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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1915
Page
6
A reflective essay highlights sweetness in life and the strength of gentle deeds. It argues that beauty grows from kindness and that patience is the essential quality for anyone caring for children, stressing steady progress and calm persistence over time.
A New York Evening World column argues women could stop wars and cites historic and literary examples of warlike queens and heroines. It reflects on how language grows through everyday use and notes coinages like scarehead loan-shark wind-jammer and hen-minded as examples of American English evolution.
Thursday events include Parliamentary Law Study Club at 10:30 in the Cawthon Hotel and Y M C A auxiliary meeting at 11. The Red Cross Seal Committee meets at 11 at Mobile Public Library. Ladies Spring Shop opens at Central Presbyterian Church parlor at 10. Baptist Woman's Missionary Union week of prayer begins February 28 with program at 3:30 and ongoing church activities through March 4. Friday brings Mothers Club gatherings at Settlement Home and Bay Shore, plus Leinkauf School Improvement Association 3:30. Oyster supper for debt fund at Baptist Tabernacle March 5. The Mobile Branch 8 S A C W meets at Battle House Parlor C. Saturday hosts Shakespeare Club Reci procity Day and A B L S meeting at Barton Academy.
The Item announces a new department focused on women and home affairs called Women’s World and Work. It seeks notices from women’s, church, philanthropic, fraternal, musical, and literary groups, including choir work and patriotic organizations. Send items by 1 pm Saturdays or noon other days.
In Dedham Mass on March 4 Mrs Frederica M Cameron widow of Evan 8 Cameron former Princeton football star seeks a divorce. She testifies that after attending the Yale Princeton game in 1918 he returned home about two o clock in the morning and whooped up a Princeton victory though the score was a tie.
Mrs. Chappelle Cory of Birmingham visited Marion last week to learn the designer of the Confederate flag. She asserted Nicola Marshall, a noted portrait painter who lived in Marion and now in Louisville, is the original designer. A reception at Mrs. A. F. Armstrong’s home honored Mrs. Cory with guests from the Andrew Barry Moore chapter UDC and Inter Se.
Georgia D A R chapters plan to send delegates to the National Congress in Washington in April. Mrs Sheppard W Foster is urged to receive votes for officer roles, praised for patriotism work and her Revolutionary War stories used in schools.
The Virginia attorney general asks the U S Supreme Court for leave to sue J P Morgan in Virginia’s name to recover Martha Washington’s will. The document allegedly disappeared from Fairfax court during the war and surfaced in the Morgan collection. The piece may soon be displayed in Richmond’s state library museum.
A dozen Atlanta society girls pledge monthly support to Belgian babies through the Association of Mothering Belgian Babies. They wear buttons reading Ive adopted a Belgian baby. The effort avoids home adoption and funds aid for war relief.
Veal Loaf recipe uses three pounds ground veal three eggs six crackers two tablespoons butter and thyme and pepper baked for an hour and a quarter. Spice pudding blends molasses brown sugar butter raisins cloves cinnamon nutmeg soda and flour steamed in a mold under shallow water. See Francis X. Bushman at the Empire Theatre tomorrow.
A historical kitchen piece reviews vanilla cookies and several canape ideas. It details a vanilla cookie recipe with sugar butter eggs vanilla powder baking powder and flour, rolled thin and baked, plus steps for making sardine lobster salmon ham liver and tomato canapes with toast bases and simple toppings.
The Century Book Club met with president Miss Edith Heckert for the first time this year. Twelve members attended with one new member, Mrs K R Guthrie, joining. They discussed reciprocity day set for April 28 at Mrs H P Hirshfield and invited Dr Phillips to speak.
The Polymnia Circle of Cranheee discussed Wagner in a first in a planned study series hosted by Mrs. James Wade. The program featured Reading Sketches of Wagner's Life by Mrs Zadek, Duets by Mrs Cox and Mrs Shock, soprano solo Dich Theure Halle by Mrs Lauretta, piano by Mrs Fleming, violin solo Song to the Evening, and other Weber influences in a thoughtful, life rich program.
The club postponed its current event and will resume at the next meeting when Mrs. Wetzel hosts. Members anticipate twofold pleasure as Mr. Wetzel is the scheduled speaker for that program.
Women visitors to the Sens er Products Show express interest in corset displays. The exhibit draws attention with period fashion items and related accessories.
Special to The Item Healing Springs Ala March 4 Miss Missouri Crane an aged resident was burned to death here yesterday after a fire was started by unknown parties. She suffered horrible wounds across her body and died shortly after. She was well known in Healing Springs and leaves many relatives and friends.
Star performer Nadine Hunter and soprano Mrs. Tam led a program including Elizabeths Prayer and an American numbers medley. Mrs. Shock accompanied piano solos from Lohengrin and March, with Mrs. Fowler and Mrs. Fleming of New York contributing several selections to close the evening.
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