The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-11

1 Social interest has centered this week ! in the visit to the south of many interest," | ing people from foreign countries. who
 have met with a large representation of | southern people attending the congress of
 cotton growers and spinners in Atlanta. l The many entertainments in honor of
 the distinguished visitors have been l typically southern, and the details have
 introduced number of southern features
 which have charmed tue stranger within
 the gates. The following from the Al lanta Journal shows the hospitabe spirit
 with which the visitors from other lands | have been received in the south, and also ! gives most interesting account of some | of the special features of the week: The Atlanta spirit was abroad last even- ing, especially for the length and breadth of Peachtree street, the curtains raised and the lights burning from cellar to gar
 ret in almost every home, making the street brilliant parade ground for the
 several hundred visitors here from many countries for the congress of cotton growers and spinners.
 
 the homes along the famous driveway were opened to the guests and they dvid- | ed up the hours between and F at these | homes.
 The decora tions at each home were typ | ical of the south, as were the entertain 1 ments and the general atmosphere of hos l pitality. The strangers were introduced in bo old t,,Io 1 so materially from the custom of foreign countries. Many of the men, the French. 1 Belgians and Austrians followed the pretty custom of kissing the hands of | the ladies to whom they had special | introduction: others, many of them cot | ton growers from south Georgia, Ala
 bama and Mississippi, came in their bus-
 ness suits, not having anticipated the
 social side of the convention and made | themselves as charming and were as l easily at home in the large gathering as | the Englishman in his perfect attire. At. ] lanta was nothing, if not cosmopolitan
 last night. and the memory of it will | stay with us for years to come. The progressive buffet dinner began at | with a hot course punch was served It | the Wimbish home. the next stop; salad 1 with beaten biscuit at Dr. and Mrs J. D. 1 Turner's; aspeok jelly and biscuits at MT, l and Mrs. w. II, Kisers. and at the gov | ernor's mansion, ices and coffee. All of the homes had decorations of | southern flowers. At the kisers' an n- | teresting feature of entertainment was | the presence of old Aunt Nancy" of
 cotton exposition fame. with her spinning 1 wheel with which she gave practical | demonstration of the ante-bellum methods | of spinning cotton.
 At the governors mansion the big en-
 trance porch had it's pillars twined with | stalks of growing cotton. the bursting | bolls holding electric lights and at one end was an old blind negro playing pan- | tation melodies on a fiddle. and to the 1 swaying melody of that music "Rebecca . 1 a prodigy of dancer and singer among
 the black race. danced and sang to her ! hearts content, sometimes accompanying l her dancing with her own crooning. She | wore checked cotton frock grown and ! spun and made in Georgia. and her kink, | hair was ''wropped" with white cords | of the most approved ante-bellum style | In the dining room the character of the | decorations was as different as could pos 1 sbly be. but suggestive of the same idea 1 A ship built of white petunias and out 1 lined with pink rosehuds had waving 1 from the mast. pole. a pink silk flag of | welcome. and around this foated tiny ! flags of all nations. The ship was filled i with water lilies The ices were in the ] shapes of southern fruits and flowers. i and the cakes in the shape of cotton | bales
 | Mrs. Smith received her guests with
 that delightful hospitality character I istic of her. standing at the door with the | governor. She wore a lovely gown of | ha embroidered white lisse. trimmed | with pearl pa ssementries. and Miss Smith, | the debutante daughter of the mansion | was charming in cream fillet lace. About e00 guests were entertained The friends of Mir. George A. Mcqueen. | secretary to Mr. Belton Gilreath will be