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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1913
Page
5
A society exhibit is planned for early October at the Guit venue. Organizers announce preparations and invite community participation. The event aims to showcase local crafts and cultural items with potential demonstrations and displays.
Mrs. W. P. Parrish of Mobile now in New York writes from Paris and Tontenay aux Roses about painting in the Quartier Latin. She plans to sail from Cherbourg in mid October aboard the George Washington for New York and will exhibit works from her Van Dyck studio at 989 Eighth Avenue.
Mr Irvine of the Chamber of Commerce requests Home Economics Club members and interested women to meet in the Battle House auditorium this afternoon September 2 at 4 p m to discuss plans for the Southern Commercial Congress convening in Mobile October 27 28 and 29. The note also mentions deaths and visits affecting local residents including Miss Hester Simpson of Bridgeport and others returning from Pensacola Point Clear and Marble Terrace Asheville.
At a Peace Rebekah Lodge meeting the Popularity contest was opened to all Mobile women. Nominees include May Barnes Una Coffin Irene Beyers Marguerite Pond Ethel Chandler Edith Barnes and Christina Dumas. Votes update weekly through October 3 culminating at an Odd Fellow ball. Mrs Ernest Planck and her son returned from a North Carolina trip with Miss Planck and Margaret Lake.
Reported progress follows the summer tour wreck in the White Mountains that injured Miss Damaris Smith. Friends note steady recovery as medical updates continue.
White silk tulle gown with pink and green floral accents sits on a pale blue charmeuse base. Bodice cuts V with chiffon fichu, marine lace trim, and pale blue taffeta belt with sash. Short skirt veiled in white tulle, hooped with blue ribbon and XVIII style bows.
Mobile residents heard hopeful news as Mr H T Smith returned home to report that his daughter is improving under expert treatment in New York and that her back injury is expected to be cured. Helen Davis of Birmingham also came home after a three month Gulf Coast visit with her aunt Mrs Lambert.
Yesterday Mr and Mrs N D Mc Clure ended their breezy summer stay at Point Clear and began a long automobile tour through the North Carolina mountains with Miss Genevieve Mc Clure and others. Their Point Clear cottage is occupied by Mr and Mrs Frank Winter and Frank Winter Jr of Wager during their absence.
Mrs. John Vedmer arrives in New York with Miss Smozen Little, the Mobile debutante. Little camped in Massachusetts and will resume society rounds, praised for her height, blonde looks, and tennis zeal in the County Club set. Mrs. Vedmer and Miss Little plan to Dauphin Way after autumn in New York. Various social visits include Mrs. H P Cole’s Canton trip, Mrs. Walter Higgins visiting Mobile, and Misses Hoff man’s extended tour to Selma, Thomaston, and Gastonburg with guests Annie and Lucille Goode. Mrs. Goode and Miss Mary Lee Pugh join Gastonburg guests in Mobile.
Madame Jouven’s in the Latin Quarter hosts art students and Americans drawn by a two-franc dinner. Marion’s studio circle mingles with Warren and Helen as sketches line the walls and a Persian cat roams between shared tables. The setting blends casual artistry with wary skepticism about cheap meals.
The scene centers on American students at a Paris Latin Quarter dining table enjoying music and conversation. A strolling old dancer, Marie, evokes memories of opera and aging artists as the group debates bohemian life versus convention. The passage ends noting 1912 exports of sewing machines valued at $10,000,000 from the U.S. to Europe.
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