The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
SOCIETY.
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the leading spring publications. It is pro- nounced a story of great dramatic strength, it's plot quite extraordinary, and turning upon an engagement ar ranged by correspondence through a matrimonial bureau between people who shuddered at the supposition that happy marriages could ever be brought about by such means.
 Miss Davis, who is well known as the author of "The Northerner" a book which attracted instant attention, is a native of Huntsville, and grew up in an old-fashioned southern house full of books and sunshine. She was an omni- vorous reader wrote poetry long before she could spell correctly, and even in- vented language which only she and her younger sister could understand, but which she has now entirely forgotten. As teacher a newspaper writer, and a court reporter. she made her way all over the south, from Key West to the Ozark mountains Her first novel, "The Northerner," grew out of her experiences in the courts of northern Alabama There had been an atrocious lynching and the perpetrators were tried in the federal court where she was clerk. After 1t was all over, she asked for a months leave of absence, and in twenty eight days wrote 'The Northerner" as it stands to- day. Of "The Worlds Warrant she
 
 sort of book; I had the outline of an- other book in my head and several chap ters written when this story began to take shape, growing from bit Of real life that I had chaneed upon, an atom of experience merely. In the vanity Of my literary aspirations had worked out quite different ending for the story, as well as a different title. The char acters quietly and firmly put me aside and worked out their own destinies to suit themselves. l was only spectator their amanuensis, in fact"
 The book, besides its romantic inter- est brings in a 'dear' between two young eastern capitalists who are developing ore lands in Alabama and this furnishes the author an opportunity for much local color.
 Fortunes" she says, "comes to men in all sorts of guises and disguises; some are shrewd enough to penetrate the mas que and bold enough to seize her and uncompromising enough to wiring from her what they call, prosaically, oppor- tunity; others delve for it with sweat blinded eyes turned downward their whole life long, while, as like as not she stands at their elbow grinning in a harlequins coat.
 It ca me to Peter Clarke and Calysle in this way: The day before the de- parture of the party the two young men were taking a farewell drive about the red-clay roads that like tangled terra cotton ribbon. loops the river counties together, when they made the great find and came plump upon the pot of rain bow gold-the Prometheus brand that was to vitalize the whole scheme and breathe into it the breath of life and success.
 Just beyond Brantley's plantation, where the party had been making head quarters, Hickory Ridges thrusts down an impetuous elbow as though bent upon barring the rivers farther progress south {: but the gentle giant had only made q supple bend and flowed on unfretted be- meath the beard of pines that clung tooth and mai! to the mountains steep ascent. And here, where the shadow of the pines was blackest upon the rugged escarp- meat, Chinquepin falls slipping through the elenched teeth of the boulders. flung herself downward in a mad leap of two hundred feet, like hunted thing, to the river below"
 For the fund being raised by the monu- ment committee of the United Daughters of the Confectionery to erect a monument at the Battle of the Crater, in memory of the brilliant fight of Sanders Alabama brigade, MT. Mims Stone will give a lib- eral per cent of the proceeds from his moving picture show beginning June and continuing through the 7th. J. l.. Dillon, who has been critically i'll at St. Vlncent's hospital, is reported out of danger and doing as we'll as could be expected
 Miss Belle Snead entertained Thursday afternoon at her home, Fourteenth ave- nue and Twenty-fourth street, north, for Miss Leta McGlathery. whose wedding will take place in June. The lower floor was thrown into one and beautifully dec orated in palms, ferns and cut flowers the colors pink and greent being carried out. The members of the Frou Frou club were the guests and as a surprise the club members had planned a kitchen shower for Miss McGlathery, who re- ceived many useful presents. The club also presented her with a brides book. The guests were Miss McGlathery, Miss Willie Brown, Miss Jennie Dillon, Miss Mamie and Maud Henery, Miss Jennie Wick, Miss Nell Emond, Miss Lillian Dyer, Miss Ruth Ledbetter, Miss Bessie Mccall lum, Miss Lucy Biclxley. Miss Carrie h. gram, Miss Annie Houghton, Misses Belle and Catherine Snead and Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Adams
 
 The Southside Sunday School associa-' tion will meet at the Trinity Methodist cnurcn, corner or Avenue F and Thirtieth street, Sunday June ?. All members of the Sunday school workers are cordially invited to be present.
 Miss Eleanor Matthews, one of the beauties in Birmingham society, will leave for Montgomery this week.
 There will be a call meeting of the Edgewood club at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Bruce Tuesday afternoon at { o'clock. All members are urged to be pres ent. Mrs. J. H. Wallace, secretary.
 Miss Emma Onberg, who is sick at the Davis infirmary, is much better.
 MT and Mrs. James A. Woods are spending a few days in Tennessee.
 
 A delightful party was given the past week by Mrs David w. Broome to her little daughter, Miss Oline Broome, at her residence, 220S Fifth avenue. There were twenty-five guests. Games were enjoyed, and after piano selection by the little hostess and several of the guests lunch con was served The decorations were in pink.
 Mrs. E. R. Simpson of Memphis arrived in the city yesterday and is visiting her brother, MT. C. o. Simpson, on the High lands.
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