Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — The South Triumphs. [ARTICLE]

The South Triumphs.

“I like to sit in the lobbies of some of these big, brass buttoned hotels hud see my friends the Southerners come swarming In and selecting their suites of rooms,” said the Southern woman! “Do I know them personally? Certainly not; but that’s no reason why I shouldn’t delight In their affluence. It wasn’t so long ago, you know, that the South was poor as Job's turkey, and now I wish you could see them come in these big hotels—whole families of them—talking their Southern dialects that Is so pretty; father, mother, the grown girls with their little negro maid, the grown son with his negro valet, the father standing at the desk making arrangements for a suite of rooms for the party that I know will cost a small fortune and that he couldn’t begin to order unless he had a whole lot of money back of it to spend. “It does me a lot of good, I tell you,” she finished with a smile.