The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

Birmingham is going to be unusually
gay the coming winter" said a charming
young matron recently, in speaking of the
brilliant social life of the city. There
are many charming plans being discussed,
and there will be series of gaieties that
will make the winter far more attractive
than in any past season. The weddings
will naturally make both the autumn and
winter seasons particularly notable. for the
brides are so well known in society that
numerous affairs will be given in their
honor, while the weddings both at church
or at home, will generally be followed by
receptions which will be the most formal
events of the winter. The charity ball. [
understand, will open the season in No
vember and the Southern Club reception
will of course lead all others in point of
distinction. There will be an unusually
large number of card parties and of course
the afternoon tea will continue in vogue
for many women have realized that the
large afternoon reception is after all
charming method of entertaining hundreds
of guests. Il intend giving a card party
or two, and several dinners and luncheons
but 1 shall send out my cards for a large
tea"
L SllJOy Tie VI the AFTERNOON
tea and 1 can not understand why some
women pronounce the afternoon reception
'stif'' and are bored to death whenever
they attend
1.-The woman who looks bored in a large
assembly of women should really do her
hostess the kindness of remaining at home,
for woman with any degree of cleverness
instantly recognizes the guest who has
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any other motive, and tn former knows
that the moment the latter drives away
in her luxurious carriage, that she is whis-
pering to another woman and declaring
that the tea was stupid, when the truth of
the matter is she was herself so stupid
that she was incapable of enjoying the af-
ternoon. If she does not care for after
noon receptions she may leave or end her
card to her hostess and thereby not
inilict herself upon an assemblage that is
presumably a gay one. If she does drop
in for little chat which she does not
enjoy she should at lease refrain from
speaking of the event if was unsuccess-
full and from discussing her hostess as if
the latter had made signal failure"
A woman in the group who were dis
GUESSING social affairs, here declared that
she was one Of those women who did not
go into raptures over the afternoon tea,
and that while she went every chance she
got still she did not remain long enough
to become bored. After a brief and I'M
satisfactory greeting with her hostess she
hurried into the apartment where tea was
served and hastily ate a sandwich or
salad, gave hasty glance at the decora-
tons and departed.
The women who were enjoying her rem
iniscences laughed. rather guilty, for
they no doubt recalled similar occasions
when they, too, had hurried from the hos
tess, taken a sip of punch, and almost
knocked down the butler in their hurry to
pass through the entrance.
A woman who always takes a charitable
view of persons said that in her opinion
the woman who abhorred teas and yet ac-
cepted every invitation she received was
society martyr, for rather than offend her