The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-18

cess of the first was followed by the second, presented informally yesterday afternoon at the Country club, when the ballroom, improvised for the time into a lecture hall, was filled. Local interest in woman's emancipation has been mani- fest in the approval which was shown Miss Johnston by the men and women of Birmingham. Tuesday evening her audience was made up about equally of men and women. Yesterday afternoon it was representative of the finest and most cultured of Birmingham womanhood. It is safe to say that every federated club was represented, in many cases by more than one; that every civic movement had it's representative as wel12voluntarily there as a part of that splendid audience. The speaker had the intelligent interest of a mass of thinking women, who, whether or not their views coincided with Miss Johnston's, were eager for information on one of the vital issues of the time.
 Mrs. Solon Jacobs. president of the Equal Suffrage association, welcomed the women attendant upon the lecture in the big living room of the club, circulating among them as the crowd gathered, and in her gracious enthusiastic way chatted of Miss Johnston and of the cause which she represents Mrs. Jack Bowron and Mrs. Sidney M. Ullman, two of the lead ing members of the league, were at the door, and among the young women who are members and who acted as ushers upon this occasion were Miss Amelia Worthington, Miss Helen Benners and Miss Ethel Armes.
 After the audience had found their places, Miss Johnston came upon the stage and immediately, without presenta- tion, began her address. As she stood there, small figure in a graceful black gown trimmed in some soft color of nd SliOhtlV low tO expose a very attractive throat, a rich, dark scarf about her shoulders and wear ing black chapeau crowned in deep tinted flowers, she presented a charming picture Masses of dogwood blossoms made a lovely background for her as they rested against the window, through which the sun shone rosily upon their petals A gracious figure she was, thor oughly feminine, earnest and appealing the sort of woman who dignifies the cause of woman suffrage.
 One would like to present Miss John stons lecture in full, so that those who didn't hear her might vet enjoy 1t. It SD exquisite from the standpoint of rhetoric, so well thought out so well rounded that it betrayed it's painstaking, author origin. There were some thoughts, however, as she carried forward her splendid, impassioned appeal for what she so honestly believes to be the right of her sex, tthe little white slip of paper" that can be recalled in passing. She began her remarks by stating that at the close she would be glad to answer any ques- tions, for, she said, "it is a characteristic of the suffragist that she loves to answer questions about her belief' Then she told very beautifully new version of the story of Venus De Milo, that most beau tful and mysterious of all the Louvre's relics; how they say the laborers digging on the Island of Milos found her en- tombed with two other bits of sculptured art; how contrary to the tale some tell that her arms-since broken off-held a shield: or. as some say, a mirror, the true version counts her the mother of the gods, and that these arms held a child. The arms were struck off, says this story by the priests of the island in their