The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-05-17

aristocracy) She is a very good linguist and
musician. plays the piano like amaster, speaks
and writes French, German and Italian. She
is delicate little woman with very high
bred carriage and wears her splendid dia-
monds as if she were the daughter of a hun
dred earls.
Mrs. Astor is devoted to good works and is
fond of going to read to the patients i'll the
Woman's hospital She is remarkable for her
choice of language, being somewhat scholarly
and has the old-fashiOned manners OF the old
school. She is an admirable custodian of
large fortune and an eminently religious, good
woman.
Mrs. Hamilton Fish has national reputa-
ton as a 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 it. Yet no woman
is more free from any vice of patronage OF
help to her husband, who has always con-
suited her as to his political, as well as other
duties. She was everything TO the Grants
during their eight years, residence at the
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 intricate problems were all settled
by Mrs Fish. In New York at the head of
her elegant establishment, or up the Hudson
Cat arrison's, Mrs Fish has dispensed the
liberal inequalities OF her home like an En-
glish duchess. Mrs. Fish has the manners
OF the DeSt Dre9 people, Simple, uIaHecteu,
but very dignitied No one ever comes very
near her. Surrounded by her elegant thor
oughbred daughters, she is a picture. Her
daughter, Mrs. Sydney Webster, is a very
scholarly, superior woman and quietly eie-
CANT. Mrs. d'Hauteville and Mrs. Rogers
were great beauties; the former is dead, and
Mrs. Rogers lives in Albany. Announcer
daughter, very attractive, Mrs. Benjamin,
the wife of Col. Benjamin, rarely, appears IL
New York The sons are all well u. maf 8 leu
nl,nlp ;ci, in1 n.
Hamilton Fish married lady OF Troy, ana
Stuyvesant Fish married a Miss ,Anthorn,
one of the most delightful OF all the young
married bellies of New York. 1t IS Slnguce
lar record of unblemlShed prosperity, lnaI Vi
| the Fish family.
Mrs. Belmont, long queen of fashion, is
another spotless lily of society. One OF the
| most beautiful of women thirty years ago,
| she is still wonder of preservation, looking
| like girl of twenty; perfect little hgure
| and face as regular and as placid as a sum-
mer lake. she is lovely to look upon, and to
| her credit be it spoken, she has passed
| through a long career OF fashionable excite,
| ment and notoriety without being breathed
| upon. Or, if an enemy had breathed on her
| fair reputation, the breath would have LACED
away as it does on some faWleSs gem, MIS-.
| Belmont was always admired, but, unlike !he
| young married bellies of to-day, she carried
| herself with such dignity that she never gave
| rise to even a careless SANDER. she was al
| ways a leader. She has the gift OF exclusive
ness and knows but few people, A tender
mother, she has. suffered deeply, from the
death of a 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
Princess of Wales, makes no pretensions to
| being woman of intellect; she keeps her
opinions to herself, and is simple and unaf--
| fected, but life so well ordered as hers must
have deep springs of intelligence and princi-
pie to guide it. Mrs. Belmont is very I'M
| common person.