Frank, the only son of his parents, graduated from Trinity College, was admitted to the Stock Exchange in April 1881 and went to work for his father at Loomis, White and Co., 40 Wall St.<\/p>\n
St. George’s Church, Flushing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n On October 3 1878 he married Mary Lawrence in St. George\u2019s Church, Flushing.\u00a0 Their first and only child, Loomis Lawrence White, was born on November 2, 1879.<\/p>\n Tucker Cottage<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In 1883 they took Tucker Cottage in Lenox.<\/p>\n In February 1884 Mary was elected to play in the tableau of Helen of Troy at a charity event in Madison Square garden attended by 3000. Selected Beauties from Society played famous roles.<\/p>\n One critic gushed<\/p>\n \u201cShe was in every way worthy to represent the lovely Helen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Another critic, sharpening her claws, was not entirely sure:<\/p>\n Mrs. Frank Worth comes to nigh as being a professional beauty as anything we have in metropolitan society. She is thin, hollow-chested and bow backed; so that, as Helen or Troy,\u00a0 she presented no heroism of figure: but her face was delicately fine, her eyes wee glorious, and her transparently clear connection was not much obscured by paint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In March 1886 \u201cmild Lenten forms of dissipation\u201d characterized New York Society. \u00a0Mrs. John Sherwood held gatherings at her house, \u00a0where she held forth on \u201cThe Vatican and Its Treasures.\u201d Afterwards Society was treated to recitations and songs:<\/p>\n Mrs. Frank Worth White, one of our young married belles, sang \u201cMy Marguerite\u201d effectively. Mrs. White wore the first spring suit I have seen this season, which consisted of a gray silk ground,\u00a0 on which were\u00a0 tiny black and white embroidered flowers,\u00a0 The whole effect was of rich grey,.\u00a0 She also wore a tiny bonnet to match, with trimmings of grey velvet. The little strings and bows under the chin are becoming smaller, and are now just a strap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Such was hot news in the Fort Worth Texas Gazette.<\/em> I am surprised how papers all over America paid such close attention to the minutiae of the doings of fashionable New York society.<\/p>\n In 1886 Mary was in more tableaux vivants at the ball room of the Metropolitan Opera house to benefit St George\u2019s Seaside House. She appeared in The Sibyl by F. S. Church. I have not been able to find that painting, but these are other paintings by Frederick Stuart Church:<\/p>\n F. S. Church at work<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One critic semi-gushed about Mary:<\/p>\n Mrs. Frank Worth is a beauty of the Second Empire. She has been the great rival of Mrs. James Brown Potter, who is one of the handsomest women in the world, but yet she is a red and white \u201cpeach-blow\u201d beauty dressed in pale green Nile crepe. She leaned forward, consulting a figure of a sphinx, behind whom burned incense (why?). With her hair half falling from a knot, a wreath of oak leaves and arms bare, she made a beautiful picture of a pretty woman, but it might have been Flora or Euphrosyne, or anybody but a sibyl. She was not a figure to prophesy, but to inspire valentines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Frank died, at the age of thirty, on January 18, 1887 of pneumonia. He was buried from St. George\u2019s Church where he had been married nine years previously. \u00a0Mary, at twenty-seven, was a widow with an eight-year old son.<\/p>\n In May 1890 Mary participated in an entertainment at St. Ignatius Club in aid of St. Luke\u2019s hospital<\/p>\n Her life as Mrs. Foxhall Parker Keene<\/em><\/p>\n Mary and Foxhall Parker Keene announced their engagement August 1891, when she was thirty-one. Foxie, as he was known, was a dashing sportsman, but apparently an unsatisfactory husband, and his life will be discussed in detail.<\/p>\n They married December 10, 1892 at her house at 19 East 22nd<\/sup> St.<\/p>\n She accompanied him to sporting events, but they also attended the opera. Her clothing continued to attract attention. At opening night ate Met<\/p>\n She wore a gown of pale-blue velvet, which had a shimmer of silver and was trimmed with silver embroidery on the skirt. The bodice was of rose-colored velvet, and was studded with handsome jewels. Mrs. Keene also wore a tiara of diamonds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n September 1899 found Mary at Newport. There she participated in a charity theatrical put on by the Earl of Yarmouth.\u00a0 It included an operetta, \u201cCreatures of Impulse’.\u201d<\/p>\n During the performance specialties were introduced and among them the Earl gave a whistling solo,\u00a0 danced with Miss Ethel Sigsbee a character dance called \u201cThe Moth and the Butterfly,\u201d\u00a0 sand a duet with Miss Hunter, \u201cDoodle Doodle\u201d and again in \u201cNo One in the World.\u201d Mrs. Foxhall Keene captivated the audience with a French ballad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Creatures of Impulse<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a stage play by English\u00a0dramatist W. S. Gilbert<\/a>, with music by composer-conductor\u00a0Alberto Randegger<\/a>, which Gilbert adapted from his own short story. Both the play and the short story concern an unwanted and ill-tempered old\u00a0fairy who enchants people to behave in a manner opposite to their natures, with farcical results.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I would have paid good money to hear an earl doing a whistling solo.<\/p>\n Mary also part pated in a 1904 charity event at Mrs. Clare Mackay\u2019s house, Harbor Hill, in Mineola.<\/p>\n Harbor Hill<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Dressed in the costumes of demure Puritan maids, witching French and Alsatian peasant girls, and charming little geishas from Japan, women whose names are household words stood behind counters and offered their wares. Some sold candles, others automobiles; some fancywork, others toys. Still others roamed at large and beguiled delighted victims into taking chances in raffles for objects as diversified as signed photographs of the next President of the United States, or a donkey cart with a beribboned \u201cmoke\u201d attached.<\/p>\n Mrs. Mackay was dressed in a nurse\u2019s costume that would have surpassed the happiest dreams of the most exacting patient, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, in the demure grey of a Puritan girl, with a stiffly starched white cap on her head and a white apron with bog baby bows, could hardly take the money fats enough for eth tickets she was selling for a doll\u2019s house. Mts. Willie K Vanderbilt, Jr., sold frills and laces and tucks\u00a0 with all the gentle persuasiveness sof an accomplished \u201csaleslady\u201d in a big department store, and her mild solicitude when purchasers nearly fainted at the prices was something to study. Mrs. Foxhall Keene, in the costume of the court of Louis XVI., asked and got 50 cents for a cup of tea with such a confidential air that the purchasers\u00a0 felt they had made a lifelong friend and forgot to drink it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Readers in Lincoln, Nebraska learned<\/p>\n Cloth gowns in color are much worn. Mrs. Foxhall Keene is wearing a brightest red cloth with\u00a0 the bolero embroidered all over in lighter red. A narrow band of the embroidery runs all around the bottom of the skirt, which is laid in flat stitched folds to the knee, where the fullness is allowed freedom and the skirt falls gracefully about the feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The women of St. Louis were enlightened to learn that<\/p>\n Mrs. Foxhall Keene is radiant in a street suit of aluminum grey trimmed with oyster-grey bands. With is she wears a chinchilla set, consisting of muff, collar and cuffs. Her hat is trimmed with chinchilla.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"St](\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/St-Georges-exterior.jpg\")
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