The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-31

The list of debutantes in New York promises to be not so long, though more representative than for many years. for
 it contains many old New York names.
 There is Miss Mary Crocker Alexander, the third daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles B. Alexander. Mrs. Alexander has a beautiful home with a splendid ballroom. and entertains a great deal; this year her niece, Mrs. Whitman, will also entertain for the debutante, states an exchange.
 Miss Aida Chaner is the representa- tive of the Astor family; her father, MT. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, is great grandson of the first John Jacob Astor. Miss Pauline Clarkson, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Robert Livingston Clarkson, belongs to an old Knickerbocker family. Clarkson and Livingston were familiar names in colonial days. Mrs. Clarkson is a daughter of the late James Otis, who was one of the most popular leaders of the cotillion in the days, when it was called the German" The Otis family is also distinguished in national history.
 Miss Eugenie Ladenburg, who makes
  daughter of a beautiful mother. Mrs. Ladenburg was Miss Emily Stevens and a famous rider to hounds. At her we'd ding the Meadow Brook Hunt turned out and greeted the bride with a fanfare Of horns at the church door. Her daugh- ter inherits her athle4ss tendencies, and has been prominent at all the horse shows. meets. and pony races in the fashionable set.
 Miss Margaret Schieffelin represents the "dynasties,' if one may use that term in America, of several notable families. MT. William Schieffelin. her father. is the elder son of the Sehieffein family, and is prominent in many municipal reform movements His mother was a daughter of the late Mrs. John Jay and his grand father was minister to Austria. Miss Schieffelin's mother was Miss Shepard daughter of the late Elliott Shepard, and granddaughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt.
 The Misses Nancy and Kathryne Steele are the debutante daughters of MT. and Mrs Charles Steele, and sisters of the Comtesse de la Greze. MT. Steele is a partner of MT. J. Pierpont Morgan The Steeles have taken the Fabbri residence which is a truly superb house for exten- sive entertaining.
 Miss Muriel Winthrop, the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Egerton l.. Winthrop, Jr is another bud. MT. Winthrop has been interested in educational matters, and was for some time a school commissioner ole ant off ina of the Meadow Brook Hunt Mrs. Win throp was Miss Emeline Heckscher, great belle as a young girl and a fear less rider She is a sister of Mrs. George R. Mcclellan, the wife of the former mayor of New York. At present. she takes much interest in advanced move ments and was one of the first of the fashionable women to walk in the suffrage parade.
 Miss Caroline Wyeth, a daughter of Mrs. Grosvenor Wyeth is a granddaughter Of Mrs Frederick Goodrich, who entertained so beautifully at her town house at Fifth avenue and Twenty-eighth street, and at her country seat at Riverdale.
 Then there is Miss Trevor, the daugh- ter of Mrs Henry c. Trevor, who was Miss Schieffelin and a niece of Mrs. Bruce Ismay of Liverpool, and Miss Ellen Rogers the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Archibald Rogers, and Miss Harriette Post the daughter of Mir. and Mrs. George B. Post. Jr.. and so on through a list of some 20 more names.
 And so as the winter approaches we be- gin to bring out our daughters to the clash of modern cymbals an. the blare of modern trumpets-by which I mean an afternoon reception followed by din- ner, the play. the dance and supper. and the dance and breakfast-all a very sim pie little hors d'oeuvres for the orgy of entertainments that is to follow in the form of a succession of dinners. dances, and advertisements in the prevailing mode