The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN WORLD OF SOCIETY Magazines Comment on Navy
 Sponsors Society MANY HOLIDAY SALES HELD Ladies of Various Churches Are Con- ducting Highly Successful Bazars.
 Notes and Movements of
 We'll Known People.

of the navy sponsors, Miss Mary Camp bell of Birmingham receiving due credit for the suggestion and also for her splon- did work in arousing general interest in the society
 In group of articles of women in the public eye, appearing in the December De- lineator, is the following reference to the society of navy sponsors:
 "The fair sex delight in social organiza- tions that commemorate heroic feats, brave deeds, and conquering acts. Socie- ties flourish all over the land, whose gen. tie members are descendants of valiant fighters for liberty in the Revolution, sol- , diers in the war of 1S12 whose ancestors were prioneers in the early colonial days, or, even still further back, were among those daring pilgrims who ventured across the sea in the Mayfower. Now these societies are to have rival An organization is being formed in which gentle .doers'' are the members. And Miss Mary Campbell of Birmingham, Ala, is responsible for this innovation. She has set on foot a movement to join to- gether in a social band all the maids and matrons who have stood as god mothers to the battleships of the nation. The honor of christening a warship has always been a coveted one. Navy spon- sors are selected for the social prominence or political importance of their families, as well as for their own rank in the list of national beauties.
 Miss Campbell last spring stood as sponsor to the scout cruiser bearing the name of her native city when that battle- ship was launched. This dark-eyed daugh- ter of the sunny south had scarcely more than officated at this christening than she set about organizing the former spon- sors of the fighting craft of the country. This was not an easy duty. At least 100 girls and women have baptized the differ ent cruisers, batteships, and destroyers. But no records of their acts have been kept by the navy. Miss Campbell told many important people of her desire to form the navy sponsors into an associa- tion. She interested Admiral Dewey and Representative Richmond Pierson IIob- son. Admiral Dewey heartily approved of the plans of Miss Campbell, and the hero of the Merrimac wrote to the various navy yards asking for the names of the different sponsors. These women have aiI been in communication, and it is expected that the names of these fair ones will go down in American history in a list of navy sponsors. The founder of the society is one of the youngest sponsors ever to name a battleship.
 The various holiday sales are being conducted with great success. The ladies of the Second Presbyterian church have had a holiday sale at the residence of Mrs. Edward N. Cullom. the sale was a success financially as well as socially.
 The ladies of the South Side Bap- list church have conducted sale at the residence of Mrs. Smith Cullom, which has also been decided success. The Kings Daughters will open their sale on Saturday morning at the kin dergarten rooms of the Margaret AL len school.
 The St. Agnes guild of the Church of the Advent will conduct a sale next week.
 Mrs. Kate Rhodes Lewis and Mrs. Mary Tipton have gone to their plan tations near Greensboro, where they will pass the holidays
 Col. T. G. Bush is in Washington.
 Mir. and Mrs. Earle Pettus are at home for the winter with Mrs. Annie Lewis Jones at her charming new resi- dence on the South Highlands.
 Miss Edna Moore who was the hostess of the Bid Euchre club on Wednesday, entertained several other guests in addition to the club mem- bers.
 The board of directors of the Bir- mngham Free Kindergarten associa- tion held a meeting yesterday morning at the Hillman.
 Grateful acknowledgment is made of a contribution to the Creche fund from Mrs. W. F. Freaves.
 Miss Estelle Shook of Nashville is the guest of Miss Jemison.
 MrS. JOSepn1ne Arnold Ricn or wash ington, D. C., one of the prominent delegates from the Woman's National Press association. who attended the h. ternational League of Press clubs meeting held in Birmingham on Octo- Der 22-26, in writing to the Colorado Beacon, has the following to say about her visit to the Birmingham district:
 The southern word of welcome (HowdyD floating on banners, greeted the delegates to the seventeenth annual convention of the International League of Press clubs on their arrival.
 Nor was Howdy! merely a verbal greeting, for the welcome extended was indeed heartfelt and cordial. The eastern. and western delegates were enthusiastic in praise of the hearty southern welcome accorded them.
 A great deal of the convention's suc- cess is due to MT. J. A. Rountree, chairman of the arrangements commit tee, who worked day and night for the past year to make lis year long to be remembered in the hearts of the dele gates.
 On arriving at Birmingham we were given a breakfast of one hundred covers in a private dining room at the Hotel Hillman. The menu was par ex-
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