The age-herald., 1898-03-16
In the Social Realm of
 Birminaham and Elsewhere

In the Social Realm of
 Birmingham and Elsewhere Mrs. w. A. Chenoweth and her little daughter are visiting relatives at Colum- bus Ga. They will be absent about week.
 Mrs. H. P Johnston is at home again, after spending the winter in Mississippi. The Nineteenth Century club will meet this afternoon at o'clock with Miss Fan nie Meade, at her home on Thirteenth ave- nue, South Highlands.
 MT. and Mrs w. H. Kettig will enter tain the Fortnightly Euchre club next Tues day evening at their residence Nine teenth street, South Highlands.
 
 Mrs. Emma Homan Thayer, who has just been appointed by Gov. Adams of Colorado as commissioner of fine arts from that state to the Transmississippi Exposition, to be held in Omaha from Jan. to Nov. l, 1898, is not only an authoress, but an artist. Her book with its water-color plates of the "Wild Flowers of the Pacific Slope" has been adopted as the standard among stu dents of botany. Mrs. Thayer has just re- turned from an extended tour through Gen. tral America. where she painted the flora of the tropics, and while in Costa Rica she made large collection of orchids.
 
 Mrs. J. R. Adams is spending several weeks in Florida
 Mrs. Jonas Schwab and her son left last night for Jackson, Miss, to attend the Hart-Asher wedding. MT. Sidney Hart and Misses Felice Bahr and Meta Schwab will also leave in a few days for Jackson.
 Tn RaIo ic fba fn with a feast or ball the day when two peo- pie have been happily married for six and half years, and the occasion is called the "brass wedding" When twenty and half years married, the Copper wedding comes, and utensils of brass and copper are pre- sented on these occasions.
 Mrs. N. B. Feagin returns tomorrow from a charming visit to relatives in Texas.
 
 Mrs. Robert Chisoim leaves today for visit to friends at Savannah.
 Miss Caroline May Wilder will leave in few days for Gadsden, where she will spend short time with friends.
 Miss Willie Bing of Cincinnati is the guest of MT. and Mrs. J. Fox, Fourth ave- nue.
 The local Women's Christian Temperance union will have memorial service at the First Baptist church next Sunday after noon at o'clock which will be a tribute to Miss Francis E. Willard, the late national president. Mrs. c. B. Spencer, president of the state w. c. T. U., will preside at the meeting, and several speeches will be made by admirers of Miss Willard and her favorfte songs will be sung.
 MT. and Mrs. Lee Meyer, of Tuscaloosa, are in the city.
 Miss Maude Howell is the guest of friends at Tuscaloosa.
 A telegram from Chicago says:
 Mrs. Celia Wallace, who wore a $50,000 gown on the opening of the opera season last year, will eclipse her record at the opening tomorrow night by wearing a gown and jewels valued at $150,00O. s The color of the gown is pinkish heliotrope, with plain heavy satin for the front breadths and big patterned brocade in heliotrope and silver at the back.
 The bodice is cut in V shape and has a high colarette and blouse drapings of lace. The jewels to be worn with this brilliant toilet are more costly than any ever worn heretofore by Chicago woman. Diamonds and opals will glitter in the snowy hair. A necklace of diamonds, dia- mond bracelets and corsage pins will be among the accessories which will run the cost or the costume up to SloU,UUu
 The lace fiounce alone cost $10,0O0 and the sleeves and corsage .drapngs 5000 more The rest of the big sum will be rep resented by the jewels, which have been specially designed.
 The largest ornament Is an enormous diamond surrounded by smaller ones. The elaborate comb has what is said to be the largest opal in the world for its chief jewel, with diamonds arranged in floriated setting to frame 1t.
 Mrs. Wallace is about 60 years old. She is the widow of Judge John l.. Wallace, formerly of Saratoga, and is the daughter of the late Dr. William Whipple, of Vent worth N. H. She Is very wealthy.
 She has no children and spends large part of her income in philanthropic work. Her costumes have attracted much atten- tion in Chicago. She usually has them made up according to her own designs.
 She was one of the founders of the Illi- nois School of Agriculture and Manual Training, and for some years provided uni forms for 100 pupils She has endowed scholarships in the name of her father and husband at Dartmouth college and the Chandler School of Science and Art con- nected with 1t, and has also built Wallace house at the Chandler school, where rooms are free to students. It is said she spends $60,000 year in charity.
 After the Worlds Fair she purchased the Tiffany Chapel as a memorial to her only son, who died in 1882
 Last November Mrs. Wallace was re- ported to have offered to adopt Evange- lima Cisneros, who had escaped from Cuban prison. Mrs. Wallace has a fad for curios and jewels. and her collections are most valuable.