The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-20

Among the distinguished guests Blr- mingham has had the pleasure of enter taining recently, none has been more ad- mired or more universally popular than Miss Sarah Barnwel Elliot of Tennessee.
 Miss Elliot is a woman of rare gifts and great personal charm, lady of the "Old School" with all the elegance, grace and ease that we are wont to associate with the "Grande Dame'' of the long ago, and yet withal her most potent attribute is a humanness that touches a responsive chord in the heart, captivating and hold ling in admiration whenever she meets, from the girl scarcely out of her teens to the woman whose knowledge of the world is only acquired with age and ex- perence
 upon one is that
 "She has but to please herself the world to please
 Miss Elliot is brilliant and convincing talker and whatever the subject happens to be-the Sewanee Alumni Auxiliary, whose success is the dearest of all things to her heart, or Woman Suffrage, in which she is equally interested, or news paper work, with which she is quite fa- miliar, or the writing of novels, or the stalking of a play--she gives new light to it in her gifted way and the charm of her conversation seems to be revealed principally in it's infinite variety--touch- ing as she does a subject as lightly as a butterhy's wing brushes the cheek, and yet so intelligently and compelingly that she never fails to give it new color, as the wing of the butterfly shows us new colors we never dreamed of before
 Miss Elliot has been known to the lit- erary world lately through her contribu- tions to Scribner's, Harpers and the Cen tury Magazine since she published her novels, "The Feermes," Jerry" "John Paget" and "The Durket Sperret," while in London her play, His Majestys Ser vant," achieved great success and made her name famous abroad.
 Very recently Miss Elliot has been made President of the Equal Suffrage League of Tennessee, which means master stroke for the cause. pr. Anna H. Shaw of New York, National President of Equal Suffrage. said when she was informed of Miss Elliots election:
 q am sure that with Miss Ellot's abi- ity and position the work in Tennessee will be greatly benefited"
 Miss Eliots work in Birmingham was confined almost entirely to the Sewanee Alumni Auxiliary.
 In talking over the plans of this organ  and those interested. among other things Miss Elliot said:
 "The Sewanee Alumni in all parts of the country have organized themselves into associations for the purpose of endowing The University of the South at Sewanee, and in talking the matter over with the leaders of this movement the conclusion has been reached that the women-the mothers, wives, sisters, daughters friends of the Sewanee Alumni, of Sewanee itself should organize for this same great end That all who are personally interested in Sewanee, who because of appreciation of the high ideals and high standards of this University of the South,' or because of happy memories of Sewanee and of sum- mers near or long ago spent here. that all, women as well as men, organize and work-the men in the Alumni Associations the women in Alumni Auxiliaries-all to alu III the luTtHeT upDullulnB or SeWdnee
 And just what plan do you propose to carry out?" I asked.
 ''It is this.' said Miss Elliot. That an Alumni Auxiliary be organized in each city, town and village. the women-or the one woman interested in Sewanee. join ing the association. each pledging herself to give a yearly amount, not less than ST. to the Endowment Fund; also to pledge herself to influence students to go to Se- vance and in doing so, feel conscientious ly that it Is the best place for any boy or young man.
 And this is to be done in what man. ner." I asked.
 Any of the forms of public amuse- ment which women have inaugurated in order to further forward their work along Civic, Literary or Religious lines can be used also in this work, the promoters feel ing all the while that of all the work to which a woman can set her hand this work for Sewanee is the most important, dealing as it does with the future of the South. in that it moulds the coming gen. erations."
 'rhe plan ought to appeal especially to mothers 1t seems to me-" l said, since