The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
NEWS OF SOCIETY AND
 ACTIVITIES, ETE OF WOMEN

1 Dorothy Donneuy and Miss May Buck ley, says the Montgomery Journal.
 The many friends throughout Alabama
 of Miss Kirkpatrick, and of her mother
 Mrs J. A. Kirkpatrick of this city, will | be gra tifed to learn of the success of
 the former in New York.
 Miss Kirkpatrick went to New York ] city five years ago and has firmly estah-
 ished herself as a play broker, and is
 now a member of the successful firm of | Brande & Kirkpatrick. The recently or ganized Stage Women's War Relief board. which is formed of young women all over the country, will soon give great | benefit performance for the widows and 1 orphans of soldiers one of the principal features of which will be the singing of Madame Louise Homer.
 | Miss Kirkpatrick has recently written
 POO personal letters to arouse a sympa- thetic interest in her philanthropic and patriotic work and is much encouraged with the results of her enterprise. l The fifth service in "The Pilgrimage of Prayer" now being conducted by the women of the Episcopal churches, will | be held at Grace church, Woodlawn, this l morning at 10.30 o'clock.
 These services are nondenomina tional and in timely accord with the spirit of l fostering unity and concord among us. l l those of us who feel the need of having our hearts and minds lifted for a while, from the too sordid affairs of our daily l lives, and are craving to have our heartc
 put tune with the blithe sentiment: ] fThe larlI's on the wing
 The snal's on the thorn;
 ] Gods in his heaven
 All5s right with the world"
 A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend this service at Grace church l this morning.
 1 The request of women for enrolment | in the United States navy reserve forces have been so numerous that it is impos- sible for the recruiting office, with it's present facilities. to reply to these re- quests and it is thought advisable to reach them through the medium of the newspapers with form of explanation as to why they cannot be accepted into the service for which they have no nobly vol unteered The following statement was made in a communication received from the commandant of the eighth naval dis triot, whose headquarters are at the na- val station, New Orleans, La: "'Women of the south and southwest who so quickly and nobly responded to the an nouncement made by the Secretary of the Navy that the navy department has ar- ranged to use their services in the yeo- manry branch of the service for land duty in order that just that many more
 young men might be available for the
 countrys military forces unfortunately
 cannot be enrolled at the present or in
 the near future in the eighth naval dis
 trict this district comprising the states
 of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Ten
 nessee, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and the western part of Florida has small activities. requiring only a small num-
 Der of clerks within its confines. These positions have already been filled and 1t is therefore impossible to utilize the services which these patriotic women
 were so prompt to tender to their gov
 errment in its time of stress. The de- partment has also instructed the naval authorities not to enroll nurses for naval war service, having made other arrange ments for the care of it's sick and wounded sailors and it is therefore inn possible for the commandant of the eighth naval district to utilize the serv- ices of the women who desire to enroll as nurses.
 At the Southern club Wednesday even ing the dinner and dance proved an eX- ceptional success. The attendance was large, the tables in the cafe being prac- tically all reserved for the occasion. The dancing set was well represented and the music was most enjoyable Waltz and