The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05

al convalescents from New York hospl- tals are now there. The reception ana luncheon to be given next Saturday py Mrs Frederick crowninshield at Stock bridge will be In honor of Miss Etelka Evans. Mss Evans has recently return ed from Germany.
 The week at BernardsviIle has been gay one There were a number of luncheons, card parties and dinners and one or two larger entertainments. Among those who gave diners were Colonel and Mrs. Stevens who invited twelve peo- pie for Wednesday evening. On Thurs day the friends of Mir. and Mrs. Led yard Blair surprised" them with baby party. There were apout hun dred self-invited guests present, all ar rayed in their best bib and tucker. The appearance of of some of these exceed ingly well-grown and precocious infants, who had temporarily donned garments similar in pattern If not in size to those worn by their own children, created no end of merriment The occasion was the house. warming of MT. and Mrs. Blair's new country home which is said to be one of the handsomest places in the United States. A feature of the archi- lecture is the flight of Italian steps lead ing from a loggia overlooking lake.
  the last of it's dinners and dances, and within the next fortnight the season at Bernardsville and Morrstown will be practically at an end.
 While the really gay season is sup posed to begin about the last of July or the first of August. the number of fam lilies who find life at Newport endurable even as early as the middle of June is not inconsiderable. So far as indoor en- tertaining Is concerned Newport just now appears to be several weeks in advance of the season. especially in the matter of elaborate dinners. In previous years there nas never been much formal en- tertaining of this kind until well into July, but already several prominent wo- men have been giving dinners with a degree of regularity. Owing to the pres ence of Sir Michael herbert and Lady Herbert in their home, Mir. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson have had several small dinners for their more intimate friends. Among others who have been entertaining in the same manner almost every week since opening their houses are Mrs Burke-Roche, Mrs. Slater and Mrs. George A. Huhn. Last week the entertainments were even more numer- ous. Mrs. Elisha Dyer. Jr.. and Mrs. E. Livingston Ludlow gave luncheon parties while Mrs. George Peabody Wet more and Ex-Senator Edward o. Wal colt gave dinners.
 Society is much interested in the en- gagement announced on class day at Harvard of Miss Helen Parrish and Mir Archibald M. Brown. Miss Parish is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. James Cres- son Parrish. of New York, Tuxedo and Southampton. and MT. Brown, who grad &o1 is a son of MT. and Mrs. Charles S. Brown of this city. Other engagements announced are those of Miss Ruth Eden, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John IT. Eden of this city, and MT. Morgan Grace, son of the late Dr. Morgan Grace of Eng land, and nephew of ex-Mayor Grace; of Miss Susan Sanford, daughter of the late Professor Leonard Sanford of Yale and Dr. John Rowland, son of Judge Henry E. Rowland of this city. and of Miss Helen Marie Underwood and Mir. Rich ard Wayland-Smith of this city The wedding of Miss Underwood and Mir. Wayland-smith took place June 30 in Grace Chantry
 An engagement of interest to many of l the fashionable residents and cottagers at Newport is that of Miss Anna Blake Hayden, daughter of Dr. Daniel IT. Hay den, and the Rev. Ernest J. Dennin, as- sistant to the rector at Trinity church, Newport.
 l The latest engagement announced in Washington Is that of Miss Lillian Me Cauiey. a daughter of MT. ard Mrs Ed ward McCauley, and Mir. Walcott Tuck erman, son of the late Walter Tucker man and a grandson of Mrs Lucius Tuckerman.
 MT and Mrs. Oliver H P Belmont have opened Belcourt, and there will be held there this summer some very charm ing entertainments. Mrs. Belmont al- ways gives enjoyable ana original af- fairs Captain and Mrs. Philip Lydig, who have been in town for a few days. have returned to Newport for the sum- mer. The Livingston Beekmans are not to be at Newport this summer They will sail very shortly for Europe, where they will pass the warm months of the year, and, in fact. there will be one young couple less. The reason for their not oc- cupying the beautiful place which they purchased from Mrs. Edward Wharton is that Mrs. Beekman is still in mourning. and would not have been able to enter