The age-herald., 1898-08-16
Southern Women at tn
Green Briar White


 The following gossipy letter from cor respondent at the famous Green Brier White Sulphur gives a little past and pres ent history of southern belles and beau ties:
 The season at White Sulphur is the gay est since 1882, which was famous year. There are over 1000 guests. and beautifui girls are as plentiful daisies in May field.
 Miss Louise Maddin Nashville's charm ing representative, has already won that enviable reputation so precious to every southern woman-a belle of White Sulphur and is prominent in all the gaieties.
 For number of years for a girl to be given the title of belle of the south she has had first to have a season at White Sulphur. After vieing with beauties from all over Dixie land, if her popularity was established. she could go on her way re- joicing, for her name had been written on the unfading record of the White.
 Nearly all the rarely beautiful women of the south have had one season at White Sulphur. The season is of short duration, only three weeks, but in that time the re- quirements of the bellies are incalculable. There is some amusement for every hour, and these usually demand a change of costume. Among so many beautiful wo- men there is a great deal of rivalry, of course, and the repartee of some of the famous belles is as well known in the south as nursery rhymes.
 Perhaps the greatest belle White Sulphur has ever had as Hattie Ould, whose dag zling belleship, sad marriage and early death are talked of today at White Sulphur and in Washington as if they had only occurred a few days ago. Matte Ould and Mary Tripett of Richmond were great ri- vals at the White. Miss Triplett, who later was Mrs. Haxall, was a queenly-look- ing woman and very beautiful. Miss Ould was fascinating and brilliant.
 At a dinner party one night a toast was drunk to Miss Triplett, and she was called on to respond. Miss Trplett was more beautiful than she was clever, and had to decline Mattie Ould raised her glass (every man and woman at the table knew how jealous these women were of each other), and said with sparkling eyes: Grace, beauty wit-these make a Triplett."
 Mattie Ould's favorite song was Under the Dasies" She married an Englishman, and her one year of married life was trag- ically unhappy. She sleeps now under the daisies. but her name is spoken of in Wash igton and at White Sulphur as though the melody of her song was yet echoing
 Mrs. Haxall lived many years after Mat tie Ould and died suddenly while waiting for her carriage to go to ball.
 It was at White Sulphur that Bettie Ord- way, later Mrs. Padleford, and now ill., fated Bettie Gerard, offered her slipper filled with champagne to the man with whom she was in love. He turned ffffNN back on her, and since,-t world has followed --his~example.
 Page Aylett, another famous Richmond belle, Is now Mrs. Royal.
 Mrs. Will Allen, a married belle of the White, now lives in New York, and Is won- derfully charming. Miss Mary Hundey, of Richmond, is one of the famous beauties of this old resort
 MT. and Mrs. Andrew Simonds of Charles ton, s. C., are at the White this season. The Simonds have one of the handsomest places in the south. It is built on the ocean. with beautiful Pompean finished in Pom pean reds. A fountain ornaments the cen- ter, and flowers and plants heighten the picturesqueness. A ball room opens onto this court.
 Among the younger set, the beauty is Miss Edna Young who is just sweet 16,with a beautiful spiritual face and fascinating brown eyes. She is niece of the late MT. Ginter (of cigarette fame), who built the Jefferson hotel and spent millions im- proving Richmond. Miss Young is the heiress to great wealth. She rides horse back, and may be seen any afternoon rid ing one of her several horses, attired in a black habit with soft gray crush hat. She is an excellent rider and jumps fences and ditches like man. She is always accom- panied by her girl friends They are at- tended by groom in livery.
 The Misses Stokes are handsome blondes, but no more attractive than their beautiful mother. They occupy one of the cottages and are in mourning.
 A continuous round of gaiety-bowling parties, dinner parties and cotilions-are filling every hour and making a brilliant season. The first morning german was given last Wednesday by Miss Gertrude Scovell. The ball of the season will be given on the 10th, when the short season is at It's height. A rather novel enter tainment given recently by one of the beaux was a swimming or pool party.
 party of Chicago men are leading things in a way, and are big. handsome fellows. They James Baker Robert Gaylord and Edward Holland. They have a cottage and entertain very often. Among the other beaux are Lancaster Williams Jim Valentine and George Bibson, of Rich mond and Richard Whayley, a very hand some fellow, who lives in a beautiful modern colonial home at Charleston, S. c. Charles Thorne, of New Orleans, who is a leader of the carnival german, is also at the White.
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