The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02


having been admitted to the very private
counsels of the chairman and her exec
utive board for fear / might not merely
take notes. but print them. And many of
the most fascinating features of the ball
will not be divulged until much later.
Mrs w S. Lowell who is assisting with
the decorative phase of the lall, has
made some sketches of the empire head
dress-high eoiffure and psyche knot
which will be assiduously investigated by
the feminie contingent in the weeks pre-
ceding the big charity fete at the club.
And we agreed yesterday, Mrs. Cabaniss
and |. that il anyone finds her waistlne
before Easter-and they say there Will be
such a thing this year-she must raise it
a bit in her Charity Ball gown, coil her
hair in one of those becoming psyche
knots and appear at the club at this first
big post-Lenten party.
Most Enthusiastic Meeting
In response to a call made by Mrs.
Cabaniss for girls and young matrons to
take part IN the special dances at the
Charity Ball, a most enthusiastic meeting
occurred Tuesday afternoon at her home.
Two conflicting parties made apparently
no difference in the zeal with which the
young women responded to her call, and
plans We're formulated amid frequent
little feminine ordinations of delight
and gurgles of joyous anticipation. There
were more than fifty of the society girls
in attendance at the meeting and eacn
pledged her hearty support, and her will
lingness TO take part as the chairman di-
rected
The spend-the-day parties which were 50
popular last year at this time and which
were inspired then by the need of paper
flowers to decorate the Country club for
the ball, are as much in vogue as ever.
But instead of twisting and twirlng and
gluing and putting together wistaria
blossoms as they did last Lent they are
now curling and crimping and making
pink roses for the big empire ball.
Invitations Next Week
Invitations for the bali will be sent out
next week. They have been donated by
Roberts & Son, firm most generous in
their dealings with charitable affairs. The
response to either invitations or personal
calls, as has sometimes been the case in
the method of calling together the peo-
pie of Birmingham for this annual event,
grows with each year of the life of district
nursing in this city. As one success fol-
lows another, under the skillful leadership
of the well chosen chairmen, interest in
the ball and its relative Importance in
/ crease. As Birmingham grows the NUM-
Der of sick people who need the ministra-
tions of the nurses provided by the asso-
ciation is correspondingly increased, and
whether many or few of these may be
cared for ii is for those people to say
who have this annual chance to help by
means of the Charity Ball. Mrs. Cabaniss
anticipates no trouble in securing the
financial assistance of the men of Bir-
mingham who she states, are always
| ready to give when their sympathies are
touched, and who have already had am
pie time in which to become convinced
OF the worthiness of his charity. Quite A
number have formed the habit of sending
$25 for their tickets to the ball. realizing
that as this is the only call made by the
District Nurses association during the
year it merits a generous response. It is
to give comfortable and clean surround
ings and medical attention to sufferers
among the poor that this annual carnival
of pleasure is arranged. so while it has a
single object in view-the alienation OF
pain-the method is made so enjoyable,
IT is an added pleasure to give.
Will Be Sixth Event
This will be the sixth annual Birmins-
ham Charity Ball The first, given by
Mrs. Henry b. Gray as chairman, ON the
lawn at the Country club, is recalled as
one or the most brilliant and beautiful
| spectacles ever presented in this city. The
next, with Mrs. T. G. Bush as chairman,
the third with Mrs. w. f. 3. Davis, ths
next with Mrs. Charles Oracle Davis. and
the one last year with the chairmanship
shared by Mrs. Walker Percy and Mrs.
Edward w. Barrett grew larger and
more important as time passed and will
always be remembered as among the most
| important of social festivities during these
| years of the citys history
| People are expected from other Ala
bama cities and it is probable that there
will be others from places more distant
to attend the annual ball The meeting
held with Mrs. Cabaniss and which was
| in the nature of a delightful informal
| tea, with Mrs. w. L. B. Davis and ldrs
w. s. Lowell TO briefly tell of the pros
pective entertainment. Among the young
women WHO were present and VINO are
especially Interested are Miss Fannie
Dunn, Miss Marianne Hamilton, Miss
Elizabeth Bowie, Miss Mary Ware. Miss
LeMay Caldwell, Miss Isabel Caldwell,
Miss Marjorie Weatherly, Miss Qamaliel
Dixon, Miss Kathleen Van Hoose. Mis<
Dorothy johnson. Miss Cary Johnson,
Miss Alice Coughlan. Miss Avis Ehrman,
Miss Marguerite Ehrmann, Miss Helen
Eustis. Miss Lydia Eustis and a number
of others.