The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-21

! idea of subserviency which alarms Amer i ican women and keeps them from con tracting alliances with Spanards. | These remarks are true. If one visits the favorite meeting places of society, it is almost only the male element that ,one encounters-men dining together, men taking automobile trips, and men gather | ed round the tea table. Where is the ] Spanish woman? Is she enjoying herself 1 with her friends apart from the men? ] She is at home, where it can hardly be said that she rules supreme. A Spanish restaurant represents a somewhat fune- i real aspect, with black-coated men on all sides, and only here and there woman, l looking somewhat out of place. There is, l however, a tendency now in the upper 1 circles for young people of both sexes to | dine together, not in detached couples, l but in parties But this is still the ex- ception rather than the rule.
 l Generally parents watch their daughter | jealously, even when she is on the eve l of marriage, while, of course, every lib l erty is allowed the man. Ancient cus- toms are beginning somewhat to lose i their authority, but the fact remains that l the influence of early traditions Of Arabian origin must still be taken into account. The Spanish woman Is practi- | cally confined to her house and conceal ] ed from the eyes of men, especially if she Is good looking. When she does SC ; out she Is always escorted by her hus- l band. It is no matter for surprise if such a condition of things cannot tempt
 an American girl to become the wife oi l IL Spanish nobleman, despite the fact o1 | famous name and ancestral glories in- l cluding ancient privileges such as that o1 1 one nobleman who still has the right to enter his private chapel In cathedral or 1 horseback.
 It is reported that the marriage of Mrs ! Tcackle Wallis Warfiel1 to MT. Johr 1 Freeman Rasin will take place shortly Although the date for the wedding has
 not been definitely fixed the Baltimore
 friends of Mrs. Warfeld and Mr. Rasir | expect the ceremony to be performed l some time before July |
 r. Mrs. Warfield was formerly Miss Alice 1 Montague. She comes of the well-knowr 1 Virginia family of that name and is a | cousin of Mrs. Alexander Brown, for merly Miss Bessie Montague. Mrs. War
 field is also d sister of Mrs D. Buchanan
 Merryman, of Washington. Her frs
 husband was the late Teackle Wallis
 Warfield, who has been dead abou l II years. He was a brother of MT
 s. Davies Warfield, president of the Con | tinental Trust company, of Gen. Henry Il M. Warfeld, adjutant general of Mary : land, and of MT. R. Emory Warfed president of the Hanover Insurance com l parry of New York.
 | Mir Basin is q son of the late I. Free
 man Basin and is widely known. Hi. i brother, Mir Carroll Wilson Basin, take.
 an active part in the social and bushes. life of the city. His youngest sister, Mis- Alice Rasn, was recently married to MT ] Barbour Dangerfield and lives in Wash | ington. His other sisters are Mrs. Vii
 litm Tyler Gatchell, Mrs. William Pinck l ney Craig and Mrs. Hugo Albert Ken
 nert.
 Mrs Warfield has just returned iron Wakefield Manor, where she was tn
 guest of Mrs. Barnett Mrs. Merrymal
 went from Washington yesterday to be
 guest of Mrs. Warfield at her home, 21
 East Riddle street, Baltimore
 Why should not women look ornamental in the saddle? The question Is unde
 consideration in several hunt clubs Bril- liant ideas have come from Southern Flu rope where hunting is as picturesque a
 eyer Habits of yellow. with dark greer trimmings and big velvet hats are amoni the things one may see as the resul
 of the discussion.
 Young girls wear white habits of ducK
 pique, or coarse linen. with linen sailo
 hats Ethel Roosevelt is one of the white
 clad riders. Marjorie Gould, who wa
 recently guest of Katherine Elkins fl
 Leesburg, Va, mad dainty riding cos
 tune of electric blue linen, with whit
 embroidered collar and cuffs and whit
 lingerie hat. The regulation derby, wit
 the stuffy looking riding habit and close
 fitting coat is seen, less often. Tn
 loose blouse is what the modish womal
 wears, with round wel-fitting skirt
 and her hat is ornamental.