The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27

ture, architecture, music and painting.
as well as stories of Sparta will claim
their share of attention. The philoso-
piers. Socrates. Plato, Aristotle, zeno
and Epicurus will be discussed at
meeting in the spring followed later
! by study of the Greek orators, his
! torians and scientists.
One of the most interesting of the cal
! endars was issued last week by the Mu-
! sic Study club, a body of Birmingham
| women, who are seriously engaged In
study of the various countries and Pc
RODS. The third year of the clubs his
tory will be begun October s. at the first
| meeting. The programme committee,
which is composed of Mrs. Laura j.
| Davids, Mrs. Chalifoux, Mrs. Dobbs, Mrs
Adams and Mrs. Leonard, decided upon
American music for this year. Until delv-
ing into the subject one would not
| imagine how many quaint and beautiful
compositions may be placed under this
head. At the first meeting the study
will be Indian music and negro folk songs
with illustrative music. A discussion or
current topics follows, and debate;
is Ragtime Legitimate Music?" between
four of the members, with the club as
judges, promises to be full of interest
Puritan Psalmody will be the topic at
enc of the meetings, and at another, the
lists of the compositions and Illustrations
from same. George W. Chadwick and
Arthur Foote and Current musical topics
are discussed at each meeting. Among
the most charming social events of the
past winter were the open meetings to
which each member was permitted to
bring two friends. An invitation to one
of these functions was regarded by tbs
, cultured women of the city as precious
mr. mr. in0
bers Illustrative of the works of the conl-
posers studied during the year. The
most gifted musical artists in the city
lent their talent to make the entertain
ments a success, and many who were
fortunate enough to be present at the
/ open meetings last year look forward to
the three during the coming season. The
year book states that Mrs. P H. Lallande
will have the first December II, when
the compositions of Edward MaeDowell
will form the programme. On March T.
Mrs. Salon Jacobs will have the club and
! their guests at an open meeting with
| a review programme. The last open
| meeting, May 10, will be with Mrs. s. A.
Benton. The topic being women com
| posers, Mrs Richard Johnston is pres
ident Of the club, Mrs. W. S. Lowell,
vice president, and Mrs L. j. Davids, sec
rotary and treasurer Mrs. Oliver Chali-
foux will lead the discussions of current
topics and Mrs. Amelia Leonard and Mrs.
Dobbs were chosen orthoepists.
| The Treble Clef another musical club
which was heard in chorus work on sew
eral occasions last season, has not issued
calendars However, plans have been
perfected to give more of their charming
musical evenings this winter when the
public will again have the opportunity of
hearing a group of Birmingham's most
talented and pleasing singers in concert
work. Mrs. Flournoy Rivers, the leader,
is busily preparing her plans for the
work which she will undertake for the
first time at a meeting of early date.
Mrs. W. j. Adams is president; Miss
Flora Orr, vice president; Mrs. H. A.
Douglass, secretary and treasurer, and
Mrs. w. NJ. Mayes, corresponding secre-
tary.
A club composed of 80 members chosen
F~ou the young matrons, but with
proportion of the young unmarried
tnNen of Birmingham, is The Amaranth,
which has for ten years IN one of the
most propular of the literary working
orders among the exclusive young women
| in the city.
The new year book was published about
a month ago, and the members are
! thusiastic over the scheme of work out
! lined. Nothing could be more fascinating
! than a year in Scandinavia, say those
who know, and almost as good as the
actual experience is the year of research
in the field of Scandinavian art, letters
and music arranged by the committee
on programmes. Besides serious study
of the topography of the peninsula of
Scandinavia, stories of the cities and of
the people of Norway, Sweden and Den
mark. The young women will search
for all the best and most beautiful
among the Morse legends, and the fairy
tales, too, for one of the afternoons will
be given to "a Little Journey Into the
Land of Dreams" The programme for
that afternoon in the late fall is charm
ing. The numbers being FAIRY Folk of
the Northland" 1.-THE Fairy Tale of My
Life-Anderson," The Story of the Moon"
to be arranged by Mrs. Beasley; Child
Life in Scandinavia" talks by individu-
ais to be followed with a discussion Of
contemporary Danish literature by the
| club. History and religion are to have
their share of attention, also, talk by
| DR.. j. A. Duncan on the religion of the
early Norsemen being anticipated with
| great interest and papers setting forth
! the history of the NEUROLOGICAL and le
| gendary days are to be written by some
| of the most capable henderson, the club.
| Politics, science and invention will be
topics of an afternoon and the drama
/ Will dlSO De lTedltu. All cAHduStlNe Sluuy
| of the masters, Ibsen and Bjornsen
! promises to be interesting, an exception
| ally attractive theme in this connection
| being an analysis of Ibsen's dramas and
| the artists who have portrayed them,
which will be presented by Mrs. John
| King
Among the guests of the club will be
| Mrs. John c. Henley, who will give some
! personal recollections of Finland Mr..
| c. Markell, who has been asked to give
talk on Stockholm the Venice of the
North" Mrs Bowron, who will deliver
! a talk on the land of the midnight sum
| the social life, customs and sports OF
| the people.
Music will be an important and charm,
| ing feature and exquisite illustrations of
| the contributions the people of the north
| have made to the cause of music will be
| furnished by some of the city's repre-
| sentative musicians. IAN afternoon with
| Grieg'' will be in the hands of Mrs.
| Carrie Handley and Mrs. c. B. bowman.
/ On another afternoon Miss Edna Moore
will give some selections from the Scandi-
! navian composers. Mr.. c. r. Klenk will
| play a Norwegian romanza by Svendsen
at meeting devoted to the study of
| happy, homely, old-fashioned Norway"
The outline of the years work proves
that it will be one of the most charming
in the history of the Amaranth. Current
topics will add their interest to the plans
| already suggested Mrs. w. L. Murdoch
is the president of the club, Miss Anna
Stillman, vice president; Miss Clyde