The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-03
WAS MISS FAIRS WAY.
How the Rich Young LadyrAnnounced
Her Engagement.

New York. Jan 3.-On Thursday
morning Miss Virginia Fair started
forth from her sisters house apparently
bent upon doing a unique and uncon-
yentional thing. Whether that was her
purpose, she certainly did in q most
charming manner something that was
unique and most attractfvely unconven-
t4onal Miss Fair always attracts at
tention, even from those who do not
know who she IS, because she adds to a
personal charm of face and figure a
certain vivacity, brightness, alertness
which is something very different from
that high form which is deemed the
essential characteristics of those who
have been bred in what Is called society
here. She has warm emotions and does
mot fear to express them She is inter
estad In many things and looks upon it
as no solecism to betray that interest.
She does not cultivate the languor and
the sham indifference and far away
sight which are deemed by many at
tractive young women to be qualities
well worth cultivating. On the other
hand, those who know her either by
sight or by acquaintance have long been
aware that she is possessed of fine ar
tisttc sense which makes it possible for
her to dress with exquisite taste, con-
SpicuouS 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 little surprised to hear her say after
ed: fare You. not going to congratulate
me?'' Thus she spoke to one gentleman
YorK, ana he With much UGH grace and cour-
fesy replied: You are well worthy of all
charm which enables g You to bestOw Rappi-
t1But T mean" she continued, "aren't you
going to congratulate me for something
q DO congratulate you, although I do
not know What that SPECIAL thing is
3zen's eyes half coquettishly, half shyly,
''Ah. the congratuiation ought to be be-
slowed upon the happy man who won
T we'll Hi0 VoG may S ee Sns him. too,
when you see him, If you really mean it, p
But how can I congratulate him. not
'Ah, I thought you knew. I thought al
most everybody knew It is Mr.. Wander
II do congratulate him and I congratu-
late you. for >, he Is fine representative
Miss Fair was much pleased to hear that
saying, and she bestowed a smile upon
him to whom she had given her conf
parted to make announcement to others
IN this informal way of her engagement
Mo one can say that this was romance in
which ought to be the chief in all ro-
mances of this kind had any part. Miss
she manages her estate with a Charming
alertneSS and keeneSS that Is character
as many of the other deiightful things
very rich himself, his father being per-
haps one of the ten richest men in New
York Therefore, there could have been
no money motive in an attachment which
has delighted all those who have witnessed
its progress for year or two
Miss Fair has made her own choice, and
she is the kind of a girl who would be
sure to do that. She has many suitors,
but she favored none until she found in
young Vanderbilt her ideal It is prob
able that the wedding will take place after
MIR. Vanderbilts graduation from Harvard
next June.