The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

Ih9 Seasons Come and Go
Without Gossip or
Sensation
MRS, M0RRISSETTE
O-D|SCUSSES CHILD LABOR
HTacky Party" Club Tomorrow Night.
sfs News and Gossip of Society
In the City and
f~-f State
BY ANNIE KENDRIcK WALKER.

AI@N
: %S6ciety in Birmingham is very charm
ing, but unlike that in other cities 1t Is
entirely too respectable There are posi-
lively no scandals. nothing that we can
gossip over and shrug our shoulders and
lift our eye brows," she was saying be-
tween dinner courses the other evening.
New, for my part she continued,
..Iifhih1t that a little gossip is good for
one and where society Is as circumspect
as 1t is in Birmingham, one never so
much hears even a whisper" and here
she sighed.
Then she went on, 81 think the So
cietys columns in the papers are too re-
spectacle. We look to them for all the
newsr of the fashionable world. and l
confess with a glance in my direction)
that we get 1t told to us in a charm
ing way but never so much as an inti-
nation of-Well those nttle things that
shock Madame Grundy that are whisper
ed over our tea cups and that might with
some modification be discussed in the
papers.
But In Birmingham there is never
anyH scandal to be discussed, and often
wonder why, in a city like this where
social life is equally as gay and brilliant
is almost a thing unknown.
I'm almost every city there is generally
a set known as a fast set but who
by reason of their social position and
wealth never seem to be affected by what
the world says of them. Then there are
frequently women who place themselves
In position to be severity criticised, to
sayonothing of bein cut by society, but
who manage to retain their social posi-
of ba
But, what l mean by saying that Bir-
mingham is equally as gay as other
cities is to emphasize that here life is
fashionable. that society Is not slow
and that we enjoy all the advantages
of modern society. without the scandal
that occasionally attends smart society
In other fashionable cities.
Il am not attacking society in general
but as have said, social life needs a
sensation now and then. something to
brighten 1t up, and to steer 1t away from
: becoming too staid and respectable some
thing that will give us a chance to get
In a shrug, to say, Ali have you heard
the latest? which would imply that Mrs.
x had eloped, or that Miss had run
off with some other woman's husband"
And while she was deploring Birming-
hams responsibility, some one asked
why she did not set the pace. and figure
In a sensation in high life"
WHY not run away with some other
woman's husband" was suggested as one
of the most successful schemes to be
put1fn operation, and the vivacious beau
ty who thought society needed a sensa-
tion, here declared that she could not
offer herself as a sacrifice. But five min
utes after she argued the point
IT, she said, Il really wanted to do
such thing. 1 would do It, In other
words. If l had fully made up my mind
that | would run off l would carry IT
OFT successfully. Now, as it is. I have
never placed myself in any position where
would be criticised, and 1 am determ-
inedi that this too shah be successfully
done,,'
Asd her> the conversation drifted back
to society which goes it pace without
any scandals being aired
IT was declared that Birmingham had
no fast set" that while society made
the game display as that In high life ey-
erywheres that as much money was spent
in~mborate entertaining. in m Getting all
the requirements of fashionable life, but
that what is known a fast life," or
social set that is known as the fast
setgS were declared as not having place
in Birmingham's social world
Ehe sporty person would probably
recognize that line was drawn and
while society here may be lacking in
sensations, may be too respectable, there
arBnot many persons who are ambitious
along the line of "springing the sensa-
tisn5' The society columns. too while not
attempting the Sensational" will con-
tinpe-but the most interesting things
never get in the papers anyway
st{pnt let 1t get in the papers," was