The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-26

Friday casting a gloom over the very
large circle of friends and acquaintances
that this cultured woman and public
benefactress claimed. Mrs. PARROT was
the only daughter of the late Charles T..
Howard and Florestine Boullemet, the
daughter of a prominent Creole family.
She was a woman of lovable traits with
a keen and cultured mind, and contrib
uted immeasurably to the educational ad-
vantages of her native city when she
erected to the memory of her father, the
Howard memorial library, the finest in
the south. About eight years ago Miss
Howard married Mr.. Walter PARROT, a
wealthy Englishman, and since has lived
abroad, dividing her time between her
handsome London home, and large
country place near London, and hunt
ing lodge in Scotland, favorite retreat
of her husband. Mrs. Parrot is survived
by her husband and a little daughter Of
7. and William T.. the latter now re-
siding in st. Paul, Mimi
Mrs. Theodore McGinnis and her little
son, Theodore, are in New Orleans, the
guests of Colonel and Mrs. Alden Nc
Lelan.
Miss Pearl Weiss has returned to the
University annex.
Mrs j. L. Mallory of starkville, Miss,
is in Birmingham.
Miss Catherine Darling of Kentucky will
arrive Monday to be the guest of Miss
Florence McCrossin, who will entertain
in her honor later in November.
Miss Caspian who Is a member of the
Misses Aliens faculty. is passing the
winter with Mrs. Jack johnson.
Miss Annie Williams, who has spent the
autumn at the Glen Springs, Mathews, N.
Y. will join her sister, Mrs. T. G. Bush.
In New York today, and will spend No
vember with Mr.. and Mrs Chambers at
their house, Crows Nest, on the Hud-
son, one of the most celebrated resi-
denees along the river
Mr.. Albert Bush passed through Biz
mingham recently on his return from New
York to Mobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Braxton Bragg Conner are
in Reading, Pa, to attend the marriage of
their son, Mr.. Donald Conner, and Miss
Gertrude Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Atkins have re-
turned to the city from New Orleans and
Texas, where they have been on their
bridal tour. They will be at home at
1929 North Twenty-fourth street.
Miss Mamie Boykin Holt left yesterday
morning to visit relatives in Atlanta, Ga.
Charlotte, N. c., and Rock Hill, S. C.
Mrs. Robert Jones has returned after
an absence of six weeks spent in Canada,
in Chicago and st. Louis.
Mrs. j. Bandman left for Louisville,
| KY. to visit relatives.
| o HAMA SAN.
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| 1t was many and many a year ago.
| In garden of the cherry blossom
OF far-off isle you may know
| by the fairy name of Nippon
| That maiden who was dressing her hair
| Again-t the mirror of a shining spring,
| Casting over me her sudden heavenly
glance,
Entreated me to break a beautiful branch
| OF the cherry tree: l canot forget.
| | was boy on the way home
| From my school; / threw aside
| All my books and slate, and / climbed
Up the tree, and looked down
Over her little anxious butterfly face:
Oh, how the wind blew tanning me
With a love that was more than earthly
love,
In garden of the cnerry blossom
OF a far-off isle you may know
BY the fairy name of Nippon.
| broke branch. slowly dropped it
To her appraised ha4-ds that God shaped
With best art and pain; she smiled
Toward me an angel SMILE she
Speaking no word, ran away as breeze
Leaving behind the silver evening moon,
And hid from me in the shadow or a pine
tree.
Ir a garden of the cherry blossom
OF a far-off isle you may know
BY the fairy name of Nippon.
l stole toward her on tiptoe'