The age-herald., 1897-10-13

in tble 4ah,A of accounts the crusty old bachelor and the mI.re man of pleasure, who haunts his club ead asWays monop- olizes the warmest corner
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 The young gentlemen of the Southern club are arranging for an informal CO., tilllon for next Friday evening. to bs danced at their club house.
 MT. and Mrs. William A. Chenoweth and children have returned from an ex- tended visit to the north and east.
 The women of Greater New York are at present organizing political clubs, which are intended to further the in- terests of one or the other of the four candidates for the mayeralty of New York city. These women propose to take an active and aggressive part in the municipal campaign which is now stir ring the metropolis from it's center to it's remotest suburb.
 |. Graves will reach home the latter part of thisweek.
 Mrs. Gentry Hillman Is the guest of her relatvies, MT. and Mrs. T. T. Hill man, on Sixth avenue.
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 The Chicago Tribune of Saturday says: Mrs. Katherine Hodges died Thursday of apoplexy, aged 69 years. She was a literary worker, a member of the Illl- nois Woman's Press association, presi- dent of the American Authors Protect i've Publishing company, which she cr- ganized in the fall of 1893; representa- tive of the American Authors Protect i've association at the Worlds Fair, with headquarters in the organization room; author of several books including a History of Colorado History of New York; Fifty Years a Queen,' Sixty Years a Queen and Life of Mrs. Henry Ward Beechers' of whom she was an in- innate friend for over twenty-five years. Mrs. Hodges was also a writer on the New York press, a member of Sorosis, later editor of the home department of the old St. Louis Times Still later she 
 regular contributor of the Rocky Moun- tain News, and also published a weekly paper of her own called the Household. She was a native of Kent, England, coming to America in her youth, but made frequent visits to her native land. A son and daughter survive her, Frank Hodges. of Chicago, and Mrs. Minnie Haines, of New Jersey
 Miss Elise G. Ball is spending a few days with relatives at Atlanta.
 The Womans Missionary Union of Presbyterian churches of Birmingham and vicinity, will hold it's second meet ing in the Third Presbyterian church, corner Avenue F and Twenty-second street, today at p. m. Impressions from the Gadsden meeting win be given.
 
 Miss Lottie Coffin, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Coffin, left yesterday afternoon for Talladega, where she sang last night for the benefit of the Ala bama Chatauqua. Miss Coffin may spend several days at Talladega.
 Prof F. Grambs and his orchestra went to Talladega yesterday afternoon Chatauqua.
 The Atlanta Woman's club held it's first meeting for the season on Monday afternoon in their handsome club rooms which have been greatly improved and altered during the summer. Mrs Charles Read, the new president of the club, is woman of brilliant intellectual gifts and attractive, modest, tactful manner. Mrs. Read is first cousin of eX-Gov. Thos. G. Jones, of Alabama, and previous to her marriage was Miss Mary Brant, of Virginia. In her ad- dress delivered before the Atlanta club on Monday afternoon Mrs. Read ex- pressed these admirable sentiments sentiments which indicate that she isr possessed of that proper club spirit. which means progress and advance ment. Mrs. Read said;
 ''So then, though all the members of Q society be eager to attain a given object, a certain concert of action is indispensa- ble to its accomplishms Such concert of action we will call cooperation.
 "Co-operation!
 'That is the word which had I the power I would inscribe in letters of gold upon the walls of the meeting room of every woman's club in existence. When women as a body shall have learned the full import of that word, when the might and force of its significance shall have penstrated to the depths of the consciousness, then will thay have mas tered one of the grandest lessons which they have to learn
 "Men have long since learned the les son of concert of action and are con stantly employing it fin ever broadening fields. Witness its applica tion in busi-