The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
DIARY OF A DEBUTANTF

, at the club, and I am so fascinated that at last I can get the point of l view of my beloved Uncle Bill, who gets up early in the morning that he may play golf and stays up late at night that he may talk about it. used to think that he was a benight being but now that I have caught the disease, l see that it is in the game. My golf togs are summers, gorgeous stripes and plaids, and l feel like I am rigged up like a Christmas tree every time 1 venture outside the door But l shall learn. And dad has promised | that l may go to Chattanooga in May to the southern tournament, If l am learned enough. Perhaps I may be able to enter the baby flight. I've made up my mind that I will accomplish something in life, even if it is only playing golf for being a debutante is interesting enough, but then one can't always be a debutante.
 There was luncheon after the les son, just a few of us gathered around to gossip. but We were so interested | in what was going around us that | we hardly had time to talk at all. Mar garet Chenoweths luncheon for Cora 1 Gregg was a beautiful thing, and I just | thought that flowers and tulle and happiness were the very heritage of 1 all brides. And I think Cora must have felt it, too-She was so radiant. l There were pink and white geraniums on the table, lovely basket of them, l all mixed in with smilaX and white narcissi, and pink shaded candles gave | just the softest glow to make the guests appear all the more charming. Then Mrs. LeRoy Percy was there at a luncheon given in her honor by ! Mrs. Badham. That was the first time 1 I had seen her and she is exquisitely l lovely. I really don't wonder that Le- 1 Roy chased off to Georgia to choose | his lady love. She has been i'll but 1 today she looked quite rosy and beau- ] tifully "bridey." There were a group l of girls invited to meet her and all l them were brides not so very long ago. l Mother is going to meet Miss Pen dleton tonight at Mrs Crockard's for she is awfully fond of Wellesley and that distinguished lady does not know how near she came to having me for student. Carlotta Smith finished there this year, but then she is awfully bright and awfully studious, which could never hope to be. Mrs. Crockard gives such interesting parties that I am sure everything will be beautiful tonight, and that all sorts of charming people will be there.
 As for me, will be languishing at
 
 youngster that debutantes are made of
 something plus I'm tired of being an ingenue.
 On, my dear, my dear, most forgot
 the most exciting thing. Elizabeth
 Harding is going to get married. And
 to think she is hardly as old as I am. Franklin Henry Ellis, whoever that is,
 is the man, and their engagement was announced at wonderful dinner in
 Washington last night. The wedding will be in the spring and am wonder
 ing if she will remember her school
 girl friends enough to invite them to
 the wedding I hope so, though I haven't seen here in ages, because I
 was at school when she was here last
 year.
 Thursday-Im all breathless with eX- citement over everything that is happen
 ing this week, and over all of the things that l am planning to do next. Elizabeth Locke has deserted us and has run away to Tuscaloosa to have a good time. or maybe to rest before her wonderful visitor comes. All of us are made to see her. for we have heard nothing from Elizabeth
 but talk of Polly since the season started. Whether Polly has any other name I don't know, or whether she has a home, but she must be very remarkable person to create such an enormous inter- est Then Margaret Moore is going to have some more visitors for that adora- ble Georgiana Drummond has sailed away to her home in Los Angeles just when we were getting so fond of her we didn't want her to go at all. But we are hoping that the others will be just as charming and that we all will get the benefit of their popularity.
 I am busy with the dressmakers-I SUD- pose if l were everything that a debu- tante should be, would say the modiste- but anyway, I am to have some wonderful frocks before I sink into oblivion But not more wonderful than all of the other girls, for really I feel that I am in a fairy play when I look at myself and then at the others all draped in blossom colored taffetas and tulles I dream that some of these days my Prince Charming will come riding and take me away on his snow White charger Only a wish that my nose were not so straight and that my eyes were smudgy blue
 Leonora Hassinger is very much elated over the fact that she is to have a really gfoWn-up luncheon, when Mrs Charles Shepherd introduces her to some of her friends Tuesday. But I am afraid that l would be scared to death to have such bright knowy women all around me
 However not so Leonora-she is the most beautifully grown-up person when she wants to be, quite enviably so
 l am going to meet Anelie Hill tomor row. l have heard that she is quite inc most charming girl in Montgomery and am anxious to see. If she is half as nice
 as her sister, whom she is visiting. I wi