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Maroh 23, 1149.
20114. Week* O.,whito (7?)
(side, Apts. :tooter)
2b0Aast pint -stet
jacksonville, Slorida.
Aosio ohophord, writer.
IOW. BROOKS G. el111%.
"i's. home is of th4 4pe in vogue surly in this
aentury, with large airy reams, and a wide hull loading from
the front double -door antral:co to the baok divides the drawing,
room with its gilt and whits French furniture and adjoining
dining room on the right from the living room to the oust with
its entrance int. Mrs. White's private sitting room to the south.
The stairway, its red oak banisters polished and shining, winds
te thi sooend floor with the four family bedrooms.
Mrs. White herself answered the ring of the door -boll and
invited me book to the sitting room, whore the radio was tuned
in to ,,Tt. Slti 3cetchman's Problom."
"If you don't mind," she said, "Wo will wait until this is
ever, as it it) one of my taveritos."
It was 1030 and ao we listened to the oonulusion of the pro-
grum, !re. Whito's faue lightod w:th clousure and she nodded up-
provul when Gregor AcGregor, the urusty old bachelor of the ratio
(mot, grudgingly yielded to the persuasion of a leng-timo friend
to firlge the warped opinions of his surly training anti u Later
hard-wrosted porsonal career and adapt himeolf to tba wider view-
neints of a young mull he had formed a great attaohment for and
whom he was oduaating to be a physician.
Tho room was tlainly furnished. Ain old fashioned loather-
oevored couch by the east windows, with its mmUll pillow at the
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Mrs, Brooks 1. hits
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the head and its rumpled blarnAlt, showed signs of having boon re-
cently soeuwied, fir Mrs. v,bite is frail and has to lie down fre-
quently.
The largo fireplace s closed, und an attraotive eiroulating
oil heater made the room oomfortably warm. On the malts/ VIZ' re two
matched vases of a period of fifty years ail and several photo-
graphs of her eon, her daughter und granddaughter. In the corner
filled
by the fireplace was a beekoase, its open shelves/with a variety,
of well -bound book shoving signs of much handling. Pour easy
chairs, with one straight ohaitio its fragile walnut frame and cane
seat making it seem peouliarly out of plats* with itn more modern
oempanions, *emulated the furnishings of the room.
Pre. Whit* is u tall, thin woman, with intelligent features,
brifTht brown eyes, and a ready smile. During the radio program,
her fingers *ore busy knitting 412 afghan in softly blending col-
ors of rich wine, rose, brown and tan. "Per my granddaughter,
Mary Byeeke Johnson," she explained. "We just call her Brooke.
She selected the pattern and the colors, and this herringbone
stitch dose leek nice,' she continued, as the needles flashed in
and out, forming the intricate design.
"Last year I oreohoted a bedsrread composed of WO squares
made en a diagonal pattern for my daughter, -re. M441, Dell
Johnsen, tho lies in Riverside. /t took a whole year to make
and was very pretty When finished. It will be a nice keepsake
for her. I have also made an afghan of a differs* pattern from
brooks's, for my son and his wife, brook. G. White, Junior. I
have totreat them all.alike, you see, to keep peace in the family,"
she said, laughing.
Mrs. Brooke u. white
3.
"'You'll have to excuse me for squirming around," she said,
as she rose from 11<w seat near the radio ad changed to a rocking
chair with a padded back. "but fiiteen years I was in a ter-
rible automobile accident. The car, an open type, suddenly wont
into a ditch and was thrown out on -the highway. The fallowing
year I was, in another accidents This car went into a ditch, tee,
and in the vielant lurch my head hit the top, jamming my head
down and dislocating several vertebrae. Thu two sooidentshave
given me a crooked spine like this-" tracing the letter "S"
with her index finger on the arm of the rooker. "1 often say
have a boyish figure on my right side, with a may West en
the left," she said, laughing and making light of her disfigure-
ment, as she stood and smooths* down her soft jacket dress showing
a straight silhouette on the right, with a decidedly curved hip
on the ether side.
"Is, I do net limp, but 4 get tired if-i am on my feet nuoh,
and the strained nerves of ma nook and back tire easily %rn keep-
ing no twisting around in a chair or Jying down frequently to get
relief.
"Well, the Plerida history of my family gees away back. My
grandfather, Philip Dell, was an early settler in Alachua uouLJty.
He was one of the early Lieutenant Governors in the uolonial period,
and later earned the title of Uolonel in the sominele Indian Wars.
He located near newnansville, an old town new entirely obliterated,
but the site occupied by the village of Alachua. The family planta-
tion, was known an 'Standby Plums.'
"The Sells were ling,lish. The family, that is, my great-grand-
father's, settled in Acorns() ueunty, off the coast of Virginia.
Later they came dean in to north ()exiling* where during the
mrs. Brook. G. white 4.
Revolutionary War, my mother's father, also a rhilip pale
participated in the bottle of Guilford uourthouss.
"Afterwards, the family worked its way through South uurir-
line into Georgia, and A am told the little tswn of mosten in
South Georgia was oalled for my grandmother's family, whose name
was Masten.
"They legated in Alachua k;ounty at a serious ported of the
state's history. My grandmother tad many tales of the hostile
momineles, ens which particularly impressed me. She said the
rather a large company, were *semi/the distance. My
grandfather, ebilip poll, was away on military earvioo, so she
called all the slaves in from the plantation fields, and barring
the deers in anticipation of a raid, the had them make dummies,
which dressed like men, she had plaoot at the windows where they
could be plainly obssrved by the Indians. She thought if she
could impress the meraineles with the idea there were men on the
place, possib4y well armed, she would net be molested. Her
echoes* evidently worked, for the Andians reconnoitred around the
pleas, for an hour or so, then wont on without making an attach.
"A rather romantic legend she also told of the uherekee
rose. Jhe said it was renorted when there were many Indians in
the nouthoastern United States, they used to travel from ens sec-
tion to another to ',telt. A tribe of uherekoes from morth care
lino came down to visit the merainaes in rlorida. One of the
young braves fell deeply in love with a maninae princess. Re-
turning later alone for a visit, he brought her as a gift a sprig
of the uherekeo rose, which she planted. It grow and. *as very
prolific. To visitors from ether sections she also gave cuttings,
Jars. Brook* 't hits 6.
nether were married, going to 1041=1141 *M. where my father engaged
ix the shipping business.
"uy grandfather at ens ti lie had lived i rernandizai,. His home,
called the 'Doll mint:len,' although it was may about lealf the wise
ii t11;, eia i/4 V.h1(311 A, *eV live, iidjeinod the home of nine/Ater David
Yulee, anci they. earl (moat friends.
"In this house my father „aid mother established their home,
an,1 there onJanuury 4, 1861, my brother, PhiliP nen Cassidey,was
born.
"war Ys i minent, i.nd when the tederal gunboats arrived in
LinHarbor, my father tack his badly t• nsinsanerville for
safety, ivid there they remained for the periai of the war while
ha was Li the uonfederate army.
"He enlisted under uapt. J. J. Diukison anti was in all the
skirehishes around uiti as svi lle iltk, s. took ;art with his
troisms in the taltle of (aunt**, the major brittle of the war in
He kept a daily diary of the events, which several years
age j. tarnack ever t mr. Herb srt itemises for the benefit of the
Jauksenville nisterical seciety. I esi sorry i do Iiet have caw,
but 4 ou u& nrebably obtain c-; ue from him.
"116rtt :te 41,1 account kit wrote in IC88 if a privateer, the
"Mariner, operating frem his father's decks at wilmingten, north
uarelina i 18ta which Tally be of interest," she said, handing me
la, book in .13.1ch as written the above account in the precise
handwriting of her father, with clipped edges showing where she
hud cut out ubeut fifty pages that constituted the diary to which
she hid referred.
A ring at the dearbell caused her.t• exouso herself, 1.40 she
answers all calls ',maniere/Lily.
f ter sane little time she returned.. "A little eld hinoped-mver
Mrs. Brooke 4, white 7.
man asking for something to eat. I had the maid fix him a JOAO sand-
wich and lore him some fruit."
*o watohed threugh tho window us the old fellow reaohed the
earner, hesitated, then went east en tirst street. In a few min-
utes he was baok at the side deer without the bundle of food
and awl.* asking for something to *at.
"Why, 1 just gave yeu a sandwich. Don't you remember?"
"Oh, yes," said the old man, o "I've mad* a mistake."
Down the steps he went, this time south in biberty atreet.
certainly get rid of that food ma hurry. gaybe boo had.
a partner," ars. White said, laughing. "Well, anyway, i weal&
rather giv* aid to en* who did net need it than to turn away one
who was really hungry."
Resuming the trend of her story, she continued:
"1 was Urals 1862 at ,Prespeot /lane,' my lather's residence
in newnaneville.
"Alter the war was over, my father took his family to 141mington,
"forth Uarelina, reviving the uassidey Drydock and Shipbuilding won
palsy beleaging to his father, which had suffered oensiderably from
the hasards of war.
"There was reared. we were all members of the histerio
it. James Spisooral ahuroh, of Wilmington. There wore ye public
schools, and my brother and I attended a nrivate oonduoted
in the st. James Parish Mouse by two sisters, who also taught in
the bunday soheel. Ilium sac sister was our teaohir, and tho other
whe had charge of the oheir, taught us masio. We spent six days
of eaoh week under their iafluenoe, which was splendid training
for us, as they Ihere both well educated and accomplished women.
Mrs. Brooke 0. 4hit.
IA.
"As a young girl in Wilmington, it was one of the joys of
my life to visit my father .4t work in his offioe of the ship-
building cempany.
"When orders for a new beat (same in, ho first drew his
plans very earefullY. acoerding to the dimensions required,
the design ohoving in detail beth the inside and outside con-
structien.
"Then out of soft, pliable weed he constructed a model of
the boat or ship as it would appear when oompleted. This was
carefully sawe4 into two sootions, and ene-hulf framed like
picture wi.o hung on the wall above his desk. This served as
a working model.
"It is ramarkable,-in contrast with divided talents of the
present, hew these pieneers wore required to develop skill in
all departments of their work. Instead of having a department
for the execution of each detail, my father mat; obliged to be
draftees*, engineer, weed -worker and finisher. Thus he was
familiar enough with the requirements to have become mu expert
in any departammt of the work, instead of just tellowing
line.
**That. i believe, in the fault of our present deo, education,
the building up of specialists. They are for the meet part SAO00
sided in their development, and if they fail in their own partio-
ular field, they are unable to adapt themselves to anything else,
and go through life in this mal-adjusted state.
Urea. Brooke G. White 9•
Carolina, awl pr. :,hit., with thips same .at churohman was in
western worth uurelina, we did net meet tuitil we both uuthe to
Jacksonville.
"We wore married here in 1887. 1Ar. yThito had COOli deauen
under biehon ,tkineon and wae ordained as 41 priest in 3t. Johns
uneer bishop !clang. He was silply 'en mill' Lind v;orked wherever
he v as sent in the diocese.
"At this tile there w Ira a coneidere.ble number of °Glared
&pi/90024.1144ns among the pervants and negro families of Jacksonville,
and they had been aocommodated by the sid• pews of it. Johns uhuroh.
When nishop eed later succeeded .bishop xoung, he ,:ensidered it tat
aronortutie ti- 3 to Irganize colored pariehes, alnd my husband was as-
signed the task.
"He built zst. Philips (;hurch at the corner of ueder and ulay
streets, givi hg from his own personal means the vindew in memory if
those who had useisted in the establishment of the church.
"There were a. meat many /4tigrees from the West Indiee vale as
'OM
seoiated themselves with this congregation, some of whom possessed
very fine voices. Wiehing to assist my helband, i took charge of
the music. I had bre my music: and my Diet ructi on books from
eilmingtes, and sot to v ork to train this congregation to intone
the servio•. rtr. hit) also had kJ particularly lovely, sweet voles.
The -:)lan was a 7:rout sac:miss, and tourists, visitors from tit. Johns
and
other t hit() eongregations used to coma to st. Philips to enjoy
the music. The entire service was sung, even the 'manst.
"During the yellow fever epidemic of 1888, xev. nxbor,
rector of zst. stephons uhurah, contracted the fever and died.
Mrs. Breeke w. White 10.
"94 father's family refugeed to Tallahassee duriag that
summer, and there we renewed acquaintanoe with the barnarde
sludge barhurd who had been my nether's tutor in Newnansville
aiad J. met his daughter, marY, Inc' ira. r. Groomer) who has
aver sinus been my very dear friend.
%Ilea o r turmod to .;aekiseaville, mr. White ,having been
promoted to ,..rohbishop, vas lutist by miehep Weed to take charge of
et. Jtophons uhuroh, aEd there he worked for many years among the
parishioners of that section.
"then ho organised the women's ad other aotivitios
of the ohuroh, he said to me: de not wait yea to be the head
of any of them. reepli must not be hampered by hatiag the rector's
wife in any of their beards. They waist be free to act, to orttioiso,
And to ex)rese their opinieas.' And se, i was mere4y a worxer,
glad to help is any direction, only wonting to de what was right
by all eleaoerned, made)* get along famsusly.
"by the way, i must shim you some more of my hand -work,
steles mad* for ler. White to uso in his seremosies at the altar."
bhe went to the beekoase in the drawing roem mad from a lower
drawer removed three 'Lissa* paper packages.
"It was a great handicap to me, i thought, that i had never
learned to cook. Xou knew it iv said, 'The weq to reach a man's
heart is through his stomach,' And A believed this literally,
voiding my regret to Aro Whit* when we wore married that mould
be unable to Ivepore his food, but he just laughed and said we
would just have to find a eek. xeu see I had learned te sew,
knit, oreehet, and •eribroider, and i guess **eking and those
things jest naturally do not go together. nut i made these
airs. brook' u. hit* 11.
steles, and Air. Whits vas alwege very proud of than.
"I lo Let know if you are familiar with the tpisoepal service,
but the purple one in worn during times of panitenee in nent and
en Geed /friday, the green on. during trinity, and the white one
at 1:aster, Jhrietmae, at weddings und en festive OQOUSiOnn,
"I. eent to J. et 114. namb Uempany, of new /or/A., dealers in
clerioal supplies for my patterns. the aesigue on the white one
ur, from throe different patterns-yr. I transferred the original
patt,Jrn vary carefully by tracing en u blank sheet with carbon,
and this design i Placed carefully on the satin tutlri&O. for the
stele, stitehing it in outline on the sevins machine with the
thread removed. The perforatiens of the needle, i tellowed
very carefully with my embroidery. I had laarhad tha harasington
ambroidsry stitch from miss ]tla Maxey (Bogart).
"The colors in the passion flower en the first ma*, x matched
by having a living flower before Tie at; i worked. xeu will see
the aolers in all of them ura bright and fresh, alethengh they
.re ever fifty yours' old.
"nooreatieny vell, i did net have much ti e for play. At
tqew nerlin A spent most of my time out of doors during the day
it wa:s a beautiful -lace then, 74th laremo trees, fine old homes
&rad lovely gardens. we mot Uapt. Lemple tartly there. he evened
the pilit-boat, and his daughter married Mapoloon broward who
was afterwards gor)rner of Elerida. we played croquet, a very
popular out -door game in these days.
"i woke murriad soon sitter i cum* to Jacksonville. j reilsmber
we used to go to tha dances at the Iacht ulub the feet of market
etreat, Which vine very enjoyable. L made ull of Mr. White's
shirts, *eats, clerical vests, :And sewed for myself and children,
Mrs. snooks G. White 12.
an,1 this, with my music), 'gni eausistingur. white in hie pariah work,
caused me to live very busy life.
"After mt. thite had boon vi th ot. nt•phono i couple of years,
tire. Alexunder mitchell, who had built bauutiful-home on the south
side culled 1-lexaandria villa", 'lug desirous of establishing s.
church in that auction. bite went over the diooese listening to
the vtArious rector's sermons, and Axially one alutctui came to t.
Ltephens. r:he wa.s partieularly impressed with mt. hite's dis-
course and hi delivery, and imosiatel,y after the service, told
him the v istaet to orwage hi!.; fur the net churoh she 'NUE, personally
li.ag on the south side, cal led p.aints.
it was arranged, iia heti the churoh was completed, and
which krs. mitchell fitted out completely with pipo organ und all
the no,:essary furnishings, we out over to the south side pt.,rish
v.here c‘e lived for tvo years.
"nut ler. v.hito wax an independent sort of ix). even, and felt
rte. kit-Jhal ran tryin!; to rake hita her private chaplain. ..'ho
Led )Jr u way about •verytbing to Nay' hin a stated salary,
1.1141.4 hire th-a eirvants, the yard man and stable bey to furnish
Vial his robes and vestments, ..and no i1 net liko that. its wanted
simpL, to be the clergyman, the is t• pay his go.o.ry
whatever the; eculd 6ffard e‘t ci to be r`ree to oar* on his ‘..ork
tho ea 4..ais, ily other rector.
11.1.aurin!,; our reside;..wo 011 1.1111 south side we went frequently to
'villa2,1exandrial. nra. vitcholl' a, son in tailwaukee had married
hi 3 second wife, and had given his son, 'avid, by his first wife,
to his grandmother to roar. navid and my son, Arooke, were about
the data. get, &Lad used to play tegothe: t rout deal.
are. Mkimike G• *Mt*
1Z.
"The flft,41111 hem) was a frame building, nothing unusual
to look at, IAA ti inoido was most boautilni. The entranoo hall
xua t distant:* of perhaue twenty feet to tbe stairway, *doh lent
to a landing about half way up whore it dividod. The wall at this
lanaing wau one solid sheet of plate mirror glass.
"Her own private beedrcom was finished in trimmings of blue,
while the hangings were all of vhite silk. It was very striking.
"Mrs. Pitoboll was very Rono..ous and was always inclined to
be most oharitable. She sent gev. Van Winder hie1d,who had 0401,111s
rector at St. Johns, and mrs. .Jhields to Mexico, paying all the
expenses of thoir trip.
"But Ur. Vhite did ilot like to be patronised, se he asked to
be relieved of the charge of All Saints. A young elerg,yman was
eeourod, au h3 and Airs. Mitchell get along betautifully.
"While on the south side, the old familioe the Helmets,
DeLaagoiya, Cummings, Paokero all united with all licints, as
well as famillee from Arlington. Vie oau,te to knew them all. his
was in 16O, but as ye always %wit to our summer hone in Saluda,
North Carolina, And mr. %date wus only in ohurge sf All Saints for
about two yeara, v. did not become se well aoquaintod.
"Whim we rAturnod to aucksonvillo, we LA‘cto our he in Laviila.
Thiu was also known as west Juoksonvillo, i,nd was considered a very
niue residontial ueoten. Our home was opposite the trunk L'Ainglit
home on neut.° Street.
%hen the memorable fire started around noon On May 3, 1901,
1 was on tho badk plum'a of our home which faced north, ad saw
tho sparks as they lilited tho 1:Alammable material on the roof of
Mrs, Breoke (1. White 14
the Cleveland Able* raetory in the Springfield sootiest. The roof
of the building was perfeetly not, and moss, fibre and ether
material used in asking mattresses and for uphastry pur-
posse was planed on the roof to dry. It was thought the sparks
were gentiratod from o short oireuit in the eleutrio current.
"Mr. white was 1itt the ITUVia l3ounti urthouso at the time,
in the offi4e of my brother, ehilip Dell Llassidey, who for 2t) years
was ulerk eflaws Duval Uounty•sifireetkitIctiusir. The fire spread with
grea.t rapidity, as there Wilt4 i strong wind, and nil. watehed I
saw biasing pleass of fibre wafted threugh the air start 114110n dif.-
farent firese I realized it woe serious, and telephoned Mr.f'hits
in groat x.anxiity to hurry home. Es eald,"1Wit until go out and
Oa* whit wa;" the wind is blowing.* vihen h came hawk to the
'phone he 13441 the wind was from the west and our home va4a :.mat in
danger, and a short while later ha oar,* in. it wap i. terrible
thing to stand and watch and feel so helpless the buildings
blase up, thesi (brash to the -Toiled with a terrible clatter. iilvery
street was blooked.with debris. We were gettini., readi to move out,
when the fir. reaohed the water, the river on tlua front uald hogans
Croak on the coat, al rniraeuletnay stopped.
"There were clowy heart -rendering funimodes. Ono old elargyman
a roam in the nas BuilAng, ',here tno Low iiiehange .3uiltting
new st(iulds, and in a trunk he had many valuable manuseripts, is
eluding all the sermons ha had. •,'rittion during hip life. Be made
his way into the banding, dragxing the heavy trunk down several
flights of stairs and dean to the wharf where bouts were being
plaood to ourrw p)orle to aafsty. Re begged them to plao• the
trunk a,beard, but the 1,Aon in charge said: 'We are trying to sav•
people's lives, net trunks,' so they toek the poor old fellow is
eras limits G. *bite lb.
the boat, saving his life, but the trunk waa lost, as the wharf
a fiew minutes later went up in flames.
"We were building this hullos ut the time, tha ground was
half bleak of the liebefiald property the :3ehefield 3treet of the
present dui thaw being an alley. The entire framework was up and
a lot of valuable building material had been delivered on the
grounds. Wishing te knew the fate of the building, we started
our negro yard man over to see about it on horseback. He visas
Awe.
oompelled to rids a great distance north to get oat of the burn-
ing section, and about. ton o'clock that night returned with the
ahterinz iewas that the fire hA 'napped at Hogans t;reek, several
bleeks an the new huildin7 was. unharmed.
"-Or. Fernandes, his wife, and his Wiflia mother made their
Wij to our home late in the eveni,ig. the day vf the fire. Their
clothing as soorched, and hot canters hud so burned the W01141114
backs ue had to sit up most of the night bathing them with soothing
lotions to ameliorate their .cony. We took are of them for ow/renal
days.
"The old clergyman also U4N3 in aftir tie) ternandez, 4 we
took ere of him, teeo but 'e had no lace for 113. to sleep except
en a sofa in the hall downst,iirs.
(1890)
"This °ordain" also plaied un important role in the days of the
nish-Alaeriuun War period, as 4enaral ritshugh Lee's headquarters
was in a tent rilht under those aume old oak trees that no sur-
round the hoes*. The various regiments vase eAzamped from hero
out to bth Htreet in Berth lennrel Lee's stuff head-
quarte s was in the ,J.ndser- Hotel darn town.
hen mr. hit e vitited the camp, i hip talk with uoneral
Les he learned. the Asheville togiment from North uarelina, most
of whom he knew weaselly,
-cult be in oommand ei
WS. Brooke 0. White it.
Uaptain fern Patton, eld gentleman, a former offioer in the
War between the titse, a personal friend of mr. V hitiose, W.
gave up our vacation in order to stay in Jacksonville that he
might be hear his old friends.
"This decision seemed, in 0. way, providential. The north
Uarolina regi ent had mobilized at naleigh, north u“roline.„ but
tho temporary camp had tie modern facilities there tas n,; running
water, they had to use surfac• water for drinking and othlr pur-
pages and typhoid fever broke out. There wore many oases among
then en their remeval, and in this "ay the fever was brought to
the ence.momont in Jacksonville. It soon spread to each an extent
It was hard to coots with.
"I v•ont with mt. hit. en his daily rounds, but there was no
provision for women nurses, $e I was not able to do rauch. We car-
ried chewing -gum, vhich v as much anpreoiated by the boys, as they
could not brush their teeth, n1 eg1as them pocket -combs and other
useful. arti cies.
"Viz% hite peaelid to a lalthy friend of his lo Philtaelphia,
who sent him several hundred dollars to procure comforts for
the ooldi ors, Raying: "'When you 47it down to the last hundred, let
rie kiwk, ;aid there v ill be more forthcoming, for i h4ve 'money to
burn' for uncle nam's fighters.'"
's the situation grew worse, the field hespitals overorowdod,
only orderlies to J4ire for the fever-striokon boys, lir. hit*
again a.opealed to this kindly men, iclid he sent down six typhoid
exPerte from nlocker noapital in ritiladelphia, vi th oorps of
trained nurses. Ilion the boys tliav ther3 they sal d: *Thank oed:
liew we'll get
"One day tve visited vaptain kattonis tent and found him en
mra. Brooke 4. White 17.
a blanket spread on the, ground -a osevalosoent while his oet was
eooupiod by a young lieutenant, Aim. Mr. swill, in high dolirium
from typhoid. Mr. Whit* rioognisod the young man as ono he had
taught, and who had lived to the hone of bishop Atkineen's Laughtor
in Aoheville.
we seourod pormission from.4oneral Lee to tako young
mr. buell home tith um, where we nursed him back to health."
tore mrs. Ilhito_left the room to answer the door, and fresh
young voice said: "aranny, you did not **poet to see me today, did
you?"
by this time they were back, Mrs. thit. introducing -"my
granddaughter, brook* Johnson."
?ho attractive young blend of about twenty, smiled oertial-
ly as she acknowledged the introduction saying: "I was looking for
dressing room. i'vo been playing golf, and want to change for
down town."
"quo right ahead, as far as you like, said her grandmothor,
"We'll not look." but brook* did net aJoept the invitation, and
went unstairs to one of the bedrooms. ohortly she was back, (parry-
ing her heavy sport shoos, vith her golf togs across Mr arm, and
dressed in a rusoot-colored print, with high -heeled low -out shoes
to match.
(to ms).
"Well, goodbye, glad to have net yen., I'll be easing you,
granny, (to her grandmother). In a few minutes to• hoard the whir
of the motor, as the was off to keep a luncheon engagement.
"That's young ,loonle for you steodbye"- laughed
Mrs. White. "But life is so oempliouted and they have as much to
occupy their time newatays. 'ho y are 411 right it is just a
different age to are living in that makes them seem different.
Mrs. Brooke w. White
18.
"Getting book to the spanish-Amerioan wei.r period
durinz the long summer we came to know usneral Fitzhugh neo vory
well. Ono cloy nr. VAlito asked him: 'Don't yea find it a great
advantugo nor to he a desoendnnt of the famous uenoral nobort s.
Leo?'
'No', said he, it's 4 deoidOd handicap. No matter how
and i get no credit personally.
oenduct myself, it is just what was expected of me, If honor
my illustrious anoester, it is exactly What I ought to do,.and if
I make a mistake, or should net behave mysolf, it is ten ti 411
worse for me than for any other person.'
Anetkor ring at the leerbell took are. White away for
the third time, and I heard a voice through the open door
"I am distributing cards for Mr. Prod whale, who is running for
re-olootion to the Uity Oommiesion, at was told to cull hors and
leave cards for ire. Olite and nr. Brooke U. thit., Jr., and miss
navie,"(u friend of the timily).
mrs. i.hite returned with the throa onrds, bearing the
piuture of the aspiring politician, and said: "It was a young
woman electioneering for Fred walls. do not take tench interest
in politics, except so fur as my son, brooks, Junior, is concerned
he is aseistunt city auditor and i do net go to the polls to veto
any longer, us somotimes it is 6ocessnry to stand in line and I get
too tired.
"I hone mr. Walls is re-elected," she continued," I con—
sider, ‘,ind so does my son, that he has raid, a fine oommissioner of
finance, he nlIkaye knows hey to get Lb* money on Jacksonville's
bonds so that the city is never embarrassed for fonds. Of course,
he has made enemies, but they are political ones, and he has thousands
of friends who know hie real worth.
Uri. Brooke w. nhit. 19.
"And I think lir. Roosevelt is a very fine man and ene tith
the most honest intentions. I very veil remember his inaugural
imidress in which he said: II am only human boin and subject
to errol4n4 mistakes. I am acting for the but, aocording to my
own viewpoint, but if anyone can at any time show me a bettor
viewpoint to attain tA wblfare and happiness of the people of
the United states, I an perfeotly willing to ohmage.' I think
he has lived up to that principle.
"You knew I get ee much out of the radio it enables me to
keep up with verld events that and the newspapers. I was in
Pressed with ttvo selection of young Douglas, who has just become
the youngest ;supremo (mart Justice. The radio report of his nom-
ination gave u resume of his life how he ?iad worked at his first
job for .2.00 a week, and later ridden miles and miles on his bi-
cycle to attend sdhool. That is tho kind of training that makes
good Americans.
"But one thing I cannot understand in the recent news,is the
reported aotien of are. Roosevelt withdrtaving from the Daughters
of the American Revolution booause that organization would not rent
their own uongressional Hull to a cgrii esprane songstress for a
concert in tho city el washingten. I hope it is only propaganda.
Yrs. Roosevelt is a fine woman with common sense and democratic
prinuiples, but megrims, with the progress and advantages thn
have had in the 144.st sixty years or more, should be able to sup-
port halls for such purposes for members of their race."
The maid announced Are. Johnson en the telephone, and are.
White said, as ehn left the room to answer -"My daughter. She
novo: forgets me. If sha is unable to come ever, we have a long
visit over the 'phone."