Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-12
OUR SOCIAL WORLD

(All items of social interest will be gladly noted in these columns if sent to Mrs. George C.. Ball, Nineteenth stneet, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues. south Hlgh- lands. Telephone 9SS)
 It is great pleasure always to chroni- .cle the success achieved by any woman; 1t is doubly so when the success is achieved by a southern woman. In jour nalism, field being much occupied by ambitious women, many southern women are now prominent, and fill po- sitions hitherto regarded as belonging en- tirely to mon. The City editor of the Charlotte (N. @ Observer is Miss Addie White Williams, who is regarded by the newspaper men of North Carolina as one of the best journalists in the state. She was first society editor of the Charlotte Chronicle in 1889, and when that paper became a part of the Observer she was offered the position of city editor on the staff. This she accepted, and is said to be fully equal to the requirements of the position She is an all round journalist. as well as a bright clever woman writer, and she is conversant with every depart ment of the paper and can fill every one with satisfaction when the necessity arises. She has the genius for reporting that most women have, and is, with all these newspaper talents, as womanly and gentle as possible. She is endowed with wonderful energy and great pluck, and has won her laurels by thoroughly sat isfaetory work. Miss Williams is also musician of extraordinary talent and ev- cry Sunday preSideS at the organ at the Tryon street Methodist church. Her of flee Is as costly and artistically furnished as a library at home would be, with com fortable chairs, lounges, pretty paintings and etchings, and palms and other pot ted plants make cool, shadowy hooks where usually there is litter and con fusion. Some one familiar with her life and lwork thus tells of some of Miss Williams achievements:
 'The editor was absent and most of the force were ill., he says. Miss Williams found the responsibility of getting out the paper upon herself alone She was equal to the occasion. She not only took care of the local department, but edited all the telegraph, read all the proofs and saw the forms properly made up in time to catch every mail One of Miss Will Hams most notable achievements was her report of Evangelist Moody's meet ing in Charlotte in the spring of 1893. Crowds of 5000 and 5000 neared him morn- ing and evening, and Miss Williams re- ported every meeting during the ten days of his service. Her notes were in long hand, but so accurate were they that MT. Moody himself said he had never been better reported, and urgently requested Miss Williams to assist in reporting his sermons at Chicago during the then ap- preaching Worlds Columbian exposition, to be sent out by a syndicate. This flat terng request, however, she was obliged to refuse.'
 A Wheel Song. O, the ships have sails for the swelling
 
 The falcon flies in the wake of the wind In the speed of the steed of the Bedouin The blood leaps high to the hoofbeats'
 lead,
 As the leagues are left behind
 But what care
 For the birds that fly, Or all the vessels that sail the sea;
 The blasts that blow,
 Till the. trees bend low, Or the barbs of Araby!
 Nor wish more for the wings he wore, The fieetfoot one of the fables old, For the feathered robe of the messenger Or the winged sandals wherein he trod, In the happy age of gold
 Let poets mourn
 For the days outworn, But these glad mornings are soul divine!
 Those flying feet
 Were they half so fleet As the steed that springs from mine? Then hol for the wheel, with it's strength of Yet blessed buoyance of skyborn things! And the rush of the near and crystalline
 clear
 Sweet breath of the summer that sings in
 the ear
 Like harps of thousand strings!
 o, wild and free
 Is the joy to me
 To breast the breezes and whirl along!
 To skim the ground
 Till the pulses bound, And the heart bursts into song!
 -Woman's Sentinel. Mrs. Josephine Ballard of Atlanta is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jack w. Johnston, at her home on Highland ave- nue.
 Mrs. Waring of South Carolina is visit ing her friends, MT. and Mrs. David Rob- erts, on the South Highlands.
 Mir and Mrs. C. Ham are spending several weeks in Birmingham with Mir. and Mrs. F. H. Gafford, on Fifth avenue. The Tuesday Afternoon Whist club will meet tomorrow "Wednesday morn- ing promptly at 10 o'clock with Mrs. James Weatherly. The change of day and hour is made in order not to con fiict with other social functions.
 This morning at 10 o'clock little Jose phne Johnston, youngest daughter of MT. anu MTS. Jdch w. JOnISlOD, VIII De christened at the home of MT. and Mrs. Johnston, on the South Highlands. A few friends will witness the ceremony.
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 At II o'clock this morning Mrs. H. H. Sinnige will give a musicale, and at 2:30 o'clock Mrs. Walker Percy will entertain many friends at a euchre party in honor of her sisters-in-law, Mrs. Henry T. De- Bardeleben and Mrs. Charles F. DeBar- deleben. To both these entertainments which are anticipated with great pleas ure-.reference was made several days ago.
 The following is the programme of the grand concert to be given at the Wood lawn public school building this Cues day) evening at S:30 o'clock. All are cordially invited to be present:
 Piano--Professor Wyatt.
 Voice-Mlss Berta Wood.
 Recitation-Miss Hallie Staton. Piano-Miss Hattie Camp.
 Recitation-Professor Wimpie
 Piano (dueD-Mrs- NJ. F. Wood, Miss Claude Wood.