The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05

ling was so much struck by it that he
wrote to the author, and thus began a
friendship that has continued to grow
ever since. This was several years ago,
and more or less correspondence had
passed; and American publishers visit
ing in England had had Mr.. Fraser s
work warmly commended to them by
Mr.. Kipling; but until now the two
men had never met. The mere accident
of Mr.. Kipling's having arrived in New
York for a visit at the time of year
when Mr. Fraser is wont to come,
brought the two together.
From here Mr.. Fraser went to Phila-
delphia, where he has a particular
friend and adviser in Mr.. Jordan, the
editor of the Saturday Evening Post.
Mr.. Jordan accepted some stories of his
for Short Stories, when he was editor
of that magazine; and these were about
the first to find publication in this
country. A number had already been
published in Canada and England, how
ever
Margaret Sutton Briscoe, who in pri
vate life is Mrs. Arthur Hopkins, has
just finished a weeks visit here at
tending to affairs with her publishers
and affording, between whites, bright,
numerous friends. For several years
previous to her marriage, Mrs. Hop
kins had her home here, and by her
fine social qualities added to the excel
lence of her work, she made herself
very definite and honorable place. Her
marriage removed her to Amherst,
Mass, where her husband is pro-
fessor in chemistry. She has come
back often enough, however, to main
l,o, old ioI
Her literary connections she has easily
maintained by making steady i'm
provement in her work With this her
marriage has never been allowed TO
interfere. She has a young daughter,
and she has a house, and she gives to
both all the care they need at her
hands; but, in general, no day passes
that she does not secure to her writ
ing the full number of hours that she
has decided shall be devoted to it. This
unusual result she has attained by the
simple process of making a rule ana
living up to it. The writing time is
sacred. Her whole household under
stands that, during that time, Mrs.
Hopkins is to have absolutely no inter-
ruptions; there is to be not even SO
much as a knock on her door. Inc
frequency with which her work is seen
in the leading periodicals is the best
CN@Ns
Every week or two she has an article
or a story in Harper's Bazaar; and eV-
cry few months a. story in one or an
other of the monthly magazines; and
many occasional pieces besides
Mr.. Kipling, by the proyocation of
1.-THE White Mans Burden" seems TO
have set about all the versifiers in the
nation to driving their quilts. Not
e ,,r,;< ,nT1fI n
"The White Mans Burden"-moving,
for the most, in its own, or some
fanciful reproduction of its own meas
ure-have appeared in print, but these
are nothing in comparison with the
number that have been offered for
print and declined. I learn from the
editors of the magazine that published
the original poem that ever since 1t
appeared they have received, on an av-
erage, from four to six poems day in
refutation or endorsement of it; and
any number more have gone to the
newspaper offices in all parts of the
country So far as [ have personal
knowledge of them, the larger part OF
these poems accept the Kipling posi-
ton and instruction, either simply ut
tering approval of it, or proceeding
from it to, if possible. develop its idea
a little further But now ana then
vently striving to turn Mr.. Kiplings
phrases upon him to his complete dis
comfiture, if not destruction.
A very interesting, and, I may say,
extraordinary instance of community
of business and diversion between hus-
band and wife is afforded by Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Seton Thompson. 1t was,
think, while they were both art stu
s. -, ~ hot hair n
began; and marriage has not been al
lowed to divert either from the general
course of life which they, then had in
view. They both draw. and they both
write; and one often lends hand to
the tasks of the other. Mrs. Thomp-
son, for example, made many of the
designs that illustrate Mr. Thompson s
recent book, wild Animals 1 Have
Known" But it is not simply their as
ISOLATION in work that makes them a
striking instance: their association in
sport is yet more unusual. They divide
the year pretty evenly between the
confinement of New York and the free
dom of the plains and mountains Of
the far west; and in the plains and
the mountains, Mrs. Thompson does all
that her husband does; she sleeps on
the ground she rides, climbs and
hunts; and their city apartment is
craftsmanship, no less than with the
trophies of his. She carries her own
rife and can bring down her antelope
or elk as infallibly as Mr.. Thompson
himself So far as place of birth is
concerned, the far ends of the earth
met in them, Mr.. Thompson being a
native of England and Mrs. Thompson
native of California. But he came
quite early to America, and lived for
several years on the frontier; and so,
though so far apart in mere place OF
birth, they were, in way, of one con-
dition in their rearing. Mr.. Thompson,
as those who know him through his
writings are aware, is primarily a nat
uralist He held for a time the office
of government naturalist for the prov
ince of Manitoba. His work as an art
list has been mainly the depicting of
animal life. 1t was his drawings of
birds and animals that were used in
illustrating the Century dictionary,
and he has Illustrated number of ar
ticles and books of the natural history
kind besides his own. That he should
have found wife who could Join so
intimately in work so special as this,
adds further emphasis to the unusual
ness of their case.
E. c. MARTIN.
PEcIITIAR PEOPLE