The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22

daughter, Is charmingly representative of the younger social element in the state. | She was like the rosebuds she carried to | the ball-softly youthful and fair-and her gown, pink marauisette and chiffon yelled satins, scintillant with crystals
 was suited to her youthful lovelness. She is not yet debutante but one can but as winsome as she.
 Mrs. John B. Knox of Anniston, who stood near Mrs. O'Neal, was one of the most gracious and charming women at the ball. She knows Alabama society per haps as well as any women in the state and is uniformly attractive, partly be- cause she has the happy faculty of re- membering faces and names. Mrs. Hugh Morrow, as wife of the president pro tenn of the senate, and because of her own charm. was another conspicuous fig ure. She was superbly gowned in crys- talline net made over soft blue and wore diamond and pearl ornaments. Mrs. E. A. ONeal of Florence was another pop ular young matron in attendance. She is always charmingly vivacious and was very pretty at the governors ball in a rose pink marquisette evening costume made over satin. Mrs Brickell was one of the striking women at the ball. A dark evening gown showed to advantage her quaint old jewels-pear brooches, ear rings and bracelets set in massive cir cles of gold and in varying sizes, but repieas of the same richly barbaric de- sign even to the ear pendents. With her was Mrs. A. D. Andrews of Raleigh, N. C., the wife of a prominent railroad of flcial, handsomely gowned in purple vel vet, old laces and diamonds. Mrs. Lyons and Mrs. Russell of Mobile, and repre- sentatives of the social life of many oth- CT cities came in for a share of the ad- miration and interest of those who felt on this occasion an especial pride in the beauty and grace of our Alabama women.
 Mrs. Thomas A. Banning, who was in Birmingham this week to attend the meeting of the Horticultural society is a woman of unusually pleasing personal ity. She is demonstrating, to the satis- 1dcllOn Ol l1dfly lHicIcSttu LUX, lllc SuC- cess with which a clever woman may en- gage in other pursuits than literature and achieve success, even though she be an amateur. She is the wife of Chicago lawyer and is herself prominent in Chi cago's club life, having been for many years connected with several of the most important literary organizations, some- tiroec in an eyecutjye oa na citv Not lopp ago, however, and after a club in which she is member, had become interested i1 forestry, she was in the south with Al invalid daughter. At Bay Minette she and her husband conceived the idea of investing in an orchard of young pe- can trees and carrying the plan to its present successful state has been her hobby. MT. Earnings legal business keeps him in Chicago the greater part of the time, but she, with the aid of a cap able. superintendent and other helpers, has produced a splendid orchard of f60O trees on her Baldwin county estate and has brought them to their first year of production. She appeared in Birmingham in the place of her husband who was detained in Chicago, and she addressed the horticulturists from the standpoint of a practical amateur, giving results as her most eloquent description Of the art of pecan growing in Alabama soil.
 Mrs. Banning is delightful woman to know. She has the white hair. soft pink cheeks and merry blue eyes that make many debutante's mother her rival for admiration, cultured and lseenly intelli- gent, she talks of her experiences, not alone in pecan growing but in the varied
 life of native southerner who went pioneering in Kansas while it was a ter- ritory, and gave her Indians for neigh bors in a way that Is captivating.
 Handsome invitations have been re- ceived in Birmingham to an exhibition of the portraits of Zelma Baylos, from Jan uary 12 to 20. at the Ralston galleries, 543 Fifth avenue, New York city The local interest lies in the superb portrait of an Alabama girl features in the exhi-