The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-09-08
WILL VISIT BIRMINGHAM
WITH THE EASTERN PRESS PARTY
A T THE meeting of the International

A THE meeting of the International
II league in Birmingham in October
a number of well known women
VIII be present. The New York party
ana also the Philadelphia party will m
ciude group of women who will add
prilliancy to the social side of the league
and to whom every opportunity will be
given to see something of the social life
or the south, as well as southern condi-
lions generally. Through the visit of the
several parties from all sections of the
country southern affairs will be more in
timately understood and observations will
be made by men and women whose i'm
pressions Will be gathered at close range.
The birmingham Press club has 81
ready announced that Mrs. Asa Cable of
Bradford, Pa, will visit Birmingham dur
ing the meeting of the league. Mrs Caole,
who is one of the vice presidents of the
league, will travel south with the Phil
adelphia party. She is the only woman
in Pennsylvania who owns and edits her
own paper, the Bradford Herald. She
has been signally successful, and as she
has decided taste for politics, her pa
per is a power in politics in her county
and city.
Mrs. Cable is a member of the Woman's
Press club OF Pittsburg, and has been a
member of the board of governors of the
International league for several years,
Mrs. Cable is particularly fond OF the
south, and greatly admires the southern
tongue. She has visited the south sew
eral times. in New Orleans and Atlanta,
and no delegate to the league meeting is
anticipating the visit south with more
pleasure than Mrs. Cable She Is quite
pronounced in her admiration for The
southern people.
Mrs. Annie Roberts Emery Nesbtt u
Philadelphia will also be among the dis
tinguisheds women at the meeting of the
league. Mrs. Nesbitt organized the Penn
sylvania Womans Press association
eleven years years ago. and was its press
dent for five years. She has attended ten
annual conventions of the league. Among
the eastern papers whose STATS she mas
Graced are the Philadelphia Bulletin. the
Enquirer, the Record. the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph She also writes for
Boston papers and club publications. she
is a member of the Woman's National
Press association, in which she has been
prominent for several years.
The large and interesting membership
of the International League of Press
Clubs includes a number OF prominent
women writer's. Several of them hold
positions in the league besides fulhllng
similar duties in such organizations DIS
the American League of Pen Women, the
National Woman S Press association ana
the various press associations throughout
The country whose membership is COIL
posed exclusively of women.
The personalities of these women Of
the league. their success in journalism, ard
the wide influence that many of them,
through their newspaper and magazine
work exert on national life, draws al
tention to their interesting lives.
do not like TO apply the word career
whom referring to the successful woman
writer. The more that ] see and know
of the lives of the women who either
through necessity or choice take up
newspaper work the less suited, 1t seems
ia me is the word career when APP
plied to them. In other professions the
word aptly applies. but women who write
are not exactly in the career class, hut
arc able to do their work and rise to
distinction. and still be hedged about with
all the Joys of home that she makes
most charming.
while in these random sketches. liter
ary success has been emphasized | do
NOT wish to omit the chief charm OF these
bright women, their qualities that make
for the ideal woman in the nome. wheth-
or as wife. mother or daughter. Many OF
them preside over charming and beauu-
ruI homes. and while 1t Is the southern
woman who claims. or rather to whom -
accredited the perfect art Of entertain
ing the qualities of hostess which are
said ia lurk in the heart of every wom-
on are securely lodged In her sister from
the north