The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-08
In the Social Realm of
Birmingham and Elsewhere

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In the Social Realm of
Birmingham and Elsewhere
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Beassley will leave
Thursday for visit to Kansas City,
ST Louis and Louisville They VIII be
absent week or ten days.
iIa
Mrs J E. Austin, who has been very
i'll at her home i'm the city, is improy-
ing.
Dr.lJohn D. Dabney reached B.Gming-
ham last might after a, stay of many
weeks in Mississippi, where he bravaly
fought the yellow fever endemic in that
state
Mrs. James Marshall Head and Mrs.
George M. Darrow, of Tennessee, will ar
rive today and will be the guests Of
Mrs. Harry Jones, at her home on the
South Highlands for some time.
Mr.. Lundle sloss is visiting relatives
at Faunsdale.
An exchange says:
The wives of the cabinet ministers do
not like the change made in the White
House social programme heretofore the
series of card receptions held by the
president and his willie have been he'd
Thursday evenings. Now they aaIe an
nounced for Wednesday The change was
made at the Suggestion of President and
Mrs. Mckinley, who desired to- nave
Thursday an open date, for the reason
that 1T is prayer meeting night in n.a.ly
all the Protestant churches, including the
Metropolitan M .thodist church. az which
they both are regular attendants. The
president and Mrs. Mckinley are fortified
in their determination by the precedent
by Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, whose official
receptions were held on Wednesday
nights for the same riason that has led
ITO a change in the programme followed
for almost twenty years, with the excep-
tfon of ONE year in the Harrison admins
tration The objection of tbs. cabinet
ladies grows out of the fact that their
regular weekly cat homes are ON
Wednesday, and they fear after rectiv-
ing gus SITS at Their own ONES, during the
entire afternoon, they wi he too Ga;igued
ITO do ths wor kali over again at the
White House in the evening. The wives
of the ministers will have to take Tues
day or Thursday for their day" and as
either choice would interfere with other
social ar; nngementS of long standing
they are-in quite a quandary.
Mrs. Richard Ze'sing, of Chicago will
visit Birmingham friends at an early
day.
The Pelham chapter of the Daughters
of thu Confederecy win meet this after
noon at o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Robert H. Pearson.
mir. Baxter Sloss is the GUEST off re1a-
tives in north Alabama
Mr.. and Mrs w. w. Bussey, of Co.
lumbus, Ca, have recently moved to
Birmingham, and are occupying THE
Nixon residence, corner Sixth avenue
and Twerty- first street. Mrs. Busssy is
a sister of MIR. w. G. Estes and both her.
self and Mr.. Bussey will receive a warm
welcome to the city by new ard old
friellds.
The Tuesday Whist club was en.er-
ltaGned yesterday afternoon by Mrs H.
H. Mayberry, at her home on the South
Highlands. The prize, an exquisits pair
of Dresden china vases was wen by
Mrs. A. T. Henley. Alter enjoying re
freshments, the club adjourned, to inset
mex. with Mrs E. NJ TuJtwiler.
Miss Mabelie McEachim, after a de-
lghtful visit to Miss jamie McLester,
Miss Mamie Earle and Miss Kate
Smi n, mas returned to her home alt Tus-
caloosa.
The ladies of the Temple Emanuel
held an important and largely ATTENDED
meeting Monday afternoon, ait the tenn
pie, when THE following officers of the
Ladies' Aid society were eleced: Pres
ddent, Rabbi M. Newfield; vics-presl-
dent, Mrs. ]. Flies; secretary, Mrs. S.
Bernstein treasurer, Mrs. Ferd Caheen.
1t was decided ait this meeting that the
society shall in future convene quarter
ly ins cad of monthly, and ths first Mon
day afternoon in January will be the
time of the next regular meeting.
Yesterday afternoon, from 2 to 4
O'Clock, Miss Ida May Dargin err ertacn-
ed several of her young flfends ait
handsome luncheon at lhe Morris hotel,
complimentary 10 Miss Carrie Paittersoli
and Miss Adele Wynn, of Gallatin, Tenn.
Miss Dargins other guests were Misses
Mary Glare Miner, Lillian Hughes and
Julistte Whelan.
Misses Adele Wynn and Carrie Palt-
terson of Gallatin, Tenn, who have been
The guests of Mrs. E. w. Rucker and
Mrs. John B. Boddie for several days,
will return tomorrow ITO their homes.
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