The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-23
VACATION PLANS
AND ANNUAL EXODUS
Where Prominent People
Are Gathering
THE DAYS EVENTS
Birmingham Man WEEDS in Atlanta,
Anagram Party for Visiting Girl.
Other Affairs Planned-Bir-
mingham Girl Entertained
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Newport, always the center of fashion
able society during the summers is al
most at the height of its activity just
now, though word comes of gatherings OF
notable people in many of the smart sum
mer resorts. News and gossip of people
foremost socially in the public eye in
cludes people famous in the literary dip
1onatie and-one may say-poiitical fields
the country over. Prominent suffragasts
are meeting at various places and from
across the seas are arriving fashionables
whose position in a social sense is interna-
tional.
Newport has been made far more inter-
esting to the world in general by the
return of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, and ces-
talnly 1t is more enjoyable to that part of
the world in particular that is in residence
there. In every city from coast to coast
Newport is a subject of Importance even
to the most provincial people. Mrs. Fish
has been sadly missed from the social
scene and women who read about the
gaieties of New York and Newport, and
who forget that she was in mourning Tor
her mother, had wondered why she had
retired to the background. Her person
ality places her in the public eye. The
great majority who read about the Rhode
Island resort believe that Newport has
regained its glory. They love to hear
about what Mrs. Fish believes, and what
Mrs. Fish proposes to do. Her first din
ner and dance given last Saturday night
brought out the fact that she disapproves
of dancing on Sunday morning, but this
is no doubt only the result of a more
wholesome life at Newport with desire for
sports and exercise in the open rather
than pleasure that is physically harmful.
Interest in sports has made a change at
all tho summer resorts. People care less
for display and formal social life Next
Sunday Mrs. Fish will give a luncheon
and on August 10 there will be ball
for her niece, Miss Helen Fish, the young
est daughter of Mr.. Hamilton Fish.
Mrs ]. Gordon Douglas. slim and
lively and wearing wonderful gowns. Is
the hostess this season in the cottage be-
longing to Mr.. and Mrs. William u.
Carter, and occupied last season by Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Thomas. Mrs. Douglas
Seems TO nave d phll III CNSA ei''s
takes place at Newport, and has been
conspicuous on the tennis court as well
as in the ballroom. She was one of the
winners in the handicap tournament
played last week end.
While Mrs. Harriet Stanton Rlatch. Mrs.
John Winters Brannan and Miss Eleanor
are making strong little company or sur
fragists at Richfeld Springs. where they
are tho guests of Mrs. Richard Malcolm
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again mako Marble house center OF
activity In Newport She will entertain
in her old way and will give dinners and
dances as she did In those years before
her widowhood. She is already planning
to have suffrage headquarters in Newport,
and will have her young friend Miss 1nez
Milholand, with her during July. Should
Mrs Belmont's daughter, the Duchess of
Marlborough, ever come over for that
much discussed summer at Newport, she
would doubtless be obliged to spend the
season at Newport in the more usual way,
as she would find 1t necessary to attend
all the dinners and dances given In honor
of the visitor from England. However.
the Duchess of Marlborough would quite
willingly aid the suffrage cause. 1t was
she who first enlisted her mothers SYM
pathies. The duchess this very week has
been entertaining the delegates to the In
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Mrs. Vanderbilt, who has her daughter,
the Countess Szechenyi, as her beloved
guest from across the seas, goes aside
from the usual sort of entertaining, and Is
kindly enthusiastic in regard to all tho
charitable entertainments
At the Hotel Arlington at Narragansett
pier are Mrs. Charles d. w. Gibson and
Miss Josephine Gibson, mother and sister
of Charles Dana Gibson. At the same
hotel a distinguished guest is DR.. James
B. Angel, who was president of the Uni
versity of Michigan from 1871 to 1909, and
who has affiliations with Rhode Island,
for he was born in the little state. was q
librarian at Brown university when a
young man and he married daughter
of DIR. Alexis Caswell, president of Brown
university. He was at one time minister
to Turkey. He is proud. too, of the fact
that he is the father of that other Angel
who is one OF the greatest psychologists
OF the University of Chicago. At Greene's
Inn there are also visitors of interest
Over the huge fireplace. where big logs
burn on cool evenings in the early fall, II
the inscription: ''Shall not take mine
ease In mine inn?" It's Interior is like
an old English inn of the type pictured
by Dickens. and travellers seek its hos
pitality from all over the land. Recon
guests there were Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Ward Greene, of Worcester. who left Il
60 to Newport to visit ldr. and Mrs
Marsden ]. Perry at Bleak house. Mis-:
Dorothy r. Gladding, a recent debutants
in Providence. has arrived at the Mathew,
son 10 poin her parents Mr.. and Mrs
William B. Gladding. She came from
Barrytown-on-the-H Hudson. where she hat
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Richart
Aldrich. OF New York, at their country
place there