The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-09


 little children, the childrens one idea of pleasing me was making the yard like croquet ground. They came early in the morning to sweep it and stayed after school, raising a cloud of dust with three or four brush brooms, and they never ceased to moan over the young pines and lovely tangled undergrowth that be- set their path and spoiled the level smoothness that was their ideal It was very hard to make them understand that papers and dead branches were insight ly, but that golden-rod and black-eyed susans and iron weed and clumps of sumach, though not cannas and princess feathers and hollyhocks and rose bushes, (which adorned very few of their own gardens), took the place of these in Natures garden and made our school i grounds lovely.
 A meeting of the William L. Yancey chapter, '. D. C.. will be held on Tues day morning at 10:3O o'clock instead of Tuesday afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. c. j. Sharp. Each member is urged to be present and cordial invitation is extended to new members.
 Miss Ethel Clary of Stockton, Cal, who is the guest of Mrs. James Hillman, is well known in southern society, having been social toast for the last few winters since entering society. Mrs. Hillman, who is in mourning this winter. is not entertaining formally, but Miss Clay's visit will be made the occasion for many small gaieties in the fashion able set.
 MT. and Mrs. Alexander Cltherill Birch have returned from Montgomery, where they were charmingly entertained while on visit to Mrs. Amer LeGrande.
 MT. and Mrs. Temple Seibles recently returned from their wedding journey and are at their home in Montgomery They have taken up their residences with Mrs. Charles P. Ball at her magnificent old home there. While the Seibles were in the east they were the guests of MT and Mrs. Dudley Lawrence at Lawrence Park.
 Mrs. and Mrs. Dudley Lawrence have taken possession of their new residence in Lawrence Park They will not go abroad before April. Mrs. Lawrence being so interested in getting settled into her new house, which is most charming. Her mother, Mrs. Allie Birch, will go to Law renee Park in the cary spring, but will not go abroad this season.
 The entertainment given at Cabel hall. January 28 was above the average in entertainments. All of the participants did exceptionally we'll
 Miss F'uqua of Owensboro, Ky, who gave a reading, showed unusual intelli- gence and ability. She is not only a gifted impersonator of children and ne- gro folk lore, but is exceedingly fine in drama as we'll Her rendition of Cardinal Richeieu was so striking that all missed a treat who did not hear her. Miss Fuqua, by special request, will give other readings in the Birmingham district.
 At the Southern club this evening the Calman orchestra will present the fol- lowing programmes:
 Overture-"M Magic Flute" (MozarD.
 Selection-Il Trovatore, (VerdD.
 Heinzel Maenchen." (Eilen- berg).
 Selection" Princess Beggar." Robyn).
 valse-'srhe Last Kiss" (Blalxe).
 Selection-'"rhe Beae of Mayfair" (Stewart).
 Intermezzo--" "Orizaba," (Dewey).
 Selection" Aida" (verdD.
 Potpourrf-"The Beggar Student" CNfilloecker).
 Overture-Tancred, RossinD.
 MT and Mrs. William Langley Sibley have named their little son, John Davis Sibley.
 The musicale to be given next Satur day afternoon at the Country club under the auspices of the Boys Band No. 2, will be social event at which the fashionable world will assemble. Sew eraI musical favorites will be heard, and while no tickets will be sold, or admis- sion charged at the door, silver offer ing will be taken for the benefit of the Boys' club.
 
 ized Boys Band No. 2, and they are working enthusiastically to raise funds for the better equipment of the club rooms. A meeting was held yesterday, at which the president, Mrs. D. M. Kill by, presided, to complete the plans for the musicale, and a subsequent meet ing of the committee on the sogramme was held. The programme will be an nounced later, and it will include several numbers both for piano, voice and violin.
 Several hundred invitations will be is sued for the musicale, but a large num- Der of these will be verbal
 Mrs. C. T. Randall has returned from Nashville, where she spent several days following the interment of her aunt, Mrs. Margaret Weber, whose death occurred in this city last week.
 Mrs Weber had liver S3 beautiful years, each one of which was an added glory 10 a llIe or unuSual Drlllancy ana use fitness.
 Few women have created for them selves such a place in the hearts of all who knew her as did Mrs. Weber. For 50 years she was one of the most promi- nent teachers of Nashville, being, at the head of select school for girls, for 8 number of years, and was afterwards at the head of the department of litera- ture and expression of Wards Seminary. The latter winters of her life have been spent in Birmingham, with her neice, Mrs. Randall, where she has ever been appreciated and her talents enjoyed by an unusually large circle of admirers, who each year were impatient for her return.
 She was a frequent guest at many of our most exclusive club circles, where her literary ability was so highly valued
 Her life, itself, was one of glorious achievement. and her going was love ly benediction, whose blessed memories are a sacred legacy.
 Of joyous nature, she was neverthe- less capable of the most beautiful pathos, as Is demonstrated in the following lines, written many years ago, and reproduced here for the reason that it is at Mount Olivet," that she, herself, now peacefully rastS heside her loved ones.