Opening of the Opera Season The Opera Opened--To Crowded Boxes--With the Usual Performance of “Aïda” 54 Blighters at Bridge A Terrifying Triumvirate of Familiar Lady Auction Pests 55 The Way to Succeed on the Stage A Lady, Once a Creature of Fashion, and Now a Famous Actress, Tells of Her Success 56 Sports for the Summer The Increasingly Feminine Tone of Our Outdoor Diversions 58 Sea Bathing has become the King of All the Dry Sports Fashionable Debutantes Who Sojourn by the Sea 59 The Strategy and Finesse of Proposing Advance Leaves from the 1921 Handbook of Courtship. 60 Palmy Days at the Seaside Sights at the Bathing Resorts When the Season for Salt Water is Declared On 62 An Interview with a Great Dancer Privileged Peeps into the Soul of Mlle. Angeline, of Paris 64 [Illustration] HIGH SOCIETY [Illustration] [Illustration] THE RESTAURANTS The season in the restaurants has opened strong. And the worst of it is that the ladies _will_ spend all their time in these blessed robbers’ dens. Tell a woman that her place is in the home and--but you wouldn’t do anything as rude as _that_, would you? There are two other discouraging things about women in a restaurant: first, that they won’t ever go home, and second, that they won’t ever sit down. Here we see a tragedy illustrating both of these points. Muriel, who long ago finished her luncheon simply _will_ not join the gentleman in the hallway (the one who looks a little like President Wilson), although the poor creature has been waiting for twenty minutes. And her charming little _vis a vis_, Esmé by name (the one with the lap dog that looks like a three-leaved clover), has, on her side, been keeping her fiancé standing at attention for a similar period of time--and, all because the two dears have such _thrilling_ and _wonderful_ things to talk about. [Illustration] The Opening of the Social Season _How the Members of the Beau Monde Will Spend What Is Left of Their War-time Incomes_ THE HORSE SHOW Here we see the horse show in full blast. Here you will see everybody happy, everybody occupied, scandals energetically and effectually discussed, meetings arranged in whispers, society reporters calling everybody by their wrong names, and everybody paying the strictest attention to everything about them--except the horses. THE ART SHOWS