Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-17
MRS. WILCOX
IN SALT LAKE
Distinguished. POetess Came In
Quietly LIST Night
AN INTERESTING PERSON.
What She Says Of Her supposed Emo
tionai Experiences Reception
In Her Honor Tonight.

Mrs, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who was
expected TO arrive at $3.50 this morn
ing, slipped quietly into Salt Lake last
night and registered at the Knutsford,
where she was found rested from her
journey and anticipating with inter-
est her stay in the city. She was met
by Mrs. Ida Dusenbury and Mrs. f. S,
RI yds of the State kindergarten as
So .ton and was driven to the home
Of Mrs. Richards for luncheon and
afterwards 10 the Ladies Literary club
and Tabernacle, where she enjoyed a
recital on the big organ.
Mrs. Wilcox personally Is most inter-
esung In figure she is medium sized,
her hair light and eyes brown, the lat
ter lighting up as she talks on her ia
Vorite themes with the fire OF enthusl-
astic feeling which ID transcribed in her
poems, She talked freely about her
work and thinks the newspaper work
she Is at present engaged in perhaps
the most important as through II she Is
able to reach many people, Her favor
lite work, however Is her poetry and
she considers her last long poem Three
Women as her very best.
She spoke laughlingly Of the remark
often made that she must have lived
through many emotional experiences to
have written as she has. II am able
simply TO sense the suffering and emo
ton Of others, as indeed poet should"
she SAID Many OF my poems have
hQap .ynVaggfppu ~ tho nynaVtanPau of
others. That one commencing MY life
Is all in NUNS" was the expression OF
the life experience Of a friend. Again
one night I was Waiting with friend
who was reported to be in love with q
fair young widow. A thought came to
me and | wrote II in verse, expressing
the ending Of woman's love dream in
that waltz. looking into his eyes and
seeing there the love light for another,
The next day ! handed my partner the
poem and said This Is how / should
have felt II i had loved you. In reality
we were nothing more than friends.
am a natural born dancer she want
on. IF ] had made that art a profess
sion. | could have made my fortune as
a ballet dancer-there is nothing | can
not DO TO the sound OF music and that
is why so much of this theme has crept
into my poetry. Besides this | believe
| have lived IN many incarnatiQns and
can express much more than | have
literally experienced in this. Yes
am much interested IN theOs0phy, and
consider some Of the work conducted
by Madame Tingley as the most Won
derful In the world" Mrs. Wilcox says
that she has a beautiful summer home
In Connecticut. where she stays from
June 10 September, and the winter in
New York II shall have TO limit my
time in New York TO three months after
this. for find that the rush and whirl
get hold of one and make q fascination
that would keep one foeyer In its sweep,
Besides have many dear friends there
that help 10 lure me, and altogether
there is only one hope for rest-that Of
breaking from the thrall before 1t Is
complete"
In speaking Of "Maurine," her frst
long poem Mrs. Wilcox said; | could
never have written that poem had |
been then in love. | had not yet met
the love Of my life or l should never
have been able to exploit sacrifice so
deep as to give up to another woman
the man l loved. II was written as a
girl and in reply to much that had been
said Of women being unable 10 expert
ence for each other an unselfsh devo-
ton Asked as TO the pretty romance
circulated at the time Of her marriage
as to the meeting between herself and
her husband, having come about
through her poems she said this was
not true. He saw me and fell In love
with me before we were acquainted.
We had a long correspondence, however.
before we met | am very Jealous Of
my claims as a woman" she said de-
cisively. 81 would much rather people
liked me and did things for me for my
self than for the author The things
people do for me because Of what am
does not count so much as because
they care for me personally"
Mrs, Wilcox viii tonight be the guest
OF honor at a reception given az the
home Of Mr. and Mrs. +. s. Richards.
and tomorrow win go TO Saltair, after
ward attending the meeting Of the State
kindergarten association ut Baratt
hall
TOMORROW NIGHTS PROGRAM.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox will attend
the meeting q the state kindergarten at
Barratt hall tomorrow night and II Is
hoped will address the audience The
affair will be largely social and mu-
steal and the following program is to
be given.
Two Grenadiers, ",,.."., ..Schuman
Mr.. w. F. Curtis
a. "My Dear Jerushy," o.. Jessie Gaynor
b. "Slumber Boat .... Jessie Gaynor
C. my Little Love" O.. &C. y. Hawley
Miss Jane Macintosh.
How Salvador Won" .............
...... &C.. 80. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Mrs. Oscar l.. Cox.
"Oh, 'Tis O Dream. 80. e., e.. ,.Hawley
Mrs H. Marion Dinwoodey
christmas Stories, "....,. .Schumann
Mr.. Arthur Shepherd.