Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-12-30
A REPRESENTATIVE WOMAN.
MRS. ABIGAIL J. DUNIWAY.
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

MRS. ABIGAIL J. DUNIWAY.
| A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
The Psychological Journal for De-
cember contains the portrait of Mrs.
| A. J. Duniway, the talented editor
| of the New Northwest, and q remark
ably accurate sketch of her character
and life-history. The unprecedent'
led success attending the publication
of her new poem David and Anna
Matson," gives it widespread in
terest, and the author a national
fame. We therefore, copy the ar
ticle entire, as affording a fair Illus
tration of the industry, nerve and
determination of the women who
have labored so faithfully the past
ten years-and with such marked re-
sults-for ON equality of the sexes,
politically, socially and before the
law.
This lady has IN excellent consti-
tuition for health, vigor, and long life.
Her brain measures twenty-five and
one-quarter inches and as she weighs
100 pounds, she has, fortunately,
body enough to give ample support to
the brain, and enable it to work long
and hard without exhaustion.
Her temperament indicates the vi
tai and mental, the first giving q
tendency to zeal, enthusiasm, and
earnestness in work; the other giving
studious disposition and talent; the
power to think, gather knowledge,
to know it's meaning and its use.
We think she takes on her fathers
nature in o large measure, which,
with q good deal of the sympathetic
and womanly, contributes much of
tho heroic, positive. and forcible to
her character.
Her head is broad from side to
side, showing executiveness and
courage. She has q full degree of
Secretiveness, which gives certain
amount of conservatism, or the abil-
ity to find out the easy way of reach
ing peoples wishes and sympathies;
and she has the tendency to make
people mellow first and then mold
them. Some people are radical, SO
is she; they are strong, SO is she;
but they are angular, and she is not.
She does not let up, or excuse,
or palliate the truth, but has a way
Of making people willing to be di-
racted. Here we find harmonious
development of the intellect, the per-
ceptives being large and active. She
values facts. readily remembers
them, comprehends their meaning
and fastens them all to her theme,
and makes them play a logical part.
She has large Constructiveness,
hence complicated matters seem to
her mind clear. She would have
made very fine user Of tools or
manager of machinery, and she has
q high sense of beauty and imagine
ton, UGH poetic fancy and artistic
taste.
She reads character, appreciates
motive, and generally leads the peo-
pie whom she would instruct or
govern. In driving sheep long dis
tances, one man is deputed to go
forward with a salt dish and call
them. and the strong sheep will get
out of the way of the weak ones and
follow close to him who calls, while
the weak ones behind are urged for
ward by drivers, some of whom be-
labor the weaklings with the lash to
keep them up. This lady is like the
one who goes forward with the salt
dish and dries the flock by going
ahead. She believes in applying the
law when it is necessary, just as she
believes in having a sick man take
treatment; but she would keep the
bitter in it as far out of sight as
necessary. She would prefer to ,cin
people to be good rather than TO
scare or frighten them to right ways.
She has strong Spirituality, and
yearns for something higher and bet
ter than this mere worldly state.
Three meals day, a comfortable
house and clothing, do not consti-
tute to her mind the meaning of the
word life or living. She has Hope
enough to look for the good time
coming, and encourages rather than
blamss people; rejoices over what is
done rather than grumbles about the
small progress that is made.
She is Independent. proud-spirited,
ambitious, upright in motive, eau
tious. mindful Of consequences, but
thoroughly energetic and executive;
appreciates property and would man |
age finances wisely; enjoys good liv-
ing. and inclines to bs hospitable.