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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-15
Valentine Parry.

Miss wilce Dickerson and Miss May Collins entertained at valentine party yesterday afternoon. Among the guests were Miss Bessie May Thompson, Miss Jessie Thompson. Miss Marie Smith, Miss Fannie Drenen Miss Bessie Brown, Miss Agnes Terrell, Miss Pauline Henderson Miss Ruth MeLester. Miss Edna Moore, Miss Mary Gillespy. Miss Sadie Giiiespy' Miss Bessie Moore. Miss Evelyn Adams, Miss Ethel Norton, Miss Helen Col bourne. Miss Minnie Easterly, Miss Cor rine Chisolm. Miss Elsie Burruss, Miss Imc,e Downey. Miss Mary Louise Thomp- son Miss Mary Lou Wilson. Miss Ellen linn Melton, Miss Emily Gentry, Miss Imcy Truss, Miss Idaline DeShazo, Miss Estelle Nabb, Miss Helen Reid Miss Imcy Martin, Miss Annie Summers, Miss Bessie Lyde, Miss Florence Smith, Miss Edith McCreary. Miss Pearle Weise. Miss Ethel Jones. Miss Fannie Runyan Miss I.evisa Moore, Miss Minnie Collins. Miss Mildred Walters. and Miss Roberta Hew- cit.
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The Training School.

The Birmingham Free Kindergarten Normal Training School was established in 1899. The Curriculum is as follows:
 PART 1. Comparative and physio- logical.
 Child Study-Observations. General Prihciples-Drawing, design and modelling.
 Anthropology.
 Lfterature-Realistic stories, fairy stories, myths, legends and verse. Pedagogy-Ancient and mediaevai. Pedagogy-Modern; (a) Rousseau, (b) Richter. tc) Pestalozzi. (d Spencer, (e) Herbert C) Froebel.
 Criticism of Years Programmes sub mitted by Students, including: (a) Gift Plays. (b) Occupations. co Circle Plays. (d) Plans of Work.
 PART H.-Manual Work. Manuel Training-Perforating sewing. weavir-e. folding, basket weaving, inter-
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morrow afternoon at 33O o'clock in the vestry rooms of Temple Emanuel, before the Council of Jewish Women. All mem bers are urged to be present, and others interested are cordially invited to attend At last Mondays meeting several poems of Emma Lazarus were read as an intro- duction to the poet The reading proved instructive and enjoyable, and the deeper acquaintance which the paper promises is eagerly awaited.
 A splendid musicale Is being arranged by this organization of earnest women to take place in the near future in the vestry rooms of Temple Emanuel. The programme will be announced later.
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3HE Country club and the Golf club ACD were consolidated at a meeting
 held yesterday morning and a proposition to purchase the Lakeview property, with thirty additional acres for the golf links. and the erection of an 5000 club house was accepted.
 For some time the consolidation has been discussed but yesterday morning all differences were settled. The action yes terday was in a joint session of two com mittees, one from each club, and the ac- tion will be ratified at a joint meeting of both clubs, which will be held Wednesday afternoon at o'clock in the Commercial club rooms.
 The committee from the Country club included MT. Culpepper Exum, Mir. George H. Clark, Mir. Robert H. Rough and MT. ". c. Phillips, while the Gold club was represented by MT. J. D. Kirkpatrick, Mir Eugene Brown, MT. Thomas Ward and Mir. ". c. Stiles
 The property is owned by the Lakeview Land company and the Birmingham Realty company and is one of the most valuable pieces of property on South Highlands.
 With the additional thirty acres to be purchased from the Realty company, the club grounds will comprise between sev- onty-flve and eighty acres The site is in the very centre of the boulevard, one of the most beautiful driveways in the south and distined to become one of the famous boulevards where beauty and fashion con gregate on the afternoon drive.
 The possibilities for an ideal country club will be recognized by every one. as the location is not only accessible by the driveways from the city and South High lands, but by the cars as well.
 The plans include the erection of an elegant club house, and the golf links will be made the finest in the south.
 Golf is an integral part of country club life and with the consolidation of the two clubs 1t is proposed to have a conn try club that will be ideal in every way. MT. Clark. in outlining the plans. said yesterday that every effort would be made to conduct the club along the lines adopted in many of the country clubs in the east, and in many of the southern cities. where outdoor life is essentially the life of the ideal country club.
 The new clubhouse said MT. Clark, will be made a popular rendezvous for Birmingham women, who will find it an attractive objective point on the after noon drive, and who will be welcomed within it's hospitable doors.
 The club house will be magnificently / NSuipped. and will include a cafe. where the most elaborate dinner or the most informal luncheon may be ordered.
 Altogether the plans when put into ex- ecution will provide a Country club that will be in keeping with the wealth and progress of Birmingham.
 At the joint meeting of the two clubs which has been called for Wednesday aft ernoon, every member is urged to be pres ent, and all former members of the club are invited to attend.
 Society will be greatly interested in the plans of the two clubs.
 The present clubhouse at North Bir- mingham has been since it was formally opened a popular rendezvous and many brilliant events have taken place there. The Golf clubs links on the PowderIy line and both the Country club and the Golf club are in the most prosperous con- dition in their history.
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street The decorations and refreshments were in red and white cupids and hearts. Miss Annie LeGrand Miss Lillian Moore, Miss Mary Gillespie, Miss Annie Thomas. Miss Kate Garrett. Miss Minnie Ether ly Miss Flora Orr Miss Dorothy Orr, Miss Theresa Mushat, Miss Agnes Be- thea, Miss Berney Warnock, Miss Jean Minor Miss Fern Minor. Miss Bennie Plosser, Miss Callie Patterson, Mss Kate Walker. Miss Emma Koehig, Miss Bettie Wood Miss Nell Harris, Miss Mary Mapes. Miss Finely Mapes, Miss Lizzie Morris Mason Miss Elizabeth Jones, Miss Eliza Riggs, Miss Mena Holzer. and Mss Mamie Shelby were present. The first prize. a water color. was won by Miss Minnie Etherly. the consolation. a handmade handkerchief. by Miss Kate Garrett, and the booby prize, comic valentine, by Miss Mary Mapes The souvenirs were red and white hearts, In one of which was en- closed a slip indicating the winner of the consolation.
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Vanderford- Cameron.

MT. and Mrs L. NJ. Cameron announce the engagement of their daughter. Abbie Rickles, to Mr. Walter l.. Nandeford or st. Louis. The marriage will take place in the near future.
 Both Miss Cameron and MT. Wander ford hay, many friends wno will be in- terested in their approaching marriage. MT. yanderford is we'll known in the business world of St. Louis.
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wIning. modelling. cutting. practical

twining, modelling, cutting. practical woodwork.
 The training school has nine membefs this year. Four of these young ladies will graduate in June, the others the fol lowing year. The demand for trained kindergarteners in our state is increas- ing yearly, the Birmingham training school being the only one that graduates between Louisville, Ky, and New Or leans, it is constantly called upon for teachers. Several of the smaller towns in the state are contemplating the es- tablishment of free kindersartens and expect to get their teachers from our city.
 The tuition for the four year's course is one hundred dollars. There are four free scholarships open to thoroughly pre- pared applicants.
 Young women intending 10 take this course may obtain full information by ap- plying to Miss Edna Snyder superfn- tendent of the free. kindergarten
 BERTHA H. GELDERS. Secretary Birmingham Free Klndergar- ten Association.
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Willard Meeting.

The Womans Christian Temperance Union have arranged for Willard meet ing Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. at the residence of the president Mrs. James Meisel, 2O14 Sixth avenue.
 There are. no doubt. smany women In the city who have been identified with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in other places, and they, as well as every one who is interested In the cause of temperance, are cordially in- vited to attend the Willard meeting. An interesting programme has been ar ranged.
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YanceY LYCeunl.

At the last meeting of the Yancey Ly- ceum. the newly elected officers were in- stalled and a debate; Resolved that 1t would be for the better interest of the state of Alabama to establish q dispen- sary." was disc eussed in the affirmative tv Mr. Sterling Larier and MT. Henry Meiss. and in the negative by Mir. Chand- Ter Jackson and MT. Sandman who was asked to speak in the absence of Mir. Mil ton Hicks. The judges decided in favor of the affirmative.
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center piece being a basket fllled With daffodils, tied with large bow or gauge ribbon The place cards were pahu- painted, and delicious menu was served The occasion was among the most beau tiful and artistic events of the winter.
 Miss George Weatherly was the loVely hostess at a dance Friday evening III compliment to Miss Ellis.
 The entire lower floor was thrown To- gether and the wide balcony without was enclosed with canvas and with the com fortable chairs, Oriental rugs and couches was an ideal retreat
 Hoslsin's orchestra played throughout the evening and a supper was served about 12 o'clock.
 Miss Ellis Is the beautiful guest or the Misses Moore.
 Mrs. Charles Samuel Simmons enter tained few guests informally at lunsh- con yesterday at the Hlllfnan Tne souvenirs were exquisite white satin stocks.
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Miss Gockel Birmingham's distinguish ed young musician, achieved marked triumph in Cincinnati last Thursday night The Enquirer says.
 The American premiere of Miss Edna Gockel. planiste, in the hall of the Hotel Aims last night, was a musical event that will go on more than local record, Tor It stamped her as an artist whose ability in it's present maturity, as it still grows will be commensurate with that or the hest exponents of the pianstic art.
 It was a most taxing undertaking to play two heavy concertos-the Chopln E minor and the ScharwenRn C sharp mi-
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it's demands in her powerful playing her sustained power in fortlssimo pas Fes being fully commensurate wi.n that ae orchestra The short cadehzas oi ms concerto were brilliantly played. Miss Gockel had exec lent support in the Sym phony orchestra under the direction Of MT. Van der Stucken, which also gave two movements from the Dvorak Sym phony played at the last concert MISS Gockel's playing has vitality. Her tech nical endowment Is superb, and 1t is backed by intelligence. Her premiere was proof enough that she deserves place among those pianists of her sex who not only educate but refine and whose am- bition to reach fame is backed by ex- traordinary ability.
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Misses Baine Entertain.

Miss Isabel and Mss Mary Baine enter l tained with hearts Satakey afternoon at their home, 15o1 Sc,stA rwenty-first
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FOR RMULA.

"GooD LUCK" Baking Powder is prepared by an especial Formula that produces the great est possible Loaycnins Power and the most nutritious and whciesome bread Its power in the oven |, what has placed it frst in the estima ticn of tao people of this country.
 cs<hmond, Virginia.
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Miss Mayer 10 Read
 An Interesting Paper.

Miss Rose Mayer will read paper on that gifted Jewess-Emma Lazarus-to-
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Important Meeting.

A meeting of the board of directors o the Free Kindergarten Association will D,
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nor-in one evening Not more could have been expected from the virtuoso, and 1t Is to her credit to say that she played them both not only in a musicianly. but to a large extent virtuosic manner For a woman she is a virile player, and with that she has much delicaey Her runs are marvels of clearness. She has fine sense of values and proportion in shad- ing. In dynamics she rises to fine eli- maxes, as she showed in the passionate phrases of the allegro movement in the Chopin concerto.
 The absolute certainty with which she phrases inspires confidence. The Sehar- wenka concerto she interpreted with q good deal of authority and she fully met
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Mrs. John M. Caldwell gave a daffodil luncheon on Friday in compliment to Miss Brown, the guests including the young women who will be bridesmaids at Miss Browns wedding,
 The table was exquisitely decorated. the
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of
  decorate
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NH Purchase fha Beautiful
 LakeVieH PrOpefB \ HANDSOME CLUB HOUSE
t VIII Be In Center of Famous EouIe. ward District and Will Be Object i've Point for Beauty
 and Fashion.

HE Country club and the Golf club ACD were consolidated at a meeting
 held yesterday morning, and a
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07

prejudices found no favor in his eyes
In his mastery encyclicals he spoke au-
thoritatiyely and most wisely, not al
ways on purely ecclesiastical subjects.
but very often also on subjects which
are of worldwide secular interest
Thus he was more than an eccelsiastic;
he was also great statesman. OF his
personal character, all who were ever
privileged to know him, have spoken in
the highest terms. That he was very
charitable and kindly is known to all.
In word, he bore himself nobly in his
to his reward all who have watched his
sterling and loyal work will admit that
he was true and eminently sagacious
shepherd of the people.
Many anecdotes have been related as
to the personal characteristics of Pope
Leo XIII. He was accessible and affa-
BILE to all who sought an audience and
consequently thousands of those who
have visited Rome retain vivid i'm
pressions of tine Pontiff. Simplicity
and frugality of living enabled him to
husband his strength and to accomplish
an amount of work devolving upon him
as "head of the church." which to
many men of greater physical strength
would have seemed appalling. But
Pope Leo XIII. was well entitled to be
considered in many respects the grand
est old man Of the age.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07
Eye-strain and Nervousness.

In some cities the nervous child is
moving parents and physicians to ap-
peal for fewer hours in the schools and
less pressure. We do not much believe
in the intellect, the morals or the peda-
gogics of the colt breakers or the boy
breakers. There are better ways to
break horse or child than to break
its will and the teacher that entertains
such diabolic theories should be
'broken" The noteworthy fact about
the whole discussion is the utter omis-
sion from a hundred papers and edi-
torials and discussions of the most i'm
portant element of the entire matter.
There are, it is true, many other fac
tors; there is really oyerstudy and
overpressure, but the one cause of the
nervous child, which is ignored, but
which is as prolific source of evil as
perhaps all others combined, is eye
strain.-American Medicine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07

Judge Slebecker's Unique Decision.
Judge Siebecker Of Wisconsin has
displayed Solomon-like wisdom in
some of his decisions. Two men an
peared before him. One was a butcher
who claimed that the defendant owed
him $40 for meat bill. The defend
ant, strikingly thin and gaunt figure
denied the bill. Statements and coun,
ter-statements followed each other
with great rapidity The lie was
passed, but the constable interviewed
when was this meat purchased
which you sold the defendant?" asked
the Judge. ~
During the past four weeks, youl
honor" declared the butcher.
Then l decide this case in favor OF
the defendant" remarked the Judge
deliberately, as he scrutininzed the
emaciated figure before him. His ap-
peaTance indicates that he has NOT
eaten SO worth of meat in his life.
time."-Roston Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07

AS a personal experience an Ems.
fishman offers the following: seBy the
grace Of the car foreigners are al
lowed to live and trade in vladivostok;
but the governor can deport any per-
son or persons he thinks fit at twenty.
four hours notice, no reason given.
This power, which is absolute, has
some curious results, and proves q
large source of income to the gov
ernor. l was much surprised one
evening at the serious effect produced
by what l thought an item of mere
local gossipl The governor had
been losing heavily at cards. But /
altered my opinion little while after
when Russian Official came into the
office and remarked, in substance, if
not in actual words, You're Jones &
Co. Ahi' turning to list in his hand,
the governor is raising a subscriD-
ton for bust Of the car; YOU are
down for 1000 rubles. Pay up.' The
money was paid and promptly. But
the bust has not yet arrived"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07

and thoroughly Italian. 1t differed
from the good natured roundness of
Pho Nonos by its great length and the
sharper outlines which 1t reached to.
ward the chin. The forehead was
massive, high and rather straight, and
was especially striking from its great
width, indicative of intellectual
strength. The thin hair that streaked
1t was of silver hue. The eyebrows
were dark and heavy and of perfect
arch, and the eyes were singularly
mild and soft and, at the same time
penetrating ard searching. The large,
well-defined nose was characteristic of
firmness and will power, decidedly
Roman in shape, but with wide nostriis
that were credited by physiognomists
with bold leonine qualities.
His handwriting is peculiar enough
to excite interest, even if it were not
that of the Pope. 1t is exceedingly
small, and o. very careful, laborious
construction, as if each Of the infinites-
imal characters was formed with the
most painstahing care. In its airy deli
caey it resembles a lady's hand. but
the mosaic elaboration Of every stroke
has something highly scholastic about
1t. Under his diminutive signature
the Pope left half an inch of vacant
space and then completed it by five
dashes. growing successfully smaller
and smaller.
Pope Leo XIII. had a marvellous
memory, which he retained up to the
last. Speaking Of him in December
1885, Archbishop Stonor, who frequent.
ly attended on him, said:
'He recollects many of the people he
receives after intervals of as long as
sixty years. Many years ago, when
Lord Palmerston was Premier. His
Holiness visited England, and was pre-
scented to the Queen and Prince Con-
sort. Of that visit he still remembers
the small details, and only short time
ago he mentioned Sir James Graham,
who was one Of the Ministers OF the
period, and spoke of the part he took in
a controversy respecting posts and tele.
graphs" Again, when a Miss O'Connell
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07
Quantity of New Air Elements.

Sir William Ramsay, who, in con-
junction with Lord Rayleigh, discov-
cred the existence of argon, and sub
sequently krypton and xenon, in the
atmosphere, has made a computation
of the quantity of the last two ele-
ments present in the air. The result
of his experiments and calculations
shows that the air contains .000014 per
cent. of krypton and .0000026 of xenon
by weight TO be more explicit, there
is one part by weight of krypton in
100000, and one part of xenon in
100000 of air. Measured by volume
as constituent gases of the air, the vol
ume. of these two elements is more
infnitesimal, since there is only one
part of the former in 20,000,000, and
one part Of the latter to 100000
parts Of air.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07
YOUTHS WE'RE WELL TAUGHT
Destined to Govern, They Knew Need
of SeIf-uovernrnenf.

OF Self-qovernment.
"a number Of years ago Commodore
Perry, speaking to the students of An
tioch college, Ohio, told the following
anecdote, illustrating the perfect dis
cipline maintained among the naval
cadets of his time:
Some twenty-five years ago was
carelessly walking on the levee Of a
city of the Adriatic. A short distance
from the shore lay man-of-war at
anchor called an oarsman, and told
him to return for me in en- hour.
Il wandered over the beautiful ship.
admiring its guns, its keeping, its ad'
mirable appointments and its excellent
management, shown by its condition.
At the end of my hour l began to look
for my oarsman. Just then / discov-
cred a door on my right opened it.,
and in that room sat thirty-tTo boys.
1 had been there an hour and had not
heard a stir enough to show that SO
much as bird was alive on that boat,
"The youngest cadet came to the
door and welcomed me with his cor.
dial military salute. Boy, where il
your teacher? Gone ashore, sir De
you keep absolute order while he is
gomez Certainly, sir
Then passing to the front, said
to one Of the older boys: Young
man. why do you act so differently
from other boys? Are you afraid OF
being punished?
1.-THE cadet rose to his feet Sir
said he, you see before you thirty.
two cadets. We all expect to govern
others in our future work. The first
element of good governor is self
government; sir, we are practicing
that"
The commodore added: THAT was
twenty-five years ago. In the provi-
dence of God none of these young
men have been called to eternity. |
will now read you their names" And
the audience recognized in each man
a name famous in the navy of Great
Britain, Germany, France or America.
From Washington: Its Sights and
Insights."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07

add the
banks Of
forest round about
The hour Of contemplation comes
renQuihed
corporations
lights that the sight harsh warnings OF trolley
stiffness the
forenoon to his
which
old campaIgner easily caught-WorIds Work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-08-07

sought him. II was the same with
Plus TX. The pontificate creates a sec
Ond nature.
A photograph of Cardinal Pecci,
taken in 1870, when he attended the
Ecumenical Council, gives one an adj
mirable idea of the personal presence
Of the Pope. With it appear also the
likenesses of all the other Cardinals,
and it is no exaggeration to say that
Peccis head is by far the most i'm
pressiye in this gallery. There are
sterner heads, heads more severely in
tellectual, or austerely grand, or cast
perhaps in finer diplomatic mould; but
for supreme kindness and beneyolence
and certain beaming, gentle grace,
40 face in the galaxy of Cardinals can
approach it.
Like that of Pho Mono, it was a
countenance that won at once and i'm
mediately the way to the scrutiniZer's
heart. AT the same time it was
stronger in its intellectual quality than
was that Of Pho Mono, and it was par
ticularly conspicuous in the manifesto
lion of sound sense and clear judgment.