Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-12-15
and very approachable. aud she was
exceedingly kind hearted and charita-

! Mrs. Southworth told of this Wis
to England to secure, if possible some
thing from the English sale OF he
books But it could not be done
Except for the pleasure of her visi
and her friendship with Lady Byrol
it was failure.
81 remember so we'll how l frs
knew | was being translated. 1t wa
a curious thing. ! had received /;
pair of French slippers from the mar
who had made them, a Frenchmar
here in Washington. As l took of
the paper they were wrapped in l read
La Fiancee Perdu.
but | have since secured copies
of German TRANSACTIONS, made as early
as 1854, and have them now. All q
my stories have been translated and
republished in Europe. You see ]
can never know how many readers |
have had"
This room of hers, where she en-
tertains visitors, has that curious
combination Of the furnishings and
bric-a-brac of two periods which peo-
pie get about them who have lived in
and enjoyed home for many years.
Mrs. Southworth has great many
things in it which were there from
the first, and which she does not like
to part with, and many more of the
brig htlight things of the last two or
three years which have been added
since a recent return from some years
stay in New York. And yet the room
is not homogeneous in the least, the
widely different styles seeming admir-
ably harmonious and all part ola plan
under the influence of belonging to
a pleasant home.
Out on the porch Mrs. Southwortk
pointed to where Mrs. Bonner had
once looked over at the story below
the main one, which Prospect Cottage
boasts, one morning and wondered
how she had gotten up stairs without
knowing it during the night. You
never suspect this under story from
the front of the house and you hardly
believe when you are told, but it is so,
that the unpretentious little place has
fourteen rooms. There has been
plenty Of use for them at all times, too.
when this novelist used to entertain
more in war times and before.
''But now l do not have so many
people. A great many write, though,
people asking for advice about becom-
ing writer's. | mostly advise them
that too many are writing now, and
that it is hard to make it pay. Ifthey
wish to write for pleasure it is differ
ent matter. | spend my time now
with the few people see and in writ
ing little and in reading l read
most of the new authors"
And she talked of Kipling and
Barrie and Jerome as if they were very
near friends. She has read. all of Bar
rle and of Kipling with intense enjoy
ment, and is now doing Jerome.
But don't you notice that there are
so many of them, especially of the
women, that they only last a little
while? They write one novel or so
and that's the end. Afterward they
are forgotten almost. no matter how
good their one work may have been.
That's why tell the girls that work
ed at the very most fortunate time for
ME and that there will never come
another like it.
"You notice my chrysanthemums,
l see. ! did not raise them. That
has been the one drawback of Prospect
Cottage. This hin is one great mass
of soft rock. with only little soil on
top, and it washes away very easily,
too, down the incline. l can't raise
flowers we'll. The chysanthemums
are from friends
The little frail woman, whose pic
ture inside, taken several years ago,
showed her to have been so fine and
strong then, as she stood here now
looking over the porch of her little do
main had still marvelously bright eyes
for it all, full Of fire and life, and still
a perpetual energy that would not let
her rest. She led the way, comment
ing all the time cheerily, to another
view and another, till all had been
seen of the views that she has looked
at and drawn inspiration from for SO
many years.
Then again, in her drawing room
she showed some of the many remem-
brances that admirers and friends
have sent her, and of the things she
has gathered on her travels.
But l have given most of them
away again. You cannot imagine
how many chances one who writes
has to give away things of this kind.
1t is the girls again. They are very
fond of little keepsake from me-"
As the artist drew the writer listen
ed to pleasant chat about herself and
her home and cher girls" Her hear
ing is bad for the last few years and
she leaned forward eagerly as she be-
came interested in the recital. Her
head and face were drapped in black
lace. From its folds her smiling,
kindly eyes shone forth. filled with
pleasant reinembrances of friends.
And it was not hard to see how
there have been SO many of them
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