The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-03-14
LENORE SHERWOOD
Writes From the Metropolis-The
Gould Wedding Voted Vulgar
A Lenten Feature.
SPECIAL CoRREsPoNDENCE TO THE NEWS.

NEW YORK, March D.
NOV that Anna Gould is married, Mrs.
~ Willie Vanderbilt divorced, congress ad-
iourned, and the Napolionic craze on the wane,
the long suffering public breathes sigh of
relief.
In the language of Hamlet, IL has all been
"stale, flat and improbable" and yet some
thing that had to be endured In order to sup
ply the newspapers with the required amount
of reading matter.
People scold about the newspapers and at
the same time recognize that to stop reading
them means stagnation.
Willie Vanderbilt, the Gar and congress
one grew accustomed to and formed quite q
taste for, after while, but Anna Gould and
Napoleon were impossible to the bitter end.
And yet after all there were many vital
things connected with Miss Gould's alliance Of
deep interest to the public. One was the
length of the train on her wedding gown. 1t
was nearly nine feet when ii might only have
been two yards.
But o! the gorgeousness of the wedding 1t
was like chapter from the Count of Monte
Cristo" in all of its colossal magnifCence and
ostentaton.
Such wondrous flowers and tropical exotis
Such splendid diamonds and rare jewels Such
heavenly music floating through the heavily
perfumed air Such magnificent pictures,
costly hangiugs and striking color effects
Such an Arabian Nights affair in all of its APP
pointments that one could almost fancy them
swallowing pearls like Cleopatra and drinking
gold like Lorenzo de Medici.
1t is no wonder that curiosity seekers
thronged about the Gould mansion blocking
the street for squares and entirely stopping
traffic on the street. Itwas a thawing day and
the mud in front of the house and drive and
sidewalks was five inches deep. A squad of
policemen could scarcely manage the excited
crowd as they pushed and crowded to get
nearer the house in order to catch glimpse of
the festivities inside.
1t was the same way at the pier the morn
ing the bridal couple sailed and again police
protection was called in.
Anna Gould is a pretty, sweet girl and the
Count is dapper little man and looks like a
French doll.
And still the question; will the Goulds
get into societyP'
NO." says Mrs. Parin Stevens, whose word
is law aud who has been forcing the Goulds in,
mo, they wont go, this wedding settles 1t, it
was such bad form"
YES" says an easy going leader, they are
good sort and are not responsible for their
fathers mis.deeds."
mo" replies a conservative "they won't
do, for don't you know stolen goods can al
ways be returned to the police station"
This American and French alliance is savagely
disapproved of for financial reasons simply.
People object to so much money going out of
the country. 1t seems to me but another appli
cation of the Emersonian theory Of compensa.
ton:
For everything you have missed you have
gained something else"
1t is true that American heiresses take
money out of the country, but it is only equal
ization after all, for the wrecked railroads and
bankrupt industries are owned entirely by for
eign capital.
QUITE ENGLISH YOU KNOW.
There are few quite fashionable express
ions now in vogue, that will illustrate with
the following conversation:
Wont you stop for lunch?"
"No, thanks, must be going on; for am
lunching with Mrs. b. today"
How is your husbandp'
80, he has been SICK and is swfully seedy."
How do you like Mr.. BT'
80, very much. He is "a good sort "
NOVEL ADVERTISING.
saw an amusing thing on the street yester-
day. man six feet four inches tall. weigh
ing about two hundred and seventy-fve
pounds, walked by the side of a man about
five feet three and thin in proportion.
They both wore banners across the front of
their coats. The big mans banner was in
scrbed 81 eat II. and D." and the little
mans read: 81 don't"
have noticed lately that all of the lame,
blind and disabled beggars and grir ders of an.
tedeluvian hand organs have brand new signs.
There is regularly organized firm here who
employs these people for mere pittance, and
to whom they are obliged to report at the close
of the day with their earnings.
A small boy created considerable amusement
in street car the other day. He wore a pla-
card around his neck having the inscription
81 am widow with six small children, etc."
l asked the poor little soul where he got it
and he said it belonged to his mother who was
sick in bed and he was sent out to see what he
could do. Everybody in the car gave him
something.
Talk about women being unselfsh and inn
polite on street cars. Listen to this; l have
never seen the like before:
was sitting in crowded Broadway cable
when young man entered with a feeble old
lady, probably his mother. No one offered his
seat to her and as l could not endure to see her
stand, gave her my seat which she accepted
very gratefully. In the next block the man
across left the car, and the son of the woman
to whom gave my seat, sat down as compos-
edly as possible leaving me to stand.
GRAND CAKE WALK.
The grand cake walk and Jubilee given by
the NatiOnol Ethiopian Society attracted ten
thousand people to Madison Square Garden.
II was fine audience, too, Of representative
white people, besides the cream of the colored
population of the metropolis.
Most of the boxes surrounding the vast
arena, where the walk took place, were occu-
pied by elegantly dressed colored people. l
was surprised to see so much beauty and ele-
gance of attire.
In one box sat a most beautiful woman, like
a creole in her type She wore a gown of
black velvet low corsage, trimmed with point
lace and a necklace of diamonds, with dia-
monds in her ears and an aigrette in her
hair which was straight and combed back
smoothly from her forehead. She was accom-
panied by her husband, superb looking fell
low with features like North American In