The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-27
socIaI Changes IN london.

DUCtAi 1HhHkCt III AfonuOns
Mrs. George CORVALLIS West, for
merly better known as Lady Rap-
dolph Churchill, has an interesting
article in Harper's Bazaar in which
she tells about London society as It
was and is. Certainly no one should
understand the subject better than
she, and she says some very interest
ing things-this, for example:
IF material London has changed,
so have the habits and tastes of the
social world. The season proper, as
formerly understood. began on the
1st of May and ended on the last day
of July. The winter session, which
usually assemblies in February and
sits for six weeks, brought to London
the legislators and their families, but
from October to February the town
was a desert with the exception of a
few people hurrying through or do
ing some Christmas shopping. AS
winter resort London is becoming
most popular, not to say fashionable.
Amusements of all kinds are provid-
ed, an opera season, promenade con-
certs, skating rinks and exhibitions
bring people up from the country.
The restaurants are crowded, and
when an autumn session is provided
by a Government and party greedy
for work, 1t is not to be wondered at
that many prefer the winter in Lon
don to the bleakness of the country
at that time of year. Reversing the
old order of things, people are begin
ming to let their town houses for the
summer, that they may enjoy the nat
ural beauty of the country in prefer
ence to the heat, dusty and noisy
pleasures of the town. Two principal
reasons can easily account for this; ]
one is the material discomfort of Lon
don with its increasing traffic and
noise, and the second is the growing
love for open-air life and pastimes.
Motors have made the country so ac-
oessible that it has opened the eyes
of all sensible people to the folly of
wasting weeks, If not obliged to, in a
hot, evil-smelling and noisy metrop-
oils. Even during the few weeks
when the Season with big s. is at
its height, the fashionable world flies
from it every Saturday to Monday.
Innumerable are the weekend coun-
try house parties, with golf, lawn ten
mis- or the river to amuse and keep
one out of doors. Mothers with
broods of unmarried daughters find
this kind of entertainment better
market to take them to than the
heated atmosphere of the ballroom,
which the desirable parts shun for
the greater attractions of fresh air
and exercise.
"The lovely gardens which former
ly were left by their owners to bloom
unseen are now eagerly sought and
revelled in. Consequently, the craze
for gardening is much on the In
crease. Every one aspires to be
Miss Jekyll or Mrs Boyd, and the
merits of rival Japanese, rose, and
friendship gardens form a favorite
subject of discussion.
There is no doubt that luxury lie
greatly on the increase, although II
may take other forms; the mode OF
living is becoming more extravagant
every day. The young people who
were thought to be we'll provided
for with $4,000 year barely subsist
now on $4,000 or $4,000. Every one
lives we'll, bad dinner is surprise
Houses are better and more artist.
cally furnished, and every one enter
tains more or less"