The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-25

| A dance for 300. calling for the use of
 two ball rooms-one for dinner and sup | per and the other for dancing-has be- come a necessity in the returning of so- | cial obligations. Not many years ago a
 dance for 300 persons assumed the dignity | of ball. Today it is merely a dance. | Recently a woman of society sent out
 cards for a small dance" at Sherry's. The guests numbered 352 men and women, and the new generation. made up of de-
 butantes and young men of that sect com
 posed fully half the number.
 Thus is society expanding. and as 1t ex- bands it becomes more subdivided into sets that can only hope for a general assembly at such crush as the Charity Ball on Tuesday evening. It Is for this reason that the Charity Ball for the Nursery and Chllds hospital serves an excellent purpose. forming as it does the only ground upon which all sets may meet.
 Three thousand three hundred and flfty-two persons attended the ball at the Waldorf-Astoria, and public as It was their recognized social leaders danced in a throng of men and women whose names appear from time to time in the various dancing and dinner lists.
 Society loves its Palm Beach. At least once every season nearly everyone of the so-called -four hundred" makes a pilgrimage to this salubrious resort.
 MT. and Mrs. Egerton Webb and Miss Laura Webb have started for Palm Beach and Miss Emily Sloane left on February 20 to join her father, Henry T. Sloane.
 Among those already there are Mrs. John D. Crimmins. Jr.. MT. and Mrs. H. C. Chatfield- Taylor. Miss Hilda Holmes, Miss Iilla Gilbert and Miss Adelaide c. Chatfeld Taylor.
 Virginia Hot Springs is popular all the year round. Lovers of this beauti- ful place were dismayed to hear that Fassifern Farm, the picturesque dinner resort, within easy driving distance of the Homestead, has been burned to the ground with all it's beautiful colonial furniture and bits of curios. Nearly every one at some time or another has visiting this interesting old place and parta<en of the delicious southern din ners which were its principal feature.
 St. Augustine is receiving its full quota of early travellers. Much interest was taken In the Charity Ball. which was given on the evening of Washing tons birthday, at the Alcazar Casino as a benefit for the Fla gler hospital.
 There is a project on hand to enlarge the golf course of the St. Augustine club General Darrow of New York has offered three silver cups for the highest scores on the links.
 Society has already begun it's annual exodus to Bermuda. Among those who have gone are Mrs. Jacob Schif, MT. a nd Mrs. H. II. Rogers, Dr. Lyman Ab- bolt, Miss Margaret Stone. MT. and Mrs. J. Kennedy Tod, MT. and Mrs. A. C. Howard otto II. Kahn, Mir. and Mrs. William c. Chapin and Frederick Town send Martin
 A charming luncheon was given re- gently by the Californians in New York The guest of hpnor was Mrs William Grant Brown, president of the City Federation and an associate member of the Callfornians. The guests of the club were: Mrs. Josephine Gro. whose song. Hail, California" has been ac- cepted throughout that state as the off, ficial song and placed in the curriculum of the public schools; Mrs. Paxton, who has just returned from Mexico, where she has been visiting her son-in-l law Count Rayboudi Massiglia. Italian con- sul general; Mrs. Louise Sullivan White whose father went out to California in 1943 and owned the land on which stands the Palace hotel; Miss, Helen Converse formerly with the Drama players of the Chicago Theatre society; Mrs Archie Fiske, regent of Mary Mur- ray Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and chairman of the literature committee of the State Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Ed win Poss, Mrs. Hoffman, Mrs. Mathews daughter of Mrs. Lu Bates, and Miss Etta Block During the social hour a large United States flag was presented to the club by one of its vice presi- dents, Mrs. George Goodman. and a satin banner by the clubs president. Mrs Davis Mason and her daughter, Mrs Frank c. Leavitt. who had de- signed and painted upon it the clubs name and emblem, the eschschoitzia Mrs Fiske gave a short talk upon her experiences in the recent campaign for suffrage in California: Mrs. Creighton. one of it's members, told of running as a candidate for the board of education; Miss de la Ware recited some of her own writings, and Mrs. Woodallen Chapman gave several poems of child life.
 New Orleans was the Mecca for the crowds who go there for the Mardi Gras celebration.
 The first issue of the New Orleans So- cial Register has just been issued. con- taing many names of the old French and Creole families which help to make this the most interesting book of the Social Register series yer published