Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-09
OUR SOCIAL WORLD

UUh NUUlAh Y UnLD
(All Items of social interest will be gladly
noted in these columns If sent to Mrs.
George c. Ball, Nineteenth street, between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues, South High
lands. Telephone 1851
The congregation of the First Baptist
of Atlanta have selected Rev. William
w. Landrum of Richmond to succeed
Rev. DR.. Hawthorne, who now has
charge of q large Baptist church at
Nashville. The committee whose duty
it was to decide upon a pastor for the
First Baptist church at Atlanta have
given the matter much thought and at
tention, and were anxious not to do any
thing hastily. The determination to call
DR.. Landrum was reached few days
ago, and has received the hearty sane
ton of the congregation. DR.. Landrum
has accepted the call upon the condition
that the entire membership approve the
action of the committee. This has been
done. DIR. Dandrum is said to be very
unclerical in appearance, and would
readily be mistaken for a lawyer. He
is partial to outdoor sports, and enjoys
hunting and fishing. He has been for
several years a chaplain of a company
of cavalry. He ranks very high as
pulpit orator, and delivers his sermons
without notes. He is one of the most
prominent ministers Senthe Southern
Baptist church, and declined to accept
a call from the Nashville church, which
later on selected DR.. Hawthorne.
The following brief sketch from an ex-
change of DR.. Landrum will be of inter-
est to many Birmingham friends of the
distinguished preacher:
William Warren Landrum is the old
est and now the only living son of Dr. S.
Landrum of Savannah. He was born in
Macon, Ca, January 10, 1862 and was
converted there when 10 years old. He
was baptized in his 18th year in the Sa
vannah church. He was a student at
Mercer university, but left there before
graduating and went to Brown UNIVERSE
ty, where he graduated with distinction
in 1872 He then entered the Southern
Baptist Theological seminary at Green
vile, S. c., and graduated there after
two years study.
I'm May, 1874, he accepted a call to the
Baptist church at Shreveport, La, where
he labored two years. During that pc
Rod 100 persons were added to the
church. Before leaving Shreveport he
was elected superintendent of the edu-
cation of ministerial students of Missis-
sippi college, Clinton, Miss, but he de-
clined in order to accept the call to the
First Baptist church of Augusta, Ga.
HE remained in Augusta eight years
and then was called to the Second Bap-
fist church of Richmond, Va, where he
has been for the past ten years"
From a Washington letter to the New
York Herald is taken this regarding a
lovely Alabama girl:
1.-The pretty ruler of the household of
the secretary of the navy has mapped
out a succession of pleasant journeyings
for the coming months. Mr. Herbert
will Gnand the greater mart of the NJ
mer here, but will shortly make the Gus
tomary tour of inspection of the naval
stations along the coast. Miss Herbert
will accompany him on the Dolphin, WIS.,
iting Newport and Bar Harbor No
more agreeable trip can be imagined
than this. The dainty-featured daughter
of the south, with the golden locks char
acteristic of the north, and great blue
eyes, is very popular"
Miss Herbert will return to Alabama
very soon with Miss Mary Clare Miner
for a short visit to her and other friends.
Miss Fannie A. Bland, the eldest
daughter of the great silver leader, Hon.
r. p. Bland, is now visiting Chicago and
owing to the conspicuous position held
by her father is being much written up
by the correspondents of the daily jour
nails. Miss Bland Is described as being
unusually entertaining and attractive.
She Is only 20 years of age, decided
brunette, WITH cledrs OllVe CoIupitAlOii,
large, dark eyes, and black hair. She
seems to enjoy the excitement incident
to the present campaign, in which her
father is so notable a ngure, and talks
agreeably of persons and events. She
has not yet completed her studies but
will return to her school duties in the
autumn at the Holy Cross academy, from
which she will graduate next year.
To be in the fashion, in the very latest
fashion, our bellies and beaux must adopt
the tandem" waltz. A New York paper
thus describes this newest form of Terp-
sichorean art:
There is no more slow, languorous
dancing on handkerchief's space. The
young man who held his partner close
as If he dreaded robbery is out of date.
The tandem craze has struck the waltz.
1.-THE tandem has its advantages In
1t both the girl and young man move in
the same direction at the same time.
Instead of a young man holding out
his hands and the girl tucking her head
under his chin, she gives him the cold
shoulder.
For the girl whose only charm is the
sloping lines of the back of the neck and
the fetching little locks tickling the white
nape this is especially comfortable.
1.-THE girl stands back to her partner,
who holds her right arm extended The