The age-herald., 1901-04-28
.NEW YORK SOCIETY

whether the fair virgins board is ten dol lars week or twenty thousand a year 1t Is all the same thing. Among the youthful adventurers are MT Lucius Tuckerman Gibbs who led to the altar in Grace Church Miss Angelina Singleton Duer. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Edward A. Duer of Hawkhurst. Weehawken, a cousin of Mrs. Clarence Mackay. This marriage unites the Tuckerman and Duer families. The Duers have always sbeen prominent in the society of the me- tropolis since the olden times of the revo- 1ution, and although wealth has never swelled their coffers, they have held their heads so high that the succeeded in making people look up to them. There is nothing like holding one's head up. It may be tiresome to lookers-on, but after a time the value the owner of the head puts upon it is accepted as the market value, and in the matrimonial market values are paid as well as elsewhere.
 
 Another wedding reminding one of old New York was that of Miss Syivie Liv- ingston Strong, daughter of Mrs. James H Strong, to MT. Richard Bagley Post. Mrs. Strong was a Miss Bergman, sis- ter of the late Charles H. Bergman, who married Miss Whitney. daughter of Ste phen Whitney. What an echo of days SofiS anu dtiiOet ioi 6Oetsii NiiO oShNiO Livingston awakens. How 1t brings back the names of families now extinct like the De Grasses. Foxes. De Paws and Ogdens. Their blood still flows along the line of Fowlers, Goeicts, Ogdens and Liv- ingstons; old families are almost wiped out. The Posts, too arc fine old family, and only a few carry the name. Mss Strong Is a sister of Mrs. Daniel Fearing, of Newport, and cousin of that amiable and beautiful woman, Mrs. Lorillard Spencer.
 The nobles of France have been leaving American heiresses to the more enter prising English peers. Such has ben the l rule Like all rules 1t has it's exceptions l do not forget the few who have suc- cessfully dared to storm the American | girls heart, but between Castellane and | Cenci, the Italian prince, and Talleyrand | there is an interval of years. Such Is not the way in England. Great Britain l lost the land rights in the American revolution through the stupidity of her | thick-headed German King. George III, but her peers are now rapidly acquiring | title deeds to corner lots and shares in | railroads and industrials by, marrying the l heiresses, great granddaughters of the American rebels. The fact is that the American property now held by English | titled families is infinitely more valuable
 
 i brought under the hammer in 1776. Like Banquo's line, they stretch out to the crack of doom. Lord Vaudeville, Duke l of Marlborough, Earl of Craven, Earl of 1 Strafford, Sir John Kaye, Sir Stafford Northcote. Earl of Essex Lord Curzon, Baron Musgrove, Duke of Manchester, Duke of Marlborough of a second gener- ation; Pelham Clinton, with the Newcas- tie peerage in prospect: Joseph Chamber lain, with a peerag awaiting him. Lord Randolph Churchill. and score or two more to swell the list. And now the peers of France, following the lead of Castellane, who from obscurity and pow erty has become possessed of an income of 100000 francs set sail for the land of wealth, the Eldorado of the adventurous | noble Like the damsels in Patience" twenty love-sick maidens with fat for tunes, await them this season at. New port.
 The pioneers of the French expedition are the Princes Albert and Jacques de Brogile. family connected with the his tory of France from feudal times the Comte Joseph de Gabriac and the Comte de Mangin. I sincerely hope for the sake of our American girls, that the\ French peers will have the wisdom to buy clothes in London. Our girls are sensitive on this point, and some of the distinguished visitors of past years have been urifor- tunate in the quest of the golden treas-