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Show Women Who Mold Opinion. New York ia so vast and wealthy a community that it 6eems impossible to satisfy the demand for talent of all sorts. Tho city itself does not appear to pro-duce pro-duce enough for its own wants and sa draws from the outside world. There is a constant stream of bright, intelligent women flowing into the metropolis, and yet there is always room for more. It in hard to keep a record of all who come, as most of them respond to engagements of which the public knows nothing. Of the many newoomers Miss Esther Singleton makes a specialty of literary and musical essays and novel entertainments, entertain-ments, in which poetry, song and the piano are components. She has a delightful de-lightful way of illustrating history, drama and verse with musioal compositions. composi-tions. Miss Louine Stockton is emphatically emphat-ically a great literary teacher and master. mas-ter. She makes books living beings and makes even the dullest realize the organic or-ganic relation between literature and daily life. Miss Eeaston is an apostle of contemporaneous literature. She strives to induce women to read carefully American history, to understand what is going on around them and to master the great authorities in order to comprehend compre-hend recurrent fact3 and questions. Miss Martina Johnstone is music personified. per-sonified. She is a master of its art and science. She can at a glance determine the strength and weakness of any student stu-dent or amateur. Miss Mary Proctor makes astronomy and mathematics simple and wonderfully wonder-fully fascinating. Miss Jessie H. Bancroft Ban-croft is tho leader of physical culture, or muscular Christianity. In this field she finds the secret of health, beauty, grace, endurance and the power to work untiringly 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 are leading their sisters upward into a higher and broader culture. Margherita Arlina Hanim in New York Mail and Express. Miss Beatrice Ilarraden, the tamous author of "Ships That Pass In tha Night," is still in this country somewhere. some-where. She has written a story of this country, too, eoou to be published. It ta a O&lltoruir" mmo. |