The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-22
w and SOCIETY
Messages in
 The Morning Mail.

HE summer wanderer looks forward
 l with no less degree of impatience for the arrival of the mail" than do the stay-at-homes for the news of absent ones.
 These letters bearing a foreign post mark tell their own story of life under another flag. The poste cards bring their message from over the seas. The big 'fat' letter with the picture of the sum mer hotel gives q description of life at the American resort, and so 1t goes. The foreign poste cards make such attractive souvenirs that many women have made a fad of collecting them. 1t Is very common scene in the cafes abroad-that of the guests lazily engaged writing at the little tables while waiting to be served. The poste card answers every purpose and the garcon furnishes the guests with these attractive souvenirs at so much per.
 Here are some extracts from charming letters not intended for publication but which, scattered about over a desk quite unattractive with copy paper and paste pots breathe of summer skies in lands of enshantment:
 We are spending a while in Nova Scotia, in the beautiful Evaneeline coun- try. It is the spring of the year here and the daisies and marguerites are in bloom We are stopping at an old, old place, fully one hundred and fifty years old, and I am sure teeming with roman tic stories, if one only knew them"
 ffXyIxr 1o -ta,, ,a4 ,.aa1- -.-... come up here to this lovely resort, Hot Springs The Army and Navy hospital is on the government reservation just back of the hotel About 15O soldiers some only slightly indisposed now. come down here to enjoy themselves The men play poker, buy futures and a great many of the women do likewise and seem to get so much fun out of it.
 The ostrich farm is quite interesting, about 150 birds, and some in full plum age, which are perfectly beautiful. Some of the ostriehes are hitohed to a run about, and they race, ortentImeA win hing over the horse. There are charming people here from all parts of the world; a band which plays while we breakfast and dine, and there is a bril- liant ball every week.
 From Asheville, N. C., an enthusiastic girl writes a letter that Is all content- ment and luxury
 ''1 am wondering why our people rush madly over to Europe in search of scenery, really passing by and ignoring some of the most beautiful ,cenery the world can give. I have never had such complete rest in all my life, although I have taken the ocean trip so frequently.
 ''We are stopping at the Battery Park hotel, the most ideal hotel I ever saw either in Europe or America. Perfect com fort and perfect service. Add to this the beautiful scenery, and do you not think all this. together with the jolliest party, Is not combination to make one happy
 There are many foreign poste cards by the mornings mail.
 We are just going ashore to see things is hastily written across the reverse side, and 1t tells the story briefly of the safe passage, of excitement, of the first glimpse of foreign lands.
 Greetings" and an explanatory line be. LOW ine Bracelul Hsure or woman, me historic figure of the song "Bingen on the Rhine."
 Here is a greeting from Switzerland, another from Scotland another from vi- enna.
 There is line or two from Rome. writ ten just before the interest of the world became suddenly centered in the eternal city.