Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
SHE WRITES ON A BIKE.
Bernhardt Gets Ideas AWheel, While
New York'S mice Set" Does
so Horseback.

New York, Feb. 3-[Special Lady
William Beresford is reported busy col
Iecting and writing the memoirs of her
eventful life for the perusal of the heir
who comes to her SO late in life that she
cannot expect to follow his career long
onward. If her ladyship is really at
work upon such a volume there will be
collection of international society sta
tistics that will be the most valuable
reading for future generations. Lady
Beresford has written several pretty
pieces Of poetry and prose.
Women who are ambitious to put their
thoughts into printed words-and all
women are-should take pattern by
Katrina, wife of Spencer Trask, the
banker. a
Mrs. Trask is a beautiful woman. of
young middle life. A few years ago she
lost a household of little children, who
died of an infectious disease, within a
short time of each other. Since that
time, ito beguile the lonely hours as
Mrs. Trask says in her preface, she has
written verse and poetic prose. Her
books are brought out in exquisite form,
and they win very fair praise from the
critics, which is saying a great deal for
the work of a society woman.
Mrs. Tr;tsk's Railing.
When Mrs. Trask composes her verses
she likes to seat herself upon the rail
ing of one of the balconies of ''Yaddo,'
her Saratoga summer home, and there
plan the motif for the verses. This she
afterwards works over in a pretty room
with vines at the windows. From dis
lance she can see the peaks of theAdi-
rondacks where they overhang Lake
Champlain, and her vision takes in
Mount McGregor and the loneliness Of
many counties.
1t was seated here that Mr.. Trask
had his wife painted life-size for the
family portrait gallery.
Women with time on their hands,
with or without sadness in their hearts,
can make a lace for themselves in the
literature of the world by following this
unselfsh womans example.
The methods, motives, etc.. of Amelle
Rives Chanler are altogether different.
but they would suit many tempera
mcnt. #S
Amelie Rives' Solitude.
Anelie Rives works alone, when no
one is supposed to- know she is busy.
For DAYS she will roam around the house
i'll an aimless preoccupied manner For
long hours she will play with the dogs
and horses; for weeks she will not APP
pear in the family sitting room, and then
of a sudden she has disappeared alto
gether from the house. No one must
ask where she is. No one must look for
her.
Amelie Rives' family circle is passion
ately devoted to her. If it were not for
her peculiar home surroundings she
could never have done her famous early
stories. '.My daughter is a wonder
.Sunerb! Marvellous! exclaimed her ia
Their to friend abroad a steamer TAX
ing them to Panama. ''And we aid her
nv ORR Symna thV f''r 49,
The sympathy consists of letting her
alone. An eye at the keyh0le tells the
family that Amelie is writing. Imme
diately the Railways are hushed, and
the only person who comes and goes is
the great African woman, who has been
.Amelie's companion from childhood,
even accompanying her on her wedding
tour
Meals are brought quietly in and as
quietly removed. This may last for q day
or for week, or maybe for three weeks.
But Amelie Rives does not emerge from
her retirement until her story is COM
pleted. Then it is read to the assem-
bled family. The world owes a count
less debt to the people who can charm
by story or verse And the people them
selves owe it to the world to keep
single, as double harness seldom sets
well upon the neck Of genius.
Miss Sloane's stIdeals.''
Emily Vanderbilt Sloane. the newest
member of ''the nice set" to dabble
with the pen, planned Ideals mostly
while horseback riding. The book is a
compilation, but the extracts were made
in the inspiration of the breezes. Bern
hardt does her choice bits of prose
while bicycling. Either way the breezy
tone of the work is complete. In ideals,
the loftiest sentiments are plucked from
the writings of the older authors, writ
ten in their best mood. There is no
maudlin sentiment; just the hearty,
healthy tone one gets in the open air.
Miss Winnie Davis, who is a writer of
no mean pretensions, plans her stories,
they say, lying upon a couch, looking
at the tin of her pen. She owns count
plain little implement that might have
cost a quarter. Her stories are good
conscientious works. ana will no doubt
be placed in the desirable literatu
of the girls boarding schools. With her
mind roaming the fields of fancy and
her body at rest, the beautiful Miss
Davis sorts her ideas as Oliver Wendell
Holmes used to do, looking at his pen
and ofttimes confding his thought to it..
AOueen's Insp ration.
Marguerite of Italy. who has just
come out with book, dictates her works
walking upon veranda, which is also
the queenly fashion of Carmen Sylvia of
Roumania.
Marguerita's book is journal of her
travels in the Alps afoot, whence she
went to subdue heart trouble caused
by embonpoint. Walking. upon a piazza
with King Umberto by her side, Mar
guerita dictates her choicest sentences,
looking to the King smilingly for a con-
firmation of her journal.
sit is to ones very own that one can
dictate ones best thoughts" says the
Queen, land I find my inspiration in the
eyes of my King"
John Strange Winter and Mrs. Hum
phry Ward are the two writer's who have
passed beyond the home-letters into the
professional world. Yet they work very
unlike
After breakfast Mrs. Ward seeks her
boudoir, closes the door and gets out her
writing pad. If caller drops in the
maid enters silently and stands still a9d
looks at her mistress. Should genus De
burning Mrs Ward does not look up,
and the maid goes back to say en-
gaged' to the caller Should genius be TT