Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-16
OUR SOCIAL WORLD

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noted in these columns If sent to Mrs.
George C. Ball Nineteenth street. between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues, South High
lands. Telephone $685.
Another woman who has suddenly
achieved fame and whose success as an
artist is now being much written about
is Miss Ethel Reed. Miss Reed is New
Highlander by birth and is now only Il
years of age, yet her work as a designer
and painter of a high order of posters
has brought her recognition from pub
fishers and the cultivated people of this
country and Europe. From her child
hood Miss Ethel Reed has evineed the
strongest artistic tendencies and for
many years has devoted herself to her
studies, still it is only since February,
1895, that she received the first indlca-
ton from an appreciative public OF the
fame that was IN store for her as one OF
the best artists in this particular class
of painting, which has grown so popular
of late The spontaneous recognition or
her genius in February, 1895, brought
her orders for more designs Tor book
covers, posters and Illustrations than
she can now fill. Her work Is described
and coloring, graceful curves and lines
and a generous broad effect of decora-
ton. Miss Reed is considered original
and versatile, and the illustrations given
of her designs are certainly more agree
able in form and treatment than those
of Beardsley. She especially excels as
an illustrator of childrens books, and her
quaint, grotesque conceptions are tas-
cinating to cultivated people OF all ages
Miss Reed is said to be much given to
cr,a crnOdinallV and the
suits of these artistic spurts are said to
be among the best and most admired of
her pictures.
Now, in the beginning of a career
which gives promise OF future OF re-
markable success, artistically and finan-
cially, Miss Reed, like other women,
gifted and not gifted, has fallen serious
ly in love and is enjoying genuine ro-
nance amid the delightful environment,
which pertains to the studios of Boston.
She has done the unusual thing of be-
coming enamored of a man with similar
tastes with her own, and the marriage
during the spring of Miss Reed and Mr.
Philip Hale, also an artist, Will be some
what in the nature of an experiment. for
two young painters rarely fancy each
other, as we are all aware. Philip Hale
is the son of Edward Everett Hale, is
only % years of age and has. had the
best advantages in the art schools OF
this country and Paris He is professor
marriage the young painters will go to
Paris for an indefinite sojourn. An ad-
miring correspondent thus describes this
young American girl, who has so sud
denly become celebrated:
'She might almost have stepped from
one of her black and white posters as
she stood there, her pale strong profile
coming out from mass of soft black
hair brought well down over her ears,
dressed in a simple black gown with
al hnI
the neck and trimmed all around with
narrow frll, almost exactly as she APP
pears in the portrait of Ethel Reed, by
Herself which, by the way, led to her
acquaintance with Mr. Hale.
Upon his first view of this picture
Mr.. Hale exclaimed, I should like to see
the woman who looks like thatp
"a friend at once offered to present
him, and was not long in obtaining per-
mission to do So and the romantic old
story of love at first sight was enacted
over again as freshly and naturally as
in the good old primeval days. Several
representatives of the Hale family were
present at this reception, and when re-
sumed conversation with Miss Hale she
said that they were all so happy over
Phillips engagement, as the loss of his
brilliant and we'll beloved brother last
year had plunged him into a melancholy
from which 1t had seemed impossible to
emerge, until like sudden light in the
darkness. came his chance meeting with
Miss Reed"
One of the most surprising and per-
picking characteristics of humanity is
the ease with which the heads of very
sensible people are completely turned by
success and certain amount OF admira-
ton and approval. OF course no man or
woman suffers from such attacks-whch,
by the way, are inexpressibly trying to
the average observer-except when van
ity outweighs intellect and there is
conspicuous absence of good breeding
and common sense. One of the latest vic
tins to this unfortunate contagion is
Richard Harding Davis, who has been
recently interviewed and expresses his
WEAKNESS of having 1t known that he was
once reporter on daily newspaper. In
consequence of this ill-timed venting OF
his petty vanity an exchange voices these
sentiments, which will be Endorsed even
by the young authors admirers:
Richard Harding Davis Is one of the
brightest men in America, but he has
proved himself complete snob by say
ing in a recent interview that he is tired
of being pointed out as the man who
wrote Gallagher. That story he says,
was all very W ell. but 1t has reportorial
curtness and capitalization of expression
about it that / have now scared far be-
You'd Gallagher has the thumbmarks
of the poor. pawn-ticketed, free-lunch
hack reporter on its pages. want to for
get that part of my existence. want to
wipe off the newspa per shop part or my
life. 1 will sacrifice Gallagher and the
royalties thereon If people will only for
get that I was once that scorned thing
q reporter Gallagher is the best thing
Mr. Davis has ever done and the frame
of his mind indicated by his silly inter-
view from which we have quoted does
not indicate that he will grow except in
the direction of insufferable conceit."
Yesterday at high noon, at the resi-
dence of the brides father. Capt. w. p.
Barker, Miss Fannie Barker and MIR.
Frank M. Lynch were married by Rev.
Dr. Thomas ]. Beard, rector of the
Church of the Advent. Only the immedi-
ate family and a few friends witnessed
the wedding ceremony. The home of
Captain Barker was handsomely deco
rated for the happy occasion, and we'd
ding breakfast was served after the mar
riage Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lynch begin
life with the congratulations and hearty
good wishes of a large circle of friends
in birmingham. Mr. and Mrs. Frank