The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
THE I'D. c. OF
FLORIDA HOLDS
LAST SESSION
INTERESTING REPORTS READ,
DONATIONS MADE TO GENERAL
WORTHY CAUSES AND OFF,
GERS ELECTED FOR THE ENsU-
ING YEAR.
Special TO The Journal.

special 20 The journal.
Madison, May 6.-Friday the u. d.
@ convention resumed the reading of
reports from chapters and special
committees. This was followed by
pleas and pledges for the Florida room
of the Confederate Memorial and
Literary Society in Richmond, Va,
and the Soldiers Home, in Jackson
vile. Both of the causes were re-
sponded to literally, the Soldiers
Home indeed receiving munifcent do
nations both of money and other COM
modities.
The morning was thus consumed,
and while the business in hand was
being transacted, the campaigning and
electioneering progressed with quiet
rapidity. The excitement ran higher
and higher, although SO well controlled
that only those within the circle
would have been cognizant of It The
work OF the managers OF the third
term of Office were diligent and un-
firing, but. albeit the third election of
one presiding officer was carried ap-
parently unanimously, 1t was not the
preference of the entire convention.
However, women, and especially south
ern women, have not yet sufficiently
modernized to hold themselves steady
In the face Of what is called tradi-
ton. and public sentiment is a factor
which they shrink from facing. So in
this instance, for when the call came
TO make the election unanimous, the
reluctance with which some OF the
votes were cast to an observant eye
evinced the indication of its being
from expedience more than preference.
AS one among the visiting daughters
was heard to remark, mo matter how
efficient the presiding officer has shown
herself, there are too many capable
charming women in the division for
this honor to be given more than twice
20 any one OF them"
The Election.
However, be that as 1t may, the
election was carried for the re- election
OF Sister Esther Cortolla, Sister of the
Resurrection, for the third time was
elected presiding officer of the Florida
Division of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy.
Seven o'clock had passed when the
final ruling OF the sixteenth annual
convention Of the Florida Division u.
ID. G. was made. and the convention
off1ciaIly declared adjourned to meet
in Tampa on May the second. nineteen
hundred and eleven.
AS many Of the convention had
found 1t pleasant and courteous to ac-
cept the invitation rendered all dele
gates, all visiting daughters, and their
husbands II married. Each member of
the Elizabeth Harris Chapter and her
husband II married, as well as the host
and hostess of any delegate or visiting
daughter, whether herself member of
the organization or not.
Strange as 1t seems this compre-
hensive invitation, sent personally to
each hostess and her guests, as well as
read aloud from the rostrum upon the
first day of the convention, and SEEM
ingly impossible to understand or mis-
construe, resulted in a large number
of complicated tangles which certainly
must have been anything but a pleas
ant experience for the hostess Of this,
the only personally rendered enter
tainment of the convention.
However, the evening found the
beautiful home attractively decorated
with flowers and crimson shaded
candles, as well as thronged with
many beautifully gowned women and
attractive men.
Mrs. Dial received her guests simply
frocked in canary mouseline, banded
with messaline, decollette, assisted by
her house guest, Mrs. Charles Coo
Tough, elegantly gowned in princess
gown Of hand wrought lace and built