The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-18
MRS. RUDULPFFS RECEPTION
A HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT
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BY MYRTLE MILES

The remaining days to elapse before
Christmas promise TO be quiet from a
social point of view. One of the last of
the especially smart functions was Mrs
Charles Murray Rudulphs afternoon re-
ception, given yesterday at her home on
Cliff Road. She entertained in compile
ment to her four guests, Mrs Alice Fits
Hill of Montgomery, Mrs. James Alston,
Miss Emily Fits and Miss Annalee Fits
of Tuscaloosa, and her guests included
a large company of friends.
Mrs Rudulphs home on Cliff Road was
lavishly decorated for the reception. In
the hall, where holly and bamboo, with
their red berries gave a suggestion of
color to the tracery of smilax which COM
posed the background and pocket of
poinsettia adorned the stair post, Mrs
Prentss B. Reed and Mrs. Bedford For
rest Tyler welcomed the callers. serv-
ing table stationed here was garlanded
with smilax and from a punch bowl rest
ing on wreath of Christmas blossoms
eggnog served.
Mrs Rudulph and her honorees, with
several other friends, greeted the callers
in the living room. Smilax and bamboo
with a pyramid of palms, gave a festive
and effective background for the group
of beautifully gowned women On the
mantel poinsettia and red carnations were
banked, while narcssi in a great cluster
was a mass of fragrant and snow-petaled
prettiness among the palms.
The hostess, who is an especially graz
cious young woman, received her guests
wearing a handsome yellow brocade gown
draped in chiffon and lace, to which her
bouquet of red carnations contributed
pleasing contrast. Mrs. Hill was a hand
some members of her party, wearing
white embroidered Canton crepe, bor-
dered with fur and having bit of yellow
introduced in the bodice. Miss Annalee
Fits looked charming in a princess lace
robe over blue with becoming touch of
lavender, and her coiffeur decoration was
a Paradise aigrette
Miss Emily Fits was attired in white
silk with bodice of two-toned lavender
chiffon. She wore corsage bouquet of
pink roses. Mrs. Alston, in white char
meuse, with a crystal tunic and wearing
a corsage bouquet of Orchids was an
interesting visitor, and Mrs. Shirley Bragg
Murray, who stood in line, wore white
charmeuse with an oyerdress of French
cries. Her flowers We're pink Killarney
roses. Mrs ,Hinson Sibley, who is here
from Tuscaloosa for the reception, was in
brocaded pink charmeuse, with fur trim
mings, and Mrs. j. Rivers Carter, Mrs
Gus A. Pope, Mrs. Earle Drennen Mrs.
William Mcdonald MacGrath and Mrs.
Warner Shook, each in lovely afternoon
gowr, completed the receiving party in
the living room. Between the living room
and dining room stood Mrs. Willoughby
Claybrook, Mrs. ]. Rivers Carter and Miss
Myrtle Miles.
The dining room was elaborateiy
trimmed with Christmas greenery. Red
carnations composed a mound in the CEN
ter of the bonbon table, which was spread
with Cluny lace over red satin. From
the chandelier depended shower of red
carnations, and over each window mis-
tletoe boughs with holiday bows were
hung A salad and ice course We're served
here, and those welcoming the guests
were Mrs. Frank Clarke, Mrs. Groom
Beatty, Mrs. Walter Hooper, Mrs. e.
Lawrence Scott, Mrs. c. C. Adams, and
Mrs. Frances Norton.
Black coffee and Russian tea, with fruit
scake were dispensed in the breakfast
troom, a charming place with its bamboo
and smilaX festoons, with poinsettia bios
SONS showing like crimson stars against
1.-THE green. At the table, which was spread
with Japanese embroideries Mrs. Edmund
Winchester Rucker, Miss Hattie Nor
ton and Mrs. George Houston Davis pre-
sided during the afternoon
4 The forbiddng gloominess of the aft
ernoon made the gayety of Mrs. Rudulpn's
home, with its holiday decorations all
the brighter by contrast, and a large
number of her friends left cards during
the reception hour. Many lovely gowns
were noted. Mrs. Charles S. Simmons,
who presided over the eggnog cup,
served in the reception hall, wore lovely
shell pink costume draped with princesse
lace and Mrs. Henry Upson Sims, who
also assisted the hostess at this table,
twas handsomely gowned for the after
noon in cream charmeuse with overdress
( of princesse lace, and touches of fur. Mrs.
Frederick Dow was like a pictured beauty
of former days in a quaint pink gown
and her hair arranged low, with clus-
ter of pink rosebuds at her neck. Mrs.
Earl Drennen wore white chiffon. Mrs.
Gus Pope wore strildngly original and