The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-28
NEW YORK SOCIAL NEWS
Typhoid Fever In the Fashionable Dhtrict-Remova Of
the Union Club-Opera Unpopular With Debutantes.
BY DIEDRlcH KNIcKERBocKER.

have thrown open their doors and have
bid them accept their hospitality. Those
fine windows where Jake Lorillard said
members sat on fine days and ''cackled
like old hens" are no more They were a
feature of New York's social life. Many
a woman avoided the block in the after
moons fearing to run the battery of eyes
and fearing comment. AS matter OF
fact, it was not considered etiquette TO
comment on a lady while or after passing.
Yet they possessed terror. It was to
many as though these windows were
social reviewing stand. What good sto-
ries were told as coming from these his
toric windows? For behind them assem-
bled the wits of the town, the men who
were well known in the city for forty
years.
OF all the debutantes of the week Miss
Julia c. Calhoun, who made her bow yes
terday was perhaps the most admired
Miss Calhoun is not only beautiful
young woman, but through her name and
ancestry-she is a great-granddaughter or
the southern statesman-and her parents
wide acquaintance and popularity, there
was more than usual interest in her COM
ing out. Her reception was so crowded
that progress through the rooms of Mr..
Calhoun's handsome house was almost
impossible Mrs. Lucy Hayes, grand
daughter of Jefferson Davis; Miss Sophy
Marshall, the granddaughter OF
Chief Justice Marshall; Miss Bessie Nc
Lean, Miss jeanette de Mauriac, Miss
Harriet Russell. Miss Peacny Brown, Miss
Kate Moxham. Mrs. Jefferson Davis and
Mrs. Andrew Simonds, Jr., of Charleston,
whose husband is cousin of Miss Call
houn, assisted the debutante and her
mother in receiving.
The wedding of the week OF the most
fashionable interest was that of Mr.. Rob
ert L. Livingston and Miss Helen L.
Kountze, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Luz
Their Kuntze, which was celebrated In
Grace church at noon yesterday. There
will be only one wedding in New York
this week of fashionable importance-that
of Mr.. Reynolds Hit and Miss Edith
Gray, daughter of Justice John Clinton
Gray, in ST. Bartholomew church at
noon on Tuesday.
The wedding of Miss Julia Tod, daugh-
ter of the late Andrew Tod and sister Of
Mr.. Kennedy Tod, who married Miss
Marie Potter, to Mr.. George Heron VIII
son, took place at Elm Park, near Edin-
burg, Scotland, last Tuesday. The bride
is a niece of Mr. John Stewart Kennedy,
of this city. Baltimore furnished two
weddings of the week of out-of-town
fashionable interest. One was that Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Alexander McIn-
tyre Of this city who recently became di-
vorced, and Mrs. Lucie Mera Mitchell,
which was celebrated in Baltimore on
Wednesday, and the other was that of Mr..
Edward Crozieri the well-known anna
teur sportsman and cross-country rider OF
Philadelphia and Mrs. McShane, formerly
Miss Moncure Robinson, which took place
in the Monumental City on Thursday
This last wedding was a decided surprise
Mrs. McShane had only recently been di-
vorced from her husband She has long
been a popular woman in Baltimore.
Wednesday evening was marked by q
pretty dance given by Mrs. Walden Pell
for her debutante daughter, Miss Ger
trude Pell, at Sherrys. The dance was
preceded by a dinner and the cotillon
which followed took place in the small
ball room and was led by Mrs. Alexander
MADDEN, who danced with Miss Pell Miss
Pell wore rather an unusual gown for a
debutante-a pale blue chiffon embroider-
ed and trimmed with lace. The dancers
were for the most part the same young
people who had been at Mrs. Cuttings
on Tuesday evening.