Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-05

wheel and glass globe as decorations.
1t all fits In exactly, even the pump
where Mrs. Wigs met Lovey Mary,
and the commons and Miss vinney's
denominational garden"
As matter of fact, the celebrated
cabbage patch is less than half a mile
from the red brick house In which the
girl author wrote Of 1t in the UMPIRE
tentious tale which, like Dickens
christmas Carol" the mind Of one
who has read it especially reverts to at
Christmastide. The patch itself is so
very plain and humble that the hun
dreds Of people who now make pill
grimages to it are often disappointed
end inclined to exclaim:
''Is that all there Is of it?"
Just So 1t is the highest tribute one
could pay to the exquisite literary art
Of Alice Hogan Rice. Anybody could
see that patch and the queer, scram-
bling, hand to mouth life of its inhabit-
ants, but it required genius to see the
possibilities for literature that lay
therein. Common people see there only
the not always clean, not always agree
able life Of the poor quarter Of city,
but Mrs. Rice says, THE cabbage patch
is full of stories" She herself has a
way of making quaint, humorous, phil
osophical cabbage patch observations
to her familiars in everyday life, they
say. What delightfully."- jolly compan-
ion she must be!
Socially Mrs, Rice is extremely popu-
lar. On the return from her honeymoon
journey to Europe the doorbell of the
Hogan home in Louisville was broken
down by the multitudinous jerks of old
friends who called and insisted on see
ing her. She was born and brought up
in Louisville. Her friend, Miss SImp-
son, writes of her:
Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice Is a woman
Of about twenty-eight, with beautiful
dark eyes and hair and face that is
interesting beyond the ordinary. as
there beams from it genial kindness
and hidden laugh in the brown eyes.
She Is of medium height and graceful
figure, real Kentucky girl in speech
and manner She has always shown to
her friends the inclination to wit and
humor, picking up and using in every
day conversation remarks similar to |
those she puts in the mouth of Mrs |
Wigs. These bits of fun often were
sent to newspapers and magazines and |
found ready market"
1t was as humorist in conversation |
that Miss Hogan became noted first |
among her friends II is as humorist |
In print that she is best known to the |
public, but one endowed with that true
mirth provoking power whose source is
always infinite human sympathy.
1t is especially interesting to note
that Miss Hegan's earliest successes
were achieved in a women's club which
met regularly for literary work at the
girls own home. Charming women are
cultivated Louisville ladies, with their
unconventional. frankly expressed kind
illness and sprightliness, and that club
was typical assemblage of such wo-
men. They wrote and read aloud in
meeting essays, stories, poems and ey-
cry manner of literary sketch.
The hopeful. sunny atmosphere that
pervades Mrs. Rice's stories is the re- +
Election of her own happy childhood
and girlhood. The Hegans were hos
pitable family who knew we'll how to
enjoy life. They owned extensive wood
lands near Louisville. In the impress
years of the future author an
old Kentucky cabin was maintained in
these woods, and there "week end par
ties" assembled summer after summer
to live the life of nature. There mirth,
liberty and joy. likewise good will and
Affection, reigDed supreme.
JANE STORY.