| Show I To be In the th Swim I Means Mears On the Move I Special Correspondence I ONDON Dec 8 SOne One docs doc LONDON L JJ not know Im w hero on earth to halt half ones acquaintances said MISS UIS Crocker the theother theother theother other day In when she was wa pitying paying a ti tiro around around ro round u ml of oC visits hilt She Slie made the statement state stute statement ment on finding that numbers of her friends had since her last visit to London moved moed here there and good goodlier lier knows wh tt re Quite halt hulf smart mart set does not keep the same house two years ealM running More ore espe especially Is this the case among am on smart American women all the tho same Iame It WWi was wisa wasa I Ia I a to wit It Blanche Blanehe Lady Lad I Rosslyn who sot Rot this fashion Within thin the last few feu years ears she who has had j some ome something something thing like a dozen or more town resi resl residences r l dences The society woman takes a house In Ina Ina a II fashionable Io quarter She has It decorated dec decorated orated Inside and out to her own f taste and goes to no end of 0 trouble to pick up for It all nil the most delight delightful f ful oddments she can find In Chippendale or French furniture ac according according according cording to her fancy fan She snakes makes tho the house the proverbial dream and andr r after her friends have seen It and en enthused enthused over It she sho gets sick to death I of o It nil and nines to unit PI Or 01 let Int It If For t example early riy last l year Mrs Corn wattle wallis West Vest bought Madame Melbas house In Great Greal Cumberland Place There were wore lovely things In It already alread Mrs West rest bought more Silo She Is a con connoisseur In furniture and She Sho rummaged all over the place for what she wanted and got It No o soon sooner sooner er had she given glen a few parties thero there and shown her treasures than she turned round and naked asked her friends I If they the would like to take it Mrs Joseph was Wali delighted at the Idea forthwith signed a I contract pay Jm In ing a week weel for or It and Ind went Into residence at once Now the tho story stor goes that she sho has bought the place at a I big figure and anil that thai when the tho time I cc mes she sho will be here again to re repeat repeat peat her tier triumphs Of last season jeason PALACE P FOR FOn RENT nENT Lady Lul Naylor Nn lor Leyland Leland would like to t I Il Ik let Hyde Hydo Park k House this season a To i keep up l this establishment Jt I means a I I millionaIres es Income It being one of o j I the palaces of the metropolis The Tho i t fOuches Duchess Ouches of seems seem to I Ibe he be restful anywhere an whelo except at Floors s I ISho Sho She must mut have hac Inn e had a dozen different town to n houses In ht the last few vears And An sh says say 53 nothing would in induce induce duce duc her to settle I definitely In any an anA A great glat dodge of society women In Innee need nee of money Is to take t I a hou house e furnish It artistically or smartly and anil andr then either r sell or let It at a good wo wold ld profit Not a few have been l making I quite big biff bl additions to Incomes p In this way for years In many man In Instances i t stances the furniture has hns been pro procured I cured on the Instalment system f which comes In useful for fOI this kind kindo 1 of o business In flats lints It Is done enor enormously j i One society worn women in has a i dozen furnished flats which s she he sub sublets sublets sublets lets j i There Is an arrangement arran ement between Al Alfred Alfred Alfred fred Vanderbilt and amI his little boy that they shall hall hear henr front each other othel con constantly constantly For some sonic time than three th le letters were written by little Williams nurse from Crom the childs dictation Later Latel the j youngster insisted upon Inscribing them himself his nurse hl hh hand Now No it seems he Is able ul e to j I IIO j manage It nil all by himself His last j production IO t said saidI ild d I II II I miss you very ver much Daddy When will you come home homo I wont be a millionaire when I T am a big man manI I shall stay at home with my m children Mother tins has bought me a Shetland pony pon I should like to take him to tobed tobed bed bcd with me mc but mother says ga s I DEVOTED FATHER Ho IIo Invariably sends love and cinch kisses n a goodly amount from flom himself and anel from rom his mother Tho The child knows nothing about tho the divorce but Is simply sim simply simply ply under the Impression that his father Is 18 away for far some Iome reason renson Vanderbilt Van Vanderbilt IB Is devoted to little Bill Dill and und wears his miniature on his chain Wherever he lives thero there are arc scores of o portraits of the child about Homo Some time ago Mrs Irl Vanderbilt was thinking of taking u a house In London but hut site sho was wai afraid she would see too loo much of her late lato husband and as this would naturally prove provo painful she took toole one In Berlin Instead Nevertheless site ho Is 11 expected here In the tho late Uto spring for a while and und as a usual will stay with her slater sUter Lady Lad The sisters n 1110 10 most attached to each oth othor other or er coming to England Englund Mrs Vanderbilt und nod her son Hon lire are to stay with Mrs French at her 1101 villa lIIa on n the theMA Mediterranean MA II whEre they will ho bo Joined by Lord and Lady I d Is c cHER HER GRACES BUSY BUST BU Y MONTH It seemed at one time that philan philanthropy thron n fI as expressed by b the smart bazar ba bazar zar 31 fete 01 or concert was wn a thing of ur the past punt So fo many expensive frocks frock had to bo he got r t so much pilfering went ent on an that the women In the best belt set said they the would oud have no more moro bazars But Dut till nil sinners me fire forgiven n In London Jon on In time If they are arc discreet Anyway An ny sales ales Oal aro un greatly grat y to lO tho the fore fOle are at the moment 1 The Duchess l C 8 of Marl borough I tolls f her friends Jel Jell she ought ri It to I have been heen brought up as ns n so 80 dearly dearl does she lovo selling jelling I ng Her Interest In lazars Is about the thc one thing that lira has hail Kept them than olive alive anti and there are arc quite a v number In which she bho Is taking felting part pait before Christina This Is III n It busy buny bUl time for or her het grace graco who has a crowd of pensioners not one of whom she forgets to say nothing of all nil tho the small people at her It ItIs ItIs t I Is at this time of year ear that the duchess Is most mined at Blenheim Whether the Duchess of Roxburghe Js Is s at Floors or not those on tho the estate e and the tho cottagers for miles around are all remembered by b her lice She Is most particular that her gifts should never noer suggest charity From the Duchess of ot with her good wishes Is the tits formula used by her mace grace when she sho distributes her favors Tho Scotch are arc an Independent race who will bo ha 1 0 touched deeply by b kindness but would resent re ent charity as an impertinence 1111 even from a n great reat lady ludy PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPIST PH NTH The l give gle a good deal especial B F th ode st str r Hi PHOTO SY SUCK DUCK WASH MISS MARGERY COLTON Miss Margery Colton one of the prettiest and most popular of the younger set at Washington and an Intimate friend of o Mrs Irs Taft Tatt who will wll preside over the governors palace In Porto Rico She Sho Is a n sister of Gov G Jv George R Colton and spent some time In Manila when wh 11 her tier brother was stationed at that point d d dIy ly Iy through the convents Thero There aro ago a number of these In which they the taKe taKu a keen Interest and they contribute hand handsomely handsomely but always anonymously Es Fc F C S Is ML Interested in fu tho the nuns and their poor friends and of or I course like dutiful parents Mr and ami Mrs Anthony Drexel do precisely what wishes for or tho nuns nUM Lady la Is a n very practical philanthropist She Sho believes in making makins people help themselves She takes u n I keen k n Interest In to n a 3 doll factory In Dub lin I rather think she founded It and she sho buys heaps of dolls doll from rom It for the hospitals at It Christmas Toy making It is rather a craze this winter with numbers of or women who sell their creations for charity charlt The only thing especially remarkable about them there Is the tho fabulous prices asked for thorn them because they have hae been made by a n duchess uhe or a l You will trill bo ho asked H 5 for a rag doll that tha t you ou might buy In Oxford street for 35 H 5 cents and 5 1 1 for a puzzle that may mav ma be purchased at nt the dearest house houie in the tho dearest street tr et In London for 2 Z 0 O Nevertheless the three r things thin made mack by h leaders of society are arc being sold every vcr other othel afternoon Just now no Special functions aie ato ar nr arranged ranged at which they the are displayed ell anti and andall all nil the tho friends ot of o the hostess come orne In Inand Inand and look at them there drink tea ten and ma make o their fhelt purchases purchaser There Thoro are those who say pay 3 that the money Inane for some of or those these homemade toys goes straight into the tho pockets of the makers but as you know there are arp irp people who would say sav anything any thin There are arc things which It dots docs do not do de d to Inquire Into too closely I J can certainly vouch touch for tor the fact that In several serral cases eases the tho money mone earned for such productions goes straight to time tho quarter for which It Is subscribed r t LADY LAIDY y |
