The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-07
NEW YORK SOCIAL NEWS
BY pIEDRlcH kNlckERBockER.

Hudson Townley at Peekskill on the Hud- son, next Wednesday,. Senator Depew will give away the bride. He has arranged for a special car to be attached to the train leaving the Grand Central depot at l0:3O o'clock Wednesday morning to take New York guests up to the wedding. It will take place at noon at the home of the brides mother. Mrs Albert Strang, and the Rev. Hugh c. Townley of Peekskill. the bridegroom's father, will officiate. MT. Alfred Townley Is a lawyer practicing in this city, and a member of several clubs. He will have MT. Alexander Rob ert Fordyce. Jr., also a New York lawyer, and a Princeton graduate of the class of 1896, as his best man. Miss May Strang the brides sister, will be maid of honor There are to be no ushers or bridesmaids. Only relatives and intimate friends are invited
 Major and Mrs. Charles Hall have elected to spend the summer in Newport where they have leased a house for the season. They arrived from England sev- eral weeks ago, and have been visiting friends on Long Island and at Tuxedo Mrs. Hall. 1t will be remembered, was be- fore her marriage some years ago to the late C. Albert Stevens, of Castle Point. Hoboken, Miss Mary Brady, the beauti-
 
 Brady, of the New York supreme court. Her marriage to Major Hall, of the Brit-- ish army, occurred in London last sum- mer
 Suburban clubs are delightful places at which to entertain just now. Lunch cons and dinners with bridge afterward are very much in vogue. Cards hold their own bravely, and there certainly seems to fx- kl--A ~rfrL ton is preparing for itself the proverbial unhappy old age.' It is not the clever, the beautiful or the fascinating woman who Is eagerly sought as a partner at whist but rather the one who never for an instant permits her mind to wander from the game, and who has the wit to take advantage of every mistake of her opponents, Every few months an outcry is raised anent the women who play cards for money, and absurd stories are set The fact is, comparatively few women even the wives of rich men--have com mand of large sums. Their bills are paid -cheerfully or otherwise-by their mas culine guardians, and unless a woman happens to have large fortune in her own right, she is usually too sensible to throw money away recklessly. No one ever seems to be able to furnish the names of the foolish maidens and ma irons WnO nave ptTInltleQ tnelT BdDuD- ling instincts to get the better of their judgment. Neither do the women who are popularly supposed to wager large sums on horses and stocks lose anything like the amounts the industrious tongues of the gosips ascribe to them. There are many husbands and fathers-even in this age of masculine enlightenment-who fail to understand why a thousand dol- lars year Is insufficient to cover dress makers and milliners bills and that if a woman is to go about at all she must be suitably attired. It Is the effort to make ten hundred dollars do the work of twice as much which worries the up-to- date woman-never her gambling debts.
 Going out of town for golf and tea Is a delightful way of spending an after noon. The parties are generally made up entirely of the younger set and their chaperons and include from twenty to thirty people. In some instances they oc- cupy a whole car. They start soon after midday. spend the afternoon on the links, have a cup of tea at the club house and get back to town in good time for dinner. Some of the winter theater clubs are now