The age-herald., 1900-05-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Beware of law and quarreling; thou wilt meet annoyances at every step and thy
 business will cause thee anxiety; do not speculate"
 "A child born on this day will not be truthful it will be very sharp and clever,
 but will not turn it's cleverness to best ac- l count: in business 1t will be unfortunate" There is a renewal of the proposition on l the part of the Alabama Daughters of the Confectionery to purchase the old frame dwellinghouse in Montgomery variously known locally as the Jeff Davis house" i "the Jefferson Davis home,' White House l of the Confectionery" and so on to neither l of which designation is the building en- titled The Daughters of the Confectionery l mean we'll and it is a proud spirit which
 keeps alive in their souls the brightly burn ing blazes of celestial fire; but they will forgive any evidence of incredulity, so to | speak, on the part of the general public.
 Alabamians will decline to become very enthusiastic on account of that boarding | house in Montgomery they won't even
 ''enthuse,'' whatever that phrase may | mean The truth is, Alabamians are aware that the White House of the Confederaey' | is largely humbug. The building under dis | cusson is two-story frame structure | about two squares from the river front of | Montgomery. For many years it was oc- | cupied as boarding house, and is possibly still so occupied. In 1861, when Montgom- | cry was the capital of the Confederacy, | Jefferson Davis hired the house for about | six weeks, making his own contract and | paying his own money in his or his land- | lords own good time. Neither the munich | pal state nor Confederate authorities had | anything whatever to do with MT. Davis's | hired quarters, and the house that sheltered | the famous leader was no more of an ex- | ecutive building than are Governor John 1 ston's modest apartments in front Of ,-e | capitol today. "White House." Jeff Davis | House." Jefferson Davis Home." fiddle | sticks! The house was never Davis's home. | It was for a brief space his sleeping and | eating place. The Daughters of the Con- | federacy may do whatever they please, but | they will pardon their devoted admirers for not "enthusing," whatever that is in this l or any other particular.
 | General George P. Harrison of Opelika, l in which town the Daughters of the Con- | federacy have just been holding their an- nual meeting, was the youngest brigader- general of the confederacy, he having been | a mere boy when gallantry on the field ob- | tained for him so high rank. In peace also | he has distinguished himself. He is lead | CT at the bar, has been congressman, l and there is strong talk of making him president of the state senate to succeed i Senator Cunningham. In all the relations | of life General Harrison is a strong, manly man, and is ever the embodiment of | princely courtesy At his house there was | a reception the other night given by Mrs. | Harrison to the Daughters of the Confed- | eracy, and it seemed sngularly appropri- | ate that the fair daughters of the Grey | should meet in the home of the youngest l of the rebel brigadiers. And if General Harrisons own fair daughter were present
 and she consented to sing, then the other daughters heard of the sweetest, tenderest, noblest voices that ever yet sung to the flag that is furled. Miss Har- rison is the remarkably gifted daughter of splendid type of southern manhood
 
 Mrs Peter Bryce is in Birmingham, the guest of Mrs. Robert H. Pearson. Mrs. Bryce came to town yesterday from Ope- lika, to which place she had journeyed from Washington, where she had been at- tending a national meeting of the Colonial Danes. In the meeting at Washington she sat with her sister, Mrs. Thompson, the wife of Governor Hugh Thompson of South Carolina. This was an odd and pleasing incident. The local club women and the visitors now here from all over the state gave Mrs. Bryce glad welcome yesterday, for everybody delights to honor this most gifted and
 most gracious of women. Her influence is so great and that influence is so devoted
 to the universal cause of good that Mrs. Bryce's position in Alabama and the south is one of unique honor and distinction. Her own life is very beautiful and very
 noble in all that makes for the higher life;
 and she bears nobly name made illus
 trious in the cause of science, goodness,
 and the wider and deeper humanities. To
 know Mrs. Bryce is privilege to be grate-
 fully cherished.
 The proper study of man is woman, and the presence in Birmingham of the rep resentatives of Alabama's highest and most
 admirable types of womanhood affords T
 rare opportunity for mental application in
 the proper direction. The general appear
 ance of the convention of woman's feder-
 ation, and the character of its proceed
 ings, arouse the reverentia1 pride of mas
 culine onlookers. One wishes that all de-
 Lucrative assemblies were composed of
 such club women those who are now
 holding convention in Birmingham. Faces
 radiant with goodness and purity and
 brightness best become an enlightened
 community, whatever the cause of their
 assembling for delberation. The presence
 here of the federation of women's clubs is
 to all persons a real benefit, and to many
 a revelation.
 No excuse need be offered for reference
 here to the unavoidable absence from the
 womans convention of Miss Annie Ken drick Walker, one of the most consistent, -I..I