The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
SOCIETY IN NEW YORK
By MARGARET WATTS DE PEYsTER.

Eleanor Robson. has made sun place for herself in society. She inherits all the charm which made her one of the leading women on the American stage, in her social intercourse, and has devel- oped into a home-maker. She has not gone in for entertaining to any great extent, but takes her place in the social functions of Newport with grace and dignity.
 Vincent Astor. son of Col John Jacob Astor, is showering great deal of atten- tion on the dark, slender Miss Willard, younger daughter of Col. Joseph H. Will lard. and his motor is constantly be- fore the door of her home at Newport, or else they are scurrying around the av- enues and drives oblivious of everything and everybody except themselves and, possibly, the little blind archer who is usually lurking somewhere in the back ground of such affairs.
 As the children say when they are playing hot butter beans, Vincent is get ting very warm, and an early announce ment Of an enga cement would cause lit- tie surprise.
 History is repeating itself in the case of the old Knickerbocker family, the Van Schaicks. Twenty-ffve years ago FL sic Van Schaick, sister of Eugene Van Schaick and pr. George G. Van schaicl1, was married in Florence to Count Alex andre Boutourine, young Russian, with large estates in Russia and Italy. They have four children.
 Now two of these children are to bring still more foreign blood into the old Dutch family, and they are to be mar ried, as their mother was, in Florence. The eldest son, Count Dimitri Bourtour- line, and the eldest daughter Linka
 Bourtourline, were several months ago at house party in Halban, Germany given by Count Hochberg. There they met their respective fates and became engaged to marry
 The son vowed his love to Valentino Cora, an Italian of Florence, and was accepted. To the daughter young Count Hohenau paid his cout, and was accepted in turn. The engagements have been an- nounced in New York.
 Eugene Van Schack is a lawyer and a member of many clubs. As young man he married Sarah Rowland Payne, of Orange, N. J. The marriage was kept secret for five years until the young girl had finished her schooling and he had started his law practice. But this TO- nance ended in a divorce in 1902, and in l 1895 Van Schaick married Miss Minnie Delamater Haulenbeck at Hackensack, N. J.
 Mrs. Allan McLane haiulitoii, lorIierly | Florence R. Craig of Baltimore, who Is passing the summer with Baltimore friends in Dinard, France, has a fancy l for studying the customs of counting in various countries. She has travelled
 much in Europe and Asia, and has made it point to look into the ways of love-
 making, getting also an idea of national | love songs. Mrs. Hamilton has visited
 the fair of marriageable girls in Rou-
 mania and watched the bachelors scruti-
 nizng the girls and choosing wives. She | has studied similar customs in parts of | Russia Mrs. Hamilton has read much of Japanese customs. where, if woman is | Isli9hted by her sweetheart, she goes at | dawn with figure of straw representing 1 the man, to one of the sacred trees sur l rounding the family shrine. She nails | the figure to the tree and prays for the death of the man