The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09

Goelet, London society calls the two
pretttest American hetresses to whose
fair hands and large fortunes titled
young Englishmen may aspire. OF
these two youthful beauties, Miss Goe-
let must be accorded the palm for ply
steal perfection. and her fortune is va
riously estimated at between 81, 900, 900
and $S,0O0,000. She is a slender, dark
eyed, dark haired girl, just turned into
her 18th year, and has been very care
fully educated in France, Germany and
England. Last year she formally
made her debut in London, was pre-
scented at court and created a sensation
all her own, AT every one of the big
halls she wore invariably the orispest
tulle frocks-whlte tulle. pale pink
tulle, green and yellow tulle, no matter
the color, it was ever tulle, and but
once did she deign to dine in any other
fabric. This once was on the occa-
sion of the Duchess of Devonshire's
great fancy dress ball at Devonshire
house, when Miss Goelet Joined the
group of Princess Henry Of Piss in one
Of the finest frocks seen at the royal
pageant On a white satin ground
jewels in wonderful patterns were
sewed, and in her dark hair a golden
band showed one huge emerald Just
over the forehead. From the emerald
fell, directly between her brows,
! peFtlt- SilApeu diamond LldL quite OUT
shone any other single stone in the
room. Miss Aston though not so fair
to look upon as Miss Goelet, has yet
a sweet enough face and manner to
win her way in any society. She
| greatly resembles her lovely and gra-
cious mother in both mind and person,
and as the hostess in the great man
sion In Carleton house terrace and at
stately Cliveden, she bears herself with
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however, very fond of society, and so
far has only appeared to do the hon
ors Of her fathers table. When she
did grace the head of his table not
long ago, she wore among other jew
els the famous Sanct diamond that is
worth 100000.
! Miss Louise Upton is teaching art
and other branches in Miss Vests
school, Norfolk, Va
One of the features of the summer
season in the east has been the re-
Mobilization of Saratoga. For a number
| of years people have talked of Saratoga
and its former glories as if they had be-
come things of the past. SUDDENLY, how
ever, and almost inexplicably, the tide
| turned and again the place has pre-
scented the extraordinary panorama of
daily life which made it famous years
| ago. Saratoga is utterly unlike Newport
| VI DdE I1dTDOT OF LGuO8. one sees Ill
sorts and conditions of men at Sara
toga. 1t is more like Baden-B Baden (says
a writer in the Bazar) than like other
American resorts. There are the process
! sions of elderly people, disfgured by
| disease or dissipation. There is the con-
tingent drawn by the racing. There are
the traditions of extraordinary gambl-
| ing-now only traditions. Saratoga has
two features unlike the German water
nl1OR-iTE hi
for years were looked upon very much
| in the light Of Ferris wheels and Eiffel
| towers, and the element of political life
given it by it's countless conventions.
| Saratoga has been visited by foreigners
and described as an extremely fashion
able resort. There was misapprehen-
sion caused by its likeness to the great
European watering places In America
the aim of the exclusive set of fashion
ables is to build up little cities of their
own cottages, from which the world is
shut out and within which they enter
tain lavishly. On the continent, how
ever, society displays a willingness to
appear at table d'hotes and to abandon
Individual entertaining. Homburg,
| Wiesbaden, Nice, Biarritz, Trouville,
Scheveningen, are all hotel resorts. OF
course they include a certain number
of villas, but the life is pre- eminently
hotel life, and the most notable visitors
rub elbows with the equity bourgeois,
the parvenu, and the simple tourist.
The last four lectures in Mrs. Albert
G. Chaffee's course of six on Great
| European Galleries viii be given in
the studio, 919 Main street, instead of
in Memorial hall, as formerly an
nounced.
A definite limit to your invitation is
now the rule in the house parties which
| In
| try life. Among entertainers in this way
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, who are
giving a series of house parties at their
beautiful place at Staatsburg- on the
| Hudson, are said to be unequalled. Mrs
| Mills, who was one of the twin daugh-
ters OF the late Maturin Livingston,
was brought up in an atmosphere of en-
PERTAINING, and had the advantage of
being brought out in England and see
ing great deal of English society be-
fore her debut at Newport. The charm
of a visit to Staatsburg is that up to
the dinner hour one is left entirely to
ones own devices. One breakfasts when
one pleases and lunches where one
pleases.
The life OF the vicereine in India is
one of striking and picturesque variety |
1t has it's state Of ceremonial side, its |
social and it's domestic side, writes Sir
Roper Lethbridge Of Mrs. Curzon's fu- |
ture career. Naturally the viceroy's |
wife has many beautiful homes, the va |
riety being made necessary by the |
changes Of the season. The "Viceregal |
Lodge at Simla Is the headquarters Of /
the court from March to October, and |
has grown of late to be the real home"
of the Viceregal family. In |
Calcutta, when she drives abroad, she I
has to Go so with the pomp and circum-
stance of royalty, files of sowars
ttroopers) of the bodyguard usually
as an escort. Turning for a
moment to the ceremonial side of the
wife Of the viceroy. the greatest state
function of the year in which her excel
lenoy is the chief parsonage is, Of
course, the Calcutta drawing room. The
pageantry of the Calcutta drawing
room is precisely similar to that OF
Buckingham palace, her excellency rep
resenting and taking the place of her
majesty Gentlemen attending on la
dies who are being presented, or who
are attending the drawing room, if they
are entitled to uniform, must appear in
full drawing room as distinct from
levee dress. The ladies' trains, feath
ers, ornaments and bouquets are exactly
the same as In Buckingham palace.
The ladies enter the throne room as
nearly as possible in single file. There
arrived, the lady's train is spread out
and arranged by an A. d. c. She
makes her obeisance, and then her train
is again caught up and thrown over her
arm by one Of the A. D. C.'s specially
told off for this task. Lord William
Beresford, V. C.-the famous "Bill'
Beresford, who has married one Of the
most charming of American ladies (the
dowager duchess of Marlborough, and
of whom 1t is said to be impossible to
know whether he is most at home in