The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

It is understood that an effort will be
 made to have Mrs. Martha Gielow give
 one of her dialect readings and talk
 on her educational work on her approach
 ing visit to Alabama Mrs. Gielow, who
 is now in New York. intends to make a
 visit to her old home in Greensboro in 1 May, and her many admirers in this city
 hope that arrangements will be made
 for her to give at least one dramatic read l ing In this city. Mrs. Gielow will go to i California in June and ii will be some I time before she will again visit Ala ] bama
 l Mrs. Gielow. whose unparalleled sue l cess as an interpreter of plantation folk
 lore has won for her renown in both Eng land and America. holds unique posi-
 tion. Making a speciality of the plantation
 folklore and a determined effort to pre- serve the traditions and superstitions of
 the nanny she loved Mrs. Gielow has
 created an art unique and beautiful and has placed herself at the head of It. Her
 work has been pronounced a mission, her programmes something more than an
 entertainment; brimming over with fun, | humor and pathos, with songs that touch
 the heart and melt the soul with their
 exquisite tenderness
 Among Mrs. Glelow's patrons during
 her two brilliant seasons abroad were
 their royal highnesses the Princess Christi
 ian and the Duchess of Connaught, H. R.
 H., Duchess of Argyll the Duchess of Sutherland, Mrs Choate Mrs. Joseph
 Chamberlain, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur i nett. Mrs. Gielow entertained in the pri-
 vate homes of Lady Northcote, the 1 Duchess of Bedford, the Baroness Roth schild Lady Jeune. Mrs. Gilbert Park CT, Mrs Bourne of Cowarne Court, and
 at Eastnor Castle for Lady Henry Som | erset.
 Mrs. Gielow, besides her dialect work, l is now interested in the organizing of educational leagues in the south, for the
 purpose of increasing educational facili- 1 ties in the rural districts. In New York
 she has met with much encouragement
 and she secured several scholarships. Some of her recitals are now given in or der to raise funds for this cause
 Of her interest and enthusiasm to aid | in the work now being undertaken in the | mountain districts, the New York Com | mercial says stsH
 There is little woman come out of the
 south who is attracting deep interest in
 New York just now for the cause she I represents-the cause of education among
 the impoverished and lliterate white | children of the mountain districts of the
 south. The little woman Is Mrs Martha | s. Gielow of Alabama, well known in this country and abroad as a reader and au | thor of negro dialect stories Mrs Gie- lows claim on the public in the past has been as the foremost interpreter of the plantation legend and story, but that l claim is overshadowed now by the inter- est she is awaking as the protagonist of 1 the big movement inaugurated by the l Southern Industrial Educational assocla- ton to lift the white child in the distant | southern mountains from his state of
 bleak, desolate ignorance. She has been
 chosen president general of the associa- tion All of Mrs Gielow's time and talent she is pouring freely into this cause with l an eloquenee and ardor that are lighting
 fires of enthusiasm wherever she speaks.