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Show oisnifl zsiy. Nellie Bly is an Amerioan. Her real name is Elizabeth Coohrane. She is more of an American than most Americans Amer-icans because her ancestors in the gloomy past came over and helped cut down the first trees in Pennsylvania. Nellie Bly's achievements lead one to believe that she must be at least 24 years old. Her appearance, however, ia that of a much younger woman She is rather tall and slender, with a very interesting and intelligent face. Her -eyes are brown, her hair almost black. Her hands seem almost too small to hold a pen. She writes, however, very rapidly. The newspaper work which this young woman has done has had the advantage of publicity. She lived as a supposedly insane patient in the asylum on Black-well's Black-well's island for ten days. The result of the articles concerning her experience experi-ence there was a large appropriation that has meant comfort to many helpless help-less insane creatures. Her description of the treatment of female prisoners in the police stations was another achievement in the interest of tho unfortunate. The appointment of police matrons to care for the female prisoners was the result of that place of exoellent work. New York World. |