Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-29

large, embraces many valuable volumes
and relics. There is what is said to be
the best folio of Shakespeare in America,
a mummy from Egypt the favorite gun
or Daniel Boone and the mould used in
casting cannon balls at the battle of
New Orleans. This casting was the work
OF Montgomery Bell, an iron founder,
for whom an academy is named at Nash
vile. This effort on the part of Ten
nessee women to place what has been ac-
complished by the intellectual men and
women OF their state in a proper light
before other sections of the country will
certainly prove of great and permanent
value to the whole south.
Speaking of women and womens
achievements, could anything be more
pathetic than the account given by an
English traveller of the neglected condi-
ton of the grave of George Eliot by all
critics conceded to be the greatest wo-
man writer the world has known:
1T Is Just fifteen years since George
Eliot was laid in her last resting place
at Highgate, and already the grave of
the famous novelist exhibits signs of
neglect There is only one living emblem
to be seen, and that is a spray of ivy
which has crept from the tomb of George
Henry Lewes to cling around the base
of the column erected to the memory of
the woman he loved"
The Philadelphia Times Is responsible
for this paragraph concerning a unique
luncheon club of Philadelphia which has
proven successfully and to the eminent
satisfaction of its members that an APP
petizing luncheon can be served for a
small amount of money:
"A luncheon club, organized just for
the fun of the thing but which has
proved to ten members of Philadelphia's
most aristocratic circle that charming
meal can be prepared for that number at
the moderate outlay of IS, Is the present
talk of all those unfortunate enough not
to belong to 1t.
Many who are in the habit of giving
affairs of this sort into the hands of a
caterer will declare that q decent guam
tity and quality at the specified price
would be out of the question, but know
ing the various menus and having figures
to prove that not a penny more than SIS
has been expended on any individual one,
even the strongest unbeliever Is obliged
to acknowledge her mistake. For in
stance, at one of these affairs, the dishes
served were chicken bouillon shad beef
steak with potatoes macaroni Roman
punch calves brains, served as you
would .sweetbreads, lettuce salad, wine
jelly and lady fingers and coffee. All
butter used In cooking is taken into ac-
count, and any wine so used is charged.
OF course the various dainties are made
at home, the Roman punch in the fore
going having been prepared by the hos
tess herself. The limited margin neces-
states personal shopping and many call
culations with paper and pencil before
the affair takes place. One ambitious
lady served terrapin at her luncheon
first, for the sake of saying she had 1t on
the S. schedule, but 1t was not passed
around in such unlimited quantity that
any of the guests were surfeited Some
times there are cucumbers with the fish,
but more frequently there are not, hot
house vegetables being used just a wee
bit beyond the limit as a rule At the
conclusion of the meal the hostess reads
off her expenditures, and If even a penny
has gone over the line there is great to
do about 1t. All the members are young
married women, who, Of course. entertain
in their own homes, and as there is no
restriction placed on the appointments
and decorations the daintiest china and
finest linen convert these gay little re-
pasts into epicurean dreams that six
times the amount spent on them would
not accomplish If 1t were expended in one
of our fashionab BILE restaurants"