The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
|M|D-LENT GOSSIP |OF SOCIETY AND ART Comments About People
 Here and Elsewhere CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT Mrs. John w. Sibley's Luncheon for Mrs. Julian Sibley Follows Sweet
 Pea Motif-Art Exhibition
 Open To Public
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT
By MYRTLE MILES

By MYRTLE MILES
 "A splendid suggestion for color har- monies that might be well followed by women who wish to dress artistically was given recently by William M. Chase. the | artist. at a recent meeting of the Wom- ans Press club in New York; said a clever artist yesterday at the exhibition. | MT. Chase was making an address on l the art phase and what we find in it. He said that if he were a modste he
 would know where to go for his choice 1 of colors and for color combinations which he thought would rival and per | haps excel any of those introduced by the l fashionable dressmakers of today. We
 dress he remarkedSyet we might give a
 little more attention to it. The woman Who rushes into a shop and buys the | first thing she sees and rushes out with I it. makes mistake. She should devote | ample time to her shopping. If 1 were T
 modiste | should own collection of but terfiies and night moths. They possess
 the most exquisite tones and harmony
 and they would be most helpful to one who works out color combination He
 also gave it asN his conviction that art
 students have worked so long in black
 and white that their sense of color has been chilled and that in his opinion they
 should not use black and white at all.. It
 is 20 years, he said, since he has had a
 piece of charcoal in his fingers-I think he
 is right. We do not see anything in black l and white tones there is color in every | tbing and the more we see and study
 color the better our sense of color and
 harmony develops"
 Boston society has been enjoying a di- version in what has been named the Retrospective Exhibition of the Decora- tice Arts" held in Copley hall under the | auspices of the Copley society. r. It is a 1 collection of treasures from Boston l homes. It was no little work to bring to-
 gether such art objects as those in the l display which the committee from the society has been planning for more than a year. The walls of the hall were hung with tapestries, altar cloths of red and gold and portraits. Mrs. Ernest Dane, whose collection of jade and crystal is second only to that of Mir. J. Pierpont Morgan, loaned some of her finest pieces and Mrs. Samuel Cabot, Miss Clara Endi- colt Sears and Mrs. Thornton K. Lothrop sent some antique jewels Two Gains borough paintings were shown, two of them being the Boy Blue,' owned by MT. George Gearn of New York, and the
 other the property of Mrs. Robert Daw-
 son Evands. There were numbers of rare
 
 pieces of silver, dating back to the time of Charles I and of peculiar interest to
 New Enganders. One could not, it is
 true, find such rare treasures in a new
 city such as Birmingham, but it is sur
 prising to see how many relics one can
 discover in a days journey; old jewels,
 old china and old furniture each with it's little history would make an interesting story.
 For long time now nearly all women who have attempted to fulfil the man
 date of fashion have been girls" This is not by any means sufficient as things go, for the latest mandate which Madame la Mode has sent forth is that every woman must look a child. The newest
 
 with their little skimpy, short skirts and collars that only kiddies wore in the past have the avowed determinations very delightful one when you come to think of it-of making all women look Is. Walk ing down Second avenue one morning late
 ly was Mrs. billiard, seemingly not much
 over--15. A little farther on was Mrs. Wilbur Kelley, looking so absurdly young
 that it seemed ridiculous to think that she was a bride several years ago. Mrs.
 Felix Drennen was another well known
 woman, who, in her narrow short skirt, simple hat, looked as if she had not been
 long out of the nursery. Making obser- vations from the window of a hotel clever man who has just returned to Bir-
 mingham after a long residence else where, remarked: If women continue to go on growing younger like this every year, they will soon reach the long clothes stage again. There is nothing incongruous of ridiculous about the child
 ish figures seen so far. They look the
 part without apparently making the
 slightest effort.
 Helen pink" which, because of its
 prettiness and the fact that it is the fad
 of the moment elsewhere, is a fayorite
 here in the new gowns being built for the spring brides and their maids. It is, as
 everyone knows, the color adopted by Miss Helen Taft, and said to be her favorite All of the New York shops are exploiting it. Washington is garden of Helen pinks,' and in the other eastern cities we are told that the dainty hue is everywhere, so that one pictures the shopping districts as a sea of Helen pink, the show windows being radiant with sthe color displayed in stationery gowns, hats,~ neckties and even pocket books. Miss Taft's friends have adopted the fad, and use tiny cups and saucers of Helen pink for their afternoon teas The spring hats of. many Washington belles are in the delicate hue combined, some of them, with waving black plumes which
 make them very fetching. Meanwhile. undismayed by the rivalry between Alice hlue' and Helen pink,s Mrs. Nicholas Longworth appeared recently at a local theatre dressed in Helen pink, thus pay ing d graceful compliment to her suc- cossor in White House belledom
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