Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-02

men and prominent upbuilders of this prosperous city.
 Atlanta has been very fortunate this summer in having at the splendid Grand Opera house an excellent troupe, which has presented. in the most satisfactory manner the best, catchiest and most tuneful of the light operas. Fine au- diences have encouraged the manager, and for eight weeks the Grand has been almost nightly filled with fashiona pie, cultivated people. Even during thls fearful spell of weather the opera house has been made comparatively comfort able with an arrangement which fills the auditorium with cold air from the same openings which furnish hot air from the furnaces during. the winter season.
 Some of the middle-aged men and women of Atlanta dress very differently from those of similar years in other southern towns and after becoming ac- uiainted with the innovation IL com qnends itself to your taste and Judgment. The mature women of the smart ser at fire themselves in the same airy. brightly -colored organdies on summer afternoons as those worn by the younger members of society, and their hats are as flower covered and plume-adorned, yet 1t IS all so tastefully managed that the erect is satisfactory and the women appear younger in consequence, and not unnec- essarily frivolous or foolish. Some or the y-haired, elderly men wear the cool fresh looking linen and crash Snlrts, with ian shoes and all the essential fea- lures of such an outfit, and look remark ably handsome and well dressed as shey ride down to their offices after preaklast.
 Miss Elizabeth Shelley of Alabama, the lovely young daughter Of Gen. ana Mrs Charles M. Shelley, has found ner so, journ in Europe especially attractive ana has had certain social courtesles extenu. ed her that do not always fall to the iot of American girls. She was presented at the last reception given by queen VIC toria and her costume is thus descrlpeo by London paper:
 Another maidenly costume that LOOK ed extremely well was the dress worn by Miss Shelley. It was quite poetic enough for scion of that gifted family in it's blending of white and pale SOIL color. The white satin bodice had an embroidery of silvered tulle, With orchias and butterflies In the center, anu .nS train. a fiowered brocade In soft cool tones, was lined with pale primrose SIX and turned back with large. cluster or orchids and pulling Of tulle.
 Ireceived few days ago list of sum. mer students at the Buffalo School or Pedapogy. and among the number are several talented Birmingham women who have already attained eminent dls- tinction as successful teachers ana ac- complished women. Miss Mary A. Ca- halan is there, also Misses glolbel broWh and Annette Mustin. Besides Misses ca halan. Brown and Muslin Mrs E. N Al len. now of Yonkers, N. r., but formerly of Birmingham is taking a, course or lectures at this famous school. .
 xrau MonteagIe, Tenn, a mass meeting or Women's clubs" to which Alabama sent three charming, cultivated women as delegates--Mrs. Willis J. Milner Of Bir- mingham Mrs George Eager ana Mrs. A. 0. Ware of Montgomery. The object of this convention was to discuss the work and methods of the various literary clubs of the south and not to consider the formation of southern federation, as was at first understood by the Wom- ems clubs of Alabama. Reports from the different clubs were in every way satisfactory and encouraging and gave evidence of the rapid advancement or southern women, not only in literature, but along all helpful lines of endeavor. Mrs. Jamss Jackson of Atlanta, strong, intellectual woman, presided with great dignity and charming womanli- ness as chairman of the convention. The following delegates represented the prominent women's clubs of the south: Mrs, James Jackson, Atlanta, Nineteenth Century club and Every Saturday club; Mrs. E. G. McCabe, Atlanta, Woman's club: Mrs. Willis J. Miner, Birmingham, Mrs. George Eager, Mrs. A. O. Ware, Montgomery, State Federation of Worn- ems Clubs of Alabama; Mrs. Oscar John ston. Memphis, Cosmopolitan club; Mrs. G. M. Garvey, Memphis, Beethoven club; Mrs. B. F. Turner, Memphis, Nineteenth Century club; Mrs. Mason, Memphis, Local Council of Women; Miss Hattie Shuster Shreveport, La, Hypatia club; Mrs. s. M. Ward, Jefferson, Tex, Ladies' Review club; Mrs. Caroline Summey, Clarksyille. Tenn; Literary club; Mrs. Ernest George, Meridian, Miss, Fort nightly Reading club; Mrs. K. C. Kretsh- mar. Oxford, Miss, Woman's Book club; Miss Bethune, Milledgevilie, Ga., Wom- ans club; Mrs. Laura Dayton Eakin, Chattanooga, Tenn, Womans club; Mrs. pr. Drake, Chattanooga, Tenn. Kosmos; Mrs. Robert Somervile, Greenyille, Miss, Hypatia club; Mrs B. A. Kieser, Jordan Ky, .Woman's Literary club; Mrs Heard Elberton, Ga, Sorosis; Mrs J. Q. Sweeney, Paris, Tenn, Fortnightly club; Mrs. Millen, Knoxville, Tenn, Woman's g club; Mrs. Nj. B. Pitcher, Nashville, Tenn, Review Central and Brownings o1uhs -. r
 Such an aggregation of earnest, force fuI. intellectual women necessarily means much for the advancement and progress of southern women. The question or Corning a general federation of southern women's clubs was introduced by Mrs. Willis J. Miner of Birmingham, and was Afaousaod al lenOth hv the dpIegates. no