The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-05
JUNE BRIDES STILL
HOLDING SWAY
BaiIey-Lane Wedding Followed
by Small Wedding Breakfast
YANCEY-FARRIOR NUPTIALS
Miss Martha Young Gives Drawing
Room Reading at the Residence
of Mrs. Richard Johnston.
Social Gossip.
YANCEY-FARRIOR NUPTIALS

! Attired in pompadour gown in vogue
over half a century ago and with
her coiffeure arranged in the style OF
that period Miss Martha Young gave a
craving room reading yesterday morn
ing to an appreciative audience at the
residence of Mrs. Richard F. Johnston.
While the extremely Indictment morning
interfered somewhat with the attendance
| quite a large audience had the pleasure
of hearing her, in several distinctive
groups, her programme being very
charmingly arranged.
The programme opened with a group
of songs rendered by Miss Fern Minor,
who has just returned from Washington,
.. c., 1.-THE Lass With the Delicate
Air. Schubert number and another de-
llghtful song were given by Miss Minor,
who was enthusiastically received.
Miss Young gave her interpretations ex-
clusively from her own books of prose
and poetry.
from Songs My Mother Taughe Me-"
I'm the Day Long Vanished How I
Teach My Children were some of the
charming stories she told of plantation
life, and given in what many have pro-
nounced the purest negro dialect ever
| heard.
Besides her plantation and dialect
stories Miss Young gave selections from
her bird stories which have been re-
ceived so well in the east Combining
the talents of the author with the art
of Interpretation, Miss Young ranks sec
end to none.
Her reception yesterday was no less
warm and cordial than she has received
III the great town houses and country
| houses in the east, where she is in great
demand. Standing on a dais with set
| ting of flowers from the gardens of the
SOUTH frightened with the colors of the
| Confederacy In the folds of a graceful
flag, she interpreted the folklore of the
SOUTH it's softness of speech, its wealth
| Of color and, not content with this, she
borrowed the bird-sweetness of the south
and let it re-echo in responsive ears.
| Miss Young was introduced by Mrs.
Johnston. Not all Introductory speeches
could be repeated at the end of a pro-
gramme with the same grace that they
are given at the beginning, but Mrs. John
| ston's happy words of introduction were
| so prophetic that they were as applicable
| at the close of Miss Youngs programme
| as at the beginning, for said Mrs.
| Johnston, "if Alabama is proud of her
sons, her orators, historians. novelists
| poets, she is also justly proud of her
daughters; those women who by the grace
of their noble hearts and splendid brains
are making history for our great COM
monwealth. Southern Hteature has been
ennobled and dignified by contributions
| from such writer's as Howard Weeden,
Margaret O'Brien and the author of that
charming old story, st. Elmo, and many
audiences have been charmed with the
literary Interpretation of Martha Geilow,
Betsy Hamilton and Lucine Finch. 1t is
| my pleasure to present to you today
| another one who combines histrionc
ability with the great gift OF authorship,
one whom Alabama is proud to claim as
her, own, one whom many of you know
personally and love-the author-reader-
Martha Young"