, 1884-08-07

cain sent letters OF earnest thsak1I Thu SITS
vas enlisted for the fight.
She Is n tall and ample parsonage, with q
good deal OF heaithful color IN her comely
nd striking face, framed N sffvering hair
brushed back and rolled over cushions. She
has dainty and handsome hands and soft
brown eyes, and those who have bean at her
receptions know she loves old lace and all
fine and fieecy textures In business she IL
keenly direct and buaaess-like, but In 30
eiety she falls 80 naturally into the ways OF
luxury and leisure that it seems impossible she
could ever have found time to put forty
books to press
ERMISNIE A. NTH.
Mr. Smith Is a literary woman OF the
scientific type. She was born near Syracuse,
~. Y, and has always bean a close observer
OF nature. She received o good education at
Mrs. Emma Willand's famous school, and she
took lessons In Greek and Latin from old
Elder Arthur father OF President Arthur.
Her husband Is Mr.. Simon H. Smith, Of
jersey City, a well-known politician and in
fiuential citizeu- When their four sons were
old enough she went TO Europe with them
and put them to school. Boys and mother
alike studied during these years. Mrs.
Smith entered the celebrated School OF Mines
at Freiberg and took lessons In geology,
mineralogy, and the use OF the blow pipe
the only lady that had ever been In attend
ance. Thence she went TO Heidelberg and
StrAsburg and studied cryEtAlIography and
German literature.
IL never having been necessary for her To
earn her livelihood, she had not become a
journalist or magaznist but three or four
years ago the director OF the United States
bureau OF Ethnography requested her u
make an especial study OF the dialect and
folklore OF the six Iroquois nations-ths In
dams Of New York. Shs undertook tho tnsk,
passing considerable time on the reservations.
The Tuscarora tribe ushered her into their
ranks with due ceremonies, and gave her the
name Of "katcitcistakwastT-the White
Bear.
She is now just finishing n most important
work-a complete dictionary OF the Tuscarora
language, with synonysms. She has mastered
.the TuscarOra tongue, translated the Bible
into it, and classified 1900 words In the
various Iroquois languages.
SOME OTHERS
Among other women Of talent who have
for years got their living with their pens
might be mentioned at length Mn. Mary
Kyle Dallas, who, as Fanny FERNS successor
on Bonner's Ledger, gets 10000 a year for her
admirable short stories and skstches-a pleas
ant Lady, with a genteel form and white hair;
Miss Nelly Hutchinson. editor OF Inc weekly
Tribune and OF the personal column In the
daily-a little lady of fist-rate journalistic
training and delicate taste and d-iscernmsnt;
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb who does special his.
torieal work very web indeed, and who pos
sesses something Ike genius In coIlating
flor The Historical Magazine, Of which she
Is. EDITOR facts and incidents which her
touch makes succulent and entertain
ing. but which from an ordinary hand
would be Us dry as a husk; Miss LILY M
Curry, probably the handsomest OF all our
literary women, and one OF the most success
full Of all our young poets and tory-wrlters
Mrs. Wheeler Wilcox, the female Swinburne
OF the Prairiss, recently trRnsplantsd hither
from Wisconsin, woman Of opulent fancy,
comedy form and Oriental eyes; Emily Arch
ard, who writes editorials for Frank Leslie's
Illustrated, and for Truth under Connery's
management Mrs Gertrude Garrison. an
allaround writer, whose pen Is in constant
demand; not to mention Miss MILDLY Morgan,
the stock-editor Of The Times and other able
women who do excellent regular work in spe,
cial departments OF the daily press.