The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-26

Originality in entertaining is always ap- preciated in these, sometimes too conven- tonal times. Thus the Growlers' affair last evening at the Country club has add cd to its already luxuriant laurels, for the favor cotillon was full of unexpected and tremendously attractive features.
 MT. Henry Badham. Jr., was the leader, and with his partner Miss Fredrika Fer guson, conducted one of the most attrae- tive cotillons ever danced at the club. Tie details of the reception and dance made it exceptionally interesting. The personnel of the Growlers is one in which names of many prominent families appear; the young men are clever fellows and ex- celent hosts; their chaperones were well chosen and their guests were truly the fewer of society, many of the flowers buds" by the way, and some of them buds from other gardens than Birming- ham, for there were quite a number of pretty visitors.
 The clubrooms were tasteful and beau tiful in their decorative appointments. The holly and roses and carnations which so appropriately garnished it for the R. M. T. dance the night previous still re- lnained, but to these were added other and fresher flowers and foliage, violets in some of the lower receptacles giving the touch of blue which makes the insignia for the Growlers The ballroom was garnitured with smilax and other greens. tendrills of delicate vines enwrapping the lights which stud the side walls.
 Several handsome favors were present. cd During the Growlers' figure, their partners were given silver vanity cases embossed with the cunning big bulldog head which so cheerfully adorns the sta 1ionery and other personal impedimenta Of the Growlers. It is a lovely trinket, bu, another favor, which the town girls almost coveted was the Growler corsage bouquet of violets and valley lilies, which went to the visiting girls.
 During one of the figures the lights in the ballroom were lowered and the great ''Growler'' head at one end of the hall was thrown into bright relief by the use of electrics, and bringing the enthusas- tic applause which attested the apprecia- tion of the guests. During another inter val the room was cast into darkness as a group of young men masked and hold
  floor in the figure that followed the danc- CTS were unknown, and had left the floor before their identity was recognized. They comprised the board of governors of the Growlers, MT. Frank Davis, president; Mir. John Powell, Mir. Herbert Cobbs, MT. Mel vile Davis, MT Charles Ford, MT Ed Norment, MT. Clarence Going, MT. Jim Bostick and MT Nelson Snow.
 Every precaution was made by the Growlers for the pleasure of their friends, and their dance, just as might have been said last Christmas of that one, surpassed all the rest of it's Inequalities in each Of the details.
 Four hundred invitations were issued to tho friends of the 80 men composing the Crowler list included in the younger dane ing set Among the girls who, with the young men made up the invited list, were:
 Misses Kathleen Adams, Virginia Ab- bolt, Margaret Anderson, Gladys Allison, Eleanor Anderson, Virginia Allen, Helen Abbott, Orline Barnett, Mae Beth Bed dow, Annie Blinn, Elizabeth Bowie, Mary