Courts

The season is ended. The elite of London will rush into the country for relaxation, some will go abroad, others yachting on the briny sea, some--a very few--will have to remain "in town" owing to political necessity; for Parliament is still sitting. The event which causes this exodus and defines the end of the season is the holding of the last Court by the King and Queen, who afterward usually travel north to Sandringham or Balmoral. Whether or not the political situation will permit the King to leave London as early as usual was not known.

Last week were held the last two Courts of the season. At them the following Americans were introduced into the presence of Their Majesties: the Misses Anne Boyd, of Georgia; Sylvia Curtis, of Boston; Sarah Mellon, of Pittsburgh, niece of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury; Rosamond Reed, daughter of David A. Reed, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Esther Harrison Rowland, of Philadelphia; Frances Lindon Smith, of Boston; Mary Treadwell, of Washington; Mrs. Warren C. Fairbanks, of Chicago; Mary Frost, of California; Edith Ivins, of New York; Dorothy Greene, of Washington; Frances Marion Miller, of New York; Hildreth Scott, of Richmond; Hope Iselin, of New York; Mrs. Reginald Foster, of Boston, and Mrs. Christopher La Farge, both of whom are stepdaughters of Speaker Gillett of the House of Representatives; Mrs. George T. Marye, wife of the onetime American Ambassador to Russia; Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, of New York.