The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
NOTES F THE WEEK IN WORLD OF SOCIETY Country Life on the Increase in
 the South CHARMING COUNTRY HOMES Picturesque Estate In North Carolina Built By Londoners and Now
 Owned By MT. chenoweth,
 Midsummer Notes
CHARMING COUN TRY HOMES
BY ANNIE KENpRIck WALKER.

Country life is so on the increase that the season" may be said to continue the year round, being no longer confined to the hunting season, or a few weeks of midsummer. Throughout the south the country estates would now rival in beauty many of the country residences of the old regime, the colonial mansions fla nous in song and story. And many of these country houses are kept open the whole year. Lodges, tucked away in the heart of the mountains, and spacious bungalows in favored regions are filled with guests at least six months in the year and even longer but the large coun- try houses, the "estates' tempt their owners to remain upon them many months.
 Among those who remain at their coun- try places until quite late in the season are Majr. and Mrs. Frank Y. Anderson, while their town house is never really closed, Major Anderson being in the city frequently during the week, still the family are at Winston Place from May or June until October or November.
 MT. and Mrs Robert Munger also spend much of their time at Arlington, their sumemr home near Birmingham MT. and Mrs II. H. Mayberry reside permanently at River View.
 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Badham have an attractive country place near Blount Springs and the regular cottage colony there is quite large every season.
 MT. and Mrs. ,.1lllam Hardie spend severay months every year at their lodge. MT. and Mrs. E N. Culon have large country estate. Governor and Mrs. Conner also own a large country scat.
 The number of lodges and bungalows that have been built on Shades mountain shows the increase of country life, but the hunting lodges in the mountains and the bungalows are not typical of the coun- try estate. nor are they built with the idea of remaining in them at all seasons.
 One of the handsomest country places is owned by MT. and Mrs. w. A. Cheno- weth, at Etowah, N C., at the very gate way to the Sapphire land. They go there every summer, as early as May or June when the azalas are blooming, and stay until late autumn when western North SN'N'oii rod
 "The Meadows is quite English looking. It was built by some wealthy London people who resided there for several years No camera could possibly do it justice The architecture Is most distinc- tive and the whole house is singularly charming and individual Honeysuckle and morning glories and the Virginia creeper have made it's windows dreaming sSSers. A tall chimney is fairly covered with ivy Meadows stretch for miles about the house, driveways are bor- dered with apple trees, and tall locust trees shade the gardens
 The views are charming. Mrs. Cheno- weth wanted the place as nuch for the wonderful views as for the1 climate and the architectural beautyS of the house which pleased her ESQ much on one of her visits ta North Carolina that the following year MT. Chenoweth purchased the Yh5e estate. They have made some slight changes in the interior. but the general plan of the house is very much as 1t was originally built.
 Mrs Victoria Virginia Clayton of Eufaula, who has been the guest dur ing the week of Mr. and Mrs. John c. 1uSH lS oHe ol tHe hioSt hlotiht ulSlc cd women of the south. She is the widow of the late Gen. Henry D. Clayton, whose brilliant services in the Confed- crate army are recorded in all true histories of that period. His subse- quent career as president of the Uni versity of Alabama marked the close of a life of eminent public service. His widow. now living quietly in the old Clayton home at the far end of beau tiful Eufaula street, has dra Wn about her for many years the amectionate in- terest of hundreds of friends.
 She is the typical gentlewoman of the old and aristocratic south. A type of the southern woman who was most intimately a part of the old south, a part of it's proud traditions, and of it's brilliant life. Mrs. Clayton, like hun dreds of her contemporaries became