The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-13
NOTES T THE WEEK
 IN WORLD OF SOCIETY
Applicants for Matron at inc
 Woman'S Annex
MONTHS APPOINTMENTS
Reports of School Improvement Work Will Be Made In Educational De- parsment of State Fair-ln-
 ducements Offered.

Eve- since the doors of the university were opened to young women, with the equpplng of the Julia Tutwiler annex, there Las been a most desirable position, that of matron, filled from time to time by capable women. Among the appli- cants for the ensuing year Is Mrs. Lydia Wellborn Griffin and her many friends are working enthusiastically for her ap- pointment. Mrs. Griffin. if appointed, will fill the position with entire satis- faction Few women are better capaci- bringing her in such close relation with young women. Tactful, considerate, her nature most lovable and her beautiful character, endearing her to every one who knows her, she would make an ideal matroh for the womans annex.
 She is devoted to young people and she has the happy .aculty of understand ing them and of establishing at once those sympathetic relations that mean happiness and contentment to the young woman away from the parental roof. No mistake would be made If Mrs. Griffin is appointed to the position of matron to the university annex
 The womans department of the fair an- nounces among its special prizes $25 to be given to the best report to be sub mitted by the school improvement asso- citations of Alabama. A similar offer was made last year and the school im- proYement association of China received the prize. Both the city and county sociatcns are eligible and reports will be received from all parts of the state Mrs. J. B. Reid, superintendent of the womans department of the fair, has shown her continued interest in educa- tional work by renewing this offer. In tho reports an effort will be made to show the pictures of rural schools where the associations have been doing such effective work, as well as of neglected schools in rural. communities, which will show future possibilities.
 Mrs George w. Scholar and Miss Fes- sic Scholar are visiting friends at Woodstock.
 MT. and Mrs. F. M. Tutwiler, Sr, have been passing the week at Lehigh
 Mir. and Mrs. B. r. Eborn have re- turned from the Jamestown exposition.
 Mir. Caldwell Bradshaw has returned from Jamestown.
 Mrs. McCrery and Miss Edith McCrery ITO ,,ossioo tho our,rnar in tho aoet
 Mrs Charles A. Calhoun and her littla daughter. Margaret left on Wednesday for Wrghtsville Beach, N. c. Her mother Mrs. Acde Mercer Barnett and her sister, Miss Emmie Barnett, are also there for the midsummer season.
 MT. H. R. Shorter has returned.
 Mrs. Henry B. Gray and MT. Henry B. Gray. Jr., will pass the midsummer season at Atlantic City.
 The pretty Country club will be the popular rendezvous this evening, club diners going there in great numbers With the summer exodus, too, the num- Der of club members dining there every evening, while their families are away, increases, dining at the Country club being of the greatest convenience, no less so than lunchng in the handsome rathskellar of the Southern club.
 Miss Beth Allen and Miss Ruth Allen are charmingly domcied on Mornngsde Park in New York, and have with them Miss Margaretta Williams and several others who travelled north with them. The party stopped en route by the James, to n exposition.
 spending the summer at Asheville, N. C. They occupy a cottage at the manor In Albemarle park.
 Mrs. J. S. Sbley of Pensacola is vis- itng Mrs. Dunbar Sibley on Highland avenue.
 Mrs. H. D. Clayton widow of the late General Clayton, and Miss Victoria Hoole and Mis- Serena rBown, who have been the guests of Mir. and Mrs. John c. Pugh will return to their home In Eufaua to- day.
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