It came winged, and equipped to fly wide and to fly far, as only verse can, with a message for the grand-children of 'Flora McFlimsey,' which it delivers today in perfectly intelligible terms.
"It does not indeed find her posterity in Madison Square.

That quarter has long since been delivered over to hotels and shops and offices, and the fashion that once abode there has fled to upper Fifth Avenue, to the discordant variety of handsome residences which overlook the Park.

But it finds her descendants quite one with her in spirit, and as little clothed to their lasting satisfaction." The nuptials that Edmund Clarence Stedman satirized in "The Diamond Wedding" united Miss Frances Amelia Bartlett and the Marquis Don Estaban de Santa Cruz de Oviedo, and were held in October, 1859, under the direction of "the fat and famous Brown, Sexton of Grace Church." Miss Bartlett, a tall and willowy blonde, still in her teens, was the daughter of a retired lieutenant in the United States Navy.

The Bartlett home was in West Fourteenth Street, a few doors from the Avenue.

The groom, many years the bride's senior, and of strikingly unprepossessing appearance, was a Cuban of great wealth.