The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-02
By CAROLYN VANCE

Copyright. 1929. by The Age-Herald)
 Washington, April 1.--Is there something of the eternal feminine in the fact that four huge conventions of women are to take place in and around Washington just after Easter when the Easter wardrobe is fairly bursting with spring sple>dors?
 Be that as 1t may. >le ladies are coming to the co/sentions by the thousands and unless all signs fail they are coming gorgeously gowned.
 Easter costumes were never de- signed to waste their sweetness on ones own home town, when thou sands of women may see and admire and perhaps envy at a convention in big city.
 Trailing in and out of metropoli- tan hotel lobbies in ones new spring outfit is a delight not to be denied especially when all sorts of "causes" are in need of advancing. Mrs. Hard
 ing will receive the delegates to each of the four organizations meetings, and at these receptions at the White House the creme de la creme of spring wardrobes will be trotted out
 Lady AstOr Coming
 Lady Astor, who Is coming over from England to attend the conven- tion of the League of Women Voters in Baltimore. already has announced, that the spring wardrobe which she Will wear in America will be well worth seeing. Her dressmakers are Killing her." she declares.
 An Easter parade lasting several weeks in Washington and Baltimore will show what styles prevail in Buenos Aires and Toronto, in San Francisco. New York and Gopher Prairie. For delegates from 20 south American countries and from Canada. as we'll as women from all over the United States, are to attend the Pan-
 American conference called by the League of Women Voters beginning April 20 in Baltimore and ending in Washington April 26.
 Other sections of this Easter pa- rade will include delegates to the an nual spring convention of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution in Washington, beginning April IT; del- egates to the national woman's party dedication ceremonies. and the women from all over the world who will at tend the meeting Of the Women's 1n-
 ternational League for Peace and Freedom In Washington.
 This last organization will prob ably show styles direct from Paris, London, Stockholm. Berlin and vien- ma. Other national organizations of women who vii meet this spring in other parts of the country are the Young Womens Christian associa- ton. the American Association of University Women and the Business and Professional Women's Clubs. SOuth American Dress
 The South American and Cuban delegates who will step off the train at Baltimore to attend the Pan American Conference of Women, called by the League of Women Voters are certain to upset lot Of preconceived notions. The people of Baltimore will look in vain for the dainty filigree of lacy mantilla or for a rose coquettishly nesting be- hind an ear-ringed ear No one should expect these women to look like the ladies on cigar box labels or like the belles of the Argentine who coouetted through the first reels of the Four Horsemen with Rudolph Valentino. Among the cultured women of Cuba and South America the mantilla. full Spanish skirt and fandango airs and graces are passe. These are left for the peasantry. Paris gowns are the rule and here Is a real bit of news. Gowns from Paris may be obtained cheaper in South America than gowns from Chi casxo and New York. Think of ob- taining a Paquin frock for the same price as a mere dress from Sears. Roebuck & Co. a fact vouched for l,, the south American visitors.