Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-01-26
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Augusta Evans Wilson, who immedi-
ately after the war acquired consider
able fame and a liberal fortune by a
series of novels, of which the most
popular was "St. Elmo" whose hero
belonged to the Guy LiUing tone-Ro-
chester type, a muscular, mysterious,
bad-tempered brute, whom the young
women of that period elected to ad-
mire. After Miss Evans marriage to
DR.. Wilson she ceased, at his urgent
request, to write; but now, after q
silence of some twelve or fourteen
years, a new novel by her is announced
as in press. Apropos of her reappear-
ance in the literary world and among q
generation of new Southern authors,
whose manners and methods are far re-
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house in Mobile, Ala, as given by her
friend, Mrs. A. V. Dockery. This
house was, it may be promised, the in
vestment of money she earned by her
pen, and is famous throughout the
South for its beauty and its wonderful
Conservatives, in which blooms that
rare flower, the wonderful camellia. A
drive along Spring road, on which she
resides, brings one to Mrs. Wilson's
house. The house first appears through
the half-mile vista of old live oaks, and
is of the usual type of Southern archi-
lecture, a square building surrounded
with broad galleries and pierced
through the center by wide lofty hall,
with stained floors, furnished In rich
old mahogany. Through the rear en-
trance to this hall one passes out into
q big, old-fashioned, luxuriant flower
garden, where the @bower" is, and
where Mrs. Wilson does much of her
work. The bower is a Chinese pa
CODA, about which are scattered lux
urious chairs and lounges, Oriental
draperies and bric-a-brac. There is a
study table here strewn with books
and pei eliodicals, and smaller tables are
laden with fruits and flowers. Mrs.
Wilson's geraniums are famous, and are
said to be the most complete collection
in America. Many of them are four
feet high, and the collection when
massed together in the blossoming sea-
son is q revelation of colors and beauty.
Mrs. Wilson, slight, small woman, is
found in her library generally. where
she has stored the many valuable books
and antiques that have been slowly
and carefully gathered together
through many years. Her hair is short,
wavy and silver gray. Mauve and pale
blue is her favorite wear, and her hair is
covered by bit OF fine lace. Her man
ners are gracious and cordial, and her
face full of sympathy and intelligence.
When she married DIR. Wilson he had
two children by former wife, but she
herself has had none, and finds her
loves in the howers.-N. y. World.
Artistic Front.
An artist and his fam ly residing in
the country one day received the visit
of wealthy friend and patron. The
young wife ran into the kitchen to look
after the dinner. In jocular tone the
guest called out after her: "Don't for
get the trout, my favorite dish!" This
was a shock for the poor woman, for
she feared the worst, viz, not single
trout to be had in the whole village.
And so it proved, for the cook returned
from her errand with nothing but few
paltry whitefish. The master of the
house was consulted, and he was of the
opinion that it would not do to disap-
point their honored guest. "An act of
daring must help us out of the difficult
ty. Prepare the whitefsh in trout
fashion, and will attend to the rest. F"
When the soup was finished, the artist
was suddenly called out of the room;
armed with brush and palette he hast
ened to the kitchen, where the white
fish were spread out on the dish and
decked out with parsley, and painted,
in perfectly harmless colors, of course,
a score of red specks on the sides that
lay uppermost. The noble guest mani
tested his delight at the fish, and was
gratifed at the polite abstinence Of his
enterta ners, which left him to enjoy
the lions share -Deutches Montdgs-
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A LITTLE boy of our acquaintance
had had his use of shall and will so
often corrected that one night in say
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