The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-30
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of women writers, as well as the most
loyal of friends. That's a deal to say for
a woman, you know; but ii is true. The
pencil raps for silence, and then you dis
cover that a fluff of gray silk and feath-
ers and pink Innings and a soft gray hat
with pink roses hides under it Ella
Wheeler Wilcox the woman who has
written some of the most exquisite poetry;
who has the courage of her convictions
and isn't afraid to say what good many
other women think. She has just been
giving somebody prescription warranted
to cure the headache-One gladly given,
for Mrs. Wilcox is nothing if she isn't
kind. The silence called for means that
Josephine Gro, the musical composer, has
something to say look down a her; she
is young; she is pretty; she has fig
ure that would delight the heart of any
admirer of curves, and she knows how to
dress herself, She is telling that the
souvenir march, which she has written,
will be made lovely by having a broad
stripe of yellow on the outside, and that
, it will be played at every theater in New
York during the first week of the fair.
Everybody cOngratulateS her-every-
body is glad and then somebody who
knows her very well, ask her how her lit
tie daughter is-the pride of her heart.
ALL THE WAY FROM WASHINGTON.
It's funny that all these women, who are
industriously making there own bread,
butter and jam, invariably have somebody
else to care for And how well they do
care for them. Down near the end of the
table sits a woman who might have an
swered to the description given of Bella
Wilfer-fOr she is a "boofer lady, Her
hair is parted madonna wise on either
side of her head, and she wears that de-
light to maukind-a tiny bonnet She
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fun, and she is one of the best newspaper
women in Washington, Mrs McGuirk
she can telegraph the affairs of the nation
all over the United States in the most in
ciSive manner, and she can write n letter
telling about the gOings on in Washington
in way that is a pleasure to the reader.
She has come on Just for the meeting, and
she is going back prepared to have the
white house given to her if necessary
for her Newspaper Womens booth.
don't see why she shouldn't. The news
papers have made the popularity of any
body who has ever been in it, and has
shown a deal of decency in holding their
tongues about things that might have
been said. Somebody comes in
LIKE A DAMAsK ROSE JUST BURSTING
into bloom-a little somebody with warm
rosy checks and black hair, and eyes tell
of French ancestry, it is Marghelita Ar
lima Hamm, who honored the queen by
being born in her dominions, but who
honors New York and its best newspapers
by living here and doing no end of work
that is good. Work frequently mistaken
for mans, which editors think as a
proof of its worth. Near her is a woman
who always suggests Marie Tempest
she is prettier but she has that same
Dresden china daintiness, that same ex-
quisite femininity, and with it all an in
dividuality entirely her own. This is
Grace Drew, who writes cleverly for the
papers, but who some day is going to give
TO the public play that will be her own,