The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-07
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 soPHIE D1nD 08AfTB&. Mrs. R. F. Dext1r entertained charm iurIy yestsrday afternoon at her hornt on South Hull street at the meeting oi the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the U. D The double parlors and reception hal were thrown together for the occasion and were taxed to their utferInost ca. pacity to contain the members and theis guests from the other Montgomery Chap ters who met with the Sophie Bibb'' Chapter at this meeting.
 The names of five new members were added to the roll at this meeting.
 Prominently placed over the mantle in the back parlor. and in full view was spray of beautiful Cherokee roses and in gilt letters the words Memory makes love eternal"
 The president explained that the Cher okee rose is the Sophie Bibb' Chapter flower and the words are the Chapter motto.
 A beautiful legend is attached to the flowers and the motto.
 At the conclusion of the business of the chapter. the president, Mrs. Dexter, in- troduced Rabbi, Messing. who addressed the chapter ably and efoquentfy as fol- lows:
 A Northerner by birth and education. reared from infancy amidst the preju- dices of Yankee environment and num- boring among my progenitors those who had worn the blue in Federal armies, l feel to-day as though some great trans formation had been wrought In me and that am become, as 1t were, an adopt ed son of the Daughters of the Confed- eracy.
 Tins transformation really began Gas most transformations among men dol when l got married several years ago in Peoria, H., and acquired mother-tn- law. My mother-in-law is native Vir- ginian and therefore different from the usual type of mothers-in-law. When she had. told me for the first time the story of her school days in Shelbyville. Ky, where she was the roommate Of Ann Eliza Davis, sister of the great Presi' dent Davis, I felt that I was on the verge of conversion to the Southern cause My conversion was completed al Opelika, Ala, last year, where 1t was my inestimable privilege to- deliver the Memorial day address, to pin the Gross of Honor" upon the breasts of aged veterans. and to receive real. old fashioned Southern welcome at the home of the Dowdells, family that has given a President to the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confed- eracy.
 And so rarely think of the noble or. der, in whose name we are assembled to- gether to-day, without recalling the poet Byron's magnificent wish.
 That womankind had but one rosy
 mouth That might kiss them all from North
 to south"
 
 Sacred to my heart is the cause fol which the South contended and wateret with my deepest tears are, those silent mounds of earth stretching from virginis to Texas, in which the heroes of tht Lost Cause sleep wrapped in the stain less knighthood aof the old gray jacket Sacred to naesis this cause Bscause its supporters were confined to no creed or class, but Jew and Gentile enlisted almost t0ia man in defense of home ant fireside. The bones of the Jew mingi, with those of Catholic and Protestant 1T inseparable dust from Harperis Ferry tt Williamsburg. from Seven Pines to Rich mond.
 Into that vortex of carnage. yet O Fame eternal, there went forth from tn, commonwealth Of A44bama, 127,000 brave men of whom 32.00o rendered up theil lives for their country. All over thii broad land of ours there is the dust o heroes that is in no national cemetery not even a board marks their grave bearing the mournfuI legend "Unknowr Confederate Soldier" Tn many rocky pass, in many a thick wood, a monument might be erected and there might be en graved upon 1t without changing a word the epitaph of Thermopylae. ''Go ana tell Sparta that we lie here having obey cd her word" It is the crowning gIorS of our city that there is in 1t to-day ana after the lapse of forty years a ban( of consecrated women whose patriot ism and devotion is proof against trying social campaigns of euchres and whists whose loyalty to the flag of their slrel Is uncompromised by pink teas," wht have made 1t their sole duty to searcl put these hidden graves and mark then as becomes the tombs of heroes.
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 It is really the women of Alabama, in trepid and resoIute, like her for whom your Chapter is named, the sainteC Aunt Sophia Bibb, heroine of the hos pital camps; zealous and faithful, lik, the founders of the local orders, Mrs John Fitzpatrick Mrs. Dawson and Mrs McCombs: self-denying and compassion ate. like Mrs. Caroline L'omax and thOs, sterling JewesSes, Caroline Hausman Iamented vice president of the Memoria Association, and Mrs. Hertz, director O. the Winnie Davis Chapter-it Is, aftel all, women like these who alone seem tC fulfill in these days the words of that grand song which has been dedicated tC our State:
 Little, little. can I give thee,
 Alabama, mother mine,
 But that little, hand. brain, spirit,
 All have and am are thine.
 Take, o take, the gift and giver,
 Take and serve myself with me, Alabama, Alabama,
 will aye be true to thee"
 Much has been said by way of criti cism of your comforting Crosses oi Honor" upon certain types of the mall species, which sometimes, pass as veter ans of the war. It is we'll, l think, t make good deal of the old soldie while he lasts. The time is cominl quickly when there will be not one left not one to sing an army song with voice made tender by experience, by tn memory of how it sounded sung in tn streets of hostile cities, or sung softl, by prisoners in warehouses or stock ades. Let not him who has never beel a soldier judge him who has. Whateve