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<, IN BLOOMFIELDover HILLS

Randolph 7444

Beauty That Surpasses Picturesque Old England Eastover in Bloomfield Hills! To the nent Detroit families have built beautiful Detroiter the name conjures up a picture of homes-homes with the seclusion of a country beautiful homes and magnificent estates. For place, yet not too far removed from the city. here nature has produced a rustic charm that Nor need the homes in Eastover be exhor, invites comparison with picturesque old bitant in price. The entire development is England. protected by Judson Bradway's Use and Hills and valleys, beautifully wooded Building Restrictions Agreement. Thus each ravines, lazy streams, and sparkling lakes all owner has the comforting assurance that contribute toward the beauty of this garden every new home must add to the value of spot of Bloomfield Hills, where many promi, his own.

Eastover is at the intersection of Adams (Dodge) Road and East Long Lake Road, the recently completed concrete drive that cuts through the very heart of Bloomfield Hills. Its l·acre to 3-acre estates are now selling SUNSET HOUSE at prices that are far less than one would expect for this tyi:;e of property. On Orchard Lake A�ERING to the discriminating public, who appreciate fine C v1ronrnent. food and quiet, dignified en- Prepared for parties, recepti�ns, luncheons 1 · ; weddi g par t1es, etc. Capacity: Main Judson 100 also private dining rooms. This 600 f dining room, Bradway lo;ely Co.. old P l E V ace .533 MAJ STIC BLDG. 3 WOODWARD A E . lias eet of sandy beach. 15 S . Phone Pontiac DETROIT RANDOLPH 9700"'"" BIRMINGHAM PHONE 38 1975 W L VAN e Q,(ll tors · · ZANDT, M anager D ESTABLISHED 1902 OCTOBER, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW ?age 1wo

Country Life GILOW Houses .WE OFFER YOU Around Detroit -:- Gardens Hills dis­ Society e e xclusive Bloomfield -:- Sports acres of land in th A modern house on three r estates-$25,000.00. e view of neighbo ing trict; five bedrooms, excell nt r the coun­ e from Detroit, nea e frontage, 17. mil s ee hundred f eet of lak Thr rice. NOW at a very attractive p try clubs. We c an sell this VoL. II on the Dixie Highway ... e near Deer Lake Inn, No. X Fifty acres on a small lak forests. rt of Michigan's primitive 'V looks like a forgotten pa r Design ...... from a. li11olenm rnt b. Sherwood Blacilbnrn Five l m cres m tim­ (ove B oo field Portraits es, good stream, 300 a f ...... t e including several lak sid nce o r.eorge M. Dwelley ...... photog raph 4 ..by Be sy Graves One thousand acr s, Re : Society ...... Reyneau 12 r un mg H ll ...... _...... : ...... by Marion H 5 -...... in the 30-mile ci cle. H t � ...... olden i O ...... by Iva. G M 13 on the state highway t 111 A B t of l -1�;;� . arlotte ber, Great Pam mgs Owned Detrott...... by Rae Emerson Donlon 7 d Eno� ...... and which is snitable for country C ...... by W. W. B 16 been picked for its bea.uty ard ...... from an etching by M. Cortis 8 The rabitts ...... urd .e,i We handle only land that has Wider Woodw -Stanford ...... ouse C ...... by Ra/st.on Go 19 estates a11d retreats. The Amphibious H Boat...... by Helen C. Bower 9 ornucopiae . . ss ...... a P m w. Golf-As the Season Ends...... by Ralston Gos 10 Country C mm t oe by H. 23 M. C...... o en · ··-...... The Botanical Garden at S. b:i• Ge11evieve Gillett; 11 o YO ? : ...... H w Do U Lie :: ...... Theodore H. Millington ...... by Ralsto,;··c·�·;; � Detroit Cadillac 8 8 2 5 91 7 Dime Bank Bldg.

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A11 e11trance r deta-il. of· ti e G eorgr M· Dwelley residence which ap- pears on the ne:r:t page. The vig­ or.011sl)• modelled doorway with its b,. oken pednnent framing a spiky fm1eapple oma.ment, is of New E11glaud descent.

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//iew of Orchard Lake from One of the Old Ho111t1 PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT ERGLOW s . b THE AFT i he st _of every mont r at Detroit, Mlchlga,.;. :;i ;��,r� i:' / pl h Articles, stories and photo g raphs p� talnlng to any phase of t g ow u b l rshlng Company country LAKES I nc. Theodore H Millin to re ldent ari E r ; life around Detro·t1 are sohc1ted. WEST BLOOMFIELD G ss, Spo E f /'� J ;. M on Holden. dito 25 miles northwest of Detroit Ralston o rt dl o Mu p y usiness Manager; Subscription 50 . in the midst of the Country Club District, . odgers, Adv ertis � e t h , B price $? a . e r • cents the single copy. For Carefully Restricted Residence Sites J C. R ing Ma ag r sale at most- new�st,;:�ds . l Da ' .• _6 . Editorial and m et101t and Birmingham CO. PARK PLACE, DETROIT executlv ffl 4856 Wood ward A venue. Tele- r 1441 phones: G\enrlale 5837 2�it Add ess all comm unlca ti ons to he A terglow Pulisb hing Com­ or••• CLEMONS,KNIGHT,MENARD !ni n 4850 W w r T f Fa, Jurtl,e, informal/on, wrii• pa y. ood a d A venue, Detrolt. 6 THE OcroBER, 192 AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, 1926 Page Five THE AFTERGLOW I'age Four

r , rea. view of H1111ti,ig Hall, showing the end of t 1, e b,g central hall. A 1 , . The bedroom s are on this the sen,ice at the far e11d. Gordon Mendelsso ins ,011se ,s j11st visible end a11d over Vhay's lake at the left. Hunting Hall In Bloomfield Hills, Which Epitomizes the Hunt . mg Enthusiasm of the late Burns H enry By MARION HOLDEN

and country places near the china effigy on . . F all the lodges th e H em . y ch1111neyp·Jece, c 1 asp111g a Hunt, Hunting Hall is probably f ox _, h s ead and . 0 Bloomfield Open . brush to hJS ardent breast. To get of huntmg and all that goes with it. the "tough and "'O'Ood" a the most redolent t mosphere of the 1600's, M r. and built about seven years H enry used timbers . . The Hall was planned and th e ong111al construction of a Henry, who, as everyone knows huge. old barn, which ago by the late Burns was torn dow11 and 1 1auled a few hunting enthusiast that these part; miles to his buildinO' was the greatest "' SJ't e on the east end fo V hay's He was founder and presi­ 1 a k e, several have ever known. rods back f.I om east Long Lake Road of the dent until his death, These lofty beams wer� and Grosse Pointe Hunt, left in their original rough war, then, just after the hewn c o n d i t-i o n ' and and he was organizer smaller ones were used field founder of the Bloom for balcony rails and the at Open Hunt, which was two stairways at 'lrfi'ther end first a part of the Grosse of the long high room Pointe Hunt. Burn Hen­ which forms the enter ry was a sportsman who of H�nting Hall. � he had hunted in England, floor, which is most­ ly bare, Ireland and France, ·who is built of ten­ mch knew hunting and the oak boards, joined and set history of hunting, col­ at right angles on the corners. lected books and prints The walls between the on the subject and owned big beams'. are paneled with some of the best horses dark wood, and the windows in Detroit. are uncurtained. It was natural, then, You can see in one of the pictures that with o 111 uch love and knowledge of the how the rough brick fire­ sport, Mr. Henry should place goes up through the balcony to the slope of want, when he came to the ceilinO'. build his place at Bloom­ field, a rough hewn and On this floor and in typically English hall, this setting, the 16th and 17th century English fur­ such a hall as red coated D. D. Spellman niture looks more at home Architects huntsmen have gathered wit!, 011 oak plallk MUEHLMAN AND FARRAR, in Birmingham The big ce11/ral fireplace is of co,11111011 brick than it usually-does in a of George M. Dwelley in after ·the hunt since f r //,e 111011/el. No(ice f>a,rticularly //,e deal table 111 //,e fore­ '!'he Residence its gra.ce nf>o11 � t blne blinds, depends for g, 01111d a11d the 111011k s be1 ch. fa,rs go 11{> al the left to he bal- cramped and alien Ameri­ te woodwork and greenish lo ng before John Peel­ � . of grey si'l1cco, with its whi . Its plain walls and low-pitched cony winch 1s b111/t aro1111d two sides. Th-is ho11.se a the details of the cornice at can setting. Some of the of the openings nd lnfor111ality and a. somewh who, by the way, sits in the careful proportioning a tcd i11 New England. sl)•le as it was drip its combination with roof are typical of the Georgia11 locatio11 of the doorway, and t from the asymmetrcal of a11 oriel. Georgian feeling res11l the st11cco and the presence English it, the irreg11/ar rnrface of the round openings which flank 'THE AFTERGLOW OcTOBEI\, 1926 roeER, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Six Oc Page Seven well as the na are carved me pieces of the horse and that oak, heavy played so lar the pa­ ge a rich with part in win The ning tina of time. them. Many trestle tables, of two these were won the delightful oak by t h e famous benches and the Paddy, a hunter c h e e s e cabinet, r i d d en by Mr. are the earliest Henry for ten pieces ; the dresser years or more and is Queen Anne and now ridden by his holds a most inter­ eleven - year collection _ old esting son, Burns, J Royal Doul­ r. of These trop and Wedge­ hies ton adorn tables wood hunting and and cabinets in the coach plates, de­ big hall, and see 111 picting hunting here to fall into and co a chi n g their natural scenes in gay col­ set­ ting, many ors that make a of them filled at bright corner at this time of year the dining end of D. D. Spellman with b r i g h t autumn the Hall. Other This pictnre was hard to take. bewme of the great. a111ount of l·ig_ht wfri�h fell flowers. color is brought dfrectly into the camera, bat it gn,es an excellent idea of t�ie wide boa.1 d oak There are old hunting into the room by floor, the Qaee11 Anne .dresser with ,.ts lmntiug plates,. the big cross. �eams and prints the deal table with its bench and chmrs n•hich -is 11sed for dining. here the brilliant and there photographs of fa� glazed chintz cov- . ers of some of the chairs, a few Persian rugs and the vorite horses, and an old painting of grouse hunting "The Flight I11to Eg3,pt," one of the finest examples of C11yp's work, which is now owned in Detroit by Mr. Charles T. Fisher. old prints of hunting scenes. over the mantle. In the balcony ·Mrs. Henry plans Of course, of all sportsmen in this part of the coun­ to install a hunting library, made up of Mr. Henry's try, Burns Henry probably had the largest collec­ large collection of old and modern books on hunting. Great Paintings Owned in Detroit tion of trophies; silver cups, silver boxes, silver fla­ The stables are as important a part of this menage . gons, all engraved with the event and the date, as (Cont-inued on page 22.) Three Cuyps, and Something About the Artist By RAE EMERSON DONLON O many splendid paintings have found homes in an; uid "a simple and daring thing," and that "to paint S around Detroit that the time has come to tell about its own portrait." them. Albert Cuyp seemed to be one of the great promoters The number of paintings that are representative of of his school of Dutch art, 111 that he was universal. the masters, as well as of the best schools of painting, He could J�aint interiors as well as any other, sea­ have increased hereabouts so decidedly in the past scapes as tine as Van der Velde, animals and land­ few years that Detroit is becomin� � place of distinc­ scapes with �s much feeling and dignity as any of his tion in the world of art. Many pa111t111gs of the Dutch conternporanes. Perhaps that is why he is not the school at its greatest period are now owned in De- great 1�aster that Rembrandt is;_ yet in clarity and . troit-far too large a field for one article-a.nd so I am pur(tY, 111 gentleness of tone, 111 fine regard for his taking the most dis�inguished ma_stei:-s, one each subiect he has the master's touch. Also in work­ month, telling something �bol�t their It fe and work manship he is quite perfect. and recording those of their pictures that have been But of cours.e all Dutch painters knew how to paint purchased by Detroi.t collec�ors an� brought 1:ere to before they faithfully reproduced their impressions of stay, often after vaned and 111terest111g wanderings. the country. �r the pala�e or the people. Each man Albert Cuyp-who is to me the most versatile of was a tech111c1an as well as an artist. They lived whole­ Dutch painters-was born in 1605 during the most somely and painted as they lived, wholesome in the strenuous time in the history of Holland's politics. ��nse of bein� sin�ere_ and upright, of being simple. I hey had no 1mag111ation whatever, but it cannot be His art training came during the first years of peace said that they copied nature in any manner. Instead, when Holland was sufficient unto itself; when the they observed and recorded their observations. spirit of Holland was complete within itself. It was Cuyp was a student and reader of nature in all her in these first peaceful years that most of the men of the moods. He was typical of his country and independ­ Dutch school were born and trained. Cuyp was ent in his manner of thinking and rendering. When he among the first, and he lived a long life devoted to painted the sun it shone, the waves in the sea danced the study of painting. and sparkled and the ship really sailed. The man was The Dutch painters of that period were so content master of his tools, his paint and himself. BURNS HENRY, Esq. with themselves and their own country that they The growing appreciation of good painting and This painting of Afr. Henry by F. D. Voss of New York, was presented to the Grosse Pointe H,rnt Cl11b this could paint only that which they could see and find America's ability to purc:�2.,e the best, combined with year by Mrs. Henry. It is set into the stone above a ntemorial fireplace which was given /.o the cli,b by within their own borders. In those fifty years Holland (Continued 011 page 20.) Frederick M. Alger, who was Mr. Henry's cousin c::.! mcceeded him as president of the Grosse Pointe Hunt. THE QcroBER, J 926 AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Nine Paye Eight

The Amphibious House Boat Near Muskegon, Among the Dunes a Little Retreat That Gives the Lie to Discontent By HELEN C. BOWER

sat out on the front deck of the House years when ONNIE the business she had chosen was also i starlit night, with the distant town lights the pr C tloat ot a oc_ess of building. The House Boat gives th: anionably far away, save vhere a str�et la11:p lie_ to discontent that whines, comp 1 � "If I could oi,ly get down near the .ake s edge to p111 a fluid a way or two crept from here-;" "If I had money enough to put r bosom of the dark up the ' gold ribbon on the stir ing water. . kind of place I d really l i"ke -. " The H ouse Boat gives the lie to Connie was strumming-I believe strumming is the everything but dreams and the possibility_ _ of their fulfillmen word-on a ukulele. From years ago and thousands t through slow quiet years of accomplishment. ' of miles across the Pacific she had carried a memory Courtoy First there of beach boys drifting down the shore, playing that were the carpenter's plans for a small Gordon Gnllaio wooden very "Aloha Oe" which she had only just learned out house boat, not even on a barge foundation. It of the book as "4 Proudly swept 9 the 1 rain cloud had a living room, a wee galley, two bed rooms from the cliff 4," the interpolated numbers standing and a _bathroom, all within the space of 34 by 12 feet. symbol for chords on the uke. A stairway went up the outside at the right by the door, to the roof, i Well, the House Boat has been responsible for many wh ch was enclosed with a railing for use as deck or porch. things relative to human happiness from the moment Those were the clays, six or seven years ago, of an alcohol its owner put he r ideas into words with which to in­ lamp in the living room of drinking wate r that struct the town carpenter how to build_.the boat. But must be brought from wells oi� shore, of soft water whi this was probably the first time anything like the in­ ch must be pumped from the lake, of incessant canoe tr ips to shore and back again. spiration to learn ukulele playing had been laid at its one and only door. Most often the little white House Boat was an­ Yet the charm of the House Boat survives even chored in the shadow of a huge sand dune, near the these minor emotional outbreaks. For all that it spiles and "edgings" of an old lumber mill, long since disappeared grows and increases with every passing year, that from the community. Time went on, charm has a fixed quality, too; just as the House Boat business affairs were going smoothly, and the owner is really not a floating house boat any longer. but has of the House Boat bought the land bordered by the been brought up to shore and made immovable, with spiles and eclgings,-a frontage covered with under­ two sides on land and two s·icles on water deep enough brush and rank growth. ffoodUJard for swimming. , Then the town handy man and the gardener were Such a t iny, simple place, apoarently, when you at­ called to take the place of the carpenter. From the te mpt to an alyze. But the House Boat represents s11ore road to the lake front a yard was cleared_ where what one woman, obliged by nature and circumstance tops of old spiles poked up from the foundations of to be a "business woman" some years before the wom­ the sawmill that was. Then the carpenter came again. an in business was a recognized economic factor, did One width and one length of the rectangular house From An Etching by in the matter of building health and happiness in the (Continued on page 28.) M. Cortis-Stanford Ten AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, 1926 Page THE TOBER, J 926 THE Qc AFTERGLOW ----�-� Page Elevell Golf End of Most Successful Season Is Upon Us By RALSTON GOSS

So there you have the 1926 winners-excepting in OBBY JONES is defending his title over the two events, which will have been played before you hills and well-trapped vales of the Baltusrol Golf B read this. Club, Short Hills, ew Jersey, as this is being written. And that means the U. S. G. A. season is almost (but Fathers and Sons h s not quite) at its official end, for Jimmie Standish � one more tournament to attend, even to offic1ate 111. Father and Son week may come in February, but That one is the National Women's Champ:onship, the Detroit District Golf Association's first Father and which will beain at the Merion Cricket Club in Phila­ Son day was September 14. That Tuesday, on the delphia, Septe�1ber 27, and will continue for the bal­ north course of the Detroit Golf Club, Ned Warner ance of that week. In it Miss Glenna Collett of Prov­ successfully ran off the first tournament of the kind \,V idence, Rhode Island, will be the defending champion. ever seen in these parts. ith but a modicum of pub­ licity and preparation, one hundred fathers and sons Then the end will come to the U. S. G. A. season (fifty pairs) participated. From early in the morn­ of 1926-a season that has brought rich honors to this ing until the shades of night were gathering-indeed country, for Jess Sweetser is British Amateur nd � the championship was decided in a play-off that was Bobby Jones British and American Open champion. not finished until the lights were gleaming brightly in And, perhaps, before this appears in cold type, �he the clubhouse-fathers and sons indulged in a Scotch Atlantan will have won the American Amateur title foursome medal play competition, W. A. Ryan and for the record-breaking third time in succession to his son, Francis, both of them low handicap players become the first man in the history of the game who on the D:strict chart, won-but only after a sensa­ \J ever held three hies of world-wide signihcance at The Botanical tional finish. From shortly after the noon hour until Garden one time. Should fate be against him in the match rounds at Baltusrol he still will be regarded as the as late as 5 :30 the 83 which had been scored by the state's Senior champion, Commander W. H. Faust of at M. S. C. greatest golfer of his generation-even, as some pro­ J. Beal, who planned the The late Dr. W. y GENEVIEVE fess, of all time. Barton Hills, and his son, George, had stood as low garde11. B GILLETTE gross for the field. The Ryans, father and son, knew Here in Detroit and Michigan it has been as won­ :'! h summer m nths when veryone take there, that and so, when they reached the thirteenth tee t e ? . � s vaca­ in this old garden, plant families group derful a year as the most enthusiastic golfer could I tions it is sometimes 111terest1ng for the gardener even as _ together about 4 :45, after having scored a heart-breaking 7 on they do 111 botany books and desire. Nine out of eleven championships of impor­ to vacation in someone else's garden. Things look ti1ey ' flowers bloo.111 as the twelfth, they knew they would have to shoot six d o · tn the nursery catalog pictures tance have been determined. But two remain-the fresher and more sturdy; besides, one gathers ideas In 1877, consecutive holes in par to tie the Faus ts. Where­ the late Dr. W. J. Beal w�s Mixed Foursome, to be played a week from the time and, mayhap, goes back to his ov n garden with a Botany _ professor of upon, being a determined father and son, they set � at the Michigan Agricultural and an 1nsp1rat1o_ _ n. College. He was this is written, and the Michigan P. G. A. champion- sense of satisfaction a great teacher-so my father . out to do it-and did! _ said-and he had a 110_ ship, to be played about the same time. The Beal Botanical Garden, started in 1877 at East t10n, even back in those days, that boys couldn't learn The State Interscholastic, played at the St. Clair Since those two pairs were tied at 83, it was neces­ Lansing, Michigan, is a worth-while garden for any all there was t? know from books. So he picked sary for the committee to order a play-off at nine holes plant lover to roam about in, not so much because it a spot 01 out Country Club, was won by Dave Ward of Big Rapids; : the big M. A. C. campus and decided because it was too late to permit of one at eighteen. aives one a sample of expert landscape architecture a collect1011 to start The City Interscholastic, played at the Rackham there of the commoner plant Now Commander Faust and his son, after having 1)ecause it makes him s which are public course, was won by Stanley Ford of Redford; ;s native to Michigan. scored their 83 in the tournament proper, had gone ask questions and intro­ The The Detroit District, played at Oakland Hills, was spot he picked was over to the South course and played another roun·J duces him to new friends. most won by Johnnie Malloy of Ann Arbor; for,tunate. It furnished for the fun of the thing. So, coming off the eighteenth The Beal Botanical Gar­ a The Women's District, played at Oakland Hills, was variety of growing to be greeted with the information they would be den is not arranged so as condi­ won by Mrs. Harley Higbie of The Country Club; tions and opportunity required to go another nine made them feel that too to be a garden symphony. for The Michigan State Amateur, played at Lochmoor, expansion. The land much was really more than enough. But the tradi­ By a trick of imagination there was won by Dave Ward of Big Rapids; slopes a way to tions of the navy are that one never strikes his colors. one fancies, rather, that the Red Cedar river and The Women's State, played -at Kent Country Club, He may go down fighting, but he never refuses to an old nursery catalog a little brooklet plays itself Grand Rapids, was won by Mrs. Harley Higbie of The accept the gage of battle. Therefore, downright tired and a Manual of Botany, out in a sort of swale at Country Club; though this 65-year-old retired navy commander was, lying side by side in the the lower end of the garden The Michigan Sen:or, played at the Highlands he ordered the younger Faust up to the firing line and dark of some college pro­ where, of course, Country Club, Grand Rapids, was won by W. H. Faust they delivered their broadsides like the gallant war­ fessor's attic, sudden! y be­ they built a pool and of Barton Hills, Ann Arbor; came tired of their wast­ p!anted riors they are. They gave the fresher, younger Ry­ lowland plants. The Michigan Open, played at Meadowbrook, was ans a battle, too, a battle that was not decided until ed existence and stalked The garden, at present, won by Al Watrous, Highland, Grand Rapids, with the last hole was completed in the gathering dark­ out on a starlit night to covers about two acres. Carlton F. Wells of Ann Arbor the low scorer among ness, with the score in the play-off standing at 42 for have an adventure. The The banks on the sides are the amateurs in the event; ad venture may the Ryans to 44 for the Fausts. have been covered w:th woody The Father and Son, played at the Detroit Golf Another Ann Arbor-Barton Hills pair, L. 0. Cush­ a success and the I ages of growths of one kind or Club, was won by W. A. Ryan and Francis Ryan, De­ these old books may ing and his son Bertrand won the low gross honors in have another and the drier troit Golf Club and Oakland Hills. sudclen'.y come to life (Co11timied on page 24.) for Sa11gu·i11aria. Ca·nadeusis, co1111110·11ly lwow11 as Bloodroot. portion of the low ground (Conti1111ed on page fl,) OCTOBER, 1926 THE OCTOBER, 1926 AFTERGLOW THE AFTERGLOW Page Thirteen Page Twelve e neau v: by Betsy (}ra"ves R y 1· ive Bloomt;'.!"e /d Portraits __ By IVA G. MARLOTTE

Bloomfield-Birmingham hostess on S eptembe r 8, after a summer at Cambrid e t e onth when the r e- and Cape Codd. g EPTEMBER is h m wand� ers r from Jakes and w oods and all the SOJOurners turn . Mrs. G eorge T. e r S t re H nd ie entertained at . coolness and rel�xa 10n t k h omeward to te a delightful 111 search of . a on Saturday, Se t s e s o e p ember 11, in honor o e or the seriou busm s f g tting sons and e f h r talent­ prep re f d guest, Mrs. Betsy school and incidentally t o o Graves Reyneau, who s �1ters off to enj y the w1th er ha been dau&" � dur_mg the summer eauties of Oakland County. workin on the e t o au tumn b por_tr ts g igh o-lon us . . a1 which she exhibite "' r d a t t he tea, four 111 eptember Mr. and M s. C. C. Wmmngham which of Ear1 · S appear in the After low. . ' Charles e r a g There were charcoal Ye two s ons- Jay and , return d f om drawin s of Susan and tl 1 ir . . g Blanche Whittemore . ay on t I1 ·e 1r yacI 1 t , "M.r a1d M r , daughter of . e o Georo-ian0 B anan. " M . and M rs. W. Nel crms son Whittemore Gordon Men­ } the reo-atta of the Detroit Yacht Club, Sep­ delssohn, Geor rece 1 g ge T._ Hendrie, M rs. e P r tert T. R ynolds Dono­ � to 6 M�. and M s. ·winningham en ained van, Miss Nma o tember M ise, a ssistant directo t which included r r of the Bon­ rt on tl;e yach M . and Mrs. st�lle_ Company, Evel a pa y yn and Mary Lee Fraser, e e, fr. and Mrs. N elson \i\Thittemore pa11?t111 o and a e T. H ndri , g f M rs. Frederick lt or Ho . Mrs. Reyneau will G 1f raves R eyneau, Annett_e Phillips, Vir inia be 111 Bloo el 1 s. etsy G g mfi d Hills_ for some r r s l r time finishin other Rosemary B aun and F anci Pa ms, J . portraits, b efore leavin g B1a: un, g for her New Y ork studio. Mrs. Wil- Mr. and H e r m a n y friends our re­ liam T. Barb have entertained her rs during the fi t extensivel turned y du ring l eptember wee k ·n S her stay and a g reat e to Geo:- from a cruis deal o f interest has . their g1an Bay on ,, . been m anifested in e w1ti 1 yac ht, "Tawm , her work. Mrs. C. C. o s, 1. om- their t wo s n Winningham, Mrs. W. s and my and Alphe� , Nelson Whittemore, th with Miss Elizabe M r s. William Mc­ r � e r Shaw a n d B u G aw, Mrs. Frederick e I r Chalmers as t h Holt and Miss Mar­ o guests. j rie Hendrie assisted and Mary Lee Fraser Mrs. Hendrie at t Evelyn Miss A Ii c e Mac­ he George T. Hendrie tea. There were about Manus arrived h ome one hundred uests September 4 fr o m g who came durin the Europe w h e re she g afternoon and a per­ spent the summer. fect September day enny e Miss Betty P nhanced the loveli­ e d has just r e tu r n ness of the Hendrie t from a summer sp�n home for the event. in Europe travellmg l T h e o through Eng a n d, sh wing of France and Italy. autumn flowers has been an en rossing di­ Mr. and Mrs. T. g version f or country Reynolds D o n o v a n flower lovers during sailed from Glasgow September. The State 011 the IIth on the Fair was the occasion stea m e r Caledonia for a lovely showing which arrived in New of dahlias from the York on the 20th. Mr. gardens of W. Nelson and Mrs. Manly Da­ Whittemore and J a­ vis, who accompanied cob Bauman. A fl ow­ them to En land ear­ g er show w as held at ( ly in Au ust, will re­ g the home o f E. W. main there for an ex­ S toddar d at Pine tended stay. After Lake on September 4 the huntin season in g under the auspices of Bloomfield i s o ver, the Pine Lake Coun­ Mr. and M rs. Dono­ /f tryside I m p r o v e - van expect to return ment Association. On to England for some September I 8 the shooting. D. D. Spellman Bloomfield Hills and Miss Mary Clark District Horticultural Mrs. Ronald Ballanty11e, w1io before 1ier ma.rriage on September 4 Griffith e Society held its fi rst return d t o was Miss Gertrnde J\larq11is, da11g1iter of the Rev. and Nfrs. Sarn11el open the Community Jlforq11is of Cranbrook, Bloo111field Hills. fall show in the aud­ Mrs. T. Reynolds Donovan sHo u e as resident itorium of the Bald- Gordo11 Mendelssohn ocrouER, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, 1926 AFTERGLOW Page Fo11rtee11 THE Page Fiftce11 \Veddings always have a charm of _their own and Returning to Schools and Colleges the wedding of Miss Gertrude Marquis, daughter of ies· and picnics for those who are leaving for Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Marquis of Cranbrook and Roi-­ Part school enliven their last weeks at home. Miss Virginia and Miss Ballantyne, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ballantyne, and Rosemary Braun, who left on September 18 for the Knox lovely. was very School in Cooperstown, N. Y., enterta111ed their friends at ceremony took place in St. Paul's Cathedral on country near The a supper roast in the Rochester the evening of evening, September 4, at 8 :30 o'clock. The Saturday September 4. Rev. Dr. Marquis, the bride's father, performed th� host Jack Watling was at a dinner party September 18 marriage rites in the presence of a large group ot at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club. friends from Detroit and Bloomfield Hills. Miss Jane Thompson, who spent the summer in a Wis­ followed t the residence of_ Mr. an her sister, Mrs A reception � d consin camp, visited . Spencer Withee of Bir­ sister and broth r-111-law Mrs. Percy Johnston, � ot mingham, before going back to Liggett school. Collingwood avenue, Detroit. the bride, on Miss Jane Winningham and Miss Josephine Symones The bridal couple sailed from New York, September Taliaferro are returning to Liggett also this year. After November 1, they will 8 for a trip abroad. be Miss Nancy Jewett, Miss Suzanne House and Miss Betty Blvd. at home at 2275 Chicago Blanchard have le-ft for Bennett School at Millbrook, N. Y. preceding the vedding, Dr. and On Friday evening : With the departure of so many of the boys and girls to wedding party at Mrs. Marquis entertained the . _ the various schools, the Saturday night dances of the Bloom­ rehearsal dinner at the Detroit Athletic Club. field Hills Country Club will be discontinued. The last such of the bride nce of the season was September 18. The Oaklan Amono-0 the many affairs in honor were da d Hills ntry Club, however, will continue to have their a bridge tea given by Miss Jane McCurdy of Alden Cou Saturday dances through October. Park Manor, a tea given by Mis� Sally Knox, and a night a Palms left recently to take tea given by Miss Margaret "Krolik of Second Boule- Miss Marth post-graduate School in New York vard, Detroit. work at the Arden Miss Mary Adele Shaw has gone to Scoville, N. Y., 'to In honor of Rev. and Mrs. Charles Harden McCurdy, attend school. whose marriao-e took place on August 19 at Lake Ona­ John D. V hay of Santa Barbara, Cal., accompanied his wa, Maine, a ;eception , as given in the p�rl"ors of the Chas. � sons, Jack and David, on their way to Princeton University, W. Warren & Co t. James Church, of which M1:. McCurdy 1s the rector, and stopped over for a week's visit en route with his brother, • the even;ng of the 14th with men bers from the Diamond , : William S. Vhay, of Bloomfield Center. Merchants and Jewelers Leao·ue of \:Vomen, St. Margaret s Guild and the ves­ 1504 Washington Robert E. S. Heineman left early in September for Arizona Blvd., at Clifford try in the receiving line. About one hundred guests where he will take post-graduate work in the university. came to welcome Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy. Mrs. Mc­ Miss Peggy Harry arrived home during Curdy was Miss Hilda Barnes of Massachusetts. September from enaux Club, where she was the the Lech guest of her sister' Mrs. George C. Booth. Miss Lucie Locker of Duluth, with her brother, Ernest Locker, was the guest of Miss Barbara Potter oi Greenwood avenue during the week of September 14, before leaving for school at Lake Plains. The WILEYS Miss Evelyn McBride entertained fourteen guests at din­ Formerly the ner al the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, September 11. Holland Tea Room, Detroit and recently of New York Miss Adelaide Fellman was hostess at a bridge tea on Miss B eth• Fe11ll)' of Bir111i11yha1ll ret11�1led the .first week rn September · from a rnm ll1cr·s trip to Pans alld pnwts north alld September 8. s s s l e r e S. S. e 2971 Jefferson ou.th. Thi wa s laP/> d Oil boa d th R p11bl-ic. Jack Blanchard, who has left for Ann Arbor for his third Avenue win High S_chool in Birmingham in the afternoon. year in the University, entertained Charles Moffly of Sault at McDougall Ste. Marie and John Joseph and Jack Thomas of Akron, Among the many hor es from local stab es which }, Ohio, during the month. Phone Edgewood 5261 were exhibited at the tate Fair were Se geant : _ Jack" and "Jupiter," owned by J. Farrand \,Vi!ham,; Miss Sally Knox, who went to Barnard last year, has and sent from the Bloomfield Open Hunt Club. gone to the University of Michigan for her ophomore year. Miss Katherine Ferguson and Miss Alice Vliet have returned Mr. Elliott S. Nichols was a judge at the_ Roches�er to that college and Miss Margaret Ross is entering there. Horse Show during eptember, and Mr . Nichols with Caterers Miss Mary Latham has just departed for Radcliffe Col­ Mrs. Carleton Higbie spent a week at the show. lege. For all functions, large or small. RECEPTIONS Miss Marjorie Hendrie entertained !"'-lien Case, a Miss Elise Morley will return to Sweetbrier College in member of the Toronto polo team, dunng the week­ AFTERNOON TEAS, LUNCHEONS, DIN� Virginia this year. NERS, WEDDING RECEPTIONS, ETC. end following the game between Detroit and Toronto. Matthew 8. Whittlesey, George vVhittlescy, and Charles They are prepared to take orders for CAKES SAND­ Mrs. Edmund Morris of Hazelhurst entertainec� Winningham are at Culver thi year, and Harlow Davock, eight guests at luncheon on September 7 in honor ot WICHES, SALADS, ENTREE ' DESSERTS, _ Jr., and George Wasey are at Silver Bay on Lake George. ICES; ETC. her sister-in-law, Mrs. Samuel Morns. Among those whom the niversity of Michigan will re- In addition to outside catering the house is admirab ly George Albert Moore attended the me_eting of the ceive this year are Walter Bromley, Mortimer eff, Charles Phi Psi National Council in Pittsburg this month. adapted to the giving of all entertainments, large Marcotte, ThomasThurber and John Thurber. and small, RECEPTIONS, TEAS, WEDDINGS, Miss May Bacon is the guest of her uncle, George Ernest Mann and Chester Kelly have gone to Dartmouth, BRfDGE PARTIES, LUNCHEONS. DfNNERS, 0. Jl. Spellman Hodges, at Pine Lake. Eastman Potter has returned to Yale, Bruce Shaw is at the ETC., with incom parable food and perfect service. Mrs. \:Val.ter Morley is entertaining her mother, Mrs. B etsy Craves Reyllea11 alld ht'r daughter hm:� been the g Hests d 11r illg the s 111111ller wo11ths of Al rs. George I. !-( e11d, _ie University of vVisconsin, Charles Latham is at Amherst, and : Apartment for Rent-2 Rooms and Bath. Mrs. Bertram Beach Culver. AI rs. JJ e11drie e11tertailled at tea for Airs. Reyneau. 011 Septe,nbe• Irwin Neff, Jr., has returned lo Dennison, at Granville, Ohio. or r s o e r Mrs. Raymond Sawyer of Toledo is the guest o i 11. P t ait f Detroit alld Bloomfield p ople on which /11 s. o l r (C llti l11rd Oil page 1 .) Mrs. William C. Harris of Quarton Road. Rey11eau has bee11 wo king d11ring the summ er w ere 011 vww. 1926 1926 CTOBER, THE AF TERGLOW AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, O L�age S1.,;tee11 1'HE Page Seventee11

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' ¢"· . � ... ��-· ._:-�-..1,_ ... _.-.:,>(.'....- .., •• Typical english 'Village to be Built in JIBit oJ(9!dCn gland Bloomfield HillsDistrict By W. W. BURDEN o Blo mfield Hills Country Club n a d the Bloomfield Op n h to be in t he Hunt o he last t ime you appened Club. Other recreatio l � Perhaps you, t o, t na centers and the lak es h urrey or are on Y a few i n to motor out throug S min s British Capitol, took occas o ute away. lish country­ real atmosphere ofthe Eng Hampshire to get the In developing Bloomfiel homes d D owns ' Mr But! er s tresse s hed roadways, the ivy covered · the side The shady tree-arc pom· t t hat h t e English ill · . s h r­ v age idea absolutely l flowers and foliage, tho e c � . . prec udes the s well back, half hidden by possibil.i o h l . . et ty f t e arge estate · eT h pro c s the small, hospit­ pe1. ty . d1v1s1ons are pri oofs and dormer , and . .- acteristic t imbered r man y1 l ots, c o o ou mm dious enotwhO for both com n o osite mental picture y fort a d archi villages, are all parts of a c mp tectura able I treatment, it is true; but in no sen ly English and delight- se are they estates� r in of such a trip. It was all typical eta . The owner o f a home in Bloomfield Do s fully interesting. . . wn w1·11 necessarily avoid t h e re. s ns . p� 1bi!1ty and heavy upkeep cost of house and of one of t hose quaint . h atmosphere and personality grounds to which h is neighbor . . T e . 011 th e a dJacen t properties is i and stucco buildings and flag­ little villages with the t mbered con�mitted. When_ he decides to leave town, he may pack his o ht right into the s is being transplanted and br ug b g, turn the h stone walk , � key m t e front door and drive to the stati inent on i Mr. Edward J. Butler, a prom h suburbs of our own c ty by with no t ought w hatever of the necessity for a host of care­ business man of Detroit. takers to look after the p lace in his absence.

o h s i isi h h n In order to maintain the u os Mr.A. W. D rgan, t e ubd v on arc itect, as spe t . . tr e atm 1)here of tlie v1·11 age, l o land studying English architecture, restnct10ns have been carefullv drawn n a great dea f time in Eng . . . . a d a boarcl of supe1-. village layout and English gardens. At Mr. Butler's request, Bloom.field Downs v1 111g architects appointed to pass on all � . . house plans sub- Mr. Dorgan undertook to choose a location near Detroit which Lies East of Woodward mitted f?r dwellmgs 111 the village. All construction must would lend itself to the duplication of a real English village. I �1ecess�nly �ar_ry out t he original i deas and must be compat­ After several weeks of reconnoitering to get just the right �venue along the South Side of ible with ex1stmg. construction. Vistas and outlooks will be topography and setting, a location w:as found where all natural zealously guarded. conditions were ideal. The spot chosen is that area immedi­ cast Long Lake All the usual municipal improvements and comf orts are ately east of Woodward Avenue at Bloomfield Center and Road at being incorporated in the plan. In short, a resident of Bloom­ lying along the south side of East Long Lake Road. The field Downs will have all the comforts of a home on Boston village will be known as Bloomfield Downs. GJ3loom.field Center Boulevard and at the same time all the recreational advantages and charming surroundings of the large estate typical of the Fortunately, the location fits in quite well with the aris­ tocratic estates that surround it. It lies midway between the Oakland Hills district. a O THE AF Page Eighteen THE AFTERGLOW CTOBER, 1926 QcTOBER, J 926 TERG LOW Page N Society THE CRABITTS ineteen ( C011ti1w.ed from page 15.) Scores Over Zebediah in Dispute on Mrs. Edward P. Hammond went to Sop Air1 a Mr. and New York Woman's Place in Sports last week to meet their son, Edward Hammond, Jr., who arrived on September 20 on the steamship La ·France, after By Ralston Goss a summer spent in Europe. After two weeks at home Ed­ , durn sicka_n tired of _it all," declared Zebediah ward and his brotherFrederick will leave for New Milford "I rn ge ttin' F LEONARU 111to the kitchen after d r stompe a hard day' a ' 1 1e . s n they will be at the Canterbury as k Conn., where school. b1tt l Cra in Hil r . ls wo k at all," retorted 11·1s spmster· sister· Sephira "Don ,t dou bt it · or Pleasant Ridge batch of sa 1 t-ns111g· brea d out o f ' t he oven' she took a · as . er hands on h er apron preparatory to s1tt111g· Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Williams and Mr. F. S. l w,ped h LANE Williams an< e g meal. " ou'.re mually all tucke t h e venin � red out, have returned after spending the summer months at down ,t0, now? Wat 1 11 tune y ou tired of? Rock­ at s th' matter " port, Mass. but w . , n' these here flappers tot1n flasks of gin F e 0 f seei ra . d n "T1: kli , wearin' bobbed hair an' not l� n aroots an' muc H Mrs. Alfred Owen Dunk of Ridge 1g e Mr. and Road i are rnokm c g bac h k s " ts eak . from a motor trip to Quebec and Montreal. clothes t' sp - . . , red tired of seem, them ' s y 1 ain't so all-fi ' let on" Mrs. Sydney E. Cartwright have retur "We 1 Y me aspen·t Y, "f or I notic· e ' Mr. and ned from d 11-1 sister with so d as how the Muskoka Lakes retorte � flock over t' Cy Humingray's th' a two months' stay in region. giv e t t last twict you � popped out of that flashy lookin' roadster of ver W hen tl ey Mr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Down, who spent the summer 111 o . knees an' a 11 . " their• n -bare . , . . various New England resorts, reached home last week. sickan tire. d o f it aII , an t I 1111gs 1s gotta "Yes I durn e er sex huh!" And Zebediah fairly snorted e. ;:.·w ak cban� 'e�, playin' �l! th' games b,cys play Pontiac huh" Look at . th� . an' one-piece bath111 suits-Land o Goshen, n wearm ; p ants " The A wedding of much interest will take place on a 's on I logical pla September sech carryin , ces for the ma Perry, daughter re play n 22 when Miss Alice of Mr. and Mrs. Frank feel in' bad beca�se they in' boys' games, who would tho "Y' ain't them roughly enJ Perry, of SeminoleHills, Pontiic, will marryThom e they're beat111 boys at games," said oy a as Spaul­ but b ecaus count_ry estate in ding of Phoenix, Arizona. The wedding will be in St. Vin­ Sophira. f the beauti, Paul's church in Pontiac at twelve 'dd a Y ou mean?" u 1 hills just cent de noon and will be "Beatin' boys, w beyond the city's followed by a reception at the Pine Lake Country Club. , at Gertrude Ederle, look at w'at b ound Th� "W at 1 y Look she ary. young couple will leave for an extended wedding trip s� t he English Channel in faster time'n any boy which done 5 wu · · will end in Phoenix, where they are to live. e done 1t 111. L oo k a t t h1s · here S uzanne er �an had ver Among the many interesting parties given in Miss Perry's Lenglen-" at her in that there p'tchure-all y' kin se is honor was a dinner-dance September 8 to about thirty "Yep look couples by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tillotson at "Highwood," legs cl�ar up-" e ediah, that'll be fur 'nough fer y' t' go. I'm the summer home of Mr.Frank Tillotson. Miss Mary "N ow, Z b Cath­ a . ec.en t�' r espectab I e woman ' n ' d on't nee d no more de- erine Kessell, Miss Lucille Whitfield and Miss Katherine d Incidentally your scrtpt10n. "' , , .. choice here Healy entertained the wedding party and the bride's parents d the brother, 1t s s. rur, as any decent man saves "Well," retorte . , you about fifty per cent at. Pine Lake Country Club on the 11th and Mr. and Mrs. d care t' go. But look at, her: go1:1 an turn111 P�,ofes,nul over ' so ta111 t, th French huzzy. other properties Edward Weeks gave a dinner-dance to about twenty couples an' all. 'Tain't decent, in this district. on the 14th in the newly decorated dini,ig room of the De­ '"Tain't no worse'n w'at Red Grange done, 'n' ennyway turnin' GEO. JUNIOR: troit Boat Club. A group of Miss Perry's friends gave her 1� , at's th' dif'runce between a man professnul, 'n' her Gee Dad, that's a mighty

Master Burns Henry, Jr., is already a promising young horseman, f ollowing close i n _ the footsteps O f h s nt o n Paddy, in August of Franklin his father. At i first hu River Estates this year, he was in at _the death and came triumph­ which he is now A Different antly away with a fox's little pad Place to Live !he new Pranklin Riv Estates IS loc,ited in the Development most c.t uresqua close-in t1C?n of Oakland Co ir por­ mmgham ty Ju st west of the Dislrict a�1'1 south, Bir- ountry Club. of Oakland Hills ·winding through lhis e r ���P�\Y. is_ the beautiful <'! ar lake and sp ing 1anklin it s wooded valley River with , A large portion of tiHs . D. 0. Spcllm,rn without . se�luded valley land any roaclwa s IS t eserved owners for � f for home private g l course and playground 011e _side of the stable court with Mas/er Bnr11s Henrv, Jr. pe ._ purposes. s11adwg Padd3, lo keep Ins head o•,•er the doo1· 51·,·ce ,·1 · '· , nmpl · ·' ·iis pictiire C: �te and careful build'mg and 3 lions msure use restric- was taken P add:? has become Master Hen1·y's very own pro ert, proper de ve I opment and environ- Mrs. Henry havmg prese11/ed the fa111011s h1111/er /o her s On f P or 1tlS' ment in this property. 'iloomftelh (llrent /we/fth birthday last wee/,. CALL Ol:R REPRESENTATIVE iEntaten ing :his to the Grosse Pointe Hunt Club as a testi­ momal of our deep sense of loss and expression of our Walsh, NEAR BLOOM� !ELD HUNT CLUB James personal sorrow and �ympathy i n their great loss." 2 to 5-acre parcels. & Wasey Co. Now offered for sale. (ornucopiae 1530 Penobscot Bldg. We shall go down to the sea in Offices also ships l in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills HIGHLY RESTRICTED 011 a bea1tt1f11l 11:1gh/; i-n }11ne' Aud the bells shall ring Jay A. Walsh Donald B. James Albert W. Wasey ROLLING LAND AND TREES D. D. Spellman A11d the wfrileca.ps sing Carl L. Bradt W. Whiting Raymond 1 on the Of love lo a. glorious· 1110011. IMPROVEMENTS NOW BEING The "pn11ch bowl cor 1er" shows the ancie11t cheese cabinet monk's cha·ir which may be con- We shall leave INSTALLED left, the other stai.rway and the afar and afar behind i·erted into a table by 11mii-ng down the ba.ck. The lea of the sea-S1.vept /and LOW And heart to hea.1·t PRICES EXTREMELY h trophies. Where having mounted to h ang beside his fat er's the sea-gnl/s start If it's Birmingham h Mr. Hark to the rollicki11,q balld. H e is very modest about it, however; he says t at or Bloomfield Hills,,, s oungest A, the joY of J1111e o'er the happy Nichols gave it to him, "consid'ring I wa the y t . night t 1e light of alt old old moon see Walsh, James & s hunt." He is a 'iloomftrlh (llrent Q1n. at the kill and t hat it was my fir t L.kY1 e a 1sonq of love ' Wasey Co. Cadillac 2214 little From the 721 Free Press Tower singularly attractive youngster, and a stalwart bl1t1i above Shall spill from the dipper-spoon. figure on his father's big hunter. -W.H. OCTOBER, 1926 Page Twenty-four THE AFTERGLOW QcTOBER, 1926 THE AF TERGLOW Page Golf r Twenty-five The Meadowbrook tournament b ought to the fore- (Con/inned from pa.ge 10.) professionals, e £ nt two fine young Clar nce Gamber e a e the second flight, with Harry L onard and his son, rt Pine Lake nd Ed Kocsis of Wis 's public course e e Golf Club entrants, winners of the low net finished third and fifth, respectiv ly. Ed and Ted D troit :ho e r prize in that division. Kirk, y'outhful amateur. nt ants from Hawthorne LAND e YOUR Yes it was a dandy tournam nt-this first annual Valley, also did well enough to warrant the opinion e e from Fathe� and Son event-on in which good golf w as that they will b heard next year in District and e e I a e N GUARANTEE pl y d and in which ev ry ntrant played as much State events. VESTME e N e e re . lf ther TS (and v n mo ) than he wished . be any A house especially designed doubt about this last statement, wnte to Commander to suit your particular tastes W. H. Faust, Ann Arbor, for confirmation. -o-- and requirements is not a standard commodity. Women's District When e you desire And then there was th Women's District tourna­ a land in- e e e e e vestment It must be made to your m nt which follow d closely upon th he ls of th may I complete that had been played at the e the neg order. Women's State, K nt otiations for you? Country Club and ha.ct been won ?Y Mrs. Ha:ley Hig­ bie of The Country Club of Detroit. Mrs. H1gb1e_ also The best guarantee of its e e My large exp won in the District vent, which was play d at Oak­ . erience in buy­ e e e mg ac lasting value is the reputation land Hills. In this tournam nt sh again cam to :om panied by keen judg­ of the builder. grips-as she had done in the District and State last ment m values e e a e is at your dis­ y ar-with Mrs. St wart H nl y of Lochmoor. Last posal. season honors were even, Mrs. Higbie having won in e PACKARD-CHARLTON the State, Mrs. Hanley in th District. This year -o- BUILDING CO. Mrs. Higbie went 1 up on her d earest golfing enemy by whipping Mrs. Hanley 4 and 2. It, too, was a Levinson Building Birmingham, Yii�bj' 5pJendid event and marked, particularly, by the sur­ LOREN G. STAUCH e e e e Telephone 630 •·,.:·,._,. prisingly xc ll nt playing of Mrs. J. H. Ciss l of Bar­ Birmingham ton Hills (it's strange how those Ann Arbor people Telephone 650 are pushing their way into the front ranks-don't they do anything out there all summer except play golf?); Mrs. J. C. McClurkin of Meadowbrook and Mrs. A. E. Sheill of Aviation. These three women qualified for the championship match play for the first time in their lives. Mrs. Cissel reached the semi-final round; Mrs. McClurkin the second, and Mrs. Sheill was put out in the first round by Mrs. Hanley. And that is that.

Purse for Professionals Meadowbrook Country Club showed Michigan golf­ ers, particularly the professionals, that it has an up and coming membership. Frank Ferguson, its presi­ dent, readily fell in with the suggestion that the club Mrs. J. W. Adderley after a T11esda3, /011mament at Oalda11d Hills. underwrite a purse of more than $1,000 and divide it Meadowbrook left no stone unturned to be hos­ • among the fifteen low scoring professionals in the e e DISTINCTIVE Michigan Open. pitable to its guests on that occasion. Its fin n w e e G lo e e e e locker room mad a decidedly favorabl impression bee raft FUNERAL SERVICE Th re was a field of n arly one hundr d prof s­ a e e e a e Furniture a on everyone, nd there w r non but rem rk d upon sionals and amateurs nd the title was won by Al -A Mark of Distinction Chapel.!and Parlors Watrous, formerly connected with the Red Run and the natural beauty of its course. Neither did anyone e Whether it be an odd stool e e e e have aught but prais for the test of golf that course or 1 e o rstu Redford clubs h re, but mor rec ntly attach d to the livi�g �001� sui!e, Globecraft Fu�nftu�i �� ed ma1 ks it Y ;ir homeff Highlands Golf Club, Grand Rapids. Watrous finished provided. with d1stinct1on. �lo.be ?ra.ft�men e e e e love their work. Every pie Tekpho,,e s cond to Bobby Jon s in the British Op n, b ing the 1s a:i. 11:d1v1du3:I ce they make The League of Lower Lakes task, approached with the fine ARLINGiON 0900 e I 1e1 ancient Guilds. spirit of b st scorer among the world's greatest professional One other ev ent in which Detroiters were inter­ a golfers in that particular event. He showed the g l­ ested was played since Afterglow was last published. We'd like to send you a booklet about what e ea e Jane saw m the Globe Shops. Or better leri s at M dowbrook something of the golf h dis­ �hat was the Leagu e of the Lower Lakes ·competi­ yet, _come out and see for yourself how fine e e e . 1ture can be made for you at moderate play d in England wh n h shot 73, 73, 76 and a tion, at the Niagara Falls Country Club, between ten­ ����. e r cord-establishing 70 for 292 to win by a margin of men teams from Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland and To­ e r elev n strokes ove Davie Robertson of Dearborn, the le do, f r the Ganson Depew trophy. The teams fin­ Globe Furniture & Mfg. Co. e er ear ? d fending champion who finished runn -up this y . ished m the order in which they have been named. 82 PARK. PLACE NORTHVILLE, MICHIGAN e Carlton Wells of Ann Arbor was low scor r in the e e e e Next year �he tournament will be played h r , eithe1: A I the edge of the 1,il/age, by the Ii Ille bridge, two blocks amat urs' division, with Jimmie Standish s cond at the Detroit Golf Club or Lochmoor. 11orth of the end of Sei•en-Mile Road and Les Conley of Detroit third. Here endeth the record for the month. Page Twenty-six THE AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, 1926 OCTOBER, 1926 THE AF T ERGLOW Pag e Twenty-seven The Tenth _Annual Horse Sho'"". to be held at the was a Northville Fair Grounds bit handicapped this ther. It happened year by wet wea as scheduled, how­ ever, on September 22, �3 and 24, and was better at­ was FAJLJL tended than ever. The Judge Charles D. Toole oi Genesee yalley, �ew York;_ Ale?'- L. Copeland of Grosse Pomte actmg as assoc1_ate Judge. Because of PJLANTKNG eather the Thursday events were the bad. w postponed until Friday, and for _that reason the Bloomfield horses were not entere9, bemg due for a drag hunt on Satur­ Insures a fuller and more substantial s. day with the Wmburn hound growth of trees and shrubs next year. Volney Bayley on Hun�ress was !he most consistent Cm.JLilll.ltiry Conunceltll.\t winner of the show, �ommg out with the blue ribbon 111 the Open Enables one to fill out the bare corners in six classes, �he red Jump and the yellow Bloomfield Center isn't by any means what it used s Stake. which were left unplanted last spring. The crossing is being cleared up inch by inch in the Hunter to be. es Sister, owned by Mrs. T. R. Dono October i as the pavement is completed, and on the southwest Freckl van tool· n the Gar ribbon in the Open Jump, always a den Provides a complete and unhurried select­ corner, Mr. Barbour's village, "Briarbank," is begin­ the blue difficul� keenly co_mpet:ed. P. H. Grennan's Overl QO not fail to rea ion of preferred plants. ning to assert itself as part of the landscape. class, ook rived from : /l� e benefits de­ On the yellow 111 this event. earl a l southeast corner Mr. Butler's English _village, Bloom­ took the Pl anting. Northville Riding and Hunt Club had several October is th . field Downs, described on pages 16 and 17 of the The velo d ea! mont t ries in the show that stood up well against p your grou�1ds, h o de­ ,Jlllow our Landscape Department lo arrange Afterglow, will begin soon to make another interest­ ent the perennial reconstruct Your er groups. garde n and pla your Fall Planting ing skyline. The natural center will now be incor­ old * * * flowering bulbs. nt Spring porated, and it is not so hard now to look ahead ten If you have not years to this same four corners that last year were your Ever a Irea dy planted S green t e d marshy waste land-and see a flourishing and pic­ hrubs, Perennial; :� H it at once. can no d ardy R es The Coryell Nursery turesque settlement. w be planted. os Let The members. of the new charter commission are: u.s assist you ,n developing your Nurseries at Birmingham, Southfield and Utica Luther D. Allen, William T. Barbour, Frank L. Brom­ grounds iey, George E. Roehm and Harry L. Wallace. Headquarters at West Maple Avenue, This village inco�poration inst�res various things, PONTIAC NU such as-and very important it ts-the preservation RSERIES Birmingham 204 Architects Bldg· of the district's character, and the pr�tection of pri­ Glendale 8507 vate property thereby, fire and police regulation DETROIT _ maintenance and construction of roads, etc. ' MICH. * * * If you aren't yet dauntless enough to hunt on these Amusing country comments from the letter of a gorgeous mornmg_s, you ought at least-if you like very young (vintage 1926) Ph.D., who, for several riding at all-to give yourself the pleasure of rackino­ years has walked the quiet book-widened ways of Ox­ along some of the dirt roads back from the Hunt Club ford, but who, for his soul's weal, sold himself into or even west of Woodward. You simply have no captivity for the summer to a Iew England gentle­ id�a of _the love_liness of the Hills country and the man farmer: st 1mulatmg quality of October air, unless you jog "The work itself is vastly diverting. There are along some of these forgotten roads that wind casu­ twelve cows milked twice a day and seduously tended. ally through the woods and fields and hills. You can ... From 5 :30 to 7 :30 there are morning chores, fol­ �o�pletely forget i:ampant Detroit, but the fact that lowed by breakfast. From 4 :30 to 6 :JO the same �t 1s only twenty mt!es or so a way enables you to get things happen with variations in the afternoon. Then 111 !own for luncheon after one of these rides and ex­ there was haying, which nearly did me down. Just pl�m the beauty of the autumn to your city harrassed now we are getting in the corn. Yesterday I walked fnends. Mark �l. Conklin, Architect round inside the silo for eight hours, pelted with en­ Home ofW. silage, which I distributed and trod into place. This D. Stearns SAL�-To the lover or fine old furniture: Four post bed Grosse Point sort of thing is at once Homeric and fantastic. FOR $150.00; $125.00; e Wouldn't you like an article: The Green Orchid Re­ $150.00, davenport, settee, each piece maho an over century old and in pcrfec_t condition. Phone Royal oa: 73�'. turns to the Land? Try, dear, and get it-as they OUR FALL SHOWING say on the vaudeville stage. "I have been allowed to name three calves. They OF FIREPLACE FIXTURES ARE OF THE BEST are Mopsa, Angela and Sepia. Cows are highly edu­ cative .... " AND LATESTDESIGNS. * * * Plant Dutch Bulbs A unique and individual suggestion for Christmas /or Spring Flowers A Personal _[nspectio11 Will Co11vince Y 011 cards comes from the F. L. Reeg Company on Grand River avenue. If you have a photograph of your ��acinths, �ulips, Narcissus, Madonna -0- country place-the entrance, for instance, or the chim­ Lilies, Peomes, p e r e n n i a l Plants GLENN E. ROUTIER ney piece, or some odd corner that you especially love Evergreen Lawn Seed -you can take it to Mr. Reeg and he will make an Bone Meal, Pulverized Sheep CONTRACTOR engraving of it for the front of your Christmas greet­ Manure McBride Hardware Co. Send /or Bulb ing. Or if you don't like engravings he will make Catalog BIRMINGHAM, MICH. "CChe Ha rdware Ho use of Qu a lity" small clear photographs from yours, and use those LOHRMAN SEED CO 108 N. Woodward Birmingham with an engraved greeting. There is no better way Macomb and Brush to convey a touch of your home atmosphere to your Randol;h 9241 106Y, North Woodward Ave. Phone 446 far-away friends. THE AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, 1926 Page Twenly-eig/Jt QcTOBER, 1926 THE AF TERGLOW Page Tw The Amphibious House Boat ds of sand hauled from e1>1y-11i11e and many loa . the dun es not big. . cotton-popla (Co11ti1111rd from page 9.) far away. The r already growing ce to t�k_ e a deep, _ e here had a chan free br ath. More YOU CA t e e e N MAK e e dogwood, verg1 e ns and littl tree E were firmly settled on th strong st spiles of the ne osier. came in woods. Order blank 111 the seed o-Li a wonder yard in such a manner as to leave the opposite from the . · catalo,:, es ful selection wid;� · e f e filled wit1 1 amazmg consistency. Pi ces of b and length definitely in th water, though likewise were rok- Chr ne were set to make a delightfull istmas C e The "yard" e flag-sto y infor­ ard S support d by the p1les. was fill d 111· en by placino- ·1 111 . h. and thoroughly substantial path. \cro s a yo ur order somew l 1a t w1 . th a top soi , w 1ch grass was encour- mal deep \\' e now. t the eastern end of the shore arched will be ofa� t ar . fence of white pickets separate e Jitt'.e cut a a wee a ge to c aged to grow d th s!1ow you o�1 ve�)' � � all and bridge of small logs, m de as a "project" by r c oice ya rd from the road._ The \mphibious House Boat foot- � s1ve line. and excJu- . e of the town boy scouts "ho were fnends of the was becoming a reality. som , Phone Ra House Boat s owner. • ndolph 1777 That winter found the House Boat boarded and Critte has been a tonishi1�g how the plants and eecls nden Gift weather until spring It 1 Sho bleak. a prey to the ,,·ould come 11 e bulbs have grO\\·n the sand pr ad over th 68 We to loosen the ice and set afloat the fishermen's shan­ and st Elizabeth · spiles and edgings that are deep underneat Wo e p de caying l� m n's City Clu o- ties. �re under the House b Bldt>· the garden as they Boat and its front lawn. T�e wild garden of hepatica , trillium. violets and delic�te rose-colored and yellow "wi'.d t e orchid" or Lady�l pper, blossoms first. Ther are plots 111 e of wild garden two or thr e spots: at a corner of fit e the House Boat. in unsusp cted corners of the £enc e wide-spread branches of an osier OLSE beneath th . Aft:1: N'S MARKET that the daffodils and tulips push up in blades ai�d e 0111 FOR pointed S\\·orls of gr en. They blo in neat ranks THE e e e CHOICEST MEA beside the flagg d path, and almost b for they and TS AND POULTRY the iris are done there are hosts of other ·buds read, Fresh Fish and Sea e Food to open. The pansies and th daisies. those tight litt:� English ones, come up; na _turtium along the pink WE DELIVER th fragrant haggy pinks under ·the bird fence and e Phone 648 or 649 110 r1 ya, de11 grows swee//y 011 top of the old spiles. feeding station. Morning o-lories reach up from the South Woodward BIRMING base of the · undial_ that has a butte1·fly's wing in HAM bronze for a pomter. Bachelor buttons, domestic col­ 1 'fhen began pi:grimages to the woods. Little trees umbine (as if columbine should ever be domestic_ eve1 green�, osier, a hemlOck came hrst. Along th� '. th ough sh e i prettier, plumper, more vari-coloi ed p,ck.tt tence synnga bu hes were set. A little \nllow than her wild sister), Shasta daisies. daisies in deep \\·a aaaed; an apple tree; a jack p111e. 'l hese were SPECIALIZING apricot with maroon brown centers. tall shafts of IN placed for background, to sh1e1d tne house Boat, to larkspur and foxglove, scabiosa, even sp'.otches of e e PORTRAITS screen tile boat hous -for th re was now a sma,l purple vetch sprawling on the sand that ( its native ,\·nite boat house for the fa1tnful canoe and tne new soil. The weeks move on, bringing o-!adioli to blossom COMMERCIAL 18-foot boat with its out-board motor. and great rosettes of dahlias. Even in ovember. PHOTOGRAPHY After that the seed and tlo\\·er catalogues began to th ere are flowers for the fir t now flurry to cover. OF ALL KINDS pile up every spnng on the business-like desk of the Of course this is not a lazy .rier on's parad:se. There Homes, E t house Boat s O\Yner. It became a kind of game to x erwr· an d Interior is always omething to do in the garden. The Hou e plan the garden, that something might be in b'.ossom Boat's owner could employ gardeners if she chose · but from the opening of the sea on to its close. Out on THE ARNOLD STUDIO some of the fascination wou Id be lost if hi reel wee,der the "point,'' at the far northwestern edge of the prop­ and pruners \\ ere put_ at large _t_here in the garden 125 W. Maple St. erty, \Yere iris and cosmos and peonie , with tough­ ; where every p.ant 1s hk_e a familiar friend. carefully Birmingham, Mich.' Phone rooted shrubs at the water's edge to hold the soil. . 905 sele cted to fill his place 111 the cheme of things. BUSIN.ESS FAILURES \,\'ild-flowers, "jacks," ferns and columbine were (Co11ti1111ed 011 page 31.) EICHT\"·FOl'R PER CEST OF TUE OUSIN�S FAILURES OF THli PAST banked again t the long \\·all of the house, to the east YEAR OCCURRED A)10SG FlkMS WIIICH DID NO AO\'ER• 0 e e e TISING, ACCORDING TO 8RADSTREET S. of th narrow board walk that now l d to st ps and Telephone 56 'The Ont 6us1Tlus willnot .u/1 itu/j. but mu1t 6t presented a "deck" before the front door. The "deck" had been to tbt publiC in an attrartrLJ� and co1MJinci11g111a11nrr. Your e transform­ D'Wn 61uinr11 /J no rxaption. built on a round the lake- ide length of th e e e Perhaps E".xrton Engr�i.Jings will addjust thr attractiw d Hou e Boat to anoth r flight of st ps leading to and cofT"rJincing tourh to your uds that you nud. the la,\·n near the boat house. white railing, with post and spindles in severe order, bounded the deck, Gerard Putters leaving pace on the lake front for yet another short LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR companionway down to a platform at the water's level, for swimming and for board�ng the motor boat. rn years exclusively landscaping Bloomfield HIiis! But the end, very properly, was not yet. When this EVERTON ENGRAVING Co. yard wa flouri hing after a year or two, the House � ENTIRE 2� FLOOR KERR BLDG. - DETROIT. MICH. �;,., ONE BLOCK EAST OF COUNTY BUILDING Boat' O\\·ner again called in _the handy man to clear Room 10, Quarton Buildino- • • � "' � :;:.�� ""· out the underbrush east of the ettled portion of her BIR1\IINGHAhl, MICHIGAN little estate. fence was et along the water's edge Page Thirty THE AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, ER, 1926 THE AF 1926 OCTOB TERGLOW Pa The Amphibious House Boat ge Thirty-one (Co11ti11uedfrom page 29) How Do YOU Lie? There are bird houses in the garden, too. Little By RALSTON GOSS for the wrens, an apartment SWll· 1g ing ones . for the martins, and a rustic I og cab' 111 h'1g h up on a tall pole Dozen_s of ti. mes a for the swallows. day the elder places 111 the nest, swoopi swa!lo ws change . no- and . , away over t_he b October's the unonth for une wheeling and circ,mg water. When e the house, ther one bird go s into e 1s a second of va- door, then a pert October brings panoplies J)ellow, anc y at the front .. blue-b. lack head E ARE through with the month of nd entrance, its brig w a ears in the rou ht bead eyes September, And russet and red to each tree; und the garden epe pring watchfully aro with a manner It's as dead as the roses of June, October's the month for a fellow, ' l o f a matron · forp all the world Ii ke t mt 111 a front porch And the cold, drear}) daJ)s of November The kind that's a vagabond, free. rocking chair. . Will reallJ) be with us too soon. Flickers a nd scarlet tanagers, cardmals and gold- tinc h Jove to vis�t the garden. . Sometimes a shrewd But before we get drear}) November The wine in the air is as mellow old kingfisher perches �or a w 11ile on t_he peaked roof e boat house, until he shoots obliquely down Come daJ)S that rm anxious to see, As that from the vaults of the Rhine·' 0 f th • to quarry. ap-suc For the month that is after September, October's the month for this fellow, th e water that holds his s kers and red- e e woodpeckers come callin_g, too, with _the cat­ October's the month that's for me. The month that most trul:y is mine! h ad d birds and song sparrows and robms that are the com- Build moner birds of the field. . Within the House Boat, now that 1t has partly come Reducing it to golf terms, Ger­ It isn't always a seasoned poli­ Strange as it may seem most up on land, is a fireplace, a complete plumbing system, With trude Ederle could give any man tician who wins, said. the Cheer­ of the boisterous conve;sation electric lights, a gas range and hot water heater. It a lot of strokes and then· beat ful Idiot. John Haggerty had you hear nowadays comes from is still a tiny house, compactly furnished with comfort him across the Channel. Green timber. the Speak Easies. an d economy of space at the same time. The minia­ Confidence every utensil securely anchored * * * * * * * * * ture galley, with by or screw or cleat, is reminiscent of stormy bracket . Th_at one_ of the the lak�. greatest joys of days on . . . . hfe is' attamed through Why You Find Them Out e side of the living room 1s b . appreciation On th lake one ig win- of one s home, 15 true. 1 with a box beneath it. an elongated window seat THE GOLFING season's ending in October's ha:;;y da3s, dow, padded cushion. The fireplace opposite is for Homes that Aud golfers, soine, are breaking off their snmmer lazy ways. with a . are treated as merchan­ The Fearless Foursome's back at work, not out ,ipon the green, in spring and fall; the big window with its d1�e chill days can never inspire the thrillino­ And each one in his office now more freq1

And Lastly- '/) EM EM BERING that Dempse�, did the slacker's bit one year .,_ \ I would leap in. joy unspeakable and give a mighty cheer If this message from the ringside would be broadcast o'er the land­ "Our Marine has landed quickly, siti1ation's well iti hand." Page Thirty-two THE AFTERGLOW OCTOBER, 1926 FREE-A New Map that will 1«JSELAND guide you to THE scores of Beauty Spots out Gre CEMETERY-BEAUTIFUL ater Woodward Write fo Service r It! Perpetual Care and Courteous There are scores of beauty spots out Gre that you have ater Woodward never seen-out of th invite the e way corners t carefree motorist. Man hat y of them have carefully charted on a new ma been p-just off the pr is yours upon request and ess-that 'Yithout obligation. Write for it now. Let it guide you out the magnificen superhighway, the greatest t thoroughfare in the this glorious land world ' to of sunshine and fresh air. Nature is now at her best. The sparkling lakes seem a deeper and richer blue, the air is more invigorating, and the wooded hills a more charming green. Spread before you on this map is a new world, a territory that invites your exploration. If you are tired of the same old drives, if you want to HIGHLY RESTRICTED SECTIONS visit some new place, if the TWO question, "Where shall old we go?" arises again and again, all means write by NEAR vVOODWARD AVENUE or telephone at once for the Greater ward road map. Wood­ NOW AVAILABLE GREA TER WOODWARD AVENUE ASSOCIATION 508 Majestic Building Phone Cadillac 7237

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