The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-11

i Frail. delicate. exquisitely refined, with all the charm Of old-fashioned femininity | which we are wont to attribute to our
 ideals of splendid womanhood, is Dr. Car olyn F. Geisel, who is one of the distir-
 suished visitors to Birmingham this week, , among others who are here with the flying squadron
 l Dr. Geisel is a woman of national re- l nown, her broad education, her fine in- tellect, her splendid knowledge of health and hygiene and her unusually magnetic personality making her q figure which is at once appealing and compelling. l A hve-minute chat with pr. Geisel is an injustice both to herself and the ..in- terviewers-for the prodigious amount of l work that she accomplishes is alone a subject which would require pages to pre- sent properly. while the personal side of her character is one that cannot be re- vcaled in few words
 Dr. Geisels activities are so varied and so many that when one stops to consider in addition to her duties as a practiticing physician, she is annual lecturer and instructor at innumerable chautauquas; member of the health committee of the General Federation of Womans Clubs; chairman of the health committee of the Michigan Federation of Woman's Clubs associate superintendent of health and heredity department of the National w. C. T. U.: national lecturer for medical temperance; national lecturer for the Anti Cigarette league and so on through the list-one is forced to ask in amaze ment how she can possibly undertake so many tasks.
 And the only answer is--out of the goodness of her heart, and the endurance of her wonderful spirit.
 Some slight idea may be gleaned of what Dr. Geisel accomplishes in her daily fife, from an abstract of her annual re- port to the Federated Womens Clubs, which indicates that in the course of q single year she travelled 31,422 miles, worked in 21 states, the District of Coum- bia and Canada; spoke in 117 cities; at tended IA conventions: addressed 26 chau- tauauas addressed 49 woman's clubs, and 42 Womens Christian Temperance un- taught 19 classes; delivered 4O2 lectures, wlote 1861 letters, and distributed 40,SO0 rages of health literature.
 No wonder, in view of this record, that the federation adopted the following resolution at their annual meeting:
 Resolved That whereas the work of pr. Geisel during the past year has ex- cited our united amazement and admira- ton, we, being proud of so honorable, unprecedented, widespread, far-reaching, invaluable and unselfsh service to the federation and to all womanhood, extend to pr. Geisel our heartfelt thanks"
 Yesterday during the latter part of the beautiful luncheon which was given at the Tutwiler in honor of Dr. Geisel had the pleasure of chatting with this ac- complshed woman for few minutes prior to her first appearance on the platform in Birmingham which was made at the aft ernoon meeting of the flying squadron ''
 have three excuses only for living" said Dr. Geisel in her modest, unpreten- tious way. First of all I am a physi- cian.''
 That should be excuse enough l in- terrupted long enough to say. ITO cure people, to minister to them when they are ill it seems to me that is one of the greatest things given to anybody
 But I wasn't contented with merely being physician" Dr. Geisel said gent ly. T wanted to help people learn how to prevent disease, rather than cure it, after they were afflicted, so became af- fliated with the w. C. T. U. in the health department, and by the way I had the hcnor of having my badge pinned on by Frarces Willard herself at Buffalo at meeting there just short time before