The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-20
NOTES OF TIE WEEK IN WORLD OF SOCIETY Reception Will Q pen Season at
 the Athletic Club MOMENTS CLASSES AT CLUB interesting Course Outlined for the Winter-classes Will Open Next
 Week-PhysIoal Exercise
 Necessary.
WOMEN'S CLASSES AT CLUB

have been Issued and the reception will be quito charming and informal us the many preceding events ut the club. The beautiful gymnasium will be used for dancing, The president of the club, and 6 special reception committee will welcome the guests,
 In connection with recent announce ments made by the, club the following in regard to the women's and girls classes will interest former members of the club as well as many who will Join the win ter's classes:
 It is now a recognized fact that physi- cal exercise of some kind is just as es- sental to the healthy girl and woman 1t is to the man any boy. As the rela- tions of the body to the mind are bet ter understood, the value of properly se- lected physical exercises are being more highly appreciated. The forced attention, quick decisions and rapid responses called for In competitive games, have proven @ great aid to the development of the mental faculties. Physical accomplish ments bring their mental as well as phy- sical equivalents and should be consid- cred part of every ones education. Az a means of attaining poise, grace suppleness and erect and beautiful car riage, systematic drills in calisthenics, aesthetic movements. dancing and fenc- ing are the most highly recommended The work this year will consist of setting up and corrective exercises, free move ments, Indian clubs. bar bells. wands, dumb bells, elementary fencing and aes- 1 thetc movements A feature that should appeal to the class will be the folk and athletic dancing. This is now recognized | as one of the most wholesome forms of physical exercise, and one of the very best for all-round development. One of | it's great advantages lies in the fact | that 1t gets people into the spirit of har- ] moly, and for acquiring grace it is par excellence.
 Advanced fencing, single stick, military drill and fancy marching; swimming and bowling, elementary and advanced work on buck, horse, rings. parallel bars, hori- zontal bar and other heavy apparatus. l Among the competitive games will be basket ball, indoor baseball and pin ball; also other games suitable for the gym l nasidm.
 | We have conducted these classes for l several years and with the increased fa- | cilities in the new club house for the convenience and strict privacy of this | department, we feel assured of a very successful term
 This term begins Tuesday, September I 14. and the classes will be directly un- der the supervision of MT. J. E. Miles. physical director.
 l MT. and Mrs. Collins have returned from Blount Springs.
 Miss May Collins is still at Blount, the guest of Miss Drennen.
 Miss Lucille Douglass will not close her studio until after the holidays, when she expects to go to New York and later | abroad.
 Miss Norma Schoolar was due to ar rive yesterday at Hamburg. 1 Miss Elizabeth G. Jones of Guntersville has recently come to Birmingham to re- l side and has opened a studio in the Watts building. Miss Jones is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music.
 l Miss Bessie Caro- Bassett of Florida, re- gently guest of Birmingham relatives, | has just left West Point, where she visit l ed army friends, and Is now at Ft Myer, being delightfully."- entertained by the army set there.
 Mir. Culpepper Exum has returned
 Miss Callie Evans has re-entered the Presbyterian Synodical college at Talla- 1 deg =. where she has ben a student for two years and has taken high rank.
 One of the delightful events of the early | fall season was a reception given by Mir. and Mrs. Van Methvin. at their beau | tfu new home in North Birmingham, in | honor of their sister Miss Callie Meth l yin from Ft. Gaines, Ga. Quite an orig | inal and unique contest was enjoyed, that of piercing the arrows through large white heart, MT Bert Cooper winning the prize A delightful two-course lunch l con was served.
 The home was beautifully decorated i'll cut flowers and ferns and green and red ribbons were festooned from the cande- Hers to the table. making beautiful centerpece. from which hints and a,- monds were served. Those enjoying the
 hospitality of MT. and Mrs Methvin were Dr. Moreland MT Merchant, Mir Colvin,
 Dr. Yielding. MT. l.. Richard pr. Walker,
 Mir. Ed Norris, MT. Fred Cooper. MT.
 Moss MT. Tyler, Mir J. N. Foster, MT.
 Il, AIy Inn Haksp Nr I
 C. Haygood Mr. Persons MT. Roy Yield
 ing, Mir w. F. Methvin, MT. R. J, Eos ter, Sr., ]. M Anderson, R. R. Hatten.
 N. H. Suydam. MT. Milingsly C. N, owens, Charlie Owens, Mrs. George
 Hughes, Mrs. N G. Tyler, Mrs. C. M,
 Green. Mrs. Walter Hunt. Mrs, Moss.
 Mrs. J. M Anderson, Mrs R. J. Foster,
 Mrs N. Y. Suydam Mrs. E. A. Brown. Mrs. w. F Methvln, Mrs N. H. Suydam, tie Marshall Misses Louise and Bessie
 Suydam Miss Barr. Misses Leila and May Harrell, Misses Josie, Erin and Bet
 tie Low Yielding.
 Mrs IT. M Byrd, Jr has returned from Old Point Comfort and Fredericksburg
 Va, where she has spent the summer.
 Mrs W J. Woodlif of Aline, Okla,
 is visiting her brother. MT. Charles G.
 Reid. 1905 North Thirtieth street, Nor
 wood.