The San Francisco call., 1895-05-22

is favorite expression of Miss Tessa
Kelsos. She was born in Ohio and has
lived in California, and thinks that rec
ord like that cannot be beaten. 1t is her
firm belief that the Western girl is the
most fortunate piece of femininity in the
wide world, and to look at Miss Kelso's
bright face and hear her happy, ringing
laugh is to be possessed with the imme-
diate conviction that she was born under a
lucky star.
Miss Kelso began her career ten years
ago as a newspaper woman in Cincinnati.
In those days the newspaper woman was
something of a rarity, and was only thrown
occasional details by somewhat reluctant
editor. A salaried newspaper woman, Miss
Kelso says, had never been heard of in
Cincinnati; she had to pick up what she
could get, and she shrank from nothing
not even from taking the river front as a
detail, when it was given her as an expert
ment. She did the river front so well that
she was sent down there every day and
had to find "stories' among the boats and
steamers.
Seven years ago Miss Kelso came to Cal
ifornia, and for the last six years she has
been librarian at the Los Angeles Public
Library. She has just resigned the posi-
ton to begin newspaper work again in
New York, but she leaves behind her a
host of friends in the City of the Angels,
where her influence in educational matters
has been very widely felt. Miss Kelso is
what may be called a self-made woman,
for she has carved out her own way In spite
of family cares which would have retarded
the success of any one with less buoyancy
and determination. AS a writer she is
just beginning to be known by her articles
in the Arena, the Forum, etc. She and
Miss Beatrice Harraden are warm friends,
and they have made the pilgrimage to-
gether from Southern California to the
shrine of the congress.
THE REV. MRS. BowLEs.
The Rev. Mrs. Bowles was ordained in
the year 1869 in Pennsylvania, Mass, and
has been a constant preacher of the Gospel
ever since. Mrs. Bowles always asks for
and receives the same salary as the minis
ter preceding her. She has occupied the
pulpit in Pomona for the past two years,
and admires California and her people
very much, but considers them young and
inexperienced in woman suffrage and tenn
perance movements as compared to people
in the Eastern States.
The Rev. Mrs. Bowles was for ten years
secretary of the Woman's Ministerial Con-
ference, and is a member of innumerable
industrial, reform and philanthroplc asso-
Citations.
She is strong, determined, sympathetic
and progressive. Her sermons are never
written, but are outlined and kept in her
mind until they become a part of herself,
and, to use her own words, she first 'gets
full OF her subject and then fires away"
The husband of Mrs. Bowles, who has
long been dead, was also minister, and
encouraged his wife to enter the minis
terial field as his co-worker. She was
mother of three children and stepmother
of three more, and though she was a min
lister of the Gospel she was known all over
the State as model wife, mother and
housekeeper, and she AYERS that the knowl-
edge OF religion, medicine, law or politics
only tend to make the true woman more
tender and loving, and surely more capa.
bic of raising her children properly and
shaping their minds into the higher and
better channels of life.