The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-14

nesting in the soft folds about the crown.
 Miss cruikshank was in pale blue with laces, a princess toilette and turquoise ornaments, a most becoming combination with her Titan hair and beautiful dark eyes.
 Mrs. Gulley, one of the most eharmlng young matrons in southern society, was in a charming gown of ecru and brown, with touch of gold, her modish hat most becoming. Her two little daughters who have the family beauty are with her, and also her young son-three charming children who are just now at the most interesting age.
 Staying at the Battery Park for several weeks are Mrs. Eli S. Shorter of Eufaula and her daughter, Miss Alberta Shorter. and her son, MT. Eli S. Shorter The family are in deepest mourning for MT. Shorter, whose death few months ago was so widely deplored in the south. The Shorters have relatives as well as num- erous friends in Birmingham. and are widely known all over the south.
 Mrs. Shorter was Miss Wylena Lamar of Macon, Ga. the wel-known belle and beauty. She Is an exceedingly handsome matron, her blond type so we'll set off by her mourning.
 Miss Shorter is blond like her mother, tall and with expressive blue eyes and very charming. MT. Shorter Is a student at Sewanee.
 MT. Eli s. Shorter, Sr., was regarded as one of the most scholarly men of the south His courtly manner and exceed- ingly distinguished appearance made him a striking figure, and with the prominent position held by the Shorter family in so- cial and political annals the family find, wherever they meet southerners, that pe- culiar interest tkst the southern people always express for old and distinguished families The shorters will leave Tate later In August
 Another distinguished woman who shares in this similar homage paid the family of distinction is Mrs. Sarah Pickens Mcqueen of Greensboro, Ala, whose brilliant personality Is. known through out the south. She is guest at the Battery Park. having arrived from Tate where she spent the earlier part of the season.
 Coming over for the weekend were Miss Sadie Gillespie MT. Mercer Bar nett and MT. David Roberts of Bir- mingham, who have just ended gay two weeks at the country house of Mir. and Mrs. w. A. Chenoweth in the Sapphire country, and are now at Black mountain, making up house party at Al To, Uaa h arla ayic mer home.
 Miss Gillespie Is enjoying an undis- puted title to belleshp, and is so at tractive and charming to look upon that even the girls in her set admit that she has every reason to be ad- mired and much sought after. She is one of the few young women who look equally as charming on horseback, mo- toring, or in the ballroom, or on a shop ping tour.
 I saw Mrs. Thomas Godey of Balti- more the other morning, who, with her husband Is here for a short stay. They were in Birmingham last winter, when parties innumerable were given them. Mrs. Godey Is an extremely charming woman, one of the best known young matrons in Baltimore so- ciety. She Is always most beautifully gowned. Both she and her husband ciety.
 Speaking of gowns, 1t has been said that, due to Mrs. George w. Wander bilt's energies in promoting the homc- spun industry on her Biltmore estate, that this material has been gradually growing in favor among fashionable women. Quantities of homespun made by the weavers on this estate are ship ped to north ern markets and retails at good prices, quite enough to yield 0 support among many native women in these mountains. Both for simple gowns and for suitings for men has this material found favor.
 Perhaps with this industry resulting in the fashionable woman including in her summer wardrobe at least one homespun dress is the now popular gown made of old-fashioned calico. Writers of fads for women have already called attention to the vogue of calico for simple and pretty frocks for morn } ing wear. Out of 1t are made shirt waists, which are worn on the train, in the house, to market and for shopping. Such frock goes to the tub and irons beautifully.
 A pretty cotton gown worn on a mountain party was of 1O-cent calico in red and white. The skirt was cut into a five gored pattern, put into flat in verted pleats all around the hip line and trimmed at the foot with two folds of turkey red calico These were about five inches apart and were two inches wide.
 The jumper had a shallow round neck edge with twoinch band of the tur- key red. Another band was put on the edge of the sleeve. which were three quarter in length, quite small and fin- ished with two round pearl buttons With it was worn large shade hat of Mexican straw, and the crown was wrapped around with scarf of turkey red, bordered with an inch of calico I forgot to say that the gimp was of tucked white null, with a stock to match and the gown was fastened down the back from tbe collar to tho end of the placket with round pearl buttons.
 Another combination worn by pre-. ty girl on mountain camping party