The times., 1899-06-18
CLERICAL MATCHES
Made TN GOTHAM
New YOrk's Richest Girls Are
Marrying Ministers.
Their Elders Are Engaging in the
Trade.
Fashionable Women Sell strayyber-
ries, Pug Dogs, and VioIet--on~
Conducts ekittcry.-

The art of money getting is evidently an
Inherent quality and ambition in the
American blood. for there is hardly i
woman in New York society. no matte.
how lofty her position and generous her
income. who does not dearly love the ex-
eitement of earning an extra honest penny.
Just now II is by sales of flowers, small
fruits. and pet dogs that the most -four
| ishing commerce is carried on in high life
and no social leader necessarily feels her
self in the smallest degree contaminated
with vulgar trade by carrying on her po-
lite traffic. MIR Astor and the Countess 0.
Stranord, for example. are in violets. bat
TO render their business dealings as dis
tinguished as possible no Blossom from
their ohoieely kept cold frames ever wastes
its perfume on the unaristocratic air OF !
shop. Sales OF the odorous pOsies HOm
those famous farms on the Hudson are all
strictly private among the friends OF tle
ladies who are interested in violet culture.
and the florists clamOr as yainly FOR them
as for the notable Crosby roses, OF the
fruit dealers for the strawberries from the
Vanderbilt farm.
On the same system as the Astor violets
are sold does the eOterie that raises dogs
limit their circle of patrons. Dog raising
is fine art and polite passion among
the animal loving women. and as high as
five hundred good round dollars is cneer-
fully paid for frisky terrier, dachshund.
OF bull pup from private stables, such, Tor
example, as MRS. II. Carey's. Under the
loving, scientific superintendent OF this
lady fox terriers are bred in physical beau
ty and to the privileges of high culture,
and though her income from her dogs is
not known, yet it is positively tidy sum.
Mrs " oodruff Sutton is another woman
who wins profit as well as pleasure from
her dogs, who are raised on her Long
Island farm, and whose very blue canine
blood commands an amazingly high figure
Undoubtedly the handsOmest mastlns in
New York are bred in their city stables
by the Misses Pierson, who have dogology
and canine geneaology at their finger tips
as well as the quoted prices for high-bred
pets; while Mrs. Goddard conducts per-
sonally, and profitably, though chiefly for
her own amusement, wonderful pussery,
from which are supplied TO New York pal
aces the finest Angoras, Persians, and vel
vety Maltese that ever Tapped cream from
Sevres saucerS-
Then there is Mrs Whiting whose
strawberries are sold by the dozen and
delivered in the form of bouquets, each
strawberry having its own long stem, and
a group Of four or six are tied together
like heavy-headed roses But TO enumerate
all these traders is to mention goodly
majority of New York's feminine society,
that has found more than purely anna
teur interest in the products Of the mod
ern perfected stable and model farm.
Clergymen, so fashionable women are
Just discovering. make ideal husbands,
hence the recent large accessions of
I ..Fr rreytt
the strong and holy bands of matrimony.
Counting only from the beginning Of 80,
sufficient evidence can be produced to
prove conclusively that the clergyman's
matrimonial star, from every point OF
view, is distinctly in the ascendant, and
that q popular preacher stands a better
chance of winning lovely wealthy wife
than his more worldly brother. .-It
One of the loveIiest girls, with a very
| large dot lately gone over to clerical cir
cles, is Miss Julie Fay Bradley. She is
| the heiress to a tremendous fortune,
| singularly pretty and socially distin-
] guished debutante, and her choice
OF a husband fell on Rev. Mr.. Shipman,
| fine eloquent young man. ornameuting a
modest chaplaincy. Very shortly after this
interesting wedding, handsome widow,
no less a person than Mrs. Richard Arnold,
gave her heart and hand into the keep
ing of Rev. Harvey Hartman, and So
ciety. that fully expects every woman
to aim at a British title or at the match
| ing of one big fortune with another. had
hardly recovered from this shock of sur
prise, when Miss Margaret Thorne's en-
gagement TO a famously eloquent, tall
and good-looking Swedish evangelist, Rev.
Richard Tjader, was announced.
This is another instance OF wealth and
beauty moved to forswear many idle
worldly joys for the greater spiritual priyi-
leges. and, like all the women who
have by matrimony gone into the
church, devoting not only their riches
but personal endeavors to the benefit of
their husbands calling. Miss ThOrne Will
devote her future energies 10 purely
evangelical labors.
After Easter, at one of the most fash
onable of the New York churches, it
was daughter OF the ancient house ot
Van Rensselaer, who pIighted her troth
to Rev. james Johnson. who is well
known as one of the handsomest and
most influential energetic young Episeo-
pal rectors in the big city. and just
after that lovely Miss Whitman was
married TO the son Of one Of Washing
tons popular clerics, Winthrop McKim,
and himself an ordained minister of the
Gospel.
1t is very well known that of the
famously tall and beautiful Dresser Sis
ters, the youngest OF whom is now Mrs.
George Vanderbilt, one elected to marry
an Episcopal clergyman a few years
ago, and Of five leading preachers in
New York. four have won wives from
the corps of bellies and hGiresses- Added
| to those statistics, which seem sufficient
evidence of the popularity OF cIergymen
as husbands it is only fair to state
that in the Presbyterian and Episcopal
pulpits of the Empire City there can be
counted half dozen eloquent young
bachelors, who, should they ever elect to
resign their lonely state. could IN
doubtedly win the most admirable wives
. from among the fairest. richest, and
/ most distinguished of their congrega-
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