The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
lFreeman-NichoIssn Wedding to
 Take Place Today
OUT OF TOWN QUESTS
Series of Dinners In Honor of Miss Nicholson and Mr. Freeman. Other News of
 Society.


 lthica, N. Y, will take place this aft ernoon at o'clock at the residence of the brides parents. MT. and Mrs Maury Freeman, 1101 Twelfth avenue, south. The ceremony will be performed by the Rev, Raimundo De Ovies. rector of the Church of St. Andrews. and will be witnessed by q number of guests. a large party of out of town guests 10 be present. The house will be decorated with white and green.
 Miss Nicholson will wear a handsome travelling gown, and will have for her maid of honor her sister. Miss Nina Nicholson. MT. Fremans best man will be his brother, MT. Mathew Freeman of Mississippi.
 The bride will also be attended by eight little girls, who will hold streamers of white tule to form an aisle into the drawing room. They are Mildred Frut- tichre. Alice Harrington, Helen Harring- ton, Mary Bethea, Kathleen Cox, Sarah Welcn and Helen Neill After the cere- mony Mir Freeman and his bride will leave for the east, and will be at home in lthica, N. Y. where the bridegroom is professor of electrical engineering at Cornell university.
 Among the dinners preceding the we'd ding was that al which Mrs. Helen HaI- rington entertained last evening at her home on Highland avenue. The table decorations, white and green, were un- usually handsome, and the dinner guests included Miss Nicholson MT. Freeman, MT. and Mrs. Maury Nicholson, Mrs. Ida M. Freeman of Atlanta. MT. Mathew Freeman of Mississippi, Miss Hurdibcrg, Miss Lottie Nicholson, Miss Nina Nich- olson. Miss keogh Mir Hervy Free man and MT. Wellington Donaldson.
 Another dinner to Miss Nicholson and MT Fireman was on Monday evening, Miss Agnes Bethea entertaining in com plment to the wedding party. rehearsal preceding the dinner.
 Among the out of town guests for the Freeman Nicholson weddings are Mrs. Ida M Fireman of Atlanta mother of tn bridegroom. MT. Mathew Freeman, a professor in the agricultural college of Mississippi, Miss Mary H,hiberg and Miss Jenkins of Knoxville, MT. Augustus Nich- olson of Montgomery
 MT and Mrs. John l.. Raul have re- turned from Ashevile
 M.. and Mrs. Ross C. Smith have re- turned from Saratoga and New York.
 Mrs. Cupeper Exum and her sister Miss Mary Kinney are now at Atlantic City. They will return later to New York where they will pass the early autumn, They were at Tate Spring for the midsummer season, going from there to Saratoga and Ney' York
 Mr. Culpeper Exum is at Ashevine N. C.
 A meeting ol the United Charities will be held this morning at 10:30 o'clock in the office of the society
 Miss Mary George Cruik shank will leave today for Columbia Tenn. to be the guest of Miss Marcella Pillow one of her schoolmates at the Gardner school in New York. Miss Pillow will give a cotllon to Miss Cruikshank WhoSe ptulN ana rare cnarlnS nave made her pronounced belle since her graduation in June from the Gardner school.
 Mrs. ]. B. Raulston will leave Char lottesville, Va. today for Birmingham. Going east some weeks ago to study with the art classes of Marshall Fry. at South Hampton, she spent few days in and around New York en route to Virginia. While in the east she was the guest of Mrs. Vandusen. an old friend. and who is a cousin of Mrs. Richard Mansfield. and very charming and delightful woman. She and Mrs. Mansfield are very devoted and the illness of the dead actors wife is a matter of deepest concern in the family. It is said that Mrs. Mansfield had bencome a Christian Scientist and that MT Mansfield himself had em- braced some of its principles believing that the treatment was benehtting him.
 MT. Robert Jelks is spending some time in the mountains.
 Mrs, Craig Smith. who has been pass ing the summer at one of the Virginia resorts. joined her parents, Governor and Mrs. Conner at Atlantic City.
 The ultra fla shionables at Newport are completely taken aback and non- plused by the ridicule and criticism which their ostentatious struggle to en- certain Prince Wilhelm have occasion ed throughout Europe. says the Wash Paris state that everywhere the news papers are filled with sarcastic com ment on the social battles which pre- ceded the princess visit to the summer colony, and it is particularly galling to the leaders of the smart set that they have created such widespread amuse- ment by the efforts which they them selves took SD seriously.
 The absurd struggle has particular ly chagrined the truly cultured Amer port fracas is taken in Europe as typi- cal of the best in America.
 Mrs. Stewart Appleton. one of the best known American women in Paris, and chairman of the Women's Inter- national Congress of Literature, Arts and Music, took occasion to state her views of the women in Newport to a correspondent
 Tt Is fortunate.' she said, that the rivalries over the prince became public
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