The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-17

ing our army and navy, in ten perance
not total abstinence, and in personal hber-
ty. Society, she declares, should be the
best expression of humanity, and her re-
ligion is a religion of deeds. Miss Fields
personality is very interesting. She is a
| trifie brusque, but genial, sunny and keen.
Her hair is brown, her ewes gray. She has
tiny feet, which are always beautifully
dressed, and her gowns are almost as pict-
urcsQue and original as their wearer In
Washington Miss Field lives in handsome
apartments at the Shoreham. When in
New York her headquarters are at the
Victoria
In cheerful fat on West Thirty-second
street lives the first woman newspaper cor
respondent of this country-Mrs Sara J.
Lippincott, or "'Grace Greenwood" as she is
known in the world of letters. Grace
Greenwood was pioneer in newspaper
work, Margaret Fuller and Lydia Maria
Child being her only predecessors in this
field. Her Washington correspondence
inaugurated quite new feature in jour
nalism, and her conservative friends were
wont to tell her that if she persisted in her
'blue stocking" ideas and aims her chances
of getting husband would be materially
injured.
But the young lady had mind and will
of her own, and persevered with what sig
nal success all the world knows Mrs
Lppincott was an editor as we'll as writer.
For twelve or thirteen years she edited
The Little Pilgrim" a Juvenile monthly,
which was rooted and grounded in the be-
lief that the best literature was not too
good for children. Among the contribu-
tors to that publication were Louisa Alcott,
then a young girl; Bryant, who wrote n
charming story; Longfellow, who wrote
The Rope Walk" the manuscript of
which hrs. Lippincott reigiously pre-
serves, and Whittier, who wrote "The
Barefoot Boy"
For years Grace Greenwood was con-
tributor to Hearth and Home, paper ed
tied by Donald Mitchell ok Marvel'') and
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, and for a while
by Mrs Stowe. Her work also appeared
in The Atlantic, Earpers' publications.
several California papers and New York
Independent. She was not content with
writing for American papers, but was a
frequent contributor 10 the Dickens pa
pers, Household Words and All the Year
Round.
She became best known, perhaps. by her
volumes OF children's History OF
Ny Pets" Stories of My Childhood" and
. Stories of Many Lands''-whose popu-
lauty may be judged by the fact that new
editions of these tales have recently been
published by the Lovells. Mrs Lippin-
colts circle OF friends has always been
most distinguished. She knew well such
men IS Webster, Clay, Calhoun. Benton,
Foote, Zachary Taylor, Fillmore, Cass,
Hawthorne. Willis, Longfellow. Bryant,
Robert Browning, whose letters she jeal-
ously keeps, ana many others. Ii is very
interesting to listen 20 her entertaining and
instructive "Reminiscences
Mrs. Lippincott lie is now spent in do
Ing good ana laoorInS among the poor ant,
lowly. She Is 81 uatroniy. well preserved
lady with gray hair and hazel ewes. which
she lauChinGly declares have we'll nigh
been ruined reading novels, for she con
fesses TO 4 perfect passion for two classes
OF reading-poin4cal news and French nov
els. II IS her purpose 20 make her homein
the near future at Washington. where she
will write book of memoirs
In reports OF various reforms. snd eSpe-
cially OF labor sGitasions, one often reads
the name of Marguerite Moore. This lady
is decidedly unique character. She il an
Irish woman, and very proud of the fact
that she was incarcerated for three months