The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-04

For racial reasons unnecessary to ex- plain, our quartette of Alabamians so- journing at Chautauqua selected a southern landlady who had brought her colored servants with her. When friends located nearer the lakefront boasted their beautiful views. the Alabamians would speak so gloriously of the hot bis cults served to them that said friends would have to fall back on the familiar phrase that Chautauqua is a place for plain living and high thinking which may sometimes mean cold bread, canned meats and beautiful views.
 But at this southern-kept cottage they missed one of the sights peculiar to this summer gathering of the intellectually ambitious Many of the larger houses em- ploys help girls and boys, who have more brains and energy than money; hence they serve in many capacities, re- serving only the hours necessary to at tend the much coveted classes. It is nothing unusual to see a boy studying his Greek while he turns the ice cream freezer, or a girl softly repeating a theorem as she makes a bed
 A society girl had quite an experience along this line the other day. On the tennis grounds she had been introduced to an athletic player whose sweater bore the initial of one of Americas foremost universities. That revealed the fact that they had several mutual acquaintances and led to some games of tennis together and a row upon the lake-as beaux are none too numerous here. Chautauqua has this in common with other summer resorts at least. The society girl had boasted of her university acquaintance to a girl friend who boarded at the hotel. But the day she dined at the hotel with this friend the society girl received a shock Shorn of his sweater and arrayed as a waiter the undergraduate served at the next table!
 But the Alabamians had some delight fu1 table companions, if they did miss these Jekyll-Hyde performances. Their landlady had been educated abroad and several of the boarders had spent many years in foreign lands, so they heard many of those details of life in other lands which are too insignificant or com ical to put in print, but are nevertheless most interesting
 The Chautauqua Magazine last year contained a series of Reading Journeys Through Europe" so Mrs. Solomon Ant paraphrazed these table talks as Eating Journeys Through Europe. In this con nection they tell a good joke on Betsey Hamilton. At the tea table several ot the travellers had been discussing the comparative merits of various English cathedrals, but Betsey had been ordering from the waiter, so she was entirely out of connection with the conversation, when someone suddenly asked her:
 Isn't Durham your favorite?"
 Betsey gave one lost, helpless look at the expectant faces then turned her at tention to her raspberries without an swering yea or nay. To fill in the pause Mrs. Solomon Ant remarked on the well written, beautifully illustrated article or English cathedrals which appeared in q recent magazine But she repented when Sis Hopkins gave her version of the in- cident in the unrestrained privacy oi their rooms that night.
 T don't know whether Betsey wasn't on to the cathedral connection ant thought she was being asked if she pre- ferred Bull Durham tobacco to Dukes