The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-02
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS
Woman
''In every crisis there's a woman. :"

"In every crisis there's a woman" Sure, but I'm not going to run throug history to name those who have mad their impression on the age in whicl they lived.
 l could write a readable story abou the heroines of the Old Testament. An, Bible lover can call up their portraits I'm not going to rummage througl Egyptian lore and try to cast the speI of Cleopatra over my column.
 I'll pass up the Greeks. Helen O Troy
 "Divinely tall and most divinely fair, A daughter of the gods,"
 will make a bow and leave the stage. The Roman Cornelia will only be per mitted for moment to show her flew els before the curtain falls
 cO<NaA little peasant of France, who was, nc one knows how, all to herself an army nay all the armies of France in one as she rides by on her horse of gold.
 
 A look into Victorias motherly face the English Queen who gave the Eng lishman the Victorian age, which mean, they are going to be victors-and wt pass on.
 Now, we come to the good year of oul Yes, since January we have been visited by some notable women.
 First came the divine Sara. Madame Bernhardt is more than a great actress she is the incarnation of the spirit ot France, and her visit lifted us all into a higher region of patriotism
 What a life! What an actress What a woman! My heart goes out in sym pathy to the lonely Frenchwoman who In her old age, in foreign country, has been so near to deaths door. If 1t be the Heavenly Fathers will, I pray thai she may live to die in France.
 Then came Anna Shaw, one of the brainiest women the United States has ever produce-a woman with a mission. The mere story of her life is an epitome of the changing of America from a pio- neer to a cultured land.
 AS she stood and pleaded so eloquently for womans rights, it was hard to real- ize just what she had done and suffered for humanity's sake. Dr. Shaw Is more than woman. She is an institution and ought to be syndicated for the good of mankind or, rather, womanlkind.
 
 Mrs. Mathis then came to town, bring ing with her breath of country life that put 'song in every city mans heart who had come from the farm. Her com ing on the death of winter was just the birth of spring.
 This woman of the people is big of body, and big of brain, and big of heart. She is wholesome all the way through. Her very presence begets confidence. She is the embodiment of healthy common sense and she was just the business tonic Birmingham needed
 Then appeared Miss Millar, the evangel- ist of better life. Not the ranting, berating type of uplifters, but the woman with a soul so pure and transparent that everyone who came under her sway wanted to be better.
 She was an artist to her finger tips and had power to weave spiritual ina gery into such delectable shapes that it seemed not only sin but absolute folly for any one to want to live on low grounds of immorarit. Miss Millar was just the need of.
 Other notable women have been our guests, but close this movie picture by throwing on the screen Kitty Cheatham, a southern girl, dainty as Dresden statue, who came and went like a good fairy.
 Kitty is the childrens friend Kitty Is the "Faerie Queen of childhood Kitty is the godmother who can take the wrinkles out of puckered juvenile forehead and wipe teardrops off the hot cheek of tender human plants, quiet the restlessness of pent-up boyish passion, and cause smiles and laughter to take their places. It's blessed work. Long may she live to sing her way into the hearts of the little ones.