New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-26
THE WEEK IN SOCIETY.

| The week inst finished has been comparatively
a dull one. TO be sure, people have gwen o',"oI'
and people have elten them; thea re parties "i'o
been frequent. D,lmonico's has been throhReu
for after the play who is not hungry p"' ', IN
il has not been a gay week. 1t has been the i''i'
before the storm. FIR next week Will cal upo"
everybody's powers of agreeabilitv, will tax inc
wardrobe TO its uttermost and cause the eTDitereu
owners of livers to say how amusing wouid p'
! life if it were not for its amusements.
| However this abused and nun-lIke week the one
grave girl in a gay family" did after all present
| some alurements There was, for instance
picturesque wedding on the Hudson. ionkers Is a
frontier, separating town from country, sharing III
the pleasures of both, and just now rich ana
fresh with the charms of autumn. On Palisade-aVe.
many guests from town were received by MI. anu
Mrs. Flagg on Tuesday at the wed ling OF Miss Marcia
Flagg to Mr. Charles Henry Butler. The marriage
was solqmnized at the First Presbyterian Church
| and that edifice was handsomely adorned with
| flowers The bride was in white satin, the brides
maids in Powered gauze, with high Medici collars
| and puffed sleeves-veIy medieval. laTgt COM
pany of the relatives of Mr.. Butler, comprising
members OF the legal family OF me
Lords, the Crosbys, the Appletons ana
| the Buffers besides many acquaintance ana
friends filled the church No one has placed society
under greater obligations for elegant satire upon
extrayagant dressing than Mr. Wi liam Allen But
! ler the father of the groom His Nothing 10
! Wear is still a classic, and the large diamond
| imported by Tiffany" continues to be the engage
! ment Offering as when. twenty years ago, the poem
made Its first appearance and was read aloud after
| dinner parties aud quoted by all indignant nus
bands But let us return to the wedding Atter
! the ceremony the guests assembled at Deautitu
country villa overlooking the Hudson congratu-
lated the young couple, and enjoyed hospitaole re-
! ceptIon On the same afternoon Mrs. Blodeett gave
tea in honor of Mr.. ami Mrs story in her tasteful
! parlors which are filed with Forentine Golfers,
Lucreia Borga cabine :, rare tapestries AMI beau
tifu pictures Mrs. Robert Rcm'en on the same
evening gave handsome rosebud dinner 10 MISS
Cnthbert Slocum. OF New-Orleans.
In Brooklyn Miss Sophie Chaplin was married TO
Dr. William NJ Hutchinson. and Miss Antolnctte
Dearborn to Mr. William Henry L1phan. Miss
Beatrice Hendricks was married to Mr.. Walter l..
Phillips at the Synagogue Shcarith Israel, III west
Nineteenth-st., and MIS-, Georgiana HaYes was mar
RED to Mr.. Thomas ". Strong during The week.
which was still criticised as an E" of week " lor
| Hymcn
Mr. Thomas Powell Fowler gave luncheon at
his house, No. 80 East Sixty -eighth-st, to Mrs.
lapotry on Thursday Mr. ITurbcrt. General Will
lam Cutting Mr. Wright Sanford and Mr.. j. Fred
enc Schenck have given dinners aud suppers in her
VI.
G bhards coach in the Park Several Sunday din
ners are also being given to her.
II has been noticed by all persons who drive in
the Park that this autumn the coaches are not ont
in force. While the weather has been lovely
and the roads fine, the owners OF fourth
hands have not seemed III hurry to exercise
them This is nexpllcable, as no season Is more
favorable than such one as this for driving. The
conclusion follows that the drivers anu riders are
still lingering i'll the country
We might 90 on with accounts of lunches and
dinners, winch would go to dSproyc the idea with
which we started, that this has been a dull week.
but we must look to the future On Tuesday Miss
Bissel Will be married at st. Thomass at noon
Afterwari company of sixty will DO seated at
breakfast in her honor at the Buckngham-a break
fast i'll the true English style, with heaths drunk
! and speeches made On Tuesday evening Mrs
! Turnures reception will come Oft the hours early
! enough TO allow those who are also asked 10 Mrs
! Schermerhorn's ball to repair thither later. This
ball IS given to Miss COttinet, niece OF Mrs. Scher-
merborn. who has been educated abroad and who
now loins the noble army of debutantes, never more
distinguished than at this moment comprising, as
il will Miss Georgana Heckscher, Miss Annie Cut
ting Miss Alice King Miss Eta Strong. Miss Chap
| mqn Miss Caroline Duer, Miss Montgomery Miss
! lockwood Miss Waldo Miss Norris, Miss Helen
Garrettson Miss Blake, Miss Kean, Miss Hall, Miss
Annie Cunard from over the water. who VIII DE IN
troduced by her aunt Mrs Whtlock; Miss Lang
don who will be intro luced by her mother, Mrs
Philip schuyler; Miss JEANNE Turnure, and Miss
CottInet The list long one, and it is said that
thirty Eight balls are promised, which viii make
Fifth avenue musical from an hour before midnight
In an hour before sunrise on the comm. winter
nights.
We are n very hard-working people, especially in
I. md eenppfaIlV with amateur
thcatricas afternoon teas local charity fairs balls
at DelmonicO's and III private houses, receptions and
weddings new houses to DC opened land there IL
one epdid palace to be added this winter to those
| which we already enjoy, dinners and lunches, the
gayvIstlug dancing set have business before them
Tins is especially true for next Satur lay December
| . On that day Miss Sutton viii DC married TO MI
! LLOYD Aspinwal at the Collegiate Church, ana
there will be reception alterward at the house OF
| the brides mother. Miss MAY WlgIan will be
married TO Mr. William Livin .ston at Calvary
Church. Mrs. }. II. Strong will give tea to intro
duce her daughter and Mrs. Valentine G. Hall will
hold an lat home" at o'clock. How can any
| one conquer such a round 1t ransccnds even the
mower oil risky omnsciencc which satirists attrib
ute 10 the shrewd animated, supeTannuated butter
flies of fashion, whom Thackeray described as
"s-ancd ana scared by years OF social campaign
ng" But even if this class OF Unsuitable guests can
be always available. there others. perhaps more
desirable, who cannot acaiege much in an AZ or
| noon aud it is therefore misfortune that 50 many
attractive entertainments should occur in one day
1t would be better if there we're an unders andlng
| among the entertainers. Saturday has become
fashionable day for weddings whichIt was not for
merly 1t has long been the favorlto afternoon for
teas and so crowded are the lists OF those ladies
who know many people that the ends OF gayety are
| defeated.
1t Is hardly possible to record the little reunions,
which, after all, are the choicest reslduum OF the