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March 10, 1916: 
surf, in the swimming pool, bicycling, in hydroplanes and 
all the other amusements of the place. Miss Rosamond 
Lancaster of Magnolia and Boston was in the cast, also 
Mrs. Laurence H. Armour of Chicago. 
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Colonel and Mrs. Sidney M. Hedges of East Glou- 
cester are at the Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach. 
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Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Ormond of Pride’s 
Crossing and New York are in their cottage at St. Augus- 
They spent a few days at Palm Beach last 
week and gave a dinner on their houseboat for Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles Band of New York, who are on their honey- 
moon. They were also among the guests at a large tea 
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dance at the Alcazar Hotel last Thursday. 
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__ Mr. and Mrs. Bryce J. Allen, who were in Florida 
with the Henry Clay Fricks, are now in Aiken, S. C., for 
their annual visit. 
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Mrs. J. Brooks Fenno 
Sulphur Springs, W. Va. 
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Quincy Adams Shaw is at Aiken for polo. The 
annual horse show will be March 18, when Frederick H. 
Prince and Henry Payne Whitney will show strings of 
horses from England and France. : 
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FX MAYOR FITZGERALD of Boston, who recently 
' returned from Palm Beach, brought with him an idea. 
The idea did not originate with “Honey Fitz,” but it 
shows that many people in New England are waking to 
the wonderful opportunities waiting for development the 
coming summer. The Hon. John F. is quoted in the 
Boston Post in the following vein: ; 
“New England has got the greatest opportunity at 
the present time in her history. If the Governors of the 
various New England States and other men of promin- 
ence will only wake up, Boston and all of New England 
can enjoy a boom that-can be heard across the country. 
“T mean that New England has got the greatest show 
on earth in the way of a summer resort locality and that 
people far and wide with more money in their pocket than 
they know how to spend know very little about its attrac- 
tions. 
“Locked out of Europe by the war these people are 
wondering where they will spend the coming summer. 
Down at the Southern resorts this winter every hotel has 
been crowded to the doors. Transportation on boats 
South cannot be bought at a premium. People every- 
where are trying to find some place to go. Next summer 
they will not be able to go to Europe and they know little 
of this country of ours. 
“Fortunes have been made as the result of this war 
and people are having a hard time in finding a place to 
PALM BEACH is usually considered the creator of 
modes. The summer bathers look to this resort for 
their fashions. Whatever society elects to wear at. Palm 
Beach becomes the fashion elsewhere. This year the 
bathing girl is one of many charms. She is equally at- 
tractive on the golf links, when dancing in the tea garden, 
yachting, bicycling or participating in some of the other 
forms of enjoyment that go to make up the winter life in 
this resort. She is graceful and beautiful and often of 
the wholesome athletic type that suggests good comrade- 
ship. Palm Beach fashions are, after all, of a more or 
less individual matter. Some of the most fashionable 
women are appearing. in bathing suits. with long sleeves 
and high necks, cut with every attention to detail and 
line. Others favor the freakish costumes, but no beach 
resort would be entirely interesting, if the bathing hour 
did not have some variety to offer a new topic for beach 
hour conversation. The extremes are usually not long 
lived, while the really simple and artistic suit is ever. a 
delight. One bathing suit does not constitute a Palm 
Beach outfit. One day a bather is seen in the ever popu- 
lar blue, the next day she may appear in purple; the next 
ir: green, and there may be still others in her locker, each 
suit being carefully pressed before it is worn again. Some 
of these surf costumes of the ordinary kind cost fifty 
dollars, while the more elaborate ones cost almost double 
spend the money.. Some of them can’t spend it. 
“If New England organizes at once and_ spreads 
broadcast the allurements these beautiful States of ours 
have to offer there is no reason why every resort at the 
seashore and mountain should not boom as never before 
during the coming summer. 
“Chousands of people are here from abroad also and 
their business from all appearances will keep them here 
during the coming season. 
“If people once learn of the beauties of the North and 
South shores * * * they will settle here summers and build 
summer homes. And consequently they will spend a lot 
of money. 
“Why, when the Liberty Bell went across the country 
from Philadelphia to the Panama Exposition the towns 
it was going through advertised the fact extensively with 
the result that thousands of people came to the stations 
to get a peek at the famous historical relic. Think of the 
attractions we have in Boston and New England along 
that line that could be advertised. There is the Old State 
House, the Old South Church, Bunker Hill, Concord and 
Lexington and scores of places sacred in history. 
“Truly a wonderful opportunity is offered us and I 
believe that action should be taken at once on the part of 
executives, hotel men and citizens to see to it that New 
England is advertised in every corner of the land as never 
before’ 
that. Mrs. Gurnee Munn wears dark satin, and one suit 
in which she appears often is dark blue with a Roman 
striped girdle and white collar. Another is black satin 
with white pipings. Mrs. S. H. Brown of New York 
wears long sleeves and high neck, usually in black satin 
with blue trimmings and a white collar. Mrs. Herman 
Oelrichs is often seen in black satin with white collar and 
belt. Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps wears black satin or 
purple taffeta with a purple cap to match. All-green suits 
are worn becomingly by a few. At Miami the young 
women have adopted a rather daring style of bathing suit. 
Miss Gretchen Stahl of New York is one who appears in 
one of these black satin, sleeveless and low necked affairs, 
the skirt ending about eight inches above the knees, with 
tight fitting trunks and black silk stockings, which are 
rolled down from the top and held in place below the knee 
with elastic. Even the tiny folk at Palm Beach are enter- 
ing the bathing suit contest, and are dressed like little 
French dolls for their morning dip. They are too little 
to try swimming, so you don’t feel sorry for them. And 
they are so attractive that everybody exclaims about them 
while inwardly hoping that when they grow big enough 
to play in the surf and really enjoy themselves they will 
graduate from the frilled silk bathing suit into a perfectly 
wearable and serviceable jersey one that will give neither 
the child nor the nursemaid anxiety, 
