The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-01

heralded abroad was the cry "unmask, and slyly she drew aside her mask and he beheld his victim" With the brain | awhr with visions of loveliness and pleasure, society danced thoroughly tired, departed, carrying with it a lifelong memory of the "Black and White ball.
 ATTRACTIVE COSTUMES
 Among the many artistic and unique costumes was noted the saucy little French maid frock of black and white worn by Mrs J. Campbell Maben.
 Miss Katherine Kirkman, one of Bir- mingham's most fascinating belles, was adorably dressed in a taltan frock with a short bouffant skirt and cunning little pantalettes, caught at the ankle with frills of tulle. Her bodice was black and she wore a ruff of tulle about her neck and wrists.
 Mrs. F. H. Cabaniss.r president of the board, wore a white evening gown elab~ orately trimmed in black. Miss Mar garet Moore and her guest, Miss Jose phine Shields, wore fluffy white taltan ballet dresses with black bodices. Miss Helen Eubank and Miss Augusta Clark wore black and white pierrot and pierrotte costumes.
 Mrs. Robert Jemison was gowned in folly suit of white taltan with black rib bons, suspended from the waist, on the ends of which were bells A pointed cap of white taltan completed the costume. Miss Gladys Williams wore one of the most stunning costumes seen at the ball. It was fashioned of white taltan, made extremely bouffant and striped with rib bons of black, hanging from a black vel vet bodice and which were finished with ! little black and white balls. Mrs. Sterling Foster wore a white even- ing gown and a stunning black picture hat.
 Mrs. E. w. Barrett was gowned In black taltan, quaintly fashioned with elaborate trimmings of white ribbons and balls
 Miss Dorothy Davis wore white taffeta beaded on black and white, and wore ethereal draperies of tulle. Miss Elizabeth Locke, Miss Marion Orr Miss Katherine Mccormack, Miss Carrie Yates, and Miss Bland Tomlinson also wore unique evening gowns of black and white. | Miss Serena Kirkpatrick wore a hand l some black lace mantillo draped over , white taltan.
 | Miss Florence Coffin was masked as I Folly in black and white taltan frock | with pointed ribbons and bells, and a | pointed cap topped with a tulle pompon 1 of black and white, with bells around | the brim.
 1 Miss Margaret Chenoweth wore futur- :! ist costume of taltan and satin. Long, | white pantalettes were caught at the ankles with ruffles of black and white ] taltan. Over these were three little saucy i wired flounces of taltan edged with {, black. The bodice was white satin with ] little puff sleeves of taltan edged with black.
 1 Miss Marie Hardwick wore fascinating l magpie costume of black and white satin 1 with touches of tulle.
 1 Miss Annie Franklin wore black and | white tulle frock in panniere style with | an American beauty rose on the corsage. l Miss Letta Smith and Miss Rose Owen | McDavid wore quaint costumes of satin 1 and taltan, made with pantalettes of 1 black and white satin and short ballett
 skirts of white taltan edged with black velvet. Clown-lle ruffs of tulle were worn on their wrists and ankles Caps l of black and white satin caught with
 bells were fetchingly poised on their ! heads.
 ] Mrs. Robert Cathcart of Charleston, S. | C.. wore striking costume of white tal- 1 tan with black ribbons, edged with bells ] suspended from the bodice. Her cap was
 made of black and white taltan fringed with bells.
 Mrs. Robley Munger was fascnatingly
 adorned in an evening gown of black and white. The bodice was made of jet se-
 
 wore a smart hat of black and white I tulle.
 | Mrs. John Milner Caldwell wore black tulle costume, with ropes of silver. from
 which were suspended silver bells She
 wore fetching cap of black and silver.
 Miss Gertrude Motion wore a unique
 gown of taltan, one side of which wa,
 black, the other white.
 Mrs Felix Drennen wore a Pierrott,
 frock with a ballett skirt of black tul,e l which was wired, over this hung a tunit
 of black and white edged with swans
 down.. Her bodice had a lace front anc about her neck she wore a ruche of tulle A cap of black and white satin witt aigrettes completed this clever costume | Mrs. Warner Shook made quite saucy looking little French maid in he frock of black and white. Mrs. Frank Smith and Mrs. Alfre, Walker wore artistic gowns of black ant white paper. fashioned in the style of tn sixteenth century, with tulle scarfs. Mrs John KauPs gown was strikingl, beautiful made of taltan with lool skirt of black and white and bodice o