The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-10
GosslP oE PEoPLE.


 The art exhibition of Mrs J. B. Raul ston will be one of the most notable events of the fall and will be held in her studios in the Watts building early in October. Mrs. Raulston has already reopened her studios, which were closed for nearly year, during which time she was abroad. principally in Paris and on the Italian Riviera The exhibition will include much of her work that was done in Paris and will be as usual an import ant occasion. attracting an interested and representative gathering
 The return of Miss Alice Rumph Is ex- peoted about the middle of this month. This talented young painter has been passing the summer at Provincetown, Mass. She Is now in New York after a brief visit to Pigeon Cove, Mass She will reopen her studios in the Allen school upon her arrival from New York.
 Miss Rumph writes that the New Eng land coast is the most paintable that she has seen in America. Province town is an old town, stretched along the shores of the curving bay, sncircled by the tip end of Cape Cod" she said. Far and near the coast is full of interest, physical and historical. It seems strange that the Pilgrims should have seen these same shifting dunes of yellow sand and fent emerald of the grass that tries unsuccessfully to grow.
 We are group of artists some thirty strong, all painting madly the things that entiee us most. There are wharfs, scenes from shore and scenes looking to the landward, views of quaint New Eng land streets, and views Of the mystic things one sees in the cranberry fields among the dunes, and out over the water at twilight.
 Some of us have even grown so daft as 10 rise at four a. m. to catch the first glints of dawn and the mackerei fleets return from the nights catch.
 
 The many friends of -,lrs. Frank Wood ruff of Atlanta and formerly of Bir- mingham will be interested in her delight ful little book, "The Roses of St. Eliza beth" which has just been issued Bound in delicate green, with beautiful cover design in red roses, 1t Is one of the most artistic books of the season. The story, reviewed in these columns few weeks ago, has for a setting the grim old castle of the Wartburg overlooking "the snlil- ing little town of Eisenach.' sketch or the castle and also of the home of Mar fin Luther, whose life work Is set forth in the little volume without being In any sense biography. The little people in the book are charmingly drawn, and indeed the author understands child-na- ture so fully that her little people are delight
 The book is illustrated by Adelaide Everhart of Atlanta. and the drawings are in color, forming in themselves a group of exquisite pictures
 Miss Everhart has made a name among women painters of the day, but her work has been chiefly in portraiture. Her H. iustrations in "The Roses of St. Eliza beth" mark her entrance into most popular field of modern art. Miss Ever hart is A sister of Mrs. Robert Cum nngham
 The New York papers have had a great deal to say of the Pembroke Jones ball at Newport and any stories of Mrs. Pembroke Jones, who is very southern, are always interestinT. When not at Newport or in New York. she is generally down at her place in Wilmington, N. C., where she entertains the most disttn- guished parties at her palatial house. On one occasion, so one of her friends re- lates, preparations were being made for an elaborate favor cotillon, and the fo- vors were sent down from New York. Meanwhile Mrs. Pembroke Jones had not arrived, and several hundred canary birds, which were to be used as favors, had been sent to Wilmington. The sup per was to be also elaborate and five hundred quails were ordered to the Penn broke Jones house. No one ever knew how the mistake occurred, but before the mistake was discovered, at least a hun dred canary birds had met death.
 The recent ball at Newport was beau" tiful event. and the New Yorker says;
 The Pembroke Jones ball for pretty Miss Sadie, the bud. was a superb af- fair-as superb as Q ball can be in New port and that Is saying everything. For tunately 1t was arranged for an indoor affair as the night was dismal and rainy, hut the whole house and tempor- ary ballroom had the appearance of an Italian garden. A fountain, statues In the inches. a marquee, trees. seats and beds of flowers carried out every de- tail and 1t required no effort of the i'm agination to believe oneself in the gar den of some old Roman palace. The bud for whom so much splendor was plan ned was in liveliest spirits and, always pretty, looked her prettiest. Her eyes shone, her cheeks glowed and her teeth sleamed between parted rosy lips. She danced eharmingly and in the eoullon when she led with Lisha Dyer, Jr., she was a partner worth having. Mrs "Pem," her mother. was also in splendid spirits and was on the floor quite as much as the bud Southern hospitality mixed with the luxury of Newport made an enter tainment worth mentioning and the Penn broke Jones ball will not be forgotten in a hurry
 DR. SMITHS GIFT.