The age-herald., 1900-03-21
Recepaon Given in
Honor of Mrs. GieIow

longer surprised that New York and Lon- don nave gone wild about her. At all the smart London and New York houses, how not have been more admired than by the distinctly brilliant assembly yesterday afternoon when she was the distinguished guest of honor at reception given by the club women of Birmingham and vicinity. For hours the beautiful house of Mrs. George L. Morris where the reception was held was thronged with women eager to meet this gifted Alabama woman and give her a cordial welcome on her visit to her native state. From the moment that Mrs. Gielow entered the dra wing room, until several Gours afterward she stepped upon the marble balcony to glimpse a glittering view of the city, she was the brilliant cen ter of the representative gathering. She made it possible between greetings and goodbyes to speak of her seasons in New York and London for her friends were anxious to hear from own lips something of those famous evenings in the drawing i rooms of which the papers had written so charmngly.
 Although Mrs. Gielow has lived in New York for fifteen years, she rosains the cent that is always a charm in southern women. She is typically southern in ap- pearance, with beautiful dark eyes and hair, She wore a London gow1. of black chantiy lace over ivory satin. The bcd!ce was low and sleeveless. Her flowers were La France roses. She had worn this beau tiful gown on the occasion of her first ap- pearance in London. At that time she was a member of the International congrers of women, then in session in London. The delegates and members were guests of the queen at Windsor castle, and Wee present. ed to her majesty by Lady Aberd, on. They were later on present at banquet in the Royal Hall of the Star of the Knights 2f the Garter Mrs. Gielow was subsequently the guest of Lady Henry Somerset at her town house, and she gave her readings at many of the mos, notable houses in Lon don. This winter she has spent in New York; and her visit south is by special in- vitations on the part of prominent women all over the south
 Mrs Gielow, before returning to New York, will give her readings in Gadsden, Anniston, Mobile, Tuscaloosa, TalladeSd, Auburn and Eufaula. She will spend Eas- ter week in her former nome in Greens boro. Mrs. Gielow will later visit Louis vile, Ky, and go far west as Ss Louis. | She will appear in many of the drawing | rooms, and her readings will be given un- | der the auspices Of all the smart cluos. | aC,{ xtll her st 9 ] guest of the members of the Confederate Camp and Southern Relief association in Washington, D. C., and she will be given a large reception at the Washington club Her visit south promises to be a continual ton of her triumphs in the east.
 With all the adulation that she has re- ceived and her long residence in the east the most charming quality of loyalty to her old home charaeterizes her conversa- | ton It was with intense feeling that she | referred to the sunny land of her birth and as she talked informally of her interpreta- | tion of the old panta tton lullabies, it was | evident that this southern woman, by her | happy faculty of portraying the character | of those luminous figures of the old south l the black mammies-that she was reveal l ing phase of slavery days hitherto un- | known to eastern people or the English. 1 It is said that Mrs. Gielow has been fre- quently asked after her grooming lullabies that picture the southern babe asleep on 1 mamys breast, if such love really existed. | The devotion of the slaves to their mas ters and their children is incomprehensible in it's sublmity. Mrs. Gielow is competent to portray the negro character, for she was raised in the very center of the south, and her character sketches are perfect. Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Gielow were as- sisted in receiving yesterday by the for
 mer's sister Mrs. Mary G. Pickens, of | Greensboro, Mrs John White, Mrs. James | Tanner, Mrs. R. D. Johnston, Miss Mary | Thompson and the presidents and repre-
 sentatives from all the clubs in Birming- l ham and vicinity
 | Tea was served fin the reception hall and 1 in the dining room beyond which was decorated in pink. A frappe with sand wiches was enjoyed. Even after the re- ceiving hours were over numbers of women
 fingered, and Mrs. Gielow enveloped in
 her wrap gracefully chatted to the groups
 in the reception hall When she finally
 drove away in her broughan she left a
 
 of her personal beauty and charm and
 grace.
 Mrs Gielow's dialect recital this evening
 at Seals hall will begin at o'clock. She will
 be introduced by MT. Rufus N. Rhodes
 Her readings are exclusively from her own
 books, entitled "Mammy's "Reminiscences ' ! The programme will Include the lullabies
 and dialect stories that have made her fam.
 ous.
 When asked yesterday what led her into
 giving public readings, she said that sh, first began giving readings to childrer i when she was left widow with two little ones of her own to care for. These read i ings were given at the Church of the Trans figuration in New York, more famiarlJ
 known as the Little Church Around the
 Corner. It was then that she realized the ! possibilities of her In the portrayal of ne
 gro types of the old regime. Her reading:
 sprung at once into favor, and they were
 so successful that it was but natural tha
 she should continue a career for which sh,