Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-31

Collegiate institute and found a most pleasant and cultured gentleman of the old school. We learned from the chill d1ren around the station that there were twenty-five pupils in school. ten of whom had felt the weight of the rod that day.
 This day will long be remembered by the happy party of picnickers. W.
 Mrs. Louis V. Clark and little daugh- ter, after a pleasant visit of several weeks in Selma, have returned home.
 
 The trolley ride given by the auxiliary of the Mercy Home on Wednesday night proved a great success financially as well as socially. Two large cars were filled with young and old, who enjoyed the ride to East Lake, the brief stop there and the return ride to the city. Refreshments were served at the lake, and some of the young folks participated in the dance for short while at the pa- wilton. The party returned to the city about midnight.
 Yesterday morning at Il o'clock the intimate friends of Miss Mamie Morrow gave her beautiful breakfast at the handsome home of MT. and Mrs. Joseph R. Smith, Nineteenth street. South Highlands. It was a fitting compliment from a bevy of lovely girls to one of their number, who on next Wednesday evening will be married and leave few hours afterward for her future home in South Carolina. The decorations at the breakfast were especially ornate and at tractive. The center of the table held a large collection of pink roses, bright ened with graceful punches of ribbon grass; at either end there were vases filled with sweet pea blossoms, while embroideries bonbons, candelabra, cut glass and silver added to the beauty of niptllra f. ed in water colors by Miss Madge Par sons and were very handsome and ap- propriate. The designs were In keeping with the sentimental interest of the oc- casion, Miss Morrow's card being adorned with a fair girl, in bridal array, while others were decorated with Cu- pds, hearts, etc. The menu was elabo- rate and served in many courses. The guests of honor were Miss Mamie Mor- row, Misses Kate and Willie Morrow, Miss Queenie Hagood of South Carolina, sister of the groom-to-be, and Miss Ger trude Hagood, also of South Carolina, niece of MT. Hagood. The following young ladies rendered Miss Morrow the charming breakfast: Misses Sarah Ro- gan, Margaret Smith, Lucille Smith, Kate Earle, Mary Clare Miner, Jennie Porter, Lucy Hagood, Laura Hagood, Anna Morrow, Mary George Linn, Mamie Pearson and Zemma Webb.
 Miss Mary Armstrong will have a sum- mer class of young children, beginning the 1st of June, at her home, corner of Nineteenth street and Park avenue, which she will teach during the summer months.
 Miss Parks of Scottsboro is the guest of Mrs. J. H. Francis on Nineteenth street.
 The Treble Clef club will meet Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock with Mrs. James Bowron, South Highlands.
 All the preliminary arrangements for the bicycle meet on Monday afternoon point to complete success. No doubt large crowd will witness the races and various diversions of the bicyclers. The procession will form at 4:30 o'clock and the programme will begin promptly at D. m. The following young ladies will p1ait the May pole ribbons on their bi- cycles at the meet Monday afternoon: Misses Sallie Winston, Annie Roberts, Mollie Cullom, Katie Smith, Mamie Moore, Roy Head, Margaret Laird and Alice Moore.
 journ of several weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Slater, has returned to her home at Decatur.
 A Fort Smith paper gives this beauti- ful response to the toast, 5"The Doctors Wife and Sweetheart" of pr. c. Travis Drennen at a recent banquet given to the Arkansas Medical society As pr. Drennen was formerly a resident of Bir- mingham, and still has here host of friends, who watch with interest and pleasure his steady advance in his new home. 1t will be eagerly read and keenly appreciated. The pleasure and apprecia- tion will be increased when they learn that 1t has come into my hands through a young Birmingham gentleman who has just returned from Hot Springs, and Is published without the knowledge of pr. Drennen:
 Dr. c. Travis Drennen said:
 "Mr Toast Master, Ladies and Gentle men: l can assure you that the honor which you have seen fit to confer by calling upon me to respond to the toast of the Doctors Wife and Sweetheart in no wise compensates or recompenses for the embarrassment under which I now labor. For four days you have left your wives, sweethearts, homes and mothers in the interest of science, in the interest of suffering humanity and your fellow man.
 .Since coming within this banquet hall you have listened with unabated interest to the distinguished speakers who have so kindly entertained us with wit, wis dom, good humor, logic and eloquence. So feel little inclined to deliver @ toast of any kind whatsoever But to fail to respond to the toast of the Doctors Wife and Sweetheart would prove me to be recreant to every trust, truant and dis loyal to every principle of manhood. If you will only follow me- tired and weary, as we travel to the northern hills of Ala bama, there will I show you in an humble home the wife of country doctor. She Is today and ever has been the dearest. sweetest and best friend in the world to me. It Is to her that am indebted more than to all the world besides for every lofty inspiration, for every noble thought, for every sweet impression and happiest