The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-20
Daughter, Mrs. Martha S. GieloW
On the Occasion of Reciprocity Day Celebrated At Mont
gomery Recently BY the College Of Southern Women
She Was Toasted In the Most
Charming Manner
ny DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

When the College Club Of Southern
Women of Montgomery celebrated Reel
procity Day" recently, the chosen orator
of the day was Mrs. Martha s. Gielow'
life member and delegate at large of
the Federated Clubs of Alabama.
| AS the founder of the Southern Indus
trial Educational association, a higher
glory has been added to the fame already
won, in this country and abroad, as a
writer and reader of the folklore OF the
southland. The cause of the uneducated
Anglo Saxon children is now her living
theme on the platform.
With earnest and impassioned zeal she
has rung out the call ITO arms!" in
behalf of the children of the mountains
and remote rural districts, who need a
chance" to become enlightened citizens.
Her inspiring enthusiasm has awakened
the world to the deplorable conditions
of the Debated brothers, as she calls
them. The splendid work of the Southern
Industrial Educational association is
known from the east to the west.
Her latest work, and by no means the
least important work, was the forming
of the Alabama Auxiliary of that asso
citation The leading women of the state
are now an organized force for the up
lift of the uneducated children OF the
isolated districts.
A correspondent who is an ardent ad-
mirer of Mrs. Gielow, has sent me the
following account of Reciprocity Day
and the tribute which was paid to her'
and which It is my pleasure to produce
in these columns.
Ny correspondent says:
"At the close of Mrs. Gielow's ad-
dress, which was principally along edu-
cational lines, the necessity OF industrlai
education for the untutored. and the re-
sponsibility of the educated, toasts were
given and responded to among beautiful
surroundings of blooming flowers.
Mrs. Phares Coleman, president OF the
Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs,
was toastmistress.
In her own gracious way Mrs. Coleman
said that in thinking over the toast, our
Guest" the following beautiful lines came
to her as a direct response to her de-
sire to say the right and fitting thing:
81 saw the mountains stand
Silent wonderful and grand;
Looking out across the land
When the golden light was falling
On distant dome and spire;
And / heard low voice calling,
Come up higher!' Come up higher!
From the lowland and the mire,
From the mist of earth's desire.
From the vain pursuit of pelf,
From the altitude of self
Come up higher, come up higher!
From the vain pursuit OF pelf,
From the altitude Of self
Come up higher is her CALI
One in our midst has heard this low
voice calling, "Oh, needing the call, is as
cending the heights of lofty endeavor.'
From those heights she adds her voice
to those calling, and in union we hear
the chorus:
Come UP higher, come up higher,
Bringing from the mist and mire those
helpless ones in your midst
Mrs. Mortimer futile, president of the
Magazine club, responded to the toast,
Mrs Gielow," by saying:
MADAM President and Ladies'.
1.-The old gladiators who called no man
blessed until he died were accustomed to
cry from the threshold of the arena, Be-
ing about to die, we salute your But
the new cry that comes from our field
Of endeavor is, Being about to live we
salute you. Mrs. Gielow!
you who. having already caught the
glory of a broader life and learned the
joy of widest culture; you who, from the
crest of your own attachments, reach out
a sympathetic hand to those who dwell
among shadows, to you we give the APP
plause that is your merit for from your
brilliant example we catch the Inspiration
OF a higher life and rejoice that your
strength and courage, your philanthropy