The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

, caddies are big black coons who parade
 around in knee brooches and golf caps
 looking as if they thought they owned
 the lines. They made me think of the
 passage of scripture which speaks of the fly in the ointment, they were the shadows which destroyed the beauty of the picture, the discord in the music. Imagine a young goddess with cheeks
 of tan and a navy blue eye, sleeves rolled up to elbows which people would go
 miles to see, wavy hair blown away from her brow, arrayed in a crimson shirt waist, white skirt, canvas shoes and red stockings, walking across the fields with
 springy step denoting vigorous and perfect health attended by a coal black six foot negro q mean six feet high) in his golf stockings. I felt like taking his golf bag away from him and beating him to death with lofter, a stymie, a
 brassy or a cleek, and I would not have
 made a foozle of it either. I'd like to l have gang of those caddies with tamp- ] ing tools on a section of the Alabama , Great Southern railroad in August, I'd golf 'em. As for the goddess she ought to have been spanked and sent home | Golf is great game. It is cross be- tween shinney and roley- holey, but the advantage of the game is that people
 who haven't breath enough to play shin- ney, or are too portly to get down to ] Pioy iOiCy-i Cdtl pldy SOlI dll Ody l long. There was one big man there who wore blue shirt and a Panama hat who couldn't have seen a golf ball if il l lay at his feet, who was an enthusiastic
 player. I asked his caddie if he reck- | oned his boss could maui rails as well | as play golf.
 1 II dunno, suh. He's big enough dough- T | I wouldn't be surprised if the gentleman | was one of those who with MT. Flagler bought recently 800000 acres of land ir | the everglades in Florida, and if he is | he doesn't have to maui rails.
 Golf is very popular among old and | young men and women, and reckon IT 1 have to learn how to play. I like to see the young ladies play golf, they seen ! to enjoy it. But I enjoy much more | seeing them in bathing at the Casino
 or in the surf, which is here warm enough
 to bathe In every day in the year. What with bathing in the morning and full
 dress receptions in the evenings, one
 can see a good deal of the ladies al ] Palm Beach.
 | I had heard that the Royal Poinciana | hotel was considered the most fashion | able, but that the Breakers was quietel
 and that there were more artistic an6
 literary people there. That is the reason I went to the Breakers.
 1 I took dinner next evening in the | Royal Poinciana so as not to dsap l point my friends, Joseph Jefferson and Mir. Adams. the millionaire chewing ! gum manufacturer. Lots of my Jeffer- son county friends have helped tc
 make it possible for the latter to spend | his winters in Florida by assidiously chewing Pepsin and Tutti Fruit. | I went into the lavatory to wasf
 my hands before eating meat and there
 had my shoes polished by venerable 1 looking white man, who wore golc i trimmed glasses. I asked the coloreG
 knight of the whisk broom how soor l I could get something to eat. 1 Dinners on from 6:30 to 8, suh: but you have plenty of time to dress. 1 I went in and found that all the 1 other men were dressed up like wait I CTS in swallow tailed coats or dinkS i little dinner jackets with white ties
 and that was what the coon meant l by dressing.
 ! And the ladies! Let me rest awhile 1 We'll, sat there in my SIS suit amit
 all the splendor and didn't feel a bit uneasy, even though there were 119I | diners there, in addition to Joe Jeffer.
 son, MT. Tutti Fruit Adams and my
 self. I asked the head waiter how
 many walters he had.
 | Three hundred and fifty, sir, be l sides the walters who wait on us."