The age-herald., 1901-06-09

dies were educated in Europe, and I re- member them well when they returned from abroad. Their soft brown waving hair and their pink and white complex ions. They were of good height and well formed. The elder married young Earl Dodge. She became a widow and never married again. The other married Sam mic Sands and became a widow. She then married Lewis Rutherford, who died last winter, James Hartman, the eldest son, married Miss Bishop.
 Mir and Mrs. Anthony Brady's daughter, Miss Flora Brady has announced her en- gagement to MT. Palmer Gault, of Albany. The wedding will be one of the events of the season at Long Branch. The bride groom-eleet Is a grandson of the sculptor, Erastus Palmer. MT. Brady is one of the great trolley magnates of the East. and is closely connected with the Whitney Ryan-Elkins syndicate of street railway owners. He is reputed to be worth over fifty millions.
 MT. Whitelaw Reid, the editor of the Tribune and Mrs. Reid, the daughter of D. o. Mills, have gone to their magnificent country house, "Ophir Farm" in West chester County, abouts thirty miles from New York. "Ophir Farm is one of the UneSL DldCeS or the klnQ III the country. '. About five hundred acres of woodland, splendid lawn, highly cultivated fields. conservatories and flower gardens from the setting of a great stone turretted
 building which would be called "castle" in England From its highest tower rises a great flagstaff, and on 1t between sun rise and sunset every day floats the Amer ican flag. "Ophir Farm through the long
 summer days furnishes splendid hospital tfxyf ff hodxv nf n Of
 their families, who are of national name and eminence. Nearly every man of any consequence, who visits New York during the summer receives a cordial invitation to visit "Ophir Farm" and although MT.
 Reid is, as everybody knows, a strenuous
 Republican his politics do not interfere
 with his friendships. His hospitable door
 swings open to men of all parties. Abram
 s. Hewett, for instance, and MT. Reid are
 the closest of friends and for the last ten
 years has a summer paesed without find
 ing the Hewetts at "Ophir Farm
 Two of the most interesting weddings
 of the week were those of Miss Eff Pot ter to Mir. James Stilman, Jr.,. and Miss
 Ethel M Iselin to Mir Frederic Gros-
 yenor Goodridge. I am glad that Miss Eff
 Is married and well married. What a
 strange picture is offered of metropolitan society by the home life of the Potters. Why read novels when the incidents of a strange romance are at our very door, spread in the columns of the daily papers. Here we are face to face with an extra ordinary story as ever permeated the
 pages of W'ilkie Collins of Miss Broughton
 It seems only as yesterday James Brown Potter the son of Howard Potter, the banker, went down to New Orleans to wed
 Miss Cora Urqnardt. the beautiful daugh-
 ter of Colonel Urquardt. Their position in the South was unsurpassed by any other family. To be sure the war had i'm paired their once great fortune, but the sons and daughters had been carefully nurtured. educated and introduced into fashionable life Miss Cora was a beauti- fui girl, unaffected, vivacious and the best of companions. When they came to New York the doors of fashion swung open and Mrs. Potter became at once a conspicuous belle in metropolitan society. Her friends were the richest and the most fashionable women. Not having wealth herself she desired distinction She took a great fancy to private theatricaIs and soon became an amateur. Her fashionable position, rather than her ability, soon made her an at- traction.
 The recitation of Hostier Joe at the whitneys, in Washington, made an enor- nous and memorable sensation and soci- ety rolled upwards It's eyes of piety and posed as intensely shocked The newspa- per. notices delighted Mrs. Potter. Shf felt she had scored. Shortly after she went to London with Mrs. Paran Stevens and made great social hit Mrs. Mackay who was swimming on the high waves oi social success did much for her. She ther