The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30

young women in the very up-
 permost circles of fashionable so- ciety who will make their debuts during the coming season, none is more charm ing and more generally admired than Miss Ellin Mackay, youngest daughter of Clarence Mackay. And only few of this rich cluster of young buds will come into possession of more generous hand ful of millions.
 It would seem as If such a girl as this, possessed of so many pleasing per sonal qualities and surrounded with every luxury and advantage which great wealth can supply, should be supremely happy on the eve of what. next to her marriage, will be the most important event of her life.
 But Ellin Mackay Is said to be un- able to feel the unalloyed joy which such g girl as she Is should feel at time like this. And the reason is that when she makes her maiden bow to society she will be confronted with what is perhaps the gravest, most puzzling problem de- butante ever faced.
 What is this problem whose menace makes Ellin Mackay look forward to her coming-out party and the events which are to follow it with so few of the plea surable thrills of anticipation she ought to be feeling?
 It is the problem of retaining the love of her divorced parents-of turning deaf ear to the gossip which is still current about the sensational circum- stances under which they parted-of maintaining the strictest neutrality in a social world which is divided into two hostile camps by differences of opinion concerning the course the former Mrs Mackay took when she left her husband to become the wife of Dr. Joseph A. Blake.
 Even in the carefully shielded life which the little heiress has been leading and will continue to lead until the night of her debut, she has heard enough to make her fully aware that in spite of the length of time which has elapsed since her parents troubles reached their distressing crisis, they remain favorita topic for the frankest discussion in fash ionable society.
 She has already learned that among the men and women of wealth and fash ion with whom she will now. be thrown on terms of equality are many who are loud in their denunciation of her mother who think that she should be forever ostracized from the society of all de- cent people for having permitted herself to be stolen frop her first husband, Ellin's father.
 Many of the opinions which Ellin Mackay has heard passed on her mother have brought the blushes to her inno- cent young cheeks. And from now on she fs bound to hear more and moro of these unpleasant things, for when she is full fedged debutante society's bit ing tongues will not be 50 careful to spare her feelings as they were when she was only . schoolgirl.
 It is not only her mother whom shs knows she will hear criticized in the severest terms. From scraps of gossip, which were never intended to reach her ears, she long since gleaned the knowl- edge that in fashionable society there are at least few who think that in the beginning the blame for the trouble which ended in his wife's forsaking him and the three children for Dr. Blake must have rested with MT. Mackay him. self.
 It Is indeed distressing problem for girl of Ellin Mackay's temperament to have to face, and it casts shadow over her debut which makes that event far less joyous than it would otherwise have been.
 Loving her father and her mother, too.