The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Harry Lehrs wedding in June and Sallie Eliot's divorce in Newport, are about all the events that possess Truman interest,"" as the dramatic critics say. The Corne- Illus vanderbilts gave Harry and his lovely bride dinner at Sherrys. It was a pretty affair. Among those present were Mir. and Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies. MT. and Mrs. Orme Wilson and Lispenard Stewart. I don't want anybody to suppose these names are to be passed over lightly or spoken quickly. They should be pro- nounced very distinctly, in a reverential sort of a way. It was an important even ing in the life of the fair widow Dahl- gren, and just a slight showing of the Lehr social power.
 Orme Wilson Is a brother of Mrs. Cor nefus Vanderbilt, and his wife is the daughter of Mrs. William Astor Deduc- tion the Astor connection remains, as their motto is. always faithful" The Wilson connection outside of the Astors implies the Ogden Goelet support There was time when Mrs. William Astor's in- vitation to ball or party was a social pass port, but 1t Is not so nowadays, 1t Is valu able In certain provinces only. But the Astor- -Goelet- Wilson combination is a so- cial syndicate worth thinking of. Of course, Cornelius Vanderbilt no longer means the Vanderbilt connection. Between the will business and the family jar, young Cornelius Is recognized more as Wilson Astor-Goelet than Vanderbilt. Mrs. Ed mund L. Baylfes represents the Barnwel, Livingston, Clarkson element of old New York. and MT. Baylies, the Reay. Hamil- ton, Livingstons. While Lispenard Stew art represents the Rhinelanders and Cru gers. This small dinner established for the future Mrs. Lehr a hobnobbing friendship with the real old-fashioned aristocracy, in so far as 1t has escaped hoi htyt tha of
 The Lehrs will pass the summer at New port, visiting friends, also the country seats on the Hudson.
 
 The Duncan-Eliot divorce case Is an old story. Duncan was a good fellow among men, rather petted and spoiled by the women, and his wife's fortune smoothed out many rough places. But prosperity does not always agree with people, and Duncan was one of these; 1t got to be cloying. He went off to the war, first serving in Cuba and then in the Philip pines. He was promoted for gallantry. But the strenuous life he had led did not soothe matters. and the unsentimental court will doubtless decide that there was an ecclesiastical error made when they were declared one flesh. Well life is short and all mistakes should be remedied. before leaving the counter; and what, after all, is the fashionable world but counter in bargain store?
 One of the prettiest young women in this city is Miss Mary Spear, the daughter of Mrs. Charles Spear, and the granddaugh- ter of James A. Farley of Montgomery, Ala. said she was a pretty girl. she Is more than that, she is an exceptionally beautifully woman. She will be married on June to Dr. Charles Giffen Pease.
 
 Mice Mary Gait Gfnrk1y danuhfar of Mir and Mrs. George Washington Stockly, now of Washington and recently of this city, was married a few days ago to Robert Underwood Johnson at Lakewood. N. J. This marriage was of interest to the literary set that looks at us poor fashionable mortals with a certain sort of cheap contempt, because Mir. John- son's father wrote dictionary for the Century and the bridegroom is a profes- sional ink splasher on his own hook At the breakfast I met all the scribes and pharisees of the literary cult and really they seemed quite well behaved for people who make it practice to live on roots, Greek, Latin or other kinds
 
 A few people are keeping their houses open awaiting the early June weddings, and then-the summer exodus. It has really begun. Country homes are open ing up in every direction. and life Is put ting on the rural atmosphere. The de- butante of last season is now arrayed like Phyllis. You would scarce think they thought of satin slippers and tulle. they are all so delightfully."- rural. I am glad to find that Mrs. Ogden Goelet's example in the matter of yacht ing has found emulators. The modern steam yacht is a marvel of comfort and luxury To people who have not been to the seaports a yacht signifies pleas ure craft of moderate portions, while it is in fact an ocean-going vessel If our worthy friends, the hardy pilgrims who came over in the Mayflower or I should say the ancestors of all New Englanders fas I have never met one whose ances- tor did not come over in that skiff) should have seen the modern yacht they would have (to borrow a phraze from their vocabulary undoubtedly called 1t "the leviathan of the deep.'' These yachts maintain from twenty to thirty men in their crews, outside of the off cers stewards and cooks The cost of running large yacht often exceeds one hundred thousand dollars a year. Tn these commodious floating palaces the owner can visit the seaports of the world and when the yacht flies the flag of the New York Yacht Club the custom house officials are the personiffcation of cour- tesy. This means great deal to the tourist who desires to avoid troubles and official red tape.
 No less than twelve ladies now own steam yachts. They make them their homes. Every convenience is to be found
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