The age-herald., 1901-06-23
SOCIAL NEWS FROM
 THE SUMMER RESOR TS
Season at Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs Has Opened and Many
 Prominent Persons Arrived.

Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, June 21.-(Special. .)-The season has opened at the Old White with such peace full quiet that one can scarcely imagine the metamorphasis short time will bring forth.
 Here under these wide-spreading oaks, in this subtle atmosphere, surrounded by the picturesque cottages, like sentinels on guard, the fadeless green of the lawn and azure blue of the sky, there is great food for the imagination. and not only does one build those chauteaux en Els pagne, where life without single foun- dation becomes a charming occupation but history retrospective and future spective, dance like a panorama before the mental vision.
 One looks down the corridors of time, when the White was widely known, as the resort for the exclusive society of the south
 People who came in the days before the stag of ten, noble as the sandhill stag, glorified by Seton Thompson, had failed in courage and fled before the scream of the locomotive, travelled in their fam fly coaches of state, with retinue, re- uuiring weeks, the very names of the cot tages dn those days called cabns) gives an idea of the distance of these trips. Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Bal timore etc. The old hotel register Of the White anti-bellum days preserved like parish church records of colonial Virgin ia, hold autographs of men and women whose brlllancy yet shines
 The names of Washington. Clay Mar shall, Jefferson, etc., are but few Of those which make Virginia stand out as the mother of illustrious men. No less brilliant were the women of those days and fancy easily peoples the grand old ball room with fair women and brave men, in the costumes of that day as with innate grace they walk the stately min uet, and of more recent date.
 No names will descend to posterity with a more glittering record for brilliant beau ty and sparkling wit. than Richmond's famous trio-MiSs Mattie Ould, Miss Mary Triplett and Miss Lizzie Cabell the latter now Mrs. Albert Ritchie of Baltimore.
 The scene changes from the pictures of the past to the realities of the present. when the statesman, the politician, the man of affairs, the ecclesiast the stately matron, the woman of fashion, the sum- mer girl in her dainty frou-frou gowns, the golf girl in her short skirts, so chic that the man should be annihilated who compared her to an angel shorn of her wings, the college girl as wise as she looks and the girl who loves to fiirt will all vie with each other in popularity, but all, with that good fellowship which char acterizes the old White House, It goes without saying that the gilded youth will follow and s'amuser will be conjugated in all it's moods and lenses
 What probably appeals to the real in- ner man, though tell it not in Gath. moro than the wisdom of man and the sorcery of woman, is the fact that the tahie al- ways fair is now of the best and will satisfy the most fastidious,
 Already charming little circle is here, enjoying the shining hours. before the full season; quite number are expected next week. more the next, and so on, up-i til the prophecy Is fpl9lled, which will