: Society as I Have Found It by McAllister Ward - McAllister Ward 1827-1895; Socialites New York (State) New York Biography

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My Family--My Mother an Angel of Beauty and Charity--My Father's Nobleness of Character--Building Bonfires on Paradise Rocks and flying Kites from Purgatory with Uncle Sam Ward--My Brother the Lawyer, 3

My New York Life--A Penurious Aunt who fed me on Turkey--My First Fancy Ball--Spending One Thousand Dollars for a Costume--The Schermerhorns give a ball in Great Jones Street--Sticking a Man's Calf and Drawing Blood--A Craze for Dancing--I Study Law--Blackstone has a Rival in lovely Southern Maidens--I go to San Francisco in '50--Fees Paid in Gold Dust--Eggs at --My First Housekeeping--A faux pas at a Reception, 13

Introduction to London Sports--A Dog Fight in the Suburbs--Sporting Ladies--The Drawing of the Badger--My Host gets Gloriously Drunk--Visit to Her Majesty's Kitchen--Dinner with the Chef of Windsor Castle--I taste Montilla Sherry for the First Time--"A Shilling to pay for the Times," 31

A Winter in Florence and Rome--Cheap Living and Good Cooking--Walnut-fed Turkeys--The Grand Duke of Tuscany's Ball--An American Girl who Elbowed the King--What a Ball Supper should be--Ball to the Archduke of Tuscany--"The Duke of Pennsylvania"--Following the Hounds on the Campagna--The American Minister Snubs American Gentlemen, 41

Summer in Baden-Baden--The Late Emperor William no Judge of Wine--My Irish Doctor--His Horror of Water--How an American Girl tried to Captivate Him--The Louisiana Judge--I win the Toss and get the Mule--The Judge "fixes" his Pony--The "Pike Ballet," 55

Winter in Pau--I hire a perfect Villa for 0 a year--Luxury at Small Cost--I Learn how to give Dinners--Fraternizing with the Bordeaux Wine Merchants--The Judge's Wild Scheme--I get him up a Dinner--General Bosquet--The Pau Hunt--The Frenchmen wear beautiful Pink Coats, but their Horses wont Jump--Only the General took the Ditch, 65

My Return to New York--Dinner to a well-known Millionaire--Visit of Lord Frederick Cavendish, Hon. E. Ashley, and G. W. des Voeux to the United States--I Entertain them at my Southern Home--My Father's Old Friends resent my Manner of Entertaining--Her Majesty's Consul disgruntled--Cedar Wash-tubs and Hot Sheets for my English Guests--Shooting Snipe over the Rice Lands--Scouring the Country for Pretty Girls, 77

A Southern Deer Park--A Don Quixote Steed--We Hunt for Deer and Bag a Turkey--Getting a Dinner by Force--The French Chef and the Colored Cook Contrasted--One is Inspired, the Other follows Tradition--Making a Sauce of Herbs and Cream--Shooting Ducks across the Moon--A Dawfuskie Pic-nic, 89

I Leave the South--A Typical British Naval Officer--An Officer of the Household Troops--Early Newport Life--A Country Dinner--The Way I got up Pic-nics--Farmers throw their Houses Open to Us--A Bride receives us in her Bridal Array--My Newport Farm--My Southdowns and my Turkeys--What an English Lady said of our Little Island--Newport a place to take Social Root in, 107

Society's Leaders--A Lady whose Dinners were Exquisite and whose Wines were Perfect--Her "Blue Room Parties"--Two Colonial Beauties--The Introduction of the Chef--The Prince of Wales in New York--The Ball in his Honor at the Academy of Music--The Fall of the Dancing Platform--Grotesque Figures cut by the Dancers--The Prince dances Well--Admirable Supper Arrangements--A Light Tea and a Big Appetite--The Prince at West Point--I get a Snub from General Scott, 123

A Handsome, Courtly Man--A Turkey Chase--A Visit to Livingston Manor--An Ideal Life--On Horseback from Staatsburg to New York--Village Inn Dinners--I entertain a Fashionable Party at the Gibbons Mansion--An Old House Rejuvenated--The Success of the Party--Country Life may be enjoyed here as well as in England if one has the Money and the Inclination for it--It means Hard Work for the Host, though, 139

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