List of Contents in Which the Scenes and the Principal Characters Are Revealed
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The Opening of the Social Season
How the Members of the Beau Monde will Spend what is Left of their War-time Incomes 2
The Opera, in Full Blast
Showing that Things are Sounding Much as Usual at the Opera this Year 4
Keeping on with the Dance
You Will Certainly be Considered a Social Pariah if you don’t Dance the Night Out 6
Getting On, in Smart Society
If, at First, You Don’t Succeed, Dine ’em and Dine ’em Again 8
Hints on Honeymoons—for the Very Rich
How to Make a Smart Honeymoon—Comparatively Speaking—Agreeable 10
The Poets that Bloom in the Spring
A Popular New Pastime in Smart Society—the Matinée Poétique 12
The Art Exhibition: Opening Day
After All, There is Nothing Like Modern Sculpture to Stimulate the Imagination 13
A Week-End with the Recently Rich
Showing that a Profiteer is Without Honour in his Own Country 14
On the Trail of the Concert Lovers
“Among Those Present”—at all the Smart Concert Halls 16
The Trials of the Newly Poor
A Heart-Rending Picture of Life as it is Lived Behind Aristocratic Doors 18
The Prize Fight Finally Gets into Society
The Smartest Diversion is now the Science of the Swat and the Slam 20
Dreadful Moments in Society
Embarrassing Little Episodes which Might Happen to Even the Best of Us 22
On the Trail of a Wife
Détours on the Road to Matrimony 24
Divorce: A Great Indoor Sport
It is Beginning to Rank First among our Fashionable and Popular Pastimes 26
Wild Bores We Have Met
Question! Who—in Society—is the Unadulterated, 100 Per Cent Bore? 28
The Throes of First Love, in Society
A Few Fashionable Little Variations on the Oldest Theme in the World 30
A Calendar of Popular Outdoor Sports
As Practised among Persons of Breeding and Quality 32
The Seven Deadly Temperaments
As Frequently Met With in the Ladies 34
Six Brands of Week-End Hostesses
It’s a Lusty Life, if You Don’t Week-End 36
After-the-War Servant Problems
How the Great Conflict Ended the Golden Days of Service in the Houses of the Elect 38
Advice to the Lovelorn
What Every Girl Should Know, Before Choosing a Husband 40
The Open Season for Strikes
If you Don’t See What you Want, Strike for It 42
The Art of Fashionable Portraiture
You Can’t be Quite “It,” Without the Aid of a Modernist Artist 44
Social Superstitions
With Very Special Obeisances to Cupid 46
Who’s Who—in the Audience
Showing that the Smart Playgoer, Not the Smart Play, is Really the Thing 48
The Horrors of the Week-End
From the Tortured Hostess’s Point of View 50
When Marriage Is a Failure—Cherchez La Femme
Have You a Little Failure in Your Home? 52
Opening of the Opera Season
The Opera Opened—To Crowded Boxes—With the Usual Performance of “Aïda” 54
Blighters at Bridge
A Terrifying Triumvirate of Familiar Lady Auction Pests 55
The Way to Succeed on the Stage
A Lady, Once a Creature of Fashion, and Now a Famous Actress, Tells of Her Success 56
Sports for the Summer
The Increasingly Feminine Tone of Our Outdoor Diversions 58
Sea Bathing has become the King of All the Dry Sports
Fashionable Debutantes Who Sojourn by the Sea 59
The Strategy and Finesse of Proposing
Advance Leaves from the 1921 Handbook of Courtship. 60
Palmy Days at the Seaside
Sights at the Bathing Resorts When the Season for Salt Water is Declared On 62
An Interview with a Great Dancer
Privileged Peeps into the Soul of Mlle. Angeline, of Paris 64
HIGH SOCIETY