The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18
Laura Holloway Landlord.

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Now that Laura G. Holloway has married
the secretary Of the Brooklyn and Brighton
Beach Railroad company, it may be per-
Missile to remark that she ia very clever
woman and can keep a secret most admir-
ably, especially when it concerns her own
wedding. The last time the name was
signed under which SO many volumes have
been written was only an hour or two be-
fore the very quiet ceremony. II have been
trying to get away from home for rest and
change SO said hasty note scribbled to a
friend, "and must hurry off to-day if am
to return in season for the Seidl soeiety's
annual meeting" Imagine the friends stu
petactlon when afterwards it appeared that
the rest and change 80 coolly mentioned,
being interpreted, meant bridal journey.
Mrs. Holloway's marriage may be called
woman's club romance, for Col. Langford
stood behind her big musical society all last
summer and was instrumental in obtaining
for it private cars to the concerts at Brigh-
ton Beach and special beach privileges.
The great peoples palace and opera
house which Mrs Holloway proposes to
have her pet institution build in Brooklyn
next fall is copying in some particulars the
plan of a little Brooklyn school ma'am who,
two years ago, went to Chicago and has
out capital to start with. largo and hand
some office building. Getting an option on
three lots in fine location, this woman
with business head went quietly about
among clubs, societies and business men,
finding people who wanted rooms and Of
fering to supply Just such suites as they
might sketch for her. In this way she
knew what her building would fetch before
ground for it was broken, and 80 good was
her Judgment that $25,OOO was offered her
for her option before she had half done
canvassinR. In the same way Mrs. Hollo-
GoV, Lao
bly, be headquarters for women's organiza-
tions in Brooklyn and will be built with
special reference to club and studio needs.
AS its name indicates, it will brighten the
lives of the poor, as Besant's original does
in London.
Where Ono Novelist Gets Her Material
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan says that she pro-
jects any story that she may be writing
before her mind in series of pictures,
which she approves if they seem natural
and we'll composed, resketches if in any
part they appear out of line. She looks for
material to the people she meets every day,
| to the man who fetches milk or fills the ice
box, to the conductor of street car or the
boy in grocery store. Sometimes she
goes into shop for no reason but that a
glimpse of an interesting face has prompted
n desire for conversation. Mrs. Bryan is an
assiduous reader of newspapers for Incl
dents and skeletons of plots, and to 'shoot
folly as it flies and catch the manners liv-
| ing as they rise." One source of her ma
terial is unique. She conducts the CORE
spondence column of one of Monro's publ
cations, and refuses to give it up, though
pressed for time and frequently offered re
lief. The flood Of letters with which she is
thus deluged makes her kind of mother
confessor for girls from Maine to Mexico,
and in smoothing out their little senti-
mental and other difficulties she learns a
good deal about average human nature
which is useful to a story teller.