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Show Women Who Mold Opinion. New York is so vast and wealthy a t community that it seems impossible to E latisfy the demand for talent of all sorts. The city itself does not appear to pro- iluoe enough for its own wants and so draws from tho outside world. There is a constant stream of bright, intelligent women flowing into the metropolis, and I yet there is always room for more. It is hard to keep a record of all who come, i as most of them respond to engagements of which the public knows nothing. ! Of the many newcomers Miss Esther Singleton makes a specialty of literary and musical essays and novel entertainments, entertain-ments, in whioh poetry, song and the piano are components. She has a de lightful way of illustrating history, drama and verse with musical coposi tions. Miss Louise Stockton is emphat ically a great literary teacher and master. mas-ter. She makes books Uving beings aud makes even the dullest realize the organic or-ganic relation botween literature and daily life. Miss Beaston is an apostlo of contemporaneous literature. She strivea to induce women to read carefully American history, to understand what is coiner on nrnrmrt thfm nnrl' tn mnefn. is going on around them and' to master the great authorities in order to compro bond recurrent facts and questions. Miss Martina Johnstone in tnusio personified. per-sonified. Sho is a master of its art and science. She can at a glance determine tho strongth and weakness of any stu dent or amateur. Miss Mary Prootor makes astronomy end mathematics simple and wonderfully wonder-fully fascinating. Miss Jessie H. Bancroft Ban-croft Is the leader of physical culture, or muscular Christianity. In this field she finds the secret of health, beauty, grace, endurance and the power to work mtiringly with either mind or body. Miss Field and Miss Yates are both fine oriental scholars. Miss Stephens is an authority on South American topics. These and many others are a power in the parlor as well as on the platform. They aro leading their sisters np-ward into a higher and broader culture. Margherita Arlina Hainin in New Fori Mail and Express. |