The age-herald., 1901-10-20
NEM YORK SOCIETY

New York, October 1s.-In order to keep my. promise to my dear little friend Abby Aldrich, I ran up to Providence and out to the Senator's grand country seat on Warwick Neck. She was just what a young bride should be, sweet unaffected and beautiful in her wedding dress. Young Rockefeller Is a very ordinary, manly looking young fellow. Of course he is clever, had he not been he would not have made so admirable selection of a father. You can see in his face that he is clever. rich and pious. Anybody who knows that New England face knows that thrifty bargain and pious face go together. I know something of faces, and I stake my experience on 1t that Rockefeller. Jr., will not squander his fathers millions.
 Now I don't mean to say that he will be close, but I do mean to say that he won't be liberal from his standpoint. And that the trades he will make in the fu- ture will greatly add to his fortune. It was d pretty wedding-a very pretty country wedding. The service was very impressive. A good many people did not like the idea of travelling several hundred miles to a wedding reception, and not be invited to the ceremony. Outside of the family Reed and I were the only outsid- CTS present. The reception was grand affair." but-ah well, lemonade, even if is pink, doesn't make one jolly. glass of wine with one pate-de-fois sandwich woes very we'll but with water-bah.
 lo1 uo1tld ha nothing hIIt pink lemonade I think there must have been a tip given out to this effect. judg- ing from the private silver mounted fasks that were in use in sundry passage ways. But will say that if Mir. and Mrs. Rock efeller desire to be social stars in the metropolitan Armament they will have to yield their notions on total abstinence to the conventionality of wines at dinners, suppers and parties.
 It is rule that in Rome one must do as the Romans do, and dinner without the customary wines is scarcely fit to put before people accustomed to them. 9th CTS have tried it, but they failed utterly.
 Now as to the details of the wedding: The floral decorations both in the house and in the Japanese tea house where the ceremony was conducted were magnifi- cent friend tells me the orchids cost one dollar apiece and there were thou sands of them.
 A huge conch shell made of sea moss, sprayed with white orchids and lilies of the valley, was suspended over the mantel of the ball room, and beneath this the bridal couple stood. The shell, of the natural color of the moss, was fifteen feet across and of about the same height, and beneath it was large bridal wreath made entirely of lilies of the valley tied with wide satin ribbon, with flowing streamers interwoven through ferns A true lovers knot of pink ribbons. sur rounding cornucopias of American Beau ty roses. adonred the wall just back of where the bridal couple stood.
 The bridal party made It's way from the residence to the tea house to the fa- miliar march from Lohengrin. First came the ushers. Messrs. Lefferts M Dashiel of New York; tuart Morgan AL drich, William T.. Aldrich and Richard Steers Aldrich. the brothers of the bride. Then followed the flower girl, little Miss Effie Aldrich, and the maid of honor, Miss Lucy Aldrich, elder sister of the bride.
 Senator Aldrich, with the bride, came