, 1884-08-07
WOMAN AND HOME. !
Pen Sketches of Members Of thu
Famous ssorosls."
ThinGs Popular aud FasbIOnabIe-
Your own Sister and some one
RIse's-Croquet vs.. Lawn
Teunfs-Notea.

woman By her ability, tact and eonciliatory
manner aud BY her persistence in enforcing
order by parliamentary rules, 10 promote the
success OF the club. She Is yet in middle
life, but for more than twenty-five years the
name Jenny June has been u household
word iRAmerican homes, for the euphonious
signature has been seen in the Newspaper Of
every state and section, and scarcely any
writer has been more widely copied. last
year she contributed to twenty-sevcn papers
outside OF New York.
She WINS born in Marlborough. England, and
wa brought 70 America by her father when
she was o years old. She was a precocious
child, and had already, when only g years
old, b<en president VI a juvenile temperance
society, and, decked with the insignia OF
Office, had perched herself on IA high chair
ard imposed a written constitution ON her in
FAINT confederAtss. Shs collected the dues
herself, tool penny n weck-and pocksted
them To prevent the misrepresentation Of
funds During her school-iife she also in
vented plays, parceled out the parts 10 the
immature amateurs, and acted as stage
manager. While "a miss in her teens she
edited a school-paper at Southbridge, Mass,
and the local paper at that place had the
honor OF declining the first article she ever
offered for publication.
Some twenty-seyen years ago Mn Croly
\ began 10 write about American fashions, and
she had the field entirely 10 hsrself. During
the last years Of the war she undertook a
most versatile work. She was editorial
writer and newsedltor Of The Sunday Times,
fashion-editor OF The World and The Times,
editor Of two monthly magazine, chief con
tributor to a third, weekly New York cor
respondent Of two Journals, contributor 10
Brownson's Review, and wrote monthly let
Iaru 10 fau nfhar atar Cha r..- La.D. l.a
her hands full. She has now been for years
the editor OF Demorost's Monthly.
Mrs croly has the retantive memory, The
facility, and tho tremendous industry Of Il
born journalist, and TO those she adds q
breadth OF thought and a consciousness that
are unusual. In personal appearance she IL
frank and propossossing-a blonde OF slender
form, with light-blue Dyes. pleasant features.
and an expression habitually pensive. She
Is not very free with the small talk Of what
Is called society. but ia most at home In con
Sidering human nature and its attributes,
and how to improve the condition Of women.
MARY MAP DODGE.
The editor OF st Nicholas was born to II
literary inheritance. Forty years ago one OF
the best known Of New Yorksrs was Pro
fessor James Mapes. He was a scholar, "A
philosopher, an eminent scientist, and a noted
inventor, a brilliant talker, and famous wit
Statesmen and authors were constant visitors
at tho house. He fed his children on old
English ballads and Walter Scott. Two Of
his daughters became proficient musicians,
ono an artist, and the fourth, Mary, while
having a talent for both these requirements
had n sharp literary tendency and a quick
ear for languages. Her mother, like her
father, was a person Of raro culture. She
had listened to her grandmother's reminis-
cences Of the revolution, when she was sa.
luted by tho worlds hero, Washington. and
danced with the worlds chevalier, Lafayette.
While still IA young woman Mary Mapes
Dodge was left a widow. She returned to
her fhther's home, but, 10 avoid the crowded
conyerSazioni there, she fitted up an old,
barn-like building near by, and, with deft,
feminine touches, decorated It's principal
room and made It her study. She wrote Il
volume entitled ~"Irvington Stories" 1t had
a good sale. But her tremendous success
was with the celebrated Dutch story, "Hans
Brinker, or The Silver Skates" On closing
this book, as a critic said, one does not seem
to have been reading about Holland, but liv-
ing in Hollqnd. It is sold In America by the
hundred thousand. Several editions we're
published In London- II was translated into
many tongues, appearing rapidly In Paris,
Berlin, Copenhagen, Milan, -Constantinople
and In Holland 1t Is regarded AS II classic.
Mrs Dodge's first journalistic work was as
editor OF Hearth and Home, associated with
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Donald q. Mitch
ell cIks MArvel'1. The paper did not sue
coed.
When St Nicholas was started by Roswell
Smith and DR.. Holland, the brilliant author
Of AHans Brinker" was made editor as a mat
ter Of course. and, under her management,
that magazine has proved one of the phe-
nomenal successes in periodical literature,
having paid a dividend from the very first
Now IL Is a splendid property, and well calcu-
Lated to make every old fellow wish he were
a boy again While editing this magazine
Mrs Dodge has written three books; Rhymes
and Jingles,r "Theophilus and Others and
AAlong His Way" Her poem iarge and
wholesome, buoYant and joylD Ike herself
"a standing refutation OF her u.n apothegm,
that Pegasus feels impelled to amble to-
wards a graveyard as soon ~ he feels a side.
saddle ON his back
MARY L. BOOTH.
Miss Booth, the editor OF Harper's Bazaar.
says she does not remember learning TO speak
or read either English or French. She had
read through the Bible and Plutarch's Lives
before abe was ), and mastered Racine In the
original whom she was Z. and began TO study
Latin with her father. She was born amid
the ~salt-ssa atmosphere Of Yaphank, OH tue
east end Of Long Island. where, six genera
tions earlier, her ancestor. John Booth.
bought Shelter Island from the Indians for
| 100 yards Of calico. Miss Booth began To
write early. and in her teens she complied
The Marble-W orkers' Manual and The
Clocklnakers' MnnualH-books Of a peculiarly
dry, masculine type. which afe still regarded
as standard works. Ina request by the craft.
She early drifted into translation, rendering
rapidly into English the works Of Eugene
Sue, Merry, Cousin. Mariner, Dumas, and
Edmond About. While yet scarcely more
than n girl she wrote the History OF Now
York, y in two Misunderstanding from Wash
ington Irving a letter Of warm encourage
nent and Endorsement A new edition OF
thi. important work appeared in 1850.
During the rebellion she did notable service
on the side Of the Union by TRANSMITTING works
by noted foreigners. In 1851 she got the ad-
vance sheets Of GaspArin's Uprising OF d
Great People" and rushed to Scribner's with
It. Eyes. il is very WE'LL said the astuts
caterer; but the war will be overln a month
and we can't get It out as soon as that Sh,
persisted IF you will give me copy in d
week / try it, he said. She went home
worked twenty hours out Of every twenty
four; in less than a week the copy was all il
hand, and in fortnight the work was out
IL made a tremendous sensation, and did
much to rouse The north Sumner and Lin
Knight 4 Waterbury
Have just received at their musical en-
porium, 3l2 Ferguson street, a complet,