The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

ister and college professor made beat biscuits for woman's exchange and was so successful that she built an oven and SUI piled the Cunard steamers on their transatlantic voyages. thus making comI eteney on which she retired. The chief expert fin the dend letter office
 was Mrs. Pattie Lyle Collins from Mis- sissppi. whose untimely death by auto accident shocked us all in December; she was woman of exceptionally bril- liant mind and charming personality Mrs. Ellen Kirk Downs from Alabama
 has an elegant iewelry store in Rome. making a speciality of pearls. and con- duets also moving picture theatre.
 The Blossom Shop" by Mrs. May flaw ley Mullins of Louisville. gives q beau tiiul picture of a lady who supported herself and her little blind daughter by shipping flowers and vines to northern florists from the dells of Alabama. Closely intertwinsd with business &C., tvities are those relating to industrial occupation, inventions, domestic science, rLral home life, in all of which the
 women of the new south takes part. Dr. Lillian Johnson anl Miss Ernestne Non ot Tennessee, have lately returned from Europe, where they made special study of rural community and farm life and e mined thoroughly the system of farm ing and banking combined which is work Ing in Italy and Ireland to the great ad- vantage of the peasants and they advise the Introduction of d similar system into this country Miss Martha Berry of Rcme, Ga, has a school for mountain boys which is also q home for them, in which they do all the work of the piece and thus learn practically many traces and occupations. Mrs. R D. Joff ston of Birmingham. has made great success of the industrial school for boys near that city; Miss Juit Tutwiler, besides being principal for many years of one of the normal schools of Ala bama has always been interested and active in work for prisoners and other ur fortunates. Other names might be given, if space allowed
 The arts-music. painting and sculp- ture-have always interested southern women, and in music she has ever de- lighted and made it a part of her home surroundings. As artists in these lines We may mention Miss Fatty Thum a painter; Miss Zudie Harris a musician. toth sof Kentucky: Myrtle Elvyn and Olga Samaroff, concert pianists, of Texas Miss Margaret Dunlap of Geor- gia, singer; Miss Lena Little of Texas and Madame Madier de Montjau, who Was Miss Etta Roehl of New Orleans, concert and opera singers, and there are clubs and schools for music conducted by women in all the cities; Mrs Nor ean-Stephens in Atlanta, Mrs. Aileen Blandner in Nashville. who has taught for years and trained many fine pianists and is herself still an artist on that in- strumen.; it is said that she was the first in that city ito make certain classi- cal compositions easily intelligible and cnjoyabe;" Mrs. John M. Slaton is presi- dent of the Atlanta Musical association; Mrs. A. D. Klasscoek of Charlotte N C., set to music the poems of MaaNeil ana they were sung at the MacNeill memorial concert there in February of this year, Miss Behr of Atlanta gives fine piano lecture-reeitals; Mrs. SOsgood, with her husband, who is also painter Las an art school in Atlanta: the Sophie Newcomb school in New Orleans sends cut many real artists one of whom, Miss Frances Jones, now lives in Philadelphia as an illustrator and painter; and large firm in New Orleans employs a woman to make all their designs for interior decorations; the daughter of the poet Richard Henry Wilde, designs the floats for the New Orleans great festival of Mardi Gras; a Georgia painter, Mrs Bessie Rogers Varnadoe, had a picture in the Paris salon; and another Georgia artist. Miss Susan Buttolph, had bust accepted for the same honor. And num- erous other names might be given.
 Thus we see that the woman of the new south is a well developed human be- ing, full of life, animation. energy, with high aims and ambitions, and making lofty ideals real in the life around her.
 She may have her faults, but if so, no space has been allowed me to mention them