The age-herald., 1897-11-24

the city with her friends, Mir. and Mrs. Wm- N. Malone, on Tw -ntieth s.raeet, South Highlands, previous to going to her home at Montgomery. MT and Mrs. Cory have recently built an attractive resid= nee at the capital. s
 
 MT. and Mrs. Oscar Hundley of Hunts vile, are the guests of Nr. and Mrs. F. P. O'B1aen, on Eighteenth street.
 Miss Anne Redd is entertaining at her home on Twentieth street and Park ave- nue, Miss Leila Pope, of Atlanta
 A New Orleans exchange gives this account of some of the supeTst.tions of the Creole girls;
 There Is am old Creole legend that .he girl that looks into her mirror by candle light risks the loss of her lever. 4 Creole girl will never brush and comb her hair at night before the mirror A universal superstition which holds it's own, even in our own prosaic time in New orleans, forbids a bride 10 see herself in he mir TOT, after her toilette is completed. It used to be the custom not so very long ago in this city to cover with White sheets all the looking glasses in the chamber of death. custom which doubt less had its origin in the old snpersti- tion tha. some afflighted mortal might behold in one of the mirrors the pale and shrouded corpse standing by his side. Happily this old ghostlygepstom is now fastly falling into dzsuetude.
 ''Superstitions. however of less ghosit1y character cluster d he mir ror and are familiar to all in the French quarter. To break mirror is every- where considered am omen of i'll luck. Seven years of bad luck is sure to fol- low" In the French town the supe'si- ton holds that the evil spell may be ! broken by throwing l;he pieces of the mirror in the Mississippi, and many a time the writer has seen some old family darky rushing down to the rver edge to throw in the b,oksn bits of old mirror glass. Seven years of trouble, but no dealth." Is sure to follow the mere crack ing of a looking glass. Ancrher quaint superstition is that if a mirror falls from the wall without breaking. 1t is piiesage of approaching death. To avert the catastrophe the mirror must be in salt and Mississippi water"
 Mir. J A. Patterson who sustained such serious injuries from a fall from the steps of the Allan building, on Morris avenue on the 17th inst, Is not improv- ing. He is closely confined to his bed, and suffers greatly notwithstanding the attention of kind friends and the best medical science.
 The regular rehearsals of the orstorio, 'rThe Messiah" which will be given at St. lMary'ts on the 30th of December are held every Monday evening in the Sun day school room of she church. The work of the soloists and chorus is won derfuMy good; nothing better in a mu- sical way has ever been accomplished in Birmingham. There will be three of these grand choral performances given at St Mary's during the winter, ''The Mes s'ah, "<the Passion music, by Gnaun, or Mozart's Requiem" and Gounod's Re demption.'
 Little Miss Cordele Baldwin celebrated her fourth birthday on the 22d instant by entertaining nalany of her young play mates The children had @ very entoya- ble day, and little Miss Baldwin was an ideal hostess
 The Local Federation of Women's clubs held iss second regular meeting yesterday afternoon at Elss hall. The Federation was callsd to order at o'clock by the president, Mrs J. Morgan Smith, who presided during the exercises. MnN L. J. Haley, secretary of the federa- ',ion, assisted Mrs Smith in directing the
  short, bright talks and papers upon sub jects of interest to club women. Real ism in Literature'' was the subject dis cussed firYt by rhe various representa- lives of the different clubs, which was followed by papers and talks upon 'Fhe Aims of the Local Federation" Many helpful suggestions were made by many women, which will probably bear abund- st f,,t J,o nvf tion meeting will occur in January. A committee was appointed to consist of the president of the different clubs, and the officers of the local federation to look into the matter of enlarging and improving the present consti:ution of the federation. It was nearly dark when the women adjourned.
 The execuve board of the State Fed eration of Womans clubs will convene at Birmingham the 16 h of December.
 The Young Ladies Society of the South Hig'halnd Presbyterian church will give a graphaphone party, a very unique en- terSa 'nment, next Tuesday evening at oel-ck al the residence of Rev. and Mrs John Barbour, sEleventh avenue, South Highlands. Light refreshments will be served during the evening.
 The beautiful new home of MT. and Mrs Allan Wardlaw Haskell, on High land avenue, South Highlands, was brilliant last night with lights, music. flowers and the presence of hundreds of representative men and women of all ages, for Miss Martin was being formally welcomed into Birmingham society. The decorations were unusually elaborate and artistic, and served as lovely background to all the elegant furnish ings, frescoing and draperies of ths handsome home. In the reception hall there were chrysanthemums of various colors at every point of vantage, min gled with smy1ax. The parlors glowsd with hundreds of pink roses; the mantels were banked with them; the vases were