The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-21
NEWS OF TIE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD
Prominent People at Fashion
 able Resorts
NOTES HERE AND THERE
Miss Mary Johnston Entertained in Virginin-Atlnnta Society Pre- pares for Horse Show-wed-
 ings-0ther Topics
BY MYRTLE MILES

Several of the mountain resorts are en- toying much social activity just now. Hot Springs. Va, Is crowded with well known personages. MT. and Mrs. Stuy- yesant Fish are among those prominent In the social life of the beautiful noun tain resort, and Mrs. John Astor expects to spend the next few weeks of the au- tum there, having joined party of friends recently. MT and Mrs William B. Lowe of Washington are visiting MT. and Mrs. George Gunton, whose home, Gunton Lodge, is one of the most hos pitable of the summer residences. Miss Mary Johnston, the author, who is well known in Birmingham, a former home, Is also among the visitors. A dispatch from the resort to the Washington Post recently includes the following:
 Prominent society women here are carrying canes upon every occasion, and during the past month the cane has all most superseded the a1penstock which usually Is taken on the morning or aft ernoon walk by the intrepid and enthu- siastic mountain n-climber. Private cars and numerous motors have arrived dur ing the last several days, while the week has seen the departure of the last of the summer crowd and the arrival of incom- ing fall visitors. MT. and Mrs. Melville E. Ingalls,, Jr., MT. and Mrs. Albert In- gals, MT. and Mrs. Fay Ingalls,, MT. and Mrs. George Ingalls, are installed at In- glenook. Mrs. Melville Ingalls, Tuesday entertained at a picnic, which is an an- nual feature and a sort of family re- union. Col. and Mrs. William Wheatley or Washington, who have spent the en- tire summer driving through the noun tains in a brake, have returned to the Old Colonial Hotel at the Warm Springs, Bishop Ethelbert Talbot and Mrs. Tal- bot and their niece. Miss Jeter, who are here for the fall season, have been ex- tensively entertained. Mrs. Talbot, who has been the guest of honor at several dinners and teas, was given charming luncheon in the Japanese palm room by Mrs. William Allen last week. MT. and Mrs. George T. M. Gibson, who have spent the last 9 years in the same hotel cottage during the summer and fall sea- sons at the Warm Springs, entertained ar a luncheon Thursday in compliment to three authors, Miss Mary Johnston, Miss Ellen Glasgow and George Barr Me- Cutcheon."
 The coming season in Washington promises to be notably brilliant. Con- menting upon this fact. recent Wash ington paper mentions that one of the big establishments to be open will be that of former Senator Clark of Montana, and Mrs. Clark, at Fifth avenue and Seven ty-seventh street, New York. They have two little daughters one named Hugu- cite. John Jacob Astor, who opened his house at Fifth avenue and Sixty-fourth street with a dinner dance of 250 guests at the end of last season, plans to give a series of dinners and dances there this winter.
 Mrs. Nicholas Longworth is member of the house party MT. and Mrs. Ogden Mills are entertaining at Newport, says the Washington Post. in honor of their scn-in-law and daughter, the Earl and Countess of Granard, and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
 The Earl and Countess of Granard will sail this week for England.
 
 An interesting feature in Atlanta socie- ty during the autumn will be the horse show. Miss Eleanor Raoul, to whom was awarded one of the ha2dsomest tro- phies last year, is mentioned among the prospective contestants for the diamond trophy in the riders drill. Mrs. Allan Potts of Virginia, formerly Miss Ger trude Rives, and a sister of the author ess, Princess Troubetskoy, will be among the exhibitors of riding horses.
 The Atlanta Horse Show association has asked a number of the young women of Atlanta who ride to meet at the Pied mont Driving club in a few days for the purpose of organizing a quadrille. It will be under the direction of Lieut.. Emil P. Laurson, aide de camp to Gen. Albert Mills. of the department of the gulf, and will be one of the most beau tiful features of the horse show. A number of Atlanta's well-known women ut1 ride