Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-10-03

quite hides the carriage mousse anu
stable.
The menage is on the scale of the
usual well-to-do country house; there
l.; a cook and a maid of general work,
coachman and a stable boy. The
coachman wears no livery, and the
horses, carriages and trappings are
not pretentious.
The Astors breakfast early. dine at
the old-fashioned hour Of T., and their
third meal of the day precedes a quiet
evening and an early bedtime.
Mrs Astor is the lady Dourtiful Of
the country side. She gives literally
to charitable purposes that especially
appeal to her, but her charities are
chiefly private ones. She is very APP
proachable, has generous sympathieS
and deal OF sound common sense.
Everybody with a tale of woe within
a radius of some miles goes to her
with il, either to be helped with adj
vice, or dollars
a pretty little story is told of Mrs.
Astor'S gifts to the aged mother of hec
musicmaster, and invalid gentle
woman, who had seen better days"
\ handsome invalid rolling chair found
its way to her that she could lie rolled
out on pleasant days for a breath of
fresh air. When the winter came on
a handsome fur wrap reached her from
Mrs. Astor and fruit, flowers and
choice dainties and luXuries Frightened
the invalid's last days.
Mrs. Dinehart, Mrs. AStOr's mother,
lived with the Astors for many years,
until her death at an advanced age,
a kindly, loveable, white-capped old
in-law were devoted.
Mrs ASto" is an old-fashioncd house
Wife and Il genial hostess She has
none of the modern accomplish
meuS D" fadS of the day. Late in life
she took up music, and there is a pialo'
and an organ il lie Astor drawing
room. Mrs. ASjor cal play simple airs
and the good. Old-fash oncd hymns
familiar in the little country churches
for generations, aud that is all she
was ambitious for in Ler musical
study.
The AStor dra Wing-room has none OF
the elegancjrS of the draWing-rO0ms of
the city AStors; they are not as i'm
posing rs alc the drawing rooms Of
John Jacob ) Newport Rhincbcck Villa.
and those ut Clivcdon, William Wal
DORIS English castle But they are
cminently suitable for the hoSpitali-
ties Of Il quiet country family. They
are Furnished in good taste and Su0-
Stantially. rs country houses we're fur
niShcd twenty years ago, before the
popular taste for geW-@aWs, millinery
and upholstery had corrupted the SIM
plicity of country living. There are
good paintings on the walls, however
and the evidences of refined taste are
scattered about the house.
Ii is Il very simple, homcly country
life that Mrs. Astor of AStorville is
content to live But not one of the
Mrs. AstolS known to the fashionable
world in the present and the recent
past would have taken the role of the
great lady more naturally and simply
and digntied than this Mrs. AStor of
Astorville. Of whom the world of So
ciety has never heard, and whom the
older generation of Copake farmers
speak Of still as "Malviny Dine hart"
The Astor lands extend far and wide
and are goodly possessions, 100 acres
in extent. Not many miles from AS
torville as the scattering houses and
farms of the region are called-is the
township of Livingstone, where the
ancestral acres Of another old New
York family are located, and where
Livingstone manor is still Il mansion
of lordly Inequalities. presided over
by a Livingstone
Mr.. AStor pays no attention to life as
his nephewS John Jacob and William
Waldorf Astor know it. His very rare
trips to New York are made practi-
cally incognito for none of the men
whom he knew in his younger days
could recognize him if they ran upon