The Goulds And Society

Thero is a great deal of pleasant gossiparoused over the anuouncement (how true I cau't sayj that Mr. and JYIrs. George Gould are going to give a large bali. Why shnuldri't they, aud who oould provide for a more splendid entertainui eu f.' Tho Goulds have passed over the threshold of society. They have made friends wherever they went - except in England - but they are not going to give an English ball. At the horse show, at the opera, wherever she has appeared, Mrs. Gould has made friends and admirers right and left. It is high time she tried the experiment oí ;i ball to see what ner friends are. worth. I venturo to assert that all her uewinadn acqunintauces will show up to a woman ithe uien would go, of course), and thaf she will be pestered to death by rflqneste for invitationa by peopk who have pretended not to know her. If .-he takcs the advice of an old stager, .she wiH turn a deaf ear to all suoh importunities and ignore them completely. The second ball she gives will be more crowded than the first, aud so on ad infimtum It is intimated that Mrs. Gould has a society press aient. Banish the tliought ' What she should have, if she hasn't already - and I think she has, judging from the recent horse show - is a rommittee of "'Little Brother of the Hich." a guild of impecunious dudes of good family and position, who are of inestimabie valne to rich vemen with social aspirations Given a yood, hardworking committee of L B. R. 's, and I gnarantee Mrs. Gould or any other lady with "far less tbac her personal attractions a ball that will opon the eyps of all New York, and. what is more to the point, open the doors ;.f all New Vork to her