The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Country Houses and
House Parties
New York Society
BY DIEDRlcH kNIcKERsockER.

for Europe to visit Mr.. Spencer mother
at her chateau in Lucerne, Switzerland
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. Mrs. Fred van
derbit Mrs. Perry Belmont. Mrs Corhe-
Illus Vanderbilt the Higgins, Heber Blsh-
ons and the ogden Miles will be at New
port. Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes and her
daughters sail the coming week for Eu-
rome Mr. Stokes goes to the AUTONOMOUS.
Lenox will miss the genial hospltahty
and the great house parties OF the
Stokeses. Lenox. by the way. is hlling up
rapidly. Mr.. Frank Sturgis ana MRS
David I,ydig opened their houses there
this week. Mr.. and Mrs. John Sloane
are also at Lenox. and the William D.
Sloanes will go there as soon as they re-
turn from their visit to the Hot Springs
of Virginia Colonel and Mrs. Aston have
opened their house at Rhineclin, Rhlhe-
beck. They have not been entertaining
| very much, only having a few Intimate
| friends up there They will remain until
| quite late In the summer. Colonel Aston
| finds time to run down here every few
days. making the trips frequently with
his motor, Distances, of course, are
| nothing nowadays. BY the way, Willie
K. Jrs.. are having very nice time IN
Paris. and are being entertained every
where. They are to pay the Duchess OF
Marlborough a visit at Blenheim. She
has been over in Paris with her sister-in-
law. of whom she has always been very
fond.
William c. Whitney and Adelaid Ran
dolph have been down at Westbury this
week. and there has been a house full of
young people. Mr.. Whitney is always
| entertaining for his pretty step-daughter.
1t has been an exciting time with the
! Payne Whtneys. who came within an
| ace of being burned out The thanks of
! the community are, of course, due to
! Craig Wadsworth, who was on the ground
as he usually is-just In the nick of
| time and did yeoman's work in helping
to put out what would have been very
serious fire. The Payne Whitneys will
remain down at Westbury for some
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Bartlett have
announced the engagement of their
| daughter, Miss Bertha King Bartlett, to
| Mr.. Harry H. Bernhard. Miss Bartlett
made her debut In society three winters
! ago. An engagement recently announc-
ed was that of Miss Louise Hewlett to
Mr.. Edward Liddon Patterson, son of
| Judge and Mrs. Edward Patterson of this
| city. Miss Hewlett is a member of the
| Long Island family of that name, with
a country place at Lawrence which has
been In the Hewlett family for more than
one hundred years. Mr.. Patterson was
graduated from Columbia University in
the class of 1886, and is a member of vari-
GUS clubs as well as of Squadron A.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet. who is expected to
pass the summer In Newport. Is not likely
! to arrive there until late in July. With
her daughter. Miss May Goelet, she will
pass the season in London, which, of
! course, will be the gayest since the
| Queens jubilee. 1t is likely to be a late
| season. and there will be many elegant
| entertainments. The gala performance
| at Covent Garden on July l. will be an
| affair of exceptional brilliancy, as there
will be assembled many royal visitors, to
| say nothing of the Crowned heads" of
America.