The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09

about "keeping the ball rolling" Ger tainly, if London is to be judged as being Gin the movement the number of balls that are kept rolling quite sufficient to make the strongest among | us feel rather tired
 Balls seem to take place, every night in the week. Some of them may not be very big. but no matter where they are given or how many attend them, they certainly are the most joyous, care-free entertainments that this gray old city has seen for several years. I am told of est. Valen- tines ball' that is to occur on Febru- ary 12. I know that it rightfully ought to be held on the fourteenth, but that happened to be a Friday (which is unlucky), while Thursday happens to be the thirteenth (which | is equally unfortunate), so Wednes- l day has been selected by the commit | tee. which is headed by Princess Marie Louise,- the elder daughter of Princess l tChristian, and therefore a first cousin 1 to our own King and Queen. It Is said that Princess Mary. all being well, I will come to the ball. and that our | most recent royal finacee, Princess 1 Pat will also be present
 l The ball has been organized by the | Three Arts club, which is an organi- zation supported by the most famous artistic men and women in London The entrance tickets are to be two guineas-about $1025. There is to be 1 no processional pageant to interfere with the dancing, while the floor is to be specially laid for the occasion and promises to be the most perfect thing l of its kind that dancing London can produce If any of you who are in l your own home city when you are reading this letter and can manage | to pack your gripsack and come right ! along over here in time for the twelfth, I can assure you it will be worth the ocean trip, or If matters have happened in advance the air ser vice in this direction, it would even
 be well to hook your seats on hige- flying aeroplane.
 I have been seeing quite number
 of returned prisoners of war in Eng
 land and they all. to a man, have tales
 to tell that are both gruesome and
 amusing. Of the latter I recall a story told me by a French Canadian who had been imprisoned at Giessen during nearly three years of the war. He re- lated to me with considerable humor the tale of the police dogs attached to the German army.
 They were very fierce, oh, yes," he said, land we prisoners had at first much fear of them. But one day. one of our men dropped a piece of meat l from a tin of bully beef that had come to him in a parcel from home The
 dog ate it and wagged his tail So after
 that we found that the half dozen bis l beasts attached to our camp were very, very hungry, and that they were not
 we'll treated by the German guard ] And so we, our men of Canada, of
 England. of France and of Belgium
 laid aside pieces and crumbs from our home parcels and the dogs loved us and fawned upon us while at the Ger
 man guard they would growl and bark | One day a German dog bit Hun sol dier who had kicked him and it ther ran for protection to a prisoner from Canada After that the commandant of our camp had the dogs withdrawn They were not success!"
 II A letter from the sunny south--tt be exact, from Cannes-tells me much of the gay postwar days beside the N Mediterranean.
 II eve are all dancing here now.' m, correspondent writes, "and people have M tea parties every afternoon at tho
 Carlton hotel, where we dance delight III fully from 4:30 until 6:30 o'clock. Can | nes is crowded and there are large H number of young girls who not havlns vet had an opportunity of makins
 their debut in Paris or London, hay
 been brought here by their parent | in order to have sort or prellmlnar
 canter before the French and Engiis' l. capitals return to their normal socia
 conditions. Lots of these jeunes fille
 du mode have never yet been to | real grown-up dance as no one though Ii of dancing in France during the. war
 So now they're all learning to "fox | trot.' hesitate and jazz
 By the way here in the sum
 south it may interest you to know .ha
 skirts seem to be tighter and shortc | than ever. Don't believe what tn
 English papers tell you about dresse
 being worn longer in the skirts. Tw | new frocks of mine measure var
 and half round the bottom and the are at least 12 inches from the ground
 If y>r -happan to possess slender an kle, uuey 4o-Sarming, but if natur | has been unkind!
 Everyone is wearing black shoe
 with stockings matching~the gowns II IT notice that American girls look bes | under these circumstances. I have
 charming new frock of the new 'Por | tugal shade. It has a tunic that just below the knee and it is trimme
 with a deep belt formed of black vel
 vet flowers appliqued on the thin Jer
 sey silk material This tunic open | town one side to show a very tight UT / iersks srt of the same silk which has