The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-15

walled front that seems to say that the season will not open for weeks to eome Not even have the town houses been put in readiness for the return of the fashionable world, and the handsomest neighborhoods In New York wear most deserted look at this season.
 Somehow, Southerners drift to New York at this time Not that they do not come at other times, but it has often been commented upon-the num- Der of Southerners who are seen in the metropolis in the early days of Sep tember and into October.
 New York is charming these days, quite independent of its fashionable coreries who still remain at their country resi- dences. This ultra set gossiped about in ToWn4fopics and society journals, now at Newport, or elsewhere, makes up the interesting elements of a New York win l ter; are part of its horse shows; a :, part of its open season; stared at and commented upon and when at Newport and elsewhere, even the fashionable ho- tels keep linen covers over the furni- i ture.
 Linen covers oyer brocaded chair mean that the ultra set are out of town no one of any importance is lunch l ing in town, and in consequence, brocades are covered up.
 ] Personally l prefer the brocaded sea- 1 son. I hate to see drawing rooms swsrthed in linen covers and gilt chan | deliers wrapped. l want something that can enjoy all the time. and have al ways refused to cover up a brocade. ]! The most depressing thing in the world is one of these splendid drawing rooms with it's Louis XIV furniture wrapped in i white linen. But some of the famous hotels in New York look lneny at this season, although filled to overflowing. i You pay brocade prices and sit on linen 1 covers.
 We'll. possibly this is a small mat 1 ter; only a question of taste. l simply prefer having either one thing or the 1 other: Brocade or linen, but not both. | If you are going to have brocade this season in your drawing room, you must select patterns that look worn out. It Is going to be fashionable to look an- l tque in your materials for chairs and 1 davenports. There was a time when jew ! elers introduced the antique in what they i called the butler finish in silver. They were striving to reproduce the look of old silver after it had been polished ! and polished in two or three generations by the family butler. Well, the designers 1, of furniture are producing old styles. and the manufacturers of materials are | striving to reproduce the designs seen 1 on old frayed-out chairs that belonged | to your grandmother. The old damask is in vogue. That is, the new materials in spots. The more frayedout it looks the more correct. But this does not 1 mean that your old furniture is fash | ionable. It means that you must have this new material the exquisite lights and shadows of which suggest a by
 gone period; a sort of lavender and also
 lace decade and which only deceives you in it's worn" aspect. In reality it
 Is the safest and most silky material, the material loved by our grandmothers and which harmonizes so well with heavy i hangings and pier mirrors. And 1t is dollars and dollars a yard, its rich bro
 cade very beautiful in design and deli ] cate in coloring
 It is not surprising that into this bro caded season has glded the directoire
 
 Point Clear, Mobile and other points on the southern coast.
 l r;er1,t ic eli al iC homa on Sixteenth avenue, south, with | typhoid fever.
 | Miss Rita Evans, Miss Eula Mae Gaudin
 and pr. and Mrs. Oscar Hayes are guests
 of NJ. Powers at house party in Stew | art
 Mrs. John A. Walker and Miss Annie
 Kendrick Walker are at present at the
 Victoria hotel in New York city. They have just spent 10 days as the guests
 of Mrs. T. Darlington Semple.
 The many friends of MT. and Mrs
 Frank Stevens will be glad to learn that
 their little daughter, Lucy Pettus, has entirely recovered from her recent illness
 They are now at their home in Elyton
 Mrs. William Redd and Mrs. Edward
 southgate will return tomorrow from Battle Creek, Mich.
 There will be an important meeting or i the Central School Improvement associa-
 ton at the High school building Wednes-
 day morning, September 16. at 10 o'clock | Ali officers and members of auxiliary as
 sociations are urged to attend as matters
 of vital interest to the association anu
 the school will be brought up.
 Miss Matte Long and Miss Eiiza Long
 of Tuscaloosa are guests of Mrs William | Love at Owenton.
 ! Miss Dolly Owen of Montgomery IS the
 g,est of Mrs Edward Roseman in Nor l wood Place.
 MT. and Mrs. E. J. Snow, MT. Neisoh | Snow. Mrs. Edna Snow Brown, Miss blgs-
 bee and MT Humes Patton are members 1 of a camping party on Shades mountain. Mus Rose Owen McDavid left yester- l day for Carbon Hill, to spend week with her aunt, Mrs. Claude Zuber. 1 ,sr and Mrs w. l. Adams Will return