The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-16
NEWS OF THE DAY IN SOCIETY WORLD Mrs. Eubank Receives In Com pliment to Her Daughter NOTES HERE AND THERE Miss Graham's Buffet supper-The ouarles-Jones Wedding at East
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 Younger Set.
NOTES HERE AND THERE
By MYHTLE MILES.

In several of the apartments the dec- orations prettily indicated the coming of Christmas. Holly and bomboo with their bright red berries adorned the chandeliers and outlined the windows. In the dining room they were used in gay profusion. The table bore lace cover. In the center was a large bunch of red roses and it was lighted with candles shining through soft red shades.
 pretty punch table stood in the lit- tie den under the stairway. It, too, bore the Christmas decorations, being twined with bamboo. Punch was served by Mrs. Ernest Redd and Mrs. Arthur Love- lace.
 In the library coffee was served from a small table draped with holly and mistletoe and lighted with red candles. Roses gave the room its floral dress. Mrs. John London, Jr., presided at the coffee urns
 The decorative scheme followed in the parlor departed from the color de- tail followed elsewhere. Here white flowers And evergreens were used,
  white berries and long -stemmed white chrysanthemums furnishing the motive. Here Mrs. Eubank, her guest of honor, Mrs Thomas Coleman Ward of Pitts burg, and her receiving party stood. Receiving with her in the parlor and dining room were Mrs. Felix Black burn, Mrs. R. G. McCarty, Mrs. Pugh Pearson, Mrs. c. A. Stillman, Mrs. George Eubank, Mrs. w. s. Brown, Mrs. E. J. Snow, Mrs. Thomas Ward of New York Mrs. Benjamin Kidd, Mrs. Ned Richardson McDavid, Mrs. Robert H. Pearson, Mrs. James Mason, Miss Dora McLester and Miss Anne Pear son.
 Mrs. Pearson received her guests in a becoming lavender voile gown with trimmings of real lace. Mrs. Ward was charming in a rose pink silk frock.
 Mrs. T. A. Hamilton, IT,, will be a charming hostess on the afternoon of January 4 at a reception in honor of | Miss Lynde May Handley. | The wedding of Miss Anna Van | Hoose and Mr. William Allen Davies 1 will be solemnized at S:30 this even 1 ing at the church of St. Marys-on- | the Highlands and be followed with reception at the home of MT. and Mrs. J. A Van Hoose.
 The dinner that was to have been given on Thursday, Friday and Satur- day by St. Andrews Guild has been postponed until the second week in January.
 Miss Lucy Truss will be the hostess at a progressive luncheon this after noon at 2 o'clock.
 The final pre-nuptial entertainment in celebration of the marriage of Miss Anna Van Hoose and MT. William Allen Davies took place last evening when Miss Linley Graham was hostess at buffet supper in their honor This followed the re- hearsal for the wedding at the church of St. Mary s-on-t the Highlands.
 Miss Grahams guests included only the members of the bridal party: MT. and Mrs James McLester Van Hoose Miss Helen Van Hoose Miss Mary Ruth Me Lester, Miss Susie McLester, Miss Linley Graham, Miss Marjorie Weatherly, Miss Jennie Bridges, Miss Annie LeGrande, pr. Norborne Cooke, Dr. Gaston Torrance, Dr. Kennon Bedford of Boligee, Dr. Joseph Leland and MT. Edward Snow of Tuskaloosa, Mir Foster Fitzsmmons of Atlanta, MT Hill Ferguson, MT. Robert E. Norman, MT. Hugh Martin MT. Ransom Mabry, MT. Chase Perkins and MT. Rich ard Hawkins.
 Miss Graham was a notably winsome hostess in an evening gown made of blue silk trimmed with laces and with which she wore blue slippers. Her sister, Miss Alice Graham, who assisted in re- ceiving her guests, looked extremely pretty in a decollete costume of white chiffon elaborately garnished with laces. Mrs. Graham received in a handsome black lace robe.
 The table in the dining room where beautiful buffet supper was dispensed, was adorned with a cover of white lace. A center piece was made of large enchan- tress carnations which rested in a cut glass punch bowl tied with pink maline.
 Candles with pink shades showing under tracery of silver and individual cut glass baskets for bon-bons, all tied with bows of the pink incline, gave to the table truly festive and bride-like ap- pearance. The cutting of the wedding cake with its thimble and ring proved an interesting feature, and the evenings pleasure closed with a barn dance.
 
 thews entertained informally at bridge last evening in compliment to Miss Agnes Gordon and Miss Agnes Bennett. The guests numbered sixteen, there be- ing four tables in acquisition. Those who enjoyed MT. and Mrs. Matthews graceful hospitality and took part in the Miss Isabel Caldwell, Miss LeMay Cald- well, MT. and Mrs. Frank Grider, MT. and Mrs Edward Devereaux Smith, Miss Virginia Graves, Miss Mary Ware, Mr. Johnson, MT. Edward Finch, Mir. George Ward, MT. Wilson Brown, MT. O. P. Cant, MT Charles McCrery, Mr. Erskine Ram sey MT. Waite. Mir Herbert Tutwiler. A buffet luncheon was served after the game There were two prizes, a beer stein, a copy of James Whitcomb Riley's new Christy book Home Again With Me- The home of MT. and Mrs. A B. Jones