The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

ADGUSIA SLAhA i4N ihC 'OHN
 OF HosTESS-OTHER TOPICS
 or SOCIAL INTEREST
 This is the most quiet period or tne sufamer season in society. Scores ot peo- ple who are prominent figures in the so- cial picture left home last week and the one before scattering to the various sum roer resorts. At these pleasure and gay etv are now at their height for the sum 7ner season is in full blast, and the num- her of guests al the smarest and the most oiliet alike Is larger than at any other 3ttme during the year There seems to he no favorite place for Birmingham folk Athis wear as is so often the case. They ' go innariially to the places near home, Fsnd those at great distances, but most { Of the smart beaches and watering places x are visited by some of our people in sea- ison
 Fashionable places on the Atlantic arc entering upon period of vast gayety, and lone reads of plans for lavish entertain sments. Prophecies in regard to summer 8reserts indeed, can only be made after it is known who will have a part In the Aseason's drama. The actors must in a measure observe the plot of the play in- eofar as custom has made certain rules. .&13ut after all the play is not the thing. kThe actors count for more. and one orig arial hostess may change the character of the season. According to dispatches the Newport season promises especial bril- liance and the hostesses are one by one arriving to enter upon a period of con- Espicuous hospitality. A correspondent who lis spending short time in Newport while Ion a motor tour write a few days ago 1iof the arrival of the cottagers. The barred sgateways, she says, or the heavy iron fball and chain, slung across driveway tare the only evidence of absence, for New fYort owners spend large sums of money fyearly in the upkeep of their places, and &fowers are just as gorgeous, lawns just as perfectly kept when the owner is ab- sent as when he is present. The gate alone gives away the secret. just as pen nants on a yacht give the message. own 5er aboard" Among the notable people who are there for the season are MT. and Mrs. Leonard Thomas, who are in the W. E. Carter place on Narragansett ssvssn,e e for. the season. This is the fav- .,orte villa of MT. and Mrs. Harry Lehr wSho formerly occupied it when MT and { HMrs. Carter elected to spend the summer elsewhere. Mrs. Payne Whitney is in the line old Whitney mansion and will hay, as neighbors Mrs. Nicholas Brown, Mrs
 French Vanderbilt and Mrs Edwin D
 Morgan. Mrs. Burke-Roche and Mrs Cooper Hewitt will occupy the beautiful old-fashoned Frank Work mansion, whici for the past three years has been closed Mrs. T. Suffern Taller, MT. and Mrs I kWilliam c. Loew. MT. and Mrs. Reginald tyanderblt and MT. and Mrs ogden Mills Hare among the leading hosts and hos (tesses.
 To come nearer home, Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs has more than it's usual lquota of visitors and later in the season tseveral Birmingham folks will be num- fbered among the guests. As recipe for ia popular summer resort visitor from that delectable place has written the fol- Towing:
 "Take large quantity of young peo- iple, addsseveral eligible bachelors, spice with number of attractive dvorcees and season well with enough disnihed matrons and the result will be satisfactory, for 1t takes all sorts of people to make a world, and to have the jolliest kind of a time at a summer resort. one must be popular with many types
 White Sulphur Springs has more than the average share of charming guests. the majority being southerners, but there are enough visitors from the north to add variety, and from early morn, when the young people start out for horseback rides. until after midnight. when the last party leaves the cafe, the hours are filled with pleasure. The chief attractions are automobiling, riding, bowling, billiards pool. tennis, golf and swimming pool parties.
 Although still early in the season fol White Sulphur, there is no scarcity ot men. which fact was proved by a mos successful german at which 40 couple. danced this week. It was led by E. Pen dleton Turner of Washington. His part ner was Mrs. Blaine Elkins of West vir ginia, who is a very graceful dancer. MT Turner introduced some novel features such the hurdle jump, hare and hound chase ana many others, which were most appropriate, preceding, as they suggested the last day of the Greenbrier Country club races. Y
 Y Among the graceful dancers were Mrs *Blaine Elkins, Mrs. Julia Bradley, Wash 1ngton; Mrs. Thornton Lewis, Cincinnati. 54frs. John H. Allen, Cincinnati Miss Elm NY Powell, New York; Miss Credilla Mill &T Baltimore; Miss Valerie Padelfors Washington: the Misses Bertha and Xrances Clark, Philadelphia; Miss Mar 3orie Langdon, Cincinnati; Miss Helen $tevens, Richmond; Miss Nan Goodwin,