The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-28


 Mrs. William Huey, Mrs. c. W. Uford, Mrs. Courtney Shropshire and Mrs. II. E. Shropshire, Jr
 Mr. and Mrs W. D. Colby issued invi- tations yesterday to the marriage of their daughter. Ethelyn, and MT. Erskine Williams Mckinley on the afternoon of Tuesday, February g, at 2:so o'clock at the Highland Presbyterian church.
 Mrs. J. D. Dabney and Miss Martha Dabney will entertain at tea on the aft ernoon of February in compliment to Miss Fenton of Baltimore.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Home and Foreign Missionary society of the First Presbyterian church will take place at the home of Mrs. Frank Rush. ton, 2s0l Mountain avenue, this afternoon at o'clock.
 The Study Circle will meet tomorrow fternoon at o'clock with Mrs Charles sharpe instead of at 2:SO with Mrs. Mar kel
 
 40 members of the debutante set today at a matinee luncheon in compliment to her guest Miss Lula Mcqueen of Mont gomery.
 The Clionian club will meet tomorrow at 2:SO o'clock with Mrs. A. H. Ford.
 The study circle of the Council of Jewish Women will meet this afternoon with Rabbi Newfeld.
 The Denovo club will meet this after noon with Mrs c. A. Bains in Woodlawn.
 The committee appointed by the pres ident of the United Charities to consider the organization of an associated charities will meet this morning at Il o'clock at the Commercial club rooms
 Much interest has been aroused in the coming of Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, or, as she Is called, "the little mother of the prisons" She will lecture in Bir- mingham on the evening of Tuesday, Feb ruary ?, at o'clock in the High school auditorium. and under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian association.
 Mrs. Booth is a woman of wonderful personality. There are many beautiful stories of her work in the prisons of the country, and it is said by many that she is the most beloved woman in America.
 Col. Willard French of Washington wrote a telling description of her after having heard her lecture recently. He said: Mrs. Booth is a mite of a woman Little Mother is her name among the convicts and ex-convicts from Maine to California and she calls them all my boys She is so full of savoir faire, of fire and energy that you can think of her only as one who could easily move moun- tains. which she frequently does. A mass of dark brown hair is constantly making bold dashes for freedom. encroaching on the smooth, broad forehead, and even on the straight dark eyebrows which empha- size the effect of her brilliant dark brown eyes.
 ''It is face that is supremely earnest lovingly earnest-its instinctiye tendency strengthened by lifetime of labor among the outcasts and outlaws. You need not know Mrs. Booth. You need only single glance to assure you there is no cowardice about her. She is the embodiment of beautiful feminine cour- age. Her face, her manner, her sentiments are all the inspiration of earn estness, but there is no surfeit, for pathos and humor, comedy and tragedy. drift ab- solutely side by side down the same silver stream. You laugh with tears in your eyes. With beautiful words, in telling touches, she paints picture in para graph that breaches a sermon, tells tale fastens itself indelibly."
 Miss Rebecca Fenton of Savannah will arrive Monday to be the guest of Miss Martha Dabney. Miss Fenton made her home until quite recently in Baltimore.
 Miss Emma Grima of New Orleans is the guest of Mrs. w. P. G. Harding.
 The ladies of the Woodlawn Bafsist church will serve luncheon and oysters today in the new Burger building at Woodlawn station. The hours are from 12 o'clock today until 10 this evening. The proceeds will be added to the new church fund.
 The luncheons and dinners served this week by the ladies of St. Mary's church have been decidedly popular. A number of well-known people were seen through out the hours of yesterdays luncheon. and there are indications that 1t will be as well patronized today and tomorrow.
 Among those in charge yesterday were Mrs J. Norman Brooks, Mrs. L. c. Wood son, Mrs. Stokley, Mrs. A. G. Smith, Mrs. J. H. McCary, Mrs, Crawford Johnson. Miss Kathleen VanHoose, Miss Jamie Head, Mrs. J. F. Graham, Miss Kate Hopkins, Miss Florence Weatherly and other representative folks.
 Mrs w. D. Partlow of Tuscaloosa is the guest of her mother, Mrs. J. T.. Nixon. She will remain two weeks.
 Miss Julia Warfeld, who is now the charming guest of Mrs Mason Dillard will leave Saturday for Mobile.