The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-07

introduce her daughter, Miss Margaret Wins.
 Of private dances there will be an un- usual number this season. Mrs. w. En- len Roosevelt, who was Miss Kean, and who is to bring out her daughter at large reception on Wednesday after noon, will give a dance for her, also at Sherry's, on December g. This will be very pretty and fashionable affair." and at 1t will appear the five Misses Roose- welt, whose participation in the gayeties of the season in Washington as well as New York this winter will add much to the seasons life. Mrs. Morgan J. O'Brien will give a dance for her daugh- ter, Miss Genevieve O'Brien, at Sherrys on December 12, and Mrs. Walden Pell will give dance for her daughter Miss Pell, also at Sherry's, on December F. On December 19, Mrs. Dallas Bache Pratt will give a beautiful and large coming-out ball for her daughters. the Misses Pratt, at Sherry's, where MT. Alexander M Huddon will lead the CO., tillon. and at which two of Mrs. Pratt's nieces, Miss Frances Howe, a daughter of Mrs. Townsend Howe. and Miss Lucy Landon, a daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Ed
 ward H. Landon, will also make their debut.
 Mrs. Andrew Simonds, Jr., formerly
 Miss Daisy Breaux, of New Orleans, is :, now prominent in the social life at Tux
 edo, where with her husband she Is oc- cupying this winter the Bruce-Price cot | tage. MT. and Mrs. Simonds have one of
 the most beautiful homes in the south, l on the South Battery at Charleston, s. l C., overlooking Charleston harbor and 1 Fort Sumter, and are the leaders of so- | cial life in that old southern city. In
 their beautiful home they dispensed for
 a number of years and especially last
 winter during the exposition at Charles i ton a most gracious hospitality. Mir. ! Simonds health has not been good of 1 late and so his physicians advised him
 to spend winter in different climate
 Both he and Mrs Siminds will probably
 be seen much in New York during the
 season.
 The one and only Assembly ball of the winter season will be given at the v..ll- dorf-Astoria, on Thursday evening" De-
 oember Il. At this ball-the sole surviv- 1 al, with the single exception of the 1 Charity ball, which Is different in char
 acter, of the old general subscription 1 balls of New York society-the leading | debutantes of the winter will first make
 their bows at any large function. There | has been and continues to be the usual | StrlNlnB on the part Ol eInDlllOuS mann | mas who are not prominent in the ultra
 smart set,5 to obtain invitations from the
 patronesses of the Assembly for them
 selves and daughters, and the ball will | leave in its wake as a consequence the | usual train of heart-burnings, envies
 and jealousies Among the new patron | esses this year are Mrs. James F. D.
 Lanier, Mrs. Nose Talor Pyne, Mrs. w. l Emlen Roosevelt and Mrs Stephen Van | Rensselaer,. The elder branch of the Vanderbilt family, represented among | the patronesses by Mrs. Cornelius Van | derbilt, Sr., or Mrs. Vanderbilt, as she | appears on the list. has no representa- | tion on the receiving committee, and in | view of the continued friction and feel | ing between the elder Mrs. Vanderbilt ] and the wife of her son Cornelius, and | as the elder woman is in Europe and the daughter -in-law is on the receiving com
 mittee there is much curiosity felt and | expressed as to whether MT. and Mrs.