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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
FIDDLE RICH sTUFFs.
A1Mediaeval Custom That Survives In
 New York.

From the New York Sun.
 There are a few glorifed peddlers in this town who haunt. not the squalid streets, but the regions of the well to do, and carry not cheap gimcracks and crude necessaries of household, but beautiful and costly fabrics.
 Even. these men, however, carry packs, and perhaps keep no regular shops. They have many customers of long standing, and their daily sales often amount to hundreds of dollars worth of linen, laces, table decorations and the like.
 Such peddlers visit their customers two or three times year in New York and perhaps turn up occasionally in the sum- mer colonies of the rich. They receive orders for particular articles, and good many women get into the habit of de- pending upon them for special objects of use and ornament.
 For the most part the articles carried by the fashionable peddlers are imported fabrics of kind not ordinarily found in any save few shops. The peddlers man. age to convince their customers that the goods thus offered are considerably cheaper than like goods in the shops, and perhaps they are right.
 It is intimated that the peddlers are not unwilling to have the repute of know ing how to import merchandise without submitting to the payment of duty, but the agreeable aroma of suspicion attach. ing to free importations may easily be encouraged to create the impression that the buyer is getting a bargain One thing that helps to account for the success of these peddlers is the pleasure that most women take in seeing rich stuffs and dainty fabrics displayed in their own drawingrooms. The peddler Is postmaster of the selling art and knows how to impress each customer with the value of his goods and her own impor- tance.
 The lady thus appealed to has deli cious sense of having escaped the nec- essity of crowding her way into shop and inspecting goods in common with a hundred other women The peddler is never in a hurry, and is always ready to go to the very bottom of his pack in search for what may please a customer. And then the temptation to buy goods actually in the house is stronger than the temptation of goods displayed in a shop.
 Old customers are the peddlers' best ad- vertisers. They tell of his visits. display their bargains. and recommend him to friends and neighbors Sometimes when he is expected at particular house the
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been selected from among many original essays:
 "A Neglect of Duty"-if the fire is not made in the morning what can you do? If the cuk Is sick, what can you dor if you don't know your lesson, what can you do? if the ink is split, what can you do? if the paper is torne, what can you do"
 The children have society which they call The Happy School Society, with meetings on alternate Fridays. The ofti- eers are as follows
 President-Miss Janet Harris.
 Vice President-Henry B. Gray, Jr. Secretary-Miss Josephine Minor. The motto of the society Is Tn our hearts are the birds and the sunshine At the meeting on Friday the following programme was carried out:
 Recitation-M Margaret Robertson. Recitation-Stuart Coleman.
 Recitation-Webb Crawford, Jr. An essay--Eula White.
 Recitation-Ermine Griffin.
 Recitation-Eula Whatley.
 Verse-Hattie Porter.
 Recitation-Edwin Robertson.
 Verse-Kathrine Ledbetter.
 Verse-Cherry Crawford.
 Recitation-Henry Gray, Jr
 Recitation-Reita Futile.
 Verse-George Whatley.
 Verse-Margaret Chenoweth.
 Verse-Augusta Clark.
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TUSCALOOSA.

Tuscaloosa February 27.-(Special)-Mr Ruth Mcfarland and Miss Frances Gates of Toledo. Ohio, who have been spending the winter at Palm Beach. Fla, are visit ing Mrs. E. B. Key of Greensboro Avenue
 Mrs. Percy Nixon and Miss Margaret Nixon of Birmingham are visiting the family of their cousin, Mrs. Ella M. Leland.
 Mrs. Will Cobbs of Anniston, formerly Miss May Strngfellow of this city, is visiting her mother Mrs. Richard C. Me- Gala.
 Miss tennis Pearson. trained nurse of New York, is visiting her mother. Mrs. Julia Pearson.
 Mrs. Edward St. Claire Bailey of Chi cago and Mrs Lee M. Otis of Greensboro, are with their parents Captain and Mrs. A. B. McEachn. They were called here by the death of their sister, Mrs. Bernard A. Wood.
 Miss Katie Belle Harrison is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Sterling A. Wood of Birmingham.
 Mrs Boykn of Birmingham is visiting her parents, Judge and Mrs. W. s. Thor ington.
 Mrs. Jessie Eldrige Southwick. princi- pal of the Emerson school of Expression at Boston, is the guest of Mrs. Edger B. Kay
 Mrs A G. l.. Edwards and daughter Miss aPtty-Jo Edward are guests of the formers sister, Mrs. Clarence B. Turner on Eighth street. From here they go to Texas, where they will reside in the fu- ture
 MT. and Mrs. Sterling A Wood of Birm- ingham, came down to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bernard Wood.
 Miss Sadie Hester has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. T. Searcy, Jr., at Columbus, Miss.
 Mrs. Poellntz Johnson of New Orleans is the guest of her mother Mrs. Margaret King Jones at the McLester hotel.
 Miss Pattie Cox of Carrollton, who has been teaching at Decatur. has resigned her position and Is now the guest of her sister. Miss Clara Cox at the Alabama Central Female College.
 Mrs. Charley Bartee of Birmingham Is visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Mont gomery I. Burton.
 Professor w. B. Saffold went to Selma this week to attend the burial of his sister Mrs. Frederick Myers. who died in New York last Monday.
 Mrs. I. Green has returned from Birm- ingham. where she has been visiting her sister. Mrs. J. Altman for the past two months.
 Miss Bessie cowan of Moss Point Miss is the guest of her cousin. Miss Estelle Bingham.
 Miss Mable LumplSin and Miss Maud Monroe of East Lake are visiting the latters aunt, Mrs. Margaret Strickland.
 Sam Dubois of New York, formerly of Tuscalosa, Is visiting his sister, Mrs Henry H. Leland
 Dr. H. C. Hassell attended the meeting of the Southern branch of the National Dental Association at Washington this week.
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hostess invites a few friends to see his wares, and the meeting is a delightful occasion to hostess, guests and merchant. An additional charm of this kind of shopping lies in the fact that Is a survival of this modern age of a custom going back to medieval times. The peddler of rich stuffs was a welcome visitor in scores of dull medieval castles, and much more of a necessity than his mod ern successor.
 Hebrews and Scotchmen were the Flu ropean peddlers of those earlier days. Hebrews are still in the business of glori- fled peddling in New York and other American cities. and they have for occa- sional competitors East Indians and merchants of the Levant.
 No one could make a remote guess at the value of their trade, but they deprive the regular shopkeepers of a very hand some amount of profits. The success of these old fashioned methods in a bust ling modern city depends largely on the personal equation, the peddler's art as both buyer and seller his judgment of goods and of human nature, especially feminine human nature, and the lurking vanity or luxury of the customer.
 
 Read the Post saloon bulletin. 2120 First avenue. 1-31-su- tut -th-tf.
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EOUCATWE VALUE IF
 WEEKS ART LECTURES
Birmingham Women Interested In Mrs. cunnineham's Brilliant Talks on Art-Lenton
 Gossip.
BY ANNIE kENDRlcK WALKER.

Mrs. R, D. Johnston, Alabama's vice regent of the Mount Vernon association, has recently returned from Huntsville, v.her,s she went in the interest of the Alabama room which Is now being furn- ished. She was the guest of Mrs. Milton Hume. While in Huntsville, Mrs. John stort was delightfully."- entertained, Mrs IIumes inviting a number of Huntsville women to meet her. She was also guest of the public schools. and made talk on the work of the school children in Ala bama, who are assisting in furnishing the Alabama room.
 Two hundred and fifty-six dollars has been contributed by the school children of the state and the children in the Huntsville school have promised to aid in this fund. Every school that makes contribution receives a little ivy plant from Mount Vernon. Mrs. Johnston feels greatly encouraged in this work. While in Huntsville she secured two exquisite old candelabra and a quaint old bellows with French figures and an old carved chair from Mrs. Hume which was the property of her father, Governor Chap man. Mir. s. M. Lowry gave French divan and General Moore has given an old mahogany sofa. Miss Howard Weedon will give as her donation to the Alabama room a sketch of the old negro who guarded the tomb of Washington for thirty years. and who was a familiar figure to thousands of people.
 Among the old pieces of furniture that Mrs. Johnston has forwarded to Mount Vernon Is a chair owned by Mrs. Colston of Mobile, the daughter of Admiral Sum- mers; two carved chairs owned by MT. A. c. Hart of Mobile, president of the Young Mems Christian association; superb old pier table and a combination work basket and writing table three hum dred years old.
 These last two pieces were found by Mrs. Johnston in a curio shop in Mobile. The dealer In old furniture and curios was most reluctant to part with them, because of their quaint beauty and their great value. The pier tables are exceed ingly rare. The curio dealer admitted that the old writing table and work bas- l1et was the only piece of furniture of this kind that he had ever seen. The basket Is formed of loops of rich old mahogany. and the writing table is In the centre.
 Among the pieces of furniture needed to complete the room Is a sofa, centre table and secretary, while old fash
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Mrs. Boham King of Rome, Ga., is the guest of Mrs. William D. Nesbit.
 Mrs. Paul Turner Vaughan of Hot Springs, Ark, Is the guest of Mrs. Rob- ert H. Pearson.
 Miss Edna Bush, director of the music department at the Girls Industrial School at Montevallo, is the guest of Mrs. c. F. Robbins.
 Miss Shelby of Georgia, is the guest of Mrs. Dan Farmer, 15O1 South Twenty-irst street.
 Miss Mary Farmer has returned to Tus1 caloosa.
 Mr. Samuel Dubois has returned to New York.
 Miss Huldah Horton is very much bet ter.
 The United States transport Sheridan, en route for the Philippines, has arrived at Honolulu. Among the passengers were Lieutenant Henry M. Bankhead of the Twentieth infantry, and Mrs. II. M. Bankhead. The transport is due in Ma nila early In March.
 The ladies of the Phoenix and Lakota clubs will give a leap year ball at the Hotel Hillman tomorrow night.
 MT. William Mason left last night Tor St. Louis. He was accompanied as Tar as Nashville by his daughter, Miss Lizzie Morris Mason, who will spend few weeks in Nashville the guest of friends. 
 Mrs. Alfred McNeal of Ohio, formerly Miss Mary Melton Phelan, at one time resident of this city, is visiting her aunt Mrs. J. C. Derby, 1210 North Twelfth street. Fountain Heights
 Miss Flax Le Grande, who has been visiting Miss Emma Toulmin Reid and Miss Annie Reid has returned to her home in Charlotte, N. c.
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MRS. oRR's PUPILS CELEBRATE LONGFELlOW'S BIRTHDAY.

The pupils of Mrs. Alice D. Orr's school on South Highlands celebrated Longfel- lows birthday on Friday with interesting exercises which were arranged by the children. Following the programme, which included essays and recitations. the pupils took rart in a spelling match for the en- tertainment of the visitors, and this was followed by short examinations in writ ing, arithmetic and history and in Latin exercises. The pupils recited in Latin as fiuently as they did In English and ac- quilted themselves most creditably. Their five minute essays were extremely origi- nal and greatly entertained the visitors. The children were given a subject and required to write an essay within five minutes.
 The following "essay" on Neglected Duties" written by little William Kettig, Jr., within the five minutes limit has
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STATE SOCIAL.
GAosDEN.

Gadsden. February N.--tSpecial) Miss Ethel Cross, of Maysville, Ohio is the euest of MT. Charles Cross and family on Fifth street Miss Cross has been snending the winter in Florida and is re- turning to her home.
 Professor w. E. Striplin. is in Atlanta Ga. attending the National superinten- dents meeting of the public school Pro- lessor Striplin, will also inspect the pub lie schols of Atlanta while there.
 Miss Josie Caldwell and Miss Lois Por- ter, have returned from visit to their home in Jacksonville.
 Miss Della Dooley, entertained in honor of her guest Mss Edith Mayne. of Birm- ineham at her home Tuesday evening. A most enioyable time was spent by all present. Refreshments were served efter which the guest bid their hostes good night, Those present were: Miss Myrtle KeI<iley, Miss Edith Mayne, Miss Amanda Barnes. Miss Rose Williams, Miss Sarah Lee Powell, Miss Regina Groses' Miss Minnie Williams, Miss Fronio sharp. Miss Jeff Atarvay, Miss Lima Ashley. Miss Della Dooley; MT. Lucian Battle MT. Robert Sharp, MT. Russell Catanvey, MT. Mark Jones. Mir. John Sharp, MT. ID. ID. Reich. MT. R. c. Cobb, Mir. Vernon Kelley, ana MT. DbCh 0toics-
 The church club of the Episcopal church met with Mrs. J. T. Cathey. at her home on Sixth street on Thursday afternoon A most pleasant evening was spent by all who were present. Delicious refreshments were served.
 The Ladies' Aid Society of the Presby- terian church gave a George Washington dinner Monday at Green & Snyders. The dinner served was delicious and a neat sum was realized by the ladies.
 Mir. P. A. Harvey and daughter, Miss Nell, of Cincinnati, arrived in the city Wednesday afternoon and will make Gadsden their future home. MT. Harvey is a fine musician and will take charge of the local brass band as leader
 The supper to have been given by the Queen City Guards at their armory Thursday night. has been postponed until March 8, on account of the illness of Captain Rainey.
 Miss Eva Jurnee, a most charmign and nopular young lady of Chattanooga, is fhe guest of her aunt Mrs. N. A. Jolley. pr. and Mrs. George s. Vann and son. are in Washington. Dr. Vann is attending the National Association of Dentists. Mrs. c. H. Sharp and daughter of Center are the guest of Dr. Sharp and family in this city.
 Miss Mary McAlpine has returned from a visit to her parents at Tuscaloosa. Mir Morris Bush, has returned from a business trip to Anniston, Captain L. B. Rainey. has returned from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
THE REAL VALUE OF
 THE WEEKS ART LECTURES.

To many people the series of Lenten
 art lectures by Mrs. Robert Cunningham
 mean so much that they cannot fail of
 success for lack of patronage or interest.
 But there is large class of people who
 seem surprised to hear that many wom-
 en--those not identified with the art set, are taking advantage of these lec- tures
 How do the busy women of Birmng- ham find time to attend art lectures?" Is
 being asked by those who are interested in other things.
 l Those who feel the lack of opportunity for study and who miss the art spirit that l is developed by lectures realize that Bir- mingham must take some part in this art 1 culture movement or be hoplessly ma- terial city. The artists here who have their studios in the Watts buildings,
 some times called 're Quartier" in tender
 sarcasm, feel the absence of an art at-
 mosphere, and are endeavoring to create
 an interest outside of their studios in art and the beautiful
 There is certainly great and increas- ing demand from all intelligent persons for art knowledge. But the demand ex- ceeds the facilities adequate for convent ent and rapid study. Art bibliography shows for the most part heavy tonnes, SultaDle only TOT the prO1Ounu student or juvenile handbooks for school work. But the happy medium is attainable Those not so fortunate as to be able to attend the great universities can yet find instruction from some one whom
 study. travel and earnestness as we'll as
 the 'art love" have fitted for the work of lecturing on this subject. Years of study of both the principles and history of art, in books and the galleries and | museums of Europe enable such teach | CT as Mrs Cunningham to give the busy man or woman of today the essence of 1t all Otherwise they would have to tra- | verse many volumes of tiresome and use- | less details.
 The aim and purpose of these lectures on art-proiected by Mrs. Raulston, Miss Rumph and Miss Smith in the "Art Quar- | ter of Birmingham, is deeper than ap- pears on the surface It is pre-eminently to promote that appreciation of the beau tiful. which is one of the traits proper and peculiar to man. woman. youth and maiden--to learn to express their yearn- ing for the beautiful In some chosen work Who can measure the influence of such a l spirit?
 | The especial attention of those who would study. fine art with interest and
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YANcEY LITERARY SOCIETY.

The Yancey literary programme Friday evening at the High school was debate, Resolved, That trusts are menace to the republic"
 Affirmative: Ned McCrossin. Sam Cla- baugh. Negative: Albert Griggs, Charles Heidt
 The judges decided in favor of the af- firmative. The debate proved very inter- esting to all the members.
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Fort Payne. where he has been III with lagrippe for the past two weeks.
 Miss Annie Davenport, has returned from a visit to her relatives in Cherokee county.
 Miss Louise Moragne. has returned from a. visit to Mrs. Louis Kidd Tn Annston.
 Mr. T. c. Coker and family have moved to Gadsden from Anniston and will re- side here in the future.
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MRS. JOSEPH STERN.

Mrs. Joseph Stern, a pupil of Miss Edna Smith. is meeting with unusual success in the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia,
 where she is studying this winter. She recently had the distinction of having her work selected as one of twenty out of a class of fifty, and she has only been member of the life class but a few weeks.
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WOODLAND EPwoRrH LEAGUE.

One of the prettiest of the weeks en- tertainments was given at the home of Mrs c. J. Richards on Thursday even- ing.
 Miss Anna Morris, Miss Laurie Truslon, Miss Anna B. Sharp and Mir. N. Sharp gave a musical programme. after which refreshments were served.
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D. A. R. MEETING.

There will be a meeting of General Sufnpter Chapter, Daughters of the Am erican Revolution on Wednesday after noon at o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Charles Abbott, 1926 Twenty-first street, south
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HOSPITAL MEETING.

There will be a joint meeting of the board of managers and the board of con- trol tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the Hillman hospital
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[ ders sufficient to exhaust the first edi- tion of 100000 copies.
 Mrs. Wilson, or Augusta Evans as the reading world knows her better, is a woman of some three score and ten, and 1t is to a new generation that she has appealed today
 Augusta Evans is best remembered by ''st. Elmo" which appeared thirty years ago. Of her other works 'Inez; Tale of the Alamo" was written as long ago as 1855, "Infelice" 'Vashtf' and other works brought her distinction accorded few women in this country. Her previous works were written at "Ashleigh." the country seat of the author near Mobile Mrs. Wilson decided several years ago to remove from "Ashleigh" to the city, and she is now residing in a charming old home on far-famed Government street .<s%<<~<4-~&~>s~ success Is called to the treatment o1 the principles of art Otherwise known as technical beauties of art) art-criticism, conditions of art how to judge a picture or a piece of sculpture, building dec- orative design ana the like.
 The common fate of ungriided readers of art histories Is patent to the many who have tried in vain to prepare them selves for travel in foreign lands. For them and for the stay-at-homes these lec- lures will be invaluable.
 or those who have the means to buy works of art, how necessary such a course of study Is! But after all it Is for the larger life, the keener sensiblity, the more vital charm of beauty in our lives that the study of art in this most facile way will prove of inestimable benefit. There was a prophecy in the words of Mir. Cleveland quoted by Mrs. Cunningham last Thursday which our day is fulfilling even in small measure, in this blessed, smutty, dear new city of oursl
 Let us hold fast to the meaning that rnderlies this ceremony, and let us not lose the impressiveness of this moment; as by touch of the machinery that gives life to this vast exposition Is now set in motion, so at the same instant let our hopes and aspirations awaken"
 There can be no doubt as to the timeli- ness of lectures on such theme As everybody knows Americans have hith- erto been busy making those industrial and commercial achievements that have become the surprise of the world But having thus earned our leisure we may and certainly shall, emulate Europe in it's higher culture of which fine art is Q chief element. Our artists have been trained abroad to create art, and now need nothing so much as public, a home trained to appreciate art.'
 The second of Mrs. Lunningham's lec- lures will be given on Thursday after noon at o'clock In the Watts building. Single tickets may be secured. The third lecture will be given the following week. The examples used in Thursdays lecture were: Babylonic architecture, Moorlsh architecture Gothic and Greek architect ure; the Elgin marbles Murillo, Raphael, Tftian, Millet. Myron and Naucydes, Paul Veroneaa. The BarbiZan artists Carrot and Duprie. ''The Discobolus" and "The Laocoon." Rembrandt. The American sculptors. St. Gandens and French and Martini, and our home artists. Mrs. Rem lstiin and Misses Rumph and Smith and many others.
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GREENSBORO.

Greensobor, February 27.-(Special.)- Miss Hattie Briggs and MT. Sydney Steele of Eutaw were married Wednesday after
 noon at the residence of the bride. The
 wedding was very quiet one. witnessed
 only by relatives and few invited
 friends. The Rev. J. P. Anderson per
 formed the ceremony. Mir. and Mrs. Steele
 left on the evening train for their home in
 Eutaw.
 MT. w. E. w Yerby entertained at a
 most delightful dinner Friday evening,
 Covers were laid for thirty. His cousin, Mrs. w w. Knight, received the guests. Ingenious conundrums furnished amuse- ment for the occasion, which was very delightful one.
 The Kit Kat Klub was very delightfully."-
 entertained Monday afternoon by Miss Shelby Garrett. The question. Resolved
 that Elizabeth was justified on behead- ing Mary of Scotland' was very ably
 debated by Miss Tutwiler. Miss Grote,
 Miss Garrett and Miss Lloyd. The judges
 rendering their decision in favor of the
 affirmative
 Mrs Leila Otis surprised those taking part in her cantata with a Washington tea Monday night. Cherry trees and small hatchets were everywhere in evidence, and
 the menu left nothing to be desired Mir and Mrs. l.. M. Otis were called to Tuscaloosa Monday to attend their sisters funeral.
 Mir and Mrs. Love of St. Louis are wis., iting Mir. and Mrs. Edward Kimbrough at their country home near Sawyerville The Rev. S. P. West of the Christian Advocate and Mir. Frank Evans, repre- senting the Age-Herald, visited Greens boro this week. Mir. w. T. Atkins of Selma made a bus mess trip to Greensboro the past week MT. and Mrs. w. B. Inge have returned from a visit to Mobile.
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WELLMAN-DREYFREs.

The engagement of Miss Josephine Dreyfus of Pine Bluff; Ark, and MT. Lee B. wellman of Birmingham is announced.
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THE cREcHE.

There will be meeting of the Greene on Tuesday morning at Il o'clock at tho residence of Mrs. J. T. Nixon.