The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-25
IN SOCIETY
GOLDEN WEDDING or
 MAJOR AND MRS. HARDlh.
By Mrs J. N. decottes.


 GOLDEN WEDDING or
 MAJOR AND MRS. HARDIE-
 The Los Angeles Daly Times gives the following account of q golden wed. ding eaIebrated by bride and groom oi Alabama of half century As0'
 Married December IT, 1856, in the midst of the stirring events which cul. minated in the Civil War. Maj eno MrG Joseph Hardie last night cete- brated their golden wedding with simple 'at home" in the parlors of the Hotel MeIrose.
 Aii day letters and telesrams. from all parts of the world, poured In on the major and his wife. and many goldeh presenta--goid chains and locRets ill- file gold dollars in dainty plush cases and many other pretty remembrances but most valued of all were the goi den words which came straight froih loving hearts in the many places where the major and his wife have made the's
 All day. sent by friends of the cen- tral figures, flowers and decorative @reenery were resented at the hotel ''Now.. where can we put this. wnss nssd again and again by the busy ones. Late in the afternoon. when the pecorafler os the parIor was considered apouf completed, a huge box of American Beauties came in. and they simply hao to ba used.
 Tn A forest of ferns and papyrus, q glowing garden of roses and carnations under the soft shaded lights. Maj ana Mrs, Hardie received their friends IT the evening. Dr. Hugh K. Walker oe ffvered e short address. Assisting Mrs. Hardie were the following reeentior and ert4rtainment comrfttee: Mssdannes ivR rgg n Sale. Merry E smith. A. winstanlev. D. Bresrley, J. Fl Ellie Luck Knap~. ID. Stone. W Fl Bailey. W Scar, brough: M'ases Ives ana Preston.
 Maj. Hardie has done mueh In behalI of the Y. M. C. A. in Los Angeles ano elsewhere.
 affairs of the or <snization for lon@ time" he sad 'T had been member If tha international Committee. Tn eact, for many years, thirty years now. Wien I first came to Los Angeles. Tn ISM: because my wife was then an Invalid md needed the change Of climate. It y,.s 4 casa of naturally busv man with aIntnst nothing 10 7o I had left . big hmsinees n Birmingham. and had fo Ard s1rnethfng here 10 take an ac- tive part in or would be restless and nncenrf fortaft1e. Naturaiiv. went n IooK np the Y. M C. A.. and see if there w9s arvf hfuR F cOuf0 U9 70 hetb v cf' well found st. after searching Tor sovnn tifeA If wsa orc little r0orn.
 where | fpund fonr oiA ren plaving eheelfere. They fola rae the secrefarF had not been fhere far long rines Tha ian1tor had rhHr~e. elsanea the rlace once in 2 while; unio"ked The dAor in the morning and lentea it at ns.bf That was all fcund the pres- .dent Lvrran Stew rts and iearned fnat fNa oreablzatIon had gone so deenly in AAn4 thaf everyone was disccUrased' I found what ths nAeNtneS~ was. dtd a Iittie fgprfng. and thep told MT. stew art that we shonlf need sS,AeO or sA@"" anF good seefetarv if there was to be fife in the crgarizqtinn here Mr. stew art ana F. L. wicks. a lnemterso the hoard Of directors. pfit U" Sf0as eaFD. and fhev went around with n'e and if- irnducse rre wher, could get money for our purpose We got the money. ana cent East for Tnsn so taSe me @ bere stiI1 Yes, think helpedr@sil tfle. but if was great heIp tp nle.A too. away from my business es l wasi ana neeAir,r something to do.
 At that f1fne Maj ana Mrs, HArdis boarded on Fort street tSr9aawsN;; , lThev returned to Los Anseles the fol- Iovcsna winter end then every other winter, fhepeh Mrs. T5ardie had dufe recoysred her health. until six ysars e~o Since then they have spent three oy four rocnths every year in this city, gueets Of the Melrose.
 The wedding Hftv vears ae'1 v.as nSf- formed in the little town of TalladeTa' l Ala Hard'e entered the Confederate service with six brothers. leaving widowed Ysother in Alabama nrayin9 . for the ssfetY of her seven hovs All were wounded and irnn~isored: all re- ! tvrred alive af inc close of the war. af C inc wal. ecnsistAd af s5 greer back. which he had heen kae in@ sinnniv ss riir- tnsifv That was hls c~~'fal. He went to work n broken and ruined South. ana became prosperous merenant again.
 A New York exchepee has the fol- loue,ne "a say of Mrs. Mer'e
 eehpaSer's ''May Party in December.
 M~s. seh~aaer is a former Alabsma
 woman, who has recently left Wash in @ton and gone to New York to pur- sue her journalistic work. She and MT. schrader are at home, West Eighty-second Street. New York.
 The New York exchange says;
 'cwhen all the little vtolets were pseping gayIy forth in the sunshine yesferday ,afternoon. and the twitter- | in9 birds of spriugtime filled the balmv
 air with music. III of us girls went to
 Mrs. schrader's May party. I don't be- iieve in parading private publications | in the public prints, but ! wish you could have heard Alice Fischer's im'ta- tions of Alice Fischer and Mrs
 schrader's mim'cry of a well-known | star whose gree act Is coming the press into the belief that she is little | preside angel with few lofty literary i ideals and aspirations on the side. What Mrs sscrader didn't do to that 'particular fairy's pet shnkespearian i'm
 personation wasn't worth doing. Take 1 1t from me-
 % 7a sSs
 MEETING or SWEET SIx'''E- NiN CLUB The members of the "Swees Sixteen Club, who were deligntfnlly entertain cd by Miss Lila Bess Olin last even ing are:
 saffold. Miss Kate Haf.s. Miss Maude Howe. Miss Sarah Warren WilSerson.