The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-17
An EgeuIng Spent With Great
Artist VlsIhng In Birmingham


very different from the Interpretation of
LISTS compositions"
Madame Rive-king is very proud of
her pupils She loves Claude Reddish
like a son, and said feelingly: "He is
so gifted that I feel sorry he cannot
spare the time to work more, but for
tunately there are two artistic members
of the family. His sister sings like
nightingale. She is training for grand
opera now with Emma Thursby in New
York and I am expecting great ca
reer for her"
When I spoke of Mrs. Aldrich she
said All, yes. Doesn't she play well2
And the best of it is, she has brains
She is wonderfully clever and artistic"
While not ELUSIVE her unsparing praise
of pupils and contemporaries was
charming.
Madame Rive King makes only &C.
casional short concert tours, and she
speaks of them with great enjoyment.
1t is a welcome change for me-" she
said. Il like to go and oh, I Yearly
love to go home again to my pupils
There is always a social side to these
little journeys and those who met her
at the reception given in her honor the
other day can readily understand the
claim that her bright, winsome person
ality makes upon strangers in every
city. She works very hard, however,
and must needs refuse many invitations.
Il shut every one out sometimes" she
said, while 1 practice. I must do it,
you see much as 1 enjoy companion
ship" Thus Friday morning she re-
fused many invitations while she
worked out the numbers planned to be
given at the high school.
1t is rarely that Birmingham is for
tunate in entertaining one so great and
so altogether lovable as is Julie Rive
King. artist and woman.
The coming of Miss Patty s. Hill to
the High school auditorium next Thurs
day afternoon recalls some interesting
points in connection with the free kinder
garten work in Birmingham, for which
cause she is to lecture.
1t is just 10 years now since the kinder
garten work in this city was organized.
committee having been sent in the winter
of 1898 to the schools of Louisville for
the purpose of examining into the work
done there and the outcome of this visit
was the establishment of a kindergarten
in one of the rooms at Paul Hayne school,
with Miss Edith Woodruff, a graduate of
one of the Louisville schools, as teacher.
This, however, was shortly after aban
doned owing to crowded conditions And
now in the tenth year following, kinder
garten is again being conducted in the
Paul Hayne school basement rooms with
Miss May Hail. one of the first graduates
of the Birmingham training school, as
teacher, and lecture is to be given i'll
behalf of the cause by one of the leading
lecturers in America.
Miss Hill, lecturers and instructor in
kindergarten education in Teachers COL
lege, New York, has been so successful
in applying the great principles of educa-
ton to the kindergarten and other de-
partments of school work that she has
been lecturing under the auspices of Co
lumbia university in the chief cities OF
the north, west and south to teachers and
others interested in educational work in
all its phases. After giving, two lectures
in New Orleans Miss Hill will come to
Birmingham, January q, and speak at
the High school at p. m. on THE value
of the Kindergarten in Modern Educa-
tion," to which the public is invited.
From here she will go to Columbus, Ca,
whose schools rank very high in this
work.
For seven years before going to New
York Miss Hill was at the head of the
Louisville Free Kindergarten Training
school and made her reputation there
Last spring at the meeting of the Inter-
hearts and was elected president of that
body.
When in Louisville, Miss Hill and one
of her sisters published a book of kinder
garten songs which has been universally
used for small children
Another sister, Miss Mary Hill, is now
superintendent of the Louisville free kim
dergartens.
"A brother, Mr.. A. A. Hill, gave his life
so unreservedly to philanthropic work
that a tablet was recently unveiled to
his memory in the settlement which he
founded in New York.
Miss Hill has a pleasing personality
and a delightful sense of humor. She is
led by such high motives In her work
that she will be an inspiration to all who
hear her.
Miss Agnes Wilson is the supervisor
of the work in the kindergartens here.
She is a graduate of the Louisville schools
and during the past summer took post
graduate course at the University of CO.
lumbia The training class this year Is
composed of Miss Branscomb of Bessemer,
Miss Wylie of South Carolina, Miss Nc
Whorter of West End. Miss Thornton of
Montgomery, Miss Walker, Miss Stubbins,
Miss Louie Hall and Miss Ella Catalan
of Birmingham. The board of directors is
now considering the advisability of in
Producing a mid-year entry class.
These free kindergatens may be found
in almost every section of the city and
their sphere of usefulness Is constantly
growing. There is the Temple kinder
garten with Miss Ida Gelders in charge;
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