The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-27

Monday-t wouldn't surprise me at all if we were to begin a new era dating from the Black and White ball. For surely it must be some wonderfully i'm portant event-all queer and mysterious, to have everyone talking about it all the time I can't get away from it, and don't know whether I want to very much, for there is something about 1t that charms me more than I can say. The girls are all to be in costume and will be masked, but the men will not, so We will have the chance of our lives There will be just one hour when Leap Years rules will be enforced and I hear that Leila Smith has made herself eter- nally famous by writing these self-same clever rules for the committee. have already decided upon my prey, though I am going to be just q little bit nice to the wall-flowers, because I might be a wa1l-flower myself some of these days
 And in the meantime my costume is progressing and it is adorable. Bunkie says that he will know me, surely, but that he will miss my eyes.
 But the present is always sweetest and there is the Glee club concert and dance tonight and I will get a chance to tell all of those wonderful boys how grieved was to miss the midyears. hope they will be grieved, too.
 Today was a happy kind of day-with
 
 most and a glimpse of folks in passing have bought the very cunningest hat in the world and have looked at millions of beautiful frocks. It seems such a shame that one can't always be a debutante after the first season, for it is such a really satisfactory existence, but think how tired folks would get of hearing about us. I believe l have been to every kind of party in the world and have met everybody, but am not a bit tired, nor bored, nor any more grown up than just year ago.
 There is scarcely two weeks now be- fore the curtain goes down on this act, and there will be new chorus before the next It is rather like play, after all, for there are so many people who dream of nothing when they are with you but being entertained. and think of nothing from morn til night but what the next exciting incident will be. We have been rather 8 pretty diversion, l imagine, for Aunt Polly says that never since she can remember has there been a season so filled with beautiful parties, or a set of debutantes so gay. Bir- mingham, they say, is truly growing big. Tuesday-And last night was so happy, those adorable boys and their songs just captured my heart completely, and I had 8 hilariously good time It was most
 
 many folks there, and everybody talk ing about frats and dances and games. Our university boys are the very best anywhere, and they certainly know how to entertain. But then, so do the Au- burn boys, for Margaret bowman and Mary Sessions and Mep Perkins are just having gorgeous time down there.
 But I haven't a minute to lose, or to spend writing about things now for this morning at 10 o'clock I have prom ised to be at Augusta Clark's to make roses These days that is all you hear, just roses. roses, roses. Anyway, l like to make them, and then I hear that Blanche Divine and Grace Murphy are coming back for the ball. It will be fas- cinating to see them again, and I hope they don't run back home right away.
 Wednesday--I thought I would get to write some more yesterday, but things came along so thick and fast that before knew it I had to rush to dress for Margaret's party for Josephine Shields, and then when I reached home, was too beautifully tired for words.
 The club is just naturally fascinating at any time, and then to have such a wonderful dinner and dance is perfect. The tables were all like fairy gardens and the girls like beautiful pale-colored butterflies Hitting about in the moon light. I think I would have been per-
 
 marked the place of the guests, who were Miss Annie Merle Haggard, Miss Cecilia
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