The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-16

an afternoon tea in compliment to two attractive young matrons-Mrs. Coleman Ward of Pittsburg and Mrs. Henry Up son Sims, winter bride.
 Her residence was suggestive of the gay holiday season, with Its trailing greenery and crimson blossoms. Red car
 nations, Richmond roses and poinsettia
 were in evidence in reception rooms and
 dining room, giving an aspect most in viting to an interior which Is cosy and attractive at all times. Under the bril- liant lights of the chaHdelier the crim-
 son carnations in the drawing room
 showed brightly and the soft tones of
 req tapers in the dining room were mel
 lowed by enveloping shades in the same
 tint Mrs. Lovelace and her two pret-
 ty guests of honor-Mrs. Sims and Mrs.
 Ward-Miss Fannie Stokely, Miss Mary
 Banner and Mrs. Willoughby Clay
 brook welcomed the guests standing in
 the drawing room. Mrs. Lovelace was very handsome and very gracious, wear
 ing a kings blue chiffon gown yelled
 with green, garnitured with gold and
 frightened with yoke of white lace. She wore an immense COISd6C tAbotSA ON ifiASS
 of the valley
 The two fair women who were her honorees are alike in the blond loveliness of their coloring and In their gentle grace
 of bearing Both were exquisitely gowned
 for the reception, Mrs. Sims wearing
 white satin robe heavily garnitured with
 real lace, and with its front panel richly
 embroidered, and Mrs. Ward in pale blue
 crepe meteor, whose corsage and tunic
 were heavily embroidered. Miss Mary
 Danners costume was fashioned of
 striped chiffon over satin and bordered
 with green velvet, and Miss Stokely, an
 other pretty visitor, wore soft blue
 gown with gold and crystal garnitures
 Mrs. Claybrooks gown was brown crepe
 in one oe the new shades.
 The guests were welcomed in the recep-
 ton room hall by Mrs. Hugh Pearson
 Mrs. Charles Calhoun and Mrs. Ernest
 Redd. Mrs. Calhoun was very attractive
 In a maize satin gown trimmed in fur
 and Mrs Redds pink cloth gown was
 also fur-trimmed. Mrs. Pearson was charming in lavendar striped tissue, rich
 ly trimmed with lace.
 A punch table, draped with asparagus ferns, stood in an alcove beneath the stairs. Mrs. Arthur Smith and Mrs. Rob ert Patton McDavid presided. Mrs. Smith wearing a dahlia crepe gown with pearl and gold garnitures and Mrs. McDavid in gray chiffon and crepe meteor. The dining room was particularly at tractive with its red lights and fragrant bIossorps fha canfer of inc taa Ia hle
 was an immense plateau of Richmond
 roses in which was raised a central clus- | ter of blossoms. The table was covered with Cluny lace beneath which showed | crimson satin Red hints and other | tempting dainties emphasized the color | scheme, and made the tea table one of | the prettiest seen this winter at a recep- ton. The two pretty matrons who pre-
 sided over the tea urns were Mrs. Hugh Stokely and Mrs. William s. Mudd. Others who assisted in the dining room
 were Mrs. Charles Abbott. Mrs. J. H.
 McCary, Mrs. Ernest Redd, Mrs. Mark
 Herbert Phillips.
 Mrs. Mudd wore a becoming gown of
 cream chiffon, trimmed in fur. and Mrs.
 Stokely wore white net and lace, in which
 she looked lovely and Mrs. McCary wore deep, blue chiffon over pale blue satin,
 and Mrs. Mason and Mrs. Phillips wore handsome black gown.
 Miss Jamie Robertson, Miss Fannie May
 Mason and Miss Myrtle Miles greeted the
 guests in the drawing room, and Miss Robertson was very attractive in an after
 noon gown of coral chiffon, hand em- broidered, and Miss Mason in white em-
 broidered messaline was very graceful and distinguished.
 Mrs. Harrington Phillips Heflln was one of the prettiest matrons in the receiving party She wore rose messaline gown which was handsomely embroidered and trimmed with lace Mrs. Mark Myatt looked very sweet in gray crepe meteor
 and Miss Amelia Worthington in blue was most attractive.
 Among the many leaving cards were Mrs. Robert McLester, Mrs. J. c. Whit
 field, Mrs. w. T. Hill, Miss Harris, Mrs. Viola Roden-Redin, Mrs. w. G. Oliver,
 Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. John K. Warren.
 Mrs Ed Warren, Mrs. Joy, Mrs w. D.. IIammett, Mrs. Nina Redd Southgate, Mrs. Goodall, Mrs. Harvey Le Sourd. Mrs.
 Russell Hunt. Mrs. Troupe Brazelton,
 Miss Mary Myrtis Cook, Miss Marianne
 Hamilton, Mrs. J. D. Moore, Mrs. s. L.. Ledbetter, Mrs. Edwin Ball, Mrs. Rich ard Massey, Mrs. Norvell Cullom, Mrs.
 Charles Abbott, Mrs. James Hughes, Mrs. Syd Smith, Mrs. Richard Johnston, Mrs.