The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-06

like the smell of a rose, the song
of brook, the sight of waving fields. In
person she is in these latter. days mat
ronly of figure and of medium hight.
Her face is mobile, her hair dark. her voice
pleasant, and her manners have the grace
and the Undesirable charm of one who has
lived always among the best Of the gently
nurtured Though there were huge posters
out calling attention TO what girl OF IS
can do" while the Is, 900 copies of her first
book written at that age were selling, she IS
now judged by her poems, which are often
exquisitely finished, ner clever short stories
and her newspaper correspondence which
has been at once excellent and volumlnous.
Mrs Abbey Morton DiaZ, OF the william
Henry Letters. "''Bybury to Beacon Street, "
ETC., has a strongly marked New England
face and speech that is racy with quaint
wisdom Her life has not been in all re-
spects easy or pleasant but, like Mrs. Adna
d. Cheney and Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer,
she is a notable figure. Nor. though her
literary activity has been only secondary,
can one pass the name of gentle, motherly,
sweet-faced. silver-voiced Lucy Stone.
the kindliest and most womanly of all
the women who have spoken for women
suffrage.
There have been dozen descriptions of
Margaret Deland's study and as many of
her big dog, but my most vivid mental
p cture of her dates back seven OF eight
years, when a girlIsh figure in long coat
used to go plunging through the snow along
Beacon street, accompanied by the black
coated beast, since famous, and sometimes,
in the zeal of young housewifery, carrying
a market basket.
OF the younger literary women OF Bos-
ton, Miss Sara Orne Jewett ana Mrs. Maud
Howe Elliott are the most beautiful. Miss
Jewett's gentle Madonna face seems to take
every year an added charm. She is dark
haired and graceful, and is at her best when.
in the drawing room of Mrs. James L.
Fields, her intimate friend, she tells you
stories Of ships and the ocean. Her father
was sea captain from Maine, and the maui
teal flavor comes out in much that she
writes, especially in her snort stories
Julia Ward Howe was in her youth beau
tiful, and she had beautiful mother Miss
Julia Cutler of New York, almost as
famous for her fair face as one of Mrs
Howes daughters, Mrs Maud Howe Elliott,
has since been. Mrs. Elliott has probably
done more in a literary way than her
mother had at her age, but it is evident that
with her it will be the story telling. and
not the poetic gift, that will be cultivated.
Perhaps because she has been brought up in
a less transcendental age, she attempts no
metaphysical essays, but in her foreign and
Newport newspaper correspondence has
turned quite to the other extreme.
Lucy Larcom'S hair is turning white, but
it Is to be hoped that her singing days are
| not over. In reckoning up the younger
poets one must not forget Louise Imogen
Quincy.
Before saying there is no younger genera
ton worthy of those who went before, it
must be considered that in the New Eng
land Womaus Press Association Boston has
a most energetic body of women, VINO have
the new education of achievement as well
| as of requirement, and some of whom have
no small share Of literary ability. All
Bostonians know Mrs. Marion Mcbride,
who founded the National Womans Press
Association; and Mrs. Sally Joy White,
warm hearted and energetic, the first
| newspaper woman in New England
! and Mrs. Estehe Hatch Merrill "Jean
Kincaid" of the Globe, and Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Blake, the writer of the
charming, rambling talks in the Journal,
signed an. E. B. y and Mrs. Isabel c. Bar
rows of the Christian Register, famous for
taking Carl Schurz in shorthand, and a
most versatile writer; and Mrs Ella Far
| man Pratt, the clever editor of Vide
AlUdke; and Mrs Magennis of the Traveller;
and Mrs. NJ. G. Hungerford, and Miss
Lillian Whiting, and Katherine Conway OF
the Pilot, and Miss Alice Stone Black well
of the Womdn'S Journal, and dozens and
scores of others, if newspaper columns were
| made of india rubber and would stretch &c
take them. Miss Grace Charming has the
full measure of the gifts of gifted family
and indeed there's plenty of vigor in the
Hub though it can't hinder New Yorl
from calling it provincial
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.