The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-16
NOTES OF THE DAY
 IN SOCIAL WORLD An Appeal ts tho Fashionable
 Shopping World SOCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TS Meeting Of Mercy Home Board. Among vIsItIns Women Has Been Mrs. Barclay, Daughter Of the
 Late Bishop -Harsrove.

The appeal to the shopping world of
 Greater Birmingham to cooperate with the Retail Clerks organization In It's sf- forts for shorter hours during the sum- mer months should meet with generous response from every man and woman irl this district. This appeal may be summed up in two short words, Shop Early"
 Some years ago Birmingham merchants went on record for early closing hours during the summer months They have ever recognized the justness of such an
 appeal.
 The merchant who was disinclined to join in this general movement found saw he would be placed in an unenvi- able attitude by not yielding to this hu- mane request. The six o'clock closing hour has come to be an unwritten law in this city. The early closing movement Is now oo-
 served throughout the whole country. In
 many cities Saturday has become q half holiday At twelve o'clock hundreds of young women and mon leave their desks and their shops and have a glorious half holiday every Saturday through tho three summer months. Greater Birmingham will some day fall
 in line with those great cities who have | seen the necessity for this step. But at present the hundreds of busy workers in this district only ask the world of shoppers to shop early these ! summer days. instead Of postponing 1t | until six and after six o'clock in the ev- enings.
 The merchants are willing to stand by their contract for closing their stores ct six o'clock every day with the exception of Saturday when the stores remain open until ten o'clock But the thoughtless shopper begins her tour of the shops a. that hour or just . little before. and en- croaches upon the time of the sales poo pie, who are wholly at her mercy, In such cases contracts for early closing are not worth the paper thcy are writ ten on.
 The stores are thronged at six o'clock On almost every evening by hundreds of people who could make 1t convenient to shop earlier.
 young women and mon behind the count
 CTS and shopping in the early morning, the present situation can be met and hu- | namely.
 It is up to the public to prevent any | conflict between the employer and ths employed, and to give hundreds of work CTS an hour of fresh air and repose away from crowded streets and strees Every thoughtful person could not fall 10 be impressed by this one paragraph alone from the published appeal: While we are educating ourselves along anti-tubercolosis lines 1t is certainly proper that we endeavor to induce those people who thoughtless- ly go in stores after six o'clock to buy to shop a little earlier, 50 that six o'clock or a few minutes after would lind the army of tired clerks out in the fresh air and away from of the fact that most workmen are of duty at four o'clock and that the sales people have been getting away from work at six o'clock, and on Saturdays at ton (the merchants prospering withaD. we feel that 1t Is an injustice to us to be forced to add an extra hour or two to our fence would result to the public in abiding by our request" Miss Mary Gilman of Selma is tho guest of Miss Mary Thompson. Mrs. Alice Harsrove Barclay of Louis- l ville. who has been the guest of her uncle, MT J. W. Mcconnell, returned last night l to Louisville. Mrs. Barclay Is q daughter | of the late Bishop Hargrove. She Is a woman of unusual personal charm, widely
 known in the social life of the south and | beloved for her own delightful personal ity as well as by the many friends of
 her distinguished father who was so
 greatly esteemed throughout the southern
 states.
 Mrs. c. J. Simmons of Atlanta is visit ing her sister, Mrs. c. W. James, at 14lo | Tenth avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. Clark Williams had as their guests during the reunion MT. and Mrs. George H. Dent of Eufaula. MT. Joseph John left yesterday for Edgeheld, S. C., where he will pass sev- era weeks with his aunt Mrs. Cobb. Mrs. Julia Nicely Finch will leave satur- day for Asheville, N. C., to pass the sum- ner.
 | Miss Sallie Evans and J. Carter Evans are visiting Mrs. T. J. shiryey on Ala bama street.
 | A postponed meeting of the board of 1 managers of the Mercy Home will be l held this morning at 10:ao o'clock. l Miss Josephine McMaster of Memphis l is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Sterling J. | Foster.
 l MT. and Mrs. John M. 6atterfeld have | l 7