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fo literary women, who- have
won fame and fortune through
their pens, invest their fortunes?
! i 'Do Ay .rtrr attempt to enter business
lifef Can they put themselves outside the
idealizations of their fanciest This is a ques-i
Hots, often asked. . , i: . '
' The latest answer comes from Kentucky.
fJt Louisville, Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice, au
thor, of "Mrs". Wigis of the Cabbaie
Patch," "Lovey Mary" and "Sandy," has or
ganized a national bank, in which a consider-
t able share of her largi earnings mil be in
vested. ' ,'." -v '
Coming into' public eye and favor less
than five years ago, Mrs; Rice, from the sale
of her books and the dramatization of her ?
' works, is estimated to have made at least a
' 'quarter of a million dollars since that time.
. With this comfortable capital, she is turn
ing to the business world for investment; and
; the career of the authoress as 'a banker will be
watched with interest.
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RICH doe not Intend to abandon literary
but will initp la banking aa a aid Uaao
an Investment, v
Starting with a capital of S350.0OO, Oils bow
national bank. In which aha la understood to bo the Urg
oat atoekholder, ia regarded by tb authoress aa baring
: k moat promising future. -
- ' Associated with, her In the enterprise. It to understood,
are ber buaband, Cala Young Rice, himself a writer of
' ability; W. D. Hed. L. SC. Rice and other prominent men
. of Louisville. - .'.
- It is believed la her home town that Mrs. Rice will'
be, at least, one of the directors In this new financial
- Institution, and that she will devote to Ita Interests a
- considerable part of .that activity and acumen that have
won ber fame and dollars In the literary world. .
" Mrs. Rica saya that aha doea nor know bow much aha
la worth, although conservative cellmates place the earn.
Ings of her pen at nearly or quite quarter of a million
dollar. - Jt - . . . . : :
And this within five years. ..
"Mrs. Wlggs , of the Cabbage Patch.- Introduced to
the public la 1901. baa sold to the extent of mora than
' two hundred and fifty thousand copies, and la still In de-
xnsnd; oey .Xary," which appeared In lSJS, baa on
Joyed almost aa widespread popularity, and "Sandy," put
put by the publisher last year, ia having a moat gratify
Ing run.' At least six hundred thousand volumes of the
three books have 'been sold, It is said.
In addition to tb In come from this direct scare, Mrs.
IUce has received handsome royaltlea an dramatisations
, ef ber works. ... . v . v " '
; ' SEEKING PURITY IN UTERATURE
During the last four or Bra year money has poured
In ttpda her far In excess of her previous wildest dreams,
and now that she plana to start a national bank with her
earnings aba' baa ample capital to Invest la that enter- .
prise. -.' 'Tv
With all ber brilliant success, Mrs. Rice la the Same
. modest, unassuming woman she waa Ave years ago, when
tlO waa a gratifying price for a story, and WO da El Do
rado of wealth. -,.''. ,..;.....'
In person, this talented authoress Is tall, dark and
graceful. She baa a fine ollre akin, dark eyes and hair
and a small well-poised bead.
Being possessed Of great goodness of heart, she la net
rally tactful, and could not be ill mannered If aha tried.
Because of ber keen sense of humor, she is the beat of
comrades, and bsr ready sympathy makes ber always
generously Inclined. . .
v Caring nothing for the notoriety ber books bava
brought her, ber aim la to write stories that will go be
yond mere popularity to what la best and purest In liter
ature.' -' . . ' ' .''.'
-Phenomenal success has not turned her .head- In the
. least and the constant stream of letters from publishers
offering ber immense and almost princely royalties leaves
i bar unmoved. .. -:
Mrs. Rica does the major portion of her work In the
arty hours of the morning, and she never tires herself. ,
ha la a quick thinker, seeing the thrust-point of keen
bamcr. and readily moulding It to her own ends.
, Just on the outskirts of Louisville stands a ptctnr
eaque old log cabin, and there Mrs. Rice entertains her -'
Mends. She baa a coxy little corner for herself a sort
(at nondescript writer's den into which she may retire.
She shrinks from newspaper notoriety. It la with
; Btfilculty that an Interviewer can approach her, and with
still mora dlfHeulty that an Interview oaa be secured.
4-.'Ss THE ORIGINAL MRS. WIGGS"
Delighting in bom, la friends and In private Inter
. uata, for years she baa been devoting on day of each
Israek to helping six or seven young men boys when she
- otnmeneed with them gain something that will be of
ftraotlcal benefit to them.
She reads with them and to them, and then, when
. tb serious part of the evening ia over, they Indulge In
such pleasures as afford the greatest relaxation.
While .she doea not take seriously to club life, she Is
member of several suca Institutions, Including th Ly
sum and Woman's Clubs of London and th Authors'
Club at Louisville. Owing much of ber literary success
to the encouragement and assistance of members of the
Authors' Club. Mrs. Klce still retains the warmest Inter
est la that Institution. .. r
Organised ten years ago by Mr. Evelyn 8." Barnett,
among tb members of that institution ars such literary
women as Mrs. Anna Fellowe Johnston, Miss Eva- Mad
den. Mrs. George Madden Martin, Mrs. Sallle E. Marshall
. Hardy, Mies Venlta Belbert. Miss Margaret Steel Ander
son and Miss Mary Leonard, most of whom have attained
more or less distinction In the world of letters.
A the beginning of her career Mrs. Rice, then Alice
He (an, did not aspire to become a "literary Woman."
Her ideals were centred about the achievements of a
caricaturist, and she was endeavoring to perfect herself
la this work. From time to time, however, she wrote
ut character sketches as they appealed to her.
Among these were literary bits dealing with her
f-l-nd and pensioner, Mrs. Bass, the original of "Mrs.
. Vlggn."
At a house party m New Tork she read a snort story,
wilch afterward became a part of that chapter of "Mrs.
Wlggs of the Csbbago Patch" dealing with her theatre
party. In which Jimmy Wlggs was the central figure.
',' J. SAVED FROM HERSELF
Th story mad a pronounced hit The authoress was
rged to put the products or ber brain in print.
Ctoconvlnced, but willing and ambitious, Mrs. Rica re
rned to Louisville and becam a member of the Au
ors" Club. Shortly after that It was decided that each --tuber
ehoald write from her point of view a chnrt story
i the eultect, "Story of a Wall-Bred Olri at Midnight in
, arbor boob . . I
. very member ef the elub put forth her beet effort,
I th coeapoelt result la story form was sent to a well
j a magasine. That publloaUoe liked it so well that
story was given aa entire number, and as from Fab
ry. lJO, when the unique combination story wss given
t world, really dates the first triumph of Alice
i T ice ' ,
- i at her share of that story was will, perhsps, never
r but It waa Infinitely superior io anything she
i -r before done, and cam aa sort of inspiration
- wed and better effort,
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At a mooting of tb Author' Club later on. the man
uscript of "Mrs. Wlggs" wss first read to th members.
Far from being the finished product that waa after
ward given to the public, this first version waa subjected
to severe but kindly criticism. :, f,.s :
This criticism waa given with no other view than to
aid, and tb young authoress realised It.
With a mind clear as a sunbeam and a wit as shsrp as
ber desire to please, she grasped the value of the criti
cism and remodeled her work accordingly. .
Aa evidence of her lack of self-appreciation. It Is
stated as a fact that when th new or revised manu
script was read at th Author Club soma time after
one of the members Instantly made Mis Hegan
,aa offer4 of fZOOO for it.
The authoress knew nothing about tb financial possi
bilities of a successful book, but CO00 seemed to hor a
sum vastly beyond th real worth of "Mr. Wlggs."
Consequently, the young writer refused to consider the
proposition, fo no other reason than that to accept It
would be, si thought, to outrageously impose on ' her
friend,
Even with the praise of her associates In the Authors
Club tingling In her ears. It is doubtful If the first pre
tentious effort of the young writer would hare been'
suspiciously launched but for th timely Inslsleno of
these same friends; for. still unbelieving, Miss Hegan she
had not then been won by her poet-husband, Cala Toung
Rice-announced her intention of sending the manuscript
Horses of
HISTORY finds It difficult to separate the war horse
, and bis master.' Sine early ages records of wars
have always paid tribute to the gallant steeds
that carried their distinguished riders through the
bloody frays. The recent stories of General Kuropatklo's
devotion to his favorite charger remind one of many a
great soldier between whom and the horse that baa car
ried him through long campaigns there has been an affec
tion almost human In Its Intensity.
Who does not recall Lord Koberts' gallant charger
Volonel the little gray Arab which carried Its medals
end its master so proudly In the Diamond Jubilee pro
cession? Volonel had belonged In bis early jresrsl to an
Indian chief, and when Lord Roberts bought him he dis
covered that the Arab's tnil had been broke:, in two
piece to produce a graceful caudal curve. When Queen
Victoria awarded medals to her soldiers who had fought
in the Afghan campaign and In the exoedltlori to Can.
dahar, Volonel waa greatly, but not undeservedly, hon-
ored. Lord Roberts proud
juiy
hung round his neck the
Bathing in the
, A THING In Lapland cannot well be classed . as s
luxury, Judging from this picture.
It Is the photograph ot a bather "caught In tb
act" Of course, he Is not a native of that bleak
and barren country, or he would probably not be taking
a bath. . i '
Such thing as a porcelain bath tub. with hot and
cold water and all the other
accessories of - tbs modem
N cleansing process. Is un
known In Lapland, at least
In dreary, outlying sections,
such ss the one pictured.
Natives of .Lapland are
.divided Into two. general
classes fishermen and herds
men. While the former settle
In communities along th
fjord and lakes, the latter
are nomedlo, driving their
herds of reindeer from place
to place, .in order to find tha
best psstursge ot lichen and
moss. 1 . .
Small and primitive are
the dwellings of these people..
Bath tubs are not Included In
i4 ft:iN'?AA
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Bather in Cataract
th houaefurnlahlng outfit.
.tHBd. t riir..ii .1 i!r BChn'eountry-wh1ch rorre-
e.r.i a , l . J '
11 hii. "iT.rr '"wrl noes to tms continent
"Ti -r'"."" aiming at godliness, retain
Dt
i- vTrtiir f'.!n"'"!,t "- Perform tbelr ablu.
lh ample. U ahilly, "bath tub" shown her la a cor-
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Famous
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to the Dairy Maids Own Publishing Company, or some
concern of Ilk Importance.' N '
Her frlenda would have none of It. The story must :
go to soms first-class publishing concern; It could only
he refused, they argued; and. besides. It was Just as essy
to aim high, with the hope of bitting a star, as to aim
at the commonplace and strike the eortb. -
Yielding at last to these importunities, the authoress
Great Heroes in the
Cabul medal, with four clasps, and the Can dahar star-of
bronse; and later , the Queen presented him with the
Jubilee medaL ' . ' ,
At the advanced age of 21 the game little steed h
was only 14' hands high waa as pluyful as any Kitten,
He survived to see his twenty-ninth birthday, and "lies
burled near th Royal Hospital, Dublin, in th roe
garden." f - - . '
Copenhagen, Wellington's famous chestnut , charger,
wss only two Inches higher than little Volonel. He car
ried his great master through the peninsular War, and
ore him for eighteen hours on the day of Waterloo.
-When his fighting days were over, the little Danish horse
was sent to Strathfteldaaye, where ho was tenderly cared
for. His last days were somewhat embittered, It la true,
by the misguided worship of thousands of hla admirer
who went to visit him in fact, the nuisance became eo
great that the Duke was compelled to put blm in a cage,
when, at last, he succumbed to old age, he was accorded
an Impressive funeral, and a tombetone was erected t
Seas of Lapland
ner of Cataract Lako. near th Lapland border line.
' Snow and ice cover the shores. No doubt, the bather
Is shivering and his teeth are chattering violently, but
th camera ha paid do attention to thoeo minor details.-
Many tourists In extreme' northern countries bath
in water as cold as this appears to be. In fact, the water
I warmer than the air or tb surrounding Icy shores. -
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Sea, Vcl Far From Boundary Line
Ablutions, briskly performed under such condition.
followed by a good "rub
followed by a good ''rub down" and a run along shore, or
by some other exercise to stir the blood, sre said to be
Sot only without danger, but ethNaretlng to the extreme.
Still, when Ice and snow are about, moat person pre
fer a comfortably warmed bath room. .. ,
sent ber pet to a prominent publishing firm, and the rest
is history In th literary world.
Quite Incidentally, Mrs. Rice tells of tba dramatisa
tion ef "Mrs. Wlsva." At the varv moment When Annie
Crawford Flexner was whipping th book Into shape f or
th stage, on of th members of a leading New I or a
firm ot managers went to. London for the purpose of
having James M. Barrl writ him a play.
Barrla's answer was short and to the polntt "Why
don't you go back to America for your, play? You hv
It In 'Mrs. Wlggs ot th Cabbage Patch." Tb agent.
It la said, had at that time never read or beard ef "Mrs.
Wlggs." When he returned to America be found that he
waa too late to secure th production. ' '
It is only natural that Mrs. Rica should be burdened
with a multitud of latter this la one of th penalties
of fam. No day passes without bringing a request from
some publisher, or, perhaps, an offer for a lecturing en
gagement. . h answer each totter briefly but courte
ously, and uniformly declines. .
Any one having talked with Mrs. Rice realises that It
ia Impossible that- she could aver screw up sufficient
courage to appear on th stage, even In th most humble
capacity.
She shrinks from publicity, and doesn't care even to
discuss her recent advent Into tha field of finance.
Not without literary aspirations is bar husband. Cats
Toung Rice, who has already attained some prominence
Wars of the World"
commemorate bis virtues and bis loyal service. '
. An equally honored old age was that of the whit
charger Marengo, which carried Napoleon on th field
of Waterloo. After his master's flight. Marengo was
found by an English officer wandering disconsolately on
the battlefield, and ha was sent to England, where he
spent many happy years in peaceful pastures and tended
by reverent grooms. He survived Napoleon nin years,
and when old -age and pneumonia combined to and hi
career, his skeleton waa sent for preservation to th
Royal United Service Institution in Whitehall, . 1
, . rAiaous American animals
; ' Ther has seldom, if ever, been a braver and more
. loyal war horse than Traveler, who carried bis master.
General Lee, through scores of battles, and came through
them all without a scratch. ' It n aald that he whinnied
pitifully when he followed the gcterel'e coffin to th
grave; and It was not long after that, while graslng. a
hall became imbedded la his foot, and he died of lockjaw.
Copenhagen bora Stonewall Jackson ; through ten Aero .
battles before th fetal bullet struck his rider, n sur
vived, through a honored and lovingly tended old age,
until vm; and he may be seen to-day, stuffed and cleverly
mounted. In a glass case In the library of the Soldiers
Home, Virginia. . .
Oeneral Washington had many horses who rendered
htm devoted service, and whom he regarded with affec
tions but the. most prlsod of them all was the brown
charger which he bestrode at the surrender of Lord Corn
wallls. Hung wltb heavy mourning. robee and led by a
groom, he followed tho coran or nu ataa menae.na mas-
ter to h lev la it resting place. General' Sheridan's famous '
black war horse, Rleusi, long survived ell the dangers of
, war, and died, loved and mourned, in 187. His body was
mounted, nnd is to be seen In th museum ot Governor's
Island, in New Tork Bay. - '.
It seems to have been the fate of most of these fs
1 mous horses to survive their matter. Such, however,
, was not the lot of Nellie Grey, the handsomest charger ,
In all the Confederate Army. Nellie, with General Fits-
- hugh Lee on her back, seemed to bear a charmed life, eo
many were the dangers she escaped, until at laet she fell
In the very thickest of the fight at the Battle ot Win
cheater. Cincinnati, the most loved ef all General Grant's .
hon-es, was more fortunate than Nellie; for ha survived
all the horrore of the Civil War, end died 7a sincerely
-lamented aa he had lived respected."
: - More Than Foul
rpiHX ball went crashing through Mrs. Cruiser parlor
IkI 1,
the indignant .
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window. Wltb a frowning visage.
1 . lady awaited tha urchin's arrival, wba waa fast
approaching to reclaim hi own. -in
"It was a foul ball,' explained the contrite laC
"Foul ball!" gasped the angered woman, a ah traced
th dirty bajl'a eoiire through th layers of ber filmy,
curtains) "why. U s porteg'Jy filthy."
ta tba world of letters. Ha la a poet of bo mean ability,
and b asplrea to great things.' '
Still retaining her membership in th Authors Club.
7 Mrs. Rice meets that organisation every Saturday marn-
ing. - ',...',, .'-,,- -.
She alms for that which la pur and elevating 14 tba
world ef letter, and every shaft ah turns loose Is ladon
with the germ of truth and tipped with the salt of humor."
These two elements characterise tier private life, for
she is a student of human nature and-readily grasps
every dramatlo effect of life that la presented.
Although she baa determined to enlist ber brain and
her capital in th business world. Mrs. Rice will not dls-
continue ber literary work.
At the same time aha is deeply Interested la tb suc
cess of th banking schema in which she is the moving
spirit and th largest stockholder.
, It la understood that she wlU take a more active part
in tha management of this financial enterprise than do
mosf people of means who Invest money In such under
takings. , . : : - '.-' ' ..
' Of these plans, however, she declines to talk, asserting
that ber future In th business world, as well as In tb
realm 6f letter, must take care of itself.
Littlt? Animal Stories' ..
H
OR8E8 play an important part in shrimp fiahUf
along tha Belgian coast.-A procession of weather
beaten fishermen starts from the shore, each maa
mounted upon tha back of a trained boras, drag
ging the triangular purse-shaped net, , which scoops In tho
shrimps aa It passes over th sands. These fishermen oa
horseback frequently make hauls of several hundred
weight In a single trip. . .
The cries of no animals approach mora closely that of
tha human vole than those of seals when lamenting tha
loss or capture of their young. They emit a walling and
affecting cry similar to that of a woman ia deep grief, .
Over 10.000 photographs of birds amid their .natural
surroundings have 4een taken by an English naturalist.
Some of them entailed as much as a week of waiting and
watching.,- .
Recently a turkey and a goose were matched to walk
a race of 100 yards. In London. There waa great -tixatt-ment.
hundred of people witnessing the affair. After on
false start the goose got well away, leaving tha turkey at
the post, and, following his master In good style, won .
easily amid great applause. Before and after th rao tb
goose, with a box on bis back, collected money for a local
hospital, t. . - . , ,.,
Some time ago a brown bear in the Bronx Zoological
Park, New York, was suffering from toothache, it took
the combined strength of four men to pull the molar,
after which the bear's former amiability returned.
A crab caught recently In the English Channel meas
ured three feet from tip to tip ef claws and weighed near
ly fifteen pounds.
Anions' elenhanta bath sexes of tha African species
have ivory tusks,- while la Asia these are generally re-
strict ed to the mala
Tt I ald that SOO.000 domestic animals, valued at
11000,000, are slain by wolvea every year in tha Russian
Empire. .v , . v -
Without losing a single animal, it Is asserted, seven
shepherds recently drove a flock ef 14,000 sheep from
Mamuga, In Queensland, to Narrabri, In New South
Wales, Australia, existence of W0 miles. - .
In the Far North, and particularly along the ocean
coaMs, birds are frequently storm driven and lose their
bearings, so that many of them are loet at sea. They
keep floating In the air, almlewly striving to live, until
exhaustion compel them to drop Into the waves, which
sngulf them.
Of all the creaturea to b seen at Coologtcal gardens, .
snakes are probably the most easy- to ship from one coun
try to another.' Snakes take very little room, and through
out a long voyage give not the least trouble. They do not
require to be fed, nor do they require looking after in any
other way. , - f
Monkey and elephant ahow deep emotion by weep
ing. Reniger cay he bae often aeen th aye ot a (mail
South African monkey fill with tear' when he waa de
prived of some coveted object or made very much afraid
of something. Darwin cites a case of a monkey from
Borneo In a 100 lot leal garden which waa frequently,
moved to tear when grieved or pitied.' During an ele
phant hunt in Ceylon one of th spectator relates that
hum of the elenhanta when bound showed na faaiin
except grief, and remained perfectly motionless while th
urt streamed from their eyee. Female elephants are
often affected in tne aame way wnen ineir young are
, taken from them. . - r . -s . r
'A tad residing near London hat a hearthrug which
I unique. It is composed ntirly of tb skins Of ber
deceased feline pat . . "
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