The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
LENT PUTS CHECK
 ON SOCIAL GA|ETY Society Spends The Time in
 Many Ways HE WEDOINGSANN0 Several Interesting Affairs Are Tn Store for the Spring-Mrs. Ron aids Power in LSndon-Nas-
 sau is Attractive.
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BY DlEDRIcH KNlcKER6ocER. , New York, March 5.-Special) )-Lent has come to put it's check on social gaietyi
 some find it rest for the purse others a rest for the body; some stay at home' look pious and attend Lenten lectures others go to Palm Beach to dance, nirt'
 sail and fish. However looked at Lent is a blessing in disguise. It brings us balm to those who fiercely fight to keep
 their places in the expensive social run
 ming race or to those who feel that the
 wearisome burdens of social life are too
 much for the human body. There have
 been lectures and concerts and sewing
 classes with the usual amount of bridge. Already the dates of the Easter we'd dings have been arranged. The Twomoly- Burden marriage will take place April H. This will be a town affair and VIII
 be one of the events of the Easter season.
 In April will aso take place the wedding
 of Ernest Iseln and Miss Whittier and at
 the same time that of George Schieffelin
 and Miss Louise Scribner. The date Of
 the wedding of Rockville Potts and Miss
 Fanshawe has not been decided. These weddings are, of course, taking up much time and attention. There are brides
 maids gowns to be ordered and present and entertainments and all sorts of things.
 MT and Mrs. l. Townsend Burden will
 go abroad after the wedding. The Misses Burden will accompany them. There are
 rumors of other engagements in the air Among these are that of Arthur lselin and Cynthia Roche. l do not know wheth- CT to believe this or not. Young men are very attentive to girls for some time, but
 then it Is not all very serious-at least on the girls side. A fashionable young woman as a rule is not In haste to marry. Cynthia Roche has apirations for the present to be bachelor girl One knows how far that goes. u means nothing at all
 Sir Gilbert and Lady Carter, who have
 been feted by the Henry M. Flaglers at Palm Beach, arrived here this week, and after a few days go on to Boston. Sir Gilbert Carter is governor of the Baha-
 mas, but his term expires on Tuesday.
 Lady Carter was formerly Miss Gertrude Goldman Parker of Boston. They were
 married at the Advent church, in that city, last August, and 1t was one of the big weddings of the summer. Parker Is a good name in Boston, and there are
 almost as many of them In the smart set
 as there are Livingstons in New York. Lady Carter was a daughter of the late Francis V. Parker. Her mother, who re-
 sides in Beacon street, was a Miss Cod
 man of another old Boston family. Lacy Carter is a second wife, and Sir Gilbert
 has two daughters by his first wife, who was an Englshwoman Under the Carter regime there has been more gaiety at Government House than Nassau has ever before known.
 Mrs. Vanderbilt is entertaining again.
 She gave the deferred dinner on Thurs
 day. On that same evening MT. and Mrs.
 E. H. Hartman had the meeting at their
 residence of the Thursday Evening club.
 For Lent a few entertainments of this kind on the, same date are considered very
 gay indeed.
 A prominent American woman abroad who Is shortly to pay her annual visit to this country is Mrs. Mary Frances Ron aids og No. ' Cadogan place, London. This house is a small one but with Mrs.
 Ronalds playing hostess there have as-
 sembled in its the smartest people in
 English society. When the Prince of Wales. now England's King, was over here travelling as Lord Renfrew he met
 Mrs. Ronalds and they have been good friends ever since. An American woman,
 no matter how much of a stranger she
 may be to London. once presented at No. : Cadogan place. may consider herself
 safely launched in London society, so
 great Is the power of Mrs Ronalds. Sew
 eral New York matrons have proved this
 to their entire satisfaction. Forty years ago Mrs. Ronalds was Miss Mary Fran
 ces Carter of Boston, and all the Black Bay knew her as a delightful amateur
 singer. Mrs. Ronalds still sings occa-
 sionaly, but she much prefers hearing others. and so all through the London
 season her house is the mecca of lov-
 CTS of music. Her Sundays at home have become famous there. just as were Her New York musicales when she wrote her name Mrs Peter Lorillard Rona1ds Years ago. after leaving New York. Mrs
 Ronads lived in Paris, and she is one
 of the few American women abroad who
 have not married foreigners. When in
 the French capital she often sang In the
 American church. and she made 1t widely
 known for its excellent music. A few
 years ago Mrs Ronalds spent some time in Boston, but she usually cuts her visits
 to this country very short Mrs. Ron
 aids has spent a small fortune in assist
 ing struggling musicians. Old Pierre Lorillard Ronalds was a cousin of her
 husband. Her sons are Reginald Ronalds.
 who was with the Rough Riders. and P Lorillard Ronalds. Jr.. who married Miss
 Constance Perry. the daughter of Mrs. William Perry. She has one daughter a Mrs. Ritchie. now a widow enveloped In
 rumors of a second matriomonial venture.
 Mrs. Ronalds figured in what might have been serious accident in the autumn.
 She was in small railroad collision and was knocked down. cut and bruised. but escaped with the loss of tooth. At the time she was on her way to join one of Mrs. Bradley Martins house parties at Balmacaan.
 An interesting wedding will be that of Miss Cornelia Griswood Peabody to Thomas King of Albany. Miss Peabody is