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# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

​WARD, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, author, born in Boston, Mass., 31st August, 1844. Her father was Rev. Austin Phelps, professor of sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary. The family removed from Boston to Andover in 1848, and lived there until 1890. Professor Phelps was elected president of the seminary in 1869. and in 1879 he became professor emeritus. Elizabeth was a precocious, imaginative child, and her education was liberal and thorough. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, was an author of note. After the death of her mother, in 1852, Miss Phelps, who had been christened with another name, took her mother's name in full. She began to publish sketches and stories in her thirteenth year, and her literary work in Andover was mingled ​with charitable, temperance and general reform work. In 1876 she delivered a course of lectures in the Boston University. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD. Her published works are: "Ellen's Idol" (1864); "Up Hill" (1865); "The Tiny Series" (4 volumes, 1866 to 1869); "The Gypsy Series" (4 volumes, 1866 to 1869); "Mercy Gliddon's Work" (1866); "I Don't Know How" (1867); "The Gates Ajar," twenty editions in the first year (1868); "Men, Women and Ghosts" (1869); "Hedged In" (1870); "The Silent Partner" (1870); "The Trotty Book" (1870); "Trotty's Wedding Tour" (1871); "What to Wear" (1873); "Poetic Studies" (1875); "The Story' of Avis" (1877); "My Cousin and I" (1879); "Old Maids' Paradise" (1879); "Sealed Orders" (1879); "Friends, a Duet" (1881); "Beyond the Gates" (1883); "Dr. Zay" (1884); "The Gates Between" (1887); "Jack the Fisherman" (1887); "The Struggle for Immortality," essays; "Poetic Studies." and "Songs of the Silent World." Besides her books, she has written many sketches, stories and poems for "Harper's Magazine," "Atlantic Monthly," "Youth's Companion" and other periodicals. Her most famous work is "The Gates Ajar," which has passed through many large editions in the United States and Great Britain, and was translated into several European languages. In October, 1888, she became the wife of Rev. Herbert D. Ward. Since then she has published "Fourteen to One," a volume of stories, and, in collaboration with her husband, "The Master of the Magicians" and "Come Forth." In the summer she and her husband live in East Gloucester, Mass., and in the winter their home is in Newton Highlands. Her productions throughout are marked by elevated spirit and thoughtfulness. She is interested in all philanthropic work, and she gives much time, labor and money for benevolent interests. Her circle of readers is a large one and is constantly growing.
# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth W. Champney

​ELIZABETH W. CHAMPNEY. CHAMPNEY, Mrs. Elizabeth W., author, born in Springfield, Ohio. 6th February, 1850. Her father was Judge S. B. Williams. She was educated in Vassar College and w.is graduated in 1869. During her girlhood she dreamed of literature as a profession, and she wrote many romances that were never printed. In 1876 she began to publish short stories, poems and romances in large numbers. She contributed to "Harper's Magazine" and the "Century" a series of observations on her travels in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco, as well as other oriental lands. Among these papers was a striking one on Portugal, another on "A Neglected Corner of Europe." and a third. "In the Footsteps of Fortuny and RegnaulL" Since her return to the United States she has written about a score of volumes. Her novels are "Bourbon Lilies" and "Rosemary and Rue" Her stories for youth include "All Around a Palette" and "Howling Wolf and His Trick Pony." Among her historical stories for youth is "Great-Grandmother Girls in New France," suggested by the Indian massacre in Deerrteld, Mass. One of her most successful works is "Three Vassar Girls Abroad," which consists of ten volumes. Mrs. Champney writes much on solicitation by publishers, and her time is thus too much taken up to permit her to indulge her bent and talent for poems and short stories. Her popularity has dated from the appearance of the Vassar series. She became the wife of J. Wells Champney, the artist, 15th May, 1875. Their union is a singularly happy one in every way. Mr. Champney has done some of ​his best work in illustrating his gifted wife's books. They have one son, Edward Frere. They make their winter home in New York City, and their summers are spent in "Elmstead." the old-fashioned house built in Deerficld, Mass., by Mrs. Champnev's grandfather.
# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth U. Yates

​YATES, Miss Elizabeth U., lecturer, born in Bristol, Maine, 3rd July, 1857. Her ancestors on both sides were characterized by intellectual strength and religious character. During her school days she gave evidence of oratorical gifts that have been developed by special training. ELIZABETH U. YATES. She studied in the Boston School of Expression and has had private instruction from the leading professors of elocution in this country. She is one of the few women to whom the Methodist Episcopal Church ever granted a license to preach. Her pulpit efforts are remarkable for simplicity and power. In 1980 she went as a missionary to China. She has given an interesting and graphic account of oriental life in her book, "Glimpses into Chinese Homes." In 1886 she returned to the United Slates, where she has devoted herself to moral and religious reforms. She is a national lecturer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and one of the leading speakers of the National American Suffrage Association. She is especially interested in the subject of woman's advancement in all countries, of which she is an able exponent and persuasive advocate. She is also winning success as a lecturer. Her home is in Round Pond, Me.
# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth W. Greenwood

​GREENWOOD, Miss Elizabeth W., temperance reformer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1849. Her father was a lawyer. She was converted at the age of fourteen and turned from a fashionable life to her books and to philanthropic work. She was educated in Brooklyn Heights Seminary and was graduated in 1869. She took a post-graduate course and spent some time as a teacher in that school, giving instruction in the higher branches and weekly lectures to the junior and senior classes. When the Woman's Temperance Crusade opened, she enlisted at once. Her peculiar talents tilted herfnr good work for temperance, and she has been conspicuous in the white-ribbon movement throughout the State and the nation. When scientific temperance instruction in the New York schools was being provided for, Miss Greenwood did important work with the legislature, as State superintendent of that department. She served as national superintendent of juvenile work. She has for years served as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on the Hill in Brooklyn, as superintendent of its juvenile work, and as lecturer and evangelist. She spends her summers in the Berkshire Hills, Mass.. where she preaches on Sundays to large audiences. In 1888 she was made superintendent of the evangelistic department of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1889 she visited Europe, and there she continued her reform efforts.
# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth Willisson Stephen

​STEPHEN, Mrs. Elizabeth Willisson, author, born in Marengo county, near Mobile, Ala., 21st March, 1856. Her maiden name was Willis- son. Her paternal ancestry is English, and some of them were noted figures of the Revolutionary period. Her mother's family is of Huguenot descent, and the name of Marion is conspicuous on their family tree. Thomas Gaillard, her maternal grandfather, ranked high as an ecclesiastical historian. Her grandmother, Mrs. Willisson, was an intellectual woman, who fostered the little girl's love for books and cultivated her intellect. ELIZABETH WILLISSON STEPHEN. Elizabeth grew up in the world of books, writing stories and verses. Her mother, Mrs. M. Gaillard Spratley, is an author and joint worker with Mrs. Stephen in "The Confessions of Two." Her field of use- fulness widened with her marriage, in 1888, to W. O. Stephen, an able Presbyterian clergyman. She takes an active interest in her husband's work and in all religious progress. Her home is in Rockport, Ind. Her married life is a happy one, and one child, Walter Willisson, blesses their union. Beside the novel, "The Confessions of Two," she has written much, both in prose and verse, for various newspapers and periodicals.
# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth Rowell Thompson

​THOMPSON, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowell, philanthropist and temperance reformer, born in Lyndon, Vt, 21st February. 1821. Her maiden name was Rowell. Her childhood was full of the hardships of pioneer life, and she began, at the age of nine years, to earn money by serving as maid-of-all-work in a neighboring family, receiving a salary of twenty-five cents a week. Her early education was naturally neglected, but in later years she made up for the want of training that marked her childhood. She grew to womanhood, and in 1843 visited Boston, Mass. There she met Thomas Thompson, a millionaire, a man of refinement and culture. He was captivated by her remarkable beauty. The attraction was mutual, and they were married. With great wealth at her command, she was able to carry out her wishes to do good. She engaged in charitable work on a large scale, and her methods include the removal of the causes of misery, quite as much as the relief of misery after it is caused. Her expenditures to aid worthy men and women in getting education amount to over one-hundred-thousand dollars, and her other benevolent enterprises represent an outlay of over six-hundred-thousand dollars. She has regularly expended her income in benevolence. She has aided actively in the temperance reform movement, and her aid has often taken the form of large sums of money when needed to carry on some particular work. One of her contributions to the literature of temperance is a statistical work entitled "The Figures of Hell." Her husband cooperated with her until his death on 28th March, 1869. He left her the entire income of his great estate. Being childless, she was free to give full play to her generous impulses. She purchased Carpenter's painting of the signing of the emancipation proclamation by Lincoln in the presence of his Cabinet, paying twenty-five thousand dollars for it, and presented it to Congress. She paid ten-thousand dollars for the expenses of the Congressional committee appointed to study the yellow-fever plague in the South. She gave liberally to support the Women's Free Medical College in New York City. She founded Longmont, in the Rocky Mountains. In Salina county, Kansas, she gave six-hundred-forty acres of land and three-hundred dollars to each colonist settled on it. She spent a large sum in bringing out a " Song Service " for the poor.
# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth Turner Fry

​FRY, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, philanthropist, born in Trenton, Tenn., 22nd December, 1842. where she resided with her parents until the death of her father, James M. Turner. In 1852 her widowed mother, with five children, among them Elizabeth, moved to Texas, settling in Bastrop. During the succeeding years of her life she attended school in different places, making one trip back to Tennessee, where she entered an academy for a term. Upon returning to Texas, she taught for a time in Bastrop, the remuneration going towards paying her tuition in special branches. In 1861, while on a visit to her sister, Mrs. O'Connor, who resided in Corpus Christi, she met, and one year later became the wife of, Lieut. A. J. Fry. The young couple moved to Seguin, where Mr. Fry engaged in general business on a large scale. Having accumulated a fortune, he moved with his family of three sons and one daughter to San Antonio. Mrs. Fry from her earliest youth possessed much religious reverence. She professed faith when but fifteen years old and joined the Methodist Church. For three years she faithfully followed its teachings, but, as she grew older and read more, she analyzed her feelings to find that the Christian Church opened the path. Accordingly she was baptized in that faith. She is a woman full of energy of spirit and mental endurance, which has been the secret of her success, both as a philanthropist and a Christian. She has taken an active and aggressive part in all temperance projects. In the Prohibition campaign in Texas, in 1889, she followed every line of defense and gained admiration for her pluck and willingness to express publicly her strongest views. Several years ago a hull-fight on Sunday was a public sport in San Antonio. The public ​and offices did not seem to suppress it, and finally Mrs. Fry deckled to take the matter in hand. On a Sunday, when the ti^ht had been an in mined and flyers were floating into every door, she determined ELIZABETH TURNER FRY. to do what she could to prevent it from taking place, and accordingly circulated a flyer addressed "To All Mothers," setting forth the wickedness and degeneracy of such a sport, and the necessity of its suppression for the sake of husbands, sons and humanity. The bull-fight did not take place, and there has never been one on Sunday since that time in San Antonio. Being blessed with a goodly share of wealth, charity has flowed from her hands Unrestrained. She is a prominent member of ten beneficent societies, and keeps up her voluminous correspondence without aid, besides distributing quantities of temperance and Christian literature. She is a woman suffragist from the foundation principle. Her sympathies were always with the Union and against slavery. She now holds a commission as a lady manager from Texas to the World's Fair, besides being vice-president of the Queen Isabella Association. She was selected as a delegate to the national convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, in Boston, in 1891. With all these responsibilities, she attends to her many household duties.
# Woman of the Century/Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

​LATIMER. Mrs. Elizabeth Wortneley, author, born in London, England. 26th July, 1822. Her maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Wormeley. Her parents were Rear Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley, of the English Navy, and Caroline Preble, of Boston, Mass. ELIZABETH WORMELEY LATIMER. She was the first of the family, on her father's side, born outside of Virginia, and the first, on her mother's side, born outside of New England for nearly two-hundred years. Her grandfather, lames Wormeley, was in England during the Revolution and served as captain in Windsor in the body-guards of George III. After the Revolution he returned to Virginia, but in 1797 he went back to England, taking with him his young son, whom he placed in the English Navy. Mrs. Latimer's childhood was passed partly in Boston and partly in the Eastern counties of England. In 1836 her family moved to London, where they saw a great deal of American society. In 1839 they went abroad and spent three years in Pans, France. In 1842 Miss Wormeley spent the winter in Boston as the guest of the family of George Ticknor, and in the cultured society of that city she derived much encouragement for her fancy for literature. Her first appearance in print was in the appendix to Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico," for which she had translated an ancient Mexican poem. Returning to London, in 1843. she published her first novel and began to contribute to magazines. The family were in Paris during the revolution of 1848, were in London during the Chartist demonstration in the same year, and afterward they sailed for the United States, making their home in Boston and Newport, R. I. Admiral Wormeley died suddenly in Utica. N. Y., on his way to Niagara Falls, in 1852. On 14th June, 1856, Miss Wormeley became the wife of Randolph Brandt Latimer. For twenty years she lived principally in her school-room and nursery, and it was not till 1876 she again joined the ranks of literary workers. Her pen has been a prolific one. Her books, published in England and the United States, are numerous. Among the most popular are "Amabel" (London and New York, 1853; "Our Cousin Veronica" (New York, 1856); "Salvage" (Boston, 1880); "My Wife and My Wife's Sister" (Boston, 1881); "Princess Amelie" (Boston, 1883); "A Chain of Errors" (Philadelphia, 1890); "France in the XIXth Century" (Chicago, 1892). Her miscellaneous work includes translations, essays on Shakespeare's comedies, stories, ballads and articles for "Putnam's Magazine," "Harper's Magazine," and other standard periodicals. Mrs. Latimer is now living in Howard county, Maryland.
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Puzzled Dutchman

THE PUZZLED DUTCHMAN.
    I'm a proken-hearted Deutscher,
       Vot's villed mit crief und shame.
    I dells you vot der drouple ish:
       I doosn't know my name.
    You dinks dis fery vunny, eh ?
       Ven you der schtory hear,
    You vill not vender den so mooch,
    It vas so schtrange und queer.
    Mine moder had dwo leedle twins;
       Dey vas me und mine broder:
    Ve lookt so fery mooch alike,
       No von knew vich vrom toder.
    Von off der poys vas "Yawcob,"
       Und "Hans" der Oder's name:
    But den it made no tifferent;
       Ve both got called der same.
    Vell! von off us got tead, —
       Yaw, Mynheer, dot ish so!
    But vedder Hans or Yawcob,
       Mine moder she don'd know.
    Und so I am in drouples:
       I gan't kit droo mine hed
    ''Vedder I'm Hans vot's lifing,
       Or Yawcob vot is tead!
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Lost Pet

THE LOST PET.
       Oh, list! while I tell
       Of the fate that befell
    A pet that was dear unto me, —
       A black-and-tan pup.
       Oh! bitter the cup
    Prepared by that " Heathen Chinee "
          For me,
    The friend of those venders of tea.
       This young black-and-tan
       Away from me ran, —
    An act which I did not foresee;
       And, though I did seek
       For over a week
    To find him, it was not to be.
          You'll see,
    'Twas the work of that sinful Chinee.
       His name was Ah-Bet,
       (Not the name of my pet,
    But of him of Chinese pedigree;)
       And he kept a small shop,
       And had the best "chop"
    Of tit-bits from over the sea,
          That he
    Obtained from his far-famed patrie.
       He had "chow-chow," that tickles
       The lover of pickles,
    Though with me it did never agree;
       And things filled with spice,
       Which may have been mice,—
    They looked enough like them, — dear me!
          To see
    Such food in the "land of the free."
       One day I'd a friend
       Who was coming to spend
    The day, and take dinner with me:
       So I went to Ah-Bet,
       And told him to get
    A rabbit "and fixin's;" and he
          Said "Oui,"
    In a manner quite Frenchy to see.
       The clock had struck one:
       The dinner was done,
    And served up with steaming Bohea.
       "'Tis excellent fare,
       This rabbit, or hare,:
Whichever it may be," said he,
          (Mon ami:)
    "You've a prize in that Heathen Chinee."
       Just then in the dish
       I noticed him fish
    For something he thought he could see,
       That didn't look right;
       And brought to the light
    A tag, with inscription, " Toby."
          Ah me!
    'Twas that of my lost favori!
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Widow Malone's Pig

THE WIDOW MALONE'S PIG.
    The Widow Malone had a beautiful pig;
       No one had its equal from Cork to Killamey:
    And Paddy McCabe had his eye on the same;
       A roguish chap he, full of mischief and blarney.
    This beautiful pig fairly haunted his dreams;
       And he swore, that, unless he was sadly mistaken,
    He would feast off his ribs upon St. Patrick's Day,
       And even the widow should not "save his bacon."
    One morning the widow went out to the pen,
       Pail in hand, with the first streak of dawn,
    When, lo! it was vacant; no piggy was there:
       The sweet little creature was gone!
    Straightway to the priest for assistance she went,
       Who asked her the cause of her grief.
    "Och! your riverince," says she, " 'tis me pig
       that is gone! And I think Pat McCabe is the thief."
    Soon after Pat came to the priest to "confess,
       And told of his theft from the Widow Malone.
    "Take it back," says the priest, " without any delay!"
       "Sure I've ate it, your riverince!" says Pat with a groan.
    "Ah, Pat!" says the priest, " at the great 'judgment-day,'
       When you meet the widow and pig face to face,
    What excuse will you give for your terrible sin?
       I'm thinking you'll go to a very bad place."
    "Will the widdy and pig both be there?" says Pat.
       "To be sure," says the priest, "to accuse you
    of sin." "Will, thin,"replies Paddy," I'll say,'Here's your pig!
       By St. Patrick, I'll niver molist him agin!'"
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Butcher's Courtship

THE BUTCHER'S COURTSHIP.
    "On, my Mary Ann," he side,
    "Will you be my loving bride?
    I cannot liver 'nother day without you.
    Your bright smile lights up my heart,
    Whisper yes, beefore we part,
    And the tenderlines of love I'll cast about you!"
    Then the rascal, growing bolder,
    Drew her head upon his shoulder,
    While the ribbones on her bonnet fluttered free,
    And fore-quarter of an hour
    They reclined within the bower,
    And she promised him she ever true would be.
    "Now," says he, " I must be goin'—
    Don't you hear the cattle loin?
    I can tarry here no longer, love, to-day;
    You can steak a silver dollar
    I shall be a steady caller;
    Keep your pluck and spirits up while I'm away!"
    Then he turned to cross a mead
    Where the horned cattle feed,
    And wasn't paying very much attention
    To the gender of the herd,
    When there suddenly occurred
    An accident he fain would never mention.
    He chanced to look a round,
    When towards him, with a bound,
    Came their masculine protector o'er the lea;
    And so brisket seemed to him
    That his chance was rather slim
    To flank him, or to even shin a tree.
    He was bull dosed, so to speak,
    Sorely rumpled, cowed and weak,
    And will steer hereafter clear from bulls and cows.
    The tail, alas! is sad;
    Would'st shun a bull that's mad?
    Then beware the quick contraction of his browse!
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Little Conqueror

THE LITTLE CONQUEROR.
    "‘’Twas midnight; not a sound was heard
       Within the'"—"Papa! won't 'ou 'ook
    An' see my pooty 'ittle house?
       I wis' 'ou wouldn't wead 'ou book"—
    "'Within the palace, where the king
       Upon his couch in anguish lay'"—
    "Papa! Pa.-pa! I wis' 'ou'd tum
       An' have a 'ittle tonty play"—
    "'No gentle hand was there to bring
       The cooling draught, or bathe his brow;
    His courtiers and his pages gone'"—
       "Turn, papa, turn ; I want 'ou now"—
    Down goes the book with needless force,
       And, with expression far from mild,
    With sullen air and clouded brow,
       I seat myself beside the child.
    Her little trusting eyes of blue
       With mute surprise gaze in my face,
    As if in its expression stern
       Reproof and censure she could trace.
    Anon her little bosom heaves,
       Her rosy lips begin to curl;
    And with a quiv'ring chin she sobs,
       "Papa don't 'uv' his 'ittle dirl!"
    King, palace, book—all are forgot;
       My arms are 'round my darling thrown-
    The thunder-cloud has burst, and lo!
       Tears fall and mingle with her own.
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Tell-Tale Mirror

THE TELL-TALE MIRROR.
    She was sitting in the office of her husband's down town store,
    And waiting for his coming, as she oft had done before,
    "When in a handglass on his desk,—Jerusha! she was mad—
    She saw these lines reflected, from a brand-new blotting pad:
    This -was the way the letter ran,
       and ended much like this:
    Should any reader wish to know what made his wife so mad,
    And what those brief reflections were, upon that blotting pad;
    And why a suit for a divorce was quickly brought about—
    Hold this before your looking-glass and you will soon find out.