The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-09

drawing visitors from near and far. and under the soft southern skies Yum Yum chants her paen to the moon Nankipooh woos and wins Koko dances, jokes and laughs; Katisha sighs and weeps and pleads and makes merry-and all goes merry as a marriage tale"
 Composed by Engllshmen as satire upon things and people Japanese, in reality the "Mfkado" IS a severe thrust at both English and American manners and customs, which do credit to semi barbarous nations in some respects; the war murder, fighting, bloodshed-fea- lures that should long have been oblit- erated from eivilzation-still being part of our regime, so why should one wonder that the "Mikado" is "beheaded" for flirilng2 We will all see the "Mkado" for it is great.
 Miss Alice Kirkland and Col. Joseph Fickens Clarke of Etowah will be mar ried this morning at o'clock at the resi- dence of MT. Asa l.. Hoyt.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Adams and chll- dren have gone to their summer home on Shades mountain.
 Mir. James Holmes, formerly of Char leston but now of Macon, Ga, is visit ing Mir and Mrs. L. N. Andrews, 10O6 Eula street.
 Mrs. Myrtle Wood Hatch, sponsor for Dick Bowling Camp, Houston, Texas, in company with Miss Hazel Wood, sponsor for Hearne, Texas, Camp, and Mrs Elf fife Pilley Taylor, sponsor of Bryan, Texas, Camp, are at the Colonial hotel.
 Col. Philip H. Fall of Gen. s. D. Lees staff and commander of Dick Bowling Camp, Houston, Texas, is at 2217 Fourth avenue with 10 of his camp comrades.
 Mrs. James A. Blackburn has as her guests, MT James Gillespie of Atlanta. Mrs. w. K. Wallace from Moulton, Mrs. w. H. Burr and Mrs. s. II. Henderson, from Talladega, and Miss L. &. Borden from Jacksonville.
 Mir. l.. Epstein and Mrs Sahra Wolff were married at SIS Sixteenth street, last night and left for California on their bridal tour.
 MT. J. o. Wolff of Dayton, Tenn. is on a visit to his sisters, Mrs R. Shawbach and Mrs. Joe Spanier.
 On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week the annual meeting of the Alabama State Music Teachers associa- tion in conjunction with the Southern Music Teachers association, takes place at Mobile. A number of prominent southern artists and teachers contribute tc the different programmes, and lectures on subjects interesting to musicians will he delivered and discussed. The details of the convention have been arranged by Miss Georgia Sterling and Mrs. Maude 10. Truitt both well known in the south, and besides the programmes to be rem dered several social functions, a boat ride On the bay and a sightseeing automobile trip have been arranged for.
 Several musicians well known to Bir- mingham will take part, among whom may be mentioned Messrs. Charles Wash burn and R. Armour, both formerly of this city: Mrs. Emma Lavretta of Mobile, Miss Haldee Tutwiler of Bossburg, Major Tutwiler's niece; Miss Mabel Huestis, d sister of Mrs. Charles Clark: Miss Lil- :ian Battele Mrs. T. H. Aldrich, Jr., and MT. Dahm-P Petersen of this city; the latter two appearing in a joint recital and Mir. Dahm-Petersen lectures on Mod ern Methods in Voice Culture" Special rates are given on all railroads and a large attendance Is expected
 Mrs. A. H. Atkins and daughters of Lowryville, S. C., also Mrs. T. J. Pon- der of Gainesville, Ga, are visiting their sister, MrS. E. BraSner NelSOn at l02S North Twenty eighth street.
 Mrs. Mary Phelan Watt is the guest of her sister Mrs. J. c. Derby. Mrs. Watt is a delegate from the White House association of Montgomery.
 MT. Sidney Harris Phean of Atlanta is with Miss Sarah Phelan, 1886 Fourteenth street, south for the reunion.
 Mrs. James Gillespie Greene of Aber- deen, Miss, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Theodore Fulton, at 1862 Rugby av- enue, North Highlands.
 w Walker Ware, a nephew, and Mary Allen Warren, niece of Gen. J. w. Bush and Miss Lefty Gregory Warbur- ton, a niece of Ex-Governor Gregory of Williamsburg Va, are guests of Gen. J. W. Bush and Mrs. J. w. Bush, 1120 Eleventh avenue south.
 Mir and Mrs. s. S. Griffith and family of Atlanta, Ga, and Miss Kate Brown of West Point, Ga, are the guests of Mrs. T. F. Bell, Twelfth avenue, north.
 Maj. T. P. Weakley of Nashville is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph V. Allen, during the reunion. Major Weak