Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-19

| anu lONelY WlIn Du1CUeS UT uOBWOOu DlOn- | somS, and delicious refreshments were
 served after the literary exercises. The l Cadmean circle will tender an afternoon reception to the club women of Birming- | ham and suburbs on the 18th of May | from to o'clock at the home of MT. and
 Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, on Highland ave-
 nue.
 Mrs. George weatherly of Montgomery
 is visiting MT. and Mrs James Weather ly at their South Highland home. |
 MT Jacob Mauler of St. Louis will be | here next week to organize dancing l class. The time and place will be pub
 lished next week. Mrs Mauler was called | to Washington few years ago to teach
 the ladies of the White House.
 Miss Adde Everhart of Decatur, Ga, | and Ensign Lay Hampton Everhart, U.
 s. navy, are visiting their sister, Mrs. l Robert Cunningham, 509 Twenty-second
 street. Miss Ada Bosarte DeKalb of | Syracuse. N. Y. is also the guest of Mrs. I Cunningham. Miss Everhart is one of 1 the most gifted and cultivated artists in | the south, and her exquisite work in DOT | traiture, china and tapestry has evoked | genuine enthusiasm wherever exhibited. The Clionian circle met on Friday af- | ternoon with Mrs. Warner M. Newbold. | Besides the members, there were two | guests present, Mrs. Edwin Thomas and l Mrs. Young of Thomas Furnace. Mrs. | Robert Cunningham was historian for l the afternoon, and the subject selected | was Before, During and After the Rev | olutionary War" The quotations were | from Paul Haynes poems. Mrs. Florence | Randolph read paper upon "The Gifted | Men and Women of South Carolina" and | Mrs. T. l.. Robertson read Paul Haynes | "Voices of the Pines" After the literary | programme delicious refreshments were
 served by Mrs. Newbold. Mrs. New bolds home was a-b1ossom with countless
 roses on the meeting of the clionian cir l cle Friday afternoon, which were sent | her by Mrs. w. T. Warrington of Pratt vile. These beautiful flowers were in 1 such profusion that they were estimated the whole house was delightful with their l fragrance and beauty The Chonlans will be the guests of Mrs, s. L. Ledbetter
 on next Friday afternoon,
 Among the interesting articles to be | published in the Art edition of the | State Herald there will be 1 chatty Washing ton letter, relating to so- | ciety people and events from Mrs. Oscar | Underwood, one of the league members; | extracts from charming paper on Lon | don domestic life by Mrs. Chappell Cory; l a Paris letter; notes on art student life | in New York and Paris and poems by | Maud Andrews and Samuel Minturn Peck. The Misses Cowles of New Haven | have contributed some of their beauti- | full pen and ink work and MT. Laurence | Buck of Chicago will send a landscape. | The league students are hard at work getting up the special original designs | for the advertisements of the merchants | in town and the sketches illustrating life | at the league
 This Sunday evening at their hall on !, otr he l brew association will hold their annual
 meeting for the election of officers and | the nearing of reports from the various | committees. MT. David Marx of Atlanta will deliver an address this evening be- 1 fore the Young Mems Hebrew associa- | ton. ..rrk
 On Thursday afternoon Mrs. John c. l Henley gave a delightful and most en- | joyabIe account of her recent European | travels at the First Presbyterian church, | at the earnest request of the Ladies Aid society of that church. Mrs. Henley gave | a very graphic and eloquent description | of her last summers soJourn In Europe, in the most thoroughly charming and womanly way, which was greatly en- ioyed by an ppreciativesaudience. few-fiye or sx-close friends, all of whom are lawyers, determined short while ago to furnish a room at the Hill- man hospital, where patients could be provided with every necessary comfort. This venture has proved very gratify- ing success, and this room furnished and cared for by the lawyers Is now as at tractive in every way as room in well appointed home A handsome set Of fur niture has just been donated and 1t will immediately be put into service, as per sons who have heard of it's comfort are already applying for. the use of the room eta in hn pital for treatment. This Is a great charity, and the example set by these gentlemen should be followed by other men who are financially able to contrib ute something to sick and suffering hu- manity.
 Mrs. Robert Cunningham has been in- yited-and has accepted the invitation to lecture before the Lyeeum league at an early date.
 The Nineteenth Century club was en- tertained on Wednesday afternoon by Miss Mary Johnston The life and writ ings of Sarah Orme Jewett were discuss ed by the members. Miss Rinn.e Leigh Head read q biography of Miss Jewett. and Miss Hannah Elliott and Miss Elise Ball gave selections from her writings. After enjoying delicious refreshments l the club adjourned to meet next with Misses Ada and Eloise Johnston Miss Kate Hopkins has returned from l a two months visit to relatives at Lfv- | jngston and in other parts of Alabama. "Ben Hur, a Story of the Christ" will be illustrated by Rev A w Lamar, D. D.. in brilliant and Instructive lecture at the Southsde Baptist church next Tuesday ey ening, April 2f pr. Lamar is widely known as an eloquent and mag netic speaker. The lecture will be un- usually instructive and impressive. as pr. Lamar illustrates the thrilling scenes of Ben fur" by gorgeous stereopticon views with calcium gas lights. There will be sixty-five views, all of which were made in England and are IS feet square.
 
 Anthony Hope. the famous novelist, will soon marry the pretty English &C., tress, Evelyn Willard, who Is now playing Princess F1avia in the London production of "The Prisoner of Zenda."
 The following very handsome invita- ton has been received:
 "Mr and Mrs. A. l. Haltiwanger re- ouest tho honor of VOLT presence at the