The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-24
MUSIC STUDY CLUB
 HOLDS MEETING
Music of the Early Christian
 Church Discussed
SEVERAL PAPERS ARE READ
Musicians Gather at Chalifoux Resi- dence In Regular Session-other News of the Society
 World.

The meeting of the Music Study club, : the residence of Mrs. Oliver Chahfoux, was largely attended A number of in teresting papers were read and several ] important new measures discussed and adopted.
 The programme opened with a brief l Current Topics" discussion presided over | by Mrs. Laura Jackson Davids. in which features of local interest as well as gen eral interest in the musical world were reviewed
 The main subject of the day was then taken up; the music of the early Christian church. the Ambrosan hymns, the Gre gorian chant, the life and legends of St Cecilia and the origin of musical fes- tivals and musical organizations.
 Mrs. N B. Feagin's talk on St. Cecilia was most interesting. She gave a brief outline of the life of the patron saint of music, the legends and traditions sur rounding her history, and traced the clouds of incense-poems, pictures, statues and association of music iovers-from the very first swing of the censor in Cecilia's honor-througiout the centuries to the modern day of concerts, oratios and festivals.
 A number of the club members who have been recently In Rome, among them Mrs David Roberts, Mrs. W. M. Walker and Mrs. Edward Cole, gave lit tie descriptions of the burial place of St. Cecilia in the Catacombs, the relics, and famous paintings and the manner in which the Italians render "St Cecilia's Day"
 Mrs. T. c. Randall then read a paper on the Facts and Traditions of the Am brosan Hymns, which denoted much re- search and gave many facts of value and significance to the club Mrs. Mooring and Mrs. A. o. Lane then read their papers on the Gregorian chant and the Early Church Music, after which Mrs. Julia Neely Finch the leader of the club assigned the subjects for the next meet ing, the first Wednesday Tn June "The First Institutions Established for the Study of Music" to Mrs Roy McCalley; 'The Introduction and History of the Organ" to Mrs Richard Johnson; "The Study of Robert of France and Tuotilo," to Miss Young; and "rhe Further Re- lation of St. Cecilia to Music" to Mrs David Roberts
 A business session then followed in which the hour for club meeting was changed from 10:30 to 10 o'clock and a motion made and carried to continue the clubs meetings throughout the summer Mrs W. M Walker was elected secre- tary to succeed Mrs. Jordan, who has left the city for several months.
 Rather a lively discussion was partici- pated in by Mrs. David Roberts, who objected to the reading or preservation of the club papers as original docu- ments," making the point that. in order to be of definite value and significance to the club, authorities should be named and information fathered or else otherwise consigned to properly merited oblivion, in other words merely a crusade for pure facts" regarding music and musicians to be inaugurated and maintained if the work of the Music Study club is to be worth while.
 The meeting then adjourned.
 Mrs. AlexanderMaben Hobson will enter tain informally this afternoon at 3:30 in honor of Mrs. John Snow Jemson. Jr., and Mrs. Devine of Atlanta who is the guest of Mrs j. Campbell Maben, Jr.
 MT. and Mrs. Van l.. Wills have re- gently come to Birmingham and have taken house on Qunlan avenue, south. Mir. Wills, formerly of Nashville, is as- sistant manager of the Republic Steel and Iron company Mrs. Wills was Miss Johnson, one of the most beautiful and popular young women of St. Louis
 Miss Helen Van Hoose will entertain the Little Jokers this afternoon at o'clock. Mrs. Daniel Huger, who has been vis- iting her parents, Mir and Mrs Chisholm. left yesterday for Charleston
 MT, and Mrs. D. J. Tonceler and their children left the city yesterday for a short visit to Lithia Springs, Ga
 The senior Epworth league of the Eleventh Avenue Methodist church will