The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-21

l Mrs. Howard Kolb was the honored guest at a luncheon yesterday given by Mrs. Owen Gillespy. The guests included 1 2S young matrons and members of the unmarried set.
 The colors used in the luncheon pre- ceding the game were pink and lavender. | The score cards were hand-painted in baskets of llacs. Baskets filled with l lavender and pink hyacinths made an attractive decoration and the ices served at the conclusion of the luncheon were frozen as baskets filled with fruit.
 The prizes offered in the bridge game were a dainty parasol in the lavender 1 tints and hand-painted in lilacs, silver clock and a corsage bouquet of parma volets. The guest of honor was presented with a pair of handsome silk hose. Mrs. Gillespys guests included Mrs. Howard Kolb, Mrs. Harry Lee Koenig, Mrs. Rob ert Meyer Miss Donald Seals, Mrs. Mary Ware, Miss Sadie Gllespy, Miss Willie May Bates, Miss Virginia Means, Miss Kathleen Nixon. Miss Linly Graham, Miss Mary Ruth McLester Miss Louise Walk 1 CT. Miss Jessie Wilson of St. Louis, and Mrs Henry Barden, Mrs. Henry T. Dean, l Mrs. Thomas Bowron, Mrs. E. NJ Kllby, Mrs. Frank Jones, Mrs. Wilbur Kelley, Mrs John Yeatman, Mrs. Carl Seals, Mrs Felton Wimberly, Mrs. Robert Daw- son. Mrs George Mccormack, Mrs. Edna Snow Brown, Mrs Eugene Enslen, Jr.
 Miss Emmie Barnett was the hostess yesterday at a beautiful luncheon given in compliment to Mrs. J. A. Emory of l Toledo.
 l Violet was noted in the artistic fea- lures of the luncheon. The places of the guests were designated by punches of violets attached to name cards. and | large bowl of these lovely flowers formed the center of the beautifully appointed i table. Violet tapers rested in silver can- delabra and cast their glow through vio- { let-tinted shades.
 Salads were served in violet cases and tiny log cabins adorned with punches of violets held the salted almonds. In the l smal1est\ detail the violet scheme pre- vailed. Ices in the violet tint were served with cakes embossed in violets. while | the oyster cocktail glasses were tied with violet tulle.
 Following the luncheon the hostess and ] her guests enjoyed a game of bridge, : the prize being violet-tnted silk hose. Those present were Mrs. Emery, Mrs. c. w. Ufford Mrs. Arthur Lovelace, Mrs. Ernest Redd, Miss Eva Conner, Mrs Mer- cer Barnett Mrs. Charles A. Calhoun, Mrs William Riley Owen of Anniston, Mrs. s. J. Bowie, Mrs. J. l.. Drennen, | Mrs F. M. Kilby, Mrs. William Hughes, Joy.
 Mrs Hal Tate will leave April i for a visit to relatives in Chicago.
 MT. and Mrs. Hal Tate are erecting
 an attractive residence on Fifteenth avenue, south
 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Underwood have 1 taken possession of their new home ! on Madison avenue.
 l MT. and Mrs Otto Marx have begun 1 the erection of a handsome home on 1 High land avenue.
 1 Mir. William J. Robertson has issued | invitations to the marriage of ms daughter, Clotield, to Mir. Howard cur ! tis Bilbro on Wednesday morning, ! April T. at S:30 o'clock, 726 North Twenty first street.
 Mrs George A. O'Connell and little | daughter Julia Margaret Of Mobile are visiting Mrs. Belton Gilreath | Mrs. Alex M. Douglass will be at A~,-c -ase Twelfth avenue, south, aft CT April 1.
 l An interesting entertainment will be | given on the evening of Friday, March l 9s at Birmingham college under the auspices of the Woman's Home Mis- | sion society and for the benefit of the | parsonage fund at Owenton. The fea- | ture of the entertainment will be a short sketch, That Blessed Baby