The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD Plans for Brilliant After-Easter
 Season SOCIAL SIDE OF REUNION The Golf Tournament at Country Club Arouses lnterest-Notes and Per- sonals-cIub Announcements
 and Other Society Gossip.
SOCIAL SIDE OF REUNION
BY ANNIE kENDRIcK WALKER.

usually quiet almost every day brings to- | sether various committees who are com- | pleting arrangements for what promises | to be brilliant after Easter season. h. deed the social season will be prolonged | until well into June, owing to the reunion, which will have a brilliant social side. The meeting of the Alabama division, Daughters of the Confectionery, in this city early in May will mean continued entertaining and already hostesses are Tlanning for this occasion. The reunion will bring to Birmingham hundreds of people prominent in the social 1 life of the south, and there seems to be no indication of curtailing the number
 of sponsors. Every day brings interesting l announcements of appointments all over the south, the sponsors being selected for their own beauty and charm as well as for the brilliant war records of the veterans in their families. The sponsors ball will be the important event of the week of the reunion, and 1t will possess all the picturesque elements which have made these occasios notable. Social interest of many Country club
 
 will center in the golf tournament to
 bs played on the Country club links in the near future. At the executive meet ing, which will be held today, the date
 Nlll be decided upon. The visiting golfers will be entertained, and those who are
 here today to make arrangements for the tournament will be given a dinner at the club this evening. An interesting game will be played this afternoon on the Country club links. The last of the series of lectures on nursing in the home, which Mrs Dita II. Kinney has been giving under the au- spices of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will be at Il o'clock thts Toorning at Cable hall
 The lectures have been signally success- ful and many women outside of the or ganization have heard them. card party at which both bridge and euchre will be played will be given on Thursday afternoon at o'clock under the auspices of the Boys Band No. g. The games will be played in the ballroom of the Country club A number of tickets have been sold and tickets may also be secured at the club on the afternoon of the party.
 Miss Janette Walters has returned from Mobile and New Orleans. MT. William A. Rogers of Buffalo MT. D. B. Meacham of Cincinnati, and Mir A. B. Fowler of New York, after a few days visit to Birmingham have gone to Anniston.
 MT. w. B. Fowlkes is a member of Col Hillary A. Herberts fishing party in the bayous near Mobile. MT. and Mrs. severon have ereturned to New York.
 Mrs Forney Johnston entertained a few friends very informally yesterday after noon in compliment to her mother, Mrs. Cooke of Virginia, and her sister, Mrs. Lyman~of Connecticut. A large card party will be given on the afternoon of April p. which will
 be under the auspices of Pelham chap ter and the William l.. Yancey chapter, Daughters of the Confectionery. A series of tableauxs, representing "That Old Sweetheart of Mine," was given last evening by the Cleaners of | the Westminster Presbyterian church. Miss Minnie Heacock returned yester- day to Talladega.
 | MT. George Cruickshank has returned from Talladega where he attended the l funeral of his sister, Mrs. Gist. Mrs. Lucien Brown Is at Blount Springs. Mrs. Algernon G. Smith entertained the members of the Shakespeare club yester- day afternoon at her residence on Syca- more street.
 A subject always of more Of. less in- terest to women is again being discussed and this time on different bases by an estetic physical culturist of New York Says an exchange:
 Away with your powder and paint Cut out enyious glances and cease spiteful chatter: think only beautiful thoughts and every last one of you, even the actor lady who stands at the extreme end of the last row of the chorus and once was the leading lady for Charlie Froh- man, will imediately become the person. tfication of all that is beautiful. Mrs. Ivah de Chipenham Berg, esthetic physical culturist, just arrived in New York from Chicago, assures that all thlS is true, every word Of It. When her pupils are exercising, Mrs. Berg gives them beautiful phrases to say. Each phrase contains beautiful thought, and if you think this thought while ex- excising, your muscles will assume beau- tiful proportions. Here are some of Mrs. Berg's own thoughts uttered at her studio in New York.
 Not to be beautiful is to cry to the world that one has lived discordant life. "Women are like the trees of the forest. If they become dwarfed, it is because they have been robbed of sufficient space land sunlight.
 "Beauty is the God-given right of ev- cry woman True beauty consists of three parts-physical, mental, and spiritual. woman may possess one or these at- tributes and be without the other. Hers is not a rounded beauty. gro retain her beauty woman must always think pleasant, sweet beautiful thoughts. If she sees dead rat 1t is not a pleasant sight, and her face as- sumes a disagreeable expression. She should do her best to think of some thing beautiful on such occasions; LOOK at a fine painting, or if she be musical play something on the piano. Then ner mind will not be affected and her beauty l of expression will not disappear. s.It is impossible to play sonata on | a niano that is out of tune, and it Is i'm possible to become beautiful 1T one thoughts are not pure and sweet. Here are a few ''don'ts' that Mrs Berg gives for the fair ones who wish 10 improve their beauty of face and figure: "Dont look at the soft bloom on beautiful woman's cheek and wonder if 1t | ia rouge or attribute the sparkle of her eyes to belladonna. Such thoughts are 1 as detrimental to your own beauty as the rankest poison is to your health. tfn1 nnT1