The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-01
Miss Hattie Morton

l so much to people in this big city,
 S any other personality which
 such universal appeal, any other
 woman who is more generally beloved 1 than-Miss Hattie Morton?
 I think not. For Miss Hattie as
 we all love to call her in this endear- ing term, means perhaps more to Bir-
 mingham than almost any other indi- vidual in this entire community.
 Her beautiful personality, her splen-
 did poise and dignity, her ability and 1 her sweet, gentle Christian character, all have moulded the life and ambi- l ton of many girl who today looks Lack with the sweetest remembrance ! tc the "old seminary days and recalls l he advice given her by her teacher and 1 ideall
 Miss Hattie Morton is more than a teacher more than a president of two l great schools, for she has that sur passing quality which makes her a 1 friend-than which no higher compli- l ment can be paid anypody-and 1t IS 1 her friendship, staunch and unwaver- 1 ing, that has created such large clf- | cle of friends for her-friends whose l loyalty, once pledged, has never been ! retracted.
 Tn educational and musical circles. Miss Hattie Mortons name. like Zen l Adams. Heads all the rest for her
 ambition has been that in every branch ] of learning taught in her institut1o% | the very best teachers would be em- l rloyed and the very best advantages 1 provided in music and literature and art. as well as in the academic branches.
 | Miss Hattie's' "reminiscences (and | wish she'd write them some day) cover l q period from Birmingham's early edu- cationa and musical period to the
 present day. when Birmingham IS so i fast making a reputation as musical and educational. as well as lndustrlal l and commercial. center.
 'T recall when I went to Atlanta ! for whenever we heard a great musi- 1 eian-singer, violinist, orchestra-any- l thing. in those days we had to jour nev to Atlanta,r Miss Hattie was i telling me the other day, and that 1t l cost me s30 to hear de Pachmann. That l included railroad fare. hotel bills and tickets for the concert. Birmingha-n
 in thnEe days did not have great music l clubs or 'all-star concerts to bringy | the noted artists here; but, as I said l i efore, whenever we heard any world famous musician we had to pack our trunks and go Atlanta ward. bCnOlQ SlnCta lHtli lie Qliti cAiNN' 1 said Miss Hattie. Now we are really l established al a great musical and cul- i tural center. The girls in my schools the Seminary and the Margaret ~ ] len school--not only attended the 1 beautiful concerts themselves, but 1 their parents wire for tickets, too and l often in my purchases of fifteen, twen- ty and twenty five tickets for a concert the parents of the girls are included, IT any ofa them coming from distant states besides Alabama. extending from South Carolina to Mississippi and Louisiana.
 And please let me tell you how T l felt when I heard Freda Hempel sing" Miss Hattie" said-and I lis- tened carefully. for her opinion is worth while the fact that she has studied music all her life and that she 1 Is a finished and beautiful musician makes her estimate of any artist valu- able. 'T will tell you of my emotions and feelings when Miss Hempel sang hv a story: There was an old. old mu- sician. a Mir Dolmetsch. wonderful collector of old instruments-th viola, the harpsichord and other similar in lstruments-who lived in Boston. He has also written the most valuable lit- erature on the subject of these old in- struments. I heard him. with his young wife plax concert and thev played | some confusion in the audience-not quite the rapt attention desired-and so. when they were about to respond to the encore Mir. Dolmetsch stepped to ltbe front of the stage and said softly l If you will listen attentively while we
 Henry Dean expect to spend Easter in 1 New York.
 MT. and Mrs Marvin Howard of LAX | ington, Va are the guests of their raugn- | ter, Mrs Chalmers Moore. and pr. Moore.
 at their home at Miner Heights. 1 Mrs Harold Holmes, who has been | the guest of her sister Mrs. John Mac
 Sporran, and Dr. MacSporran, has re- turned to her home in New Bedford | Mass.
 Mrs. A. M Lynn and son, Henry, of
 I Pittsburg are the guests of relatives in
 the city. and will remain until after the
 marriage of Mrs. Lynn's neice. Miss Enz-
 abeth Jordan, and MT Walter Brewer,
 on Wednesday, April 2.
 i Miss Julia Watkins. who is student at
 Agnes Scott College will arrive tomor-
 row to spend Easter with MT. and Mrs
 John Yeatman.
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