The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-04-07

applies to any other kinds OF farm
seeds of good qualities as millet, beans
peas, buckwheat, timothy, clover, etc
II. Il. BOLLEY,
-.--. State Seed Commissioner
Agricultural Colley, N. d., Marci1 81
1921. ~. -,
AGNES REPPLIER is
SUBJECTO OF PAPER
Miss Anna X. Cook presented the
paper which is given below before the
last meeting of the Faculty Club. Miss
Repplier is here shown in the role of
essayist. @ @ y.
Now if tell but just this one bit
of information 'about my character,
and that is the encyclopedia gives the
date of birth 1856 and "Who's Who in
America" gives it as 1858, you immed-
| lately know it is woman, who is on
! April LIST either 66 or So years old.
That she is very tactful is shown in
the following illustrations: To a
young friend who had already usurped
many of her precious moments and
| who fingered protesting I'm sure
there was something else wanted to
say to you," Miss Repplier only pa
tiently inquired, perhaps my dear, It
was goodbye" Again when she was
learning to play bridge her plan was,
to 60 play, but never to tell anyone she
was beginner, or they might be
cautious about everything she did.
Agnes Repplier, prominent Amer
lean Essayist, perhaps the leading
writer of "the light essay" was born
of French parentage in Philadelphia:
a Catholic, educated at The Sacred
Heart Convent, Torresdale, Pa, where
prevailed French language and ideals
She was Gallo both by temperament
and training. There is small trace IN
her essays of French style echoed
consciously or unconsciously. The in
fluence was deeper, it was tempera-
| mental and racial manifesting itself
spontaneously in the display of those
literary qualities that we associate
with the word French. Her favorite
reading was largely in the English;
She read enormously and she read
note book in hand. Although Phil
adelphian born and bred, Miss Rep
plier added culture and impression by
much residence abroad, a winter in
Italy and Southern France, trip to
Egypt and Of late years she has spent
much time in Europe. Unlike most
authors who have travelled great deal
Miss Repplier rarely writes anything
connected with her travels, but when
she began to write it was with rich
store Of material. She began DELHI
erately and she worked like true
classicist, leisurely, with no genius
and no message to urge her on. Her
delight it was to talk about her read
| ing. to add entertaining episodes. to
embroider with pithy observation and
pithy quotations or epigram.
Miss Repplier began with Journal
ism contributing half 'acolumn almost
every week to the Sunday edition OF
| the Philadelphia Times, however, in
| 1886 she first came into notice when
the Atlantic Monthly introduced her
to the public. The magazine was at
! that time under the editorship o. Mr..
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, who had a
peculiar genius for finding sout new
authors instead of waiting as so
| many editors do until reputation is
| m ade and then attempting to secure
the author for their firm. At about
the same time DR.. William Furness
the pastor of one of the most promin-
ent churches in Philadelphia and a
man singularly quick to appreciate
literary merit. inquired who the Bos-
ton woman was who was writing these
delightful papers in the Atlantic
Monthly under the signature Of Agnes
Repplier. Boston woman!" was the
reply. "Why, she's living just around
| the corner from YOU" DR.. Furness
mistake, while possibly characteristic
of Philadelphia failure to recognize
her own celebrities until they have
! been vouched for by other cities, could
hardly have occurred at the present