The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-06
Interesting Gossip
 About Clever People.

There are numbers of Birmingham peo- pie who have always felt a great interest in the lovely Mrs. Darlington Semple who lived nere for several years and later went to New York where she is one of the most prominent women in the southern set. Several years ago, Mrs. Semple opened select school for young ladies and 1t is considered one Of the most elegant and exclusive schools in New York The school is established near Riverside Drive and Central Park and is of course, very fashionable. At the same time 1t offers special advantages in the most modern and improved educational systems, the scholarship of the school being of the highest order. Attractive catalogues have been received announce ing the autumn opening and giving the curriculum. The announcement bears the Semple coat of arms.
 Sc many southern girls have attended the Semple school that 1t has the distnc- tion in New York of having the prettiest girls, and, on che occasion, last winter when Mrs. semple and the young ladies of her school were singled out for spe- cial attention at d brilliant occasion at the Waldorf, one of the New York papers openly declared that each young woman in Mrs Semples box was a distinctive beauty.
 During the winter they have occasional receptions, and members of the southern set drop in for afternoon tea, or for the more formal evening affairs. Some times General Joseph Wheeler calls, and no prettier scene could be imagined than the old hero of two wars surrounded by an admiring group of young women in Mrs Semple's palm-decked drawing room.
 Mrs. Semple and her young daughters, Miss Ellen Semple and Miss Emily Sem pie, and her son. MT Darlington Sem pie, Jr., have been passing the summer in Virginia, but they have now returned to New York.
 MT. and Mrs. Semple expected to go abroad this summer, but changed their plans and joined friends in Virginia.
 Miss Lestra Kinney of Birmingham, who was at the Semple school last winter, will return this winter. Miss George Weath- erly, Miss Emma Louise Johnston and Miss Helen Smith are among the Bir- mingham young women who have been at the Semple school. Mrs. Sempies many friends will be delighted to know of her great success.
 
 people to Birmingham that social life is being constantly made more attractive. Among the charming and brilliant wo- men who will return to Birmingham, tfis autumn is Mrs. Chappell Corey. who will soon join her husband. who has been in Birmingham for several months. While Mr. and Mrs. Corey have been away sev- eral years, they will not find it difficult to renew their old friendships, and they already know that their old place in Bir- mingham is awaiting them. They went from Birmingham to live abroad for a of the time. Since their return from Eu- rope they have lived in Montgomery
 Mrs. Corey is one of the most attrac- tive of women and throughout the state she is known for her active interest in the Alabama Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She is widely known in connection with her work as a member of the White House association. In the work of preserving to the state the first White House of the confederacy, Mrs. Corey has constantly labored to further this patriotic movement Mrs. Corey is extremely literary, and is most inter- 'esting writer. In addition to special ago a history of the Ladies' Memorial association of Montgomery, a work that necessitated a great amount of personal data and constant reference to old an- nals.
 It is interesting to observe that the southern woman who takes up literary work instinctively gathers her material