The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-29

The lovely Miss Hanna Taylor, of Ala bama, "of Mobile and Washington" as the society journals say, the daughter of Alabama's former minister to Spain, Hannis Taylor has been conspicuous in the summer gaieties of Atlantic City, where she spent a part of the season and also at Capon Springs. West Virginia, where the family is now staying
 In the recent "Gymkhana races," at 'apon he was most successful in the arrangement of them, and as the leader : the red tandem team was awarded a pld jockey pin as a special prize.
 s,n the evening Miss Taylor led the CO., ron, introducing a number of horse gsting figures.
 The latest fad of the summer resort ,sea son has been the "gymkhana" races regular horse show rules prevailing, and fU IT. teams composed of pretty girls
 fl by cavaliers in jockey costume
 hing more brilliantly picturesque
 "a be imagined than these races. Many
 he most beautiful girls in society
 e taken part in them, and I hear that
 Taylor as the leader in a scarlet
 Tb, made the loveliest impression up-
 ans tho saw her.
 was g as the summer colonies are pro-
 yesteFith such a striking spectacle as
 the vf lovely women driven by cava-
 cated jockey costume the season will
 for tiFane at any of these mountain
 mean1
 Ev,er beautiful Alabama girl h4s
 tfai iDe ball +1,1
 sue this season. Miss Alberta Shorter,
 reyw with her mother has been staying
 Ine Battery Park led the midsummer Fill last evening with MT Phillips. Three Hundred guests were present and the ball was quite brilliant.
 That brilliant beauty, Mrs Caroline Beale Mcqueen of Birmingham, has also been staying at the Battery Park. and was one of the. loveliest women at the midsummer ball.
 Among the guests there have been MT. and Mrs. J. c. Hunter, of Atlanta. form erly or Birmingham, and who still have so many friends there. Mrs. Hunter is one of the best known women in Atlanta society Her niece Miss Glover, whom many Birmingham people will remember as very attractive and charming young giri Is now among the popular young ma irons there.
 Her Chaperone.
 The chaperone plays an inconspicuous part in modern society. And at the sum mer resort she is even less visible to tho naked eye than during the town season, It has long been impossible to distinguish between her and the young woman in her care. Both are beles, both young, pret- ty, inclined to gayety, and congenial even when 1t comes to their admirers
 occasionally chaperone shines out in the passing show. She has to be quite out of the ordinary, and possess old fash toned ideas, or have the European train ng.
 The most interesting woman I have met this summer Is a French matron with two marriageable daughters. She looks young enough to be their sister, snd as she is with them constantly peo- Ile often speak of them as the trio.
 She has the European idea of chaperon- age. Her daughters are continually guarded by her, particularly when they have gentleman callers. Two men, ex- tremely attentive to these girls, have borne up beautifully for American men. When they call the girls mother sits with them in the living room, on the piazza. on the terraces. They may stay as late as they want to, come as often, but the mother is there when they come, remains near at hand, and in fact seldom leaves the room during their visit.
 To an American woman and even to the American girl the European idea of chap eronage has always seemed exaggerated, The women with every idea of propriety and the young girl, well-bred in correct usages, are in evidence everywhere but no mother sits the entire time with her daughter when she has callers, much less follows her around when she goes strolling or sits out a dance.
 Natlira11v thfc urorob .- charming and interesting as she is, is quite alone in her ideas of chaperonage strict chaperonage, mean, and her young daughters. both of them in the twenties. while pretty enough to be envied. are not the envy after all. because they are allowed so little freedom, at least from the viewpoint of the American girl.
 Still the European ideas when compared with the American looseness in chaperon- age, could well be put in practice in many instances. A modified European chaperonage is needed, and while this Er opean woman, following out her tra- dit ,ns and her training, seems more or les- conspicuous in social life in this COT ltry, no doubt she has her thoughts about the American mother who plays bridge while her daughter is nowhere to be seen
 But while the young daughters of the French mother are so constantly in her society, 1t is not due to a lack of confi- dence on the part of the mother
 The most trusting American mother was m yer more certain of her daughters con- / # than is this lovely French mother. .' It Is not that do not trust my daugh- .ers,' she says, ''but that am trained in this custom, in strict chaperonage, and I cannot permit them to receive callers unchaperoned."
 Both she and her daughters speak sev-