The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN SOCIETY WORLD Birmingham on Threshold of
 Week of BriIIiancy MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN Arrangements for Reception at the Country Club Will Make It One of
 the Most Elaborate Enter
 tanments of the Winter.
MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN

OCIAL interest will center this week
 in the visit of the International o League of Press Clubs. The Bir- mngham Press club. of which MT. Ross c. Smith is president, has completed it's arrangements for the entertainment of the visiting delegates, and cooperating with the several committees appointed by him has been the Writers club, composed of the women writers of this city. and of which Mrs. J. A. Rountree is pres- dent The press club decided some weeks ago to leave several of the social fea lures to the Writers club and the mem bers have been almost as busy with their plans to entertain the visitors as the press committees, upon whom has fallen the many details of preparation.
 The interest in the visit of the league has not however, been confined to the press clubs, but has been general. Dur ing the week all Birmingham will keep open house.
 The visitors will be entertained in the most hospitable homes in the city, and the entire week will be an expression of far-famed southern hospitality. The Southern and Country clubs and the Attn letic club will keep open house, cards to the clubs to be presented to each dele gate upon the morning of his arrival. Autos will be placed at their disposal and tours have been arranged for the first afternoon of their arrival. The bus mess sessions will be held in the armory and the city hall will be the headquarters during the meeting of the league.
 Er;t clt1l vii inf H. ly throughout the week at their re- ception room in the city hall. This room will be the general rendezvous for the visiting women, meeting informally there throughout the day, and holding com mittee meetings As at these informal re- captions the first impression of Birmng- ham will be gained the members of the club will extend most cordial welcome to the visiting women on the morning of their arrival. A guest book will be provided which will afterward be an at tractive souvenir for the club, as many of the most distinguished writers in the country will have inscribed their names. The reception room will be decorated with palms and chrysanthemums, the club flower. It has been charmngly fitted up with Mission furniture, and will be most attractive rendezvous.
 The visiting women arriving with the eastern party and those arriving with the large Denver party will be received by the Writers club on Tuesday morning at their club rooms. On the afternoon Of Tuesday the members of the league will motor to a number of attractive points about the city, and the ladies in the party will conclude their auto drive at the residence Of Mrs. ]. A. Rountree who will receive them informally at 4 o'clock
 The guests will include only the visiting women and assisting Mrs. Rountree in receiving will be the members of the Writers club. The occasion will be one of charming informality, the guests arriving "en auto" and meeting their hostess and a group of prominent women, who will also receive with her.
 Mrs Rountree. as president of the club, has taken the initiative in all of the en- tertainments at which the club will be hostessf Beautiful and charming she not only graces the position, but has in- spired such interest among the members that each one has fallen into any plan that she might suggest for the entertain ment of the visiting delegates. Mrs. Rountree has attended the meetings of the league elsewhere and knows of the hospitality extended in other cities. She naturally wanted Birmingham to be the most royal hostess of any city and she has worked with characteristic interest and enthusiasm as president of a club which she founded d little over a year ago.
 The most brilliant social event in com plment to the members of the league will be the reception at the Country club on Wednesday evening from 9 to 12. Six hundred invitations have been issued by the Writers club. As chair man of tho reception committee. Mrs. Edmund Taylor Talaferro has arranged every detail for the club reception. The club house will be elaborately decorated with palms. southern smilax and chry- snathemums. An orchestra will present d brillian programme and at midnight delicious supper will be served.
 Mrs. Taliaferro, at the head of the re-