The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-13
Alabama Woman Spending
Time in Florida
WORKS FOR EDUCATION
Florida Papers Very Complimentary In
Words About Her Efforts for
Children of Poor Noun
talneers.
BY ANNIE kENDRIck WALKER.

st. Augustine, February 12.-(special)-
In the group Of celebrities, among whom
may be mentioned John Kendricl Bangs
and Margaret Deland, who are visiting
in different winter resorts of Florida
none has been more warmly welcomed
than Mrs Martha Gielow of Alabama.
who is at present in Jacksonville. 1t is
said that Mrs. Gielows artistic success
in that city was equally as great as on
these occasions in London, when smart
dancing rooms were crowded with the
best of English society. Here, as in Lon
don, she gave her Nanny, reminiscent
ces.
Mrs. Gielow is travelling in the south in
the interest of an association which
seeks to better conditions among the
illiterate white children In the southern
mountains. Much publicity has been given
the work of the organizat ton, and a con-
troversy between it's president general
and the president of a large organization
of southern women resulted in making
Mrs. Gielow's work for the poor white
children of the south more generally
recognized.
The Jacksonville Time Union in COM
menting upon her visit to that city says:
For the many who were unable to hear
the recital of songs and stories of the
southland, given last Friday evening at the
Woman's club by Mrs. Martha Gielow of
Greensboro. Ala, the recital will be re-
peated this afternoon in the board of
trade auditorium.
Mrs. Gielow comes here in the inter-
est of great and noble work, the bet
al q Of bo
ignorant children of the out-of-t he-way
places of the southern mountains Every
cent she makes at her recitals goes to
further the work, and she has been most
successful, for not only has she assem-
bled the most representative audiences
in this country, but she has entertained
the rulers of many European countries
with her clever authors readings and
stories, for all that she tells is original
from one or the other OF her two books,
Mammy's "reminiscences, or Old Planta-
tion Days.
Her voice is very fine, and she sings
the old plantation melodies with all the
understanding of a woman whose BIRTH
place is the southland, and who is of the
south by heritage. OF aristocratic lineage,
and with all a southerner's grace and
charm, she wins her audiences every
where. for she knows whereof she speaks
and Is able and anxious to suggest and
receive help for the furtherng of one of
the noblest work in which the women of
today are engaged.
THAT she should receive the hearty CO.
operation of every woman in Jacksonville
with children OF her own, goes without
saying and that she has made the pleas
ATTEST and most forceful of impressions
here is an established fact. introduced
to number of the Jacksonville women
by one whom all love and admire, and
winning her way to their hearts and UNI
derstanding by her own individual worth
and earnestness, and the absolute need of
those for whom she asks assistance, she
is deserving of the best help that people
here can give in furthering a work and
taking up responsibilities which not only
belong to the more fortunate classes
where certain conditions exist, but to the
entire south at large. II the south is true
to the traditions which are at the very
foundation of her being"