The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-25

was followed by number of translations.
from the French and Russian for the Ger
man daily papers.
Miss Friedrchs had already spent soma
years in England. when she became ae.
Guainted with w. t Stead, then editor az
the Pal Mall Gdzette. After short an
premiership spent in doing all-rourd
work IS an outside contributor, she was
asked to join the staff of the paper. OF
which she has been valued member
ever since.
Miss Friedrichs leads quite as busy
life as any of her male colleagues. Al
though her home Is at Wimbledon sha
manages to he in her room at the Pal Mil
G17stte every morning by 80 O'Clock. and
often does not leave 1t till q. A great num-
Der of the interviews which appear in the
paper are written by her, and she is often
dispatched to do special work here, there
and everywhere. Thus she was sent off az
an hours notice % interview Sister Rose
Gertrude. the leper's friend, and may bs
said to have introduced her to the notice
OF the British public. She also acted as
special correspondent TO Heiigoiand when
that island was given over to Germany.
and was at Berlin at the time of Prince
Bismarck 8 resignation.
Miss Friedrichs is devoted to little folks.
ner chlidren's page in the Pal Nal Bud.
get signed Playmate" is exceedingly nor.
ular with all her young readers. and IL was
@,"c little East end children enjoyed
good tea and splendid Christmas tree lsss
winter, as result of the money subscribed
oy Playmate's" young friends. the boys
and girls who read the Pail Mall Budqet."
Miss Hulda Friedrichs takes an intense
interest IN her work, and even when hav.
Ing holiday IS on the lookout for COPY to
send to the office. She does not belong to
any literary club or coterie and her per-
sonality is less known than that OF almost
any other lady journalist in London. De-
voted to active exercise, her great relaxa.
ton is taking long breezy walk across
the Wimbledon common. and during the
summer months she generally manages 10
get three weeks on the continent travel.
ing, alpenstock in hand, over the Swiss
mountains, or taking walking tour
through the Black Forest.
Lady Colin Campbell may be said to be
the principal contributor to The World.
the oldest established and cleyerest society
paper in London. For some years before
she joined Edmund Yates staff she was
one of the most brilliant Saturday Reriew
reviewers but in those days she preferred
that her literary tastes should remain un-
known: the secret was well kept, and
much of her cleyerest writing was at
tributed to Mrs. Lynn Lynton.
Lady Collins first work was done in con-
nection with The World, which consisted
of series of articles entitled "A Woman's
in a glorified sense, an up-to-date version
of George Augustus Sala's early accounts
of London life. With a view to writing
these sketches Lady Colin took many
walks" to interesting and little-known
places. Even comparatively familiar and
embarrassing subjects became invested
with a new charm as she wrote of them,
for she is more of a literateur than a jour
nalist, and her writing is distinguished for
its finished style and high quality of work
manship. Since last year she has taken
over the art criticism department, and
also does q good many of the Celebrities
at Home" which have always been so val
liable feature of Edmund Yates paper.
Two or three years ago Lady Colin
Campbell wrote a novel, Darrell Blake"
but it lacked most of the qualities which
makes her journalistic work so far above
in translating Baroness States 'The
Lady's Dressing Room" and is said to be
engaged on another novel. Lady Colin is
the handsomest and best dressed and one
of the youngest lady members of the Lon
don press, and is thoroughly devoted 10
her work.
Mrs C. E. Humphry Is valued member
of Henry Labouchere's Truth staff She
has for years contributed every week the
brightly written columns entitled Girls
Gossip" signed "Madge." Indeed, she
may be said to have invented the CORE
but none of the countless number who
have initiated her have ever been able to
catch her inimitable and natural style.
The daughter of an Irish country gentle-
man, her family are descended from bon.
ME Dundee" the royaiist leader immor-
talized by Sir Walter Scott's stirring
ballad. She began writing some twenty
years ago and attracted the attention OF
Labouchere soon after she came to Lon
don. In addition to her Truth work,
which includes writing considerable
number of the personal paragraphs of the
Entire Nous" columns. Mrs. Humphry
does q good deal for the Daily Neus. and is
a frequent contributor to the Leeds 4Ner-
curry and the Dublin Express. ''Madge's"
kind of work obliges her to be always out
and about, for the task of rejecting the
existence of a fashionable girl, season
after season, is no light one. and those
who read her gossip week after week,
month after month and year after year,
cannot but be astonished at the freshness
and variety which "Madge" contrives to
throw into each of the long epistles ad.
dressed to dearest Amy"
Mrs. Humphrey is said to be from pc
cuniary point of view one of the most sue
cessful lady journalists In the world. and
shares with Mrs. Emily Crawford, Truths
London correspondent, the credit of max
ing one OF the two largest incomes earned
In contemporary feminine journalism
Miss Mary Frances Ellington, one OF
the most successful young journalists,
without distraction of sex, in London, is
the daughter of Dorsetshire clergyman,
and spent her youth in the little village OF
Chalbury, far away from any modern CEN
ter of life and thought. Her first article
was entitled last Resources" ana was
accepted by the Ereniag Globe. Passmore
Edwards. the then proprietor and
editor of the Echo, noticed the clever
turnovers contributed from time to tina
to the Globe by Miss Ellington. and when
the young Dorsetshire lady sent him q
couple OF contributions on chance he i'm
mediately accepted them, and shortly
afterwards asked her to come to town and
join his staff. Having obtained her fathers
consent she came up to London, and flung
herself heart and soul into journalistic
work doing from the first besides her reg
uIar Echo work good many special ar
ticles for the Sunday Times
When the Daily Graphic was started she
was asked to definitely attach herself to
that paper, and has been an almost daily
contributor TO its columns from the first
number. Like Miss Friedrichs of the Pail
Mall Gazette, she is constantly called upon
to do special correspondence work for her
paper. Heath Joyce and Hammond Hall,
the present editors, always choose Miss
Ellington when any specially difficult or
important reporting work has to be done
by q member of their staff. Thus she was
sent to Sandringham at the time of the
Duke of Clarence's death, and was the
only lady special on that sad occasion.