The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

ionable girl considers she shows her orig inality and her pluck and she will drag | him after her into the halls of the mighty who welcome him. especially when he comes with duchesss daugh- | ter. Young women like Miss Violet As-
 quith and Lady Diana Manners and her
 sisters seem to have originated this Idea
 and 1t Is certainly worked for all it is worth this year.
 | Nobody finds much fault with these
 new conditions except the servants, al- ways rare and stodgy conservatives There are scenes now and again, it is ad | mitted, in great houses. but that is noth 1 ing. The modern young woman can | take her protege to her club where she will sit by the hour smoking innumerable | cigarettes with him and talking shop"
 Miss Warren to Marry
 | Miss Hope Warren of New York has | fixed July for her marriage with Robert Wilherforce grandson of -Wil- | liam the Emancipator,' who sent Pitt about his business when he told him he | was going to have him made an earl 1 There no end of distinguished eccle- | siastics in the Wilberforce family, in cluding the late Cardinal Manning, who | was an uncle of the bridegroom, and in whose shoes he walks, by the way, as he | too has gone over to Rome Other uncles of MT. Wiberforce were bishop of OK | ford and a bishop of Newcastle-on-Tyne l hear Cardinal Bourne Is to perform 1 the service. which IS to begin with
 grand nuptial mass and the great church | is to be sumptuously decorated The | story goes that the happy pair met first | at Rome and it was a case Of love at first | sight, though MT. Wilberforce went there with the original intention of deciding his vocation as he had strong intentions of joining the Dominican friars among whom hAt hoo. .I.. 1 against fate in the person of the pretty
 New Yorker, but to no purpose. so he oe. clded his mission was matrimony and the world. All the most aristocratie Catho- lies in London will be present at the we'd ding.
 DiscOrds Mourning
 It is not often a woman keeps on mourning for her sister as long as Mrs Walter Burns has done for Mrs John Ford. She has at last discarded it and is entertaining a great deal this season.
 wearing wonderful gowns So cut pTs syas she for a long time after Mrs, Eord,s
 death that some of her >friep1s said if
 she did not take care she would ror,ow
 In her footsteps. Her husband adopted
 fuse to get her/S of herself and told
 the physician ip Harley street. who was
 prescribing For her. to say that the only
 .ninsv4hGt would cure her was to go over to-<Paris and buy frocks ad lib and to come back here and give parties She cid as she was told but I hear that when she first went in to Worth's and Doucet ! and other great Parisian maisons she told them to send her anything they pleased and would not be bothered to try | on one. However she frightened up at the sight of such glorious things and she came back with a splendid wardrobe The Paris gown Mrs. Walter Burns is
 to wear at the court ball is a Worth creation and revelation and is to set | the autumn styes-at least so the story goes. Walter Burns Is the typical ador- l ing. self-annihilating American husband 1 and his wifes depression of mind since 1 the death of her sister has caused him I the greatest possible worry.
 one of the most prominent Anglo American hostesses of this sea son is,Lady Hadheld, who is having a great success She is a daughter of Col. Samuel M Wickersham of Philadelphia, and though she has been married about 10 years she looks just like debutante. Her hus- band is the inventor of manganese steel, | goes great deal to Sheffield, where his great works are situated and he has | money to burn. Their town house is 22 Carlton House Terrace. which was sump- tuously redecorated this season and con tains some of the finest French furniture in London. The late J. Pierpont Morgan was so much struck with a Sedan chair | which is to be seen in the hall that he of- | fered three times its worth for it. To it | Lady Hadfield Is especially attached, and | one night after big dinner party some l of the guests played a practical joke and l hid it in an attic. There were great rue | tions and the police summoned She is a great deal more original in her dress than the average American woman and some of the prettiest she designs herself. A ladys maid of hers once stole the design of ball gown Lady Hadheld had sletched and gave it to a fashionable dressmaker who had spite against Lady Hadfield. It was for royal garden party gown and the designer had the misery of seeing her dearest enemy arrayed in similar creation on the great occasion. I hear Mrs w. B. Leeds is to give a very novel ball during the season at which her friends are asked to appear as I fairies, which will be rather rough on some of them. though the character will suit the hostess herself to perfection. If report speaks truly the ballroom is to be turned into a sylvan dell and dancing will take place in moolit glades, amid | miniature waterfalls and growing green cry. Mrs. Leeds always does something original She tried hard to keep her in- | tentions regarding the ball a profound secret, but one of her dearest and nearest | let the cat out and now great deal Is I being talked about 1t.
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