Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-14

woman friend In Boston who loves her
rhymes and encourages her to write
them.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward does up verses
as neatly as she does up prose. Of
late, however, she has given up the
idea of publishing her poetry in book
form and contents herself with serving
it to publications to be used and for
gotten. James Payn estimates that in
the last five years Mrs. Ward has cleared
5000, 900 in fiction alone, which was as
much as George Eliot made in her life
time; so it is no wonder that she does
not labor over rhymes.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, or ''Miss
Kate" as she is called in her Silver
street kindergarten in San Francisco;
writes verses while doing housework:,
She Is one of those versatile women
who can dance plantation break down
for you. If your ears are tired she
seothes them with song of her own
composition. II it is your head that
aches, she writes verses that tell of
green hills far away. Some. of her
best work has been done on the spur
Of the moment. She is the wife s.; d
wealthy gentleman who. divides his
time between London and America.
Amelie Rives, as her pen name still
is. though she is an italian princess,
made so much with her miscellaneous
poems during the two years she wrote
that her father, 9, wealthy Virginia
planter and trader, put stop to the
enormous sums paid her, and declined
to have her checks raised by the pub
fishers, 1t was too much for so young
and inexperienced writer to receive,
he said. Amelie Rives's spring poems
had all d touch of love in them.
John Oliver Hobbies is said to have
exhausted all her brightness long ago
and to be now repeating herself.
Mrs. Burton Harrison is called So
ciety writer because she happens to be
woman of aristocratic family who has
kept her place in good circles. She
writes, however, for money, not for
amusement, and has turned her May
muse to consideration of the sea and
sea grasses. She writes off poetry to
order, gets we'll paid for it, and she
may truthfully be said to ''make money
out of May flowers.
John Strange Winter is noted for
doing things UP thoroughly. John
Ruskin, dear friend of her girlhood,
taught her the magic of well-com,
pleted task. She writes little things
that tell their story without many
words.
Mary E. wilkins is said to have re.
fused to write four-line stanZa upon
ssMay" for $50 with as much ease as
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward declined
$40, 900 for "snarpy" life of Christ
Miss Wilkins. gets $50 line for hel
May flower verses as readily as Others
accept cent word. She is turning
them off with dizzy rapidity in hel
country home, fifteen miles from Bos
ton, and she is fast reaching the Anne
lie Barr standpoint in poetry when sh'
can write: ST can't 10 poem for yol
this spring, nor next spring, but the
following April, if the weather takes
me right, I will send you a rhyme fol
your May issue.
An uptown finishing school in New
York decided to call Mrs. Barr to de
liver series of talks upon poetizing
but the following day the faculty fount
half the students scribbling rhymes
upon slips of paper and harmolfize'
"May" and "day," cray" and 'fay,
to the exclusion of other tasks. Upol
which the faculty agreed to forget th
resolution to call Mrs. Barr and to Is
nature take her couse with the student
in the matter of poetry.-New Yor
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