The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-15
A MOMENTS CHAT WITH MRS. JOHN B. REID,
 THEBUSIEST WOMAN IN NBIRMINGTIAMTODAY
ny DOLLY DALRyMpLr

1 reasons.
 The main one Is that have the pleasure (and it's a far greater one than attending the big fair) of having a chat with Mrs. John B. Reid of the womans department. To me Mrs. Reid stands for all that is fine and splendid and genuines in womanhood
 | She probably helps more people. throws in their way more pleasure and adds more to their happiness than | any other one woman the whole city of Birmingham
 Absolutely unselfish, her work being for the sake of humanity rather than self aggrandizement, she gives all the time and energy of which she is ca pable to helping women to help them selves.
 This of corse. is not all done through the Alabama State Fair
 Not by an ymeans. | Her activities in other directions en- able her to do a great deal but of course the fair gives her the chance to reach more people than she could do In her capacity as private citizen or citizen-ess
 Mrs. Reid never loses her enthusiasm, and l think that is one reason she makes a success of whatever she un- dertakes
 l Just look back over her record | Do you remember those first little attempts at "woman's department" at the fair when things were in their crude stage and Mrs. Reid was .pio- Ineering7"
 l Look now at the splendid achieve- ments she has made in that direction? 1 The "womans department" of the Alabama State fair is the equal if not the superior of anything of the kinG in this whole country Mrs. Reid has not only interested the women of the entire state of Alabama in contributing their talents to this er terprise. but she has enlisted the at tention of women all over the south and If you could have seen her desk and documents and telegrams you'd know just what l mean when I say that Mrs. Reid is the busiest woman in Birmingham today.
 | "I get to the office at g o'clocls ; said Mrs. Reid, as we chatted about the forthcoming fair and from then until dark l haven't one moment that can call my own. It's the telephone one minute, caller the next a note a telegram. some sort of communi- cation at every turn, and I can tell lyou that 1t keeps me busy keeping my head level with all these matters dependent upon me and me alone"
 The first thing I do when l get to the office" Mrs. Reid continued "is to open my mail and get that off my hands. have had letter from 400 hun dred mothers up to the present time tr. regard to entering their babies in the baby show at the fair. Each one, of course. thinks her baby is the finest and the best that ever lived, and I have read of the charms of so many babies that I feel like
 "The old woman who lived in a shoe Who had so many children she didn't Il know what to do."
 'Wouldn't MT. Roosevelt enjoy hear ling about the prolific corp of babies lyouve got on hand for the fair?' I asked facetiously.
 Mrs Reid smiled and said: | "Anybody would If you could re- alize the intent that the Mothers Club
 
 September 15. at her home on Hawkins street.
 | Another affair planned for Miss Mil- ldred Worrell will be a box party at the Lyric Saturday afternoon. September 19. Miss Worrelrs marriage to MT. Marvin Edwards will be an event of September 80.
 The Wednesday Afternoon Social club will meet this week with Mrs | r. n rrAx at Ha hrr,, on Tuscaloosa avenue. | The Treble Clef club will hold its first meeting in Clark & Jones hall Wednesday morning at 10:S0 o'clock. NOTES
 Miss Dolly Kirk of Montgomery ar rived Sunday to visit Mrs. John S. Poster at Norwood. She will be with Mrs. Foster a week.
 Mrs. D. K. shannon of Memphis is the guest of Mrs. Ditto in Norwood. 1
 Mrs. Etta Gordon of Jasper Is with her daughter, Mrs. Vance. of Norwood, for several days.
 Miss Jeanette Ebersole will leave today for Atlanta. where she will visit Miss Aileen Fielder before going to Winston-Sa to school. Miss Etta McCauley has returned to Mississippi after spending two weeks with friends in Norwood.
 Miss Louise Glass of Norwood is in Point Clear visiting her aunt Mrs. Palmer Quillian.
 Mrs. James G. John is the guest of Mrs. A. W. Rall in Gadsden. Miss Nellie Haylows friends will re- Gret to know of her illness. She is at her home in Norwood.
 Miss Irma sturkey. who has spent the last two months visiting in south Georgia has returned home.
 Miss Lyda Kern Mullen has re- the summer
 | Kenneth Mcdonald has returned to Boston. where he will resume his studies at the Boston School of Tech nology.
 MT. and Mrs. w. D. Lanning have named their little daughter Mary Eliz- abeth for her maternal grandmother. Miss Susie Belle Smith of Mobile Is the guest of her grandparents. Capt. and Mrs. John G. Smith. at their home r on South Eighteenth street.
 Mrs. Hunnicut has returned from New York. where she has spent the