Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-11
OUR SOCIAL WORLD.

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 l (AlI items of social Interest will be gladly noted in these columns if sent to Mrs. George c. Ball, Nineteenth street. between l Tenth and Eleventh avenues, South High l lands. Telephone 9S8)
 | sThe concert of the Mendelssohn society will occur this evening at o'clock at the opera house, and the splendid programme published Sunday will be thoroughly well rendered by this club of superior musi- | clans, assisted by Mrs. M.~ French-Shel- don, who has kindly consented to tell musical story founded on fact, with a pretty moral
 | The fifth continental congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be held February IS, 19 20 ands21, Church of Our sFather, corner Thirteenth and l. streets, northwest Washington city. The Atlanta Journal of last Thursday has this item of interest to- thes friends in Birmingham of MT. ". B. Ryder: "The marriage of MT. Waldo Brigham Ryder and Miss Lucille Wriston was celebrated at Charlotte. N. C., last even ing. Mr. Ryder is division superintend- ent of the Southern railway and one of the best in the union. Miss Wriston was a belle of Charlotte. Several Atlanta men went to the wedding. Mr. Lucius McClesky, MT. William H. Tayloe, MT. Sam H. Hardwick and others attended the wedding ereturning to Atlanta this morning. MT. Ryder and his bride went to Florida in his special car, where they will spend their honeymoon
 The following invitation has been re- ceived by a number of MT. and Mrs. Whites friends: MT. and Mrs. H. K. White. euchre party, February IA, s o'clock Answer" The 14th instant-St. Valentines day-is the birthday of MT. H. K White, and in honor of the anni- iversary this charming card party will be given by himself and Mrs. White. |. Miss Hattie Mayer of Vicksburg, Miss, who has been the guest for several weeks l of Miss Irene Leyens, on Fifth avenue, left few days ago for Memphis, whither she goes to visit relatives and friends.
 On Wednesday evening the young lady friends of the Young Mems Hebrew as- sociation will give ribbon dance, which will be leap year dance as well, at the rooms of the association.
 The Highland Book club will meet Wednesday morning at 12 o'clock instead of 10 30 o'clock with Mrs John W. Tomlin- | son. South Highlands.
 ! ]: Every day rehearsals of "Elisa" are F nelQ, ana the STedltSL eHtDuSidSHl IS De- ting manifested in the presentation of this pretty opera next Friday evening at the sopera house. 9ts D The Little Jokers have decided not to meet again until after Lent This club of popular young girls and matrons always adjourns during the lenten season; so | until after Easter there will be no meet ping of the Little Jokers.
 r,l, ID ~G,,p " oix, the following account of the formation gin that city of a MeTy unique club. It is r to be hoped that our young gentlemen E will not organize q similar association Such a thing could not be possible in this | town of pretty fascinating girls. The E Register says E, Hon. Edward M. Robinson has just completed a unique and original legal document which. in view of the leap |'year r'season. will be read with interest by Mobile belles. The paper is inr. the form of an agreement between six well-known young men to organize themselves into an association to be known as the Anti Matrimonial club '-agtf ,sf5
 "The young men for whom the agree ment was drafted have duly signed the paper in the presence of a notary public. Their names are: Glenn D. Aunspaugh, Thomas l.. Cook, Edmund D. Huger, Le- Baron Lyons, Gayle Owen and Percy D. PettuS H s.fs,z4 -g.s .t45
 
 intent of the organizat tion:
 E The purposes of the said club shall be to avoid conjugal cares, shun domestic discord, enjoy the blessings of bachelor dom and insure to it's members the inef- fable joys of perpetual oelibacy.
 "'The membership shall be limited to the above named parties
 "The articles of agreement further stip- ulate that the annual dues to the club shall be $10; one-half of this amount to be set apart and appropria ted for an an- nual supper, which shall take place dur ing the month of October, at which time the annual meeting will also be held and officers elected. The remaining half of the dues, with interest accumulating thereon, shall constitute a sinking fund.
 "The penalty attaching to matrimony is clearly embodied in the following sec tions:
 "'Any enc of the parties hereto who shall marry shall be dropped from the roll of the club and his membership shall cease from the date of such marriage. He shall thereby forfeit and surrender all right. claim title and interest in and to any of the funds, property, accumulation or pool of the club. s.-,
 '" The member who is most faithful to the purposes and intent of the club and who is the surviving bachelor, shall be titled to and shall receive all the prop erty, money, chooses in action. sinking fund. pool and accumulation which shall be owned by the club at that time.'
 "The document also stipulates that if there be more than one surviving mem- Der at the end of twenty years all of the funds of the club shall be divided among such surviving members.
 '"The agreement is sworn to before a notary public and the signatures of the | six young men are witnessed by Messrs. | D. D. Ledyard, E. c. Barker and F. M | Robinson. The club will be incorpor- |