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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1913
Page
5
The writing predicts a busy year with success and potential trouble from thoughtlessness. It notes brilliant self confidence for those born today, with helpful friends and rivalry pushing them to effort. It advises teaching children to play fair and accept temporary defeat to ensure lasting success.
Society notes list multiple clubs and meetings in Mobile including the Mobile Chapter D A R at the Cochrane home on Government Street at 3 p m with Mrs Coch and Mrs Bondurant as hostesses. Other events feature luncheons and bridge clubs throughout the day with various hosts.
A program titled Pages From the Story of American Patriotism has been arranged by the D A R The article notes the organization s preferred feuds and predicts an agreeable afternoon in a pleasant prospect with local interest mounting around the event.
The Mobile card group hosted by Mrs. W. A. Powell featured five substitutes: Mrs. J. W. Woolf, Mrs. L. Le Baron Lyons, Mrs. George Huntington Clark of Birmingham, Mrs. D. P. Bestor Jr., and Mrs. Willie Miles Heakes. Winners at three tables received fancy slipper trees. Mrs. Woolf, Mrs. Clark, and Mrs. H. G. Donald claimed prizes. Tea and wafers followed a Tanglaise.
Mrs E D Bondurant hosted a spring colored luncheon at Government Street in Mobile for twenty guests. After a four-table auction bridge, tea followed at 4 30 p m as Mrs Nesbitt does not play bridge. Prizes included a flower basket and a painted Nippon vase with consolation fern dish. Invitations list many ladies including Mrs Will Porter Mrs L C Parker Mrs Stephenson and others from New York St Louis Key West and local society.
Mrs D R Burgess entertained in honor of Mrs W D Nesbitt during her New Year visit to the old home. Nesbitt arrived New Year’s Eve and joined a notable reception at the Strikers seventieth anniversary ball, marking a sequence of pleasant entertainments.
Ada Patterson profiles Marie Hemstreet a celebrated housekeeper and authoring practical counsel for wives to learn cooking by midnight study. Hemstreet argues a woman can be independent at home and should be her own cook saving money and promoting harmony with her husband.
Social notices recount Mrs C A Mohr hosting a matinee at Mobile Theater for Mrs Nesbitt with 5 pm tea at Italian Garden. Mrs E D Bondurant followed with a bridge luncheon, and Mrs D R Burgess planned a 1:30 pm lunch at Government Street home. Guests included Mrs W D Nesbitt and numerous local ladies, with rose and violet floral decor.
Informals scheduled for Friday describe a gathering of older fellows of the club. The note lists attendees and emphasizes socializing, with no formal program or speeches.
A dance to be held Friday January 10 at German Relief will be hosted by the informals, a well known hospitality group. Floor committee members include Warren Christian chairman George Crawford James Radcliff Frank Fowler Roy Albright John Meador Chas Schimp Jr Alex Howard Jack Cournty and Frank Hays.
Mrs J Tunstall Inge announces a bridge tea on Saturday January 18 with invitations to be issued this week surrounding the event at her home.
The Country Club dance set for the 13th by Mrs. A. O. Thayer for her sister Miss Baer of Baltimore has been postponed due to a conflicting event. Mrs Thayer will instead host a German Easter week at the Battle House.
The passage urges women to use intelligence and foresight to manage housekeeping, explaining that being one’s own cook and housekeeper saves money, provides good exercise, and prevents needing a board. It emphasizes self reliance and improving domestic efficiency.
The Louisville and Nashville passenger rate case will resume before the Alabama Railroad Commission in Montgomery. G W Lamb, comptroller of the railroad, will continue cross examination to determine if the current 8 cent passenger rate in Alabama should be reduced, following a federal court decree two months earlier allowing the rise from 2 cents per mile.
In Cincinnati on January 7 the national baseball commission planned to address all business except officer elections. Ban B. Johnson's illness prevented his attendance as announced by Chairman August Herrmann. A uniform playing contract demand was expected from minor league presidents, who would also discuss the salary limit issue.
Mr H B McConnell and Miss Katharine Strong surprised friends by marrying at 9 30 tonight at Rev C W Northcutt’s home, pastor of Brewton Methodist Episcopal church South. The groom is son of Judge L B McConnell and the bride is daughter of Hon W H Strong. The ceremony drew a small circle of friends and many long time associates extend best wishes.
In New Orleans yesterday a 13 year old boy named Frank scrambled with a pearl earring during a casual moment when coughing occurred suddenly. The incident hints at a health concern observed by bystanders.
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