The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
"A CHRONICLE OF SA)(lEl Y Enn1RE EbRYA

TIT will be with interest that the many
 friends of Mrs. Louise Bankhead
 Lund learn that she will leave short ly for overseas duty. In writing to friend Mrs. Lund said:
 Some days ago l wrote you something of the endless chain route of getting into the service of my country under the Red Cross banner. They tell me President Wilson daughter would have to go through exactly the same routine have had to do, as well as every slnsle soul who goes under the auspices or the Red Cross At last, I see the daWn and expect to receive orders very soon and no general ever received his stars with more pleasure and pride than Louise Bankhead Lund will feel when she is clothed in the uniform of the Red Cross nurse"
 Mrs Lund is well equipped for this service and her many friends through out the southland feel very happy that she will be among those who will nurse our boys back to health. In speaking of her one who has known her all her life said:
 The depth of her capacity has never been sounded. It is her habit to serve upon the most difficult and important work near at hand and conclude it suc- cessfully before others could make pre- hminary plans. An amazing whirlwind Of energy, well poised mind, gracious dignity of manner a ready sympathy and absolute courage are arhong the con- stituent clements of an exceptional na- ture"
 Fr Iv nf- who was Mrs. Lund's family physician for number of years. when told that she was among the splendid southern women who are going abroad to nurse our boys, said:
 T have never known a woman better fitted to care for the sick and suffer ing. She is not only physically able. but competent and sympathetic with heart big enough to cover the earth. She is a woman of fine executive ability, willing to do more than her share of work, faithful and can be depended upon under all circumstances I wish it were in my power to send a thousand nurses like Mrs. Lund to our boys in France and Italy.
 SOUTHERN GIRLS OVERSEA The many friends of Miss Donnen Dunbar Avirett of Maryland and Miss Harriet Fitts will be interested to learn that they will be among southern girls who go abroad in the entertainment sec ton of the Young Mems Christian asso- citation as entertainers
 Miss Fitts was reared in this state and is the daughter of William c. Fitts, for- merly attorney of this state and assist ant attorney general of the United States until last August when he resigned to become a member of a we'll known law firm of New York City.
 Miss FittS is of the few young women of society who has made a place for herself in the drama. She has played with some of the most popular stars and has always been with the best manage ments.. She played with Margaret Anglin in repertoire for a season and with Madame Yorska, the celebrated French actress in another repertoire season. She has also been with Laura Hope Crews and took prominent part in Clare kum- mer's charming comedy, Good Gracious, Anna Belie.' The past spring she made tour of all the Liberty theatres in the cantonments in this country in Klaw and Erlanger's Here Comes the Bride Since the war Miss Fitts has devoted most of her time to the entertainment of the sol ders in the various camps and her trip to France is but an extension of her efforts to serve her country.
 For the past six weeks Miss F'itts and Miss Avirett have been doing this work together at the camps around New York city under the auspices of the stage women's war relief and the eastern divi- sior of the Y. M. C. A., going to CamE Upton, Camp Mills the gas mask factory at Astoria, Long Island. Brooklyn navy yard. the base hospital at Mineola and other places.
 Miss Avirett Is daughter of Mrs James Walter Thomas and the late Col