The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-07-21
LAuaRS. FRANK LESLIE.
TUE wIroHrNG WIDOWS WORK.

~ iioo OF cAtNh DSSh ''"'SN ''NN
.'women' know nothing of business"
that it has come to be accepted as q
truism by unthinking people. Yet
hundreds of business men wv not q
little of their success to cool-headod,
sagacious wives. A frequent modiii-
cation of the first statement is that
"women excel in small economies, but
arc unable to grasp large business
enterprises" or ifthCy do they become
masculine and lose hat gracious
tcmiuinity which is the principal
charm of woman. The utter talsity OF
these statements is nowhere more
strikingly shown than in the case Of
Mrs. Frank Leslie. With executive
paper genius possessed by few men,
She preserves all the charm of her
womanhood and is as popular in the
social as in the business world. Through
the force of her w personality, she
is at once one Of the most attractive us
we'll as most important figures in the
profession of journalism. For Mrs.
Leslie was Il journalist, and Il good
one too, before she became the head of
the great publishing house which bears
her name. In the management of her
ten publications, employing 500 cdi-
tors, artists, cngravcrs, printers and
others, Mrs. Leslie has displayed the
very highest business qualities. An
untiring worker, she is found in her
office every day, from nine TO tour
O'Clock. She signs ali the Chccks and
money orders, makes all contracts for
supplies of every sort, looks over
proofs Of ali articles before they are
published, and approves the makeup
Of every periodical before it is sent To
press. She is the head Of the whole
establishment. No Oma in Amer
lea has illustrated higher aud grandcr
qualitics-a broader capacity, a lottier
courage, or u more indomitablc per-
severance under the storm and pres
sure of heavy difficulties and burdens
than she.
The story Of her life reads like q
manc Miriam Florence Follin
was born in the French quarter of
New Orleans. She began early to
write for the magazines, her first APP
pcarancc in print being at the age Of
thirteen. She was a hard student and
an accomplished %linguist. She trav-
clUd extensively and published several
interesting volumes giving the results
" " J0"''s "S n'|':'H
work was CRISP, lLcsh ana c~vldcnclng
ROOF of things which has been So re-
markedly developed III her later work.
From the date of her marriage to Mr..
Leslie she became his most valued adj
wiser and most efficient coadiutor in
all matters affecting the makeup of
him many publications. She assumed at
once the CditOrShiD Of the IUIU'S
-hug"EtHc, ana lhalntallleu Il general
II careful SUPERVISION over the on
1cnts OF ali INC oln@r 10
rare literary aoiiit!, MIS-. Leslie addcu
unusual business GapaCiVy, ahu her
llusoa'o soon iou'io icr a'Iicc no less
~,"luapic IeS"ttliS ''c iiGcila'ilcai ana
p"ellcSS ucPal''llci!" oi MS esl'oilsh-
niei!s .li',Ii ooncclhl''S NC let'crIprG:S
% III? fWplicI'lols. Nhen M Leslie
uIco III ,?9o 'nciu WIS ~ 'l'i'e lcit ior
t,o oc",.,liu, Ho"nS WIZ" ~ 'noutll;
Dhc Was any - as un.'Lf any leiilleo
aS ."o lI.oS. .ctuuiis oicilIlru iaus
WV, !cU nj Mcio p:loto ici e.cih,
uunpio'sit' 80 mM w. r;io
~ w. "t,u"9' r tm"' nn ~ 49,"
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ponaSoinoaSS "ii"ino "' I'LL - "iHios. ioi,e-
n,~;n;onnn iisnir 81 NO Innso ono
;mnor;iIod nroot srm nf " na,
waS nno,jnd anI no"io6 ~ onco ~
IL Iiamn NrnnnSs o"G -; U'Iu
20 hcr Ln"hamI,s wiUm Mrs PonIio
Ln. Ch,isiion nor,n -,
Wor;nm Tiornnrc and hncomn IN tbn
law and TO Tho woriJ uErontn Tneiin
TO The business world shn hccomc
even moro tLnn EronE Tcsl;n Wbnn
thc slender swcnt.focnd gnntio.vnino
woman wolknd into ner hnshond,e
Office, and nuttinG back thc sad nm.
nonnrin~ fnids Of hrr ry,c,1c VOL
anmonnrod she hod come ~ Stoy no,
gnntlc ~locions lnminInitv won thc
symnnihy of those nbonl her, Rnl
when She came thc ucyt Iov ~ carly
as The earliest clerks. and the nrxt Iay
and The next, sometime moro thai
respect and sympathy for tho bray,
little woman came Into their rcnnrf
for her,
she sat nj hcr desk like q Nonoloou