The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
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Big Crowd Attends
Axis Club At Infor-
NAL Party

The members of the Axis club--and
numerous visitors from all parts of
Birminghan-men, as we'll as women,
became queens and kings and lords
and ladies Friday afternoon.
For the Axis club headquarters was
turned into a Persian garden for the
little while it takes to make an in
formal reception. The floors were
covered with Persian rugs from alien,
dreaming lands far under skies of
romance. And from the walls trailed
antique draperies which some little
princess would have hugger her
iather desperately hard about and
told him he was the dearest daddy In
the earth if he had purchased for her
boudoir or her little sunny summer
living room.
The eolors-oh, how pretty-were
not red. They were so old they had
taken on that color of pink which
conceals itself in darker tones be-
meath the petals of a rose. And blues
and greens and dark browns showed
that, had you fitted over and dropped
down upon the purple fringe of the
rug in the living room, you would
have thought you lived in a seashell
land-or one in which opals had been
woven into the dark deep crimson of
with flowers just a little bit tired
Just faded enough to be appealingly
sweet.
Lectures. Too.
There were talks abort those rugs
talks about the electric appliances
therefor you must understand
everything present demonstrated how
American and Birmingham house
keepers can have prettier homes.
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Mrs. d. ]. Poncelor. whose grace and
charm Wooed the guests to her big
coffee table, for she has been gracious
hostess in this club house which the
hands of wonderful women have ar
ranged. all this week, you know.
And you caught this thought, be-
cause it could not be helped:
How she serves the ambrosia of
happiness with the hospitality of the
hoursl"
To meet you, to greet you, to take
you hither and thither to see the
little things of the exhibition, was
Mrs. Erie Pettus, lovely president of
the Axis club, who promises with
prayer in her eye and determination
in her heart, that tpe Axis club shall
have it's auditorium, that project that
lies so near the heart of every wom-
an member of that organization. and
the heart of the former president,
Mrs. Angus Taylor, who blazed the
path and who still is making Trojan
efforts that the big piece of civic
work shall be done.
Must Have AuditoTium.
The Axans have not failed yet
are not going to-and day by day is
seeing larger auditorium funds, week
by week the cash register mounts up
ward toward the needed thousands
A musical program was feature
of the day. put on by Mrs. Bessie
Webb Jaynes, who is one Of the
brightest spirits of Birmingham, and
of its cleverest concocters of poetry,
A pretty song she led was that al
adore when you are young and which
you swear by when you have grown
older: Il wandered today through the
hills, Maggie"
Mrs. Jaynes also yesterday, at the
demonstrat ton. played the accompani-
ments for Mrs. Rodericll Beddow, who
sang an enjoyable group of songs.
particularly unforgetable talk-for 1t
concerned music in the home-was
that of Mr.. Ira F. Randall. who rep
resented the c. c. Holcombe people.
II. *. Dilberian of Loveman's Is an
actual expert on rugs and draperies,
and beyond that, he loves them. he
took the crowds, in his speech Fri
day, TO little old foreign villages and
up among the Caucasian mountains in
fancy, relating to them how, in old
days, the workers there had plenty
of time to weave. Carpets were used
only by rulers and the very rich, and
bungalow owners then did not crave
Persians upon the floor. Now they
slave.
For nowadays, everybody, people
who live in flats in Berlin or Italians
who occupy a home looking VesuVlus
way, have adopted rugs. Persians. he
explained, have become the standard
floor coverings of the world. They
are constructed of finest grade lambs
wool.
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Lovely Guests.
There was present. SO charming,
Mrs. C. P. Beddow, who has way
of telling a story so well you wish
only to hear more. Mr., Beddow also
was present and Joined in general
singing, as did Mr.. Randall, around
the baby grand piano.
N. Alan LeSavoy of Loveman's
brought the crowd to strict attention