The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-14
.LENTEN TOPICS OF
 GENERAL INTEREST Birmingham Art Association
 Meets This Afternoon EXHIBITION IN APRIL Announcements of Lenten Affairs at Which Many Fashionable Women Are Patronesses for Charities
 and Patriotic Causes.
BY ANNIE KENDRIck WALKER

BY ANNIE kENDRlcK WALKER.
 To confer in regard to the April exhi- bition, the members of the Birmingham Art association will hold an important business meeting this afternoon at BRO o'clock in the studio of Miss Alice E. Rumph in the Margaret Allen school. The members are urged to be present as ar- engagements of the exhibition will be set tied upon as far as possible
 Invitations will be sent out for the ex- hibition, which will be the first held under it's auspices.
 The members of the association are en- thusastic in regard to the plans of the organization which has started with a representative membership. There are no dues or any strict rules imposed upon the members, and no regular meetings, but the members propose to keep alive the interest of the organization through their own exhibitions and loan exhibitions which may be held from time to time under it's auspices.
 It has been several years since Birnlng- ham had had an art club. But the very fact that history records more than one notable coterie proves that the art spirit has not entirely Jagged in this city. What former coteries accomplished will never be effaced, and paved the way to a larger organization today and one with a wider horizon.
 The value of the association will be cx- pressed in many ways, not only through the worth of its exhibitions. but as an arr tistic influence upon the life of the com- munity. In time it will doubtless foster
 Q series of art lectures, and promote other movements conducive to artistic de- velopment
 There is great and increasing demand
 for art knowledge. Art bibliography is a
 field for the profound students of the association, but the larger public will now depend upon the association for more con venient facilities for the study of art,
 the happy medium provided through ire quent exhibitions and occasional instruo- ton from some one whom study and the
 ''art love" have fitted for the work of lec- turing on the subject.
 Such an organiza tion as the Birmng- ham Art association has a great work | before it, a great responsibility. A meeting of the Ladies' auxiliary of | St. Vincents hospital will be held this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock with Mrs Henry | DeBardeeben.
 Every day records increased activity among Birmingham women in regard | to their charitable or patriotic work Lists of patronesses are being ar ranged for Lenten lectures or other events, and almost every one is busy with plans to raise funds for her pet philanthropy, or cooperating with so- cieties working for patriotic causes. The funds from the Lenten lectures to be given under the auspices of the | Daughters of the American Revolu- ton will be devoted to the Continental
 Hall fund, which the national society is erecting in Washington. Enter tainments announced for the Lenten
 season will be given for Birmingham
 charities.
 MT. W. P. c. Harding has returned from New York.
 Miss Mosely who conducts one of the largest of the winter classes, gave | cotillon last evening for 200 guests, in the ballroom of the Hillman. l On Monday evening in the gymna- sum of the Athletic club a game of basketball will be played between the teams of the High school and the junior team of the club.
 MT. and Mrs. A. B. Freeman have re- turned from Hot Springs, Ark. Among the arrivals announced at Pass Christian Is MT. W. W. French of Birmingham.
 Mrs A. E. Meadow will entertain the
 members of the Woman's Christian Temperance union on Tuesday after
 noon. at her residence on South Twen- tieth street. A special progra mme will be arranged, after which reception will be held. It is hoped that all the members of the union will be present and in addition the hostess has invit sd number of other guests.
 A programme of unusual brilliancy is being arranged for the musicale to be given at the Country club on the afternoon of March 1S under the aus pices of the auxiliary to district nurs- ing. The musicales this winter for charitable purposes have been well pat