The age-herald., 1901-09-01
Newport Socletu

daughter Jeanne under her wing. Wher- ever consuello goes Jeanne goes. be 1t to Cowes or other resorts. I was asked the other night at Ollie Belmont's why. this chaperonage existed. Most of our old friends see in this beautiful girls mother only the actress, whose career has been even too variagated for the Belmont, Sloane, Vanderbilt view of the social and hymenal condition. It is very simple. One of my friends in London wrote me some time ago all about 1t.
 King Edward has always been a staunch friend. And he admires clever, talented woman as much as he does a | beauty. Now Lillie Langtry Is clever woman. and a well preserved woman. l Indeed her friendships with Freddie Gebhardt and Abingdon Baird and few others since she was the one particulaf beauty adored by Wales have increased her experiences and observations, sharp ened her wits and added to her knowl- edge. We'll. the King likes to run around to the residence of the once famous Jer> sey Idly and drink tea. She has no so> cial ambitions for herself, she does not have to be invited to house parties, and she is on a perfectly easy footing with England's ruler. The Rink slips on & pair of slippers and smoking jacket. forgets his crown and makes himself at home.
 Lillie has ambitions for her little daughter, however, and Consuello has ambitions for her husband. To please Mrs Langtry the King indicates to the Duchess of Marlborough what she can do for him, and she, like a loyal subject, does 1t. Now, that is all there Is to 1t. The Duchess Is willing to oblige the King even though Ollie Belmont is the stepfather of Duchess.
 My daily life Is one which might be considered delightful. Honestly, 1t Is ono of talking to excess, eating to excess, Of doing everything to excess. It is ono tiresome round of being entertained. There has not been a single interesting scandal this year. The only thing at all amusing happened at a ball the other evening. A young couple, a very young 1 couple escaped unnoticed from the bah | room and were caught in the gardens 1 hugging each other like an ordinary valet | and nursery maid on park bench. It | pleased me. I was glad there was so 1 much of the natural left among these unnatural human beings. The weather | has been atrocious It Is either raw and l chill like March. or it Is hot and un, 1 comfortable. It has been, atmospherically speaking, miserable summer
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 Young Miss Gwendolyn Burden. who | wiu be introduced this winter, has been given a sort of preliminary season. Her mother, Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, who has been in Europe for several seasons gave a brilliant ball at Fairlawn. It is | a capital house for entertaining. I should l say 1t has the largest ball room here I Before the ball Mir and Mrs. Cornelius l Vanderbilt gave large dinner in Gwen dolyn's honor, and then we went over to Falrlawn to the ball. It was the same l old story with Elisha Dyer thrown in to lead the cotillon. The same people and 1 decorations on the old lines.
 Mir and Mrs. Pembroke Jones have l leased the Havemeyer Villa, Freidheim l (generaly pronounced fried ham) for the summer They have been entertaining 1 great deal this season, but their ball has been the event par excellence. Arrange ments for the dinner dance. as 1t was called, but in fact for grand ball, have | been going of Tor weeks, and a small for tune has been spent in making it so. cial success Not only had the villa been transferred into a bower of roses and greens, but the lawn was studded with tents, and 1t was under these that the
 
 The guests began to arrive shortly be- | fore 9 o'clock and were received by MT. | and Mrs. Jones in the reception room or l the villa, and from there, taken to the lawn, where the dinner was served There were four tents, one of red, one or white l one of yellow and one of pink, and these were decorated elaborately inside and l out with flowers to match Two Of these l tents were for the dinner guests. one TOT l the music andothe' other for the vaude- l vile show that went on during the pro- eress of the dinner. The dinner tents were so placed that a full view of the stage could be had by all the guests
 The guests were assigned to twenty tables, designated by some sort of em- l blems, made of flowers and tiny electric bulbs The emblems were suspended over the tables They consisted of an l anchor arrow, star, clover, horseshoe, crown. lyre triangle, diamond, horn Of plenty harp, crescent ribbon and DOW, and three links of chain. .tt,
 A new idea was also used for the light ing of the tables Sprays of electric bulbs shot up from the floral scenterpieces on each table. It was an ideal evening for an outdoor entertainment on the sloping lawn with view of the ocean In the distance. t'''
 The special feature of the outdoor part of the entertainment was the 'Devirs | Dance," given in the VaudeVllie SHOW. This was done with all the lights extin- guished the flames that shot up from under the stage around the dancers alone lighting the scene. Following the dinner the guests were conducted to the ball room, and there they met beautiful scene An addition had been built on the top of the west piazza to be used as A ball room, and 1t was decorated most 1 skillfully. The room was enclosed with folds of white and pink cloth, from which were strung garlands of pink roses and green foliage, studded with tiny electric lights. These extended from the center of the room to the frize, and then were festooned gracefully on the sides. Tall palms were used In the cor ners, but the principal decorations were the garlands The lighting of the ball room was done by hundreds of tiny elec- tric lights concealed within pink roses, making most striking picture. At the end of the room were two gilded lattice bowers behind which was stationed the music, and from the time the dance be- gan until the last guest had departed there was a continual strain of music.
 At midnight the cotillon was danced. It was led by Elisha Dyer, Jr., with Mrs. Jones' followed by about a hundred couples The feature of the cotillon was two special figures, one called the Jap anese figure, in which the favors were brought in by Japanese in their lates, costumes, and the other the Chinese fls- ure, the favors being similarly distrib- uted The music for these figures was weird. The favors for the other figures were brought In by Mrs. Jones, and in>