The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-25

has started it, but it Is more to the point to ask when there will be any signs of abatement With the fashionable schools and colleges filled with engaged couples the curriculums of learning would need to be, it might seem, somewhat changed to meet the exigencies of the cases. American girls and young men, however, are adaptable, and, after all, this matri- monal craze seems to meet with univer- sal enthusiasm and appreciation, If one can judge from the heartfelt interest evinced by the wedding guests at all the different weddings that have recently been celebrated, and. also, by the earn est congratulations that are poured upon the heads of the mammas or papas who have either announced the engagement of their offspring or their own.
 
 The death of Sir Michael Herbert has upset many plans. Mrs Goeet and Mrs. Vanderbilt will do very little entertain ing this winter. Indeed, Mrs. Cornelius is seriously thinking of going abroad for the season. The last yachting tour did her husband very much good; but he is not all there yet. Mrs Vanderbilt Sr., and Gladys Vanderbilt will remain in New York. The Alfred Vanderbilts and the Reggies also are to be at Newport the SiCd part Ol lHe Wllllti. I Ht well-Kemp wedding I think, will take place at Newport. Arthur Kemp, by the way, is at Newport at present on a short visit. He has his little daughter with him.
 ! MT. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt will go, it is expected, to their Long Is land residence on their arrival. and will, no doubt. be immediately visited by Mrs. Vanderbilt's sons, now at Cambridge University. MT. Vanderbilt's brothers, Frederick ". Vanderbilt and George w. Vanderbilt. are both on this side. and his sisters Mrs. Shepard Mrs. Sloane, Mrs. Twombly and Mrs. Webb, and their re- spective families are all prepared to en- certain the latest Mrs. Vanderbilt. Her own sisters. Mrs. Stephen H. Olin and Mrs. William R. Travers, will welcome her also. Mrs. Travers has had as guest at Westbury cottage, Miss Alice Roose- welt. MT and Mrs. Vanderbilt are proba- ply bringing their little daughters, the 1 Misses Rutherford. over with them They l have a number of relatives here includ- 1 ing their uncle, Winthrop Rutherford, now with his wife at Tranquility Farm, 1 Alamuchy, N. J. Rutherford Stuyvesant. also an uncle, is abroad.
 Mrs. Grover Cleveland will spend most of the winter at the great Lakewood ho- l tel in the Jersey Pines, which will open next month Her health is not very good and the change from her Princeton home is made on the advice of her physicians
 
 The country wedding of Miss Anna ] Dodge and Mr. John H. Mccullough, at Irvington, was on the customary lines. i A special car took the guests up from New York, but the immediate Hudson i River colony was most in evidence. There was small reception at WLite Lodge. where the mother of the bride, Mrs Stephen Olin, and her husband have been 1 living since their wedding, in the spring 1 The house, originally a very simple one. has been remodelled added to and done over until it is most attractive, and is to be the residence of the bride and i bridegroom through the winter. Mrs. 1 Mccullough has recently come into pos session. by the terms of her grandfather will. of fortune of not less than s1.- 100000, so 'tis said, while the bridegroom is called lone of the rising young men l of Wall street"
 The Lenox season is on the wane; in- deed it may be said to have waned materially, and Vet there is enough going 1 on there to make the place still seem lively; with plenty of people at the hotels l as well at the different houses. How ever, more people are leaving than are l arriving, and a few of the houses are l closed. There are always some houses I open at Lenox the year round. and cer- | tainly a most agreeable way of spending a few days, even in the middle of winter, | is to go to a house party at that most fascinating spot. But. it is the late mid | T spring, that finds Lenox and the adja- 1 cent country a bit dull from the social point of view. The weather may be per I feet, and yet there is a feeling of unrest in the air with people going away and making their winter arrangements that prevents any formal entertaining