The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-17
RATHSKELLER IS
 SUBJECT OF TALK Very Thing That Was Needed
 at Southern Club A WEDDING OF INTEREST Miss Vleo and MT. erubb Will Be, Married This Week-Fine Class of Graduates From BlrmIne-
 ham High School.
A WEDDING OF INTEREST
BY ETHEL ARMIES.

Everybody is talking about the Raths- keller for it is the very latest thing in town in the way of a cafe; certainly the most artistic and just exactly what the Southern club needed to give it some touch and go.
 That sombre interior. of the club; It's prim and stately hangings and the wide, quiet-even church-like look of things-in- variably affects one as a poem by Milton on a July day.
 But now all that is modified by the rathskeller There is 1t Is true, consider able monastery suggestion about the rathskeller; the furniture is all mission style and figures of monks are carved on the Flemish oak chairs-but they have steins in their hands-not rosaries. So that's no reflection. Fra Hippo Lippi was doubtless lots jollier than Fra Angelica for steady company.
 And 1t is going to be really quite charm ing there this evening. and everybody will be there for the first Sunday table dhote dinner.
 Ca1man's orchestra will play during the dinner from until 10 o'clock and the programme of music is:
 l. Tannhauser March--Wagner.
 2. Overture, Poet and Peasant-Suppe.
 g. Pilgrim Chorus-Wagner.
 4 Violin Solo-Selected.
 5. Tales From the Vienna Woods Strauss
 6. Selection, Il Trovatore--Verdi.
 T. Selection, Mayor of Tokio-Luder.
 8. Overture to Lohengrin--Wagner.
 g. Intermezzo-Bohen.
 To- Selection, Faust-Gounod.
 "The privileges of the cafe are ex- tended to residents of Birmingham when accompanied by club members, and to non-resldents upon the invitation of club members; 10 the ladies of the families of club members; to other ladies when ac companied by member of the club, or by a lady of the families of club members"
 Taken all in all the rathskeller is a first rate little place and the men who have been having an eye to 1t are to be congratulated. The main portion of the work. its design, construction, ordering of material and general arrangement and furnishing have been under the personal direction and supervision of the clubs new secretary, MT. Roswell Lee Tilgh- man.
 The club has been fortunate in securing the services of MT w. G. McMeekin as steward. He is a young man, very active and energetic and he has under his direc- ton twelve walters. All white help, which is rather a new feature for Birmingham.
 The kitchen, pantries, store rooms, re- frigerator system. and every portion of the back ground workings of the cafe are splendidly equipped and thoroughly up-to-date, everything new and the best make that could be found. regardless of expense In fact the cost of the cafe has gone way up into the thousands One item alone, the chandeliers, was $500
 It Is located in the basement of the club house, has two entrances, one from the interior of the club and the other on the Nineteenth street side a wide, grey looking space, cool as palm enclosed Mexican pateo on a noon day.
 The inside Is not a bit Chicago looking. There are no brass and mirrors and clash ing cymbals of colors. On the contrary everything is a low toned rich brown, warm bronze and dark greens, with the woodwork flemish oak and simply carved and chiseled. The columns, ceiling and the walls up to the black stein shelf are papered with the new cordova leather paper and the floor Is white tiled mosaic
 The chandeliers are In the art Non vean style and the candelebrum are silver The frieze is the star decoration. That is quite odd, rather like rarely colored print from some old German wood cut down by skilled hand. It is interesting