| Show A bachelor converted one of the standard toasts at most of our important and many of the informal dinners hero has been the ladies god bless them I 1 and the response ia usually made by mr john R van wormer who is a witty rapid energetic speaker and whose comments as a confirmed bachelor upon the charms of the other sex are always a deligh tto hear mr van wormer ia probably known to as many politicians and prominent men as any person of his years in new york he wag for a long time in intimate relations with senator conkling berving as the clerk of hia committee and as his private secretary he was also chief cleric of the postoffice post office department when general james was postmaster general and is now the manager of the largest safe deposit company in the city but mr van wormer will no longer be called upon as a confirmed bachelor to expatiate upon fair women at public dinners he has capitulated he has found the fairest of women ha has low ered his ic dependent flag and salutes one of the most charming of her bex and he is receiving congratulations by the score he ia soon to marry mrs D demorest lloyd whose husband waa a very successful playwright and journal and whose sudden death was a great bereavement to a large birde of friends E J edwards in philadelphia |
