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in-,- Maude Randolph; Mrs. John K. Jones. >if< Wilkinson, of Annapolis; Mrs. hints Randolph, and Mrs. James

TF.NM^M AND I I.OKIDA ROOMS.

The rooms representing tin-si- States communicate. The ladies in the Tennessee room were: Mrs. Kellar Anderson, Regent of Ten- nessee; Mrs. Norman V. Randolph, Vice-Regent; Mrs. J. W. White, alternate, of Lee Camp Auxiliary. Committee: Mrs. Wilbur Armistead, Memphis, Tenn. ; Mrs. L. M. Hart, and others.

It was prettily decorated, and contained interesting relics, includ- ing a memorial to William Taylor Watson, eldest son of John W. C. Watson, Confederate States Senator from Mississippi.

A step across the threshold of the Florida room transported the visitor to the very land of the palmetto. There were tall, overtop- ping palms, Florida moss, flowers from Tallahassee and Jacksonville, and a general suggestion of the far South. Relics were in every direction indeed, the appointments of the room were almost exclu- sively of relics. There were battle-flags, one bearing the significant legend, "Any Fate but Submission "; a cutlass taken from the first Confederate privateer, "Jefferson Davis"; Captain Fleming's sword, canteen, and uniform; company muster and pay-roll of the Second Florida Infantry; a piece of crockery made for the Confederacy, and numerous others.

The ladies here were Mrs. F. P. Fleming, wife of ex-Governor Fleming, of Florida, Regent of the Florida room, who sent growing palms; also cut-palms and flowers, for the decoration of the room; also money and some valuable relics, among them a valuable wash- stand from the gun-boat " Chickamauga." Vice-Regent, Mrs. R. A. Patterson; alternate, Mrs. J. Preston Cocke; Committee, Mrs. R. S. Chamberlayne, formerly Miss Byrd, of Monticello, Fla. ; Mrs. Burton, formerly Miss DuVal, a resident of Florida for twenty years.

ALABAMA ROOM.

Miss Mary Clayton, Eufaula, Ala., Regent.

Over the entrance to the Alabama room was the State seal and the interpretation of the State name "Here we rest." In this room were Mrs. James H. Drake, nee Lizzie Ott, Eufaula, Ala., Vice- Regent; Mrs. Joseph A. White, nee Sophy Berney, Montgomery, Ala., alternate; Mrs. Roy Mason, nee Lizzie Bacchus, Eufaula,