The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

| Trimble are in Washington, D. c. The card party to be given on Thurs | day morning at 10:30 o'clock at tho 1 residence of Mrs. T. c. Thompson Will be under the auspices of the William I. Yaneey chapter, Daughters of the l confederacy. It promises to be largely attended. Bridge and euchre will be played.
 l Miss Racine Raoul of Atlanta will ar rive the latter part of the week to be the guest of Miss Marie Pinckard.
 MT. Philip H. Aston has returned to l Atlanta.
 Mrs. Kelly Parsons is the guest of Mrs. W. P. Pinckard.
 | A charming occas sion of the week will l be the open meeting of the Highland Book club on Wednesday afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. T. O. Smith,
 On Wednesday afternoon the Nine l teenth Century club will hold an in- teresting meeting at the residence of i the president, Mrs. John London. Mrs W. P Pinkard and Miss Pink | ard will entertain on Monday afternoon from to o'clock in compliment to Mrs. Kelly Parsons.
 l MT. and Mrs. Walter Fowlkes left yesterday for Marion to pass the sum- mer in the country.
 All of the bridge coteries will meet this week. Owing to Holy Week most of the weekly meetings were aban- doned.
 Little Miss Eloise Maclin, the lovely little daughter of MT. and Mrs. Maclfn, celebrated her seventh birthday on Wednesday with a party to about 25 of her little friends. Games were played during the afternoon and there was a band which contributed a great deal to the pleasure of the many little guests. From a table beautifully decor l ated with red roses refreshments were served, and in the hall lemonade was dispensed from a prettily decorated table. The occasion was one of the happiest of the week, and the little hostess carried off the honors most graciously.
 Mr and Mrs. Smith cullom are in | St. Louis.
 | Miss Alice McCauley of Selma is the
 
 Mrs Ellis of Selma will visit Mrs. William Warrington during Easter week.
 | Miss Kate Meade of Birmingham has l just been appointed to position in the hprary at Newark, N. J., an honor which establishes her 'hors concour," in the library world, as they say of artists who l reach that distinction in the salon. Miss Meade some months ago accepted a position in the library of the University of Chicago, but her appointment to the l New Jersey library is considered to be f much more important. Her success has l been remarkable, for in a short time she has received distinctions in the way of appointments for which librarians of ] much longer experience would be proud 1 of. 'fhe Newark library is one of the ] handsomest and most complete in Amer ica. The following account of it's differ | ent departments will be of interest to Miss Meade's many friends In this city, and also the library committees who are giv- 1 ing the question of public library for Birmingham serious considerations 1 Librarian John Cotton Dana of the Free | Public library will leave today for Paris l and maybe Rome, Venice and Milan, With Mrs. Dana. in search of rest and recrea- tion, and also of rare old books to illus l trate the history of printing, and old l engravings to add to the permanent col l lection.
 Few in Newark, comparatively, are | aware of the work which MT. Dana is doing and of the scope of the splendid, up-to-date and progressive library over which he presdes.
 l Aside from it's physical attributes minus the big lions and the Italian mar ble, it reminds one strongly of the Boston Public library The local institution is l following the highest steps of progress | in all branches The library, which, by | the way, contains 129,O00 books, boasts at 1 present two permanent exhibitions-a sci | ence museum used largely by schools 1 and most useful to the science pupils, 1 and an engraving exhibit, showing the history of the art. Thousands of exam ples are stored away and frequent changes are made so that students may | find new specimens with which to com- pare notes.
 splendid feature, and one which may l well be followed by every library in the country, is that no limit Is placed on the numbeTapf books which one may borrow one wiH be loaned, or a dozen, and they are loaned for a full month at a time. | The advantage is obvious, for a student may take all the reference books he needs and study out a subject more or less at his leisure
 The objection has been made that by this plan many books would be lost, but practice has disproved of this theory. The | records show that books dealing with the sciences, the useful and fine arts circu- late better than any other excepting fic- tion, and fiction crculates rather less here than in other places.
 Any teacher may have as many as 40 1 books on her school room shelves at q time, and there are 256 such school-roorn libraries at present. with a circulation of
 over 5000 books. Besides this, teachers
 may borrow from the picture department,
 which contains about 100000 pictures any number of illustrations for her room en-
 abling her to illustrate her subjects an1
 make a much more lasting impression
 upon her scholars. She may keep the
 pictures a month. The picture depart
 ment is extensive and still growing fast,
 embracing nearly every known subject.
 Besides the school-room libraries books
 are distributed in factories, fire stations
 and police stations, besides the branches
 and travelling libraries.
 There are 143 volumes for the blind on
 the shelves.
 One of the best collections of music in | any library of size Is found here, and
 each and every piece may be borrowed.
 While patronized by large number of
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