Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-09-13
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Helen Kellar, OF Alabama, parallels
Laura Bridgman. Though deaf, dumb
and blind, she has learned TO articulste,
and can speak as freely and as fully as
an unaffected person In long conver-
sations with any one dear to her, she
places one finger across the lips OF the
speaker and another on the throat, at
the lsryn1 In this way she under.
stands every word uttered
Miss Isabel. l.Smithson is well known il
the New York literary world as q clever
translator; her great charm being, thai
she renders into readable English, the
language and ideas of the author whose
writing she translates, in which there
Is more art than people are apt 10 i'm.
agine. Without in the least destroying
the nationality Of the original. she
the author himself would have used,
had he been perfect master Of shat Ian
guage and written IN 1t in place Of his
own, which is what q translation ought
to be.
Miss Emily Huntington, the founder
of the Kitchen Garden SCHOOL OF in
structlon and the Inspiration Of the
now paralyz zed Wilson Mission Indus
trial School, is in Chicago supsrin-
tending a kitchen garden exhibit st tho
number of hatteriDg and renuasra-
tive Offers from public and private sdu-
csiional organisations and her return
to New York is doubtful. It Was as
long ago a. 1871 that Miss Hust1lston,
then a lovely girl, "divinely tall and
most dirinely fair" graduated at an
interested in the slum work festered
by ,he church to which she belonged,
turned her back on society, deserted a
homo where she was ldolized and dis
heaTtened a train of admirers, who
were competing for her favor, to work
as a resident sub officer in the Wilson
Mission. She had hight brown hair, .
complexion of the most exquisite pink
and white, and sh, always wore pill
grim dress of silver gray cashmere,
with null kerchief, cuffs and aprons.
1t may have been the glowing rosss in
her hair, the sympathy in her voios
and eyes, or the silver aud white toilets
that enchanted the naughty boys IN
Tompkins Square, but they were en-
chanted, and they followed ''the lady"
auu lOIultt butLuSclNtb lulO luc
BOYS Club" of New York. Miss
Huntington worked for love. In all
that time the only money that she re-
ceIved was from the sale of text book
on the "Kitchen Garden Methods OF
instruction" and the tuitions of linz
tied number of normal pupils She
severed her connection with the Viii.
son Mission last fall, and although the
Industrial School work was continued
something WAS missing.
Mrs E. J. Nicholson is said to be
the only woman in the world who
owns, edits, manages and publishes a
great daily newspaper. She was first q
contributor of poetry to the columns
of the No1O Orleans Picayule, which
she now owns, under the name of Pearl
Rivers, and some years ago was made
literary editor of the paper by Col. A.
NJ. Holbrook, its edltor and proprietor,
thus being the pioneer newspaper
woman in the South. After time she
became the wife of Col Holbrook, aud
at his death inherited the paper, much
incumbered by debt and with dubious
outlook. She assumed the RESPONSE.
bility courageously, and, with able
assistants, has put 1t again on a sub
/ stantial basis. a few years ago she
married George Nicholson, who was
business manager of the paper.