Show CROWDING 01T TII3 DEBUTANTES The Mature Matron Is Making it Im liossihlo For Youisoi Women to Hold Their Own ii Society New York Feb 31n glancing over the newspaper society columns one might well ask where are the young People Save an occasional mention of two or three debutante heiresses the descriptions of gowns and personalities person-alities are devoted exclusively to the women verging dangerouslv near the meridian of life In primitive days society belles 18 years of age claimed as their natural heritage a monopoly of gay and frolicsome frolic-some amusements Their mothers in quiet gowns chaperoned the bails and parties where their ribboned daughters held sway Now the mothers in the family diamonds and decollete gowns are the dtmiinant feature of all social functions Formerly a married woman mother of an attractive girl would say with a sign Bessie is coming out this season sea-son and I suppose Ill have to get together to-gether a few evening things and RO about with her some Behold the change A fashionable young woman is brought under the astute guidance of a nother who is herself a leader and belle in the set to which she introduce intro-duce her daughter The advantage is patent This same debutante will not have to rely I entirely en-tirely on her own skill to become a success for the trained eye of the older woman is there to tactfully cover every social departure her daughter may ignorantly make At the opera and at the assemblies in New York it is Mrs Paran Stevens Mrs William Astor Mrs Ogden and Mrs Wilson whose appearance is commented com-mented on in drawing room talk American married women who have long been voluntarily shelved in society here are frequently astonished to find themselves leaders of social gaieties in Paris and London In fact a handsome woman confessed to positive pos-itive giddiness in Paris last season owing largely to her immature forty years while the other women in social life were upwards of seventy In that festive city Mrs Pell is now the acknowledged ac-knowledged leader in the American colony > a woman over whose head the allotted three score years and ten have It slipped each one of these daughters = of time seeming to leave only the most gracious gift as it passed Si ce Mrs Ogden positively condemned con-demned the tiresomeness of public balls women are claiming the privileges privil-eges of being hostesses oftener than patronesses They have dinners more frequently than dances and musicales instead of banquets Dinner giving conduces to clever conversation an art that has more attention at-tention paid to it this season than formerly for the very reason that society so-ciety is receiving multiple reinforcements reinforce-ments from the people who have reached a contemplative age InvitatIons Invita-tions for fifteen dinners have been issued is-sued in the Hast week each of them given by and for women whose ripe years should yield them the palm to leadership Mrs Stamford White Mrs Lawrence Hutton Mrs Richard Vatson Gilder I and many other women of that charming charm-ing cut decided to give a series of dances during the month the membership member-ship almost exclusively confined to an I age beyond reach of the debutante A set of musicales at a famous hotel I arein order projectors being wo I men whose daughters are buds at the Sherry dan ing classes and select card parties made up of gentle confessors con-fessors to half a cent 1ty of years are Tanked as social events This movement for the maintenance I of middle aged society seems limited I as yet to a few large cities New York and Boston appear as the advance guard but the lesser cities are slowly following Their mature matrons feel I somewhat shy about donning a ba gown and stepping confidently to an I affair where they appear to contest their daughters popularity Theyare sure however to fall in sooner or I later laterHARRYiDBL13 HALLMARK |