The age-herald., 1898-11-22
An Alabama Girl Who Writes
 For A Georuia Newspaper


 Elizabeth Fry Page in series of arti- cles on notable newspaper women in the south, writes of Miss Martha Goode' member of the Atlanta Journal star:
 q feel very much like beginning what have to say of Miss Martha Goode, she writes, with "once upon time, Tor her life history reads like story book though she is only just in her POS. She was porn in Eufaula, Ala, and spent happy ehild- hood there in the beautiful old home or her grandfather, her mother having died when she was but six months old. In typicai old southern mansion, surrounded by or chards and meadows and a wonderful old garden, this little maiden spent some cloudless days, beloved and petted, but not spoiled, and storing up sunshine and fra- grancc for the years to come. At the age of she and her sister, who was two years her senior, went to Atlanta to live with their father, who had married the second time. Here the two girls attended a pri- vate school for awhile. and when Martha was 15 they sailed from New York for Amsterdam en route to Neuchatel, Switzer- land, to study for year. Here they gave special attention to French, which they learned in it's purity. The pension in which they were domiciled was most picturesque ly situated, witt Neuchatel Lake on one hand and the glorious Alps on the other
 At the end of the year they went to Dresden for a tweve-months study Of Ger man, and at the end of that time spent six months in Berlin. Then came visit to . Paris and London, with Christmas spent at the country home of a schoolmate near Greenwich. Miss Martha's 18th birthday was spent at sea, off the coast of New foundland, and few days .ater the. reached their Atlanta home and were soon launched into society.
 "The older sister was married very soon after her debut, which left Miss Goode en- tirely alone, for she had spent the years when ones most enduring friendships are formed in a foreign land, and, while she had a large acquaintance, there was no one to take the place of this sister, who had been her companion in all the varied eX- periences of her childhood and girlhood
 This state of affairs made her turn to something in the way of serious occupa- tion, and, against much parental opposi- sition, she decided upon teaching and passed very fine examination for the po- sition of teacher in the public schools, but before the beginning of a new term she had, to borrow her own language, dipped her fingers in printers ink, and knew It would never come off, She thought to dHusc ucISSlI dhu Sdlil SOlhS cA- perience by trying society reporting, so she visited the business manager of the Jour- nal. who was a good friend, and stated her wishes to him. He directed her to Emil Jay, who, after testing the aspirants met tie, retained her as her assistant and the little lady has been for two years and half one of the busiest Journalists in the Gate City.
 "She is a daughter of Samuel w. Goode, one of Atlanta'S most progressive citizens, who is a descendant of the old Virginia .Goodes The late G. Brown Goode, assist ant secretary of the Smithsonian institu- tute, was near kinsman and Miss Goode was with him at his death in Washington at-<Sxalovely home, 'Whitby,' named for the old Goode manor In Virgip.a.
 Miss Goode is of a bright optimistic temperament, full of enthusiasm and en- ergy, thoroughly convinced of the poss- bilities of her profession and bent upon making the most of it. both for her own advancement and for the help of others. Her style is original, and she is especially gifted in the construction of storyettes and short-sketch work"