The age-herald., 1899-03-12
She Has Been Prominent i'm Reforms for Many
 Years Past.
ONE OF NATIONS NOTED WOMEN
Gives an Interesting Account of the Fa- nous Feminine Performers and the Work They Have Accomplished
 Meeting Women's Press Club.

The papers and magazines have of re- cent years given to the reading world many interesting incidents in the life of the great women reformers of the day that one feels on familiar terms with many celebrities through this medium of acquaintanceship. But to meet personally a her conspicious national figure, is one of those charming events in ones life that is not ever forgotten.
 A woman whose name has been proml- nenty before the public eye for many years is Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, who is at present making her home in Birming- ham. She is well known throughout the country by reason of a long life spent in working for reforms which related to wo- men. She is recognized as one of the most foTceful women who have advocated the unpopular cause of woman's suffrage. As a speaker, writer, reformer, philanthropist, she has had wide experience for forty years, and looking back over these years of varied experiences, recalling the noted women with whom she has worked. now at the close of the century Mrs. Saxon is one of the most interesting and remarkable women of the co0ntry. By adoption she is a citizen of Alabama, having removed from Tennessee when she was quite child. There are many people who know her here in Birmingham and who have read of her brilliant career, yet possibly have not recalled that Alabama was for so many years her place of residence that the state may rightly claim her as it's most distin- guished adopted daughter.
 +I.. a world of varied experiences one can not spend a more delightful hour than with this charming and gifted woman, who has devoted her life to all questions that touch upon the welfare of women. She has writ ten a great deal for the papers and maga- zines of the country, her early writing appearing in the old Louisville Courier, the old Philadelphia Courier and the New Or leans Picayune During the civil war Mrs. Saxon, as other daughters of the south, was an indefatigible worker, equiping and nursing soldiers in Alabama. During the plague of yellow fever in New Orleans in 1878, Mrs. Saxon worked day and night for the sufferers, organizing, nursing and sew ing relief associations Nearly quarter of century ago Mrs. Saxon secured in New relief associations. Nearly quarter of century go Mrs. Saxon secured in New
 
 women pleading for the power of elec- tive franchise for women, believing it would open the door to all reforms of the world Her first address before womans convention was in Washington, D. C., after which Mrs Saxon accompanied Susan B. Anthony on a tour of the New England states. She then canvassed six counties in New York for the National Prohibition alliance. On returning south she again went to New Orleans, where she organized fifty Womens Christian Temper ance unions throughout the state of Lou- isiana. She spoke over the whole state, arousing the women everywhere by her earnestness of purpose. From this work she was called to Texas, where she worked throughout four counties for prohibition and then responded to call from Kansas and from thence to Nebraska again, where she did an immense work. Later she trav- eled once more over Tennessee, where, aided by Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Wells, succeeded in carrying the prohibition bill into the senate and legislature, the bill passing the house and senate
 Previous to her work in Kansas, Mrs, Saxon canvassed six counties In Wis consin.
 Mrs Saxon has also spoken on social questions and was invited to give the lead ing address on the subject before the con- vention of the International Council of Women at Washington. Her stirring