The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25
EVENTS OF YESTERDAY IN THE SOCIAL WORLD Birmingham People At Coro-
 narde Beach NAVAL SOCIETY THERE Social Life More interesting By the Presence of Wives of Officers
 Awaiting Arrival of Fleet In the Pacific.
AL SOCIETY THERE
BY ANNIA KENDRlck WALKER

BY ANNla kENDRlcK WALKER.
 Mrs. W. P. G. Harding and her lit- l tie daughters, Margaret and Alice Hard i ing, have taken a cottage at Coronardo
 Beach, Cal, where the balminess of the
 climate has already proven beneficial to
 Margaret Harding, for the benefit of
 whom her mother was advised to go
 to California for an indefinite stay Mrs. Harding's many friends will be
 delighted to know that her little daugh- l ter has shown marked improvement since I reaching Coronardo Beach, Elizabeth l Harding, who did not accompany her 1 mother, but who is still in Birmingham i with her father and her grandparents, | MT. and Mrs. Sydenham Moore, will join | her mother later, and she expects to go
 to Cornardo Beach with Mrs T. T. Hill
 man, who will leave early in February. 1 Coronardo Beach, one of the loveliest
 winter resorts of the world, is now the l social center for the Pacific fleet.
 It has grown in popularity with the
 navy set. All warships stop there on | their trips to and from target prac- | tice at Magdalena Bay, and at no time
 are there not officers wives at Coronardo 1 Beach.
 1 The assemblies there on Saturday 1 evenings and the mid-week hops are said | to be really naval balls, as generally a band from one of the warships fur nishes the music.
 | With the arrival of Rear Admiral Will liam T. Swinburns fleet, several of the
 most prominent women in the~ navy set 1 were in the hotel colony there. Soon
 after the departure of Rear Admiral Rob- | ley D. Evans fleet from Hampton Roads
 the wives of several officers arrived at l the hotel.
 1 In the list of those now in the winter colony at the beach appear the names | of many women who are awaiting the | return of the fleet.
 Besides the interest increased by the presence of the wives of the officers with
 Rear Admiral Evans awaiting the ar-
 rival of the fleet on the Pacific, the
 season there is delightful socially h.
 teresting athletic competitions are ar
 ranged to entertain the winter visitors. 1 In early March polo teams will com | pete for the international cup, a S4O0O | gold and silver trophy. Two teams from Honolulu and one from Canada and prob ably one or two English teams will be
 on hand to meet the teams of California. 1 But as far as this season is concerned 1 Coronardo Beach is the rendezvous of naval society, and life there, extremely interesting under all conditions, is more l so this winter.
 1 Col. and Mrs. T. G. Bush have been Io;
 nardo Beach in past seasons. l Rehearsals for the play, "A Box of
 Monkeys" to be presented on Monday
 evening in the recreation hall of the
 Margaret Allen school, by group of
 well known young society folk, are pro- l gressing satisfactorily, and everything will be in readiness for the successful
 presentation on Monday evening. | A great many tickets have been dis l posed of and the proceeds will be used | by the Kings Daughters, under whose auspices the play will be given, for the Young Womans Christian association in i the furnishing of the music room. | Old-fashioned dances are being revived | this winter. At many smart events in | the south, men and women with gray l hair are participating in the mid winter 1 dances Mrs. Henry Flag1er is said to | be responsible for the revival of old 1 fashioned dances. having given one at the 1 Ponce De Leon this season. So popular 1 have they become that dances are in great vogue in St. Augustine, where in past seasons entertaining has been con l fined almost entirely to bridge or mus- cales. There was little dancing among of course been imniensely fashionable among the villa set there, but the din- ner dance was not so much in favor, | having almost entirely superseded the after-dinner bridge.
 Mrs F. Y. Anderson. was the hostess at the Friday afternoon meeting of the Cadmean Circle.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Schumacher of An niston are visiting friends in this city. Miss Edna Smith gave a delightful talk yesterday-on Paris art life to an audience composed of Clionian club women at the residence of Mrs Richard Randolph On January 2S there will be given at the Cable hall, Birmingham, an entertainment
 for the benefit of the Woodlawn kinder garten Miss Fuqua of Owensboro, Ky,
 who will give a reading, comes highly recommended. She finished her course
 under one of the most noted graduates of the Emerson School of Oratory of
 Boston. This reading will be interspersed
 with music by local talent.
 Miss Wolf has charming voice and never fails to please all who hear her.
 Tickets on sale at drug store in East Lakes, Banes drug store in Woodlawn and Cable hall in Birmingham. The pro- gramme:
 Monologue, 'tWhen Jack Comes Late"
 0Ielen c. Berger)-Miss F'uqua.
 Vocal solo, "He Was Prince" Qynes) Miss Hit.
 Coon's Lullaby (Paul Lawrence Dun- bar)-Miss Fuqua.
 .lF'or All Eternity (MarcheronD-Miss
 Cheek.
 Dancing School and Dicky," (Josephine Daskane)-Miss Fuqua.
 Male quartet, Come Where the Lille Bloom" (Fhompson)-Mess Day, Tar rant Daily, Professor Moone.
 Angelina Johnson" Paul Lawrence Dunbar)-Miss Fuqua.
 Monologne, "Coppenter Man." (Edmund Vana CoolS)-Miss Fuqua.