Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-07

made a brief stop-over visit in our Magic City to enjoy the delightful hospitality of Mir and Mrs. w. A. ChenoWeth. In all this whole cityful a more charming host and hostess can not be found. The members of the party were: MT. and Mrs Curtis, Miss Curtis, Miss Snyder, Miss Howard, Mrs. Flewelen, Miss Holmes, Miss Jones, Curtis Jordan, Mir. NJ. Moses, Mrs. Robinson, MT. George Palmer and MT. Price Gilbert.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Early Lee left Sat urday for a few weeks outing at Wau- kesha and other delightful resorts about the lakes They will be absent until about August 1.
 A lawn fete" will be given by the Sanctuary Guild of St Mary 's-on-the- Highlands Tuesday. July 3, from to F D. m, at the residence of Mrs John Jemison corner of Twentieth street anu Avenue J, South Highlands.
 Mrs. Jemison's beautiful home Will pc thrown open to the guests and refresh- ments will be served on the lawn.
 The lemonade booth will be quite artls- tic. and the music during the evening very attractive. Children are especially invited from , to ' to enjoy games, swing ing and other amusements. No lnVlta- tions will be sent to ladies and children, as all are cordially invited.
 Admission, 10 cents, Refreshments 15 cents. The Sanctuary Guild is composed of the following members of St. Mary s-on-the- Highlands:
 Mesdames Sterling Lanier, F. D. Young Mary Lewis Tipton' ana Misses Jennie Walter, Maggie Adams llia Chisolm. Cornelia Meade Ada Johnston Eloise Johnston Rinnie Lee Head, Mary Leigh Broadnax, Elise Ball, Nellie Slack wood, Edna Blackwood, Katie Lewis and Jamie VanHoose. They will be as sisted in receiving the guests by Mes danes George C. Ball, John London, David Roberts, c. P. Perrin, J. D. klrk- patrick, J. B. Morson, and Misses ha.e R. smith, Amanda Moore, Mamie Pear son. Mamie Cleary, Lucille Fitzsimons, Emma Leedy, Margaret smith Mary Johnston, Lila Smith, Mary and Jenhle Trimble, Jennie Porter, Anna May fhe Ian, Sue Allen Ball. Lou Chisoim ana Fannie and Kate Meade =, n e.
 MT. w Melville Drennen will sail TOT Europe on the 18th of this month Ihey do say that the scenery, etc, IS not the only attraction "the other side" holds TOT him.
 MT. l.. B. Musgrove is expected home from New York in a few days.
 Mir. and Mrs. Richard Francis John ston will leave Monday to enjoy the
 
 solitudes of St. Clair Springs.
 The many friends of MT. w. II. John ston are delighted to welcome him back to Birmingham, and hope he Will make the Magic City headquarters.
 Miss Kate Earle has made glad many hearts. both masculine and feminine. by her return from St. Clair.
 ,;l- Europeans when they visit this country for the first time is the beauty of faee form and likewise of manner or the southern women. The south has her chief glory in the characterisllcs, als- tinctive by world wide celebrity during past generatio and vet prominent in the living present, of her women. 50 says a valued exchange.
 The concert given by the faculty of the Birmingham College of Music last Tues day night at Seals hall, was a great musical treat. The concert was hlgn class in character and afforded ample opportunity for the demonstration or the versatile powers of the musicians. when it is considered that these artists are here to instruct the people of Birming- ham our music-loving public can well be congra tulated. In connection W1tn thiS concert 1t may not be out Of place 10 mention that Miss Won Navarro and Professor Weber have each appeared Tn the great capitals, before the crowned heads of Europe and the most eXaotIng critics When Franz Iiszts great mass was performed he appointed Miss Ma varro his first soloist, and at concert given a fortnight before the death of the great composer, he gave Professor Weper the highest commendation.
 Such artists are a pride to Birming- ham, and will surely meet with un- bounded success.
 Miss Hallie Perkins, one of Firming- hams most attractive daughters, has gone to Eutaw Ala, to spend part Of her vacation
 Thomas Nelson Page says that his fa- ther regarded Col Richard Malcolm Johnston of Georgia as the best of south- ern novelists. He has been called the Nestor of southern literature and the Vicar of Wakefield of American letters His plain and rude, but hearty stories, which are typical of southern life in the ante bellum days are keen, vivid and un- erring. His "Dukesborough Tales" read like veritable pages from the real life of their actors. For one story in Harper Colonel Johnston received $500. He was )rn and reared in the same neighbor- hood. in Hancock county, with Alexan- der Stephens, his lifelong friend, and Robert Toombs was born in the adjoin- ing county Colonel Johnston when in reminiscent humor is at his best. l met him in Baltimore (the home of his adop- tion) last fall and our conversation turned from literary topics to the days of boyhood down in middle Georgia" and his recollections of Stephens Toombs and Ben Hill and Howell Cobb. He spokd of the old Georgia camp meetings, his de- scriptionS of the great amphitheater laid off for the tents-the old preachers stand, and how it was built under the great shed, the immense preparations and hospitality for the entertainment of the great crowds of 5000 or 5000 people that came from Savannah, Augusta and other cities-the chicken and 'possum pies, the lemonade in wooden buckets the cheese cake and apple dumplings