The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-24

men of letters on what constitutes Woh-
ems chief charm includes interesting ex-
pressions from ex-President Cleveland
Thomas Nelson Page, Henry van DYKE
Albert Shaw, the editor of the Review OF
Reviews, Edward Box, William Houston
Patterson and others. Favorite quota
lions of such women as Mrs. Jefferson
Davis Phoebe A. Hearst, Helen Could
Ellen Glasgow and others are among the
! delightful features.
There are several articles devoted to the
work of North Carolina club women, their
| library extension work, education, and
village Improvement societies. Reading
rooms and circulating libraries have been
established in towns and travelling libra
ries in the country. The department OF
education is securing free scholarships in
polytechnic institutes and enlists women
in the forming of mothers clubs for the
study of sanitation in the home and the
intrinsic value of foods. The federation
work is specially directed TO improving
the condition of child life IN factory COM
munities The Association for the Bet
terment of Public School Buildings Is
Transforming the schools in the rural dis
tricts The entire work emphasizes what
strong organization is represented in
the federation
The editor n-chier of the Womans Edi-
ton is Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, one OF the
most brilliant women of North Carolina
the staff including Miss Clayton Gambler,
assistant editor; Mrs. William Reynolds,
circulation manager; Mrs. A. II. Gallo
way, society editor; Mrs. Mary F. Patter-
son, business manager; Mrs. James A.
Gray, Mrs. E. A. Ebert Mrs. Mitchell
Rogers assistant business managers.
Mrs. Patterson is president of the
North Carolina Federation, which under
her leaders ship has taken UP educa tional
and philanthropc work and is promoting
legislative measures bearing upon GER
tain charities and reforms as suggested in
its different departments of work Mrs.
Patterson Is regent of the Salem Centen-
NAL Chapter, ID. A. r., and is a colonial
dame. She has a very charming house
"Bramlette.' which is typically colonial
and filled with rare and beautiful things.
Mrs. Patterson is as bright and Interest,"
ing a writer as she is in conversation, and
she has the most delicate vein of humor
that reveals itself in her exquisite eyes,
and makes the brilliant figure in any
assembly
In the editors "rea Table" some of this
humor shines out in her comments upon
current events.
1.-THE widely differing opinions as to
what Winston Salem needs writes Mrs
Patterson, brings to mind the remark of
| a Tennesseean. who said what the world
order of that at Jerusalem. where all the
| unhappy people could come and weep to-
| gether comfortably. without the terrible
sense of isolation that deep grief brings.
She said the sorrow was scarcely less
! hard to bear, than the irritating presence
Of the maddening crowd who despite the
condemnation of the wise men insist on
singing songs to the heavy heart In 9TH
err words. when she wanted to sit on tho
ground and tell sad stories of the death of
kings. she did not want some jolly. we'll
meaning relative to shove her into Nor
ris chair and tell her to read 'Iovey
| Nary
| Mrs. Patterson takes an original view
on the subject of international marriages.
"Why," she asks. are people in general
and the press in particular so bitterly OPP
posed to international marriages? Tt
might be the part of wisdom for our spoil
ed American girls to look the other way
when a German or Italian nobleman
passes around the matrimonial hat but a
titled Englshman Is worth every nickel
it takes to get him.
More than likely he's bit string
halted as to manners and has q touch
of intellectual pip which causes him to
really believe that age and repetition I'm
prove Jokes. Likewise and moreover. the
chances are two TO one. that his wife
will go around with her heart In sling
and her wifely affections done up in
plaster of paris. These are the crumpled
rose leaves of her bargain. As compensa-
ton. she will have an ancestral castle.
with noated grange don't know what
a fioated grange Is but I want one-and
copper beethes full of nightinsales. and
fra giant hawthorn hedges. and hanks of
daffodils and good servants and straw
berries as hig rs gourds. and gooseherries
the size of cannon balls. and tea and
toasted crumpets. and the tombs OF
Westminster ~ grow accustomed to.
What more does woman want?
This Is not heaven as she can see for
herself If she will tate the trouble to
look 1T the sion boards.
Isn't 1t worth dozen fortunes to be