The Penn's Grove record., 1893-09-08
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Helen Kellar, OF Alabama, parallels
Laura Bridgman. Though deaf, dumb
and blind, she has learned to ~articuiate,
and can speak as freely and as fully Us
an unaffected person. In long CONVEX
sations with any one dear to her, she
places n 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 IsabeI.Smithson is well known in
the New York literary world as a 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 a story told in the English
the author himself would have used,
had he been perfect master of that Ian
guage and written In it 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 paralyzed Wilson Mission Indus
trial School, is in Chicago superin-
tending O kitchen garden exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. She has received a
number OF f~attering and remunera-
tive offers from public and private edu-
cational organizations and her return
to New York is doubtful. 1t was as
long ago as 1871 that Miss Huntington,
then a lovely girl, ''divinely tall and
most divinely fair" graduated at ON
| uptown boarding school and becoming
interested in the slum work fostered
by the church to which she belonged,
turned her back OF society, deserted O
home where she was Idolized and dis
heartened a train of admirers, who
we're competing for her favor, to work
as a resident sub-officer in the Wilson
Mission. She had light brown hair, a
complexion Of the most exquisite ping
and white, and she always wore a pill
grim dress OF silver gray cashmere,
with null kerchief, cuffs and aprons.
1t 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 aud white toilets
that enchanted the naughty boys II
Tompkins Square. bat they were en-.
chanted, and they followed 1.-THE lady"
and formed themselves into the frs
"Boys Club" Of New York. Misi
Huntington worked for love. In all
that time the only money that sic re.
ceived was from the sale OF a text book
on the Kitchen Garden Methods o!
Instruction" and the buttons OF a lin,
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 q
great daily newspaper. She was first
contributor OF poetry to the columns
of the NeW Orleans Picdyane, which
she now owns, under the name OF Pear
Rivers, and some years ago was made
literary editor of the paper by Col. A
M. Holbrook, its editor and proprietor
thus being the pioneer newspaper
woman in the South. After q time sht
became the wife of Col Hulbrook, aut
at his death inherited the paper, mucl
incumbered by debt and with dubious
outlook. She assumed tho response
bility courngeously, and, with abb
assistants, has put it sgatn OH q sub
stantial basis. A fow years ago sh'
married George Nicholson, who wa
business manager OF tho paper.