The age-herald., 1900-06-22
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Ask favors, and buy carefully before o o'clock this morning."
 "A successful year awaits thee, and thy business will increase and prosper; those in employ may expect promotion
 "A child born on this day will be gener- ally fortunate in business, and will rise in l life If female, not happy in wedlook. a.There is a very familiar ring about the press descriptions of the scenes of uneX- ampIed enthusiasm at the mention of cer- | tain names in the Republican convention at Philadelphia" said an old-timer Al most word for word, similar descriptions were applied to scenes in the first Repup- lcan National Convention forty-four years ago; have been applied to every convention of every political party for halt century, and no doubt will be used of all conven- tions for the next fifty or a hundred years. It seems to me that telegraph tolls might be saved if the scenes were just hlntea at. and telegraph editors left to do the rest The National Democratic Convention will assemble two weeks from now, and the scenes in today's papers will be rS- peated Newspaper files of 1876 or any other Presidential year will show the same thing. So, why pay for telegrams and kill space! why not illdhG d uoiC u SNN 0"4 files of 1S96-92-SS, or any other Presidential year and then proceed?'
 "Congressman Bankhead is in South Carolina harvesting the sans Souci wheat crop." said a Birmingham man who has just returned from Greenviie, S. c. His eldest daughter, Mrs. w. H. Perry, has established a girls school at Sans Souci,' hnn1p- stead to be opeIed this fall, and the plan tations will furnish everything the g1fls eat, thereby insuring pure food, one ot the unique features of the boarding school | The wheat crop of Sans Souci is unusual | ly large this year. yielding many hundreds | of bushels. Mrs. Perry has entire contfol 1 of the plantations, and as Colonel Bank head and wife were visiting the Perrys 1 en route home from Washington he ln- dulged his love of agriculture by taking charge of the wheat harvest
 By the way, sans Souci' is going to be a perfect success as select and limited school for girls. The fact that Mrs. Charles Spruill. famous educator, Is to l be at the head of the school insured ready demand for the twenty-five places to which the school is limited. Mrs Perrys l loyalty to her old home state caused her l to reserve liberal proportion of vacancies 1 for Alabama girls. Several of these are already bespoken One of the girls is Miss Rebecca Buyck of Wetumpka grand- daughter of Colonel Thomas Williams, | former Congressman Several Birmingham | girls from the most prominent families are to be among the favored few Mrs' Perry is reported to be the best house. keeper in South Carolina, and the fact that the pupils will be taught cooking and housewifery by Mrs. Perry herself is doubtless one of the reasons for the large demand for the limnted number of places, Mrs Perry as Miss Louise Bankhead, graduated from Wards Seminary about fifteen years ago with the most brilliant record ever attained by pupil of that in stitution. She carried the senior and post graduate courses, together with instru- mental music, in one year, and made one hundred in everything every month Vincent M. Elmore, the younger whom the board of trustees of the University of Alabama desire assigned to the office of commandant, is a lieutenant in the Twen- ty-nnth Volunteers on duty in Luzon. He was an officer in the Second Alabama Vol unteers during the Spanish-American war. Mir Elmore is the second son of Major Vincent NJ. Fillmore, long a representative citizen of Montgomery, and grandson of the distinguished Alabamian, John A. FL more for whom Fillmore county was named. The young lieutenant of volun- teers is noted for his skill in tactics and his caOacityr n command In the camD Miami two years ago he won the affec- tions, as we'll as the respect, of hundreds of men Personally he is very manly, and inherits that charm of manner which for generations has been characteristic Of his race It appears that the Secretary of War is without authority to assign a vol unteer officer to such duty as required of Mr. Elmore at the Alabama University; so congress will be asked to pass a needed resolution. Meantime Mir. Emore may re- sign and return to Alabama.
 The nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for the Vice-Presidency of the United States provoked no surprise and compara- 1 lively little comment in hotel lobbies 1 elsewhere in Birmingham yesterday. It l had been accepted for several days as
 
 1 kindly import was heard regarding MT. l Roosevelt, and it was clear that the odd, l practically unaccountable glamor of his I name affects the people of this valley, l it apparently does the multitude at large. l Whilst Birmingham is Democratic in the 1 partisan sense, it is broad and liberal, and 1 in comparative sympathy is Rooseveltian. l In other words, the most peculiar political l personal fad in the history of the republic l is not lost upon the mineral region of Ala I bama.
 But in its wider significance, Birming- | hams interest in politics just now is ex-
 traordinarly languid; and the town is no l worse for that. Bryan's unanimous nom- | ination at Kansas City being assured, it 1 is surprising that there is no local discus l sion of the important question of his run l ming mate" Senator Morgan, by the way,