Arizona republican., 1899-01-23
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The undoubted success of Miss Lil- lian Bell in the field of letters is due first, last and always to herself If fate has given her an unusual share Of good things, it is because she has cajoled or tricked the bearer Of the shears or slipped a strand of tinsel in the distaff's skein. She is a wri-er of force. of Whimsicality and spontaneous humor, and I recall few things in which the tears and laughter run so near to- gsther as they appear in The Love All fairs of an O-d Maid Miss Bells first success, and a work quite likely to re- main longest in the minds Of the read CTS '' A Little Sister 10 the Wilder ness" followed the initial effort, and surprised every one with it's remark able transcriptions Of the southern mountains. No leaf shadow, no song Of bird, no cry of a soul in that vast wilderness seemed to have been lost in the portrayal The s.ory did not repeat 6 sentiment of the forerunner, but it W2S as distinct and individual as if the author had lived cnly in it's environment through all her days. The Underside of Things repeated the success of the other two volumes, and sounded vigorously a previously untouched chord. And now l am pleased to see that 'fThe Instinct of Stepfatherhood, one of the best short stories ever written by Miss Bell-or by anybody else, good masters-has been put in covers by the Harpers.
 
 A new employment for women may grow out of the venture of Mrs. Liv ingstone, formerly of the dominion land office at Winnipeg, Canada, who has been appointed by the department of the interior to take charge of the immigration of a superior class of do mestic servants from Britain to Mani toba and the territories. She makes trips to Great Britain to select and bring out the girls, and also be respon- sible for their general supervision in the new country. Recently nearly 100 girls from Glasgow ar rived in Montreal under charge of Mrs. Livingstone. They were sent west to different points in the territories and British Columbia.
 The alumnae of Vassar college in tend to devote an alcove in the library to a collection of works of art, and to make it a memorial of Miss Reubena Hyde Walworth, who lost her life in giving care to the sick soldiers at Mon- tauk Point. Miss Walworth is one of the three women who have died within the last year to be so honored by their loving and appreciative associates. A new hall will be added to the Georgia Normal and Industrial college at Mill edgeville in memory of the beloved daughter of the south, Miss Winnie Davis. A third monument to a sweet and patriotic woman will be to furnish and maintain a room in the Garfield Memorial hospital, in Washington, in IL e ,4I,- late Mexican minister, Mme. Romero.
 It has often been said that there are no shafts of remembrance to American women, but the one marked simply Margaret in New Orleans. That | tribute to the humble mother of the l poor was raised by the reverent hands l of the working people of that city.
 But public memorials to women are | now being made in the erection Of ! schools, hospitals. and charitable insti- l tutions, and they are bette. by far than | any glaring statue in a noisy street; an ! image of stone, souIless, cold, and deaf to every cry for help and sympathy is not the remembrance a loving, charit- able woman would choose if she were asked, How shall we keep your mem ! ory green when you have passed , al0ng?'
 When Amber died the Chicago News paper W oman club wished to oStab- | fish memorial bed in some Chicago | hospital that ,he desire of her great | soul 10 heip to rescue and to befriend | might be fulfilled. A fund was started | for that purpose but as it was no: large enough for the project the money | is still in the bank unused. while every day some woman faints and dies for lack of the comfort which the Amber bed" would give. But scme day a wave of remembrance will sweep over us. We shall recall with thrilling hearts the cries for justice and the tender notes of consolation which Amber voiced. and then we shall go to work again and make that most fitting me morial so long in prospect an estab- lished fact. Perhaps some generous woman will make this possible today Chicago Journal.