The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-15
APPREcIATIvE TRIBUTE TO "A
 NEW HAVEN WOMAN.

SaA A1s11AA44NE TRIBUTE 4O @A
 NEW HAVEN WOMAN.
 The following appreciatiYe tribute to well-known resident Of New Haven appeared in Sundays World:
 One doesn't expect to find very striking or even interesting personality behind the desk of an intelligence of ice. Yet in Mrs. George Babb. of Court street, not only does one find that but remarkable woman.
 Mrs. Babb hss long been one of the business women of the town. she has been in charge of an employment bu- reau fifteen years. More than half the women Of the smart set know her, for she caters only to the best trade.
 Yet few of the women who know her professionally appreciate what a truly wonderful character she is. Many times after talking business with her they go away wondering what there is about her that leaves such a marked impression. They notice the correct English she speaks, what sweet voice she has, what a placid manner. Her love of pets does not escape them. They praise the soft fur of the big black eat that blinks at them from the top of her desk, where it sits amid it's litter of papers, ink-wells and ledgerst They have admired the funny old par rot in the gilded cage that until recent ly always hung near the desk, and which, when it's time came to die. spoke an almost human farewell to it's mis- tress.
 All these things Mrs. Babb's custo- mers note, yet few, if any of them, when they pick up this mornings s newspaper and read bright, witty arr ticle signed by solitary have any idea that 1t is from the pen of the ec- centric little woman on Court street, the woman who attends to straighten- ing out their domestic difficulties, who can put her fingers on the best cook in town or the most competent maid in the county.
 One or two poems by Mrs. Babb have recently been published. One dedica- ted to Helen Keller, the famous. blind girl, attracted special attention and was widely copied. It was signed Mary N. Babb. The little woman on Court street is known only as Mrs. Babb How many are there who dreamed that Mary N. Babb. the au- thor Of the clever verses ITO Helen Keller,s Alma Mater" and Mrs. Babb of Court street, are one and the same?
 That her contributions to the local press are always put upon the editorial page is proof mat the editors have dis covered her ability. The World corres- pondent's attention was called to Mrs Babb by a recsnt criticism in one of the local newspapers of sketch on The Regicides." This she read before the In and Out Door club last winter. This club IS composed Of some of the bright i est men and women of New Haven, members for the most part of the Church of the Messiah. There are labotit thirty in the club, among them Mrs. Babb.
 If l had an independent ircomes ( she told the correspondent of the World, T would devote my life to phi- lanthropy. Think of the sick, the shut l in, the poor I might visit and cheer. Mrs. Babb regrets that she is poor simply because of the necessity of giv- ing her time to business that might be spent in doing some kind thing Tor some one else" as she expressed it.
 when questioned as to why she chose lthe intelligence bureau as a livelihood, shc replied:
 VI found there was need here of an intelligent intelligence office"