Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-18

Field is very methodical in her work and
she. takes very good care of Kate Field :.
tShe takes enough horseback rides every
:week to keep her digestion in good or
der and tones up her stomach before
ieyery meal with glass of hot water.
She has q little reception to her very
particular friends every Sunday night,
and she is one of the most popular women
with the statesmen of Washington.
CONSTANCE Kenmore wooLsoN.
It isnot generally known that Con-
stance Fenimore SWqblson did some Of
her best work in. Washington. 1t was
here that she wrote her novel Canine"
which made such hit in the Harpers'
Magazine, the scenes of which are laid
in Virginia near here. Part of the book
was written ON the grounds described
and the remainder at her home on New
York avenue. When the book was COM
pleted Amos Townsend ). then the repre-
sentative from Cleveland, Ohio, in the
house, nailed it up ina, shoe box for her
and sent it off to Harpers. It was Miss
Woolson s idea that it would be pub
lished IN book form, blt Harpers used it
as q serial and afterHard asa book. Miss
Woolsou came from Cleveland, Ohio.
Her father was one of the ;dirst iron
foundry men of the West, andE he niAde
cooking stoves. He had, Raweyer, a
literary turn and he married niece of
Fenimore Cooper, from whom Miss Wool
son probably gets her novel writing abil-
ity. Constance Fenimore Woolson was
educated in Cleveland, and she did her
first writing in her brother-in-law' pa
per, which was the Cleveland Herald.
She made her first great success through
this novel, which she wrote here, and
she now gets big prices for everything
she turns out.
NOTED WIDOWS WHO WRITE.
The widows of two of America s most
famous soldiers are turning out consider
able good manuscript. These are Mrs.
Gen. John A. Logan and Mrs. Admiral
Dahlgren. Mrs. Dahlgren has been
writing for years and as long ago as the
days of Buchanan she published sketches
and poems under the pen name of "Cor-
inne.' She has written q number of
spicy Washington novels and she has a
home at South Mountain, in Maryland,
where she writes ghost stories and pens
blood-curdling tales of love and longing.
one of the devout Catholics of the coun-
try. She has translated from the French
work on Plus TX, and from the Spanish
book entitled Catholicism, Liberal
ism and Socialism and for this she re-
ceived the thanks of the pope. Mrs.
Dahlgren owns fine house in Washing
ton. She has good income and she
lives well.
Maj. Tucker tells me that Mrs. Lo-
gan IS magazine is making lots of money.
Its circulation now approaches 100 600,
and it is increasing right along. Mrs.
Logan brought back considerable literary
material with her from Europe during
her last summers tour, and she has
enough "reminiscences packed away in her
brains to make book bigger than that
written by her husband. She has gone
into society but little this winter, though
she has been to the White House TO din
ner and has appeared at one or two of
the big receptions. She does her literary
work at her home, Calumet Place, and
she pens her articles herself and does not
dictate. 1t is my idea that she could do
better il she used shorthand amanuen-
sis, she talks well and her conversation is
always interesting enough to publish.
WOMAN MAGAZINE WRITERS.
Washington has number of women
who write for the magazines. Olive Ris-
ley Seward has been writing more or less
ever since she went around the wor2sb
with her adopted father, the secretaEsof
state. During this time she wrote Sew
ard IS book, he debating the matsSr to
her. Thousands of copies of this Epok
were sold and l understand that Hiss
Seward got most OF the royalty. Sings
then Miss Seward has been writing traFstsI
articles for the magazines and she espe-
excels as aNWriter Of chllds stories