Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-04
SOUTHERNbALL
INSPIRING EVENT
Confederate Veterans and
Youth From Overseas Min
ole on Willard Floor.
TOUCHES FROM "DlxIE''

The Southern Relief ball at the
Willard opened last night with the
Marine Band playing Dixie and sew
eral hundred men and women, includ-
ing veterans of the civil war, beating
time with their feet, laughing. clap
ping and cheering. Way Down South
i'm the Land of Cotton" was hummed
by men and women of the old regime
until the notes frisked away into mod
ern dance music, and the most typical
ball of the year in Washington was on.
The ballroom was an inspiration
with its fiag-draped walls and gay
lights, and the col .pany assembled,
which overlooked into the restroom at
one end of the ballroom to the other,
was made up of veterans in Confed
crate gray, who rubbed shoulders with
honor stripe men just back from over
the sea and sailor lads not out of their
teens. Old beaux who go 10 but one
ball year. and that the Southern Re-
efSball, danced with Gebutantes who
but a moment before were the part
ners of soldiers, sailors or civilians not
long out OF school. and the GRANDPA Their
who did nou tread a meaSure-gen-
orally the old-fas hioned waltz step
with his granddaughter or her chum
was considered a veritable wall flower
Nor were the men and women all of
the south. The states of every sec
ton where honor is paid to the stars
and stripes were represented. and a
number of the Latin American diplo-
mats were there.
Heads List of Veterans.
Capt. J. w. Hickey headed a list
of veterans from Camp III who as
sisted the floor committee all during
the evening the number including
Gen. c. B. Howry. Col. Lorick Pierce,
mond, Col. Lee Crandall. Col. David
S. Walton. Maj. Wilkerson, Capt r. S.
Denny. MIR. J. A. Brown. Mr.. F. NJ.
Angelo and Mr.. S. n. e. Pegues.
A seated supper bespoke old-time
southern hospitality with an exceed
ingly luxurious and modern setting,
the huge red rooms of the ground
floor of the Willard being entirely
given up to supper parties, where in
stead of brews which once made the
south famous iced water was used to
pledge the good health of friends.
The Receiving Line.
Miss Mamie Randolph Heth, presi-
dent of the Southern Relief Society.
headed the receiving line. and beside
her stood Mrs. Carter Glass, wife of
the Secretary of the Treasury; Mrs.
Thomas Watt Gregory. wife of the
retiring Attorney General, and Mrs.
daughter of Maj. Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnston. Mrs. Bankhead, wife of
the senator from Alabama. stood in
line for a time. and frequently be-
side her was her pretty granddaugh-
ter. Miss Jeanne Bankhead.
Miss Heth wore gown of garnet
colored velvet, .th point lace and
number of quaint old jewels; Mrs.
Glass was in drapcd gown of black
velvet. with which she wore no jew
els. and Mrs. Gregory was in tur-
quoise blue velvet. Mrs. Denis was in
q gown of cflampa gne-colored cut vel
vet and chiffon. with dull gold en-
broidery and passementerie. Mrs.
Bankheads gown was particularly
handsome. of white satin brocaded
in gold and with fiirny lace traced
with gold. She wore pearls and dia-
monds.
Lending additional interest to the
costume of Mrs. Denis was a close
fitting collarette of far more historic
value than mere gems, fer it was
formed with the buttons cut from the
uniforms of her father. Gen. Johnston,
worn during the Mexican and civil
wars.
A Special Feature.
The choosing of the prettiest girls
of the southern ball fell to the lot OF
Mr.. C. W. De Lyon Nichols of New
York, and he selected Miss Marguerite
Calhoun Sinonds for the first honor:
Miss Margaret Harding, daughter of
Mr. William p. G. Harding, governor
of the federal reserve. for the sec
ond. and Miss Florence Lof1ind Brown
of Baltimore for the ird place. Miss
Sironds is the daughter of Mrs. c. c.
Calhoun. and was born in Charles
ton, S. c.. and is an accomplished and
much travelled young woman of the
statuesque type. while Miss Harding
is rather petite. as dainty as flower
and is the very breath of enthusiastic
youth. Miss Brown is the daughter
Of Mai. John Wilson Brown of Bal
timore, who went to France with the
24th Engineers. and fittingly enough,
her setting was a box filled with
heroes from the Walter Reed Hos
pitaL