The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-12
From Modern Women.

From Modern women.
 N NNIE KENDRICK WALKER, as W7 editor of the woman's page or . the Birmingham Age-Herald, has for the past six or eight years held leading place in the southern newspaper field Her picture work in particular has been characterized by grace and charm wholly exceptional and her de- scrptions of picturesque and historic places in Alabama, Tennessee and Florida have beeen copied throughout the coun- try
 Miss Walker knows her home states as few writers do and having such delicacy of perception and such artistic sense of treatment her success in the handling of just such matters as she has made a specially of, is not to be wondered at. Of southern percentage her father the late Capt John A. Walker, having been a prominent officer of the Confederate army Miss Walker was born in the quaint little town of Eufaula. She was an only child, and all of her first years were spent in an old-fashioned garden of a perfectly, charming, old-fashioned southern home. When she was still young girl her parents moved to Bir- mngham and she began her newspaper ! career with The Age-Herald, the paper on which she is still society editor and star contributor of feature stories. One series, entitled Bungalow Sketches" published in The Age-Heral during a summer in the North Carolina mountains has been lately gathered together and will soon be issued in book form under the title, The Dear Old Gentleman while another book now in progress Is, Lodgings in Old St. Augustine"
 In these two series of delightfully."- in formal, natural. happy and wholesome stories is comprised the most excellent literature work this young woman has yet accomplished. It cannot be termed newspaper work in the strict sense, for it is far and away ahead of the average feature stuff turned in by the average feature writer. It is literature in every sense of the word; the work of an artist and a poet.
 Among the younger magazinsts of note and promise is Ethel Armes of Birming-
 
 2e years ago and began literary work on the Washington Post. Laughngly she says she stayed there ages, but as the ages are bounded by those twenty-six years it is plain they are not geological cycles
 She has so far written but one book. but that one book is so full of whimsical, poetic fancy that it has been hailed by the critics as Stevensonian in charm.
 The book is tender in appreciation of the White mountain country and Is made up of dainty alluring sketches as if the writer had been told the inner meaning of the mountains by that silent and awful old man who guards them. One critic says it is perfect hour of wild ad- venture
 The titles speak eloquently "A Little Patch on Apple Hill" Tn the Red Sun set of Caravan the Old Days Pass" T Lean my Heart Against the Day" Tn dian Legends Float in the Freezes. !, Here is bit of her sweet whimscality:
 T feel that I am about to enter some terrible but sweeet adventure. some divine rendezvous. Shadows have such fearful height lie in them until I am too frightened to get up."
 Others are as boldly sung as a Morse sage. Here is Ossipe:
 Although Israel Is mighty and much beloved Ossipe sings to the heart with a woman's love song. It's fair brow gold crowned. the rising sunlight dome, like the one burning breast of an amazon girl, the long grace of its firm lines. the sweet ness of the little clouds, it's winged child ren playing over it, then the transparent blushing wonder of 1t when evening falls"
 Miss Armes' articles are appearing with great frequency in the current magazines end are popular as well a poetic. In