Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-13

like the incidents referred to will ever occur to bring about unpleasant criti- cism. There can no where be found better regulated or a better dressed so- ciety than just here in our good town, where the standard is elevated and true, and I for one do not believe that there is a single lovely Birmingham girl who would intentionally lower that standard. We can afford to leave promiscuous bath ing to other sections and thereby retain our self-respect. It is useless to compare an ordinary bathing pool to the surf and pillows on the coast. What is admissible at one would be ineXcusable in the other.
 This is a time of infinite variety and there are so many agreeable diversions which afford harmless pleasure, besides bathing parties made up of men and girls. There are limits to comradeship; there are lines beyond which no girl should care to go and no young gentleman should desire to see her go.
 Let us keep up the athletic craze as long as it proves healthful and harmless, notwithstanding the unjust 1nvectlves of Mrs. Charlotte Smith. But do not let us become careless about those matters which tend to the refinement and eleVa- tion of social life. Every man and wo- man is in a measure responsible Tor the social conditions which surround them, and thus far Birmingham stands out as a model city in all things which make 
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 Miss Margaret Ingels, young and ac- cornplished Kentucky girl, is said to be the sensation of the hour in her native state. She has entered actively into the present political campaign. and is using all her personal influence and eloquence for free silver. She says of herself: II m not the freak the newspapers would nave me to be have no private ends to serve in the step I have taken no desire to vote. no ambition for a political career. When this campaign is over snail go quietly back to my professional worK. I've my living to make, and know the full meaning of hard times. am paying my own expenses in this enterprise, urged by my convictions that even sim. ple young girl can help in the cause of human relief"
 One of the outgrowths of the women's congress at the Columbian exposition was the national council of Jewish wom- en, an organization which has Tor its object phila nthrophy and the perpetua- ton of the Hebrew faith in the purity or it's traditions. There are now in the va rious cities of the United States forty sections of this council, and from Mo- vember 15 to 20 there will be held con vention at the LuXedo, Fifty-ninth street and Madison avenue, New York, when each section will be represented by prominent Jewish women. Mrs. A. Ko- hut of New York will preside at this con- yention. She is a woman Of intellectual force and personal popularity. She IS fluent ready speaker and presides with dignity and fairness at the local section of which she is president. Mrs. Ellen Henrotin, Mrs. Anna Lowe Dickinson and Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon are three notable women who will address the National Council of Jewish Women when it meets in New York in November.
 
 The New Century Club composed of the ladies of Sheffield, is getting out new programme for the fall and spring The line of study is American Litera- ture From 1865 to Date" The subjects for study are interesting and instructive, as we'll as patriotic. The work Is credit to any literary club anywhere, and we are proud of the New Century club and that they are such seekers after higher literary attainments-She Reaper
 The woman's foreign missionary un- ion of the North Alabama presbytery will convene at Talladega in the First Presbyterian church Thursday morning, October 5, at 9:30 o'clock. All the socie- ties of the union are requested to notify Mrs T. l.. Plowman of Talladega of the number of their delegates and hour of their arrival at Talladega. By order of the president, Mrs. James w. Lapsley. Mrs John B. Knox, secretary and treas urer.
 Miss Von Navarro and Mrs. Walter Petzet have arrived in Birmingham and will begin their duties at the Navarra- Otteking Music school next Tuesday.
 Miss Ethel Hodgson of Mobile and Miss Mabelle McEachin of Tuskaloosa will be the guests of Miss Kate Earle today at her home on Third avenue.
 The Treble Clef club will be entertain ed Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock by Mrs. N. B. Feagin, Eleventh avenue, South Highlands.
 Miss Mary Fucker returned a few days ago from brief visit to friends at At lanta.
 Mrs. Leedy Mathews, vice principal of the Van Norman institute of New York, spent several days of the past week with Mr. and Mrs. William B. Leedy. Mrs. Mathews left for Memphis yester- day.
 Mrs. R. A. Moseley. Jr., has returned from White Sulphur Springs. MT. and Mrs. J. H. Woodward and Miss Bertha Woodward are at home again, after spending several months in 1 Canada, North Carolina and Tennessee. Mrs. Louis T. Bradfield and children are now at Hales Springs. and &tll