The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-31
NEWS FROM SOUTHERN
 C0NTINGENT IN WASHINGTON N


 The Washington Post of Sunday stated that Senator and Mrs. J. H. Bankbead left Washington yesterday afternoon for their home in Alabama. The senator will return in two weeks. while Mrs Bankhead will be gone indefinitely
 Senator and Mrs. Bankhead have had as their guest for several days at the New Willard their daughter, Mrs. Thom- as NJ Owen, of Montgomery. Ala.
 Mrs Thomas R. Marshall was the guest of honor at a beautiful luncheon yester- day given by Mrs. Henry D. Clayton at her apartment in K street The table was decorated with yellow tulips and there were corsage bouquets of lilies of the valley and violets for the guests. These were in addition to Mrs. Marshall Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Mrs. J. Harni- ton Lewis, Mrs. Rufus Hardy Mrs. T. T. Ansberry, Mrs Victor Kauffmann, Mrs. w. F. Dennis and Mrs Robert Crane of Baltimore.
 The committees for the suffrage ball to be given at the Willard Tuesday night. April 21, have all been selected, and their members are now completing arrange ments for the occasion. Mrs o. H. P Belmont is chairman of the ball. and Mr. ormsby McCammon chairman of the floor committee. The dance committee is un- der the direction of MT. Myron M. Par ker, Jr. Competitive dancing will be q feature of the evening. and the judges will be Mr. T. ]. D. Fuller, Capt. Theo- dore Baldwin, Jr, MT. Ormsby McCam- mon and Mr Myron Parker Jr.
 Mrs. William Kent of California Mrs. Nevil Monroe Hopkins and Mrs Robert Baker from the committee on arrange ments. The committee of young women includes Miss Mary Morgan. chairman i; Miss Helen Buchanan. Miss Dasha Allen, Miss Edith Goode, Miss Elizabeth Kent, Miss Marie Peary Miss Emily Beatty. Miss Marcia Murdock and Miss Callie Hoke Smith.
 What is to become of the colored wig fad anyway? Some say they will wear them. others say they won't It seems hardly possible to imagine Birmingham s women wearing them-except at ball masques, as they nave already been worn But they may be taken seriously.
 In Washington, it is predicted they will be adopted next season. The Post Sun day asserted:
 If the colored wig had to be tried out as to it's artistic merits, no more charm ing setting in which to establish it's pie turesque qualities could be found than the home of Mrs. Slater, in Eighteenth street. and there can be no denying that many of the women who appeared there on Thursday night wearing wigs to match
 
 green purple, blue or white, were lovely enough to have stepped from the mellow tapestries and paintings that are among the objects art of this luxuriant home. Tried first as a jest at costume ball and on the stage at an anna teur perform ance at the playhouse, and discovered to be more artistic than freakish. the women invited to two subsequent dinner par ties were found ready at hint from their hosteSses to don these latest accessories 10 the larmonious toilet. Pretty as they looked, the fashion is not likely to mako further progress at this sea son. as a number Of the women who wore them Thursday night found them uncomfort- ably warm Next winter conservative Washington may have to take several for ward steps in the way of artistic de- Velopment, and who knows hut in time the woman without her wig in evening dress may become quite as conspsuous as would be an otherwise well-dressed woman in street attire without a hatq"