The age-herald., 1901-11-24
The New York "Aoo." "


l will put it this way: Among this win ter's buds will be Miss Caroline Drayton, daughter of MT. J. Coleman Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. Astor. Dear, dear; 1T women would only think. What a good old saying: Look before you leap" It ought to be worked in great letters and hung in every nursery. Great oig letters like those which hung in the Travers' dining-room. They read God bless our home" until William R. Travers, after bad dinner, changed them to read, God d-n our cock. Yes, look before you leap. The Astor millions could not save the Drayton household from it's sorrow. Drayton divorces his wife and introduces his daughter into society, and the debutante's mother, as Mrs. Haig lives in London. I was at Augusta As- tors wedding. What a sweet young girl she was! Do you remember her that night at Mrs. Gallatin's, in the tableaux, as Innocence and the Dove?' That re- minds me of Jimmie Gallatin with his rouged cheeks and his corsets.
 Another young debutante will be Miss Fannie Iselin, the daughter O. Tom Gar ner, and N-..le Gamers niece. And the Garners-all gone. The young lady must nave fine fortune in her own right from her mother. Still another is Newbold Edgar's daughter Miss Julia Lorillard Ed gar l wonder where the Lorillard comes In. There were no Lorillards in the Ed gar family. When the Edgars, Emmets, Le Roys and Newbolds, were great people the Lorillards were selling snuff and chewing tobacco in Chambers street. Well, there will be sixty all told.
 
 It gave me great pleasure to meet Mrs. Michael Henry l.erbert the other even ing. She was Miss Belle Wilson. R. T.'s second daughter. and I always thought the most charming of the three sisters. She married for love- Well, 1t has agreed with her. She Is beautiful, happy wo- man. Herbert belongs to one of the best English families, and of course, is not rich. And yet l don't know whether, with one sister Goelet and another a Vanderbilt, and a sister-in-law an Astor it may not be the most comfortable thing in the world to be, comparatiyely speaking, poor. But, taken all in all, Herbert Is lucky man. His wife is bright, cheerful, beautiful, accomplished and good. Is that not better than mill lions? The Herberts have gone back to England.
 Young Pierpont Morgan and his wife are in Boston visiting MT. and Mrs. Grow Mrs. Morgan's parents. They will then come here and visit his father and moth CT. In January they return to England Mr. and Mrs. John Rockefeller, Jr are in their new house. Mrs. Rockefeller says she Is going to entertain good deal this winter, and promised to accept an invitation to dinner. I said My dear, invite me when you have the Senator. She said, My dear MT. Knickerbocker, how fond you are of my pa." l could feel blush struggling to reach the sur face Of my three-ply cheek. I knew if the Senator were on deck his knowledge of wire pulling pipe laying and log roll ing would assure me against drinking red lemonade or pink tea. I have not gotten over the wedding yet It cramps my style to run into corners, and drink from a flask.
 The Wilson's are always spoken of as a family that came like young Lochinvar, "out of the West" and most firmly in- trenched themselves in the soil of New York. don't know why they did so much better than the Heber Bishops I have forgotten where they came from They landed in Fifth avenue from ob- scurity some twenty years ago. One daughter married James Hartman. an- other James D. Laniner ana another Moses Taylor. They may not have had quite as much money as the GoeIet-As Vanderbilt combination, but as Mercutio says, while their bank accounts are mot as deep as a well or as wide as a church door, 1t Is enough" Enough What a fine word 1t is I was at the seaside last summer and I saw a Western wo- man on the beach, looking seaward. / She had never seen much water before and as she drank it in with her eyes, from her lips fell the words, Thank God, enoughv'
 Among the engagements recently an- nounced are the following: MT. and Mrs. Alfred P. Dix announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mildred Dix, to Mr. Robert Ainsworth Leeson of Boston: MT. and Mrs. William R. Meredith an- nounce the engagement of Miss Mary R. Meredith to MT. Richard T. Dana, son of MT. and Mrs. Richard Star Dana: MT. and Mrs. Giraud Ellsworth announce the engagem ent of their daughter, Miss Kate Francis Ellsworth, to MT. William Mor- timer Fitzgerald, son of the late James Mortimer Fitzgerald. In Chicago the en-