vaults, to strike if a
chance, this very chance, were to
come? Hurry up! Seconds count!"
"Yes, a chance to end the killing for
good and all!" said Lanstron, coming
abruptly ont of his silence. "We'll
take it and strike hard."
The staff bent over the map, Lan
stron's finger flying from point to
poll* while ready expert answers to
his questions were at his elbow an'
the wires sang out directions that
made a drenched and shivering sol
diery who had been yielding and hold
ing and never advancing grow warm
with the thought of springing from the
mire of trenches to charge the enemy.
And one, Gusta\*e Feller, in command
of a brigade of field-guns—the mobile
guns that could go forward rumbling
to the horses' trot —saw his dearly be
loved batteries swing into a road in
the moonlight.
"La, la, la! The worm will turn!"
he clucked. "It's a merry, gambling
old world and I'm right fond of It —so
full of the unexpected for the Grays!
That lead horse is a little lame, but
he'll last the night through. Lots of
lame things will! Who knows? May
be we'll be cleaning the mud off our
hoots on the white posts of the fron
tier to-morrow! A whole brigade mine!
I live! You old brick, Lanny! This
time we are to spank the enemy
on the part of his anatomy where
spanks are conventionally given. La,
la la!"
CHAPTER XX.
Turning the Table*.
Through the door which the aide
had left open the division chiefs, led
by Turcas, filed in. To Westerting
they seemed like a procession of
gbosts. The features of one were the
features of all, graven with the weari
ness of the machine's treadmill. Their
harness held them up. A moving plat
form under their feet kept their legs
moving. They grouped around the
great man's desk silently, Turcas, his
lips a half-opened seam, his voice that
of crinkling parchment, acting a?
spokesman.
"The enemy seized his advantage,"
he said, "when h6 found that our re
serves were on the march, out of touch
with the wire to headquarters."
Westerling forced a smile which he
wanted to be a knowing smile.
"However, we had not prepared our
positions for the defensive," continuof
that very literal parchment voice.
"They began an assault on our left
flank first and we've Just had word
that they have turned it. Nor is that
the worst of it. They are pressing at
other well-chosen points. They threat
en to pierce our center."
"Our center!" gibed Westerling.
"You need rest. Our center, where we
have the column of last night's attack
still concentrated! If onytfilng would
convince me that I have • flgbt this
war alone—l—" Westerling choked ia
Irritation.
"Yes. The ground is such that it is
a tactically safe and advantageous
move for Lanstron to make. He strikes
at the vitals of our machine."
"But what about the remainder of
the force that made the charge? What
about all our guns concentrated in
front of Engadlr?"
"I was coming to that. The. rout of
the assaulting column was much worse
than we had supposed. Those who are
strong enough cannot be got to re
form. Many were so exhausted that
they dropped in their tracks. Our
guns are at this moment in retreat—
or being captured by the rush of the
Browns' infantry. Your Excellency,
the crisis is sudden, incredible."
"Our wire service has broken down.
We cannot communicate with many of
our division commanders," put in Bel
lini, the chi°f '-•- ,,: "pnce.
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