For the past three weeks society has been vibrating between the pros and cons of the negotiations going on between the Cincinnati Country Club and the Cincinnati Golf Club, whose homes adjoin on Grandin road.
    The older of th etwo, the golf club, had for many years, thanks to one of its founders, the late J. V. B. Scarborough, an option on the far stretches of hill and dale north to Observatory and east to the Longworth woods, where its course of 18 holes now lengthens in an emerald fairway.  A few years ago this option was taken up by the Country Club, its sister organization being at that time in no position to buy the property.  Since that time the Golf Club has rented its from the Country Club, which has now decided definitely not to renew this lease when it expires in the autumn of 1922.  At that time the Country Club will take over this wonderful oasis in the heart of suburban Cincinnati and continue it as a golf course of its own members.
    Thus a vista of many possibilities opens before the fashionable world, which, at present, seeths with suppositions.  The Governors of the Country Club have made no plans further than to decide positively not to renew the lease.  Some of the members believe that when the time comes the Country Club will decide to include two classes of membership on its roster -- those who use this smart playground for golf only, and those who belong to it for that and all its other advantages.  That the dues of the Country Club will have to be increased to meet the upkeep of a golf course is taken for granted, while the acquisition of this beautiful addition to the sporting equipment of the institution willlay for all time the ghost of criticism which walks from time to time among the easily dissatisfied, who have declared that the Country Club does not provide its members with as may different forms of sports as similar organizations elsewhere.
    Ever since the Golf Club has been the tenant of the Country Club the question of mergin gthe two has arisen on each renewal day.  There are those in the Golf Club who do not care to belong to the Country Club because their only active interest is golf.  The statistics show that a majority of the Golf Club members, however, are already members of the Country Club.
    The discussions incident to this situation have revived the talk of a new and largeer Golf Club in the country somewhere, such as serious golfers have dreamed of for years, and which the promoters of the idea insist is necessary to those who wish a course where the holes may be kept up, lengthened and designed after the well-known clubs of other cities.   As all these questions, except that of refusal of the Country Club to renew the Golf Club lease, are purely speculative, society is having a wonderful time "cussing and discussing" this much-mooted matter, which promises to discontinue one of the time-honored institutions of the city, at least in its presnt quarters and under existing conditions.

    Mrs. George Jarvis Geer of New York, is being warmly welcomed to Cincinnati, where she is a guest of her sister, Mrs. Charles P. Williams, of Avondale, being en route home after four months in California.  Her days are crowded with small luncheons and dinners, the friends of the famly and her own contemporaries being overjoyed to have her once more among them.  This week she will spend a day or two with her niece, Mrs. Roger Morison, in Clifton, and a brief visit before returning to the metropolis with another niece, Mrs. Stanley Shaffer (Esther Williams), who with Mr. Shaffer is now occupying Mrs.  H. H. Eckstein's delightful country place on the lower River road, the absence at Murray Bay of Mrs. Eckstein and Judge and Mrs. Jelke.

    Mr. Philip Jerome Clark has chose Colonel J. Alden Twachtmann, of Greenwich, Conn., with whom he served overseas during the World War, as the best man at his marriage to Miss Rosan Krippendorf, whose group of attendants includes Miss Josephine Livingood as maid of honor; Mrs. J. Clarence Egan as matron of honor; Misses Mary Waite, Oriel Camachjo, Margaret Anderson and Elizabeth Blake.  Mr. Clarks' ushers will be Messrs. Charles Thomas, Harold Payne, George Hollister, J. R. Clark, Jr., and Durrel Siebern.

    Miss Mary Howard Hazen, whose mother, Mrs. Alexander Thomson Hazen, is so greatly improved in health as to permit her debutante to make a series of visits in the East, is expected hom to-day after a week in Rochester, where she was one of a half dozen bridesmaids at the wedding of her classmate at Dobbs,  Miss Chace, who on April 23 was married to Mr. John Sibley.  This occasion was a gala one with most of the ushers Harvard classmates of the groom, and the maids a series of lovely girls from the East.  The decoration of the church were particularly effective, huge clusters of flowers alternating at each pew head with sparkling candelabra.  After this affair Miss Hazen went on to her Alma Mater -- Dobbs Ferry -- and finally to New Haven and Bridgeport, whence she returns to-day in time for the election of officers at the Junior League meeting at the Country Club, here name being one of the three put up for Second Vice President.

    Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Closson left yesterday for New York, whence they sail for a summer abroad, both having been in the habit of making this journey nearly every year before the World War.  Mrs. Closson will be much missed in many quarters, but especially at the Cincinnati Women't Club, where she is Chairman of the Lecture and Entertainment Committee.

    Cincinnatians have been interested in the news from Los Angeles that Mr. and Mrs. William G. Schultze and their son, Mr. John Paul Schultze, have changed their surname to Stratford by which they will henceforth be known.  Mr. Schultze is a brother of Mrs. J. H. Gest and the father of Mrs. Guy Emery Shipler, now a resident of New York, Mr. Shipler being editor of the Churchman, and Mrs. Shipler a most attractive young woman whom Cincinnati society looks back upon with greatest pleasure.

    Theodore Grellish, of Norwood, and Miss Hazel Mary First, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ellsworth First, of Clifton, were married at the home of the bride, 224 Woolper avenue, Saturday evening, Rev. F. L. Flinchbaugh, rector of the Calvary Episcopal Church, officiating.  Ralph Vivian First, brother of the bride, was best man, and Henrietta Greilich, a sister of the groom was maid of honor.  Mr. Greilich is a son of Theodore Greilich, former widely known resident of Cincinnati.