The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-22
PRETTY MAUD HALL
New York's Four Hundred to
Lose Famous Beauty.
SAUCY M!NX'S AT TRACTION
FooliShneSS of Rich Grown
Up Folks.
SAUCY MINX'S ATTRACTION


the loss OF a real beauty.
With marriage however, Maude Halls
position will only be shifted. The older set
will claim her as they have Mrs. John
Jacob Aston, Mrs Clarence Mackey and
more recently Cora Randolph. who mar
ried Richard Trimbe.
Maude Hall has fallen in love. This by
the word of all gossips, so it must be
true. To prove it they recall the failure
of the Cordage Trust Company and with
its collapse the financial ruin of Larry
Waterbury's father.
Young Waterbury, the son of James NJ.
Waterbury, is not rich. Maude Hall, the
lovely daughter of Mrs. Valentine Hall,
and sister of Mrs Stanley Mortimer, is
is not an heriss.
Love in a cottage!" cry the gossiips in
an ecstasy of delight at climax so IN
usual in the history of any one who be-
longe to the Four Hundred.
But the cottage may be patterned after
the gorgeous Waterbury residence known
as Plaisance, at Baychester, Westchester
County.
That makes it more interesting.
No one knows just what the Water
burys are worth since Pere Waterbury
fell from the majesty of kingdom in
Cordage. He lives in the minds of many
as the hero of one of the most pictures
que cases of supplementary proceedings
ever before the New York courts. Four
years ago he declared himself bankrupt
without even coat to hang in his ward
robe. Yet the family mansior at West
Chester is luxurious as in the days when
its entertainments got famous.
Is it cottage patterned after this to
which Larry Waterbury will conduct his
bride?
His mother was the wealthy Miss Fur
man, of Brooklyn. Despite the collapse
of the Cordage Trust she has a fortune
to leave her sons-Jimmie, Jr., and Larry.
But if Lawrence Waterbury were
without prospects Maude Hall is unique
enough to wed him still, So friend
commented.
Maude Halls vagaries have been the
pride of the younger set.
She has set forth fashions for them
which they have gloried in following.
Sometimes she has been too bold for them
but, nothing daunted, she has continued
alone as an intrepid boy who claims lead
ership by reason of his daring.
What will Maude Hall do next " The
younger set. of which Leila Sloane, Edith
Knowlton, Miss de Peyster, Marian Fish
and a dozen others of her dear friends,
entertained themselves specializing.
Maude Hall with an irresistible upward
curve to her lips would smile mischiev-
ously, toss of her head and start1e them
do wit MIA HaU wit
other.
On a certain occasion for instence, well
remembered by many because it was I'M
usual, Maude Hall sat among a group of
her young friends slipping tea from a cup
of shell-like china. She held it poised in
the air as she listened to one of them tell
how on the morrow she would start for
Europe, to take flying trip.
Maude Halls eyes looked out into the
distance as though they saw the tossing
waves of the ocean and beyond lands full
of interest. She sat as If wrapped only
in the pleasures that were to be anoth-
er's.
The trip as it was laid before the listen
ers was applauded as jolly to an unusual
degree.
II wish you were all going" cried the
young girl who was destined to the pleas
ure.
Maude Halls eyes sparkled suddenly
with resolution, her lips broke into
smile of sunshine, her laugh rippled
through the room, She sat her shell-hke
cup down upon its saucer with a gesture
that was almost too decisive for its
weight
III go with your she announced.
'Maude! really?" A chorus of young
voices doubted. questioned.
Mamma" cried Maude Hall, I'm go
ing to Europe tomorrow. Edith's going,
and she said l might go with her"
Now in most families such an announce
ment might have created some consterna-
ton, but in Mrs Valentine Halls house
hold the unexpected was always expected.
eff you have made up your mind dear.
answered a gentle voice, quite as though
Maude had announced her intention to go
downtown.
A maid was dispatched here TO get
Maude a proper sort Of hat, one that
would shield from the oceans breezes; an
other went to find the right coat: trunks
were packed. tickets secured, the teie-
phone rang a few more times, the foot
man had a few more errands. but be-
yond these tribes the household was IN
disturbed. and Maude Han sailed ~-,a her
friend TO Europe.
No one ever thought 10 athw2-l E-r
She has never been subjected 10 even IN
discipline OF q school. She had only
at home. whose duty II was 10
fit her 10 sail through life on a wave OF
love and admiration She comes or
handsome family, of which she Is perhaps
the handsomest She is related 10 the
laws. the Livingstons, the De PeysteTs
and the Clarksons. Her mother was
Mary Livingston Ludlow before she be-
came the wife OF Valentine Hall
L is comon courtesy 10 call al brides
beautiful. There is also-by the courtesy
Of the public prints al least-granted t.
each and everywomaR IN society spscla4
quality Of beauty. But il Maude Han
were q beggar one could not deny the
claim OF her charms. she IS one among
New York's few fashionable girls who
may really D quoted a. beautiful There
have been others. Alice Blight "a one
Kittie Duer was another. Cora Randolph
was & third But beauty among the -Four
Hundred is no more plentiful than Il Is
behind the counters IN. shops II fact
there have been those pleased 4 assert
thai It was less so. But announcements
either way DO not prove the ezse- Tae
Camera is more reliable
The picture on this page was taken from
fife II It two sisters are shown 70 D
beautiful They are Edith. tanEiariy
known az Pussy" and Maude Han.