The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23

most artistic of Birmingham hostesses was again demonstrated at the luncheon with which she yesterday complimented Miss Lucille Gaston. In the exquisiteness of detail 1t suggested the mid winter buffet luncheon to which she invited her girl friends in honor of Miss Nellie Nar bers, who was so much entertained be- fore her marriage to MT. William Mudd.
 It was a pink luncheon, bridesmaid roses and sweet peas. with lights shining beneath rose-hued shades, making the prettiest decorative motif imaginable. In the center of the immense circular table was a mound of roses with sprays of asparagus ferns peeping out between the perfect buds. Overhead clusters of sweet peas were caught on the chandelier with pink tulle. The table was covered with Cluny laces and at each place was pink-shaded candle and an exquisite card which was hand-painted representa- tion of a bridesmaid with her dainty frock and rose bouquet.
 Miss Gaston, however. and Miss Vince lock were given cards representing a bride and maid of honor respectively.
 Every feature of the luncheon prettily suggested the color scheme and the flow CTS employed. Strawberries of the most luscious type added their rich color in several of the courses. A strawberry ice was served in glasses whose delicate stems were tied with ribbons confining plIlh sweet peas. AIIuOz4AS WeAS SOANSi in tiny individual cups buried in the hearts of pink roses. As a dessert course a pink ice was frozen in the form of full-blown rose and rested on natural rose leaves.
 Seated about the table were the hostess, the bride-to-be, her bridesmaids and sev- eral friends, invited In the stead of absent bridesmaids. The group included Mrs MeCary, Miss Gaston, Miss Vince lock, Miss Mary Becker of Chicago; Miss Laura Winkler of Greenville; Miss Flor ence Rogers, Miss Linley Graham, Mrs. Albert Dudley Caldwell, Miss Marie Smith, Mrs. William s. Mudd, Mrs. Zell Gaston and Miss Myrtle Miles.
 Mrs McCary received her guests in an exquisite lace and lingerie gown made over pink silk, Miss Gaston, who Is always beautiful. was charmingly at tired in a veritable confection of a cos- tune. It was created of the softest laces and built over pink. Her hat was an immense Tuscan with brim lined with pink and surmounted by two white will low plumes and a wreath of tiny French rosebuds with a large pink rose at the side. Her mother was in pink voi1e, with which she wore a large black hat, trimmed in shaded pink roses. Miss Wheelock was handsome in a white linen suit made with a braided net coat. Her hat was one of the new dropping shapes and ornamented with several pink plumes.
 Miss Linley Graham, whose beauty is of the fascnatingly picturesque type, was lovely in pink linen with which she wore @ large turned-down white hat, whose trimming, in addition to a soft pink bow, was dropping sprays of pink and blue hyacinths. Miss Marie Smiths gown was the palest pink lingerie with heavy laces. With it she wore a black hat crowned with heavy black plumes.
 xxrI,A f1 AyA Af f6o visiting beauties, was dressed in pink of the deepest tint-almost vermillion. Her lingerie frock and her hat with its won derful rich pink plume, were of the same deep tint
 Miss Florence Rogers was charming in a coat suit of dahlia-ttnted linen and a big black hat of striking shape.
 Mrs McCarys luncheon was one of the most graceful as well as one of the prettiest affairs of the spring.