The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-15

Can you oroehet7 Can you knite Can
Ven cut out useful garments and sew
stFeas seans7 II not. drop your dancing
iessaBH and Spanish classes and learn,
for these ara tho things that count to.
day In society They are of far moro
Importance than tango or bridge EVERY
body know belongs to some circle meet
ing once or twice week to sew for
the Creche children or to make ready
for the doll bazar or the other mar
kets Of this sort, sewing for the sake
of Rirminghams poor. Nearly all the
entertaining that 10 being done for those
IN need. This is the case all the world
over. A Philadelphia inatron who is
spending the winter in London writes her
friends that she spends every morning
and every afternoon meeting with COM
mittees to which she belongs-to sew.
knit and study hospital work. Most of
the time is spent caring for the wounded,
the families left destitute and the war
refugees; but she says the English peo-
pie are brave, calm and optimistic
And while Birmingham women and girls
are making ready for the cotton ball
which lie to help the poor of Neighbour
hood House, and increase the use of cot
ton. the women up in Chicago who have
limousnes are busy making out lists OF
their paying guests who will ride with
them to tendance, given for the ben
eft OF their United Charities. Each host
ese will conscientiously collect so cents
for each round trip and turn it over to
the treasurer, who will add it to the
general sum.
Also while Birmingham society folk are
rehearsing and planning costumes for the
opera 10 be given to benefit the Associat-
cd Charities, preparations are almost
complete III Memphis for a cotton ball
to be given Wednesday night, good-na-
tured rivalry existing among those who
enter the lists for costume prizes; and
IN New York the Southern society busily
counts the gains of this weeks cotton
ball, which was given under the aus
pieces of committee headed by Secre-
tery McAdoo and including Mrs. Dom
Barber or Kentucky. Mrs Lewis p.
Woodbury.. formerly of Birmingham: Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. James II.
Duiso and others prominent in both SOUTH
er and northern society. And so, the
minds Is the doing for someone else. Tho
doing is given sayety of such sort that
private entertaining is not needful for
promoting the general cheerfulness
very gradually but no less surely the
social season Is opening from day to
day and will soon perhaps, assume a
normal aspect. With no event as vet To
mark the formal opening, and the tight
ness of the money market, there has
been no brilliancy or attempt at lavish
ness to characterize this usually busy
period, but innumerable small affairs are
beginning to mark each day. Theatre
parties with inpromptu suppers follow
ing, and smaller luncheons and supper
parties with informal gatherings for dan
cling besides are becoming more and more
frequent and the cry of dullness is not
SO generally heard as 1t was few weeks
back. Benefits and charity entertain
ments will play a large part In the
social life between now and the holt
days, but those taking part or lending
their aid to the different events are for
the most part social leaders or promi-
nent in the social world. and the enter
tainments in consequence will be marked
by an amount of social eclat and promi-
hence.
Comes a complaint of unusual dis
tinction for Mrs j. " Allen of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
The executive board of the organiza-
ton has passed the following resolu-
lions:
Below you will please find the pro-
posed amendment to section 2 article
z, of the bylaws of the Alabama D.
A. r. offered by Mrs. Rhett Goode and
Endorsed by Mrs. Allen, state regent:
Amend article Z, section g. so that
1t will read:
The state officers shall be eligible to
but two consecutive terms of two years
each.
We wish you to know that the above
proposal meets with the unanimous In
dorsement of the Under Five Flags
chapter d. A r., Mobile, and that our