The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09

1 world was settling down to it's peaceable
 and horribly monotonous everyday, l pick up The Age-Herald and see Cora Greeg's engagement and to Robert | Meyer! Nothing in the world could have caused more excitement, for if there is 1 any one person that all of the debutantes adors, 1t is Cora Really, this is a won derful world. and I hope I get to go | to the wedding though I hear that it is going to be very quiet but then I know,
 too, that it will be very lovely. It is ] perfectly stunning to have something | happen for my engagement book is al-
 most a perfect blank. If nothing very ] debtanty" comes up soon, l am going 1 to tear out the first two weeks and save 1 it to give someone next Christmas But I won't stop hoping.
 | I think I shall just begin to count regular dates as real engagements, be- cause they really are fun, and we just l have to fall back on men for entertain ment when parties are done. And they are wonderful, at times, when they take you to the Tutwiler for luncheon, and you have to look across the table at them over huge clusters of lilies of the valley and roses, 1 think I could look at any man in the world across the table if it was through the aroma of lilies of the valley or violets. Little things do make such an awful lot of differences every l time.
 | But I don't need any great amount of persuasion to go with my big, beautiful | bachelor today for he is entirely fas- | cinating, of his own account, and even l if he hadn't sent me flowers to wear it would be all the same, for I will forget 1 everything anyway soon, as I begin to 1 talk to him. I just adore men who have really reached the age when they cease l to be conscious of their own individ- Q uality. Then they just sparkle, in my 1 eyes-vastly different from those who stand around at the club every Saturday night holding their ideas instead of fox trotting. But I can't write all day i !ong, because I am going to fix my hair q perfectly new way, and look alto gether fascinating. I wonder if my B. B. B. likes for hats to be big or little. Tuesday-IIe likes 'em big-tra la,-be- cause, he says, they make just the proper setting for my eyes I'm glad I wore my biggest one, and I think I must have acted beauteously grown-up, because he talked to me about the most adorably
 
 debutante at all. Most bachelors are just wise men, who know so much that one really could never ascend to their plane at all-oh, no! I often wonder if they are thinking of things as absurdly incongrous as I when they are chatting monotonously of pink teas and purple parasols.
 I'm going, really going to Cora's we'd ding. She herself-wonderful person. called me up this morning and asked me before l was hardly through with breakfast. Think of doing all that she must do in this one week, But I think she is sensible-really the most sensible person 1 have known in a long time. And shall do likewise, for I would never consent 10 a long engagement under any circumstances But then parties are lovely, and lots of clothes and other things. But think how much more love- ly honeymoons are! And they are go- Ing to nave such wonderful one-cruis- 'ng, and on their own yacht and in southern waters at this time of the year It really is more thrilling than any romance 1 have ever read, for they have only been engaged for the very shortest tune. heard that it was while she was With the Barretts in New York that if really happened. I think that there will pc Just loads of parties given for her and Mir. Meyer in spite of the short time. MdrSdret ChenoWeth has already an- nounced luncheon, and have heard of others.
 And in the meantime the little "deh oles retire modestly in the background ana plde their time. If 1t were not for the movies and the Lyric times would he duIl indeed. But then there is Dorothy paws dlnner Friday, and Mrs Fuckers saturday, and several other parties in between Alice Jones is going to give a tea for Amelie Hill and Ella Packer Blacksher, two visitors, and next week there is Mrs. McCarty's big partv fo,. as Helen Eubanll says-"a visitor a
 debutante and an old maid" But one would have to strengthen ones imagina- ton to it's widest flights ere Helen corId
 be thought an 'old maid" for if I can
 ever grow just one year older and look
 nalt so fresh and charming and sweet as sne will be well content. But Mrs McCarty is awfully fond of Helen and notwithstanding the fact that she gave a beautiful dance for her last year she is lhciudlhg her along with Dorothy Davis
 and Mrs Ward of Pittsburg as honor guest ''ioi Tonight there is date and tomorrow
 more exciting happenings
 
 dnesday-Visions of myself win hlhg trophies elittering silver cuns
 ana thlngs'-lf l write such things as mat Will not get single page today. | TOT a polse my Den in the air and dream wonderful roseate dreams of SOIL had my first lesson today out