The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

After a Vigtd observation or the Len ten season. the Country club again opens it's hospitable doors on Monday evening with an informal reception, the guests to enjoy dancing from to F o'clock.
 MT. and Mrs F. T. Wilcox, Nr. and Mrs. Maben Holson, Mir. and Mrs. syd- enham Smith and MT. and Mrs. George B. Kelley will receive the guests. Light re- treatments will be served.
 This will be the first of a series of events at the club. to be given on alter nate Monday evenings, the definite dates to be announced later.
 The consolidation with the Golf club recently effected will make no difference. whatever, with the usual summer ar engagements for entertaining at the pie turesque clubhouse among the pines.
 Dancing, card parties, bowling and ten- his will make the club the popular rem dezvous during the season.
 The tennis courts are now in order, and with the coming of early summer, bow ling parties will be much in evidence.
 Under the most favorable circum- stances, it will hardly be possible to move into the beautiful new clubhouse at Lake viewbefore the close of the year, and during the interval, entertaining will go on about as usual at the old clubhouse and at the present links at the West End.
 Apropos of the new clubhouse and grounds, matters are progressing there very satisfactorily. The finance commit tee, under the able direction of it's eX- perienced and efficient chairman, MT. J. D. Kirkpatrick, has completed the ar engagements for the placing of the first mortgage bonds, and has all the tinan- cial questions well in hand.
 The detailed plans of the clubhouse are now in the hands of the architects and work on the building and on the links will shortly be commenced. The design for the house will be characteristic and unique, and admirably suited to the com fort and convenience of the members, and to it's location on the mountain side overlooking the lake and park. The links will be the best and "sportiest' In the whole south-beautifully turfed and cared for and from a comfortable chair on the wide and cool north veranda one can watch the players drive off from the number one grim-and play half across the course By next Easter the new Country club will have become one of the most attractive and charming spots In the south.
 The papers throughout the country are pointing with pardonable pride to the project to establish in Chicago newspaper to be controlled, edited and published by women. This undertaking serves to call attention to the number of women newspaper writers, their success naturally inspiring confidence in any en- terprise they may develope.
 The Daily Bulletin, which is the name of the new paper to be published by Chi' cago women, while intended to cover a broader field than that usually done by woman's paper will not be the first to concern itself with public questions.
 Alabama has been able to point for several years to a paper owned and edited by women, who by their successful policy, may be mentioned as a notable example of woman's ability in the man agement of a newspaper.
 The Huntsville Democrat, owned and edited by the Misses Clay, is as much fin the field" as any newspaper in the state, and its editorials deal with public questions with the fearlessness not gen. erally accredited to women writers.
 Not only is every department of the paper conducted by the Misses Clay, but even the mechanical work is done by them.
 Among the public questions recently discussed by Miss Virginia C. Clay was the examination of county superintend- ents of education. Her editorial points out the deficiency in education in many cases and the stand that Alabama women are taking on this educational issue
 The situation as described by Miss Clay is aptly illustrated in witty cartoon, representing a woman examining" the brain of county superintendent.
 Miss Clay in discussing the situation has seen the humorous side and in a spirit of raillery she suggests that the county superintendents, with their degrees, are sadly in need of coaching from the sweet girl graduate. The editorial is reproduced in full
 Among the reforms being aritated by the ubiquitous club women Of Alabama is that of an examination for county su- political pull will not held out much longer. The clever women of the state, with the Titan intellect of Miss Julia Tutwiler at the helm, ars slowly but surely moving to the shcre of knowledge In search of a county superintendent, for the by and by. Men who aspire lo the office of county superintendent of eduea- ton will, (so these clever women have planned), have to go through with the agony of an examination. Brilliant intel lects with an A. M. degree taken quar- ter of a century ago, might as well have a sheepslSin signed by a patriarch B. c.