The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-21
BY MRS. GEORGE C. BALL.
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| made in costumes to be worn while cy-
| cling, they are only such as are rem
dered necessary by the change of season.
The form os skirts is absolutely the
same. Hats, chemisettes and jackets
alone have undergone notifications
A Paris design for a skirt of navy blue
English serge is rounded at the bottom
long enough to conceal the upper leather
of the boots, and moderately full. The
skirt falls straight in front and at the
sides; and is divided down the back like
all the new designs of this style of cos
tune. A wide pleat on either side con-
ceals the opening. The front Is made
with a narrow apron, widening slightly
toward The bottom, and outlined by a
double row of stitching which continues
round the hem.
Most of the Partisan models for cycling
hats are of soft felt. in the Tyrolese
style, either black, white drab or biege.
There is Louis XIII. hat of white felt.
the corner of which is trimmed with
drapery of ecru lawn, striped with
mauye satin, and having on the left
side tuft of white feathers.
White cloth cycling jackets are also
worn in Paris, but 1t is doubtful whether
the more conservative taste of Ameri-
can cyclers will permit the wearing of
either white hats or coats for wheeling
on this side If the ocean.
Among the novel wheel accessories are
noted handle-bars of pigskin, bound
with silver gilt, and having attached a
small pigskin bag containing a watch,
foot warmers, a kind of rigid toe-case
of pigslsin lined with flannel, and screw
ed on the pedal in place of the rat-trap.
A new invention for the cycle is the
hill-cMmber. 1t consists of a hook, to
which a spring Is fixed, and which hitch
ed into the waistband, assists the rider
up HILL he holding the other end of the
cord in his hand at the handle-bar.
Mrs. William Redd leaves tomorrow
for Columbus, Ca, to visit relatives, and
to attend the marriage of an intimate
friend.
Mrs William Pickett is now the guest
of friends at Montgomery.
Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Richards have
decided to sp.nd the winter in Birming-
ham, and have taken a fiat on Eighth
avenue, north.
Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, now of
Los Angeles, has organized there the
Friday Morning club, the most popular
woman's club in Southern California.
Mrs. Severance organized the first wo-
mans club in America, and has BEN a
prominent worker in that line. For
years she was well known in literary
and social circles in Boston, where she
was personally acquainted with many
of the most famous of American authors.
Mrs Oscar w. Underwood and h4r two
sons leave today for visit to relatives
at Charlottesville, Va.
| Yesterday morning at 11:45 o'clock at
| the First Methodist church, Mr.. Thomas
| ]. Perry and Miss Alyee Lewis, daughter
| of Mr.. and Mrs H. P. Lewis, wers mar
ried by Rev. DIR. G. E. Kelly. Ths bride,
who entered the church with her sister,
Miss Rebecca Lewis, was preceded to
| the altar by the ushers, Messrs. Walter
| c. Gardner, Henry w. Laird, w. ]. Nor
| garidge and Wilbur l.. North. The
groom and his best man. Mr.. c. Williams
met the bride and her maid of honor
at the altar, where the beautiful mar
riage service of the Methodist church
made Mr.. Perry and Miss Lewis man
and wife. Immediately after the cere-
mony the bride and groom drove to the
railway station and left at once for the
| Nashville Centennial. Upon their re-
turn to the city, Mr. and Mrs. Perry will
reside with Miss DOLLS Perry, corner
| of Fourth avenue and Twenty-second
street. The bride wore stylish travel
ing gown, while the maid of honor's
toilette was a becoming grean and white
silk. Miss Mccoy presided at the or
gan and rendered several charming
musical numbers.
Mrs. S. L. Ledbetter will leave foI
Nashville today to enjoy Alabama Day
at the Centennial.
The engagement of Mss Kate Nor
row. of this city. and Mr. R. L. Cath
cart, of South Carolina, has been an
nounced. Miss Morrow Is a great, social
favorite and has been very much ad-
mired, ever since her formal entrances