The age-herald., 1901-11-24
Some of the Fashionable Women Who Have Gone on the Stage-At Horse Show.

U gagement Is announced of Miss Alice Tullis Lord, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Daniel M. Lord to MT. Edgerton Par sons, of this city. In Boston, Dr. and Mrs John P. Reynolds announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Miss Jean nette Reynolds, to MT. Burke of Alexan- dria, Va, and in Washington the engage ment of Miss Julia F. GoldsborouRh daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Goldsbor- ough. is announced to Lieut.. Francis Ruggles, U. s. A.
 Mrs. Griswold Greys niece Miss Ethel Irwin was married in Paris to Mir Hem ry A. Van Bergin, of New York The bride is a granddaughter of ta.e late MT. Richard Irwin, of this city. Her brothers are out in California raising fruit on a big scale and she nas been residing with her aunts. Mrs. James Abercrombie Bur- den and Mrs Gray in Paris A few years ago she made her debut in this city at a ball given to introduce her by Mrs. Bur den. All the American colony were at the wedding in their finest bbs and tuck CTS.
 Speaking of brides reminds me that I have said nothing about me marriage of the last of the Three Graces. I have said so much about the peerless three that I quite forgot to say word about my trip down to Staunton, Va, to see my friend Chiswell Dabney Ganghorne's beautiful daughter made the wife of MT. Reginald Brooks. The bride has beauty and cleverness She gets ner looks from Mrs. Langhorne and her wit and clev- erness from Chiswell, who is not only one of the most entertaining men in Old Virginia, but the best after dinner speak CT l ever heard not forgetting the genial Chauncey-my chestnut ringer-in. We'll, Gibson, the artist made them famous and they did a good deal to make him celebrated Gibson married one sister and Robert Gould Shaw of Boston, the other Brooks is the richest of the hus- bands This is due to old Higgins, the carpet man. who had the sense to make and leave a big fortune. When Wander bilt was sailing small boat from the Bat tery to Staten Island or breaking his back at the oars when the wind gave out, and Higgins was struggling to make well to do Americans buy his home made car pets for the servants bedrooms, neither of them suspected what grand results would flow from their labors or what great lot of swells would date back to them. But all this has nothing to do with my beautiful bride, Miss Phyllis.
 
 in mind and body, real good, wholesome sort Of girl. I liked her immensely at Newport this season. where she reigned belle. like these Southern girls They make our swell Northern girls look like well dressed typewriters. We all went down and had a good time The New Workers represented fashion and fortune, and the Virginians birth and breeding. In the popular, catching but vulgar phrasing of the streets-Dixie is the real thing
 William Jauncey Cruger's fortune of a couple of millions has gone to his widow, just as his will devised it. I am glad of 1t. This little woman needs It. She prov ed when she married Cruger in Austra- lia, she had as much of this worlds goods as Cruger had, and I am sure she was q lady, gentle and refined. Some of the Crugers have pretty notion of them selves. Why, I never could make out However, their estimate of themselves did not amount to much in Australia I know Crugers by the dozen. I don't know one that amounts to much. Col. Van Rensselaer, Cruger was paraded a bit by his talented wife. but his wind up settled all that. He did not die rich, and that Is a sin, fearful crime in good so- ciety, even though Andie Carnegie is struggling to get through "the eye of a needle" as a poor laddie. The Crugers never did have money. I don't mean two dollars but real Astor or Vanderbilt money. When that eccentric old bachelor Joshua '. Jones died, he left them for tunes. He made 1t in the Chemical Bank He would have taken 1t with him if he could, and as he could not, he left the bulk to Eugene and William Cruger. Well, the widow has the money and I hope for the sake of the departed Jo- shua she will keep it.
 All the sweel women are going to have club in Fifth avenue. That is right, I sincerely trust they will patronize the club and give up the little rooms back of the modistes parlor This secret tippling has done much harm. High balls at a club or even laced tea with friends is better than quiet, stealthy potations I am sorry to confess it. but I fear "the drink curse" Is blighting society I am surprised Jerome don't interfere DIEDRICH -.NICKERBOCKER.