NEW YORK MANNERS.
. * : MRS. W. ASTOR'S PARTING SHOT. (bi TZLEGitirn—ruEss association—corYKioiiT.) New York, September 16. Mrs. William Astor, on retiring from the leadership of New York society, declared that the manners of most of tho Senators and members of the House of Representatives are too uncouth to permit of their reception in the best houses. She severely condemned the .circus pranks adopted by a section of tho " smart society " entertainers. ■ William Waldorf Astor, head of the Astor family,.with a personal fortune estimated at about one hundred million dollars, married, on June' •6, 1878, Mary Dahlgren, daughter of James W. Paul, of Philadelphia, Mr. Astor acted as United States Minister to Italy before becoming a naturalised British subject in 1899. New York society is said to have developed freak dinners and other social oddities to a point unequalled ovon by the smartest sets of Britain' and Europe.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 7
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