The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

Benners he by Mr. Rivers Carter and
Mr.. Carter by the present president.
| Col 7. o. Smith W
| And now after 1S or 20 years vast
| improvements are again going for
ward.
The first ball after removal to the
Graves residence, which had been suit
ably improved, was one of the note
worthy Incidents in club history. A
scrapbook which records many of the
affairs which, for the moment may
have appeared but trivial, though later
they have become incidents of great
moment to the owner. has a clipping
| from The Age Herald which tells of
this reception-in go Thanksgiving,
and the personnel of the guests as
well as the incidents are interesting
matters, SO 1t is herein reproduced
| "The beautiful Southern club house
was given It's coming-out party last
night. 1t was blaze of beauty. The
| broad veranda, the halls, the ballroom
and the parlors were alive with the gay
| throng. Potted palms decorated the
veranda; the staircase was festooned
with smilax. tho ballroom was a dream
of delicate tints. In the pariors the
mantels were banked with smilax and
crysanthemums. The punch bowl con-
tanning champagne punch was in the
curve of the wide veranda which had
been surrounded with that canvass.
Champagne was the only wine and was
used all through. The billiard hall
had been transformed into q dining
room and was arranged with five tables
with seating capacity of so people.
| THE menu consisted of Salads shell
oysters, cold boned turkey, cold roast
turkey tongue, fresh lobster salad.
chicken salad. Neapolitan ice cream
cake, fruit coffee and displayed the
artistic taste of Mr.. C. H. Na5b."
Then followed a list of the members
of the club participating most of them
men whom one sees year after year at
the similar function of greater size
given on Thanksgiving eve. Many have
since married--some were already, but
it was evidently taken for granted that
those who had wives, brought them
along; their names were not men
toned, However. the names of the
young ladies present as invited guests
were given thus Misses Annie Rich
ards, Louise Melvin, Mary Madden. Miss
Sykes, Mary Clara Miner. Annie Redd
| Matte Webb. Zemma Webb, Mary Vir-
| ginia Graves, Molle Jordan, Daisy
Weller Juliet Whelan. Lura Brown,
Mary Baxter Smith. Kate Rogan, Kate
Morrow. Willie Morrow. Margaret
Smith. Louise Rucker, Eloise Johnston,
Cornelia Meade, Mary cleary, Mamie
Pearson, Margaret O'Brien, Lucille
Smith. Rosa Sloss, Elizabeth Sowell.
Blanch Thornton. Carrie Randolph
Mary Johnston. Ada Iide. Bertha
woodward, Cora Hardy, Addie Evans,
Marie Nelson, Fannie May Burgamy,
Susie Howe, Jennie Porter. Lucy Ha-
good, Gertrude Hagood, Miss Mcmillan,
Isabelle Hardy, Miss Sedberry. Mae
belle McEachin, Ethel Todgson. Miss
Vaughn. Anita Cell. Margaret Shook,
Estelle Shook, Mary Morris. Miss Nell
son. Miss Leland.
MANY of the young ladies'" so COM
mented the writer, were from other
cities, but they belonged to Birming-
I ham for the time being, and perhaps
for aye and aye"
This was in the days of the clubs in
fancy. 1t was young and poor, but what
Parties Of today--when private individuals
spend MANY hundreds of dollars in en-
tertaining a limited company-even now
events do not exceed In lavish display
of decoration or collation. these happy
days of 20 years ago. 1t was a gay com
pany, that little circle of society young
men and women thinking nothing at all
of giving several germans a week dur
| ing the fashionable season, spending much
of the time in joyous merry-making and
rollcking good times and yet-making
Birmingham a great commonwealth all
| tho while. For In the list of club members
since the first few years of It's life inter-
| spersed among other and newer citizens
appear the same names which are even
now conspicuous in any commercial or
professional activity. The gayety OF the
club and kindred affairs served not at
all to lesson civic progress, and certainly
| not to produce mere butterflies and fash
! ion moths among the women. for of those
mentioned above. among the ones who
are still part of the community may
be found some of the Most useful of Bir-
mingham women The membership has
| grown apace-there is always waiting
list-but go into the cafe almost any day
| during the luncheon hour. and the per-
sonnel is not vastly different from the
company who attended-for example-the
third annual ball-T. IT, Benners. r. ii.
Baugh, p. q. Shook, +. T. Wilcox. j.
| H. Barr. w. d. Smith. William Mudd
MARTIN, b. +. Moore. T. F. Wimberly. r..
r. Means, w II. Kettig. William NJ. Wal
KERN. L. Miller, Erskine Ramsay. J. A.
Carpenter. J. X. Warren. Henry b. Gray.