The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-09

At the Margaret Allen School yesterday morning Dr. Anna Howard Shaw address ed large audience of young women. A winter or two ago when Dr. Shaw was in Birmingham she made an address to Pol lock k-Stephens girls. She seems even more at home when talking to college girls than on occasions when hundreds of men and women crowd to hear her. Yesterday she held the close attention of her young women hearers who listened sympathetcally to the story of her in- teresting life In the simple and direct language characteristic of the woman, with bright flashes of humor and with the human touch of sadness, Dr. Shaw told them something of her early life, something of the struggles, something of the trials. She seemed just the girl again, the little, ambitious. sensitive girl and she made her hearers see this girl vividly, it was almost as if she was enacting the part over again.
 When Dr. Shaw was little girl of 12 her father told her that she would never amount to anything. This was her first real tragedy, and she sobbed it out back
 
 This proved that I was a real girl" said Dr. Shaw. But before she cried her heart out she told her father that some day she would go to college and that some day she would be worth ten thous- and dollars.
 Ten thousand dollars" said Dr. Shaw, seemed to me at that time to be more In he Uo wa and as for going to college saw no more chance than there was of going to Mars"
 Dr. Shaw's parents, like the majority of people at that time. were opposed to college education for girls, and they made their little daughter understand that she would not receive any financial as- sistance from them. But the more op- position on the part of her family, the more determined did she become in her ambition for a college education. She taught school and she said that when her salary, which was two dollars a week, was slow in coming that she was told that she could not be paid until the dog tax was collected. She waited one year for her salary due her for thirteen weeks of teaching.
 Earned First Money.
 "This twenty-six dollars" said Dr. Shaw. Hooked larger to me than any money l had even seen. for it was the first I had ever earned"
 The speaker told of her desire to preach and of the direct opposition from her family, who considered that a girl who wanted to go to college was bad enough, but one who wanted to preach was a dis grace to her family. Her father told her that if she would give up her idea to preach that he would aid her in going to college and gave her twenty-four hours in which to make her decision.
 q talked 1t over with myself and my God" said Dr. Shaw, "and when l went in for the family conference, I told my father that I would go to college.
 Then you will give up preaching" said my father,
 'No." I replied, q will not give up preaching. I will go to college, but if God calls me to preach. l shall preach"
 "Then I will not aid you in going to college" he said emphatically.
 "Very we'll" was pr. Shaws answer to her father "I am going to college
 The speaker said that she only had eighteen dollars of her own and this was everything that she had when she started for college In the examinations she fall ed in several branches. but in history and in mathematics she made such records that she was admitted. She was In col lege ten years taking after the collegiate course, a course in theology and also medical course
 Went Hungry Often.
 Perhaps 1t was the story of her college days that most appealed to her hearers. pr. Shaw said that she had known what it was to be hungry.
 This makes you enjoy things to eat, she said, with one of her rare smiles. q know what it Is to wear one dress until if is so shabby that you hang It In the closet and take down another snappy one" she said "I could never keep up with the styles" she went on. T mad 10 wear skirts entirely out of fasmon' De- cause wore one dress so long that new style would have come in. and l was al | ways wearing stripes that go round when every one else was wearing them up and | down.
 But perhaps I did not worry so much about such things as other girls would have done, because l have never given much thought to clothes. l fortunately have friend now, caretaker, who se- lects my clothes for me"
 | It was by such little changes from grave to gay that pr. Shaw told of her | early struggles One moment she would | have her nearer almost in tears and the next smile would spread itself on every | face throughout the chapel One woman | said that pr. Shaw was like Nat Good ! win, you never knew when you would be | crying or laughing. Altogether the little girl with her tragedies, the young woman | who went to college under the greatest difficulties that can confront the ambi- | tious and the success she achieved, ap- pealed to Dr. Shaws audience most sym l pathetically.
 i When the speaker recalled the first ser mon that she ever preached and said that 1 her father walked eighteen miles to hear her her face assumed it's brightest and sweetest expression. With another one of 1 her rare smiles she said that her family 1 afterward referred to the great encourage ment they had given her.
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