The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19
ENGAGEMENT OF MISS SMITH
 AND MR. SAMUEL EARLE
Daughters of American Revolution Are Making Elaborate Plans for Colo nial Tea-oUaint Costumes
 and Powdered coiffeures.
BY ANNIE KENDRlcK WALKER.

-HE marriage of Miss Lucille Smith t0 daughter of Mrs. J. Morgan Smith,
 and Mr. Samuel Lowndes Earle, will take place Thursday afternoon, April 30, at the residence of the brides brother, $. smith,
 The wedding will be quiet one and will be attended by the immediate mem- bers of the two families and a few friends
 Mrs Mortimer Harvie Jordan issued invitations the past week to the marriage of her daughter. Amy Louise to MT. Charles Hugh Gothran on the evening of Wednesday, the twenty-ninth of April at o'clock at the Church of the Advent. Church cards were enclosed. The cere- mony will be followed by a reception at the Hillman. The wedding will be pre- ceeded by a series of events.
 The matinee recital of Mrs. Martha s. Gielow of Alal anna, and Mir Aptommas, at the Columbia theatre Wednesday after noon in Washington, brought out most gratifying audience, as the performance was for the benefit of St. Matthews church, and given under the auspices of that fashionable congregation, says the Post. Every box was taken and the lower portion of the theatre comfortably filled. MT. Aptommas, whose reputation as harpist has been splendidly maintained during his present visit to Washington, received generous applause, while Mrs. Gielow who, since her last appearance in Washington has completed success ful season in England, has lost none of the pathos or mirth which are equally strong in the dialect readings and plan tation stories which have given her more than national fame. Both artists were heartily applauded.
 In the audience were the Italian ali- bassador and Mime. Mayor des Planches, the Mexican ambassador and Mime. Azpi- roz, Nj. and Mime. de Margerie and M. Boeufve, of the French embassy; the Peruvian minister and Mime. Calderon, the Argentine minister and Mime. Garcia Merou, Justice and Mrs. White, the Misses Riggs, Senator and Mrs. Black burn, Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins and the Misses Perkins, MT. and Mrs. Porter Morse, Mrs. Atwell, MT. and Mrs James r. Barbour, MT. and Mrs. Preston Sands Mir. and Mrs. Emile Montgomery the Misses Patten, Miss Greer, MT. and Mrs. William Irwin, Mir. and Mrs. w. J. Mil Ter. Mrs. Taylor and Miss Taylor, Col. and Mrs. Ried, MT. c. c. Wauters, MT. Hartley Soule and Miss Soule, and Dr. and Mrs. William F. Byrus.
 Mrs. R. D. Johnston, the Alabama re- gent of the Mt. Vernon association Is greatly encouraged in the work of the furnishing of the Alabama room, a work hat haa nm hU tha Phildrpn of the state.
 In addition to the fund of $212 previ- ously announced the regent has received an additional amount of $27 from Mobile, making $60 that has been contributed by the children of Mobile.
 The regent wishes to acknowledge a donation of $4 from Greensboro; $1 from East Lake; $5 in cash and $5 worth of printing and material from the Boys Industrial farm The donation from the boys Is the largest per capita contribu- ton yet received.
 Several weeks ago, Mrs. Johnston's lit- tie girl visited the Boys school and when she said goodby she left nickel in the hand of each boy: and the pretty sequel to the story is the generous act on the part of the boys in sending so large a contribution to the Mt Vernon fund.
 That generosity is not the only flower that blooms at the Industrial school is indicated in the story of the little girls visit to the farm. Accidentally she left two extra nickels in the hands of two of the boys. No one would have ever been any the wiser. had it not been that the boys frankly returned the extra nickel.
 The flower of honesty blooms in the human garden at the reformatory.
 One of the boys afterward inquired of one of his companions as to the best method of investing his nickei.
 II am going to buy present for the little girl" said the boy, ana the two de- cided that in no other way should the money be expended.
 The flower of honesty, gratitude and