The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-11

I am willing to 90 on record that never
in my life have ! seen so many foxes
and cats and skunks and other VAR
mints, as saw on the backs of those
women surrounding poor little Minnie
Madden, with her soul on fire for
the suffering fur-bearing animals
Did she bat an eye over 1t? Why.
certainly not! She's far too sweet and
southern for that. But l knew how
she must have felt.
The Greek Chorus Choruses
Yes, I can still see those paradise
plumes waving in the breeze as that
lovely Louisianan presidents tossed her
head like q race horse and led off the
conversation. Her remarks ran some
thing like this: You were jes' lovely,
Mrs. Fiske. and we're 90 proud Of
you. And i want to tell you something
you certainly do look young. Why
even in this strong light, and standing
as close to you as we are, you don't
look day over fifty 1t wouldn't
have cost any more to have taken
off a few more years while she was
at it. do you all think she does p
this to the members. And they came
back like Greek chorus, "She certain.
" doesn't look day over fifty
And when they had gone Mrs. Fiske
turned to me, having dismissed the
whole thing as IL 1t had never happened
at all, and began where she had left
offs II must write. l must write
book. There is so much the world
should knowsabout this thing. So much
that the world does not know. ! have
been gathering facts for years. I'm
going to call the book, What Friends
These Mortals Bel"
Mrs. Fiske and her husband, Harrison
Grey Fiske, not long ago adopted
a baby boy and that baby IL certainly
the life of the party. When Mrs.
Fiske was having her gowns fitted for
taking the baby with her to the fit
tings and the baby insisted on sticking
pins in the filter while he was trying
to concentrate on his job.
I'D just as soon try to put coat
on canary as to fit gown on
Mrs. Fiske," he grumbled after they had
got out of hearing.
Unlike most people Mrs. Fiske has
had the same husband since 1890 and
he is in Who's Who" too Harrison
Grey Fiske has several claims to fame.
He is q theatrical manager, being man
ager for his distinguished wife, has
done distinctive journalistic work, and
Ia a dramatic critic of some repute.
Won't it be interesting to see what
sort Of man that baby Is going to be
after being brought up with genius to
the right OF him and genius to the left
Of him?
Next to. the Fishes suppose
among the celebrated, the Marathon
long distance matrimonial laurels would
80 to Madame Louise Homer and her
distinguished and longtime husband,
Sidney Homer. They have been con-
tinuously and happily married since
1895. And they don't adopt readyto-
wear babies in that home. There are
six children, and happier family one
could never wish to see. The young
est lie now nine years old and her name
is Joy--a lovely child. There il a
boy in college and daughter is follow.
ing in her mothers footsteps.
It's SO much more convenient for the
rest Of us when celebrities have regular
husbands and wives like the Fiskes and
the Homers.
Now there's Margaret Widdemer, the
p0et-nOvelist, aad her poet-writer some
time husband. Robert Haven Schauffler,
They married in 1919 and before we
could get used to it they unmarried.
This is particularly inconvenient be-
cause they both belon gto the same clubs
and some Of them are small and rather
intimate clubs, where they are contin-
ually getting in each Others way.
The other night at a dinner the seat
ing committee was stupid enough to
place Margaret and Robert exactly op-
pOsite each other at the table. Mar
garet had beau and with sort Of a
Queen-0f-the-M May bandeau in her dark
curling hair she looked quite festive.
cant say that Robert looked par
tieularly sad, either. though he wasn't
Things wouldn't have been al bad
except for the fact that Mrs, Imdwie
Lewiston sat at the same table and
talked necessarily and quite freely alb
about her troubles with Ludwig. She
sal dit was perfectly true that she was
older than he but that didn't give him
the right to hold her up to ridicule in
a novel. Next day of course we all
| got Don Juan" and read it. What
| she wanted was advice. She asked all
| OF Us what we thought she should dc
about Ludwig, and If we didn't thinL
he should lose his editorial job II
was hard for us to say off-hand, like
that, especially as Ludwig wasn't Their.
to state his side Of the case.
As you may imagine. we were al
more or less relieved when the coffee
had been served and everybody began
20 mingle and mix again. Robert perk
ed up Immediately but the Fates were
| against him. Gertrude Anterior go
him all mixed up ii her mind with somt
one else, segregated him off in cor
ner and told him about it--how thu
seating committe mixed things up anC
all that--never dreaming that she wa,
/ talking to Robert himself!
Gertrude is just like that. She does
make some dreadful breaks. But my
how young she looks, doesn't she
Next Sunday: Mrs. Frank Wander
lip Makes Faux Pas.