The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1922-10-07
PARENT TEACHERS, AssocIA-
TION ENTERTAIN AT
BANQUET.
Members of Hancock County Teach
ers' Association in Session at Bay
st. Louis Saturday Entertained at
Bountiful Feast.

| st. Louis Saturday Entertained at
Bountiful Feast.
In compliment to the visiting and
resident members of the Hancock
| County Teachers Association, in reg
ular business session at the court
house in Bay ST. Louis on Saturday
last. members of the Bay st. Louis
lParent-Teachers' Association enter
tanned at what was termed lunch
con, but easily proved banquet.
There was bounty and splendor about
the spread, with a lavish hospitality
| that dignifed it.
The scene of this delightful gather
ing and spread was at the ever-invit-
ing home of Mrs. r. L. Breath, presi-
dent of the PIT. A., on the beach
front. The rows of tables were set
in the pavilion dining room of the
place, with plenty of air and light.
The weather reminded one of the
"rare June day" poets love to write
of. Here the elements of nature
seemed to have conspired to have
made the day perfect. A profusion
of natural flowers, tastefully arrang-
ed. added cheer and color to the
scene. In the center OF the main ia
BILE was a huge cut glass bowl filled
with ferns and sprays of Rosa Mon
tana in deepest hues of pink, mingled
with the green. And again it was
noticed great clusters of James
Sprunt roses, in all their fullness of
growth and depth of deepest red,
added largely to the arrangement.
AS to the menu. one must have
been present to appreciate the delici-
Gus and dainty things to eat. Soon
after the guests were seated and be-
gan to enjoy the feast, whiffs of the
aroma of genuine Bay ST. Louis cof-
fee came floating over the air from
the kitchen, where the wonderfully
good things had been prepared. 1t
was like bottled perfume from Ara
bia. Some one had learned the Bay
ST. Louis secret of brewing coffee to
that degree where it Is nothing less
than an art. This was served ad lib
itum, and the guests were favored re-
peatedly with the beverage.
Mrs. Breath, as president of the
PIT. A., and as the mistress of the
beautiful ante-bellum home, was
doubly the hostess of the day. This
gracious and charming woman, and
easily one of the first citizens of the
place, was unceasing in her atten-
tions. She was most ably assisted by
a number of ladies, among whom
were Mesdames Toquet, Forwood,
Perkins, Boyle, Stephens, Fucich,
Firsching, Sylvester. As a citizen
Mrs. Breath is pre-eminent. Is she
not always one of the first in all that
tends to the civic ard social advance
ment and uplift of the community!
Easily could the guests have re-
mained the balance of the afternoon
within the confines of the Breath
home, with cordiality and the warmth
of welcome pervading the very atmos-
phere; where every element of re-
finement as whole is living spirit,
with a wealth of books here and
there and many objects of historical
and instinsic values, where one would
love to browse, but the call Of duty,
always paramount with the men and
women who sacrifice their lives teach
ing, insistently called. 1t was time
for the afternoon sessions OF the as
sociation, and as the immortal bard
put it, parting is such sweet sorrow,
painful as it was to part, it was sweet
in satisfaction, indeed, to express the
pleasure of the afternoon.
Among the speakers at the banquet
were j. S. Kelly, of Logtown, the
president of the Teachers Associa-
ton; E. S. Won Ehren, president of
the City School Board; Ed. Kellar,
County Superintendent of Educa-
ton; Mrs. Dolby, of the Kiln school; /;
Mrs. Noel, representing the Southern
district of the State women's demon
stration department.. Miss Celine
Fayard, primary department Of Cen
tral School, dwelt on the subject of
teaching and how best to teach. pro-
nounced one of the best talks of the
occasion. Others delivered well-ex-
pressed thoughts germane to the mo-
ment.
Among the number of those pres
ent were: D. j. Everette, Gulfport; !;
V. A. Arendale, Kiln; Mrs. ]. S. Kel-
ly, Logtown; Mrs. Noel. Hattiesburg
T. D. Pearson, Miss Celine E. Fayard,
Miss Ella Fayard, Bay st. Louis; I.
Gorden, John F. Baxter, Logtown !;
Mrs. v. A. Arendale, Kiln High
School; Mrs. Sam w. Cochran, Miss
Nettie Holleman, Logtown; Miss Nell
Garriga, Sorin; Miss Lattye Mayfield,
Logtown; Miss Della Warden, Miss
Genevieve Adams, Kiln; O! V. Rush
ing, Caesar; Miss Gladys Freeman,
Sellers; Mrs. A. G. Pearson, Milton
Line School; Miss Desmel Smith, Sell
lers; R. Rester, Sorin; A. G. Pearson.
Milton Line School; Matte w. Walk
er, Sellers; E. A. Pearson, Olivia Kel-
lar, Lizzie Smith, Mrs. Blackwell,
Sellers; Anita Green, Kiln Camp
School; Thelma Zimmerman, Lora
Smith, Lillith Ansley, Waveland
School; Mrs. Shaw, Sellers; Frances
Lilius, Kiln; Emma Summersgill, Lu-
vinia Saucier, Miss Gaener Arendale,
Kiln School; Miss Cora Lea Pearson,
Bay High School; Mrs. Jordan Smith,
Picayune; Leon McCluer, Bay High
School; T. E. Kellar. County Super
intendent of Education, Hancock; /;
Mrs. w. H. Sylvester, Central School !;
Miss Rita Breath, r. w. Taylor
School; Mrs. w. W. Forwood, Mrs.
George C. Firsching, Mrs. A. Allison,
Mrs. Ernest W. Drackett, Mrs. S. M.
Fucich, Mrs. Ernest j. Leonhard,
Mrs. Charles Traub, Mrs. George E.
Pitcher, Mrs. R. r. Perkins, Mrs. D..
81. Boyle, Mrs. Sylvester Touquet,
Miss Annie Traub, Mrs. Selby H.
Renshaw, E. s. Won Ehren, H. S.
Weston, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. G. Mo-