The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
Birmingham Women Put Col ored Nurse In District Work
NOTES HERE AND THERE
The Lenten Season is One of Brilliant Musicales and Dinner-Givinu. Nearly One Hundred
 Guests at Dinner.
BY ANNIE kENDRIck WALKER.

|
 evening to welcome many new mem
 oers into the Birmingham Athletic | club, which already has a most rep
 resentative membership. There were nearly 100 guests, making up a dinner company entirely too large for either
 the private dining room or the main
 cafe. The ball room was not only | spacious enough for so many guests to
 be seated at an elaborately decorated
 table, but the stage at the far end of
 the ball room was utilized for part
 of the programme in which several | members of the club participated. Besides the happy speeches, which formed brilliant part of the dinner, vaudeville entertainment was pro
 vided which included acrobatic num-
 bers, songs and a diversity of enter
 tainment much enjoyed by the dinner guests.
 The table was in the shape of an x,
 in the center of which was a large cir.
 cular table completely covered with
 flowers and ferns. White hyacinths and lilies of the valley were used in
 it's beautiful decorations and the num-
 Der of candles burning beneath yellow and green shades, and to which were entwined garlands of smilax studded picturesque scene An orchestra played during the dinner.
 Among those present were MT Ed ward Warren, Jr., the president of the club, who acted as toastmaster; MT. w. D. Nesbitt, MT. Solon Jacobs, MT. Sam uel Sturgeon, MT. Samuel Adams, MT. John Fletcher, Professor Miles, all of whom made happy speeches.
 It is the custom of the club to give an annual dinner welcoming the new members and at which the guests in clude those who have been most active
 in securing new members. These oc- casions are anticipated with more than ordinary pleasure and the entertair-
 ing features of the dinner always make
 1t small society circus.
 Lieut.. Edwin Watson, U. s. A., who
 with his father, Mir. Penn Watson of
 Virginia, has been spending few days
 in Birmingham, left yesterday for Montgomery, where he will be the
 guest of friends en route to Eufaula
 to visit his grandmother, Mrs. John M.
 Martin. Lieutenant Watson has just
 graduated from West Point, where his
 career reflected great credit upon the young Virginian. He is awaiting or
 ders from his regiment and expects to sail for Cuba within the next few weeks. Lieutenant Watson was the guest of MT. Mercer Barnett at dinner on Tuesday and was also with party of friends lunching at the Southern club.
 MT. and Mrs oscar w. Underwood have returned from Washington. Mrs. H. Simon, who is in Florida, has quite recovered from her illness of
 the winter. She is in St. Augustine, at the Alcazar.
 | Mrs. Arthur Eastwood has cottage | at Pass Christian for the season. The members of the Home Mission | society of the Twenty Avenue Meth- | odist church gave a tea yesterday at | the residence of Mrs. Samuel Blake. l Mrs. J. Friedman entertained the mem- | bers of the Council of Jewish Women l yesterday afternoon at her residence on | Eighth avenue. The council is one Of l the most active organizations in the city | and is constantly engaged in philan- | thropic work.
 The Rev George Eaves gave a delight ful and instructive lecture on Japan at | the chapel of Pilgrim church on Tues | day evening.
 | MT. w. H. woodward. who passed most
 of the winter in Florida, where he has | entertained many house guests at his winter home there, has been spending
 several days in Birmingham. 1 meeting of the board of directors | of the United Charities was held on We'd nesday morning. The organization has
 passed through a trying winter, but has
 ben able to alleviate suffering in all the l sections covered by it's relief commit 1 tees.
 Mrs. w. B. Catchings, Miss Marjorie | Catchings and MT. Benjamin Catchings, who have resided in New York for the 1 past two years, are at home this winter
 at the Holland house.
 1 On enthusiastic meeting of the South | Highland School Improvement associa- | tion was held on Wednesday. This asso- citation is one of the most f1ourishing in l the city.
 | In the handsome gymnasium of the | Athletic club game of basketball will
 be played this evening between the mem-
 bers of the Young Mems Christian asso- | citation team of Mobile and tho Birming- | ham Athletic club. The game, which 1, will decide the championship of the south for the season, will be witnessed
 by many spectators, the spectators gall | lery always being thronged on these oc- | casions. There will be dancing afteward | in the gymnasium.
 Miss Mosely will give a cotillon this evening to the younger members of so- ciety. ItA will be danced in the ballroom at the Hillman and there will be about l 200 guests.
 A meeting of the Birmingham Art asso- ciation will be held on Saturday with Miss Alice E. Rumph in her studio in the Margaret Allen school.