The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD Serious Tasks Keeping Many At Home During Warm Season. NOTES HERE AND THERE Misses Hayes Entertain a coterie of Friends at a Dance-RriIIiant vir-
 einla Wedding of Local Inter-
 est-Announcements.
NOTES HERE AND THERE
BY MYRTLE MILES.

Though so many are out of town at this season, most of the vaoationists await ing the first cool days of fall before returning to the city there are many kept in town because of duties public and otherwise requiring their presence One young matron who is giving her ser vices unselhshly to a splendid cause is Mrs. Edward Wilkinson, who, as secre- tary of a board appointed recently by the Baptist denomination to care for aged and infirm ministers, expects to be busy with the work until fall. This is an eff fort in a noble cause and has the in- terest of many outside that denomina- tion. The management of the fund for aged and infrm ministers has been un- til recently in the hands of the state missionary board but it was found ad- visable recently to place it in the hands of regular board, a committee was ap-
 pointed and the members of the board se-
 lected. Judge Henry B. Foster of Tus-
 caloosa was made president, Mrs. Edward Wilkinson of Birmingham secretary and MT. R. k. Manly, also of this city treas- erer. The membership included MT. D. H. Marbury, Col. T. G. Bush, Dr. George
 M. Morrow and MT. J. w. Minor of Bir-
 mingham; pr. George M. Macon of East Lake, Dr. J. w. E. Cox of Mobile, MT. H. J. Willingham of Wetumpka, MT. c. A. O'Neill of Andalusia, Col. w. H. Me Kleroy of Anniston and MT. w. w. Campbell of Tuskegee.
 It is one of the most benevolent move-
 ments undertaken in church circles and
 worthy of the stupendous amount of
 work being done in It's behalf Mrs. VII ! kinson, as secretary, has systematized
 her work and has the constant assist
 ance of a stenographer. It is not pro-
 posed, by the way, to erect a home for
 the ministers but to supply them with
 a yearly pension.
 This effort to supply the ministers with
 means, but not with a home, recalls a re-
 markable instance of a similar charity, but one in which the home was given by bequest A splendid estate in Amber Pa., was bequeathed for the use of in- firm ministers of the Presbyterian church The house and grounds are ideal for | an institution such as was contemplated | The mansion was commodious, the park
 surrounding it one of the most pic.
 turesque and healthful spots in the Key | stone state, and the amount left in cash | for the maintenance of the institution was | $100,000. Thus 1t appeared that the legates
 had made every provision possible fol
 the comfort of those who were to spend
 the winter of their lives at the home l But, strange to say, after 25 years there
 Is at present only one inmate. There
 have been only 30 applications and ou, | of these 12 were found to be ineligible and I only 15 were heard from after the first application. Ten of these afterwards | went away and the four remaining have
 since died, the lone survivor is living his | life there in solitary grandeur There
 have been many conjectures as to the I reason others have not taken advantage | of the bequest The only valid reason 1 thus far given was offered by the pres ent occupant-that it was too lonesome | It must be, indeed living, eating and sleeping in the great house with none to , speak to but the servants who wait upon l him and no especial object in life The | servants have an easy time, so easy that l the time is said to hang heavily on their hands, There are three men and one
 woman, all to see after the comfort of the one aged clergyman,