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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-05
IN HONOR OF MRS. cAeANlss.

Mrs. e. H. Cabaniss is being extern
sively entertained in Atlanta, where she
is visiting Mrs. Daniel NJ Cabaniss. A
luncheon was given in her honor last
Friday by Miss Evelyn Orme, of which
the Atlanta Journal gives the following
account:
''The whole house was made more at
tractive with tall vases of golden glow
and the dining room table had for Its CEN
terpiece a great bowl of the flowers. The
table talk was on TIE subject of Women
of Today" and the hours spent delight
fully discussing this interesting topic and
enjoying the delicacies prepared
Miss Mildred Cabaniss entertained at
bridge party yesterday in honor of
Mrs. Edward II. Cabaniss. Her guests
included sixteen of her friends. Mrs. Ed
ward Cabaniss is a sister of Governor
Jelks of Alabama. and her home in Birf
mingham is the center of very delight
full social life. She Is one of the most
popular, attractive and cultivated women
in Alabama society Atlanta Georgian.
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Buiwer Lytton hardly INDUCES in over
much-unfortunately for him as well as
the worlds that's had him to read so
long However to return to gardens.
Back Of Avalon the home of Mr. and
Mrs W. r. G. Harding In Glen Iris, there
are beds of old fashioned flowers, every
one Of which Mrs. Harding has planted
and tended herself. 1t is simply a begin
ming yet and not to be seen from the front
of the house, where the long sweep OF
lawn slopes to the winding driveway, a
lawn by the way which Mrs. Harding
guards iealously from the encroachment
of the flowers to the dire dismay of her
English gardener who laments most for
lornly:
OUTS its Just like a Paris lat, ma am,
without any trimmings
but the day for the trimmings" has
fortunately passed. TO each house Its
proper setting of lawn, hrst-and last
and then the vines and the flowers as ND
ing sweets Which, of course, isn't bit
English.
Mrs, Robert Jemison is another lover of
flowers and garden devotee, and has
planted her hundreds of roses and all her
other flowers. and laid out her gardens
herself. Mrs. Aldrich Is one OF the ,autnor-
tiles on rose culture, and Mrs. Wllnam
Muad Walker Is becoming novltiate.
She. too. likes the old-fashioned flowers,
and although the little plot OF ground
about her house is not season OLD yet
she has had flowers since April.
even though they are mostly Just corn
flowers-they are something" she re-
marked. laughlngly. and certainly they
look very pretty In her dining ROOM plue
matching blue.
At Mrs tensions garden party last
spring in honor of Mrs John Snow Jeml-
son. Jr.. every flower used In the decora-
lions grew in her gardens and so at Mrs,
Harding's, when the moonlight fete was
given for Miss Marjorie Weaheriy the
bollvhocks. daisies and sweet peas were
homegrown. =
IT is what are called the common gar
den flowers that really make the pref
fest decorations after al-and roses.
Mrs. Elliott has many old-fashioned HOW
ers. and Mrs T. A. Hamilton has a charm
ing tangle of n garden-her's being more
rnalish. perhaps She calls 1t her jungle.
a little gate, very country-looking, opens
into a gravely path running by rustic
summer house at whose end CLEANS some
brilliant purple flox, and over which open
with such wide whiteness the evening
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-05

There are more women in Birmingham
wao comprehend and practice the art Of
gardening-on tiny seale-than perhaps
In any other Alabama city. There are no
gardens here that might with reason he
called really beautiful. as "a White, but
there's the Iaa nj little circlet -tendery
reared around Sc many homes he e that
is most attractive.
The houses or the South High ilis es.
peealiy; they are SO lair with flowers
that Nqry stronger passing is hell in
STEER delight.
The little siren voleesl
They call more loudly in violet ,ime ard
rose time than now perhaps and sense
OF the Cape Jessamine, the noegrlnite
flowers, the puiI lie clematls the wys.ei ia
and the msgnolia-spring time it's poised
nid-sir-mist-like over the highland
homes.
One of the few observations worth while
ever made by that author so long since
properly relegated to the less than juve-
nile shelf to-wit, Bulwer Lytton was Il
something or other about gardens that
the folks who had flowers growing about
their homes were almost bound to be con-
slderably better than their neighbors who
didn't.
And that's straight fact; natter Mr.
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PRIZE POEM.

Clement r. Wood. aged II years. son of
Sterling A. Wood of Birmingham. won
the first prize offered some time ago by
the st. Nicholas Magazine for poem.
Young Wood captured good badge
offered by the same magazine for a poem
last April.
Following is the poem which won the
cash prize. and which was published In
the st. Nicholas for August:
THE SUNLIT HILLS.
Two ranges high of hills are nigh;
The one sees sunlight never
The other lies beneath fair skies.
Where shines the bright sun ever;
Here grief. there joy, the breezes fills
The sunless and the sunlt hills.
For over there are mountains drear,
Where clouds are ever lowering;
And not a ray of sunshine gay
Can lass the murky covering;
The rocks are bare of shrub or tree
1t is Il abode of misery
But here, the breeze sings melodies
Where brooks are laughing gaily,
And vioets sweet leap up. to greet
The welcome sunshine daily
The sunlight comes, and cheerfulness
Doth hills and trees br ooiSs uossess
And there will De a tinu'. when we
Must choose whereon to wander:
Whittier the hills where sunlight thrills,
Or the dim mountains yonder
Then choose Alright, and may our voice
Declare the sunlit hills our choice.
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eatlng account Of this work in recent

esting account Of this work in a recent
issue:
THE social purpose is abroad In the
world today. It's aim IS TO teach the
brotherhood of man, and to revelop every
member of society to the full measure OF
his capacity for usefulness and happi-
ness. In the slums of great cities, in the
mill districts, and wherever men and
women are herded together In ignorance
and poverty, the most powerful aganet
of the social purpose has veen found to be
the settlement.
What, exactly, is settlement
some of US are asking in the south, where
the work is almost unknown. 1t is a
neighborhood home. In the congested and
poverty stricken city districts where one
room often serves as a dwelling place for
an entire family, the settlement home
supplies parlor, library, school, gymnas-
ius, church and often kitchen. 1t offers
meeting ground for parents, children
and settlement workers. and creates the
social atmosphere necessary to the de-
vclopment of any community. Where ex-
istence is little more than apathetic 1t
vitalizes the interests of life and makes
them common interests.
1.-THE residents and workers In the
settlement home are men and women or
culture and education-I should have
said men and women of heart and sense.
Though often college-bred and always
from the better paths of life, they know
that the settlement resident who has an
intellectual and scientific interest in social
conditions. may teach, but may also learn,
from those whom he tries to help. the
settlement worker receives much, because
he gives much
"sWhen l give. I do not give aims nor
a little charity; when I give | give my
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NOTES AND PERSONALS.

Mrs George f. jackson and Miss June
Jackson are visiting the summer cottage
OF Mrs. Jacksons brother, Mr.. Fl. Carroll
Pullen, on the shore Of Lake Hebron in
Maine Mrs Charles S. Pullen ana MISS
Marguerite Pullen of Brooklyn are also
guests at 1.-THE Birches'
Miss Hannah Washington will leave
next Wednesday for Savannah where she
will take the steamer for Boston. She
will then go to the Maine coast to spend
the remainder of the summer.
Miss Saddle Mallam has returned from
Chicago where she has been studying
voice under Miss Leila Breed and oratorla
under DIR. Charles T.. Allen for the past
season and will return the first of Septem-
Der to continue her studies and TO MI
number of engagements to sing at private
musicales. She is the guest of her sister,
Mrs Y. L. Sims, during her visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Richey have gone
on a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Ralph
Ramseur. in Asheville, N. c.
The lawn fete postponed from last
Thursday by the ladies of Our Lady OF
Sorrows church will be given tomorrow
from $50 until 10 o'clock p. m. on the
CnurCn ldWfg hNChtC eitN. = - =
street. In case of rain 1t will be given IN
the school room.
Mrs. NJ. c. Beers and Mrs. w. ID.
Holmes entertained at a "thimble party
Wednesday afternoon in honor of Mrs
Holmes mother. Mrs. ]. II. Fraunces OF
Philadelphia. Thirty guests were pres
ent and were served delightful refresh
ments Miss Cecile Myers and Miss Mary
Sue Brazeal presided at the punch bowl
Mr.. Carl f. wittichen left yesterday for
Virginia Beach. Norfolk and Baltimore
on a pleasure trip of several weeks.
Mss Minnie Park of Waycross, Ga, is
the guest of Mrs. Robert McLester and
will remain here during the winter as one
of the teachers in the public schools.
Miss Pauline Browning is the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Brett Brown at their home
on Sixth avenue.
A moonlight picnic was given last
Wednesday evening by a party of young
people of the South Highlands. They were
chaperoned by Mr.. and Mrs. Pope Seals;
Miss Josephine Mcknight, Miss Eula Mae
Gaudn, Miss Madge Chisolm, Miss Lena
Conner, Miss Helen, Coulbourne, Miss
CONTINUED ON PAGE 20.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-05

These young southern girls are daugh-
ters of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lough-
borough, members of one of the most
prominent families in the state OF Mary
land. On their mothers side they are
related to the finest of the old Virginia
houses for generations back and are
cousins of q number of women writer's
OF this country Amelie Rives. NJ. G..
McClelland, Fanny Johnston and numbers
Of others, while their mother is most
brilliant woman.
Their father settled at Milton after his
term of service in the Confederate army
expired-at Appomattox. One of the 9TH
err Loughborough estates where his family
first lived adjoins the large place bought
few years ago by John r. Mclean, and
was sold some time ago to the late. Secre-
tary Whitney. The Loughborough road,
one of the most beautiful In Washington
City that winds over the hills to the Poto-
mac was named for this family.
Miss Loughborough and her sister were
born at Milton and have always lived
here, a very quiet, obscure life, working
and studying. And they are among the
most interesting and talented of the
southern girls now coming to the front.
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not know that in the heart of Atlanta
hourishes a settlement-not an attempt
nor an experiment, but real settlement
established and conducted along the ad =
vanced lines of such work in Boston, New
York and Chicago. For three years the
young women who have made the Meth
odist Home settlement, situated just off
Decatur street. for the operation of Fud-
ton Bag and Cotton mills, have worked
so modestly that not until the settlement
had passed the experimental stage and
had crystalized into a perfectly organized
charity did 1t become even slightly known
to the public.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-05
For MISS TRIMRLE.

An informal card party was given by
Miss Mary Trimble last Wednesday even
ing in honor of her cousin. Miss Trimble,
from Arkansas. The following guests
were present: Miss Verona Marks, Miss
Alberta Fulghum. Miss Ella Smith. Miss
Caroline Chisholm. Miss Annie Reid. Miss
Brett Reid Mr.. Chisholm, Mr.. Fulghum,
Mr. Duncan and Mr.. John Trimble Mr..
Marye Dabney, Mr. Henry Redd, Mr..
Dunlap and Mr.. Charles Marks.
Miss Trimbie and her sister are among
the most popular of the midsummer visi-
tors. and have made many friends during
their stay.
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president of the seaboard Air Line. He


Dinners and luncheons at the Southern
and Country clubs have been given every
day in his honor. Among the guests at
the dinner wednesday at the Country club
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Jack johnson, Mr..
and Mrs. f. A Order, Mr.. and Mrs. L. A
Shipman, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Matthew's
Mrs Frances De Bardeleben, Mr.. j. G.
Cantrell. Mr.. Henry b. Gray, Mr. Charles
A. Martin of Savannah, Mr.. Bradley ].
Saunders
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JoHNsoN-RuRcH.

The engagement of Miss Lauretta
Burch. the niece Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard d. Brunette, to Mr.. Frantz e. John
son of Louisville is announced The we'd
ding will take place in this city early
in September.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-05

Daisy Loughborough and her younger
sister Caroline live in an old-fashioned
stone house hundred years old In Mary
land. The place is named Milton" and
lies off the deserted Glen Echo track in
Montgomery county, several miles out Of
Washington along the River road.
Just o stones throw from the house
near the old bell that was formerly used
for calling the slaves in from the fields,
on the site of an old mill. Miss Bough-
borough has built her studio. She began
her work as a student In the corcoran
Art school and later studied with Chase.
She has done much portrait work. but her
landscape studies are rather more inter-
esting. For this she has a rare gift and
a sense of color delicate and true.
Her sister Caroline, whose picture is re-
produced here, has but recently entered
upon her career as a writer, and much is
presaged for her future. She is very
young still and has accomplished but lit
tie to speak of 80 far, but she has an
extraordinary talent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-05
DISTRICT NURSING.

In connection with the social settlement
work now being conducted with such sue
cess In Atlanta the district nursing has
recently been organized.
The Atlanta Georgian gives an inter-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-05
IN HONOR OF MR.. COST.

A member of a prominent Virginia fam
lily, who has been visiting in the city
during this past week, is Mr. Edward
Francis Cost OF Portsmouth. Va, vice
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AT SOUTHERN CLUB.

AT the table dhote dinner to be served
this evening in the rathskeller the follow
ing programme will be rendered by Call
mans orchestra:
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Miss Pauline Browning is the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Brett Brown at their home
on Sixth avenue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-30
Cole y

A mother should come to her child's
aid at this critical time and remember
that Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound will prepare the system for
the coming change and start this try
ing period in young girls life without
pain or Irregularities.
Miss Emma Cole of Tullahoma, Tenn,
writes:
Dear Mrs. Pmkham:
81 want to tell you that am enjoying bet
ter health than [ have for years. and owe
it all to Lydia E. Pmkham's Vegetable Com
pound.
when fourteen years of age I suffered al
most constant pain, and for two or three
years had soreness and pain in my side,
headaches and was dizzy and nervous, and
doctors all failed to help me.
Lydia E. Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound
was recommended, and after taking it my
health began to improve rapidly, and think
it saved my life. l sincerely hope my expert
ence will be a help to other girls who are pass
ing from girlhood to womanhood, for know
your Compound will do as much for them"
If you know of any young girl who is
sick and needs motherly advice ask her
to write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass,
and she will receive free advice which
viii put her on the right road to a.
strong. healthy and happy womanhood.
Mrs. Pinkham is daughter-in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five
years has been advising sick women
free of charge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-30
MANY HURT IN CAR SMASH-UP.
Woman Killed When Freight Hits
Trolley Car in Michigan.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 26-One woman
was killed and 16 other persons were
injured when an electric freight car
crashed into the rear end of subur-
ban electric car near Birmingham, IS
miles from this city, on the Pontiac
division of the Detroit United Rail-
way. The passenger car was a thea
ter car, bound out TO Pontiac from De-
troit, and was well filled
1t had stopped at the foot of steep
grade in front of the power house,
when, without warning, the freight
car, also outbound and which had
been following the theater car from
Detroit, appeared over the crest of the
grade and dropped down the 3O0-foot
incline at terrific speed. 1t struck the
passenger car with such torch that it
telescoped the car for two-thirds of
it's length. The woman killed was
Miss Harriette Harger, daughter of
Charles Harger of Pontiac.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-30
Fiaht Manager Arrested.

Cincinnati, Nov. 26 On charge Of
embezzling BILLY" Nolan, manager of
Battling" Nelson, has been arrested
here. The arrest came as a sensa-
tional finish to the dispute over the
proceeds from the exhibition of the
pictures of The Gans-Nelson fight. No
Ian, it is claimed, withheld about
$1,000 from the California treasurer
of the films. pending decision as to
the proper division of the money, and
he was therefore arrested on the en-
beZZlement charge
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-30
Still a Socialist.

M. Viviani, the new French minister
OF labor, appointed by NJ. Clemenceau,
has declared in a newspaper inter.
view that in accepting Office he re.
pudiated nothing of his political past.
Il am socialist" he said, land
mean to remain faithful to my ideas
and to my socialist friends. Like
Millerand in the Waldeck-ROYsseau
ministry, and like BRAND in the Sar-
rien cabinet, / preserve my freedom
of action and of propaganda. AS min
lister of labor / shall endeavor to Sc.
cure reforms which / defended as dep.
uty at the tribune of the chamber.
want to make the ministry of labor a
workingman's ministry" M. Viviani
then proceeded to speak of the nature
of the work Immediately cut out for
the new minister. He hopes, he said,
with the aid of the minister of finance,
to create an organization for the set
Element of the long-standing question
of old-age pensions that can imme-
diately set to work" Another mat
ter which will claim his Immediate at.
tention is arbitration in labor disputes,
AS well as the liberty of trade unions.
He is said not to be blind to the fact
that his task will be difficult one,
and that, in view of the influences
now at work in the French democracy
and parliament, his ministry will not
be the least important of the Gle
menceau cabinet. 1t is to be estab.
lished in the premises just vacated by
the department of public worship, a
highly significant arrangement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-30
PEARY LANDS AT SYDNEY
ARCTIC EXPLORER ARRIVES IN
PORT AND MEETS WIFE.
Gives Steamer Roosevelt Credit for
Expeditions Farthest North
Record.

Sydney, G. B., Nov. 24.-Flying the
flag of the United States, which had
been placed nearer the north pole
than any other national standard, and
weather-beaten and disabled, the
Peary arctic steamer Roosevelt ar
rived here Friday under sail and
steam after Is months vain effort to
reach the pole. Though not entirely
successful, the expedition nevertheless
got to 81 degrees minutes north lati-
tude.
The Roosevelt left Port-aux-Basque.
Newfoundland, at three o'clock Thurs
day afternoon, and averaged five miles
an hour to Sydney, experiencing light
wind and rains. The ship came to
an anchor off the yacht squadron pier.
Though the hour was early, the
Roosevelt was soon visited by the
American consul and various local Of
f1cials and an invitation was extended
Commander Peary on behalf of the
Sydney board of trade to be the guest
of the commercial body at banquet
in his honor at night. A large guam
tity of mail awaited Commander
Peary. He came ashore almost i'm
mediately after the steamer anchored
and Joined Mrs. Peary, who has been
here for two weeks waiting for her
husbands return.
After reading the letters accumu-
lated during the past fortnight. Com
mander Peary decided to leave to-day
by rail for New York.
Commander Peary is enthusiastic
about the performance of the steamer
Roosevelt. Asked if the very adj
yanced point to which he had been
able to place the Roosevelt in winter
quarters was due to careful and in
creased knowledge of the movements
of the ice he said it was due to the
Roosevelt: herself He did not believe
there was ever another ship af1oat
could have stood the battle with the
ice the Roosevelt had successfully
fought. The boilers were the one de-
fective feature of the ship. More
than half the power of the ship was
represented by water tube boilers and
these gave out shortly after the
Roosevelt left Sydney in 1905.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-30
Picquart SHOWS Generosity.

Gen. Picquart, the defender OF
Dreyfus and now the French minister
of war, has defined his attitude to-
ward his old prosecutors in the army
When an officer who was involved in
the conspiracy that banished Picquart
to the border of the Sahara, entered
the minister's office and began to.
stammer out statement on the sub
1ect Picquart stopped him, saying: u.
only know one thing and that is that;
you have always been an excellent Of
ficer. You may be sure that l shall
not forget that"
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Dous as Policemen.
MIMI.

A writer IN the Century magazine
gives an interesting account of the use
of dogs as assistants to the police in
Belgian cities and in Paris. In the
latter city they have proved efficient
in rescuing from the Seine many vic
tins of accident and would-be suicides,
while in other lines of work connect
ed with the police department their
services are valuable. But it is in the
Belgian cities that the employment
of dog police seems to have been
brought to its highest efficiency. In
the city of Client the training and
maintenance of dogs for police duty
has proved to be profitable invest
ment. A dog costs the city of Client
little over five cents per day for
maintenance, and so dog police cost
1885 francs per year. 1t is claimed
that so dogs do more than four times
the work that would be accomplished
by ~ men, who would cost the MUM.
cipality 1900 francs" The idea of
dog policemen semes to be good one,
all right. One distinct and obvious
advantage of the system, not men,
toned by the Century writer, would
be that they could go on the dog
watch without difficulty or friction.
And in this connection the thought
occurs that it would be good idea
for San Francisco to investigate the
dog police question. If that city needs
one thing more than another, it is an
efficient police force. The question Of
reorganiZing the force is now under
active discussion, and the time for the
experiment is opportune. There can
be no reasonable doubt that the addi.
ton of few good dogs to the San
Francisco police force would add
greatly to its efficiency. Some per-
sons may think that the force would
be a dog-gone sight better if it were
composed entirely of dogs, but we do
not go so far as that.