The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD Gossip of Prominent People
 Here and Elsewhere NOTES OF MID-LENT
Miss Cobb Hostesssat Buffet Lunch eon-Scholarships for Alabama Girls-Mr. Washburn to Sing
 Saturday Afternoon
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 With everything quiet socially, there is much of domestic interest to engage those whose thoughts have chiefly cen tered about the vanities and pleasures of this life. It is interesting to learn the manner in which 'the question of what to do with ones Lenten hours is being decided. From one city comes the following note:
 With peace and quiet settled on Phila- delpha, society in general is lost and wondering what to do next, after being keyed Up to high c. as the two weeks before Ash Wednesday were gay ones indeed. It was kind of Mrs. Mason to make some of the little debutantes happy at the eleventh hour, as it were, by writ ing personal notes to those who were not eligible, or who were without suf- ficient pull to join her Monday evening dancing class, asking them to the last meeting, thereby endearing herself to per haps a dozen girls, for no maiden, no matter how fair, can count her debutante year a success had she not attended one or more of these exclusive dances. A very pledSdil ipIlSt IS liit ton of the Lenten sewing class. made up of the members of Mrs. Henry Edward Draytons former chorus class, held for years at the Acorn club. but discontinued some time ago owing to Mrs. Drayton's Ill health. The class has been sadly missed, so it was delighted lot of girls who gathered together at Mrs. Draf- toms home, Twenty-frst and Delaney streets, for the first meeting on February 20 to plan the work.
 Never before. perhaps, has Palm Beach, or indeed, any of the southern resorts been so popular as this season. From every quarter visitors have gathered to enjoy the soft breezes and sunny hours in the southern resorts of the far south and the news that comes back of gayety and ideness are alluring indeed. Town and Country carried the following note this week:
 Brilliant sunshine and soft breezes pre- vail at Palm Beach, and notwithstanding the advent of Lent. the season Is just beginning. The visit of the Secretary of State, MT. Knox, and his son and daughterin-law, Mir. and Mrs. Hugh Knox, has been one of the events of the week. On Tuesday Secretary Knox and MT. William J. Connors of Buffalo had a quiet little contest on the links in the early morning, which resulted in the defeat of the latter. MT. Knox's card was SS and MT. Corners 90. Miss Lillian B. Hyde has been leading in the woman S state tourney and on the links, among others, have been Messrs. John Ruther- ford of Tuxedo Park. John W. Payntar and St. John Wood of New York and James R. Hyde of Bay Shore.
 Mir Frederick Townsend Martin is a familiar figure at Palm Beach and he always makes it a point to pass a month there. He was one of the arrivals In the attes part of the week. Miss Beresford has been at the Royal Palm for some weeks. She is fond of golf and has been seen on the links every day. Miss Beres- ford is the daughter of Lord Charles Beresford and she has been in America for some months She has just come over from Nassau and earlier in the winter was in the west and north. At the Royal Palm this week are MT. Oscar 0Steven- son. MT. and Mrs. Charles Westerberry Mrs W. A. Shuman and the Misses Shu- man of New York. A dinner was given at the hotel by MT. and Mrs Joseph C. Hutchison of Philadelphia, at which were present MT. and Mrs. George Rhodes of New York. Other recent arrivals include MT. and Mrs. Shirley TreadwelT of Chi cago, Messrs. Oliver Hartman, w. Bark lie, Henry and Harry s. Black in MT Blacks private car; MT. Robert w. Par sons of New York and MT. and Mrs. Har- risnn R Moore.