The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-17

beauty roses. Mrs. Kilby was one of the prettiest young matrons present in a green tailored costume with smart green hat. Mrs. Ed Warren, Jr., was another charming figure in a eanard blue messa- line gown with which she wore a huge black and white hat. Mrs John Warren was gowned in red with large black hat Miss Luetta Gregg wore a becoming Dreetoire frock of rose broadcloth, and Miss Nellie Gregg was in white. Mrs.
 Collins was in black lace.
 Under the auspices of the Free Kinder garten association Mrs Leonard T. Beecher will give one of her beautiful dramatic readings at the Jefferson thea tre on the night of December 8. It was at the home of Mrs. ". D. Smith, who is the president of the association, that Mrs. Beecher's introduction. in Birmingham took place. Her magnificent rendition of Enoch Arden on that occasion will be long remembered. Rarely has the pathos and exquisite sentiment of the master piece been so thrillingly portrayed as in the drawing room reading in the presence of a group of Mrs. Smiths friends.
 
 fit of the Free kindergarten her subject will be, tThe Servant in the House." that wonderful new play which has been the topic of so much discussion among the eastern critics. This will be one of the most artistic entertainments of the win ter. Mrs. Beecher is a great lover of children and a student Of child nature. It is a peculiarly fitting thing that one of her beautiful nature and great, loving heart should give her services in so noble a cause as the assistance of little chtl- dren.
 Mrs. Motion Smith will entertain the Agathos Bridge club this afternoon
 Miss Augusta Coleman will be the hostess this week for the Debutantes' Bridge club, which will meet Thursday.
 Mrs. J. B. Raulston reopened her studio in the Watts building yesterday after an absence of several months during, which time she travelled in Europe.
 There will be an exhibit of the posters
 of the Birmingham Art club on Tuesday
 and Wednesday of this week in the win
 dows of the Forbes Piano building on
 Third avenue. This will be the only op-
 portunty the public will have of seeing
 these posters all together. and visitors are
 requested to register their votes as to the
 best poster. The poster receiving the
 largest number of votes will receive hon.
 orable mention. The prize will be award ed by judges
 MT. and Mrs. Rufus Watts have named their little daughter Ellis, after the ma ternal grandfather MT. Ellis Mccormack. The Home and Foreign Missionary So- ciety of the First Presbyterian Church
 will meet Wednesday afternoon at 8 o'clock with Mrs. F. D. Johnson, at Ter l race Court. Mrs. R. w. Burnett and Mrs.
 F. M Dixon will be the hostesses. Among the newcomers in Birmingham is a very attractive and accomplished
 woman in the person of Mrs. Louise Lee Gamble, who will make her home here. Mrs. Gamble is an addition to the Music Study club and will be one of the distin- guished guests at the charming recital by Frank Croxton and Eleanor Stanley, | which the cultured set are looking for ward to with so much pleasure. Both MT. | and Mrs. Gamble will undoubtedly be fa- vorites here, as they were in Nashville, their former home. Mrs. Gamble has a superb dramatic soprano voice. Tickets for the Croxton recital can be obtained from any member of the Music Study club or at Cable hall. They are being sold for a very small price when it is considered that MT. Croxton is one of the best known singers in America. The club, however, does not give the recitals expecting to realize any profit from them, but to aid in giving to those who like
 music chance to hear the distinguished
 musicians of the country. Undoubtedly Cable hall will be crowded Thursday aft ernoon with the cultured and fashionable set
 Mrs. Mary Hankinson and Erwin Han kinson, the young son of Mrs. Agnes Hankinson, arrived yesterday from Au- gusta, Ga., where the young lad had been spending some time with his grand 
 l mother.
 There will be a meeting of the board of control of the Boys club tomorrow morn- ing at 10 30 in the clubrooms. Miss Lena Jackson will entertain the Amaranth club Friday at Terrace court. Mrs. Frank Crockard will not return from Virginia until the middle of Decem- Der. She is at present in Hot Springs, but will later visit at her former home in Wheeling, w. Va.
 Mrs. John Irby has returned from Tus- caloosa, where she was the guest of her mother Mrs. Hanley.
 Mrs. N. w. Trlmble and Miss Jennie Trimble will leave Thursday for an east ern trip. They will go first to Washing ton, where they will be guests of Mrs. Howard Shore, who was formerly the lovely Miss Mary Trimble. Later they will go to New York city and afterward to Atlantic City. In New York Miss Trimble will be the guest of Miss Edith Martin.
 Mrs. Barnes Morgan will leave today for short visit to her mother, in Mont gomery. Mrs. c. E. Dowmon will go to Atlanta