Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20

dDly ulSCuSS Qu6SUlOHS vi puDuC )OHCy. MIS- Oll-
Ivan is the art critic of the Tribune.
A pupil of Mrs. Sullivan in journalistic work,
Mrs. Prindiville, has adopted the same
forcible STYLE She has done occasional
work as correspondent, but is usually
engaged in art criticism, for which work she is said
to possess decided ability. She is refined and in
teectual, very pleasing in manner and cultivated
in thought and taste. Moreover, she is decidedly
pretty. Her figure is tall and slender, and her
whitening hair crowns youthful face whose blue
eyes smile at its too early coming.
Mrs. Prindiville is an occasional contributor to
WoMAN's CHRoMoLE.-ED.
A correspondent who called on Miss Murphree
(Chares Egbert Craddock), thus writes of her;
'Whe waiting for the entrance of Miss Murfree
quietly took survey of her surroundings, sim
gle glance at which was sufficient to convince me
that the modern craze for aesthetic furnishings had
not as yet taken any hold upon her. The room
was as bare of pretty decorations as the average
hdtel apartment is wont to be. A few cheap prints
in fine frames upon the walls; carpets and paper
that swore at each other as the French put it; the
usual complement of armed and armless chairs, all
upholstered from the same piece of jute, and a
huge writing-table, of the kind usually found in
offices, with Webster unabridged upon it, COM
pleted the visible picture upon which the eye of the
gifted author daily gazed. But the invisible one
the one reflected in her books-only her own clever
pen might paint"
CATER five minutes waiting the door opened
and lady dressed in rather stiff-ooking garnet
colored silk gown, limped painfully toward me-
She was of medium hight, with rather thck-set
figure square, colorless face eyes small, of blue
gray color and mass of red-brown hair. The ex-
IRENE painness of the face and limping gait made
an almost painful impression, which, however, was
soon disspated by her pleasant, low-ptched voice
and simple interested manner For few moments
there was touch of shyness about her. but this
soon disappeared as she became interested in con-
versation, and she talked very fuently of travel
and scenery and the commonplaces of every day.
She particularly admired Bar Harbor, and thought
the combination of mountain and sea beautiful. 1t
was of her native Tennessee mountains, however
that she spoke with the greatest enthusiasm, dat-
ing upon the exuberance of the vegetable growth
there-upon the beauty of the rhododendron in the
spring and the glory of its autumnal foliage. The
impression her personality made upon me was pre-
cisely that conveyed by her books-a serious,
earnest, painstaking SOUL thoroughly imbued with
the pathos, tenderness and beauty OF nature in her
native mountains"
Here are some notes from the n Y. World about
clever women: Mrs. Humphrey Ward author of
"Robert Elsmere" than which no book has been
so widely read and universally approved since
"Adam Bede" appeared-s said to be small
slight woman, as was George Elliot, too, by the
way, and has colorless face SOFT thick, dark hair
which she wears very smooth and plain; large
nose, like Elliot again, and her eyes are small
black and very piercing.
Mrs. Mary Labouchere, wife of the editor of
London Truth, whose contributions to the World
in the shape of foreign letters are familiar to all its
readers is an ardent politician and shares the adj
vanced Liberal views of her husband Latterly
she has been making political speeches in England
to the accompaniment of the most enthusiastic an
pause from her hearers