The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-31
PARTIES FOR MISS.
 SEARCY IN TUSCALOOSA.

The following from the Tuscaloosa News will be of interest to the many friends of Miss Searcy in Birming ham.
 Quite the largest, loveliest of the formal functions of an unusually busy social season was the afternoon tea given yesterday between 4 and 80 o'clock by Mrs. J. Lundie SlOss and her two daughters, Mrs. Fred Nelson and Miss Mary Sloss, the honoree for this occasion being Miss Kathleen Hob- son Searcy. The private apartments of Terrace Garden were chosen by the hostesses as the scene of this lavish courtesy and splendid palms were used with good effect in the reception hall. A colour de rose was employed throughout the hall redolent with the perfume of gorgeous Radiance roses, fragrant narcissi and fronds of plumosa fern thrust into silver vases and cen tering the salad and coffee table. White chrysanthemums of specimen type were used with blooming cyclamen about the room pieces and hundreds of pink candles burned unshaded in silver candelabra casting roseate glow of beauty over the receiving party of handsomely gowned women.
 At the door beyy of beautiful bellies of the future, wearing their perkiest party frocks and who were Misses, Anne Fitts Searcy, Harriette - ssearcy. Betty Strudwick and Mary Jemison Cobb. of Birmingham, received cards. Extending cordial greetings at the entrance were Mrs. Glen Foster, Mrs. Thomas Christian and Miss Alice Wymap. Receiving in this apartment were Mrs. William Collier, Mrs. Regi- nald Smith, Mrs. Claud Nelson and Mrs. Jack Deyere.
 Mrs. Sloss, wearing a lovely after noon costume of bisque crepe elabor- ately beaded in iridescent tones, re- eeiyed her friends with graciousness SC characteristic of the old south of which she is typical daughter and introduced Miss Searcy, most attrac- tive in reception robe built of French blue Georgette with a girdle of silver snd blue. Mrs. Nelson wore an un- usually attractive toilet of black 4repe de chine and Miss Sloss' gown was fashioned of blue georgette bead Nd in conventional design. Others re- .eiving formally with Mrs. .Sloss, Mrs. Seilson. Miss Sloss and Miss Searcy Iere Miss Ruth Watts, Mrs. Joseph .sledge of Birmingham, Miss Alice Moody of Birmingham, Miss Mary Morgan Ward of Eutaw. Miss Alice Rau, Mrs. Robert Richardson of Way cross, Georgia, Mrs. Marion Cooper, Mrs. Frederick Maxwell, ST.. Mrs. Henry Raymond Cobb of Birmingham and Mrs. Lester Snow. Presiding at ~j,a salad tables, from which delicious shicken salad in lettuce hearts, waters. olives. salted almonds, fudge cake and stuffed dates were dispensed, were Mrs. A Mrs. Henry Snow and Mrs. George Fl. Searcy. From silver bowls at the opposite ends of the tables a refresh ing cranberry ice was served by Mrs. Charles Film, Mrs. Thomas Hill, Mrs. Henry A. Leland and Mrs. Henry Ba- con Foster. At the coffee table Mrs. Carl Garner, Mrs. Bernard Harwood, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Walter Gull ley, dispensed a particularly delicious brew of this favored beverage.
 Tonight at half after seven o'clock the rehearsal for the wedding of Miss Kathleen Hobson Searcy and Freder- ick Maxwell, Jr., will be held at Christ church and immediately afterward the bridal party and out-of-town guests will repair to the home of Mir. and Mrs. Fred Maxwell, ST., on Seventh street, where Mir. and Mrs. Luther Maxwell, Jr.. MT. ana MrS. hODert Richardson will entertain at an ele- gant buffet supper. This event will take the place of the buffet supper calendared by Dr. and Mrs. Rau for tonight and recalled on account of iH- ness in the Rau home.
 Tomorrow evening, immediately after the wedding of Miss Searcy and NIT. Maxwell, Mrs. George A. Searcy will entertain at an informal reception in her. Greensboro avenue home, the guest list to include only the bridal party and closest relatives of Miss Searcy ond Mir Maxwell