The National tribune., 1908-03-12
PEOPLE.

fEVTLEs
= The fashionable women Of the coun'
try seem to have been caught on the
wave of reform which has been sweep
ing over the country, and are display
ing an unusual interest in the condi-
ton of their less fortunate brothers and
sisters as well as great activity in de-
vising means for the bettering of that
> condition. The poor mountaineers o1
Virginia. have appealed SO powerfully
to the sympathies, Of Mrs. Waldorf AS
tor that in order to raise money to
carry out her scheme of lifting them
from their pitiable state she was IN
strumental in. getting up one of the
most successful and novel entertain
mentS given in New York this WINTER.
This was series of tableauX, which
were presented in the ball room of the
Plaza Hotel, and in which the most
beautiful women of New York's 400
took part. Conspicuously attractive
among these was the "Salambo" of Mrs.
James Eustis, who, in a wonderful
gauZy gown of sapphire blue, covered
with gold and silver and sparkling with
gems, conveyed to the eye a perfect
conception of the alluring charm of
the heroine of Flaubert's masterpiece.
foot spotted python, which was at first
thought to be stuffed snake, but when
the creature was seen TO move gasps
of horror became mingled with the
bursts of admiration which the pic
torial beauty of the tableauX had called
forth. 1t was daring piece of bus1-
ness, surely. and was the hit of the
occasion. Mrs. Eustice was generously
praised for her nerve, but she said she
least The
audience was composed, as would nat
urally be supposed, of the wealthy and
fashionable set, and the receipts are
said to have been most satisfactory to
Mrs. Astor. Another question which
seems to be interesting women of this
class particularly at present is the con-
dition of working men and women in
the big cities. Pierpont Morgan 5
daughter, Miss Anne Morgan, is prom
inently connected with this movement
and together with several other ladies'
of high social position has decided to
inspect the factories of New York and
New Jersey. Weli-known society wo-
men in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston,
Cleveland and other cities are all work
ing along these lines, and a brighter day
for the laboring man and woman is con-
fidently expected to result from their
efforts. These ladies will not try to
induce Legislatures to remedy existing
conditions, but will endeavor TO per-
Suade the individual manufacturer in
whose establishment bad state of
things is found to exist of the error
of his ways.
new club, called the Interstate
Club" has just been formed in this
country, which in its character and
purpose is entirely novel and unlike
any organization in the world. Senator
], c. S. Blackburn is its President, and
among the honorary members and Vice
Presidents are such names as Presi-
dent Roosevelt, eX-President Cleveland.
Mr.. Fairbanks, Cardinal Gibbons, Arch
bishop Ireland, Secretaries Root and
Taft, Speaker Joseph b. Cannon, Hon.
Leslie Shaw and a host of others equally
prominent The club now has a men,
bership of 5000 Americans, and it has
acquired possession of $1,000 acres of
land near Chattanooga, Tenn, with
their fish and game preserves, on Wal
den's Ridge, in the Tennessee Mountains.
The bulk of the property is on this
ridge. where the immense clubhouse
will be built, containing 1000 rooms.
with roof garden on the top from
which nine States can be seen. Five
hundred acres have been set aside for
q park, and interspefsed with lawns,
groves and gardens will be tennis
courts. golf links, polo grounds and
the stables and garage of the club. No
Niore desirable position for such club
could possibly have been found. 1t is
accessible, the natural beauty of the
section is great, and il is sacred and
intensely interesting territory to most
Americans from its historic asocia-
tons Walden's Ridge! What mem
ories does that name suggest to the
veteran of the war of 1906, One of
to-.
be an automobile course as well as a
highway and bride course, winding
thru the forest. This highway will be
81 miles long within the clubhouse
property, and will connect with the
Government road from Chattanooga to
the National Park, including Chicka-
mauga battlefield. Altho it offers so
many advantages and attractions as a
club, it was founded with a deeper sig
nificance than simply to give pleasure.
Situated as it is in the Southland, it is
hoped that men from that section and
the South generally will become its
members, and that this mingling of
men from the North and South, East
and West, may tend to remove any
remnant of sectional feeling, if any still
exists II is intended to make it a
home for the American people. where
the tired politician, financier, busy city
man or any other worn out with the
nerve-racking strain of achievement
may come for rest, and the sort of
recreation which he best likes, without
regard to section. 1t is big, fine en-
terprise, and Will doubtless be trc-
mendous success.
Wine tasting seems a queer occupa-
tion for a woman, yet one of the four
famous professional wine :asters of the
world is Mrs. Frona Wait. of California.
Mrs. Wait was originally newspaper