Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-12-28
BURNED ALMOST TO A CRISP.


Shocking Accident TO Emily Pcttigrew,
Aged Five Years.
Emily Pattigrew, aged years, living
at No. 200 Harrison street, was burned
almost to crisp shortly after II
O'Clock Friday at the residence of her
grandmother, Mrs. Catherine O'Don-
nell, No. 1ll7 Conrad street.
She had gone to her grandmother's
house TO make a short visit and Mrs.
O'Donnel went to the store, leaving
the child alone in the house, MIS-
O'Donnell was absent only u few
minutes and on her return she found
the body of the child lying in the hall.
way, burned beyond recognition and
the clothing all burned off. The eyes
had been burned out AMI the flames
had evidently reached every part of the
body and had probably been inhaled.
A hasty examination showed that the
child was still living and Drs. Harris
and Corcoran were summoned, but were
powerless to do anything. The little
sufferer was taken in the Phoenix am
bulance to the Homeopathic Hospital.
where she died at 3 o'clock.
When Mrs. O'Donnell reached the
house the flames had not all been ex-
tinguished and in endeavoring to put
the fire out she was slightly, but not
seriously burned.
WIVES or RELL-KaoWN AUTHORS.
Some OF Them Gifted Writers, But Remain
in the background.
London Tid-Bits.
Mrs. Marion Crawford, the daughter
OF one of the heroes OF the Potomac
army, is woman of rare beauty,
dark.eyed and golden haired, with a
figure, full Of grace and statuesque
beauty. Before her marriage. Miss
Berdan las she then was had travelled
extensively in Europe, and had been AS
much of nomad as her husband. Mrs.
Crawford leads an ideal life with her
husband in their home overlooking the
beautiful Bay of Naples. Her mornings
are chiefly spent in driving, riding and
bathing tho afternoons in yachting,
and the evenings she devotes first to
her children whom she adores. When
the children are in bed, Mr.. Crawford
generally reads to his wife what he has
written during the day, and she criti--
cises it with rare discernment and
literary skill. Like many authors, Mr..
Crawford draws much of his best in
spiration from his wife.
Mrs. Guy Boothby is another wife OF
rare helpfuIness to her husband. TIC
make his work lighter for him she
mastered the my steries of the type
writer, and types her husbands novels
as he dictates them. This division VI
labor accounts very largely for the
phenomenal rapidity with which MI.
Boothby produces books. Mr.. and Mrs,
Booihby have charming house al
Sunbury, and share the same
recreatlons, from riding and cycling
TO breeding prize dogs.
Mr.. Thomas Hardy, author of "Test
of the D'Uibervilles, has found in his
wife literary .helpmeet' almost as
gifted as himself. Many of his earlier
novels she recopied aud dispatched te
the publishers, and there : is no move
which does not bear some trace of his
literary Judgment. Mrs. Hardy keeps
| herself constantly au curant of the
literature of the day, and her husband
VOWS that she is an encyclopaedia II
petticoats. !" She is also clever artist
and has painted many pictures il
| illustration of her husbands novels
j.. M. Barrie, since his marriage
with the charming young actress who
won his heart in "The Professor
Love Story finds life much more
worth living than "When Man!
SingIe.'' Mis-. Barrie does not claiu
to be literary or to be of much assist
ance to him in his work: but she ha'
done better work than this in bringing
brightness into her husbands life
rubbing the corners off him, ant
"making a sociable cieature of him,
instead of the hermit into which h
was degenerating,
No author gives more merltec
need of praise to his wife than Mr.
MAX O'Rell;" of some literary abilit.
herself, she takes the keenest deligh
in her husbands work, which 1t IS
labor of love to her to translate int
English. She is very Jealous of hi
reputation, and proudly collects all TIN
favorable notices of his books. Mrs
| Blouet is pretty, dnrk-eyed woman
an ideal housewife and hostess, ant
loves nothing better than to entertai
her husbands many friends in he
beautiful home in Acacia Road.
Count Tolstoi has paid some YER
charming tributes to the unseltish de
vction and helpfulness of his wife. |
is said that within the first eight year
Of her MARI led life she made seve
COPIES of hel husbands novel. WA
and Peace, a work in six volumes
and at the same time, as now, she con
Quoted all her husbands business cor
respondence. The countess is an un
sparing critic, and much of be
husbands work has undergone grea
modification at her suggestion.
Love the Parent of sympathy.
1t is not necessarily poverty or troubl
which makes people sympathetic; ofte
it makes Thorn quite the opposite
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