The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-14
REAL MARY M'LANE
!. AGENTS COMING FOR USE OF EXPO ri
One Of Her Former Teachers Says
She's Been Maligned.
BRILLIANT, RETIRING GIRL
She Wrote Her Book to Secure
Funds for Her Higher
Education.

4 ~ E. 81 4 1 ~ / u
Among the Montana delegation attend
ing the National Educational association
We're several men who have an intimate
acquaintance with Mary MacLane and her
family. When her name was ment ioned
one day in the state headquarters in a
spirit of badinage, one of these men said
to reporter present:
1T is all very we'll to laugh about Mary
MacLane. but tell you the impression
people who don't know her have received
| from all the newspaper talk about her and
her book is as different from the reality as
black is from white. I have known and
watched her for years, and perhaps un-
derstand her and her circumstances
| about as we'll as any OF her friends. If
you are interested, I should be really
glad to give you my view of brilliant
young girl who has been much maligned
but has such an amount of genuine abil-
| ity that she Is going to rise above 1t
ALL" t rs a. ~
| The reporter was more than willing to
hear the true chart erization OF this re-
markable young woman, as told by a
prominent and reliable educator. This is
| the account that he gave: $@as -- -! b.. j
Mary MacLane is everything that she
says she isn't: she is good, simple, retir-
| ing in disposition and manners, and, al
| though plain in her tastes, is very good
looking girl What might be called the
| beginning Of her literary work was In the
Butte high school. She was selected by
| the principal as the editor Of the. High
School Leader, and soon manifested a
degree of ability exceeding that of any
high school pupil have ever known. Her
| fine literary qualities were matter OF
much comment among the teachers.
! tIn her book are many beautiful pas
sages that her teachers readily recognize
as culled from her high school exercises.
and they are among the best things in
the book. ~-
N"The Anemone lady Of the book was
Miss MacLanes teacher OF literature in
the high school, and her real literary as
pirations have been encouraged by her
This woman is Miss Francis Corbin, pro-
fessor of literature at the state university
at Missoula. She and Miss MacLane are
now at Cambridge Mass, attending the
summer school at Harvard, and Miss Mac
| Lane will remain next year and enter
Radcliffe for special course in chemis-
| try" - --[--
ASKED why she should chose to study
chemistry when her aspirations are liter
| ary, the narrator replied: -. T. -. :
=, "Well, not unnaturally, she has gotter
some mistaken idea from her sudden
| bound into prominence and she says
Why should / spend nay time studying
literary methods when such writer's as
| UalldAu odyo LILY oIy 10 10 pSAASSt'
think, though, che will soon get over
that, for I have a great deal of faith ir
her good sense. - = --. T. p. A.
| :Mary MacLane's greatest fault is that
she is young, and she is steadily getting
over that at the rate of twenty-four hours
a day. She firmly believes that she is
] genius and her idea is shared to a con
siderable extent by great many people
who really know her and, are good Judges
But along with that she has the popular
idea that she must be errattc. and sht
has cultivated that quality, for can as
d sure you that it is not natural to her.
''She belongs to one Of the best fami
lies of Butte, and they are people in ver!
comfort able ,circunastankss. The nctori
ETY. the young author has achieved ha,
| been very painful to them, and think +
was a. great shock to her, but she regards
it as one of the adversities through whiel
budding genius must pass. :. ~ -"
,'It is three years since Mary MacLant
graduated from the high school, and sh.
has been working on her book all Of thi
time. She had two objects one to become
an author and another to make money t
complete her education in manner sucl
as she choose. AS $4,000 of her books
have been sold, and she gets good roy
atty on each one, she is abundantly able
to carry out her plans" r.