The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-10-30

There has been much curiosity shown over
the authorship of "As 1t Was Written whlci
| Is published with the pseudonym or sidney
I.uska on Its title page. The author IS prot
ege of Il G Stedman, who thinks the book an OK
| traordinary work.
Mrs Kate Upson Clark, editress OF GOOD
Cheer. is said to be the first lady who walked
from the Crawford house to the summit OF
Mount Washington over the bride path, dis
| lance of nine miles. She performed the perilou'
| feat few days ago.
A photograph of Nathaniel Hawthorne, taken
% years ago In London, has lately been brough
to light, and is to be engraved for Harper's
Magazine. 1t will appear in that periodical two
or three months hence, see ompaned,it is hoped
by an article from the pen of James Russell
Lowell.
Anna Drinker, who 80 years since was a "a
vorite maker of verse and prose for literary jour
mails and magazines under the soubriquet OF
| edith May" and has for 10 years past been
confined in the asylum for the insane at Har-
risburg, Pa, has been pronounced cured,an re-
leased from confinement.
Number I've OF Volume Two OF Good
Housekeeping will be a Thanksgiving Number,
a particularly interesting one. and will contain
a story by Mrs Katherine Foot entitled "A
Real THANKSGIVING Day" Miss Parloa's arti.
Gle in this number will be devoted to "Good
Things for Thanksgiving Day."
"Ten Dollars Enough, Keeping House well
on Ten Dollars a Week. How it has Been
Done-How it May be Done Again" by Cath.
crime Owen, author of "Culture and Cooking
one of the most practical writer's OF the day on
household affairs, will have prominent place in
Volume Two OF Good Housekeeping.
The labor problem will be discussed in The
Century during the coming year by several
writers of prominence. The first article in the
series is by the Rev DR. Lyman Abbott. Ut will
appear in the NOvem Der number, with full
page engraving of picture by young Amefi-
can artist, Robt Koehler, called ''The Social
ist."
Princess Theresa, the only unmarried daugh-
ter of Prince Lultpold Of Bavaria. who has Wis
tied incognita every country in Europe with me
exception of Spain, and kept diary for fatfe
elaboration has just published volume enti-
tied impressions Of Journey through Rus
sia" under the nom de plume OF Tn Won Bayer-
Her next work is to Ike a description OF her tray-
els IN England.
All the half.forgotten tales of "H II" are be-
ing hunted up for better hearing, now that
there can come no more from that source. A
forthcoming st Nicholas will contain story OF
BEES Jackson's. monument OF appreciation
is often erected as maidstone, where little OF
it given earlier might have fed a soul hungered
for a need OF praise. Happily this cannot be
said Of "Helen Hunt"
Harriet Beecher Stowe says Of Miss Cleve-
lands book: SIN my opni IN it is book Of
which all American women may be proud. Far
from anything weak or sentimental 1t is an ex-
preston Of vigorous habits of thought, of high
culture, of fine principle and earnest feeling, in
short it represents the American woman az her
best. rejoice t6think that the White house
has such a woman at its head"
Here is an etching OF Mary Murfree, the
Charles E. bert Craddock of the magazines :
"She is short and painfully crippled, square and
angular. A brown skim very red lips, small
white teeth and black, swapping eyes; her hair
brown and worn in curls about the forehead,
surmounted by braid, make her look countri-
fed. The mouth is large and teeth perfect
When she speaks the mouth stretches to sur
prising degree and the teeth shine in q set
SMILE" Miss Murfree says she will never mar
ry.
The frontispiece of the November Century
will be drawing by Mary Hallock Foote, en-
graved by I Cole. The reason that there has
been less Of Mr. Coles engraving in The Cen
tury lately is, that be is engaged in an interest
ing and important art enterprise for that maya
zine. For two ears Mr. Cole has been making
engravings of the ED masters III some of the
galleries of Europe. 1t is said that
the work in this direction already done by him
promises results in wood.engraping not hither.
TO attained in the rendering of these master
pieces
The Good Housekeeping $500 prize papers
will be published in Volume Two, commencing
November IA, and are as follows: $3.50 for
series OF six papers on "How to Eat, Drink and
Sleep as Christians Should" by "Margaret
Sidney" Mrs D Lothrop) of Boston; 5000 fora
series of six papers on "Mistress Work and
Maid Work Which is Mistress and Which is
Servant" by Mrs L Gurley, Waco, Texas
$50 for a single article on BREAD; How to
NJ axe it Well and Economically, and How to
Eat it Healthfully," by Mrs Helen Campbell,
Orange, New Jersey.
Spiritualists are interested in curious little
story, whose truth is vouched for by leading
women of San Francisco, which is told of Hell
IN Hunt Jackson. 1t seems that before her
Heath friend told her of a poor woman whose
husband had left her with an infant child to |
are for, and Mrs Jackson directed that some |
articles OF her own wardrobe should be given to |
he object of their sympathy. The woman in |
Ter gratitude gave her little daughter Mrs jack
on's name. After her death the poor woman |
ook up Der little child one day, and, calling it
~ name, said ooh, my little girl, the lady |
Who was so good to yOu never saw your sweet |
ace, and she never knew how | loved her," At
hat moment, III, woman related, a hand was
aid on hers, sweet, motherly face bent over
er and said II am not dead, | am here" The
'oman had never seen Mrs johnson, but she
escrMd her perfectly in feature, voice and
lanner.