The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-10


IN aEyilIa on the banks of the Potomac
IN Georgetown. The cene was rural
andaromantic, made So by the beauti-
fuls rive and the grove-covereds and
yineclad hills Of that vicinity. II was
amid such surroundings that Emma
Dorothy E1izaNeyitte Southworth
wrote more han fifty novels, and made
IA ame@that issan%American household
Sword.@@Neyer was there a writer more
loyal to virtue; never a healthier
hatred If and iniquity than
she#incnIcated. She never failed
to rewara the good, and she would not
suffer rhe#ultimate triumph of the
wicked. III loved Justice, and neted
fI8 OMIT the righteous and the de-
praFed with ven hand, and to each
according to his desert.
SsThe#most charming love story in all
letters is the courtship and marriage
saof BoazS and Ruth, the alliance between
t he5EhousesAof Elimelech and Moab.
sThoughsitw was real, it shames the real
ss~isticsschool Balzac had transcendent
and we must rank him above
swift, Of the English school; or Hugo,
of3the&French or Goethe, of the Ger
sIIlnan-as a ma of profane letters, in
MferioraSonly to Shakespeare and Ger
S&Yantes but he always leave a bad
taste in your mouth He was etcr-
naI1y numbering when it would have
been Just as easy to save, and he dis
pensed volumes of misery that he
could Just as we'll have made tones OF
happiness. Nobody but a mailman
could have written "Cousin Bette" or
,E%E, -H..
44ttC Cousin Pons,' but they are work of
"a Titanic mailman. Take Sir Walter
SCOTS Wayerly novels, and l will
tina Quentin Outward has
been#read ten times where st. Ro-
mans WelTts has been read once.
4@Where is the. boy who does not re-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES murder Capt.
Marryat perpetrate1 in the death Of
the heroEzo his ~otnerwise excellent
story of THE King Own?
Mrs Sonthworth was Of the roman
~tic4school. h no more believed in
the defeat of virtue than she believed
insa bad breakfast, and If your appe-
tIte isspoortake down orc OF her nov
els#and read how she served break
fast. she VIII Immediately stimulate
your Imagination and you can almost
TX toEDi AZ jas
cults. the cakes. the chops and the
chicken. Mrs. Stove was a woman OF
assingle book, bur Mrs. Southwort!l
was what Dom Piatt said she was,
il first American novelist,
December &c. 1919. WIS born in the
District of Columbia Emma Dorothy
Eliza #Nevitte. She was educated by
her stepfather, Josiah L. Henshaw,
and y graduated in 1885, before she
was g and thus must rave e~vinced
a remarkable ~precocity as we'll as the
wonderful industry thai characterized
her mature years. Before she was
out of her teens she taught in the
public schools of Washington, and
even The her ever-busy pen was at
work and produced her first story,
The irish Refugee" that gave prom
Use of a genius that later was so pro
lifcally developed. This was soon fol
lowed by her first novel, "Retributior,"
with the publication of which her life
\ work began.
M In 1870 Miss Nevite became tbs
Mdfe of Maj. Frederick H. Southworth
of$$gtica, Ny, and IL years later she
made her home in Georgetown, but q
stepAfrom the banks of the beautiful
III stream hat is to our people what the
sTiber Was to Rome. what the Thames
lis to England. Here she wrote fit!
novels, sometimes as many as three
a year, and here h made her name
familiar to all reading America, anC
She SO lahored that tens Of thousands
y& a #y116T a MI women nNyS and nIrIS