The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-01

. iIIIIfItI iiIiIItftIIIlIII
: The Social Aspect
OF Yachting.
nII(E DE-

By
ALICE De BERDT.

lions in regard to building the Defender
and the Columbia. The fact that the
j seamen Of the yachts have the great
( est respect for Mrs. Iselin's nautical
attachments is sufficient guarantee OF
their value. for sailormen are not apt
! to regard with much enthusiasm the
/ requirements of any mere iandlubber.
Mrs. Iseiin always accompanies her
husband in the trial races and sailed
on board the Defender in her races with
the Valkyrie III the crew claiming
that they regarded the handsome young
wife OF their commander as the yacht s
/ mascot. OF course, even the most
hopelessly grovelins landsman's INTEL
/ Iect viii grasp the fact that a sailor
J looks on yacht without a mascot as
probably early prey for Davy Jones.
/ Mrs. Iselin was Miss Hope Goddard. a
/ Rhode Island heiress. whose ancestors
/ have many of them been seafaring
/ folk, so that she comes naturally by
her love of the ocean wave.
! Mrs. George Gould always accompan-
/ les her husband on his trips on their
steam yacht the ATLANTA. She looks
/ her handsomest in a snug hitting yacht
I lis COSlGAAlt anu - al tANEAACAlN S&AAlbi
/ Mrs Gould and Mrs. Iselin are very
warm friends. one Of their mutual in
/ terests being a love of sea sport. The
| Gould children always so with their
parents on their yachting excursions
and there is no prettier sight than to
see them in their sailor clothes, follow
ing their father over the yacht or lin
gering about their pretty mother as she
/ idles over a book in the shadow of one
+ of the deck awnings. The Goulds'
/ yacht Is beautifully furnished and we'll
adapted for entertaining. There is no
doubt that the ATLANTA, with a party
/ of fashionable friends on board. viii
witness the defeat or the victory of Sir
( Thomas Upton. Mrs. Gould probably
/ knows Sir Thomas, for. in England
where the Goulds have been on their
/ yacht several times and where they
were with the Vigilant once contestants
for International cups. almost all the
yachting notables have entertained or
been entertained by them, not except
ing the Prince OF Wales. who has ex-
pressed his admiration for the smart
ness with which Mrs. Gould is always
gowned on shipboard. Most English
yachting women. by the way, have 4
dowdiness that is in inverse ratio to
their requirements as sailors.
Mrs. Howard Gould, who, with her
husband, has been on their yacht, the
Niagara, cruising in foreign waters.
where they have entertained emperors
and princes. is also fine yachtswoman.
During their voyage the emperor Of
Germany. himself an enthusiastic
yachtsman. paid them visit from the
Hohenzollern, his own vessel. and
greatly admired the beauty of the Nj
agara, which was built in accordance
with many suggestions of Mrs. Gould
when she was still Miss Katherine
ClemmOns.
The women Of the Vanderbilt family
have never been notable for their love
of sport. Although Mrs. O. II. p. Bel
mont, when she was the wife of Mr.. w.
X. Vanderbilt, spent part Of each sea-
son on board his magnificent steam
yacht the Valiant, the largest in the
world it was as a hostess rather than
a devotee OF yachting that she was
notable.
Mrs John Jacob Aston is skilled in
all sorts Of fashionable sport. and her
requirements as a yachtswoman are
quite equal TO any. Mrs. Aston has
score Of handsome yachting gowns 20
wear when she and Colonel Astor are
cruising about on the high seas on