The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN WORLD OF SOCIETY Little Entertaining Until Christ
 mas Week SOCIETY IN THE SHOPS
Late December Days Find the Fash ionable World Speeding "En Auto" Toward Shopping Districts.
 Social Announcements.


 The week preceding Christmas Is al- ways more or less quiet socially. There is little or no entertaining. because every one is completely occupied with Christ. mas preparations. Despite the indictment weather the shops are crowded the fashionable world speeding in their mo- tors to thes~ shopping district Whole mornings are given up these days to the selection of Christmas gifts, and the afternoons find autos and broughams lin ing the eurbings along the fashionable shops. Out towards the South Highlands by the time the illuminated arches begin to glow over Third avenue, speed mo- torcars bulging out with packages. On the box of many carriages the Christ mas bundles are piled regardless of ap- pearances. Pedestrians waiting for their cars. or hurryng along in the wintry wind, are Juggling packages that at any other season of the year they would never think of being burdened with.
 The shopping districts present curious contrasts at Christmas. Passing through the big doors in the shops are women whose elegant cars and traps are waiting just outside, while following Is a woman, her arms filled with cheap little gifts and, thus overly burdened. she pushes a way through the throng of holiday shoppers. past the autos, and waits pa- tiently, perhaps in the rain and wind, for her car that takes her quite far out to her humble home, where her pack t1 little ones on Christmas morning.
 There are stories In the shops at Christ mas tide. Little children look wistfuly in the big windows Sometimes very old people totter by and pause to look at something inside the glowing shops. And either the very young or the very old make you think that Christmas was made for them and that if you are able to make child happy on Christmas morn- ing, or, bring back little memory of happiness to the old, that you have in some way entered into the real meaning of what Zona Gale calls the Star of Beth- lehem night
 Famous drivers are to race again in Florida this win Cr on the Ormond-Day- tona course. The entries will include foreign automobiles. and owners who have figured in international races. Baron De Caters and Mir. s. G. Edge, who sev- eral years ago won the international cup race for Great Britain, will come over for the Florida tournament.
 Mr. Edge will enter a powerful Napier car while the Baron will appear with a new Belgian.
 Auto records were lowered on this course several years ago. For the past two years the racing has not been as successful as formerly There has been some slight dissatisfaction in regard to arrangements, and last year a noted auto driver cabled at the last moment that he would not enter the race. The beach at Ormond is the most beautiful in the world for auto racing, so declare those who have tried the course, and the races there are the most important events of the automobile year.
 The members of the Little Jokers will be entertained by Miss Belle DeBarde- leben today at 13O o'clock. The hour for the club meeting has been changed to l:30 O'CLOCK.
 Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Coleman Morris left New Orleans yesterday for New York. During their stay there they will be at the Holland house.
 Mrs J. F. Frazier will return today from Madison.
 Mr. KiI0ora has haap transferred to Memphis. He will be joined there by his family the latter part of January. Mir Walter Conner, formerly of Birming ham. but now of Columbus, Ga, will pass the holidays in this city with his parents, MT. and Mrs. W. F. Conner.
 Mrs. J. D. Dwyer left last night for Cleveland, Ohio, to visit her daughter, Mrs Price Mckinney. Mrs. Dwyer was visiting Mrs. Mckinney when she was called to Birmingham some weeks ago on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs l.. F. Stratton, whose death occurred on Tuesday.
 Miss Lucy Lyman Powell is quite i'll with tonsilitis.
 MT. Charles Cohn will return from the Tulane University to pass the holi- days with his parents in this city.
 MT. Lloyd Cohn will also pass the holi- days in this city with his parents. He is a student at Castle Heights, Lebanon, Tenn.
 
 MT. Jelks Cabaniss will return from the university to pass the holidays in this city.
 Mir and Mrs. w. F. Aldrich and Miss Josephine Aldrich returned yesterday to Rajah Lodge. The many friends of Mrs.