The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-18
.LENTEN TOPICS IF GENERAL INTEREST The Easter Season At the
 Weman's Exchange SPRING FLOWERS FOR SALE What the Exchange Is Doing Toward Developing the Talents of Women
 Along Practical and Aes-
 thetic Lines.
SPRING FLOWERS FOR SALE

Easter at the Womans Exchange is an attractive season. On Easter Monday a delicious luncheon will be served, with the usual homemade delicacies, and the cafe will be crowded with the many friends and patrons of the exchange.
 Today the exchange will afford a splen- did market for delicaces and for home made cakes and breads and salads. The market there is always an attractive one, as hundreds of Birmingham women are only too willing to admit, having pat ronized the exchange during the several years of it's successful career.
 In this time the exchange has estab- lished itself as a permanent institution of the city. It's mission is to offer a medium to hundreds of gentlewomen to earn their own livelihood by being able to dispose of their original designs in embroideries their faces and handwork of all kinds, besides their homemade cakes and breads. The consignors in the several departments of the exchange often express themselves in regard to the assistance it has given them, not only financially, but in developing the talents of women along practical as well as aesthetic lines
 This week the exchange has been dec- orated with spring blossoms. which have found ready sales. The most popular of Easter flowers have converted the ex- change rooms into a lovely interior, blooming with lilies of the valley and narcssus.
 On several pretty lawns little folk will hunt Easter eggs this afternoon. These annual occasions are anticipated with great pleasure by hundreds of children throughout the city, and there Will be several egg hunts for the benefit of diff ferent charities or under the auspices of churches.
 The Kings Daughters, composed of number of young women, will give an egg hunt on the lawn of IIrs. J. A. Van Hoose this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
 On last evening in Woodlawn the Avon- dale Epworth League gave a fine per formance of the ''Deestrick Skule," for the benefit of the Woodlawn Baraca class of the Methodist church.
 The cast was strong and their imper- sonations of the different characters were delightful. The "Deestrick skule" always pleases the audience whether young or old. It is always humorous, always light.
 The music at the different churches on Easter Sunday will be especially aattractive. At the First Baptist church the following programme will be rendered:
 Organ prelude.
 Overture to William Tell-Miss Jose phine Boyle.
 Anthem-"Fear Not, o Israel"
 Offertory.
 Solo-Miss Lena Jackson.
 Anthem "Crist Our Passover. (Goate).
 The evening service, beginning at o'clock, will be a praise service and the regular quartette will be assisted by Mrs. Harriett O'Niell, Miss Bessie Davis. Miss June Jackson, Miss Manly, Messrs A. Thomas, J. H. Clabaugh, Erin Farley, o. M. Abrams, c. F. Manly and T. c. Young. The pro gramme is as follows:
 Organ-March of the Magi Kings, (Du Bois)-Miss Josephine Boyle.
 Anthem-Evening Hymn, tReinecke). Mrs O'Neill and chorus.
 Solo-The Resurrection, Shelley)- Mrs. Marie Kern Mullen.
 Duet--O Divine Redeemer, (Gounod). Miss Lena Jackson and MT. Wyatt Hefin.
 solo-Easter Eve (Gounod)-Mrs. Harriett O'Neill
 Trio-The Angel, (Rubinstein)-Mrs O'Neill Miss Jackson and Mrs. Mullen.
 Sacred cantata for Easter--The Risen IF; ;,, ers lCcl, I, oclxar1
 Anthem-Now the Day Is Over. (Barnby)
 The week-e dance at the club this evening will assemble many of the dancing contingent, and there will be a number of people dining at the club earlier in the evening.
 Major and Mrs. Frank Y. Anderson will leave Monday for New Orleans, to attend Miss Curran's wedding.
 MT. and Mrs. E. M. Tutwiler, Jr. will leave Monday for New Orleans to at tend Miss Pauline Gurran's wedding.
 MT. John W. Stagg, Jr., is spending a few days with his parents in this city.
 Mrs. A. o. Lane will return this morning from Montgomery, where she went to attend the meeting of the Educational association.
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 The Epworth league of the Eleventh Avenue Methodist church gave an en- tertainment last evening in the Sunday school room of the church.
 Mrs. Chiffon Brown of Marion is visiting relatives in this city.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Kilby have re- turned to Anniston.
 Mrs. James Lapsley has returned to Anniston.
 Mrs. Samuel Earle is in Baltimore.
 MT. and Mrs. Harold R. Samson, and tn cir mother Mrs. Thomas James San son of East Orange, N. J., who has laa,, t,air oruast vester6ay for