The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13
NEW YORK SOCIAL NEWS
BY DlEpRIcH KNlcKERsocKER.

Goelet. 1 might have said it was III ol- der to make the announcement Mrs. Goe- let had come. The Wilson's have pretty notion of the proprieties and one or these is that the announcement of young girls engagement should be made with the suitor standing at the fair enslaver's door, Mrs. Goelet was Miss Wilson. Had told all I believed I might well have said the engagement was made In Eng land and that the young duke had no misgivings when he came over the seas.
  It is unnecessary for me to dwell upon the accomplishments of fortune of the American girl or the family and fortune of the Scotch peer or of his personal ap- pearance and his manners or courage. All this has been done. It is enough to know that she has silver in her stock ing, sweet manners, a kind heart, an amiable disposition and a fair supply of beauty; and that he has clean name, brave heart, a kind nature, broad acres, good intelligence and valid title to being a gentleman which transcends that of a Scotch dukedom and an Eng fish earldom. It is absurd, however, to suggest that her mother, Mrs. Goelet, the widow Of the late Ogden Goelet, will after her daughters marriage become Mrs. James Delhoff Cutting. And yet it is so stated by the gosips. I have no sympathy Tor women with marriageable daughters wal lowing in marriage. Decency and selr respect should deter. It Is only excusable when the widow needs home. This IS not the case with the lady in question. She has made for herself place In the great capitals of Europe, and given to her name a social lustre, distinctive as brilliant, which 1t is scarcely allowable to believe she would dim by assuming an- other name even that of the respected name of Cutting.
 The subscription ball, talked of and then abandoned, is now an assured event to mark the end of the season, and 1t was given on Monday night, in the Cas- ino. It was on the scale of a private ball and had for it's committee Mrs Og- den Mills Mrs. w. R. Travers, Mrs. Jo- seph Hartman, Mir. Elisha Dyer, MT. Henry S. Lehr and Miss Angelica Gerry. This made Ihe beginning of the week gay, owing to the horse show, Newman ket will be very full.
 
 The horse show is always the brilliant finale to the Newport season. The ken mel show is also an attraction. After these two events nothing remains. At Bar Harbor they are closing the Kebo Valley club, and at Southampton the sea- son ends this coming week. The Adiron- dacks will be gay for some time. The shooting season has commenced, and the deer are said to be plentiful, and the owners of estates very fearful, as incon- siderate persons with guns are about everywhere. Do not wear brown clothes under any consideration, or you may be peppered or something worse may hap pen to you. The Alfred Vanderbilts go to Sagamore Lodge after the horse show for the remainder of the month of Sep tember. MT. and Mrs. Frederick Wander bilt and Mir. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes are planning some entertainments un in the Adrondacks for the autumn months. Mir and Mrs. George S. Scott have also gone to the woods and Col onel and Mrs John Jacob Astor contem- plate short stay there. By the way, young Vincent Astor defeated oung Pembroke Jones at the youths tourna- ment at Tennis the other day at the Cas- ino. Vincent Astor is much younger than young Jones, but he is considerably taller.
 
 Mrs Frederick Nelson is going to pass a short time with her daughter, Mrs Ar thur Kemp, at Lenox. Mrs. Nelson has never worn more. splendid gowns or be- coming hats than this summer. She Is very handsome and one can hardly be- lieve that she is the mother of two mar ried daughters. Mrs. Arthur Kemp is at Lenox with her brother, Jules. She drives and rides and looks more stunning than ever Cathlen has become a Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilts, and she is bit naughty and at the same time subdued, and is the adoration of the entire family. Now that the girls are married, Mrs. Nelson has resumed her old debonair manner, and she is the same generous, kindhearted outspoken woman as one has known these several years. Her own marriage was not great success, though no fault of hers, and she was very much disappointed that Baby Belle did not turn out better. But better luck next time, and I have no doubt in her second ven- ture Baby Belle will be very happy in- deed.
 Mrs Clarence Mac " will not go abroad this autumn She has changed her plans and will remain at Harbour Hill for the rest of the year, cruising a little now and then on the Colonia. Clar- ence has the weight and responsibility of a great business on his shoulders. There is no more beautiful or more comfortable country place than that on Harbour Ifill where one has all the advantages of be- ing a landed proprietor and at the same time living practically by the sea Mrs. Fish is right in stating that the future of society in New York and other cities lies in the country seats One chooses ones own friends these days and society is large enough and filled plentifully with 8 stock of agreeable people.
 
 Colonel and Mrs. Astor are also enjoy ing life after their own fashion. They are practically living on the Nourmahal. You are apt to see them in town in the beginning of the week, as Colonel Astor has large business enterprises just now claiming his attention. Then afterward they will return to Newport, take auto- mobile excursions in the vicinity and again will be off for a short cruise. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, like Mrs. Mackay, be- ing in mourning, will not take part in any of the gayeties this year.
  Lady Bagot, who was Miss May of Bal timore and Paris, and whose marriage to Lord Bagot at the Brompton Oratory some weeks ago was an event of consid- erable importance in the London sea- son, has arrived with her husband at his country seat The tenants took the horses from the carriage and pulled the couple up to the very door steps of their home. There were speeches and decora- tions and fireworks. and a presentation