Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-05


Emery Stuart's reading, delighted. She
came back with visions Of plump,
sweet-faced woman in her mind. A
woman who has the air Of bien arrivee
in every movement. Women are always
interested in what another woman
wears, and nothing could have had a
better effeot than Mrs. Stuart's simple
black velvet gown, with a choux Of
red silk on the left shoulder. She wears
her hair in pompadour and at the
reading Thursday evening had in 1T a
black aigrette Mrs. Stuart is a
Louisianian by birth, and though the
stormiest experience of the Civil War
passed over her as a mere child, its
effects remained and the situation
augmented the constituencies of q mind
peculiarly susceptible to mental i'm
rressions. The McEnery strain of blood
has in its three generation Of Southern
life, mingled with its Scotch Irish
clearpess the kindly temperament of
warmer CLINE, and thus Mrs. Stuart to.
day has manner and an atmosphere
about her that attracts every one by its
suavity. There are women whom the
reading public love, but it rarely hap.
pens that affection for both work and
character fall to the lot of the same
person. But this is Mrs. Stuart's lot in
life. Every one of her stories seems 10
have part of herself in it; part of
her love for humanity, which throws a
glamour like spiritual mantle around
even unloveiiness.
II always like to know something Of
the looks and ways and speech OF q
writer for whom / oare," said Beth,
land 1t was rare treat to meet MIS-.
SfnarE .Thtrrcfsou ut tho Nou-
Century Club. She wasn't In the least
disappointing, and most authors who
read their own works are, but she looked
just as one who loved her stories would
wish and expect her to look. You
know in winter she has an attractive
apartment IN New York, and in
summer she lives at Onteora, in the
Catskills, having for company sister
and son old enough for companion
ship. and trusted maid, Mollie, a
kindly-faced>b nurse of early days.
Her living room, with its big brick
| fireplace with a copper kettle swung
| over it, an old-fasbioned clock at the
right of it and on the left big window
with queer little old-fashioned panes,
wicker sofas, a shining mahogany table,
| Indian baskets, lots of hooks, prints
| hanging here and there and q cast of
/ Venus de Milo on the wall, punches of
fern and all go to make up the most
attractive background for this charm
ing woman.
MRS. Stuart has a fad"
"Her writing, you mean, Of course.
Beth2''
"No, I should call that her purpose
in life, but this is just fad in which
she is most interested; she calls it the
study of micology, and the rustic folks
about her mountain home call her the
woman who gathers all the hopper
toadstools' and look upon her with
amazement when she eats the promis-
cuous 'pizens -"
Mrs. Custer, wife of the late Gen.
| Custer, who is one of her intimate
friends, tells of being invited to a
luncheon prepared by Mrs. Stuart's
hands, and when specimen after speci-
men Of these varied edibles came
on the table, she came to the conclusion
she wasn't really hungry" She has
| Stuart's Judgment, and has been on
many a mushroom hunt with her, and
as writer who told the story expresses
1t, has become an applicant for the
position of 'Promiscuous court faster
in general.
Ms SOaa.S nas ~ yoo ioS Susi eny
1 Gn ior ner lounaI noe. S St;ri!ng
Sas S was sIssess9u, eeoause .Hng
sie naie ieions ,ns ~ 'ie tmo snmd5
mtl LILY, nv ~ s,nSe nas peen g I;e
Lni9'io omn, au soo1 tsn
it is here that one sees Mrs. Stuart at
her best, as the author, hostess and
| loving mother
DIS oen mon"es INV shey ao ~,
sa'u neth, now sney mt'se. ~ seem y
70 me when l see greaI seory, eaat II
must nave CONE from me pen OF ,ne
author in sotne iairy wano manner
What time OF day do authors write!
is question SO often asked. At
literary gathering Lonuon tne question
was once propounded and Anthony
Hope, who was present, SAID that ne
went to his old law chambers in
Buckingham street when, by Inc
way, IS as quiet as me heart OF the
country tnougn IL ~ luss on ehe
Sranu y evei5 mo,us ~ oio ".s.
dhefe l slnohe pIPe, ne saiu, anu
atter tnis sweet communion 1 puckle
Gown 10 Wits anu az NOV ieate my
once, save ior iuncneon' unt'i 4
o'cioeh.
STANLEY Weyman Writes 10 me morn
ins, hna ne toiu an :,hsrieap pupllsler
that he goes W uis oesA hatiLB ohe
TASK, ieeiing thaS ooes not wear
away until no Rees in,o the hilusI VI
ms narrative. henry JAMES WORKS iate
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