The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-23
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veterans during the reunion, none
could do more than "hold candle'
to our own. Miss Regina Rambo is
girl we are proud of and Marietta
knows she won the hearts OF all the
soldiers over and over.
What other sponsor dressed herself
in rutlied muslin frock of wartime
fashion, with a poke bonnet to match
and marched four miles under blist-
erlng sun between two veterans I'M
agine the emotion in the bosoms of
those old soldiers at sight of rosy
bright-eyed,girl in a ruffied pink fig
ured muslin, over pink, with a lace
edged tichu around her shoulders and
straw poke bonnet, lined with white
lace, trimmed with pink roses and
with pink ribbons tied in bow under
her chin
Nothing in millinery is quite so be-
witching as poke bonnet and a girl
always ''ties a young mans heart
within" bows of ribbon, especially
when she is tying her bonnet under
her chin" No wonder the soldiers
thought some magic art had brought
back the season when life had gone a
Maying. After that long march, Miss
Rambo rested bit, refreshed herself
with baths and massage, and went to
the ball at the Marion Hotel. She
was "a bright particular star" in the
throng of handsome matrons and pref
ty girls you may be sure The even
ing dress she wore had been designed
to match wonderful strand OF pea
cock beads, green, with eyes If blue,
like the feathers of peacocks. she
brought from Brazil some time ago
The dress was of green messeline
spangled In gold, yelled in tinged
blue marquisette, like a peacock's
neck, and trimmed with lace and
fringe of gold. Her slippers and
stockings were also gold-colored and
in her white-gloved arms she held
dozen American beauty roses. Think
OF her blonde beauty in such a setting
With a youthful soldier as her
escort, Miss Rambo made a tour OF
Camp Shaver where the veterans were
sheltered in tents. Here she met the
old negro who had been the body
servant of General Stonewall Jackson
and who never misses a reunion. He
was covered with badges from head to
foot and Miss Rambo pinned a Geor-
gia- Booster badge upon him to his
manifest delight. Here also she saw
trio of veterans with fiddles playing
in unison for their comrades to dance.
There was great barrel on which men
climbed to make announcements and
inquiries after old friends. One man
found long lost brother from this
vantage ground Of investigation. At
one place a veteran chaplain was ex-
horting his hearers to prepare for the
great reunion in Heaven. One touch
ing incident occurred, in which
widow from Texas trusted to this
reunion to "roll the stone from the
grave" of her youthful love. She told
the young man, who was aiterward
Miss Rambo's escort, what her maiden
name had been and the name of the
soldier who had been her lover before
the war. These two names f1oated from
lip to lip, like circles in a pond on
which even a small stone is cast, until
the two long-parted and then widowed
lovers, were brought together. They
recognized each other, rushed to a
happy meeting and the next day they
were pointed out to Miss Rambo,
walking hand in hand as the awaken
ed princess might have done with
Prince Charming No doubt they are
married now and their honeymoon is
sweetly shining in Texas or Arkansas.
There were l66,0O0 visitors to Little
Rock and naturally some discomforts
and accidents. At Memphis the trains
were mixed up and visitors from the
south, including our own splendid
sponsor, were deprived of meals and
arrived at their destination starving
and six hours late.
The next reunion will be at Macon,
as the newspapers have announced,
but they did not tell how one charm
ing and sweet-voiced Georgia girl
captured the entire army of delegates.
She went around the hall before the
meeting opened and told them she
would be in Macon to welcome them
and Georgia would open her arms and
heart to them, so Of course they all
surrendered
Miss Rambo cherishes dozens of
letters from old soldiers, written since
her return from Little Rock, in which
they express their appreciation OF her
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