The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-12

1 Today folks are going back to the ideals
 ef real home-the enjoyment of simnlt
 nospitalities, comfortable dress and in.
 formal recreations.
 \ Nor rural sights alone. but rural sounds
 Exhilarate the spirit, and restore Ihe tone of conquered nature" It was happy thought, when, three years ago, the Edgewood Land company
 placed on the map of Birmingham's pos slollities the Birmingham Motor and Country club
 Climbing over Red mountain the street car way, and winding only few miles through the valley, around beautiful
 curves, with now and then a cozy home, one begins to breath the delights of the
 country air and hear the to-whit-to- wee
 or the native birds, and then the care Tree feeling follows.
 Ever since there has been a city here
 these woods have been tramped by hun oreds of people daily, who Just naturally
 love to wander through the scenes of freedom.
 This club seems almost a dispensatiou Of Providence, a resting place, combining natural air and the forethought of man. To build in this cozy corner a home of rustic logs. with broad galleries, rest rooms and ''playroom" for those who are weary-too languid for the recreation the city affords-yet brimful of energy, where country sports invite you.
 Even stranger at the gateway would read the real meaning of the Country club here.
 The place is young; already hundreos of dollars have been planted to grow a crop of happiness. What gives this. greater than freedom, laxataion oR mus Gle, Of mind and body, a race, a game a swim and good country dinner, with every day friends around you?
 The club property consists of 400 acres or iand' shaded by native growth. with every variety of wild flower peeping from beneath fertile soil. Even the "gin- seng puts out its three-pronged shoots. and when the tobacco crop is short a root of this suffces for the '.country chew"
 A natural basin a mile and a quarter In length and proportionate width, en- closed by ssloping mountain sides. will soon be filled with a pure free water, pouring in from Shades creek; covering 120 acres. consisting of s.7o00oo gallons of clear water This will indicate A swimming time' for the future.
 By the middle of this week the lake will be filled, and another hope has been Justified. among the promoters. In con AAS>sAOi VAsA SAio WatCIs 0&Ic&1Qy plaQS are considered to have the grounds brilliant ly lighted by hydroelectric plant-thus the moon and stars will have to peep over a manufactured light in the val ley of Shades creek. Even "Sol" cannot reign complete without the interruption of beautiful shade.
 Nature has done her full share to the scene-now. the rest Is for man, and the man is on the job.
 There is so much in knowing how to make one feel at home; so much ex- pressed in T am glad to see you"; with out this, even the club, with all it's ap- pointments, would be failure. MT. Ju- Han G. Wright the secretary, and his good wife are the hosts; they fill the office graciously, not only in part of host and hostess. but the practical as we'll They know the art of club mak- Ing. of home making. of pleasure giving l md good cooking.
 Mrs. Wright. in talking over the plans, 1 said: we are going to have just plain | country style out here-everybody can | rest, smoke and sing as they please. | and our dinners are going to be the same l rome cooked and almost home raised: l ve have a fine garden
 Going over the fields, we could see the | ,atch of roasting ears' and the yard 1 vas full of fryers-these almost completeI he dinner; later will come the fsh fry, 'ecause In November bass and brim will 'e put in the lake. In one year there