The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-01
Masquerade At Southern Club
 Gay Climdx To Pre-Lenten Season
Pierot and Perrete Naughty Cavalier and Gay Spanish Dancer Tread Measure-Other Smart Events Form Climax For the Little Season-Mrs Fletchers Luncheon-Events Planned For Miss
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BY MYRTLE MILES.

| of the cherry blossoms and embroidered 1 by the skilled hands of Orientals. It was made of heavy pink satin and the floral motive was done in graceful wis teria design Clusters of wisteria in her hair completed the make up.
 Miss Gamaliel Dixon was fascinating as the Yania Yama girl, with black and gold satin costume, puffed and tied about the ankles, a frll of white about her throat and quaint funnel-shaped cap of yellow and black on her head.
 Miss Clara Lee Woodson, another of the winters debutantes, was a lovely "Minnehaha." with buckskln suit fringed and dazzling with many-colored beads her hair hanging in two long plaits be- meath red band encircling her head and holding a single tall feather in the back. Beaded moccasins from the Indian country encased her feet Her guest, Miss Mary Bibb of Decatur, was typical belle of the eos" in lowered lawn and poke bonnet
 Mrs. Viola Petty-Walker struck an original note in the fantastic costume of an Oriental. Green chiffon with a grace
 
 shawls, red slippers and stockings and smart little cap from which peeped out raven locks instead of her own bright hair, gave no clew to her identity.
 Mrs. Houston Davis in a colonial cos tune of pink brocade with court train and panniers and powdered hair was fas- cinating. Mrs. William Byrd represehted Gypsy, wearing a short skirt of red satin, with black satin bodice and d mantila of black Spanish lace draped over her head and shoulders. Crimson peoples in her dark hair and dainty shoes with red heels were the fitting cli- max to a costume which showed Mrs. Byrd's dark beauty to perfection. Mr Byrd wore a black domino.
 Miss Jean Ballenger and her guest, Miss Louise Stacey, were among the at- tractive girls at the ball. They were lika two lovely Spanish sisters, Miss Ballen. ger wearing a red satin frock with ex- quisite white lace drapery Carmen fash ion, and peoples in her low coiffure; Miss Stacey in golden yellow satin and wear ing with it a black lace mantilla. Her tamoolrlne proclaimed the dancing girl
 Among the men in costume was MT Mark Johnson, who as Pharoah, the King, was a very majestterial-lookinr person in bright yellow and crimson, and with kingly crown as a patent of royalty. chestnut wig completed the disguise. MT. Walter Chew Phillips wore the costume of a Mexican-sombrero and trousers finished with a band of gold tn lfnl fi,a ,riIt t,-;,, of his short jacket Another who might have posed as Toreador was MT R. T. Brooks. MT. Thomas M Hall as sailo:. lad might have come from the fleet over which MT. G. r. McGaughey, as an admiral, presided-except that one was an English "tar" Ind the other an Amer ican. Mir Alvin Brown of Sewanee was effectively disguised as the Yama Yama man.
 The splendor of Mir. Houston Davis attire as King Louis XIV was in keepin;, with that of his lovely wife. who repre- sented a colonial dame. A Spanish court fer was MT. Robert Mabry, hence it be- hooved him, as well as Mir Ranse Ma. bry, a Spanish nobeman, to be atten- tive to the several little Spanish senortas whose eyes flashed from behind dainty masks of black satin and lace.
 Among the number who attended un- masked were Mir. and Mrs. Bradley l. Saunders. MT. and Mrs. Felix Drennen Mir. and Mrs. Charles G. Davis, Mc. and Mrs. J. c. Maben, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gray, MT. R. A. Brown. MT. and Mrs. John K. Warren, MT and Mrs. Ed Warren, MT. and Mrs. Paschal Shook Mrs. Arthur Eastwood of Cleveland. Mrs Albert Lynn of Pittsburg, Mir and Mrs. Mercer Barnett and others.