Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-02-26

One Woman Journalists success.
Dropping in at a book store the other day, ]
met Gertrude Garrison, the literary editor
of the American Press Association. Like
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Annie Wolf
Emily, Mrs. Garrison is a blonde and very
handsome. She is above the medium height
with strong symmetrical features, large,
beautiful blue eyes and golden hair. While
she is a successful journalist, something very
few women succeed in being. she has recently
made an especial hit in stories. John Boyle
O'Reilly pronounces her Christmas story
which has been going the rounds of the press
recently, equal to any American classic. Her
Prince of Poverty" is strikingly new and
original in style, and the poet, Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, said that ii would draw tears from a
Spartan. 1t is certainly very strong, full of
pathos and long weeps
Mrs. Garrison is, too, a brilliant converse
tionalist, as entertaining as she is original 1t
is said that she handles a blue pencil with
scientific dexterity, and has no mercy on bad
copy. In fact, she is called a martinez, and
will accept no copy unless it can pass muster
in grammar, composition and rhetoric.
asked her how she managed to wade through
so many folios of copy. She said that
practice had taught her rapidity. Il can tell
in a few foiios how bad, good or Indifferent
the matter will be- The writer generally
shows either strength or weakness in few
pages, and gives forecast OF what is to be
expected. New York Mail and Express.
Eighty-T~o Words Of One Syllable. -
Commissioner Edgerton says he has
awakened to find himself famous by the pub
location in these dispatches of the fact that he
recently delivered a long address to the public
schools at Fort Wayne. and did not employ n
word containing more than one syllable. He
has received requests from all parts Of the
country for comes of the address, which he
has been able 50 far TO furnish One incred-
ulous individual at New York wrote Mr..
Edgerton that he did not believe il was true
that, as reported, he had written q sentence OF
thirty words Of only one syllable each, and
asking him where he could find a paper con-
tanning such q sentence. Mr.. Edgerton an
swered as follows:
Il have no time now to tell you where to
find what YOU seek; nor do I know that
could write what you want il should try. as
/ do not claim to have much skill in such
work, though 10 write short words and to
make fair sense with them does not need
much skill or deep thought, and this truth is
shown by what I now send in my speech
made at Fort Wayne three years since. The
speech was made for and to the boys and girls
who heard il, and il has some home thrusts.
tho force Of which can be known at no place
hut horne
The first OF the above sentences contains
eighty-two words. demonstrating the truth OF
the statement published week or more ago.
Washington Cor. Baltimore American.
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