The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

whose husband is a brother of Mrs. Wil-
 liam H. Taft.
 Mrs. Truman Aldrich will entertain at
 a musicale at the Country club Tuesday
 afternoon which will be one of the fash
 ionable events of the season. and she
 gives it in compliment to her guest 9th
 CT charming functions have been given in
 compliment to her among them a card
 party given Friday by Miss Florence
 Rogers when she was joint honoree
 with Miss Martha Dabney and another
 yesterday by Miss Mary Laner. A num-
 Der of other events have been arranged
 for her pleasure. though her stay will
 be brief one as she goes back to Wash
 ington soon to attend the inauguration.
 Another visiting girl is Miss Helen
 Cornwall of Englewood N J., who is the
 guest of her grand parents. Mir. and Mrs.
 John Davis. Miss Cornwall has been an
 admired figure at a number of social functions during her stay. She is noted as a beauty in any gathering and is a delightful musician. Miss Cornwall Is niece of MT. Charles c. Davis She haa | been the guest during a portion of hei stay of Miss Florence Rogers. One of the beautiful visiting matrons | is Mrs Henry Hyde of New York who l Is the house guest of her sister, Mrs. | Mason James billiard. Mrs. Hyde was l a noted beauty before her marriage when 1 she was Miss Zilla Conner of Florence. | Ala. MT Hyde is remembered as a for
 mer Birmingham bachelor. He was very popular here during his residence a few years ago and is remembered pleasantly | by scores of friends. Mrs. Hyde's host and hostess. MT and Mrs. Dillard, have made their home in Birmingham only a short time, but are already social favor ties. A succession of afternoon teas were given to introduce Mrs. billiard to so- cfety during the season and she is a prominent figure at most of the exclusive affairs. Mrs. Hyde will remain until
 after the Mardi Gras ball at the club. Mrs. Guy & Cothran of Rome Ga.. will arrive today to be the guest of her sis ter, Mrs. A. s. Leath. Mrs. Cothran is a beauty of the Titian type and is charm ingly vivacious and attractive. She will remain for several weeks during which time number of small informal affairs will be given in her honor. Mrs. Cothran is a sister-in-law of MT. Charles Hugh Cothran of this city.
 Miss Bennie Brown, who has been the guest of MT. and Mrs. Eugene Brown for the past month, and will leave today for her home in Texas was rendered a fare well dinner last evening by MT. and Mrs. 1 Culpepper EXum, which was one of the | most charming compliments that she has received during her stay.
 The dinner was given at the Country | club. the party numbering IS. The table l in the private dining room was artistic | ally adorned with enchantress carnations. I A large placque made of the flowers In combination with maiden hair ferns was | the centerpiece.
 Seated around the table were Mir. and i Mrs Exum, Miss Brown, MT and Mrs. | Eugene Brown, Mir. and Mrs. Frank | Fowkes, Miss Louise Walker, Miss Kath- | leen Nixon Miss Fannie Dunn. Miss Edith | Grant, Miss Sadie Gillespy MT. Charles | McCrery, Mir. Murray Brown, MT. Wilson 1 Brown, MT. Robert Brown, MT. Will | Johnston, MT. Erskine Ramsay. Dr. W. E. Evans has announced a series | of lectures on the historic places of the | old world, to be given every Friday night l in Lent except Good Friday. The dates l of the lectures and their subjects fol- low:
 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2s. St. Paul at Malta thence to Puteoli, Bay of Naples; society under Nero; sin in high life Pompeii, a buried city; off for Rome. FRIDAY, MARCH 5. q must see Rome" the Appian high way; St. Paul's approach to Rome; the oldest prison on earth; the Catacombs: a marvellous church.
 FRIDAY, MARCH 12. Nero; lesson in heredity; the blood of the wolf; Rome in flames; to the lions the Coliseum; St. Peters; Quo Vadis" a fiction; St. Peter never bishop of Rome FRIDAY. MARCH 19 "Long-drawn aisles" and gold fretted ceilings; the most splendid chapel on earth; the Vatican palace: down among the dead; remarkable scene; the Pan | theon and the past; the old and the new: dream.
 FRIDAY, MARCH 26. In old England; a contrast; the ancient | church; never Roman; Norman blood Henry VIII; Bloody Mary; Tower of