The age-herald., 1901-04-14
Pretty Women Are Fashioning Flowers fer Their Traps. Many Beautiful Events
 to Be Given at
 the Clubs.
RY ANNIE kENpRIck WALKER.

No event has ever been discussed with more interest and enthusiasm than the approaching floral parade, and from now until the afternoon of the event one will hear little else discussed at the club or the many social functions of the spring season. Indeed one hears 1t talked even on the links and this indicates how con- tagious is enthusiasm, and how even in a very short time a popular suggestion made at the right time may be taken up and result in crowding out all other inter- ests
 At the assemblies of the week the plans for the parade was the theme of all con versations and numbers of pretty women declared that they had time for little else besides fashioning paper flowers for their traps. Several of Birmingham's wealth. fest young women are making the flowers with which they will decorate their traps, and there Is no reason why all women should not make the flowers they intend using in their decorations. At least where a woman considers the expense to be in- cured, she will find that in fashioning the flowers herself, the expense of decor ating her trap will be So reduced that 1t would no longer deter her from entering tho parade.
 And what prettier picture can there be than a group of women fashioning the petals of the roses. chrysanthemums. morning glories, carnations, nysteria? And so many Birmingham women are really preparing to make their own flow CTS. and every morning the past week has found dozens of them In the intricacies of flower petal.
 There will be many women who will prefer ordering their flowers, and those gorgeous imported decorations will only add to the elaborateness of the occasion
 The parade will be on far more an elaborate plan than the last There will be a larger number of traps, and the au- tomobiles will be a new and attractive feature The latter lend them selves to very artistic decoration. and the automo- bile parades at New Orleans have been among the most beautiful events of the season.
 But aside from the beauty and the pie turesqueness of the occasion which ap- peals to every one, there is the added in- terest that comes with the excitement of competing for the handsome prizes. The prizes and the classes in which they will be presented will be announced in few days together with the list of those who will enter their traps. This list will of course be augmented from day to day.
 Among the brilliant functions that will De arranged Tn honor or the ocCaSloH VIII be the reception at the Southern Club on the afternoon of the parade.
 This occasion will assemble the queen and her maids of honor and the other participants in the parade, and besides theefcluo house will be the popular rem dezvcuz for the club members and their friends who do not participate in the parade. From the club house balcony they will view the beautiful pageant and after the parade is over there will be a reception and probably an informal CO., tiilon
 There will be a delightful orchestra and light luncheon will be served.
 Tile floral ball will probably be danced clubman recently, inaugurating as 1t will club house Is particularly adapted for just an occasion and the large and beautiful ballroom, the balconies and the entire sur roundings will make the ball one of the most elegant events ever given in Blr- mingham.
 The floral parade" said well known clubman recnetly, inaugurating as it will both the Street Fair and the May Music Festival. should be made as fine and ar tistic and captivating as flowers and beautiful women and elegant equipages can make popular spectacle. Birming- ham has reputation to maintain in this respect, and the coming parade should be rendered very bright and very beautiful. The sense of beauty should be fully met, eveii dazzled. in the approaching even: There are not wanting indications that 1t will be more pleasing to the eye and to all artistic perceptions than anything Br- mingham had before undertaken.