The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-18

| her recent illness, and the regal figure
in the soft gray satin dress, with the
tiara and ropes of diamonds, was the
cynosure of all eyes. She attracted
more attention that Nine Emma
Eames upon the stage, and whispers
of chow sweetIy pretty Mrs. Astor looks
tonight" We're heard all over the house
to the strains of q Wagnerian accom-
paniment. During the enta' actes the
Astor box was filed with the handsom-
est and most brilliant men in the house,
for Mrs William Astor is without doubt
the high priestess of New York's fash
ionable society today A bow, cor
dial smile of recognition, but above
all an invitation to one of her cermOni-
Gus dinners gives q man a cachet that
nothing else can supply. With the
stamp of Astor approval debutantes
and beaux can feel assured of their
social position.
Mrs. Astor is as popular with the
older men as she is with the young
ones, and to be seen in her opera box
is a kind of patent of social nobility,
and an introduction to her is a very i'm
portant item in a young mans social
equipment, for whatever she does at
once becomes the fashion. 1t is rarely
that a woman so frankly worshiped
by the masculine half of the world is
also a favorite with her own sex, but
Mrs Astor's high-bred face and gentle
manners arouse more enthusiasm than
envy even among women less fortunate
than herself.
Colonel John Jacob Astor is also i'm
mensely popular just now, for the halo
of the military hero is around his head.
His patriotism and the Soldterly sim
plicity of his bearing during the late
war earned him more friends than were
ever attracted by his millions. and the
fact that he neither asked nor wanted
any reward in the way of political pre-
fer1nent added greatly to his popularity.
ROOSEVELTS SELF-DISCIPLINE.
Though it is a trife late in the season
for stories about Colonel Teddy Roose-
welt at the beach, want to tell some
thing that happened at his place at
Oyster Bay last summer, which shows
the character of the man and his stern
lf-discipline better than anything else
l have heard during the war or the late
political campaign.
On going to his house to interview
him one afternoon 1 learned that he
was down bathing in the ocean, so de-
cided to wait on the veranda till he
should return. Pretty soon his square,
broad-shouldered figure was seen COM
ing rapidly up the hill. After learning
my errand, he excused himself for a
moment and went upstairs, and when
he came down again Mrs. Roosevelt
said:
freddy, did you bring up that wet
bathing suit?''
20, nor he said, with comical lit
tie gesture of self-punishment, Il for
got it,
''Then FL send a servant down to
bring it up" said Mrs. Roosevelt, for
it will be ruined if it is left to lie down
there all wet with the sea water
you will do nothing of the kind"
said the colonel, ''for I am going to
bring it up myself" He started down
the path, but she called after him:
Teddy, have you got the key to the
bathhouse in your poclet?"
He turned and came back to the
house. Il left it upstairs just now.
when I went after a handkerchief he
said.
4 viii run up and get it, said Mrs
Roosevelt; ''it will only take a mo-
ment."
She had her foot on the first step
when her husband caught her and play
fully pulled her back.
You are not going upstairs to get
that key for me- he said. 81 left the
bathing suit in the bathhouse, and
am the one to go after it. left the key
upstairs and I am going to get that
myself, too. 1t is quite time I learned
to be less thoughtless."
They had quite a. little argument as
to who should get the key but he fin
ally cut it short by bounding up the
stairs, two steps at a time, and imme-
diately bounding down again, swinging
the key in his fingers.
.Ie never will let anybody wait on
him." said Mrs. Roosevelt as the colonel
started for the bathhouse.
In few minutes he came up the hill
again, looking bright and happy, and