The Washington times., 1911-08-03
Charming Girl Who Will Be
Mistress Of Millions
Fond Of Sports. ).
AT HOME
ON HORSE OR YACHT
Announcement OF Engagement
Lifts Her From Compare
tive Obscurity.

All Of these accomplishments which
look better on a background Of turf
or sea may make II appear that the
eighteen-year-old girl has been some
thing of hoyden. bur those who tell
about her out-of-doOr accomplishments
just haven't gotten around 10 the cul-
tured Miss Madeline-the one who IL =
looked upon now as a great social pos
sibility.
If she can swing a knee over saddle
leather just bit better than most men
are supposed to be able to co, she also
has gained for herself a reputation for
being mentally alert and a dangerous
opponent with the sugar-coated barb
of drawing-room repartee.
Education Gained
At Exclusive Schools.
Her training, which Will stand her -
good stead should the rest OF New York
society follow Mrs. Ogden Mills ex-
ample, has been thorough. All that two
exclusive finishing schools. Miss Ely's
in Greenwich and Miss Spence's IN New
York, could give her has been hers
Then there were trips TO Europe and
studies under foreign tutors.
She was counted an especially bril-
liant pupil in Miss Spencer's school.
and when she made her bow to New
York social life, she was Immediately
taken UP by the Junior League" as q
clique of then debutantes is known.
She then became active in amateur
theatricaIs, and won quite a following
when she appeared in several OF New
York's society plays.
tbo ~ Of civ vi
the time of her approaching marriage
with Col. John Jacob Astor. finds her
self fating an opportunity to rise
to social pre-eminence, but who Is also
confronted with the social record left
by Colonel Astors mother, at whose
nod social asprants were admitted or
denied. and by the question which Is
being asked everywhere, VIII she
make good?'
The society Of Newport and New York
will Judge Miss Force along strict STAN
dards II is said, and the record estao-
lished by the mother of her future hus-
band will be one of the last obstacles
she must overcome. So the quesuon
as Can she become Mrs. Astor the
second?"
Has Much to Do
As a Social Queen.
Those who know what the routine
life of a society queen can be declare
that the young girl, even fitted as she
is by finishing course and education
grace of mind and body, and quickness
of wit, will have much to do.
She must see that the vast estates
ot her husband are kept in order. Mr.
Astor himself is a sort of crank on
systematizing things
And first there is the 2,0oo-acre estate
of Ferncliffe Manor. on the HUDSON
which will commend itself TO her es-
neciaI care. The mansion stands on
n,ateau overlooking a broad stretch OF
the river.
There is everything there that could
nossibly be needed, and the establish
ment has been planned on lines Whlch
demand the presence Of a vast retlHue
of servants TO keep things going.
Ana then there are the Fifth aVenuS'
ond the Bar Harbor homes, so tnat a.
tngether. even aside from her Guxles
UDTich will be purely social. MaoelinSS S
Eorce's eighteen years of eduCatl0n anu ~
I.i1Sorne girlhood. may not hlt heI "
.bo social eminence of women Oh sfea'eA
md her husband-to-be, when s askeo
whether the young girl would noI uUuUe- e.
Iars hecome the leader Of New torE .i, ~.
cietv only smiled and said nat "A'
up to her