The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-07-21

may anu ruby Haun
Misses Bertha Trotter, Carrie Jack
son, Ruth Bowen, Maurine Wei
born, Mabel Nixon, Amelia THOMPSON
Myrtle Byrd, Leila McWilliams, Bessie
Cook, Ruth Neal, Tellulah McMillin
Marie Hill, Anna Mary Pickett, Ger
trude Polk, Hattie Pearl Langford, An
ma Myrtle Barber, Frances Ferguson
Mary Hightower, Annie Lou Thomp.
son, Brownie Bennett and Mrs. Wiley
| H. Jackson.
.-.s 1.
Only One Old Lady ANY More.
In her Washington letter to the
Nashville Banner; Daisy Fitzhugh
Ayres tells as follows of some prom
inent Mississippians there:
There aren't any old ladies any
more. That is to say, there's only one
and she's the dearest, brightest thing
in Washington
Shes Mrs. Webb, the mother of
the brilliant little wife of Senator
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi.
Minority Leader of the House of Rep
resentatives before he got promoted
to his present job.
Mrs. Webb is an institution, with
large and enthusiastic capital I. She
doesn't have to borrow her prestige
from her illustrious son-in-law. Not
much. Mrs. Webb is Mrs. Webb.
That's enough.
She makes her home with her
daughter and her family at their pleas
ant residence at 1907 Avenue of the
Presidents nee Sixteenth street
such a cumbersome piece of preten-
ton, this change in nomenclature,
and she's the sunshine of the shootin
match. That's Mrs. Webb.
Mrs. Webb wears caps, the dear
kind that used to grow
on old daguerrotypes-a bit suggestive
of Whistler's famous canvas of his
mother without the austerity of the
drawing.
She frankly admits she's an old
lady and happy and prosperous
great-grandmother, and she doesn't
propose to ape the kitten, no matter
what the fashion is No pale blue
feather boas or Bulgarian blouses for
her. 1 care not what others may do
says Patrick Henry and Grandma
Webb, but as for me, give me'-'my
white muslin caps and |
my decent black silk frocks and my
quaint brooches with my ancestors
hair in them"
Not long ago Miss Sallie Williams, |
he fiower-like golden-haired young
laughter of Senator and Mrs. Will
Jams, had debut tea given for her.
Sally Williams is a girl we all adore;
md we wouldn't have missed the par
y for a farm-not one of us.
The grandmother of the debutante
vas in the receiving line, the young
'st and the happiest and by far the
most popular person at the affair. The
rowd just lowered about her.. She's
% bright and chirpy and attractive.
Mrs. Webb was a picture of gentle
lightly in black velvet and old lace,
With a soft new cap made especially i
or the occasion.
"A sprightly dame Iolled up to her.
The was SO, reduced from rs, II she
vas day. She had a pinned-on COM
lexion. Her stays kept going ON
'ithout a pause long after 1t was time
DR. people to sit down comfortably.
The was swathed in pink from top to
De. There was slit in the fiummer-
IS at her left ankle. She was some |:
anne.
Dear Mrs. Webb the pink lady
ushed, 1T is so refreshing to see
cal old lady once again, one who
lakes no pretense Of being young.
GU are SO deliciously quaint and pic
lresque. You remind me SO much
my dear grandmother II
Her grandmother fiddlesticks!'
lrs. Webb smiled quizzically to her
inherits her sense of humor |
'om her son-in-law, Senator Williams,
nd her bright children and grand.
hildren. That woman will never see :
he day she's as young as l am" {
EW COON SINGER AT THE LoMo b,
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