THE LONDON:SEASON.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 18, 16 October 1907, Page 3

THE LONDON:SEASON.

, London" (says an' American .writer) 'lias changed.very much in the past tivonty 'years. I think that the greatest revolution has been effected : by' the'■ lriotor.' Town ■ life is .quite different. You nptice-it in New' York when you.return, from abroad;: and you: are struck by it when, you reach London. Nowadays, the season in , the British metropolis, is limited to a few weeks.- Tho courts are held, a stato ball arid a garden party or a'con-, cert or something of that kind-given,.a ;few great hostesses will entertain and then ii; is all; over/ In fact, London is'fearfully hot 1 after the fifteenth of June, and tho English country is so attractive in spring' and summer that manyof tho owners'. of estates: do (not como to town for tho season; or if they do, ; they !p'ut up at a' hotel :6r take a furnished' Hat, and remain only for ashorttime. vliost of the general entertaining is done by Americans; .It becomes a/bit tiresomo to find the. samo ; people doing the same things with.only, a different setting. There is a rush among ithe.members!of, London and English' sooiety, to geto'ut pf,jtown as soon as possible.p.',d .many livo,on : thpir,,.estates' during May aDtl June, motoring to town for the opera and a few functions, ,and deserting it..absqiKely'.Lj! ■Friday afternoon'. It, is true that society, iaa given up, tho l?ark', and that, place is, mere like Central' Park .in Now. York than the, gathering T placo of all London, as is was a few years .'ago.,. There is very littlo riding, sn'd 'the Row.has lost:its glory. ; But London tae not changed as to its interest in politics. It is the groundwork of society thore,. and c&filj duough it is rapidly assuming the same nciition in America. This past winter masiy well-known'women, took tho niost active interest .in the passing of uills arid in yaiwna ■projects for reform. Men who never did zajthing of !noto! after thoy left college, hutr'j given up spoiiding tho.day at their chilis., which..before wore,given to mon.. ■ ■ : .-,'. ;■..•. -. : - .:.,:•: