The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-28
NEWS OF HE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD
Gossip of Prominent People
 Here and Elsewhere
HERE AND THERE
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 dings-Personnl Notes
BY MYRTLE MILES

A summer tourist, just returned, inter-
 estingly describes a French fete attended
 recently at Ak. Nothing she says,
 ''can be prettier than the countless lines
 of what look like huge inverted parti- colored tulips, really little electric lamps.
 swinging on houses and across the street.
 They are also hung in the magnificent trees of the park with bunting in fes- toons. Some 4O0,000 international medicos, by the way came while we were there to salute the President, taste the waters, speechify and tell each other and the world at large how curative are the springs and baths and how echanting Is
 Aix and. incidentally what fun to be banqueted together at the Villa de Fleurs and enjoy the opera on the stage at the end of the hall all at the same time. This is a quaint custom, I think When Juli- ette was being addressed in impassioned tones by a mellow tenor, 1t was funny and rather irritating, too, to be offered peas. Or something in aspc was offered by solicitous waiter, just when William
 Tell was drawing his bow at the nicely balanced apple. Petards were let off, too, while we were there, announcing the Presidents ascension. All Latins dearly
 love a noise; they think 1t is no real hoi-
 day without. So pearls play great
 part in a French fete.''
 There are quite number of notabes from England in New York and the ad- jacent resorts just now. Mrs. Whitelaw D in nr1
 ship that brought the Earl of Granard
 and spent the last weekend with her
 brother and sister, Mir. and Mrs. Ogden Mills at Staatsburg. Lady Herbert now the guest of her father, MT. Richard T. Wilson, will sail for England early in October, as her elder son, Sidney, is at school in Cambridge and the younger is
 at Eton. Bishop Wordsworth, the Lord
 Bishop of Salisburg, is visiting New York
 and will preach in Trinity church. | Gossip of the Presidents family is al- ways interesting and people all over the country were much concerned over Mrs. Tafts serious illness this spring. Those
 who have met her find her very charming
 and gracious.
 Little Charlie Taft according to Town
 and Country" on the day of his fathers birthday, September 15, wore his first | long trousers. Charlie, however, was not at Beverly with the President, but in | New York at the Plaza hotel with his ] mother, who, since her restoration to 1 health looks much more slim and youth
 full 'The First Lady of the Land" was
 seen on Thursday afternoon of last week
 having tea at the Plaza. She was very
 animated and very attractive in her chic
 gown of blue voile de soie with CluRy
 lace. Acquaintances quickly spied her,
 but people, in general, respect her wish | to evade at times, the public eye. She
 was having tea with Mrs. McClintock of
 Washington. MT. Post Wheeler and Mrs.
 Wheeler, with whom she made the voy- age from Japan two years ago. Mrs.
 Post Wheeler is Hallie Ermnie Rives, the
 novelist. Little Charlie has always been good company for those grown-up-and
 not only for those grown-up but for peo- | pie usually well educated. He was never
 prig, it is said, but sitting tailor-fash- ion was often found in a quiet corner
 aboard ship when travelling reading a
 big book that would be caviare to many
 college boys Frequently, too, he electri- | fled the company by a droll analysis of | the book.