The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-06

i've word, meaning to beWttoh, mot to mad
den; 70 delight, not to intoxicate; to salts
y, not to tantalize; to please thu soul like
brook, the sight Of waving fields. In
person she is in these latter days
matronly Of figure and Of medium height.
Her face is mobile, her hair dark, her
voice pleasant. and her manners have the
grace and the INDISPENSABLE charm Of ono
gentler natured. Though there were huge
posters out calling attention to what .
girl of 18 can do while the 1900 copies Of
her first book written at that age were sell
ing, she is now judged by her poems. which
are often exquisitely finished, her clever
short stories and her newspaper CORES
pondence. which has been at once excellent
and voluminous.
Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz, of the civilian
Henry Letters, J" .'Bybury to Beacon STREE" "
&C.. has strongly marked New England
face and speech that is racy with quaint
wisdom. Her life has not been in all re-
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-voicsd Lucy Stone, the
kindliest and most wonanly of all the
women who have spoken for woman sun
rage.
There have been q dozen descriptions Of
Margaret Deland's study and as many of
her big dog, but my most vivid mental pic
ture of her dates back seven or eight years.
when girlish figure in long cloak, used
to go plunging through the snow along
Beacon street, accompanied by the black
Goa ted beast since famous, and sometimes,
in the zeal of young housewifery, carrying
market basket.
OF the younger literary women Of Boston,
Miss Sara Orne Jewett and Mrs; Maud
Howe Elliott are the most beautlfui. MISS
Jewett's gentle Madonna face seems to nave
eyery wear an added charm. She is dark
haired and graceful and is at her best when,
in the drawing room of Mrs. James T,
Fields, her intimate friend, abe tells you
stories of ships and the ocean. Her father
was sea captain from Maine, and the
nautical flavor comes out in much that she
writes, especially in her short stories.
Julia Ward Howe was in her youth beau.
tiful, and she had beautiful mother, Miss
Julia Cutler, of New York, almost as fam
GUS for her fair face as one of Mrs. Howe's
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 be-
cause she has been brought up in less
transcendental age, she attempts no meta
physical essays, but in her foreign and New
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 po-
cts one must not forget Louise Imogen
Quincy. O"at
Before saying there is no younger genera
ton worthy of those who went before, il
must he considered that in the New England
Woman's Press association, Boston has q
most energetic body of women who have
the new education of achievement as we'll as
of requirement, and some of whom have no
small share of literary ability. All Bos-
tonians know Mrs. Marion Mcbride, who
founded the National Woman's Press Asso-
citation; and Mrs. Sally Joy White, warm
hearted and energetic, the first newspaper
woman in New England; and Mrs. Esteile
Hatch Merrill, Jean Kincaid,'' Of the
the writer of the charming rambling talks
in the Journal, signed IN. E. BE-; and
Mrs. Isabel G. Barrows, of the
Christian Register, famous for taking
Carl Schurz in shorthand, and most
versatile writer; and Mrs. Ella Farman
Pratt, the clever editor of Wide-Awake; and
Mrs. Magennis, of the Traveller; and
Mrs. M. G. Hungerford. and Miss
Lillian Whiting, and Katharine Con-
way, of the Pilot; and Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, of the Woman's Journal, and
dozens and scores of others, if news
paper columns were made of india rubber
and would stretch to take them. Miss
Grace Charming has the full measure of the
plenty Of vigor in the Hub, though it can't
hinder New York from calling it provincial,
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
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