The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-31
Greetings Everybody Busy Big Cnozage Canap
Club Tomorrow Euenl, Benefit Of Tobacco Fund for Soldiers

, where you got your beautiful, brand
new strings of real pearls. Canon
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| When you go a-wa1king on a merry
day in March with cotton top" and
cotton feet and silk middles"
stockings on and you think you can
bluff somebody into believing that
they were real, rightly, honest-to-
goodness silk stockings all the way
and back again and then suddenly the
March wind decides to blow. and oh.
see the cotton tops (you know, they
come quite well below the knee) and
well, that's camouflage.
Oh, the worlds full of it and so
are you and so am /. and so will the
carnival tomorrow night be, and
well. it's really going to be awful!y
interesting and awfully clever and
awfully different. thanks to the in
ventive and resourceful mind of love-
| ly Mrs. Ball, who has done splendid
| bit of work in getting the right sort
| of committee together; the right sort
| of people to cooperate with her; the
right things to be done. and has seen
| to it personally that things have been
accomplished.
| carnival tomorrow evening I'm going
| to let Mrs. Ball tell you a few things
| about how good people have been to
| her and how tremendously interested
| they've been in the motive which
prompts the Camouflage ball. and, oh
"a lot of other things, but before / let
her tell you those things, please let
| me tell you that Mrs. Ball is a won
der Her energy and her cleverness,
her splendid executive ability make a
| ombination rarely to be found, and
besides all that, she's so pretty and
! attractive that you can't help wanting
| to do the things she wants you to.
'In the first place" Mrs. Ball said,
II have never seen anything like the
united effort and beautiful spirit of
cooperation that the good people of
\ Birmingham have shown toward the
| tobacco fund and especially toward
the camouflage ball. You know some
people don't approve of smoking. Some
people don't approve of fighting Some
people smoke and let others do their
| fighting.
| There may be some one you know
who does not smoke himself, because
he thinks that the habit might have
detrimental effects ordinarily But he
admits that it does serve a good pur-
| pose when man makes his home in
undiscovered hole in the ground, and
| he says furthermore that anything
| those boys call for now they ought to
have So he has contributed to this
| smoke fund and thinks it good thing.
kiphng said that "A Woman is only
a woman, but good cigar is smoke.
Every mother, wife and sweetheart of
every man in the 18th infantry has been
left behind and the only company its
members have now is bullets and each
other-both of which get mighty lone
| some as a steady diet They want their
smokes to break the monotony and they
I are going to have them If the women
of Alabama have to starve to give them
| this pleasure!
| When we started the tobacco fund we
| had little idea really of how we'd raise
] funds, because so many demands are
made on the people these days that il
| seems almost crime to ask for more
| money but with Mrs. Mortimer Jordan
at the head of the tobacco fund for the
| Birmingham district, and her splendid
| spirit of enthusiasm, she has inspired a
| large number of sympathizers to assist
her in the matter and the .Camouflag e
Carnival was one of the first things
we thought Of.
1T really is going to be striking
and original affair, because everything
will be different from anything ever at
tempted before" Mrs. Ball said. "Won-
en- on the various committees have been
perfectly splendid and each has made
her especial work the very BEST no