The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

l looked like sisters rather than mother and daughter. Mrs. John Wallace Luke, | the Birmingham artist who last year won l a scholarship for expert handling of the canvas and will thereby be given a six months study abroad with all expenses ] paid, was there. Mrs. T. G. Bush, regal and splendid; Mrs. Nesbitt, her lovely daughter, both walked. Mrs. V. w. Long walked with her daughter, Mrs. John F. Pyme of New York
 | A large number of business women who l had sood at counters sat at desks l all the morning rushed home and fresh l ened up and in their white skirts and waists walked and stood the entire after noon.
 | Many of the suffrage women, who were busy at the registration poles until the l time came to go into the march, were l there when the command to march was l given
 l Mrs C. H. Ohme, our woman member iof the county board of education, was | one of these and there were hundreds of others. The beautiful Red Cross nurse | costumes gave universal interest to the l women who are working hard to be ready I when the call comes, They made a beau | tiful picture as they swept up the street. l The groups of D. A. R. and U. D. C., 1 too gave added interest. Then how splen- | didly patriotic was the demonstration of l the Italian and Greek contingent Ger l tainly no city can boast of more splen- did representative of Columbia than Bir-
 mingham had in Miss Ina Shepard. Miss I Shepard, too represents the women of her city as "the woman who can do things" She is indeed the highest type | of the business woman and the womanly i woman combined.
 | The horseback section was captivating | Difficult as it is to recognize persons in I the glitter and glamour Of parade hun q AT | Davis. who represented the suffragists as 1 one of the escorts to the Maid of Orleans | Miss Davis horse was displeased with the lidea of a head dress, and for awhile was 1 about the most unpatriotic thing seen in 1 Birmingham during the day He didn t Like either to wear the flags in his hair jnor the yellow sash-maybe he just didn' t .I Iwant his mistress to be suffrag;st. At 1 any rate he made up his mind that he | would not wear the flags and she should | not wear the suffrage sash. Miss Davis i made up her mind they together should l do both-and she won out. He reared and | plunged forward She. perfect mistress Of | the saddle that she is gave him sound l smack or two with her crop and the re- l the saddle that she is, gave him sound I suit was that she was one of the loveliest | spectacles in the parade to the end of the \ march.
 I Another one of the riders was Miss
 
 l thought was her mother. so rauch is she I Hike her Miss Elizabeth Caldwell was | one of the beauties in the parade on I horseback. By the way Miss Caldwell l won the equestrienne cup at college this winter Miss Dixie Jackson was grace | itself on her splendid mount Miss Gus \ Urine Miller and Miss Mildred Kettg were 1.-the other two lovely horsewomen making { up the section of leaders for the suffrag- lists, and following Miss Judith Jones, who | splendidly represented Joan of Arc | Altogether the woman's section of the | parade was success. and when one con lsiders that they had only week in which i tomake plans. and that they are assisting | in the bond sale and the registration, too it is regarded as remarkable showing 1 We'll, my dear, believe have told you
 about all the news of the past week.
 Hastily.