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February 18, 1887
Springfield Daily Republic
Springfield, Clark County, Ohio
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Observation of a growing English social tendency in New York for married women to form platonic friendships with prominent men to secure their attendance at dinners, as noted by a visiting English woman.
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Platonic Friendships.
There is another English tendency that is achieving vogue here more and more every day, and which is illustrated particularly at some of these dinners. And that is a tendency for men and women to form perfectly proper and platonic friendships, irrespective of their domestic ties. Society women who are married are now disposed to regard their lives as incomplete unless they have secured the intelligent admiration of some one of their male friends. If he is a man of ability, with some reputation as a speaker, a writer, or, better still, as a statesman, the situation is all the more interesting. Then if dinner givers want to secure the presence of this lion it is engineered by inviting the lady to whom he is devoted. And it is seldom the device fails of its object. An English woman who is now visiting here said recently that if she wanted a prominent member of parliament present at one of her dinners she never failed to invite the married lady to whom he was paying faithful platonic attentions at the time. And the same rule seems to be now imperative here.
-New York Mail and Express.
There is another English tendency that is achieving vogue here more and more every day, and which is illustrated particularly at some of these dinners. And that is a tendency for men and women to form perfectly proper and platonic friendships, irrespective of their domestic ties. Society women who are married are now disposed to regard their lives as incomplete unless they have secured the intelligent admiration of some one of their male friends. If he is a man of ability, with some reputation as a speaker, a writer, or, better still, as a statesman, the situation is all the more interesting. Then if dinner givers want to secure the presence of this lion it is engineered by inviting the lady to whom he is devoted. And it is seldom the device fails of its object. An English woman who is now visiting here said recently that if she wanted a prominent member of parliament present at one of her dinners she never failed to invite the married lady to whom he was paying faithful platonic attentions at the time. And the same rule seems to be now imperative here.
-New York Mail and Express.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Platonic Friendships
Social Tendencies
Dinner Invitations
English Influence
Society Women
Where did it happen?
New York
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New York
Story Details
Description of the increasing practice among married society women in New York of forming platonic friendships with accomplished men, such as statesmen, to ensure their presence at social dinners by inviting the devoted lady first, as observed by a visiting English woman.