Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-09

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mo, I'm not satisfied, for II ! couid
dance like Dixey I'd make two hum
bred thousand"
There people preserve frugal mind
even on the heights Of success, and,
opyopos Of that. Mantell told me the
other day that when Margaret Mathsr
was taken sick down Esst, and her
manager. having been tslegraPhed for
arrived at her side, he said my dear
eirl. Of course you'll get we'll, but as .
matter of prudence let me ask you, in
case ANYTHING should happen, what
would YOU like to have put on your
tombstone 2r The beautiful Juliet
looked Up, the water came into her
eyes. and she said t" Under the ran-
agement Of J. NJ. Hill, please"
SOME SOCIAL QUEENS.
New York has already been fortunate
in the possession Of certain women at
the head of society who have kept q
perfect prestige Of responsibility.
One Of these is Mrs. j. j. Astor, o
very remarkable woman for intellectual
attainments and for Q conscientious
fidelity to duty. Mrs. Astor is avery
generous hostess, caring more for in.
tellect and character than for mere
fashionable position, although she has
proper sense of the dignity Of her
salon. She has always entertained the
distinguished visitors to New York
las the President and his wife,
the foreign Ministers, and the Eng
lish and French aristocracy). She is a
very good linguist and musician, plays
the piano like master, speaks and
writes French, German, and Italian.
She is . delicate little woman with
very high.bred carriage, and wears her
splendid diamonds as if she were the
daughter of hundred earls.
Mrs. Astor is devoted to good works
and is fond Of going to read to the
patients in the Woman's Hospital. She
is remarkable for her choice of Ian
guage, being somewhat scholarly, and
has the old.fashioned manners of the
old school. She is an admirable GUS
todian of q large fortune and an emf
nently religious, good woman.
MRS. FISH.
Mrs. Hamilton Fish has q national
reputation as q leader Of society. Mrs.
Fish is an aristocratic blonde woman,
with the most quiet manners in the
world. She feels her blue blood and
lives up to 1t; yet no woman is more
free from any vice of patronage or
snobbishness. She has been the great
est help to her husband, who has a.
ways consulted her as to his political
as well as other duties. She was every
thing to the Grants during their eight
years residence at the White
House. Mrs. Fish had profound
knowledge Of etiquette, and the
world, in which Mrs. Grant was then
very deficient, and every disputed point
was laid before her, and the most intri-
cate problems were all settled by Mrs.
Fish. In New York at the head of her
elegant establishment, or up on the
Hudson at Garrison's, Mrs. Fish has
dispensed the liberal Inequalities Of
her home like all English duchess. Mrs.
Fish has the manners of the best-bred
people-simple, unaffected, but very
dignifed. No one ever comes very near
her. Surrounded by her elegant tho
roughbred daughters, she is picture.
Her daughter, Mrs. Sidney Webster,
is very scholarly, superior woman, AID
quietly elegant. Mrs. d'Hauteville and
Mrs. Rogers were great beauties the for
mer is dead, and Mrs. Rogers lives in Al
bany. Another daughter, very attrac-
tive, Mrs. Benjamin, the wife of Colonel
Benjamin, rarely appears in New York.
The sons are all well married. Nicho-
las Fish married Miss Smith, Brice
Hamilton Fish married lady Of Troy,
and Stuyvesant Fish married a Miss
Anthem, one of the most delightful of
all the young married bellies Of New
York. 1t is singular record of un-
blemished prosperity, that of the Fish
family.
MRS. BELMONT.
Mrs. Belmont, long the queen of
fashion, is another sp9tless lily of So
ciety. One of the most beautiful of
women thirty years ago. she still is a
wonder of preservation, looking like a
girl of twenty perfect little figure,
and face as regular and as placid as a
summer lake, she is lovely to look
upon, and to her credit be it spoken,
she has passed through long
career Of fashionable excitement and
notoriety without being breathed upon.
Or, if an enemy had breathed on her fair
reputation, the breath would have
faded away as it does on some
fawless gem. Mrs. Belmont was al
ways admired, but, unlike the young
married bellies of to-day, she carried
herself with such dignity that she
never gave rise to even careless SLAM
der. She was always leader. She
has the gift Of exclusiveness, and knows
but few people. A tender mother, she
has suffered deeply from the death OF
lovely daughter. Her living daughter,
Mrs. S. L. Rowland, is very
pretty, rather French in style, and
an exceedingly nice person, not so
beautiful, perhaps, as her beautiful
mother. Mrs. Belmont, like the Prin-
cess of Wales, makes no pretensions to
being woman Of intellect. She keeps
her opinions to herself, and is simple
and unaffected, but a life so well Or
dered as hers must have deep springs
of intelligence and principle to guide
it. Mrs. Belmont is a very uncommon
person.
We have no other women in New
York society coming up who have the
characteristics as leaders of these three
ladies--all wonderful women.
Henry TayIor's vagasics.
lPall-M Mall Gazette.
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