THE AGE-HERALD, SNUDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1900 THE PROFESSIONAL WOMAN OF THE NEW CENTURY BE INTERVIEWED Ethics Will Be Pleaded as a Defense A TALK WITH DR. META HALEY She is the Only Woman Dentist in Birmingham--Social Gossip of the Week Just Past and of the New Year BY ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER. The new century will be reconelled to woman's invasion of any or all professions. The twentieth century will not gossip over the successful woman artists, physicians, writers, lawyers, or along whatever channel a woman may direct her energies. The nineteenth is bequeathing the the twentieth not a new woman after all, for 80- called advanced woman has grown "old." The successful professional woman is a veteran, and she no longer desires to be catalogued in a distinctive class.
She is not to be considered as an anomaly of civilization, or written of in a sentimental vein. She may be as sentimental as she wants to be, but all this nineteenth century practicability will necessarily affect the new century, and I predict that woman and her pursuits will be less discussed in the century so soon to dawn. The professional woman will demand that that she less be will said take of will her, be and forced the upon by the ethics of her professions. The fin-de-siecle woman will tell you today that it is not ethical to write of her success simply because she is a woman, while the young fellow across the way is in the same profession and making a success of it, and yet whose name has never appeared in the newspapers. The young fellow in question, if consulted, would probably summon that chivalric spirit that is supposed to lie dormant in every man, and declare that the professional woman must be discussed and her success paraded before the eyes of a startled world.
He will not admit that there is the ethical side, and his determination to look over what the professional woman recognizes is demanded in all professions places the latter in a position that she has reluctantly accepted. With the successful woman, with an avowed intention to pursue her college and professional life without the aid of columns of editorial discussion in the newspapers and magazines, I am at a loss what fate to predict for the twentieth century writers whose themes must relate to woman. as there is no occupation more delightful to me than to write of the successful careers of the business or professional women of today, and in view of the near approach of the twentieth century woman, I am going to write my story (probably my last) of the successful career of a charming Southern woman, who sured me only yesterday that I would violate the ethics of her profession if I wrote only of her and did not mention the careers of at least two or three men in the same block who were notably successful in their professions. And I wanted to tell her that if I were to take trouble to write of the successful career of any man in her profession that the editor of this paper would call advertising scheme; but that the' stortres a successful woman was indeed "another story," and considered by editors the most charming and readable stories that find their way into their papers. The newspaper woman of today feels that her "chief," and her readers as well, are always interested in the stories that record the success of the bright and progressive women in both the business and professional world.
She is Dr. Meta T. Haley, and enjoys the distinction of being the only woman dentist in Birmingham or in Alabama. She is a Virginia woman, and opened her offices in Birmingham a year ago last October. She is a graduate of the famous Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, of which Dr.
C. N. Pierce has been dean for thirty years. He was Dr. Haley's preceptor, and she referred to him affectionately.
Dr. Pierce stands at the head of his profession in this country, and his recognized distinction that" Philadelphia has always been regarded as very center of dental pedagogics. Dr. Haley was demonstrator in operative dentistry at the Pennsylvania college, and was quiz master for several years. This latter chair required complete mastery of the authorities on dentistry.
So familiar was Dr. Haley with methods and lectures of the great dean of the college that when the latter was unable to fill appointments he would send as a substitute the young Virginia woman, who could repeat every word of his lecture. Dr. Haley practiced four years in Westchester, and she is very fond of Pennsylvanda, where her college and professional life was spent. In addition to her dental work, Dr.
Haley gives two lectures every week to the students at the Birmingham Dental College. She has the most attractive offices in the Chalifoux building, and they are more like an artist's studio than dental offices. The unattractive furniture is entirely screened from view, and one glimpses only cozy corners and easy chairs and books and a wall hung with etchings. Dr. Haley is not only distinguished in her profession, but she is personally a charming woman, who talks on any and all subjects most delightful vein.
Yesterday afternoon she was a guest of the Woman's Club, and was invited to give a talk before the club women, who have long been anxious to have the pleasure of hearing her. Dr. Haley's subject was "Temperament; Its Relation to Dentistry." She discussed it in a thoroughly scientific manner, and her talk, while informal, treated of a subject that, handled so comprehensively as it was, classed it with the group of notably instructive lectures that have been given distinguished lecturers from time to time before the Woman's Club. "There is a power acting differently in each individual which determines irrevocably and absolutely his type of personality," said Dr. Haley.
"The vague name, temperament, is given to that special ture whereby which one is appears full of in impulse the where individual, another is calm; one is rapid of thought and motion where another is slow; one is sanguine in all his undertakings, where another is cautious and doubtful; it is, in fact, a summing up of all the physical and mental peculiarities. "These differences depend upon, first, heredity; second, environment and training. Man is many-sided-very versatile in his range of capabilities, and finds his highest and truest development in relations where mind and body are harmoniously employed; where he finds a complete adaptation of his powers, both mental and physical." Dr. Haley explained the different classifications of temperament-that of the ancients into the choleric, phlegmatic, the melancholic and the sanguineous; of medical writers into the acid, the alkaline and the neutral, and of some French physiologists into the motive, the vital and the mental. She dwelt mournfully upon the most widely known and more adaptable classification of the bilious, the sanguine, the nervous and the lymphatic, giving a description of the appearance and the mental tendencies of each type, and the general form, the face, the hand, the coloring and lastly, the mental habit.
She explained how to tell the basic temeach writer has different perament the eyes, the coloring, the form, but tha't all these are wrong, because most of these may change with environment and physical habit, and that the only way to distinguish is by the most important organs in the body--the teeth. Wedding of Miss Thompson and Mr. Steagall in Tuskegee. Tuskegee, December most notable wedding that has occurred in Tuskegee for a number of years was that of Miss Sallie Mae Thompson and Mr. Henry Bascombe Steagall, celebrated in the Methodist church here at half-past 1 12 o'clock Thursday afternoon.
The bride has been the social favorite of Tuskegee since her girlhood, and thus her wedding day was made one of surpassing interest to society. The wedding was an elaborate and beautiful one. The color of white and green was faultlessly carried into effect. The church edifice was a marvel of beauty. The chancel and carpets were white, bamboo, holly and palms being used for decorations.
The soft glow from dighted wax tapers shed on the scene rendered it beautiful indeed. With the advent of the wedding party, Miss Annie Lyde Smith sang with sweetness "Call Me Thine Own," and Mrs. McCloud sang During the ceremony Professor Massey, who presided at the organ, also played in low, sweet strains, "Always." A chorus from Lohengrin was rendered as the party left the church. The wedding programme was beautiful in its conception, and faultlessly carried into effect. The candle-bearers were first to enter the "Church from the front, proceding up the two central aisles and taking positions in the chancel.
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Porter Steagall. The ceremony was performed with impressiveness by Rev. Dr. McCann, and the wedding party left the church in the following order; The bride and groom, the maid of honor, Miss Maebelle Massey of Tuskegee, and Mr. Porter Steagall of Ozark; Miss Lucie Gautier and Hon.
Charles W. Thompson; Miss Lucy P. Randle of Union Springs and Mr. D. E.
Kersh of Montgomery; Miss Sue Gautier of Tuskegee and Mr. Bertram Hayes of Abbeville; Miss Mary Lou McKenzie of Eufaula and Mr. John Drakeford of Tuskegee; Miss Ethel Clifford of Birmingham and Mr. Ernest Thompson of Tuskegee; Miss Ellen Ready Lawson of Montgomery and General Bryan of Tuskegee; Miss Myra Mitchell of Gadsden and Mr. Winfield Thompson of Tuskegee; Miss Willodene Frazer of Union Springs and Mr.
Lawrence Lightfoot of Eufaula; Miss Maggie Smith and Judge (Milo Abercrombie; Miss Florence Cottingham of Atlanta and Mr. Orlando Steagall of Abbeville; Miss Maytee Hardin and Mr. Acker of Ozark; Miss S. McDowell, of Eufaula; Miss Adelle Washburn of Montgomery and Mr. Charles Walker of Montgomery and Mr.
Thomas Sydney Frazer of Union Springs; the ushers-Messrs. H. H. Curtwright, John Swanson, Ven Dowdell and Ed Alexander; the -Miss Clara Belle Roney, Olive Smith, Bettie Howard, Susie Lee Hendon and Vernon Magruder. The bride was regal in a gown of imported English white cloth, trimmed with panne velvet, real lace applique and fur; hat of real lace, with white panne velvet and fur trimmings.
She carried an arm bouquet of bride's roses and ferns, She was a most beautiful bride. The maid of honor, Miss Maebelle sey, was strikingly handsome in a gown of white organdy and lace over green taffeta. She carried a shower bouquet of cerise carnations. The acting matron of honor wore a handsome gown in pastel green silk poplin, trimmed in panne velvet, with Persian bands and fur. The bridesmaids wore elaborate toilettes of white organdy over white taffeta, with Nile green taffeta stock and sash.
They carried arm clusters of holly. After the ceremony the wedding party were driven to the home of the bride's mother, where an elegant luncheon was served. At the home many beautiful and rich presents received by the couple were displayed, attesting a wide popularity. Mrs. Steagall as Miss Thompson was ne of the most beautiful girls ever reared in central Alabama.
Since making her debut into society she has been a reigning belle, her noble traits of mind and heart assisting in drawing to her much popularity. She is the daughter of Mrs. Thompson and a sister of Congressman-Elect C. W. cle, of which Mrs.
Smith is a member, and the members of all the literary clubs in Birmingham. The club extends a corial invitation to all club women to be present. No invitations have been sent out. In the receiving party will be: Mrs. J.
Graham, Mrs. M. J. Gregg, Mrs. Ida Adams, Mrs.
J. D. Moore, Mrs. Solon Jacobs, Mrs. W.
J. Zeigler, Mrs. W. B. Leedy, Mrs.
E. McCrossin, Mrs. Charles Washburn, Mrs. M. W.
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E. Sorsby, Mrs. John Enslen Mrs. E. T.
Taliaferro, Mrs. Bruce Harris, Mrs. M. A. Luyet, Mrs.
J. H. Phillips, Mrs. B. F.
Mims, Mrs. Battle, Miss Willie Allen, Miss B. Allen, Miss Annie Walker, Mrs. T. D.
Cole, Mrs. J. D. Lykes, and others. Miss Marie Pinckard, who 1 is at home for the season from the Washington Seminary, gave a beautiful luncheon yesterday at which she entertained eighteen guests, the occasion being in honor of the bevy of Birmingham school girls at home for the holidays.
The handsome house was still further beautified by cut flowers, the dining-room, with its rich tapestry hangings, being decorated in pink roses. Miss Pinckard, the lovely young hostess, is among the most attractive and admired young girls in Birmingham. She is spenling the year at Washington Seminary and will go to Vassar the coming winter. The guests at the luncheon were Miss Molly Cullom, Miss Emma Koenig, Miss Edna Coughlan, Miss Mary Anderson, Miss Grace Hardie, Miss- Janie Curry, Miss Florence McCrossin, Alice Moore, Elizabeth Jones, Miss Myrtle, Miles, Miss Miss Kate Bradshaw, Miss Bennie Plosser, Miss Margaret Nixon, Miss Alice Graham, Miss Julia Belle De Bardeleben, Miss Flora Orr, Miss Mary Lanier. Bishop Barnwell of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama is the guest of Mayor Drennen.
The bishop will officiate at the dedication services of Christ Church, which will take place today at 11 o'clock. Miss Bernd of St. Louis is the guest of Mrs. Ben Meyer, 1712 Sixth avenue. Miss Hattie Aron of Greenwood, is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. G. Housman in Sixth avenue, Major J. G. W.
Leftwich and Mrs. Leftwich of Florence are visiting their daughter, Mrs. John C. Carmichael, a't 1160 Twelfth avenue, South. Mrs.
John Calman, who took her little girl, Breatrice, to New York a week or ten days ago to consult a specialist with regard to a threatened bone trouble, ex- THE FIRST LADY OF THE LAND. Thompson of the Fifth district and Mr. W. W. Thompson of Birmingham.
Mr. Steagall is brightest young lawyers in South Alabama, and enjoys a splendid practice in his home town of Ozark. He holds the position of county solicitor. Mr. and Mrs.
Steagall are at home in Ozark. An Aftermath. A number of interesting stories are 38- ing told of the aftermath of the Chrietmas tree at Alabama's Industrial farms. If every grateful expression that fell from the lips of the little boys at the farm were known to the members of the Alabama General Assembly they would carry more weight than the criminal statistics, for these last failed to arouse a sufficient interest in Alabama's reformatory when the bill asking for an increased appropriation was presented. "Jimmy" Kinnebrew, the bright little fellow who has already been adopted by twenty-five Birmingham girls, was enthuslastic in his expressions of gratefulness.
In the exhuberance of his little heart he quite bubbled over. "I got a silk cravat and a broad-brimmed handkerchief," he exclaimed. But without recalling the many happy remarks that were prompted by the day, it will be interesting to know that the number of boys at at at at at at at at at the farm is being constantly increased. Only yesterday Mrs. R.
D. Johnston met a little boy at the railway station and carried him to the farm. There was a pitiable story, and only one of many that came from all parts of the State, and that emphasizes the crying need for Alabama to maintain an institution to save her youthful criminals. In a letter to Mrs. Johnston concerning the boy the pathetic story of the little outcast was told.
"The child," wrote a woman, "never knew a mother's love or care She died or three years after. The little fellow was when a he was only six. His father died two left so with negroes and the sad ed in his heart. The letter recalls a faults of untruth, and stealing, were planttragedy in which through the dishonesty of the child his uncle was killed, resulting in the boy being left at the mercy of the world. "For six months," stated the letter, "the boy has been a cast away.
He has drifted to a small place in the Southern part of the State, when he was sent to the farm." In Society. Mrs. Zac Smith, the brilliant and charming president of the Woman's Club, will be a guest of honor at a reception to be given on New Year's day from 3:30 to 5 o'clock. The reception will be held in the clubrooms and will be a notably beautiful social function of the new year. The clubrooms will be elaborately decorated and the tea table will be in red.
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Greer of the South Highland Presbyterian Church. The wedding, while being a quiet one, will be of great interest to a large circle of friends of both Mrs. Adco*ck and Mr. Smith. The bride to be is a charming and lovable woman.
Mr. Smith is one of the most prominent men in Birmingham's commercial world, and has hosts of friends who will him and his charming bride to be great happiness. The Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society at 3 o'clock the vestry the Temwill meet Tuesday, afternoon, January 1st, ple. Business of importance will be transacted and every member is urged to be present. Hillman Chapter of Temple Emanuel will hold a business meeting of importance Monday, December 31, at 11 a.
m. in the vestry of the Temple. Every member is urged to attend. Miss Minnie Trayner, who has been spending the holidays with friends and relatives in Chattanooga, has returned to the city. The Amaranth Club will meet with Miss Isabel Mushat on Friday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock.
Mrs Rudolph Richter arrived in Birmingham last night to join her husband, who has been living here since fall. Mr. Richter is a member of the orchestra at the Jefferson and is also a member of the Metropolitan Hotel's office staff. The sewing society for the Boys' Industrial School will meet at the residence of Mrs. Joseph Smith.
on the South Highlands, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. WOMAN IN TRADE, ARMY AND POLITICS By Harriett Prescott Spofford. In the future, as in the past, there will doubtless be some women who will cultivate mercantile spirit, and they can claim the example of Mrs. Hetty Green, who has turned one million into many millions. And while it does not at all follow that they need to be eccentric or notorious or nigg*rdly in doing it, it is certain that they will do it better and to nobler ends by reason of the training received all over the country in the schools and colleges of today.
The bad habit of dependence, if not subjection, which until lately has been encouraged in women, has hindered their inventive development. But it is likely that the superior effect of the modern methods, the self-dependence fostered, will increase the inventive quality, and that the manual training given in schools will have taught the use of tools, and the old joke of the woman and the hammer will have lost its clinch. If they can never enter trades requirine, that do muscular not require strength, so they much, can as many enter men do. The enlargement also of the intellectual powers must of course find play in the professions, and women have a already demonstrated their value as lawyers, as physicians, helped by feminine tenderness, as ministers, to whom the long cultivation of the spiritual nature through generation after generation lends an added heavenly grace. It is often quoted as an argument against the advancement of women that they cannot fight, if there were nothing in the world to dos but to fight; as if, indeed, all men could fight.
There is an ample field for women in connection with the army, in the commissary and sanitary and hospital departments, quite as important as any other service. And it should be remembered that when responsibility is brought home to women there will be much less fighting than there is in these days. And in conclusion, may I not say that while those concerned in our country's welfare are urging the cultivated and refined among men to go into politics, it would seem that the presence of women in polltics could not be otherwise than beneficial to the country? WOMAN'S ADVANCEMENT IN THE PROFESSIONS By Lockwood. Woman's introduction into the business world, that was a has necessity, resulted in the fostered by industrial educa- independence of a very large class of American women. All classes and grades of work are today the result of skilled machinery instead of skilled handiwork.
Skilled machinery must be operated by skilled minds, in which, to a very large extent, sex does not enter. In all of the prairie States of the West, where the farming 1S done by machinery, the women can do the plowing reaping as well as the men. They have won a power in this industrial independence that has lifted them out of tutelage. We are no longer educating girls to get married, but are training them like the boy to trades and professions. In the business future of the country there will be a rivalry between men and women for preferment, but heavy contracts, large ventures and business requiring large capital and intricate problems and long experience will be for the next half century in the hands of men.
The professions have been opened to woman, and she has succeeded in them to a degree that will form a precedent for those who will come after, the number of women lawyers, doctors and ministers will increase for each successive year. Already the woman doctor has become a necessity for every town, and she is welcomed in all of the countries of the Orient, where the seclusion of women has been for centuries past the custom or the people. The advent of women into the real political life of country has been mostly confined to the new States of the West, but women politicians will increase and multiply as the years roll on, and they will gradually occupy higher places. Wu Tingfang, the very astute Chinese minister to this country, who has been much interested in noting our progressive women, said to me: "I believe that some day the United States will have a woman President, but they must first become cabinet ministers." I think, however, that to succeed politically women must go into the primaries, be sent as delegates to the nominating conventions, and talk and write in the political campaigns. Nor will this progress lead to the degradation of women, as has been feared.
pects to return home this week. Mr. Calman has received reassuring letters from his wife. The ailment was nothing like so serious as they had feared. Little Beatrice is known as one of the uncommonly attractive children of Birmingham and the friends of her family will rejoice to learn that she is not to be permanently disabled.
Among the events of the week will be a "linen shower," which will be given by Miss Kate Rogan Thursday morning in honor of Miss Mary George Linn. Miss Annie Hill Jemison will give a dancing party on New Year's eve instead of Tuesday, as announced yesterday. The Phoenix Club will give a brilliant New Year's reception. Miss Janie Knox has returned to the city after spending the holidays at her home in South Alabama. Mrs.
E. W. Barrett has returned from Virginia. The alumni of the Birmingham Phi Delta Theta will give a dance tomorrow evening in the ball room of the Florence. The Art Club will resume its meetings on Tuesday.
The meeting of the Creche has been postponed until next, week. Miss Amelia Greenfield has recovered from her recent illness entirely, fever and is at home for the remainder of the winter with Mrs. W. G. Dille, 924 Eighteenth street, South.
The Academy of Music, of which Miss Daisy Rowley is principal, will remove from the Fox building this week to attractive studios in the Watts building. They will be on the same floor with the studios of Mrs. Lovell, Miss Raulston, Mrs. Morgan and other well-known artists, and will be thoroughly delightful. Mrs.
Webb Crawford will entertain the Little Jokers Friday afternoon instead of Thursday. Miss Lillie Ozburn of West Point, and Miss England of Summerville, are the guests of Mrs. Robert Munger. The afternon party on Wednesday given by little Lily Lykes to twenty-four of her friends was among the happy Christmas festivities of the past week. Each little girl with her doll "dressed in its best" presented quite an attractive picture.
A vote each child present gave the prize to Eugenia Wheeling doll for the elegance of its costume, a rich cherry colored taffeta accordion plaited dress, with hat and booties of the same color. Dancing, games and refreshments were heartily indulged in until the time for good-bye. The marriage of Mrs. Mattie Adco*ck to Mr. Wesley M.
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