The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-03
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"A child born on this day Will pc very
unfortunate and meet with losses and dis
appointments at every turn; it should
keep in employ; if a female she will be in
danger of disgrace"
Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for
Tuesday, September 4, 1900:
Travel. ask favors, seek work, and
push thy business"
Thy birthday is an active and good one
and with care thou wilt succeed, yet be
very careful of risk and speculation, and
do no offence"
"A child born on this day will be clever
and successful, whether In employ or bus
mess for ITSELF
Apart from some gratuitous pessimlsm,
and coming to concern some beautiful
women of Alabama, an old globe-trotter
sojourning for a brief rest at Blount
Springs, writes with pleasing enthusiasm
Having grasped the skirts of happy cir
cumstance' and been thereby stayed here
in these Alabama hills, tired and not lit
tie world-worn, l have been not unhappy
in looking at skirts of women and those
fair ones who wear Them the man of
travels writes. ut is still left me to look,
though that is all. My viewpoint is far
removed from the entcing condolences OF
that company which is made of two; being
myself one of the summer crowd and there
fore of no personal consequence to any
one but myself and even myself and l are
barely on speaking terms. OF it but not
in it, the womanless man still has some
minor advantages. He doesn't care who
wanders on the mountains or moons in
the m Of the darkness Pairs of
plaintive young persons praying to one an
other in well-planned concealment concern
him not; they are merely amusing, like the
circus used to be when he was a boy. The
lover is always the clown. and he who can
jump through the greatest number of
paper-covered barrel-hoops finds most
favor with women The distinctions wom-
en- draw between men is always favorable
to those whose bells are brassiest and jim
gle loudest out of tune. These facts are
more observable at pleasure resorts than
elsewhere. Generally, it is anybody Lord
I don't care whom SO he be true to me
and false to syntax.'
THAT is in general terms and therefore
does not apply in all cases. Women who
are really beautiful are sometimes differ
ent. Even a word-worn man who has got
nothing to do with women, beautiful or
otherwise, see as much or little as
that. Not being of them or anything of
any sort to them, he can observe them
calmly except when their beauty thrills
him as does the empurpled dawn
zone does not have to journey further
into Alabama than this hot spot in the
mountains they call 'Blount to discover
that Alabama women of wonderful
beauty. They are all the same to me-.
unknown; but there is a man here who
suffers me to listen to him rave about the
women here, and he is entirely justifiable
Such beauty, such grace, such hghbred
bearing, are not surpassed between the
Don and the Rio Grande. The raving man
who has identified to me the more attrac-
tive women here tells me that their moth
ers and grandmothers before them were
bellies of Blount. and tradition says that
they were just as beautiful as the Young
women who are here now.
"One of these in particular were worth
long journey simply to see her in her
younthful freshness and apparent gracious
ness, and her extraordinary beauty.
Her grandmother was adored here fifty
years ago, and her mother was equally adj
mired; and thus she appears to have come
INTO something of her rightful heritage.
She Is a brown girl, and such browns
mighty power of that womans beautyl The
man says she is Miss Eubank of Birming-
ham, and that she is universally reyerenced
for her goodness.
Mrs. John c. Anderson, the wife of a
learned young Judge of Alabama, is like
wise a remarkably beautiful woman;
though she herself is said to be a Texan.
She was born Martin and was brought up
in a convent, as her stately dignity and
repose and graceful manners might indi-
cate. She is very dark-haired and dark
eyed, and her almost classic face is WON
dertuly fair She is regal in her bearing"
1.-TWO unusually pretty girls are Miss
Adelaide Northlngton and Miss Dora North
ington, the latter still a schoolgirl The
elder is already a strong woman and of
wondrous grace, although she is at least
two years under twenty. She is certain to
be charming force in society, and her sis
ter promises to be a rare type of woman
Another young woman but recently out
of school is Miss Oliver, one of the younger
element of Birmingham society Her ap-
pearance Is distinctly attractive for she is
of the mold of women physically perfect:
and she is said to be of brilliant wit
Miss Amy Jordan of Birmingham is one
of those few women who lend distinction
to any enlightened company; and the man
says that she is personally the most in
fuential general force of the unwedded ele-
ment in Birmingham society. She came the
other day to join her sister, Mrs. Hillman,
who has cottage here, and who has been
great belle of Blount several weeks. the
man says; as has her guest, Miss Oliver
Blount seems to have known and blessed
Mrs. Hllman for several seasons
1.-THE Misses Sharpe of Birmingham and
their sister, Mrs. William Mudd Jordan
one of the handsomest and brightest young
women in any land-were here 4 week or
two with their mother, Mrs. Sharpe, the
accomplished wife of a high judge Miss
Iutie Sharpp WIS thp oplv puhlio1x,