davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

in the Association of Collegiate Alumnae;
Oberlln college. Oberlin, o.
Radcliffe college, Cambridge, Mass
Smith college, Northampton, Mass.
Bryn Mawr college. Bryn Mawr, IA
Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, n. y
Barnard college, New York City.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston, Mass.
Boston university, Boston, Mass
Cornell university, Ithaca, n. Y.
Leland Stanford university, Palo Alto,
Cal
Syracuse university. Syracuse, \. Y.
Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill.
Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn
Western Reserve university CleVe-
land, o.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
University of Chicago, Chicago, III.
University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Mich.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MINI.
All women who are eligible to active
or associate membership In the Southern
Association of College Women are cor
daily invited to meet Dr. Johnson In
the parlors of the Hillman hotel tomorrow
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
SOUTHERN CLUB CARD PARTY.

The Southern club members will give a
brilliant card party on the afternoon of
Tuesday, January %, at 2:30 O'clock
The hostess for the occasion will be Mrs.
w. p. G.. Harding, and that assures the
friends and the members of the club that
the party will be a success, for Mrs.
Harding Is always most gracious and
charming hostess
Those who have been asked to assist
Mrs. Harding on that afternoon and who
will keep the tally for the games will
be Miss Mary Gillespie. Miss Willie Mae
Bates, Miss Ann, Earle. Mrs Fred Dim
mick. Mrs. w. l.. Wills and Mrs. Har-
vey Woodward.
The games will be played in the ball
room of the club. and the luncheon will
be served in the cafe
The Southern club has always been most
hospitable towards its friends, and recent
~ a great deal has been done towards
identifying the building. In the first
place the cafe in connection with the club
is one of the most beautifully equipped
places OF the kind In the south, the fur
nishings are genuine Dutch, the wall pa
per and carpet carrying out the idea.
In connection with the cafe Is new en-
trance from the sidewalk into a beautiful
palm room.
The furniture, carpets and draperies in
this room are In the LArt Noveau, and
are in the greens. which are so rich and
attractive for such room.
The windows in here are like those of
n green house, and when open the cafe
and the palm room have the effect of
one
On Sunday evenings when the regular
musical programmes are arranged the
scene is one of beauty as those who are
not at the tables In the cafe are usually
sitting in the palm room, which Is we'll
supplied with large L'Art Noveau chairs
and davenports, and on all of the tables
are vases of beautiful roses and ferns
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
CHILDREN TO PARTICIPATE.

While great many children have re-
sponded to the call, still there are a num-
Der more needed, as the play will con-
sist of about 500 actors.
The ladies IN charge feel sure that
every patriotic citizen will be interested
In the production of this play, as the
proceeds are to go to assisting in the
building of a charity hospital to one Of
Alabama's most beloved and honored
statesmen, William L. Yancey.
The time Is very limited, al the play is
to be given on the 10Th and 30th of this
month at the Jefferson theatre.
The manager, Mr.. Owens, and the ladies
wish to emphatically state that they will
not have long practices, and that no night
practices will be held, and that way they
will not interfere with the school duties of
any of the participants, and they realize
that short and snappy work Is far more
effective. The following is a list of chill
dren required for "Enchantment:"
200 girls, ages from to 14-fairies.
so girls, ages from to S-butter1ies.
so boys, ages from to 12-Guards.
"a boys. ages from - to 1Egnomes.
% boys. ages from to s-grasshoppers
and crickets.
50 young ladies, ages from 16 to any
age-hower girls.
young ladies-Queen's court
young ladies' solo singers, for Queens.
young man. solo singer, for Prince.
This is a total of 423 people,.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
BY ANNIE kENDRlcK WALKER.

makes the Ponce Ze Leon a fine example
of the Spanish Renaissance. But there
is also the suggestion of the sea as the
source from which came tile shell COM
posite of the hotel walls. and the Spain
and Florida of the Sixteenth century
speak in the decorations of the rotunda.
But It would be idle to attempt to de-
scribe It's towers, pierced these winter eve
nings with thousand lights or its arched
loggias through which you enter its court.
1t Is II ieWeled garden where you loiter.
The moon comes from behind Moham-
medan towers and shines through royal
palms towering like jungle of trees.
And in a Florida winter you can sit in.
your ieweed garden with Its royal palms
and fbckets of scarlet flowers until the
moon ceases to shine upon the lagoons
dipping into the tropical sea.
The Social Woman.
The American social woman is deeply
significant in the life of the southern
Riviera. She is, if such a thing could
be possible more interesting and more
interested, perhaps, in the very diversity
of the east coast environment. She basks
like a princess in the warm sunshine. In
exqulsltely light toilettes she sits in the
courts where the flowers seem to bloom
brilliantly for her. She listens to the
same orchestra that she heard on the
northern coast last summer, because fol-
lowing in the wake of the social woman
comes everything that has entered into
her life elsewhere. Even the shopkeef-
ers follow her TO st. Augustine, to Miami,
to Palm Beach Firms whose names you
see at Saratoga, Newport Bar Harbor,
Hot Springs Va, migrate in winter 10
the most fashionable and favored sections
of the Florida east coast, Even London
and Paris are represented in shops open
ing into the courts of some of the east
coast hotels. The clientele of these shops
is immensely fashionable.
The social woman travels with large
caravan that spreads It's tents simultane-
ously with the unpacking of her gowns.
Hair dressers open their smart parlors.
The masseuse and specialist are in ev'-
dence. not necessarily part of the hotel
system, but relying on their own eXciu-
siveness, Independent of the prestige oil
certain hotels The hotels on the east
coast are, however, so complete In equip
ment that the guests, sitting in their palm
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
IN THE REALM OF SOCIETY
by ANNIE PERRY REID
Bell Telephone No. 1897.

Women, not yet four years old, has
membership of nearly two hundred, rep
resenting q large number of colleges. 1t
quadrupled Its membership during the
past year, and now has chapters at the
following plaeesi Lexington, Ky Knox
vile, Tenn, Ashvlle, n. c., Atlanta, Ga,
New Orleans. La, Oxford Miss, and
Montgomery Ala.
The objects of the association are to
unite college women in the south for the
promotion of higher education for wom-
en-; second to raise the standard of edu-
cation for women third, to develop pre-
paratory schools and to define the line of
demarcation between preparatory schools
and colleges
The general association is raising a.
scholarship to be offered 10 a southern
girl, and is publishing information of
value to young girls who are preparing
to take a college course. Each chapter
while cooperating in the work of the
association, is free to take up any local
work which may appeal to 1t.
Women who are graduates of the fol-
lowing colleges are eligible to active men,
bership in the Southern Association of
College Women. while those who have
completed two years of college work are
eligible to associate memberships
/. George Washington university, Wash
ington, ID
2. All colleges and universities recog-
nized by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Preparatory schools.
Womans College of Baltimore, Balti-
more, Md.
Randolph Macon Womans college,
Lynchburg, Va.
Sophie Newcomb college, New Orleans,
La.
Vanderbilt university. Nashville. Tenn
University of Mississippi, OXfprd, Miss.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Tenn.
University of Alabama, University, Ala.
University of West Virginia, Morgan
town. w. Va.
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
University of Texas. Austin, Tex
g. All colleges eligible to membership
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
SILVER WEDDING.

DIR. and Mrs. s. L. Ledbetter enter
tanned a large concourse of friends on
Friday evening in honor of the 18th an
niversary of their marriage.
The lovely home of DIR. and Mrs. Led
better was most attractively decorated
with roses of every kind and color with
ferns as their backgrounds In the draw
ing room, where Mr.. and Mrs Ledbet-
ter, assisted by Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Cald-
well, received the guests, brides roses
were used.
Miss Mary Long and Miss Grace Smith
served punch on the verandas, which were
enclosed with canvas and festooned with
southern smilax and ported plants.
In the dining room the table was beau
tifully and appropriately decorated, the
centerpiece was of real lace over a silver
foundation, and on this was a large vase
of brides roses and large silver can
delabra with silver shades. The refresh
ments were served in tiny silver baskets
and the bonbons were silver coated.
On a large table in the dining room
were displayed the gifts from the many
friends of DIR. and Mrs. Ledbetter, and
the number and the beauty bespoke their
general popularity.
Previous to her marriage Mrs Ledbet-
ter was Miss Nettie Morrow, and a more
popular young woman has never lived in
tho community.
There were seven daughters in the Nor
row family, and as each of them made
their debuts they were always the center
OF attraction at the social functions that
they attended.
Those who assisted In receiving were
the following married couples:
Mr.. and Mrs. e. NJ. Tntwiler, John Tow
ers, ]. Rivers Carter, Sterling Lanier. j,
F. Graham, George Cruikshank, Lee
Bradley Hugh Morrow, Joseph r. Smith,
T. o. Smith,. J.. ]. Catalan, Robert Jem-
ison. Jr., Robert McLester, J. D. Moore
| J. G. Moore, II. F. DeBardeleben, B. L.
| Wyman, e. P. Riggs, Thomas Parke. ]
F. Frazier, B. D. Sibey, George McCor-
mack B. Cobb, f. H. Cabanlss, s. %
I Thompson, Nat Malone. Charles Sdckney
J, D. Dabney, Joseph V. Allen, e. T. Tall
aferro, Lewis Minor, Dan Greene, Mark
| Lewis W. G. Estes.
Besides these were Mr.. Samuel Ledbet-
| ter, little Miss Katherine and Master
! Porter Ledbetter.
Mrs. Ledbetter, who is an unusually
handsome woman, wore a becoming gowr
of white net over white silk and carried
| large bunch of brides roses. Her hail
ornaments were Of pearls and silver.
Mrs. John M. Caldwell. q sister of Mrs
Ledbetter. formerly Miss Willie Morrow
wore a Partisan gown of blue liberty silk
| Little Miss Katherine Morrow Ledbet
ter was dainty and sweet in white EN-
| broidered chiffon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
f the wedding and was beautifully ar.

of the wedding and was beautifully ar
ranged.
In the center of the table was large
vase of brides roses and to these were
tied bridesmaids roses making the show
err bouquet. The bonbons. mints and ices
were all in the shape of hearts and were
in the shaded tints of pink
Nine courses were served the guests
and all were suggestive of the wedding.
The place cards were the beautiful work
of Miss Edna Moore and were full length
figures in water colors.
Each guest was given a bunch of lilies
of the valley as a souvenir of the oc-
oasion.
This was one of the prettlest of the
luncheons given to the brides of this
season and will be long remembered by
those invited.
The guests were Mrs. Benjamin r.
Moore, Miss Salle Duncan, Miss Edna
Moore, Miss Elizabeth Duncan, Miss
Louise Bingham of Carrollton, Miss; Miss
Hazel Sewer of Chattanooga; Miss Ger
trude Tenland of Knoxville; Miss Medora
Duncan of Union, S. c., and Mrs. James
Duncan Hunter of Ashland, Va.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

ST. Augustine, Fla. January 12.-(Spec-
ial.)-The east coast of Florida waves
poinsetta bloom, tilts a royal palm, Il
fountain throws mist of silver into the
soft air and the winter season opens.
It is a short season. beginning in jan
uary and closing about six weeks later,
but these weeks are brilliant It is these
few weeks In the midwinter of the east
coast that has made It an American Riv-
iera.
In no other part of the continent are
conditions so ideal, no coast as pictures
que, or a climate mo- grateful to
those who want to escape the cold and
sudden changes of the northern country.
Those who have fallen under the spell
of a Florida winter know, perhaps, the
entire coast. but its enhantment is vivid
enough to those whose acquaintance has
Its limitations. Tempered by a tropical
sea, 1t would not be difficult to find a
succession of Paradises beginning with St.
Augustine and extending to Palm Beach
Along the coast, where the most sumpt-
uous hotels have been built, the win
ter season brings hundreds of people
every year. The Questionable eontin-
gent represents largely the American
multi-milllonaire class. They arrive at
their favorite' hotels never earlier than
the second or third week In January
1t is not until then that the superbly
equipped trains are put on between New
York and Florida, and but few Of the
fashionable hotels are open earlier than
the first week of the new year. In fact,
the Royal Poinciana at Palm Beach be-
gins its season rather late in January
Poinsetta, blooming scarlet in the
courts of the Aleazar, jeweled lights flash
ing in the spray of fountains, group of
pretty women sitting about the court,
opened a brilliant season there some two
weeks ago, and, three nights ago, in
the splendid court of the Ponce De Leon,
the stars looked down on an Arabian
Nights dream. And that Is what the
east coast has become under the influ-
ence of those who had the knowledge
of things and the almost heavenly wish
to preserve in these wonderful Florida
1ungles much of their tropical splendor,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
WINTER SEASON OPENS WITH BRILLIANCY
rs ON THE PICTURESQUE AMERICAN RIVIERA

gardens. may have their cases dag
nosed by specialists a course of baths
prescribed, while the attendants In the
hotels are waiting instructions in sump-
tuously beautiful interiors of white mar
BILE.
Winter Playground.
Florida Is called the winter playground
of America II is said that 3OO,O0 people
come annually to It's coast. The hotels In
ST. Augustine alone register $4,000 Wis
itors. Besides the hotels there is large
cottage colony all along the Riviera. Hun
dreds of winter residents have built cot
tages. and many of the private residences
suggest the villas at Newport. Inc regu-
lar winter residents have their own yacht
ing clubs, their driving and hunting.
clubs. their private golf courses. Inc
Riviera Is considered the very center of
winter golf 1t was gripped years ago by
golhng and motoring. The first automo-
hfle neaf held on the Ormond-Daytona
beach lowered records and the annual
meets are the most important events Oh
the automobile year.
Auto roads now being built ana pro-
tected will make a continuous boulevard
on the Riviera. beginning al Jacksonville
and extending to MAMA, distance OF 5oO
miles Motorists will be able to drive
along the east coast, and Jacksonville,
St. Augustine Ormond-Daytona, ROCK
ledge and West Palm Beach will be con-
nected by a magnificent highway Inc
touring cars and the great racing ma
chimes have made, 1t is said, a new Flor
ida.
Motoring along the Riviera where the
shining beach is like asphalt, along road
ways overhung with the soft Spanish
moss. or passing through the picturesque
winter resorts of Florida Is tour
which the motor enthusiast knows no
word that fifty describes. 1t is not sur
prising that the owners of motor cars
come annually to the east coast, nor that
thousands of outdoor lovers come to see
its gardens. its orange and cocoanut
groves. its thickets of palms, its wealth
of flowers This lavishness Is the very
spirit of Florida, which gives with such
prodigality that even the atmosphere Is
enriched It is this luxury of flowers
and palms that is one of the first as 1t Is
one of the last sensations. on entering
Florida and on leaving 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
THE WOMAN's EXCHANGE.

The board of managers of the Woman's
Exchange held its annual meeting Tues
day, January s, and was greatly gratified
at the increased success attending its eff
forts. The one object of the exchange is
to help women help themselves, and when
one is told that $500 80 has been paid out
to women during 1906, both the helpers
and the helped have every reason for
taking courage and expecting even great
er results in future. as the growth OF
the exchange promises to keep pace with
Greater Birmingham"
Many thanks are returned to the public
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

and, at the same time, blend with it the
Spanish synbolisms that are seen at the
entrance to the gateway of the court-a
court with such strength of color that
you wonder if winter ever falls upon
the flowers, flame-eoored and blooming
alomst to exhaustion.
The Pone De Leon.
In the group of hotels the Ponce De
Leon presents in its Spanish architecture
the most striking picture m the east
coast. o., was the first hotel in this
country that represented any definite art
ideals the first in which strict adher-
ence was made to a distinctive style of
architecture Since its erection other ho-
tells in st. Augustine and along the
Riviera were built to conform to definite
ideals, but none of them express ideals
as magnihicently as does the Ponce De
Leon, none of them combine such SPLEEN
dor with such graceful richness.
Mr.. Flagler gave the commission to
build the Ponce De Leon twentN-three
years ago to Mr.. John VI. Carrere and
Mr.. Thomas Hastings, of New York. At
the recent meeting in that city of the
New York Architectural League Mr. Car
rere told the story Of his coming TO
Florida 10 build a milIion-dollar hotel
In the Ponce De Leon hotel We found
an unusual opportunity he said. IN
the first place. it was to be built in one
of the most individual towns in the
United States, a simple little Spanish
city When we looAed over the ground
we realized that by putting up an incon-
gruous structure we might destroy for
ever the individuality and charm of that
old Spanish community. Mr. Hastings
had Travelled much in Spain. and | was
born in one of the cities of South Amer
lea. Yet it was not SO much our predilec-
ton for Spanish architecture as our
!, 1pcfrONtpfr
the characteristic atmosphere of St Au-
CUISINE that guided us in adopting the
Spanish type for the Ponce De Leon.
In the choice of material nature de-
cided in our favor The native lumber
being green, we should have been obliged
to import lumber as well as brick and
sand But the Spaniards had quarried
beautiful yet inexpensive shell stone called
eoquina, and of that material we de-
cided to build our hotel"
The fathfulness with which the archi-
tects worked out even the smallest detail
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
MUSIC AT SOUTHERN CLUB.

The following is the programme of
muisc at the Southern club this evening
by Claimants orchestra from to 10 p. m.
Oevrture-The Italians in Algiers-Ros-
sini
Observation-Disclosures
zo-Babbalina-M. e. Berry
Olin.
Selection-The Hippodrome-Schwar
Watz-Humate Klange-Gungl.
Selection-Claud Dwal-Solomon.
Potpouri-The Old L. S. A.-Kleln.
Gioconda-Ponchelli
Cornet Solo-"'Tis All I Ask'-Robyu.
Overture-F elicla-Gruenwald
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
oUTHERN ASSOCIATION
OF COLLEGE WOMEN.

DR.. Lillian w. johnson of Memphis, first
vice president of the Southern Association
of College, Women, is in the city for the
purpose of organizing chapter of that
association among the college women of
Birmingham and it's vicinity.
The Southern Association of College
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
LUNCHEON TO MISS DUNCAN.

Mrs ]. d. Moore gave beautiful lun-
cheon yesterday afternoon in honor of
Miss Salle Drake Duncan, whose mar
rage to Mr. Harry Burn will take place
on Wednesday afternoon.
The table was decorated with the colors
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

They make good, healthy flesh, develop
the bust restore wasted breasts. Make
sthe cheeks plump and rosy, fill out the
lhollows OF scrawny neck. Vaucaire Ca
llega Tablets nourish the fat-producng
cells which Is necessary to give the
Iroundness of contour which is so desired
land coveted by every lady of refinement.
IF you are careworn, nervous or run
down, take a box of Vaucaire Galega Tab
Hets and note their wonderful effect. Con-
Itains no injurious drugs. 81 per box, six
boxes for IS. Send for booklet also free
sample of our Melorose Beauty Creame,
the perfect massage, and skin food. Be
eure our name is on the box you buy.
WILLARD WHITE CO., Chicago, Ill.
Sold and Recommended by
[ COLLIER DRUG co.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

subordinate to the size of the produc-
ton. Intrigue In the fairy court fur
nishes the substance of the story and
what with the score of fantastic figures
moving about this thread of plot En-
chantment'' is of most engrossing interest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

been made to the committee of which
Miss Daisy Moody is chairman;
Mrs Paul Earle, Mrs T. T. Ashford.
Mrs A. Eubank, Mrs. George Morrow.
Mrs. Florence Haskell Mrs. Leo Steiner.
Mrs, Sam Adler Mrs. Bernard, Mrs David
Thompson, Miss Daisy Camp. Miss Han
nah Elliott, Mr.. Erskine Ramsey.
Clothing-(Mrs. M. r. Brewer. chair
man)-Donated by Mrs John NJ London,
Mrs. b. NJ Brewer. Mrs. ,-Serry, Mrs.
f. T. Shepherd. Mrs. Scion Jacobs and
Mrs William Randall.
Supplies-Doster- Northing, hospital sup
plies to the amount of $780, whole
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13

sale; Mr.. John Hill, meat for broth;
Shropshire & Daniel, eggs; Hillside Dairy,
milk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13
An Ideal
CORRECTION

The rich, rare, fruity flavor and absolute
purity of Nunnally's Candy makes it the
most delectable of high-grade connections.
Made of the finest materials, by skilled
candy-makers; carefully packed in dainty
boxes, and sealed in air-tight bond paper, it
is always fresh and cean and maintains
delicate flavor that melts away on the tongue
with taste of nexpressible deliciousness.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-16
A Fine Stalk Of Okra.
September 80.

Last Saturday J. c. Ferrel1 came in
to the Courier-Informant office with
stalk of okra that is as large and fine
as we ever saw, and demonstrates just
what can be grown in Florida soil if
one only goes at it right.
This stalk Of okra measures ten feet
in height and he says he has about a
quarter of an acre that will average
six. feet to the stalk. The yield of
this, stalk is fine, and the receipts from
an acre of such okra is certainly graft
flying. Mr.. Ferre11 has done we'll with
his okra and expects to put out much
larger acreage another season. The
plant he left with us is growing right
along and looks like a young tree
Courier-Informant
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-16

First--It is one Of, if not the most
luscious fruits grown.
Second-The introduction of the
finer varieties will be increased.
Third-There is only comparative
lv small portion Of the United States
where this fruit can be successfully
grown, hence the supply will be limit
ed.
Fourth-It will take the place of the
peach, both for canning purposes and
table use
There is no question as to the fu-
ture of the mango. It is the coming
fruit and is going to be the great
favorite of the American people. AS
has been we'll said, "What the peach
is to Georgia, the mango will be to
Florida"