The age-herald., 1900-11-18
Her Home in Florida the Center of Social Sp|endOT CHARITY BALL PATRONESSES Wedding and Other Events of the Week and Gossip of the
 World of Society,"
 Personals
BY ANNIE KENDRIcK WALKER.

Df ANNIE hENDhlCk WALkEH.
 As every one knows Mrs. Edwin Gardner Weed of Jacksonville, Fla, who was reelected President of the United Daughters of the Confedera- cy at the convention in Montgomery the past week, is notable figure in private life.
 Her personality Is quite as remarkable as one would think the office required. As the wife of Bishop Weed of the Episcopal diocese of Florida, she presdes over a mag nifcent winter home in Jacksonville that is not only the mecca for the Episcopal cler- BY. but the very center of social life In the extreme South. The summer home of the Weeds is in Augusta, Ga where the Bish- op, previous to his assuming charge of the diocese in Florida, was rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd.
 Mrs. Weed spends her winters in Florida, where she and the Bishop entertain from the opening until the close of the season one gay house party after the other, and when the tropical climate in the Land of Flowers brings a lull in the season the summer place in SummerYillle, that aristo- cratic residence district of Augusta, is open- ed for a series of gaieties that begin with the arrival of the Weeds.
 The social sway of this family has contin- ued for more than a quarter of century, and there is probably no family in the South whose hospitality is more widely known than that of the Weeds
 A charming Birmingham woman whose home is now in Jacksonville, and who Knows the Weeds personally, was telling me yesterday of the lavish hospitality with which Bishop and Mrs. Weed entertain at their winter home
 'There Is no woman in Florida" she said in speaking of the wife of the Bishop, "who is more generally beloved. Not only in the Episcopal church. where Bishop Weed is so highly esteemed. is Mrs Weed beloved but by all denominations, all classes and condi- tions of people.
 She is woman whose personality is at once striking and most charming. She is so cordial and kind so charitable and broad-minded-a woman whom it is a pleas ure to call your friend.
 Bishop Weed and Mrs Weed" she con- tinued, with their charming daughters. are greatly sought after in Jacksonville. Their beautiful house in Riverside avenue, on the St. Johns river, is one of the most pie turesque and enchanting of places Mrs. Weed and her two daughters, Margery and Lisa, entertain charmingly, and there is scarcely time when their hospitable house Is not filled with delightful people. I am sure that there is no woman more unver- sally admired and beloved by Florida peo- pie than Mrs Weed"
 Among a group of former Augusta people who know the Weeds intimately was a handsome young fellow who declared yes- terday that Mrs. Weed was his first sweet heart, and that he had never gotten over the resentment he felt when she married the Bishop. As Mrs Weed is probably old enough to have been the mother of this ar dent admirer, he explained that she was his Sunday school teacher at the Church of the Good Shepherd. His boyish admira- tion of the charming girl who was then the toast of Georgia has deepened with the passing of the years and he declared that Mrs. Weed was still his ideal.
 'She Is one of the most remarkable of women," he said, land one would be att tracted to her in any assembly. She dresses with exquisite taste, and of course very fashionably. Her hair is gray now, and she is extremely lovely in appearance. I have visited Bishop and Mrs Weed at their win- ter home in Jacksonville. They entertain sumptuously, and Mrs Weed is excessively fond of society. But while she Is a woman of fashion and devoted to society, she is equally we'll known among the poorer classes, for she Is one of the most charita- ble women in the world. She is absolutely worshiped by the poor, and gives most gen.