The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-29
A CHRONICLE OF SOCIETY EMMA REID aY
By EMMA REID RYALL

Derryberry and Miss Winnie Derryberry. Her matron of honor will be Mrs. Ed win Wilson, Mir. White has chosen as his attendants his brother, MT. John Fin ley White. as best man. and Mir. I. N. Lewis and Mir. Thomas Bradley as groomsmen. The flower girl will be lit- tie Miss Rebecca Webb, niece of the groom. the ringbearers, Miss Jenny May and Herbert Reynolds.
 
 Mir. Edward Howard Griggs will give series of lectures a the Birmingham High school auditorium beginning May and continuing through May r. under the auspices of the board of education.
 The afternoon lectures at 3:30 o'clock VIII be upon "Maeterlinck-Poet and Mystic"
 Monday, May 7-'The Youthful Dream CT: The Dramas Of Love and Fate"
 Tuesday. May S-"The Poet of Mystery: The Dramas of Death and Destny.v
 Wednesday, May 9-"The Interpreter Of Life: Wisdom and Destiny and Monna Wanna"
 Thursday. May lO-"The Nature Lover: The Life of the Bee the Intelligence of the Flowers and the Blind Bird"
 Friday, May 1.-The Mystic Philoso- pher: The Buried Temple. the Double Garden and Joyzelle."
 Saturday, May 12.-"The Poet of the Spirit: Our Eternity, the Unknown Guest and Mary Magdalene."
 The evening course will be a study of modern civilization. The subject will be, What Is Progress?"
 Tuesday-"The Causes of Human Prog ress"
 wednesday-"E Elements of the Ideal os Life"
 Thursday-"H Historic Source of Modern Civilization"
 Friday" "womanhood and Human Prog ress."
 saturday-"Education and Democracy"
 An interesting Baby Day celebration will be held on Friday afternoon at the Blessed Sacrament convent. West End The feature of the afternoons programme will be lecture given by Dr. F. E. Har- rington. United States health expert. Preceding the lecture will be playlet entitled. Miss Don't Care,' in which the parts will be taken by II Little Mothers.
 After the lecture the audience will be invited to join the children on the school campus A baby parade, a May pole dance boys folk dance, and little girls folk dance are among the out of doors at fractions, and 1t is hoped that a largo number will attend to give the children encouragement. The kindergarten room will be filled up as a babies rest room, with nurse in charge. The concluding number on the programme will be & pa- triotic assembling when all will join in the singing of national airs and in the rse citing of the pledge to the flag. Th9 school grounds will be open from 2 to D. m. The playlet and lecture will be gwen in the auditorium, the former at 2:30 and the lecture at 8 D. III. Miss Guilty and Mrs. John A Kernan are joint chairmen and invite all who are interested to attend.
 r-t.. A club. who have work on exhibition at the public library. will please call for same tomorrow.
 The Birmingham Art club will meet Saturday, May s, at 3 o'clock, at public library A full attendance is desired on account of election of officers. The Yancey Literary society held a regular meeting Friday afternoon at Gen. tral High school. The programme con- sisted of an interesting and instructive debate Resolved That the United States should abolish the Monroe doctrine" Clay Jackson and Allison Lowenthal upheld the affirmative while Willie Smith and Frank Troncalle upheld the negative. Tho judges decided in favor of the affirma- tive.
 The luncheon to be given Thursday by the Birmingham Equal Suffrage asso- ciation will be a most interesting and elaborate affair, taking place at the Country club at 1 o'clock.
 The decorations will carry out the pa triotic idea more than xne suffrage idea as the luncheon Is not limited 10 suffrage members alone, but Is public affair.
 Many beautiful and unique features win be introduced in the form of tableaux Mrs. William Jordan will pose as Colum- bia and greeted and surrounded by the suffrage states which will be represented by prominent matrons and young women of the city. Mrs. W. c. Sibley will rep- resent the oldest suffrage state, Colorado, and the states of Wyoming, California. Utah, Idaho. Washington, Oregon, Ari- zona, Kansas, Nebraska, Alaska and tho Danish West Indies, will be represented by Miss Lettie Woods. Mrs. ". D. Nes- bitt Mrs. c. M. Spencer. Mrs. William L. Brown. Miss Dorothy Davis. Miss Alice Bowie. Miss Augusta Clarke, Miss Catherine Cary. Mrs. Roy Sterne, Mrs. c. w. Richardson and others.
 The girls of the Volunteer Relief asso- citation will also pose in patriotic cos tunes and the "solid south will be rep resented by a number of little folks draped in black.
 The presidential suffrage states, nli- nois, North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio. Mich igan, Rhode Island, Nebraska and Arkan-