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Show The Women in the Case. It appears that Booth Tarkington owes his present enviable position in literature chiefly to his sister, Mrs. Tarkington Jameson. On the re- turn from the East of a certain early manuscrip, Mrs. Jameson seized the package from her dis- couragecl brother, took the train for New York, called upon the heedless publisher and his unap- preciative reader and gave them vive voce rendi- tions of some of the finest passages. As these passages were in actuality the improvisation of the clever Mrs. Jameson, it became possible and easy to tax the luckless reader (who naturally could not recall them) with negligence. Accord- ( ing to the Chicago Post, this coup secured a sec- ond reading for the manuscript and brought about its acceptance and publication. What would the world be without Indiana? Bi Dorothy DIx, author of "Fables of the Elite," la Mrs. Elzabeth Meriwether Gilmer, a Southerner who has won journalistic success in New York. Mrs. Gilmer comes of a long line of Virginia an- cestors, and- her family is proud of the story of the day when. Meriwether was a close friend of Jefferson and a man of influence in the young State. Mrs. Gilmer it is said, has a delicious Southern accent, a quick laugh and a manner both K lualnt and cordial. |