Fortune's Children by Arthur T. Vanderbilt

Author:Arthur T. Vanderbilt [Vanderbilt, Arthur T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-05-09T14:00:00+00:00

Oh, Harry, Harry, quite contrary

How does your garden grow?

wrote Mamie in verse for Harry.

With terrapins and champagne corks

And magnums all in a row. 82

Mrs. Astor was shocked by what was happening to society. Surely Ward McAllister had been correct. “Society,” he had said, “needs to be managed just as a circus is managed.”83

“I am not vain enough to believe that New York will not be able to get along without me,’ Mrs. Astor opined as the twentieth century commenced. “Many women will rise up to fill my place. But I hope that my influence will be felt in one thing, and this is, in discountenancing the undignified methods employed by certain New York women to attract a following. They have given entertainments that belonged under a circus tent rather than in a gentlewoman’s home.”84

It was obvious that Mrs. Astor was referring to Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish.

“Mrs. Astor,” cooed Mamie in her sweetest voice, “is an elderly woman.”85

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