Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-26
SOCIETY'S WINTER PLANS.
OCTOBER MAINLY GIVEN OVER
TO SPORT IN The FIELD.


Marrying Going out of Fashion and
Wedding Rings Things of the Past
Many Fashionable Leaders to Spend
Their Time out of the City-Big Es-
tates in the Courts-dinnie PaImer's
Latest Mash.
Correspondence Of the Morning Neeos.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-October, so far,
has developed very little that is novel in
the social world. Once nothing was ex-
pected Of the month. 1t was looked upon
as a between seasons interval of which
little or nothing was expected by society
people. To the lovers of balls, parties.
marriages and flirtations, it was what
midsummer is to the mercantile world-a
dull nonentity. This year the month has
been given over to hunting and other
sports of a rustic nature, which affords a
field for the incurable Anglomania with
which the county has been afflicted for so
many months past. Driving, following
the hounds, polo, tennis, rowing, shoot
ing and fishing have proven the most
popular diversions of the month hut as
the mania has been physically beneficial
to its votaries of both sexes it will not
come under frOwns particularly severe
either from physicians or those dyed liz
the wool ankees who have been afforded
so much merriment by the procliVity to
ape everything English which has charac.
terlzed their city cousins during the past
two or three seasons. The chase is now
being abandoned, however, and the pre-
paratiOns which precede the advent of
the winter season are rapidly nearing an
end. The first event of real magnificence
will be the AstOr-WilsOn wedding, already
the subject OF considerable mention in
this correspondence. Nothing very novel
or interesting can, however, be introduce
ed into the monotOnous ceremonial of
city wedding. A little more or less of
beauty, lace, diamonds, flowers, and cost
ly gifts are about the only distinctions
that can be made. But in country we'd
dings there is vast field open for diver
sitY in decorations and surroundings.
Miss Lanier's was the perfection of rural
wedding in this country. Miss Daisy
Bldke's, which has recently taken place
in Wales, had all the distinctive features
of an English bridal. The bride
home through lane lined with
the supplemented peasantry of the coun-
try, the men holding their hats in their
hands and the women scattering flowers
in her path. The service in the church
was choral, and the whole affair very SIM
pie but exceedingly picturesque. a COM
plete novelty is, however, TO be
INTRODUCED AT THE MARRIAGE OF MISS
EMILY STEVENS
and Mr.. Ladenberg, which is to take place
on Nov. IL at NJ. Stevens residence, near
Far Rockaway. A meet of the Rockaway
and MeadOWbrOOk hounds is to be held on
Mr.. Stevens lawn on the afternoon of the
wedding, and as the huntsmen will all be
in pink, the effect must necessarily be
striking. There is a certain appropriate
ness about it, too, as the brides home is
in the midst of a hunting country. and
the bridegroom is an enthusiastic follower
of the hounds and the owner Of a fine sta
BILE Ofhunters. Whether it is the hard times
or whether the nuptial tie is losing its
attractiveness with the rising generation
is not known, but the fact remains that
the past year has been characterized by a
noticeable decrease in the number of mat
rimonial engagements of a society nature.
This is, In measure, owing to the eX-
travagance of the age, the comforts of
club life, and the unwillingness of men.
who have pleasures of all kinds and an.
prOprlate to all seasons spread out before
them, to take upon themselves the cares
and the tedium of married life. And one
can hardly blame them. in view of the
Well-knoWn fact that matrimOny is BY no
means bed of roses. One lady, promi-
nent among the gay young matrOns of the
city, declared seriously the other evening
that marrying was going out of fashion,
and that the wearing of wedding rings
would soon be a custom Of the past.
The Parisians are credited with
having inaugurated the fashion
and gay young American ladies
are rapidly following suit. Il
may be mentioned in this connection,
however, that jewelry of every kind is
much less worn than formerly. What the
winter will develop is Of course vet some
what vague, but those who are supposed
to be behind the scenes have nothing very
encouraging to say about the prospects for
| gayety. Economy is the universal cry of
all but millionaires, aud even they are
not aVerse to a little wholesome retrench-
ment. There are more furnished houses
| in the market than ever before, and they
do not go OIL at eXorbitant prices quite so
| rapidly as III former years, while the
| warm months are supposed by the outside
| world to be the only ones during which
! society people shun the metropolis. There
| is growing tendency toward winter
| heglra. There seems to be no particularly
| good explanation for the fact. Perhaps it
is because of certain fancied climatic adj
vantages. and possibly there is an econo-
| mic advantage which is at the
| bottom OF the matter. Whatever
the cause it is certain that there is to be a
| large colony of New Workers at Norris
| town this winter, and, as there is a good
resident society there, it is probable that
| the Old Jersey town will be unusually
| gay. Washington, D. c., will also be the
| objective point of not a little metropolitan
migration, which, by the way, is less
! agreeable to Washingtonians than New
Workers probably imagine. They say of
| the Gothamites precisely what is said of
! all Americans on the continent of Eu-
rOpe-that they spoil the place for every
| one else. Their prOdigalty anG Drofuse-
ness OF living, the enormous wages that
they are willing to pay to the very limited
| number of accomplished negro servants
| that the place affords, are bitterly resent
| ed by the old residents of Washington.
and more than one of them has expressed
the wish that New Workers would STAY at
home and let them enjoy their cooks and
their cQachmen in peace.
SUITS FOR BIG ESTATES.
All the FOOLS errands after big estates
are not run in England alone, the United
states possessing her full share of them.
Inc claims OF certain alleged heirs to the
Trinity Church property have been in the
courts TOO long not to have become wide
| spread IN their fame. The will of Anneke
Jams, risky Dutch widow who gave up
| TIE ghost in Manhattan something over
zOO years ago, is the foundation on which
! the long series of suits rest. Some of the
| greatest legal talent in the country has
Wrestied pro and con with the Knotty
! questions involved time and time again,
! Dut up 10 the present the old adage that
| possession is nine points of the law has
| nTescvV