The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

lobby and also the library with its low bookcases, where many find pleasure during quiet evenings.
 The cafeteria claims much in- terest. from its creamy tinted walls, its draperies. chairs and tables in harmonious green and its red tiled floor Here delicious meals are served under the supervision of Mrs. Emma Smith.
 Upstairs are the pretty bedrooms and the two lovely rooms recently equipped for hospital service for sick girls.
 The lives of the girls are made beautiful by Mrs. Stradley, whose happiness and pleasure 1t Is to bring joy to them. and to bring to them the free and happy feelings only to be found in true home life and to free them from the institutional at mosphere. It ds pleasant to know that they may also have social life and here receive their boy and young men friends.
 Mrs Caroline Dill. who has charge of the religious-work in the building arranges the vesper services which are frequently conducted by differ ent ministers of the city. Mrs. Dill has also planned classes in variety of subjects ranging from millinery to psychology and including SpaN' ish etiquette and business Eng fish Whenever eight or ten girls want to study any subject, she arranges to get a competent teacher for them.
 Miss Edith Weaver will come this month from Dallas, Tex, to be the new physical director. She will have charge of the gymnasium classes and after each one will conduct lesson in swimming.
 During the war it was found that the Y W. c. A. needed downtown club rooms for women who had gone into various activities and indeed 1t had been for years the ambition of the Y. w. c. A., to have a downtown center.
 The war work council at the re- quest of the Y. W. c. A.. fitted up the downtown club rooms and fl | nanced the running of them for two. or three months.
 Then the Y w C. A. offered the hospitalities of these rooms to the Business and Professional Women's club with the understanding that they would share running expenses. These beautiful rooms at 20sa Twenty first street, north where the
 Business and Professional Women's club has teen so pleasantly associate with them will still be conducted by l the Y. w. c. A.
 AS result of the success of each organization and the almost marvel ous growth of both, these rooms have become inadequate for the activities of the two and the Business Wom- ems club has now secured another | location and the Y. w. c. A. will con- tinue there
 Lunch will be served just as it has been, with Mrs. Hawley still in | charge. Miss Frances Bonner is extension
 secretary and directs the girls clubs
 and the activities of older girls Mrs. Edward Hawkins has charge l of club work and social affairs of | the younger girls.
 Many plans are being arranged for l the fall and winter to make these 1 club rooms the scenes of delightful 1 entertainments which will bring in- l spiration and ambition for broader
 education, into the hearts and lives 1 of the girls to whom these splendid opportunities will be offered.
 COMMENTS OF COOPER HOWARD
 ENGAGEMENT.
 | Friends in Birmingham and | throughout Alabama will be inter- ested in the engagement recently an
 nounced in Atlanta of Miss Mildred 1 Howard of that city to Mir Joseph M Cooper of Los Angeles, Cal. the mar .riage is to be solemnized October l 20 at the home of the brides parents 1 at Emory nntyersftv