The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22

New York. January 21.-(Special.) )-Lord and Lady Tweedmouth who have been Interesting guests in New York, are now at Colorado Beach, Cal, where they are enjoying the balny breezes of the Pa cific and playing polo. Later they expect to visit Texas and see the cowboys. on the great ranches. Lady TWeedmouth Is particularly pleased with the beauty of America and the cordial, free-hearted disposition of the American people.
 'I do believe Lady Tweedmouth said to the reporters, that perhaps more Eng lishmen are. coming over here every year, not to stay, but to see you Americans. They ares beginning to feel at home, 1 suppose. And I'm not surprised. Yo1 folks are so cordial and one does have a good time here. Oh, l really am much attached to your darling little country. L.. Lord Tweedmoutfl, who inherited the tbtie from his father at the latter's death, two years ago. is a rugged type of Brit isher--the perfect soldier His father ere ated a, furore in England and Germany a year before his death by disclosing the fact that he had received a private let ter from Emperor William, in which there was some criticism of the British admiralty.
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 The annual dinner given by the Min nesota society of New York on Friday night was one of the most elaborate ever undertaken by the adopted sons from the northwestern state. The president of the society. MT. John Henry Hammond, ex- erted breat efforts to make the event a success. Among the speakers were Governor Eberhart of Minnesota, Rep sresentative Miller and Representative Tawney Many nonresident members of the society were in attendance.
 Formal announcement of the engage ment of Miss Vivian Gould. second daughter of Mir. and Mrs George J. Gould, having been made, society in New York is looking forward to the event as an event of great interest. While the date for the marriage has not been set, 1t is stated that it will be in February. Although not yet a debutante. Miss Gould is known in society in both New York and London, and is. quite a clever dancer At several entertainments given for charity at Lakewood, the, country home of the Gould family, she was the most applauded danoer on the pro- gramme. She is now in her nineteenth year Lord Decies as the Hon. John Beresford. has been known in New York for number of years, Lord Decies is an athlete and soldier with records in each line of ac-'vity. He is 9 D. s. O.. winning it in service against the Mad Mulah in somaliland and in the Mata- bele and Boer wars. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Seventh Hussars, in which uniform he was much noted at the re- cent horse show at Madison Square Gar den, where he rode and acted as judge. In athletics he has devoted himself to riding, racing and cricket.
 The approaching marriage of Miss Gladys Sully,. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Daniel J. Sully. to MT George Henry Mahlstedt, of wealthy New Rochelle family, will be an event of much inter est among the younger contingent of New York society Miss Sully is the daughter of the former "cotton king" MT. Mafilstedtl is now taking a post graduate course in law at Yale. The marriage will take place in the early spring.
 The cost of giving girls a fashionable boarding school education, which in twen- ty years has increased from s1,0O0 to 5000 a year, led Dr Henry Van Dyke in a recent talk before a collnre. women s club to comment on the habits of ex- travagance as encouraging a prejudice against ''higher education" Colleges are economical compared with the finishing schools. and it has been estimated that, while $7oO to $500 will pay the actual liv- ing and tuition expenses at the best fn- ishing schools, it requires twice that amount for incidentals. The leaders of the federation of clubs say this is de- Ynoralizing because of it's intimate con nection with the future of the nation.
 Countess Annie Leary has given to sev- eral of her friends beautiful colored pho-