The age-herald., 1899-02-09
MISS FAIR TOLD THE NEWS.
Womanlike, That Everybody
 Knew It Already.

Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.
 On Thursday morning Miss Virginia Fair started forth from her sisters house appar- ently bent on doing a unique and uncon- Ventional thing. Whether that was her pur pose, she certainly did in a most charming manner something that was unique and most attractively unconventional. Miss Fair always attracts attention, even from those who do not know who she is, because she adds to a personal charm of face and figure certain vivacity, brightness, alert ness, which is something very different from that high form" which is deemed the essential characteristic of those who have been bred in what is called society here. She has warm emotions and does not fear to express them She is interested in many things and looks upon it as no soecism to betray that interest. She does not cultivate the languor and the sham indifference and far away sight which are deemed by many attractive young women to be qualities well worth cultivating On the other hand, those who know her either by sight or DIV acquaintance have long been aware that she is possessed of fine artistic sense which makes it possible for her to dress with eX- quite taste, conspicuous only for its perfect taste, and many have thought her worthy of being called the best dressed woman In New York.
 On Thursday morning she met many friends who were charmed and perhaps not 0 little surprised to hear her say after the greetings of the season were exchanged, Are you not going to congratulate me-! Thus she spoke to one man distinguished among citizens of New York, and he with much grace and courtesy replied: You are well worthy of all congratulations; you have everything to make a woman happy. and you have a charm which enables you to h at,tNi,1 n
 .But I mean" she continued, aren't you going to congratulate me for something special?"
 q do congratulate you, although do not know what that special thing is.
 She looked up into this distinguished citi- zens eyes half coquetishly, half shyly ana said: "On my engagement"
 "Ahi the congra tulations ought to be be- slowed upon the happy man who has won your promise" was the reply
 ''Well, you may congratulate hm' too, when you see him if you really mean it, she said.
 But how can I congratulate him, not knowing who he is?'
 An! I thought you knew. I thought al most everybody knew. It is MT wander bilt
 q do congratulate him, and I congratu- late vou. for he is a fine representative of his family"
 Miss Fair was much pleased to hear that saving and she bestowed charming smlle upon him to whom she had given her confi- dence. gave him her hand and then depart ed to make announcement to others in this informal way of her engagement to the second son of William K. Vanderbilt.
 No one can say that this was romance in which any other consideration than that which ought to be the chief in all romances of this kind had any part. Miss Fair Is very rich young woman and she manages her estate with a charming alertness and keenness that are as characteristic or her original and unique quality as many Of the other delightful things that she has done
 Young Vanderbilt will be very rich him. self, his father being perhaps one of the ten richest men in New York. Therefore, there could have been no money motive in those who have witnessed it's progress for a year or two
 Miss Fair has made her own choice and she is the kind of girl who would be sure to do that. She has had many suitors, but she favored none until she found in young Vanderbilt her ideal. It Is probable that the wedding will take place soon after MT. Vanderbilts graduation from Harvard next June.