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r r SECTION :SIX | Society.Newi9 and Personal Notes EIGHT PAGIES 1J^HE N]EW YO RK HERALD Resorts.Fashions.Automobiles [COPYRIGHT. 192 2, BY THE tI UN-HERALD CORPORATION.] NEW YORK, SUNDAY , NOVEMBER 5, 1922. / §> '"opias of the cQay in Soeieifu <* I ^ kl>AO ^ C- lL^ % D«1/]A ITllfllMA Some of the Debutaruc» ui inc ijcasuu aiiu a liiiuc wi lilt a. uiui c Suit Reveals Liittle Known I jI Miss Morris and Member of th<e Astor Family Mr. Mills to Wed d on Her Birthday Action in Behalf of John ,Jacob Astor, Jr., and His Half Sister, Alice Muri<el Astor, Brings Other Important Carriages to v v Branch Into Link Well Known New strong View. Armi York Families. I SOME of the most interesting siidelights on New York society come frequently through the unromantic grind of real estate transfers THESE are busy days not only and tho rigid routine of the Sijrrogate's office. Citations percolate for the debutantes, but the through the mails into remote cornelrs of the world and bring to light brides us well, arrangingfuture unsuspected scions of noted families. the many details in connection with Recently it has been brought in upon persons, who do not allow a their weddings, selection of their florid present to blot out a picturesqiue and less hectic past, that New. trousseaux and attending the various York society is old enough to become) historic if as has been affirmed it Informal entertainments given in theii takes four generations to make anything historic. / j honor. There are nine generations in thie local records of some New York Miss Louise Morris will celebrate a that families, but those nine generations tiake the mind back to period her twenty-first birthday on has litle but a fancied influence over society of the second decade of the «M, gmm",'MM. by becoming a bride. HerWednesday twentieth century. Mr. Holbrool: Mills -4 Dudley marriage There is pride of descent and a certain feeling of pardonable will take place in the Madison Avenue in anct were men and women of con-: confidence knowing that one's selfstors x: v.: Presbyterian Church and the sequence in this community back in the seventeenth century, but it was which will be performedceremony,by when those ancestor's laid the financial foundations from only distinguished wic (iiuiui, me xvcv. or. uwiiv oiur.r,e which their descendants receivie their unearned Increment that the to-day Coffin, will be follower! by .1 reception became a of the esent. past actually part pr at the home of her parents, Mr. at d Modern society has been described as an aristocracy of trade. Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris. sonal achievement makes parti in the most costly of possible Percipation ...V V Miss Morris is a great-granddaughter and its games. But 1 this regard society to-day is no i V J^y; of the late H. {ions.society recrean 'NjSw^v^Hk #'" William Vanderbilt, and different from society in the Dast. in "every era the basis was laid in Wk * V' <r:iaK^> ^j#-'- ^ also of the late Chief Justice Hennen the capital that made this importanit phase of life possible. Culture, of LotilRianu, aryl a granddaughter of personal influence, philanthropic and charitable expansion and Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard. and also of the ment in public life have in every s> age developed from theachieveocialsolid late Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morris of financial foundations laid by those big; minds of other generations. ^bB JL '3&| "^MB JB Louisiana and New York. She will ha\' her sister. Miss Emily H.Morris, for her Old Enough to Talk Objectively. maid of honor and another sister. Miss New York society is old enough now to talk objectively about such Alice Vanderbilt Morris, for flower girl. Her other men women who Hi»uu >i in «®w iui iv arc > attendants will be her cousins. things. The and UC111U17 Miss Louise very much alive in their influence a niong their descendants to-day, tor Vanderbilt Schieffelln and % Mrs. John M. Franklin, Miss the reason that many families who are in to-day's foreground flourish Bertha r MISS M Barclay. Mfss Sarnia Marquand, Miss. because their progenitors unto the thii d. fourth and fifth generations wer^ Ik LEONA. Laura Harding. Miss Betsy l'iagg. Mis; business men with foresight. New York society thus qualifies as an miss helen m HURD, Eleanor King and Miss Sophie Duer. W^r , _ PlH debutante daughter Mr. John T. Mills. Jr.. will be historical object, bringing as it does to-day our past so close to the present. brown, debutante his of MR .W of dr and mrs brother's best man and serving as ushera There are some families that traice the sources of their present MRSDAUGHTER,ARCHIBALD M lee maidment hurd will be the Messrs. John Melchei, tunes in this countrv into the middl of the seventeenth century. Not BROWN and A GRAND fhoto by W 6 Charles Ames, Samuel H. Keynolds. Jr.. fore DAUGHTER SLagc Chnrles D. Jesse in a int of New York and of MR Dickey. Hoyt, Francis long ago the newest baby promine family Newport JAMES CRESSON PARRISH H. Cabot, Jr.. and Lawrence and Dave was christened and on the occasion cif that family gathering a parcel of Photo Hennen Morris. Jr., brothers of the <g) BACUtACM CLA.IR.L % bride. family property was set aside for the future financial benefit of the new schencvc. m i Foresaw y Xapoleon arrival. The legal formula in cleariing the title necessitated going into DAUGHTER of ml Mrs. Kurnal it. MR. Babbitt of 969 Parle . the safe deposit vault and bringing to light an ancient deed signed by and MRS vV ) avenue has announced the engagement ' EDWIN S ^ Law Establishing of her Miss the Rhode Island founder of the fan:illy fortune more than More Debutantes daughter. Eleanor Babbitt. considerably SCHENCK, -tt> Mr. Charles Parker Spalding, son of two hundred and A DEBUTANTE Mrs. fifty years ago. Photo Status of Wives Charles Parker Spalding of Lowell, There are some other New York familles that can boast of such tangible This Season Calls A by Mase. Miss Babbitt made iter debut &u.pon+ years ago. She was graduated fromseveral history as is embodied in that anci ent Rhode Island deed bearing the f the * Spence School and is n member of signature of orie of the most famous ,$ for Full Calendar >1(1 ( ode Makes Passports foi the Junior League. Miss Babbitt is a men There are sister of Mrs. J. Gregory Smith of St. in Colonial history. to the Brevoort of arc Wives of Henry tho day, French Born Albans. Vt.. who was Miss Genevieve . incre- a many more whose unearned probably wider and more numerous Parties cluce tliolr daughter. Miss I .con HurO. Babbitt. ments were founded with the revival than in any other New York family, Hound of Introducing' Mr. and Mrs. Kdwurd H. Stettlnlui icans Unnecessary.Amcr. Their father, the late Kurnal It. to hold an old fashioned New York but John Jacob Astor, Jr., and Mi^s have decided was a prominent lawyer in Babbitt.this » of trade in immediately for Girls Starts afternoon reception at 1021 1'ark avenue the war Ellle Muriel Astor were the con- city. During Miss Babbitt the Revolutionary War. It only on December 6, when they will Introduce served as a nurse in the Fox Hills following testants of the will of their distant special Corrcspond'nrr to The New Yoan HosE was one of these later families that Early. their second daughter, Miss Betty Stet-« Dltal. Mr Spauldlng was graduated Armstrong relative and they lost. tinlus. who Is with her parents In Loctjst HBULC. from Bowdoin in 1917 and served In the lias just come to public attention \m York Herald Ilnrcau. ) A. K. F. or Noted New York Valley. 21. through routine of a Surrogate's Ancestry. The night of December 8 will be Pari.. Oct. i f f -T y NILE many date» of enter- marked the first Junior of The Cable law defining the status o1 Miss Mary A. Dickson is one of th* and a subsequent court grind. JamoR S Armstrong was of noted by Assembly American officeNew York ancestry. His tainments for debutantes this season at the Kltz-Carlton. and In oreign women marrying hps busiest young women Juet now making The family is that of Astor. and the grandfather W/ ;ulvance of several dinners will be >kud» lia.^ at least one peculiar effec 1 plans for her marrlnge to M. William was Col. Henry Beekman Armstrong * * have been decided on, some It member of the circle con- given, one of the Mrs. John H. tot expected by its framer*.i. e.. as fai Malcolm Mather, which will take plac: late family nd the Colonel was a son of Gen. largest by of them may have to be changed Prentice. who la a member of the is French law Is concerned it puts th< early In January, probably on Jaiu- was one of those men who * f erned John Armstrong, a man of note 'nited States marriage laws in the sam< 4. was an- the season starts in earnest. of the danee. Mrs. Prentice'scommittee ary Their engagement only / almost completely submergedbecame and after the revolutionary duringwar beforeguc*»i will Include many debutantes. :ategory as two nations hitherto consltl' nounced a few weeks ago. Miss Dickson / rush of modern social life. His period. The most of them have been arranged While the first dance, which ired as uncivilixed.