The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07

where two or three thousand people dine
 every evening. If you come In Septem-
 Der or October as you say, you will dine
 indoors If the evenings are cooler, but
 no more charming place can be imagined
 than those gardens after sunset, and every
 one dining out of doors. 1 could sit there
 for hours, long after the young Tyroise
 has served us, and listen to the magni-
 fcont orchestra, watch the Tyrolise men
 and women selling their flowers, and
 gaze at the colored fountains, the snow capped mountains in the background and l listen to the real torrents of water com ing down the mountain sides. You enter through a medaeval fortress and look ing beyond the wonderful gardens, the gay throngs. the flower sellers you will see old chateaux against the sky and 1t is quite impossible to realize that you
 are In your own land. I am told that eight hundred thousand dollars were ex- pended to gain such results and l can readily believe it. The whole atmosphere of the place Is just what you would en- joy. It is not anything like a roof gar- den although group of Tyrolise singers give a concert every evening and people sit about and order things to drink. It is something like a roof garden might be if 1t was lighted with moonlight and the electric lights turned off. while instead of a vaudeville of music hall fayorites. Calve i in costume would sing the jewel song from Faust and instead of looking at sky scrappers you gazed in the distance at mountain peaks crowned with snow and sun the anthems of chateaux.
 But of course Americans as a rule pre-
 fer noisy roof gardens and great many l electric lights
 1 hear Vev lftt1a of tha socin1 t,andetto
 among state hostesses which has filled 1 the papers almost since the exposition l opened A young woman here who has ] gone to most of the swellest affairs tells
 me that despite the hostess war at the 1 Worlds fair there has been a brilliant social side The most picturesque func- 1 tion was the Japanese reception al which l the Japanese commissioner and his wife 1 received hundreds of guests. This was
 during the visit of Helen Gould and 1 Alice Roosevelt, but no state function 1 yet given has surpassed 1t. With the | exception of an informal reception last | Monday evening given by the New York 1 commissioner in the New York build l ing, there have been no important so- 1 cial events the last week or two Mrs. Norman E. Mack, who represents New
 York, is spending the month of August at Newport. She is really a beautiful wo-
 man and very capable. After her return
 to St. Louis she will open the autumn l season by giving a reception and ball at
 the New York building on New York
 state day in honor of Governor and Mrs.
 Odell and Judge and Mrs Alton B. Par l ker. Mrs Macks husband Is democratic
 national committeeman
 Speaking of the social side of the Lou | isian Purchase exposition, it Is a matter
 of regret that Alabama should have made
 so notable an example of indifference
 in regard to her state building. The diff
 ferent states have as you know. re- plicas of their most historic buildings
 Gnd there are held social affairs, bring
 ing together the most interesting people, | Since there was rot sufficient interest
 taken in the suggestion to have an Ala l bama day at the fair, although pro- motors worked so hard for it. I under
 stand that MT J. A. MacKnight who is
 in charge of the Alabama exhibit is
 making an effort Co interest prominent | men of Birmingham In having Birming
 ham Day in September or early in Octo-
 Der. The Kentucky building, one of the most beautiful state buildings here, has | been placed at his disposal for a reception l and ball and 1t can be made q brilliant l function If some of Birminghams prom
 inent women would only become inter- 1 ested The governor and his staff and. a military guard of honor. together with a large party of people prominent in the i social and official life of the state would
 make q most interesting party to do the l honors of the occasion and invitations could be extended to the commissioners l alEeady in St. Louis as well as to many l other distinguished people. These func- tions are quite elaborate and l know of