The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18

viscry board of Tusgle institute. will meet
vita the board of trustees-e,ect at p.
m. in the reception hall.
| Mrs. Orr introduced Judge Feagin, who
made very instructive talk. and ad-
| n onished them of their duty to avail
| themselves of this opportunity to pre-
| pare themselves for useful life other
talks along the same line followed. The
mcst wonderful part of the whole pro-
| gramme was tie idea they had of SER
vice, indicating the fact that Carrie Tug
| gle gives them no superficial idea of life.
and the true respect to the thought of
! their white friends
She is typical southern negro. using
| the dialect that has made her race diff
terent from any other She affects no
| style, just Aunt Carrie" Her every
movement and GESTURE pertains to the in
d.vduality of her people--only she is
natural leader among them.
We have read Martha Young's Folk
Love- and seen her picture of The
Belle of six Plantations but Carrie Tug
gle herself is the picture of the real ne
gro woman working for her living and
| raising the standard of her cass-cer-
| tainly no more worthy under taking. From
the beginning, with two pupils, she now
has several hundred half of which are
"deadheads. Those pretending to pay
at all only pay IS for board and tut
ton and even these are irregular with
that. The buildings are now the prop
erty of three societies. Courts of Calan-
the, Rising Sun and Daughters of Pro-
lection, each member of these. l16 in num-
ber promises to pay 81 a month each
to the maintenance of the school, the bal
ance and vicssitudes falling to the pluck
and ingenuity of Carrie Tuggle
Music of the negro melody only inter-
spersed the entertainment and the Tuggle
band, composed of several dozen boys
and girls, played their own music-airs
for the occasion. Many songs were sung.
the rythm was peculiar to the type and
the words were their own, but none more
appropriate than these from the CAntle
song.
BE not dismayed my sisters,
For God Is on our side.
He'll help us fight our battles,
Whatever may betide.
He promised to be with us,
While meath his flag We fight,
He's never lost battle,
He's ever on the right.
Chorus: i,
Doing all the good We can.
Doing all the good we can;
We are the Courts of Calanthe,
We are doing all we can"
There are six verses to this song COM
posed by woman, r. l.. Parks Of
Murry, Ala. and dedicated to Major
=. N. Tutwiler Of this city.
With several hundred voices singing.
the words were very impressive and the
music good. Aside from all the fea-
lures OF feeding and clothing these chill
dren, houseing and guiding them, Car
rie Tuggle is training them to work,
teaching them the use OF the hands,
while she gives them arithmetic and
grammar. These are examples of beau
tifui needlework. raffia and wood carv-
ing and fitting. and the best of cooking.
After the exercises and inspection of
the buildings were over we were in
vited to a splendid dinner prepared by
her class In cooking. and 1t was served
as she used to wait on the white folks.
with two pupils standing at each end
sight never seen these days-keeping
the nies on, instead OF the usual pea
FOWL plumes were In use the national
hags for the purpose. Carrie is orig
inal. II she Is nothing else,
We enjoyed the occasion ana gained
much for ourselves and hope we gave
encouragement by our presence to this
worthy enterprise and left the Tuggls