The record-union., 1891-04-12
WOMEN OF AMERICA.
Versatility, Talent and Beauty of
Those in This InStallment.
Mrs. Edith Sessions Tupper-Miss
Helen Watterson, Miss Aimee Ray
mond, NJ. d.; Emily KempIe, LII. ID.
Mrs. Frank Leslie's ''Thursdays.'s

mond, NJ. d.; Emily KempIe, LII. ID.
Mrs. Frank Leslie's 'sThursdays.''
Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY UNION.
Copyright 1871
NEW YORK. April I, 1891.
Mrs. Edith Sessions Tupper is the
daughter of the Hon. Walter l.. Sessions,
ex-member of Congress from New York.
Although happily married and settled"
in pretty uptown flat, Mrs Tupper is
one of the most versatile literary women
in New York. Her specials to the Chi
cago Herald are among tho best letters
sent from Gotham, and her articles in
tho Sunday World are read with much
interest, not alone by women, but by
men. She has also written voluminously
for the syndicate, the American Press
Association, Judge, FTG7ak LeSIie'S, Life,
Outing, The Ladies Home Journal and
the Cosmopolitan. She writes eXcellent
rhymes and stories. She is the author of
''By Hairs Breadth detective story,
and "By Whose Hand?' The latter is
spoken of as novel, curious and origi-
nal.
| Some years ago she received the $500
prize from the Chicago Tribune for the
F'best long story" Mrs. Tupper is a
woman of good education, fine appear
ance and keen sympathies. Tive years
| of her school life were spent as a student
at Vassar College.
| She possesses uncommon magnetism,
and has the power to make and hold
warm friendships with women. One
| friend pays her this compliment: ''She is
| the truest friend L ever had" She is "a
woman's woman" and, probably, if she
wasn't married, men would flock around
! her as women do. Owing to her unfOr-
| tunate arrest in Canada last year, Mrs.
Tupper has received considerable atten-
! ton from the newspapers.
| Her arrest was an outrage. Although
she in no way reSem bled the woman the
detectives We're looking for, Chief NORM,
of Buffalo, telegraphed, Hold the woman
anywayr' This may yet cost the Lake
City good sum of money. Mrs. Tupper
| has brought suit for false imprisonment.
| The jury disagreed, but the end is not
yet.
MISS HELEN wATTERsoN,
Miss Helen Watterson, the Evening
SUMS woman About Town." is a Cleve-
land girl. She is a good illustration of
that hackneyed but nevertheless force
full adage, Ability, like water, finds
its own level.' 1t is no fattery to say
| that the paragraphs from her pen in the
EUenillg Sun are more individual and
original than anything in that line pub
HShed in New York.
The young lady leaves her home in
! West Ninety-fourth street every morn
ing about $3.50 without line written, and
by ii o'clock her Woman About Town.
talk is in the hands of the compositor.
After this is done, Miss Watterson does
everything on the paper but give assign
mentS in the city department. She writes
editorials, does reporting, buys manu-
script and sets up the form of one entire
page of the paper. Mr.. Brisbane has
realized his hopes in Miss Watterson by
| making her the best equipped newspaper
| "Woman About Town" began to attract
attention, a male friend asked me if I
knew who wrote the paragraphs. He
felt certain that no woman was the author
! of them. l was very glad few weeks
after to assure him that woman, and
| young woman at that, wrote the sketches.
Miss Watterson is a graduate of the
| Presbyterian University at Wooster,
! Ohio. She took the fourth honor in q
! class of thirty-four men and four women.
! Previous to entering Wooster she had
| been a student at Oberlin. After leaving
| the university she wrote editorials for the
| Cleveland Leader and acted as associate
| editor of the Cleveland Sun. This was in
! 1883.
She gave up newspaper work in 1885 to
| accept professorship of English litera-
] ture in her alma mater When Mr. Bris-
/
! ing San, he offered Miss Watterson a
| desk in the office, with the same salary
that man would get in the position.
| Miss WatterSOn is distantly related to
the Hon. Henry Watterson, editor of the
| Louisville CO1TieT-JOUTHdL. Paragraph
| ers have said that she was his niece his
sister, his mother, his aunt, his sister-in-
law, indeed, every grade of kinship but
grandmother, brother and mother-in-
law. A brilliant future awaits Miss Wat
terson.
EMILY KEMPIN, LID.
Emily Kempin is a native of Switzer-
land and a graduate of the University of
Zurich. She is the only woman LAWYER
in New York of prominence-certainl
the only woman whom the men in the
profession look up to. DR.. Kempin Is an
| acknowledged authority on the Roman
law. Three years ago she published a
book on Roman Jurisprudence, and
among the Congratuiatory letters she re-
ceived was one from Prof. Eek of Berlin.
one from DR.. Moritz Voigt of Leipzig and
one from DR.. Level Of Strasbourg.
Naturally, DIR. Kempin set great store
by the letters from the German scholars.
who, as a rule, do not encourage women
entering the learned professions. DR.,
kempin's husband is clergyman and a
doctor of divinity. They have both been
successful since coming to this country.
The law school established by DR.. Emily
Aempin is progressing. 1t has number
OF very promising students. The Kemp
ms have three children attending public
school in New York.
OTHER CLEVER WOMEN.
Miss Aimee Raymond, a daughter of
the lamented editor OF the Times, is prac-
ticing medicine in New York CITY. DIR.
Raymond is an active member of the
Working Women'S Society. She has
lovely auburn hair a fair complexion, a
graceful, ladylike figure and sweet. win
ming manners. She was born on tho
other side, where much OF her childhood
and girlhood was passed.
Miss Mary Gay Humphreys, another
bright newspaper woman, also takes a
prominent part in the councils of the
Working Women's Society. Miss Hmm
phreys belongs to that school of ioUrnaI
ism which thinking and cultured people
admire, and which, they contend, is no
longer practlced save on a few papers.
rms idea OF newspaper writing Wholly
dlsregards sex; an article should not re-
veal the sex OF the author in order to con
form to this idea. Miss Humphreys was
connected with the World when HurI.
burt was at the 'helm." Of late wears
she has done more or less good work for
the Sun. Her time now is devoted alto-
gether TO magazines and stories.
Despite the cowardly Sneers. Mrs F,arl-
| Lesile's Thursdays" are the nearest eIi>
proach to French salon that we bsPEo
! here. AT one of her recent recantione
| there were present a Russian niapist Of
renown; Nine. Minnie Hank and bn, oc- -
compllshed husband, Count do HeSsa
/ WaTtoOS. Nine Rosa I ~ AAN'"O