The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06
IRONING UP SO TAIL.

GROWING UP so TALL Oh, Eyes-o'- Blue and Touslehead, you're growing up so tall No baby feet come pattering to me along the hall!
 It seems almost no time at all from that far day to this, And now I scarcely bend to reach the sweetness of your kiss; It used to be along about this time of every year
 You used to like to hear me tell of Christmas drawing near, And of how Santa Claus would come across the fields of snow And laden down with wonder-gifts-but that was long ago. But that was long ago, was, oh, so very long ago; You hark no more for reindeer feet across the fields of snow; I do not hear your baby feet come down the hall to me, I do not put my book aside to take you my knee
 And tell you wondrous fairy tales, the way I did of yore, ou've left the Lands of Babyhood, gone out forevermore; And days when you were wont to ride my back, a-pick-a-pack, Have gone reluctantly from sight, and never will come back. You used to race adown the street with wind-blown flying curfs, And l would stop, arms out, to catch my racing little girls And give the first kiss to the one that was the first to me; And sometimes I do miss the romps of days that used to be, When I would kiss your upheld hands, and laugh into your eyes, When we would sit the three of us with mud a-making pies, Or we would tiptoe in the house to steal a cooky sweet, And motherd chase the three of us half way across the street. Now you are tall, and you are fair, and you are more than sweet, And no not run the way you did to meet me down the street; When I turn in the home street now I look no more for curls A-flying in the evening breeze, and racing little girls;
 Two taller girls come to me now, and we walk arm in arm, But, oh, they are so more than sweet, so more than full of charm, And my heart is so filled with them and their sweet ways, I know I would not could not trade them for the girls of long ago.
 Judd Lewis. Tn following from the Montgomery Journal will be read with interest by many friends in the city: All persons familiar with the patri- otic work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy are aware that much inter- est is being felt throughout the south in the candidacy of notable women for the office of president general of the or ganization.
 The statement was made at the Dallas convention that South Carolina would offer Miss Mary B. Poppenheim for next president general
 At the convention at Dallas the pres ident of the Georgia division officially announced that Mrs. Walter D. La mars name was befsre the general United Daughters of sthe Confederacy body for the high honor of president general This announcement was re- ceived with loud and long applause For the benefit of many Daughters in Alabama, who were not at the conven- tions of Dallas and San Francisco. it
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 If through any combination of circum- stances Mrs. Lamar should refuse to run and Alabama should be called on to pre- sent candidate it is probable that the friends of Mrs. Chapel Cory of Bir- mingham will be delighted to bring her name before the next general convention for this elevated position. Mrs. Chappell Cory has faithfully toiled for the highest standards of the state and general United Daughters of the Confectionery for the past 20 years and her unselfish and brilliant work has won golden opinions in all the states for her beloved Alabama.
 Mrs Cory, in view of the fact that Mrs. Lamar's candidacy has been so long an- rounced, prefers not to encourage any