The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

during the week. occasioned both by the ina agt,ratlon ceremonies and the presencel of visitors who will finger after these afc concluded.
 It is always gratifying to note woman's effort to develop along any line of pro- gress suggested by the charming times. and one hears every day or two of the systematic study pursued by some or ganization, with the view of better equip ment for those duties which woman's plead for political rights may demand ".,-e appears no tendency, in fact, to ask for the vote without a knowledge of how to use it, and those women who are spon- soring the equal suffrage cause are mean while pursuing many means of mental cul- ture along this line. The Equal Suffrage
 association of this city is following
 carefully mapped course of study this winter combining history with view of present day affairs in their scheme Of work only yesterday Mrs. Jack Bowron gave a paper on the woman of ancient
 Rome. whose position, politically speak ing. was portrayed in manner which showed research earnest and intelligent; also that the woman of Rome had much of the independence that she enjoys to- day.
 Yesterday note appeared in a Wash ington daily to the effect that women of | the fashionable world of the capital have arranged to take up seriously the study
 of parliamentary law. Mrs. Charles Ham lin has loaned her Massachusetts avenue house for the class which will meet Mon-
 day mornings in February and March. Mrs. Urquhart Lee of New York, former | ly president of the Post-Parliamentary | club of Chicago, which used to have Its | meetings at the house of Mrs. Potter | Palmer. will conduct the class. And si-
 multaneously in a Chattanooga paper ap- | peared line stating that the parliament tary law department of the Chattanooga Woman's club had discussed mock reso- lution calling on the city commissions
 CTS to abolish telephone and telegraph
 wires and street car trolley lines, the in-
 teresting arguments proving that the
 women are not only acquiring correct par l liamentary practice, but are learning to
 think deeply along all lines of civic bet | torment.
 It is interesting to know that Miss Esther Cleveland the daughter of ex- President Cleveland, is studying to be- come a nurse. spurred on by the desire to help the wounded in France and Eng land. A number of New York girls of the smart set have taken up the curriculum
 of first aid to the injured with the ex- pectation of being accepted as nurses by
 the hospitals on the continent or in Great |
 Britain.
 While searching the windows of haber-
 dashery shops just before Christmas seek ing a sign of what men expect for Christ
 mas gifts, remarked a society girl, q
 was struck with the preponderance of
 evening togs and accessories. And
 stopped to marvel at the change that has come over the world of social customs and usages with the introduction of the modern dance"
 Truly, few years ago only Society with capital s, donned evening clothe. every night and many a business man oi prosperity didn't have any evening clothe! at all. Now everything Is changed. an( every grade of city folks have their dane ing clothes and their evening clothes Women who laid aside frivols and frivoli ties with their wedding toilettes year ago, now don their satins and chiffons and their lives know the glamour of so cial intercourse as do their wealthier sis ters, while the tired business man no long CT goes to the shows in his same ol, suit, but puts on his evening clothes an, | accompanies wife" to the 'dawnce. That's why we do not worry so much ove
 hard times. We are all too busy havin good times"
 Miss Lefty Woods, whose photograpl | adorns this page. is one of the lovelies of the visiting girls. She is Mrs. Fran | Lupton's sister and one of family note | for It's beautiful women as we'll as 1t | | aristocratic connections. She is here fror Virginia with her mother. Mrs. Micaja Woods, whose visits to Birmingham ar