The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST
 ID LOCAL WOMEN Luncheon Parties for Guests
 at Country Club
THE SOCIAL CALENDAR
Mrs. Dow Hostess to Bridge Club. Dinner Party for Visitors-Meet- ings A nnounced = Stickney-
 Montgomery Engagement
By MYRTLE MILES

| At the Phoenix club yesterday aftef- noon occurred the annual open meeting
 of the Council of Jewish Women. The
 presence of a large number of club wom- i en. representatives of similar organiza-
 lions added to the number hearing the
 excellent programme and composed an i audience that filled the club ball room
 The council is one of the most effec- l tive organizations in this city, and its membership includes some of the clever est women in the State Federation. The literary work this year has covered a broad scope, introducing, with an exhaus- tive treatment of Tennysons works and the life of the poet, a serious study of the Bible. The programme yesterday afternoon was suggested by the outline for the year. with incidental music taken from the poems of Tennyson. Such scholars as Dr. Morris Newfield, who has ably directed the Council of Jewish Women in tbelr study and MT. George Huddleston gave addresses. Mrs. J.
 Friedman, president of the club, was chairman.
 The clubhouse, always inviting, was especially attractive with clusters of spring flowers distributed in the various
 reception rooms.
 The air of cordial hospitality which always pervades the Phoenix club distinguished this entertainment, as 1t has
 many others and delighted the guests l of the council. Mrs. Freidman, in wei coming the club members and their guests, was most graceful and in present.
 ing the speakers was charming. She
 spoke with genuine feeling of the rela-
 tionship existing between the various 1 clubs of Brmngham-the unity of pur-
 pose and the interest in each for the
 others. She said that the occasional
 open meetlngs-assembli representatives
 of all organizations emphasized the bonds
 of sympathy and cemented the union of 1 purpose. Of the years work, Mrs. Fried
 man gave a clever outline, referring in 1 all modesty to the attitude in which
 they had entered into the Biblical study, and the later enlightenment under the tutelage of pr. Newfield. This study was taken as a basis for the open meeting programme, following the Tn Memoriam" of Tennyson, by Mrs. Max Flies. Mrs. Fies sang this difficult and beautiful number superbly. Her voice is rich, sweet and eXquisitely trained and she sings with splendid taste. Her accompaniment, by Mr Emil Loewy, was admirable and in- spirational as are all of the accompani-
 ments played by that capital musician. In Memoriam was wonderfully artis- tic introduction to brilliant programme. l Dr. Newfield followed with treatise l on the Rabbinical laws of the Bible and
 their Rabblnical application, giving his interpretations with scholars ease. MT
 Leo Oberdorfer compared these with
 modern law. He was followed by Mir i George Huddeston, of the Birmingham
 bar-always an interesting speaker-who with a brief address on the Biblical laws 1 as relating to the needs of the future. l Three more attractive speakers than l these could not have been chosen and
 their several addresses made the after
 noon one of great value to the club
 women who were privileged to attend. 1 Among the many noted in the audience
 were. Mrs. James Bowron, Mrs Herman saks. Mrs. Louis schulhoefer, Mrs. Leo Steiner. Mrs. Richard Johnston, Miss Hubbert, Mrs NJ. J. Meyer of Selma, Mrs. Morris Newfield. Mrs. Sterne, Mrs. Iaurens Block, Mrs. Ullman, Mrs.
 Solon Jacobs, Mrs. George II. Connors, MT. and Mrs. Lillie Frost, Mrs. M. Lenk, Mrs /Godfrey 1 Goldman, Mrs. Falll Mrs. J. HS Phillips, Mrs. J. H. Minge. Mrs Charles V. Abbott, Mrs John NJ. Bradley, Mrs. J. T, Harwell, Mrs w. c. Shackelford Mrs. Julius Jaffe, Mrs. J. II, Wallace, Mrs. w. D. Smith, Mrs Slaughter, Mrs Charles Leeper Mrs. Louis Saks and others.