The sun., 1901-08-10
MRS. GRUNDY'S
SOCIAL CHAT
Wilmington's Vanity Fair Scat
tered at Many Resorts.
ECHOES OF GAY D0INGS
At the Seashore Mountains Hotels
and Various Springs-Where the
People are Spending the
Summer Days.
ECHOES OF GAY D0INGS

| The proverbial .'height of the season"
is here and Vanity Fair is fa, and near
sending occasional messages to the poor
| Stay-at -homrrs, from Cape May, At
latte City. AShury Park, the Maine Coast
and now III the mountains the social
| wave is crested with some of our at
tractive men and women.
| From Bedford Springs come echoes
Of gay doings in which the Samuel Ban
| 'roft, ,Irs. and the John b. Birds take
prominent parts. Mrs. Samuel Bancroft
gave d card party this week 1T which
Mrs. John b. Bird won first prize. Col.
| William A. Lamotte was the life of the
Iparty.
At Cape May our folks are much in
| violence. Levi g. Bird has left there
'or Saratoga.
Mr.. and Mrs. George =. Bissell have
gone to Rangeey Lakes. Maine. whore
they will join Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred 5.
Elliott ana Mr.. and Mrs. Huxley Ilar-
vey. in trout fishing expedition.
Edward L. Candy has gone TO Halifax
| hy sea.
| Mrs. Alfred /. du Pont gave dinner
)f ten covers at her Cape May cottage
Oh Tuesday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore p. Rogers are
IT Ocean City, Md.
Mrs. Lucas. of Philadelphia, has been
tha guest Of her sister, Mrs. Henry r.
| Duncan, at her home near Bellevue.
| Edwin X. Cochran, Jr., and Henry
| Ioopes Of this city and DT H. II. Gill
pin Of Middletown. sailed from New York
| N the North German Lloyd steamer
BarburoSsa for Southampton. They
| .Xpect.to be gone about a month.
| For the far distant Philippines where
| he will become the happy bride of on"
# Uncle Sans fighters. Lieutenant A.
| w. Foreman, appointed from Delawate.
Miss Rebecca Milligan. accompanied by
lcr father. the Rev. ]. Il. Milligan, left
i III Wednesday.
| DIR. A1illigan and his daughter will 20
| rom here to the Pan-American EXpos-
tion. From there they will proceed 70
san Francisco and thence to the Philip
pines.
| From Rehoboth comes news of gay 10
ngs Coy. and Mrs. Hum and Miss
HUM are summering there. Miss
HUM is very popular and is a much adj
nired figure on the beach.
Il Among the most attractive young wO-
men enjoying this resort ncne other re,
| Give more admiration than Miss Adeline
Il. Jones whose engagement ta Robert
! 9. Pennington, nf Seaford. was annolnc-
| a in The Sun this week.
Mrs Henry +. Shredder has been
.isitng her mother, Mrs. Henrietta Par
lis in Middletown.
The Rev. Thomas A. McCurly. pastor
| # Central Presbyterian Church, hay
ng been granted months vacation.
| will leave tomorrow accompanied by Mrs.
McCurly. for u western "trip. They will
/ spend the first two weeks Mt Peoria. H.,
md next Sunday and Sunday week DR..
NcCurdy will preach at the church there
| II which he was formerly pastor.
The Rev. r. Burgette Short and Mrs.
Short have returned from San Francisco.
Miss Mabel Winner is visiting ut
Beach Haven. New Jersey.
Mrs. Josephine Allen has returned from
Rehoboth and Dover to her home on
| Jefferson street.
Wilmington is truly becoming 4 Grctna
Green. Another secret of Hymen's has
inst leaked ont and says that on Anril
% Rev +. Rurgette Short. Of Epworth
Methodist Episcopal Church, marri"d
Miss Nellie l.. Wheeler to Dr. Iahn II.
l'9roshanS. both OF Baltimore. At their
tcauest Mr.. Short has kept the fact a
ccret hut today the affair became
llnown.