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Show WOMAN'S VVOi! Li). AN INTERESTING LITTLE SKETCH OF KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN. Women Who Mold Opinion Corsets and the New Woman Kate Field on the Suffrage Suf-frage Good Looks In Business Women Bookbinders Fashion Hints. lira. Kate Douglas Wiggin is the subject sub-ject of an entertaining article by Emma B. Eaqfmau i. The Ladies' Home Journal. Jour-nal. The writer says: It was in a crowded crowd-ed car in an unfashionable quarter of San Francisco that I first met Mr. Wiggin. She got into the oar and crowded crowd-ed it more because there were half a dozen small ragged children hanging about her, and they were calling her "Miss Kate," and she was smiling with very bine eyes at one, and she was talking talk-ing with very red lips to another, and her cheeks were very pink even then, and her golden hair was all blown by the wind. one naa on a nrcie nat tnat was sur-rounded sur-rounded by a wreath of red roses, and she had on a pretty dress that fitted her to perfection. It all struck me as being very incongruous incon-gruous this pretty, fashionable lady who did not seem in the least to mind all these ragged children clinging to her and trampling on her dress, and the children, who did not seem to be in tho least afraid of the lady's style or beauty. The car was full of poor people, who seemed to know her, too, for they smiled at her and made room for her in a way they had not done for me. Presently I discovered that the conductor con-ductor was a acquaintance, too, for sud- MRS. KATE DOUGLAS WIGGDT. denly he stopped of his own accord end called out Silver street. Then there was a scampering and a scattering, and it flashed over me that the lady was Mrs, Wiggin of kindergarten fame. Let me say here that Mrs. Wiggin ! was the pioneer of free kindergarten ganizer of tho Silver street eohool, the first free kindergarten established west of the Rocky mountains. Mrs. Wiggin was born in Philadelphia Philadel-phia and educated in Andover, Mass., but Maine, where she declares she loves every stick and stone, claims her too. She spent many years of her childhood therein thesmall town of Hollis, where last year she parchased a house with the intention of passing her summer in uninterrupted un-interrupted work. This residence is ap propriately known as Quilloote. It was the atmosphere of that region whioh lent color to those stories of hera about New England life and character, which have appeared in The Atlantia Monthly. For two years Mrs. Wiggin 's winter home has been near New York at Bronx-ville. Bronx-ville. There, the last time I saw her, she was acting in the capacity of cordon bleu, of musician and singer and poetess poet-ess and humorist and hostess. |