The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-15

thousands OF competitors. To enter
the sacred precincts of certain MAJ
azlnes is a more difficult feat
tina TO scale the walls of a fortified
city. Indeed, the editorial sancturn
Of one Gf the great popular American
magazines is q sanctuary fortified
against the invasion of an endless
horde, deterIninedly fighting for in
clusiOn within the charmed circle of
creative literature.
Can We restrain a brill Of pleas
ure, then-even before the perusal
of asingle line-0i: opening one Of
these great popular magazines, with
tens Of thousands, with hundreds Of
thousands. with millions even OF read
ers, and discovering there q. story or
essay signed "Margaret Busbee
Shipp?"
Who can restrain a feeling Of pride
in the discovery that sometimes the
eature, and on occasion the position
of honor, in such publications as Les
lies Monthly, Everybody's, The Amer
loan, Golfers, The Cosmopolitan, The
Saturday Evening Post, to mention
only a few Of the most conspicuous
has been a story or an essay Of Mar
garet Busbee Ship? And one can
scarcely estimate the size Of the aud
fence for one whose writings appear
in Vogue, The Smart Set, P~earson's,
Munsey's, The International, The
Churchman. The Woman's Home
Companion, The American Boy, The
Youths Companion, Ainslee's, New
York Evening Post, The National
Magazine, The Reader, Broadway
the list is too long to go further
with it's enumeration. Surely this
widely popular writer has achieved a
distinctive position during the past
decade and a half.
Today, 1 dare say, Margaret Bus
bee Shipp is the most admired, the
best loved woman in North Carolina.
This most enviable distinction, which
is easily hers, is regarded by those
who know her we'll as the most nat
ural thing in the world. She has al
ways eemed has Away appeared, tC
be the incarnation Of romance. The
pitileSs beauty of high tragedy has
fallen upon her brow; yet never ha
5 her life ceased for one moment to be
an inspiration to all who know her
, Romance is a very real thing to this
: living image Of a dream of Botticell
/ or a vision Of ROSSetti-Subtly deli
t cate, sensitively feminine to the finger
tips. Her friendships are utterly i'm
l p~artial-as to age, SEX, or condition
l To all she displays the same charm
of interest, the same genius for sym
patty. the same faculty for sharing
WILL lax lhC 100 w AL SAAhS SNN
! and feels. These words from a be
loved friend express the feeling which
t she is SO fortunate as to nSplre
Here is a woman who is 'obedient t.
e the Heavenly vision who has net los
: her ideal in life's hard, prosaic strug
g gle, nor lowered her standard one
though she has fought si~ngle-handet
in the fray. Are We 10
music, for flowers, for art in all it
I forms? Yes-and for such Womel
e as Mrs. Shipp, who inspire our duile
e souls that go more heavily, and hell
h us to believe in beauty still, though
. our eyes be too dull, through wearl
ness and pain, to see" -.
Refreshing naivece, re1narkabi
precocity, quite self-confidence-thes
were hers ever as a tiny child. A
e a baby, from her cart. she casuali
e protested: Don't tell me my eyes /
S pretty; cause l knows it,; and tn
neighborhood gladly claimed her a
9 it's most beautiful child. The stor
$ of her childhood would be the mar
h ratiye Of the quaint. naive sayings 0
unconscious cleverneSS. AS a htti
q tot. she made the unforgettab!e pray
err: "God bless the dear. sood cana
II man-who walks just SO getuhe u
from her knees to illustrate 10 III