The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10
By EMMA REID RYALL
HATTIE HIGHLANDS WRITES ABOUT LAST DAYS OF LEAP YEAR AND OF ELIGIBLE BACHELORS

ows, said, I am ready and even have the hand embroidered sius trousseau. that is. if the young woman will consider being "second choice" This lovely young widow suggested that he might give the many attractive young widows q Took over" then he. too. would be second choice provided he was accepted).
 There is Mir. Ramsey, who. by the way, is doing quite a number of stunts in New York, and giving two wonderfully attractive young widows the rush of their lives. One, am sure, you know, as she was q visitor here some years ago.
 There is MT. Knox, who. every one says, is q fine catch" and Mir. Morris Bush; that reminds me of what ono of the lovely visiting girls told me; she says "every one I meet say have you met any of the men,, and then they say you should meet Morris Bush. He has looks, money, social position. and is one of the states leading business men. and when I did meet him, I, like others, found birn lovely and was not disappointed, 1 assure you.D
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 Birmingham, as you know has not. a more popular young man than Mir Mur- ray Brown, and none with more sterling qualities. He plays the game too, that catches the mother as well as the daugh- ter, and both are wild over him. And he is fine host, too, as his ball for Gill Han Goodall was oneeof the most spleu- did affairs of this season.
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 There is Sol Caheen. He took me into his confidence several months ago. He said once, years ago. he really did have sweetheart and for some reason the family was not so wild about her as he was (seems quite unnatural. doesn't it?) so they forthwith sent him to New York to visit a favorite uncle who was posted on the status of the case.
 One evening just at twilight they were taking the car home when a great fat woman came in and sat nearby. The uncle whispered. of his love for the girl years ago, and just look at her now. So Mir. Caheen says he came back to the sunny south with the idea that. maybe this would be his luck, too. Now, you see what really brave man my friend is, don't you? So all you thin girls take notice.
 There is NIr Musgrove, Duke of Jas per-" who they say is going to be our l.ext governor. If he is he will be the first bachelor that Alabama has had for governor for several generations.
 They do say "Breellg believes he Is .go- ing to be governor, for he told pretty widow at the Southern club Thanksgiving hall that if she would get him enough votes to elect him governor. he would make her Mrs. Governor" Yet they say "Breck is . confirmed bachelor.
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 There is Henry Seibles, Dittie, they all call him, who they say has a girl in Montgomery as he spends so many week ends down there. We were in q crowd recently who were wondering if she were brunette or blond, tall and thin or fat. when one of the girls spoke up and said. Well, you. can count on Dittie not marrying fat one.''
 Here is Mir. Jack Barr, who they say is irnpeIvious to the charms of women, as he rides around in his big touring car and has never given even one girl q joy ride (so far as I know), and they say the women are all wild about him, too. Well, his case seems a hopeless ose. s: *
 Now there is George Ward, president of the commission, who is always ready to settle municipal questions, but when lit comes to his heart affairs he seems a hit slow They tell me that loads of girls would be tickled to death to land him. So girls, here. is your chance. and only chance, leap year.