The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-04
A CHRONICLE OF SOCIETY baYAl

1. f.A A\ service in relation to the national
 crisis now pending has been made to the womanhood of America from head quarters of the League for Woman's s Service, which is working in connection with the Council for National Defense and the Red Cross meeting was held in Montgomery by the state executives of all the women's organizations in Alabama ir response and a central council formed of these women, with Mrs Thomas NJ Owen of that city as permanent chair man to lead the movement. The wife of the governor of the state, Mrs. Charles Henderson, was the first woman to sign the registration blank and selected the agricultural group with which to work. Signing with Mrs Henderson were Mrs, G. H. Mathis of Gadsden, who was in the Capital City y~at the time the call was is- sued, and a number of others. Mrs. Charles Thigpen has signed for social welfare work; Mrs. William Weiss, wife of Colonel Weiss of the Second Alabama infantry registered as Red Cross aid. Mrs. William A. Saffold signed for mo- tor driving as did Miss Frances Nimmo Greene, the novelist.
 According to the plan of organization, the state chairman appoints a temporary chairman in each locality and this woman calls together local leaders to inaugu- rate the work. Mrs. Robert Pearson has been appointed for Birmingham Regis tration blanks and other literature is supplied upon request from national head quarters of the League for Women's Service 105 West Fortieth street, New York City.
 The League for Woman's Service was planned as part of the national prepared ness movement in relation to Woman's part and took shape with definite aims at the meeting of the Congress of Con structve Patriotism, held in Washington January 26. A group of women of na- tional prominence were selected as offi- cers by the great meeting of women who had assembled from all over the nation, with Miss Maude Wetmore of New York and Newport as national chairman. Five days later the diplomatic break with Ger many came, and the programme was modified to meet the crisis that has grown out of that act. Only four out of the eleven divisions of work originally planned by the organization are being put into effect in the emergency programme: Social and welfare, commissariat motor driving and general service.
 The Dixie club of New York, of which Mrs. James A. Allen, formerly of Ken lucky, is president is one of the largest organizations of representative southern women in the metropolis and always ex- tends cordial greeting to the women Of the south who may be sojourning i'll the city.
 The February meeting, held as usual at Hotel Astor, was largely attended, and the programme was one so distinctly southern and yet so versatile as to have made the most critical wonder now IL was possible.
 Mrs Villa Holt Wakefield of Georgia entertained with her popular monologues, MT. Robert Stuart Pigott of Georgia en- tertained at the piano with original se- lections and from those of Ruth McEn- nery Stuart.
 Miss Bella Kinney of Tennessee, sculptress of fame in New York, as well as in her native state, gave an address entitled: tThe Influence of Southern Chiva1ry On Sculpture" and Miss Kir- mise charmed by her music on the harp, accompanied, by the gifted club accom- panist Miss Lillian Robertson of Ten nessee. The club was complmented by Col. w. J. Hampton, formerly of Ken lucky but now on the New York Herald. who dedicated to the Dixie club and read the IOllOWlnS poem.
 The morning stars. the poets say,
 Once sang together, and The music of the hevaenly spheres
 ~ame from that twinkling band As listeners to those wondrous strains
 Bright angels, fairer than The visions in the fairest dreams
 Of any mortal man.
 Stood on the walls of Paradise,
 In glowing ecstacy, To hear the music and applaud t The starry symphony.
 The poets tell us things like these, ' But never anywhere though telling that they sang, has one slThus far divulged the air. It might have been an Op. 16,
 Or other classic thing,
 So difficult they wished it were
 Too difficult to sing.
 But was it anything like those,
 The stars of morning sang? No. Dixie was the air, and say,
 They did it with a bang! Away down cAnth but let that Too we'll for me to quo. ote
 To you this afternoon.
 But who were they upon the walls,
 Those angels bright and fair. Come forth to hear the morning stars
 Sing Dixie's premiere?
 You do not know. you cannot guess.
 I'm certain, who were these Assembled on those jasper walls,
 But, listen, if you please! They were the eat-great-great-
 Great-great-great-gre Grandmothers of the Dixie girls
 From every Dixie state!
 And they were fair, exceedingly fair,
 More fair than any star. But not so fair. as their great-great"
 Great great at-granddaughters are! So there you are, dear Dixie girls.
 And I rejoice to say
 That just to let you know these facts
 Is why I'm here today
 
 American Trust: Mrs Charles Ledbet- ter. Mrs. Arthur Moody, Mrs. Cleve Huff man. Mrs Norton Whitley. Miss Eliza beth Crow, Miss Eugenia Harris, Miss Frances Harris. Miss Margaret Ashton, Miss Carolyn Paramore, Miss Vivian Howard.
 Parker,s: Mrs. George Brown Mrs. Eli Pegram. Mrs E. c. Adams, Misses Cath erine Ledbetter, Ivy Jones. Juliette Will kerson, Kate Porter.
 Brown Marx: Mrs T. H. Salter, Mrs. |, H. Alexander, Mrs. R. G. McCarty, Misses Helen Terrell. Beatrice Robbins.