The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1893-09-26
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Helen Kellar, of Alabama, parallels
Laura Bridgman. Though deaf, dumb
and blind, she has learned to articulate,
and can speak as freely and as fully as
an unaffected person. In long con7er.
sations with any one dear to her, she
places one finger across the lips of the
speaker and another on the throat, at
the larynx. In this way she under
stands every word uttered
Miss Isabel, el,Smithson is well known in
the New York literary world as q clever
translator; her great charm being, that
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 to i'm
agine. Without in the least destroying
the nationality of the original, she
gives You story told in the English
the author himself would have used,
had he been perfect master OF that Ian
euage and written IN it in place OF his
own, which is what translation ought
to be.
Miss Emily Huntington, the founder
of the Kitchen Garden School OF in
structlon and the inspiration Of the
now paralyzed Wilson Mission Indus
trial School, is in Chicago superin-
tending kitchen garden exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. She has received a
number Of fattering and remunera-
tive offers from public and private edu-
cational organizations and her return
tn New York is doubtful. It was as
long ago IS 1871 that Miss Huntington,
then q lovely girl, s'di7inely tall and
most divinely fair" graduated at an
uptown boarding school and becoming
interested in the slum work fostered
by the church to which she belonged,
turned her back on society, deserted a
home where she was ldolized and dis
hesrtened train of admirers, who
we're competing for her favor, to work
IS resident sub officer in the Wilson
Mission. She had hight brown hair, a
complexion of the most exquisite pinS
and white, and she always wore a pill
grim dress of silver gray cashmere,
with null kerchief, cuffs and aprons.
It may have been the glowing roses in
her cheeks, the ripping sunlight in
her hair, the sympathy IN her voice
and eyes, or the silver and white toilets
that enchanted the naughty boys IN
Tompkins. Square, but they were en-
chanted, and they followed ''the lady"
and formed themselves into the first
s'Boys Club" of New York. Miss
Huntington worked for love. In all
that time the only money that sbe re-
ceived was from the sale of a text book
on the Kitchen Garden Methods Of
Instruction" and the tuitions of lin-
tied number of normal pupils. She
severed her connection with the vii.
son Mission last fall, and although the
Industrial School work was continued
something was missing.
MIS- E. J. Nicholson is said to be
the only woman in the world who
owns, edits, manages and publishes s.
great daily newspaper. She was first a
contributor Of poetry to the columns
Of the New Orleans Picayuns, which
she now owns, under the name OF Pearl
Rivers, and some years age was made
literary editor of the paper by Col. A..
NJ. Holbrook, its editor and proprietor,
thus being the pioneer newspaper
woman IL the South. After time she
became the wife OF Col Holbrook. aud
at his death inherited the paper, much
incumbered by debt and witha dubious
outlook. She assumed the response
bllity couraseously, and, with able
assistants, has pnt it again on sub
stantial basis: A few years ago she
married George Nicholson, who was
business manager of the paper.