The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-01
EIATTlE HIGHLANDS WRITES OF EVENTS
 PLANNED FOR COMING EASTER SEASON

for some of them to think of our climate even as it really is until they experience some weather like that of a month or so ago. young man who came here from Philadelphia thought that he would not need to bring an overcoat. Also We are not all of us brilliant brunettes with mid night hair and flashing dark eyes, as another young man told me he thought
 we were.
 So perhaps not finding us exactly as he had expected, this Stranger in Town may have observed us more closely than he would have those in his own home town.
 He is right. Birmingham is rich in the
 beauty of her women. Alabama is land of brilliant coloring. Her skies are so blue. the foliage of her hills such a vivid green and her soil such glowing red that perhaps her women overdo their loyalty to her in the hues of their attire and maybe impress the stranger in much the | same way as the sight of a woman in | slippers walking upon the snow on a winter day in New York city struck us | In the newness of Birmingham alluded 1 to, perhaps we have not completely out grown the small town idea of dressing | for the street to please ourselves and | friends and not for the impression we may have given to strangers.
 l If we should ask the men why So many
 are at the photo play during the busi-
 ness hours, no two would give the same I reason. They are not as one woman sug- gested to me. mainly loafers and gam blers. One man said that he was so hard ! worked that he must divert his mind. another his business is bad and he wants
 to forget his troubles. All have the same
 really good reason that they want to be
 there. I believe it is because they are
 in town and the pictures outside of the play houses are so attractive they just ! must take an hour off
 In February a party of us made a short visit to Chattanooga and Nashville and
 we were surprised in going to matinee
 in Chattanooga to find the audience made
 up of over half men and in Nashville the
 women on the streets were dressed more
 brightly even than in Birmingham. The stranger is right about teen age boys and girls going about to picture | shows so freely. One reason is that they have to pass through the business and
 amusement portion of our city to attend l the high schools. Perhaps some mothers would do well to know, for sure, how
 their young daughters, the lovely flowers
 of our race, spend some of their hours
 after school. The many new school | houses now to be built will prevent these
 daily trips of our children through town. | We notice in the audiences Of places of amusement a goodly representation from the legal and. medical professions, \ which speaks well for the amiability and health of Birminghams people. We know our men go alone in the evenings to places of amusement, but we will not allow our selves to think and positively will not ad-
 init that our Birmingham men are selfish,
 and yet
 | We are a social and a friendly folk and will be glad when we and the inquiring 1 Stranger come to know one another better and he may receive not alone the
 peep our Hattie gives into some of our southern homes, but the warm welcome which awaits those worthy of it, and
 which will cause him to feel himself no
 longer "A Stranger in Town" If you
 have an opportunity, dear Hattie, please
 give to the stranger for holding up this
 mirror before us the thanks of
 | "A BIRMINGHAM WOMAN"