Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-24

| Miss Anthony will lecture Saturday even-
 ing, the 26.h, at Seals hall.
 l
 | Miss Annie Curry of Huntsville, who | visited last winter the family of Mir. and | Mrs. Yancey Newman, was married few | days ago to Mir. Alec Dyas, prominent
 young gentleman of Nashville, Tenn. The | wedding occurred at the home of MT. | Daniel Turner, father of Mrs. Robert w.. | Newman, in Huntsville, and Rev. Dr. J. | M. Bannister performed the ceremony. | The bridal party stood before an altar ar- | ranged in the handsome rooms of Mr. | Turner's home, and it was elaborately | decorated with smilax. The brides gown | was an elegant white brocaded satin. | Miss Lucy Turner, who during recent | visit to Birmingham received very much | social attention, was the maid of honor to | the bride, who is her cousin. MT. and | Mrs. Robert w Newman, Mir. John Patton
 and MT. J. J. Kettig went to Huntsville to | attend the wedding. They returned a day | or two ago. MT. and Mrs. Alec Dyns will
 reside in Nashville, the home of the groom. l The wedding was one of the oveliest ever
 witnessed in Huntsville, and Birmin 2 ham
 friends who were present give enthusiastic | accounts of it. Mrs. Dyas made many friends in our city as Miss Garry, who | send congratulations and good wishes to | the happy young couple.
 |
 The young ladies of the younger set are | much interested planning and arranging
 
 | young gentlemen friends St. Valentines l Day. This they are anxious to do in re- | turn for the many social courtesies extended l to them by the gentlemen. And cer- | tainIy the members of the different social | clubs have been exceedingly generous and | considerate this winter, and have contrib l uted constantly to the pleasure Of the young | belles of BirminGha The only possible | objection to this generous entertaining on | the part of young gentlemen is that it, in a measure, seems to discourage private parties at the homes of the young ladies.
 
 Mrs. Robert P. McDayid, who now re- sides in Montgomery, yet whom we still insist upon claiming as belonging to Bir-
 ming ham, is h the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Smith, Jr., on the South Highlands. Of course she is receiving the warmest welcome from crowds of frie Dds in this, her old home.
 
 There is now being made in nearly every church strenuous efforts to improve the music and to secure the best voices and organists possible. This is as it should be,
 and soon it will be the exception to be tor tured with poor choir. The young women of Birmingham who have musical gifts are beginning to improve every opportunity for their cultivation. This, of course, IS essential to success. No matter what the natural voice may be, it can have little hope for the future unless cultivated. beaut- ful voice is God given talent, and it is the duty of every man or woman possessing
 such gift to improve it as far as in them lies.
 Miss Ruffner is now studying and prac- ticing with ambition and energy, and with her remarkably fine natural voice she will certainly achieve great things in the future.
 It is with the individual largely what time will bring in such matters, and great an ticipatious must be realized iu Miss Ruff ner's future with training and study. |
 At St. Mary's church last Sunday Mir. Sterling Lanier sang delightfully."- and gave great pleasure to a fine congregation. MT. Lanier will now sing regularly with St. Mary's choir, which has one of the best | quartettes in Birmingham. Mrs. T. o. Smith is soprano, Miss Cornelia Meade, contralto; MT. Sterling Lanier and MT. J. | A. Yeates, tenors, and MT. C. T. Randall, are about twenty five cboristers belonging | to the vested choir. The music at St. | Mary's is, with this material, necessarily
 attractive and of high order.
 | The reception given by Mesdames kabb, | Kelly and Nix tuesday afternoon at the l Morris to the ladies of the Southside Bap | tist church and the one rendered the pas- | tors and officers of the Presbyterian | churches of Birmingham at the First Pres- | byterian church on Tuesday evening were | steps taken in the right direction. There | is nothing that makes us all better and more kindly than our association with hu- l manity; and every church grows in pro- l portion as its member know and feel for | each other. The social instinct is so strong | in men and women that disregard of that | side of church life will surely limit the use- | fitness and power of the strongest congre- | gations
 | The dance of the Philhedonian club op | Tuesday evening was one of the largest and
 most agreeable that this club of popular young gentlemen have given this winter. | It occurred In the rooms of the Commer- cial club, which are also used by the Phil l hedonians. The reading and reception | rooms, the dressing rooms and ball room 1 were all bright and cherry and wonder | fully attractive when filled with all the l lovely girls and handsome men who were l present at the dance on Tuesday evening. | Tie dresses of the young ladies were espe-
 cially stylish and becoming, and no one
 could watch that gathering of dignified. | courteous, well-mannered young ladies l and gentlemen without feeling a pardona- | ble pride in a cty-aud, mark you, a new l city-which can produce such an aggrega- | ton. Birmingham has many reasons for | just pride and congratulation, but nothing which surpasses that in the good manners l and good morals of her young people. No | city can surpass her in this. And, if
 may be permitted to digress, no city, large | or small, old or new, can claim a social | life on a higher plane than ours, or one
 which is made up of men and women of | purer lives or more cultivated brains. At the Philhedonian dance were several visiting young ladies, who are adding to | the brightness of Birmingham life-Misses
 Moore of Kentucky, Miss Guenther of At
 lanta, Miss Sayre of Montgomery and Miss | Hendley of Tennessee. Mir. Charles Davis
 lead the cotillion, which continued until l after midnight.
 | The chaperones were Mir. and Mrs. B. | M. Starks, Mir. and Mrs. Richard F. John- 1 ston, MT. and Mrs. B. G. Chandler and l Mrs. George .. Ball.
 l The following young people were pres- l ent: Miss Ola Roden and Charles Schoolar, | Miss Florrie Roden and Charles Davis, l Miss Lucy Hagood and J. T. Patton, Miss I Lucy Harrell and E. T. Wilcox, Miss Mat I tie Sherrod and Owen Phelan, Miss Lila | Smith and Sale Phelan, Miss Bos- | sic O'Brien and Smith Crawford, |, l Miss ASna Lane and W. Prescott, | Miss Maggie Guenther and J. K. Warren i,
 Miss Kathleen Hooper and 0. Leeper, Miss
 Katie Bell and Ernest Reed, Miss Sayre
 and R. ". Howard, Mics strother and E.. l Ware, Miss Margie Hooper and Walter 1 Fowlkes, Miss Hendley and Sam Cowan, {,