The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-25
\ Mg DEAR BECKY: You know I buzz WI around so much these days and

ll\WlI around so much these days and VS see so many things and always have so much to tell You that hardly know where to begin. do try to keep you posted about what we are doing and the things that we hear.
 Wednesday I was sitting just quietly at home and the telephone rang and a friend had called me up. saying, Now, Miss Hattie, know you are not Bap- tist, but I have just been over to the W. M L. meeting and saw so many interesting people that I felt sure you would like to meet and I have called you to ask if you won't come over to lunch at midday with us at the Southside Bap- fist church?"
 I went and certainly enjoyed it ever so much The suburban churches (Baptis0 had the affair in charge and served the people. I looked at that crowd and thought, "Oh, you are in the wrong place. but the women urged me to stay, saying, We have a-plenty for all," and, believe me, they did.
 I saw lots of strangers, as well as many old friends and acquaintances. There was young Mrs. Ellis of Orrville, waom ! mad met last summer in Marion when she was the guest of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. EoEaar at the Judson (and she remembered me, tool. She was lovely Harriet Fomar There was Mrs. Dave Malone, whom we were delighted to see and to welcome to Birmingham, which was her foi mer home.
 Mrs W. D. Jynes had as lovely guests her two sisters, Mrs. Barnes of Mobile and Mrs. Wathall of Newborn. Then there was charming Mrs. Stakely who is the st9te president of the w. M T.. By the may. she is the mother of young Mrs. James Wilcox. who will be lemenbered as lovely Frances Stal1ely o1 Montgomery.
 | Beoky 1 could just tell you about scores
 mere, but this W ould only make you real ize only more what you are missing l ty rot being with us this winter. | Then there was the splendid Red Gross luncheon the same day at the Tutwiler which was one of the most inspiring af.
 fairs ever given in this city My dear
 but we all are feeling quite stuck up
 after the wonderful things MT. Davisor
 said about us and then he telegraphe6
 Mr. Jemison the same things after tell | ing us to our face.
 Do you know that the wartime neces city for knitting, which has set tht
 needles clicking all over the world today | is really bringing new appreciation or
 the part of the women for hand made
 articles in the home?
 l The revival of knitting leads oul l thoughts back to days of spinning and
 weaving, Q knitted art in pioneer days. 1 Speaking of knitting reminds of wha
 a friend of ours said few days ago
 She said, Now, Hattie Highlands I don't want you to misunderstood me. as
 I want you and all my friends to worl
 for the Red Cross and anything else that will help win the war, but" she con tinued, some of these women who seen over anxious to do good do not, as a rule l begin their charitable work at home
 You see just now many girls enthus 1 iastically knitting for the men at tn, 1 front yet these same young wome1
 would appear deeply aggrieved if theii mothers asked them to help with tn, l weekly mending."
 She continued: Tt is very fine and com mendable to want to do good to put one | self out that another may benefit by one Isacrifices but charity begins at home. l "Of course we must one and all do oul i bit for the soldier boys as they are ou1 l very own flesh and blood and should re | ceive our first and best consideration ! but if we are going about walking the | streets knitting Gas many are) just t 1 get in the limelight I think we are mals- 1 ing our sex the laughing stock of the l land"
 l Speaking of what our women really are doing to aid the boys at the front in the l war. Amelia Worthington said: Do vol all know that when the history of wha' women really have done in this grea war is written the pages devoted to the work of the women doctors will make