WOMEN: Slip of a Daughter

If a Daughter of the American Revolution should end a Fourth of July oration with a burst of praise for George III her audience would be justifiably startled. Last week in Macon, Ga., Mrs. Walter D. Lamar startled a convention of the Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy with an indiscretion no less dramatic. Climaxing a rhetorical eulogy of famed Rebel Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Lamar said: “Let the world know the wisdom, the kindness, the justice of the great and only President of the Confederate States of America—Abraham Lincoln!”

The Daughters of the Confederacy gasped. Said Mrs. Lamar:

“It was just one of those slips.”