The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-30
NOTES OF THE WEEK IN TIE SOCIAL WORLD Birmingham Women Interested
 in Early Closing Movement NOTES HERE AND THERE An Appeal To the Shopping World To
 Cooperate in the O'clock Closing and Haf-Holday Each Week.
NOTES HERE AND THERE

Birmingham women are actively at work in securing earlier closing hours during the summer months. Practically all of the stores have adopted the o'clock closing hours. but the recent suggestion to close at o'clock. one hour earlier. has met with the approval of large number of Birmingham merchants.
 Those who have been asked for an opinion on the subject are unanimous in their willingness to close at o'clock and also to give one half holiday each week | during the summer
 Loveman, Joseph & Loeb have already | instituted the half holiday. Their em- ployes have holiday on Friday afternoon each week through the hot months. The heads of the other firms are expressing their willingness to join in the half holiday movement if it is made general. A num- Der of Birminghams most prominent busi- ness men have met these propositions more than half way. By cooperation 1 the movement can be made general | throughout the city.
 This question now rests more with the shopping world than with the merchants. 1t is almost entirely upon the shoulders of Birmingh ham women. 1t has narrowed down to early shopping hours shopping in the mornings instead of the afternoons. If Birmingham women will show some desire to give half holiday to the em- ployes in the stores, to give them few fna eli in of work, the o'clock closing and the half holiday will be settled today.
 If every woman who reads this appeal will send in her name to be published with the list of women who will promise to shop early during the summer months, and show which side of the question she is on, the Birmingham merchants will do their part in the far-reaching proclama- ton of closing at O clock and of giving one half holiday.
 1 This department of The Age-Herald will receive lists of women who promise to shop early the rest of the summer. Com munications on this subject will be gladly received.
 Among the women who are actively at work in interesting others in the early closing movement is Mrs. Edward Wilkln- son of Idlewild. Mrs. Wilkinson has seen personally several of the merchants.
 "The merchants" said Mrs. Wilkinson, twill readily grant these requests if Bir- mingham women will only agree to shop early. A number of women have prom ised to do all in their power to aid in thls movement, and I will be glad to have the names of all who will cooperate in this movement. Birmingham women can put this movement through if they want to-"
 Those who are interested may telephone Mrs. Wilkinson, 1743 Bell.
 Mrs. Lillie Sloss will be at home aft CT July 1, at the Coulbourne residence on Eleventh avenue.
 Mrs. Joseph John has returned to Pennsylvania after visiting her sister, Mrs. Morton, at the Birmingham semi nary.
 Miss Hattie Morton will go to Bos- ton later in the season.
 The condition of MT. Harrington Aldrich who is i'll of typhoid fever It his home at Rajah Lodge, is most crit ical. A little over week ago he was brought home from Chicago. The Chi cago physician who accompanied hi.n and who had been called in when he was first taken i'll at the Metropole where the Aldrich party was staying. did not pronounce his illness typhoid until he reached Rajah Lodge. He has been alarmingly i'll since Saturday. The many friends of the family in this city will extend deepest sympathy in their great anxiety. MT. Harrington Aldricn is exceedingly bright and gifted, and is still under 20. When MT. Henty Mosler, the celebrated painter, saw a picture of this young boy he asked if he was a poet or composer, and re- gently in Chicago a well known jour | nalist of that city described him Is look ing like a young David" He re- gently sat for MT. Paul Menzel
 The Howard College Cooperative as- sociation will meet Wednesday, July 1, at p. m., in the college library. Montague hall. All the Baptist ladies of the Birmingham district are cor dially invited to be present.
 Miss Eva B. Sandman and Chester G. Sandman left Saturday for Phila- delphia,~ where they will be joined oy their parents, MT. and Mrs. J. Sandman, the latter part of this week. The tire family will sail for Europe on the steamer Maltke on July 9.
 Miss Lula Bradford is in Oxford, Miss, where she is director of primary methods in the University Summer school.
 This week will be quite lively socially l at Bount Springs. Morning and after l noon concerts daily, informal dancing, | bridge whist and the Fourth of July ger l man, which will be danced Saturday