The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
Low ely Affair Was Quest Club
 Lunchean an

 for this season followed the precedent established last year.. whef the club celebrated it's twenty-fifth anniversary with luncheon at the Country club. The success of the luncheon on Friday was largely due to the committee on ar arrangements. Mrs. Willard Wilson and Mrs. ! E. Penney, and to the toast mistress, Mrs. R. H. Hamrick. Owing to absence from the city and illness only nineteen iadies were pres ent but that number permitted 2 va riety, of toasts which ranged in sub ject matter from toast to the grand mother of today to the Birmingham of tomorrow, and certainly the grand mother of today, as toasted by Mrs. B. l.. Guice and exemplified by the other grandmothers in the club whose vital interest in all the intellectual, civic and religious activities of the world, her youthful appeafanee and good health should be source of encouragement to the younger women who are the grand mothers of tomorrow. The toast to friendship given by Mrs. Penney touch ed on that side of club life which has meant more to the women of Birming- ham than to those living all their. lives in older cities, for instance, only one member of the Quest club was born in Birmingham. Mrs. Erie Pettus gave the toast to public opinion, and who better than the retiring president of the Axis club could do justice to so powerful subject. The toast to laughter en- phasized the crying need of more laugh ter in life. The absent husbands and l the spinster of today came in for their share of attention. The following ef- Illusion on the spinster was given with apologies to Whittier
 When Whittier whote his dolefm play Of his spinster aunt in his young day, In Snow Bound listen what he wrote, And of these facts make careful note. Next the dear aunt whose smile of I cheer, e3 And voice in dreams I seem to hear, The sweetest woman ever Fate
 Rerverse denied a household mate, Who lonely, homeless. not the less Found peace in loves, unselfishness." Praise be, the times have changed since | then,
 Now. women have no need of men! Matide Muller heath a summer sky
 Sang to her twins a lullaby;
 The judge rode swiftly down the road, In the limousine was quite a load Of voters fair on their way to the polls All stylishly gowned from their head to l their toes,
 Maud Muller sighed as the judge passed I An would said she that that were I. Tine judge drove on with a glad refrain ..As I am, shall I henceforth remain For the judge, you know, was a spinster With boyish fisure and close bObbed
 hair,
 No lonely, homeless creatures these Who work, and dress and go where
 they please.
 Over the hill to the polls they sped All determined never to wed.
 For of all glad words of tongue or pen, The gladdest are these-it might have
 been! The versifying nature of the after dinner speeches may be accounted for by the poetic tendencies of the toast mistress. s
 1 The two exquisite baskets of flowers ad0rning the long table were sent with the clubs regards to Mrs. Frank Glass former member of the club, who though visiting in the city, was unable to attend the luncheon, and the treas. urer of the club, Mrs. Edwin Sellers whose illness prevented her presence.
 Mrs. Frank Snedecor of Portland Ore, who, during her residence here, was a member of the Quest club, and who now makes annual tours in her car from Portlapd to Birmingham, and when in the city made to feel that she still belongs, was the only guest pres. ent at the luncheon.