Show h WKITEFOJITIEEWIESS TWO WOMAN WHO AI1B HANDY WITH TUB PBN Itsihlrn IIIh Ttkteu the eeding tt amn teueelt al eandaIbotrlt sloe 1 LInrn tnlleee of ins et hestel lIHII 1tetltoo 11 us KW WOMRN ON this continent oxr i clue I 10 direct nn In I 13 I fluenra upon n newspaper nt doe I i I Mrs Kathleen I Ilhka Watklns ot I the Toronto Mall fly her brilliant work Mrs Watkins has made n splendid reputation for that Journal and for herself She U n native na-tive of Ireland tarn In Cattle IHakeny In May 103 nod oCucaled In Dublin and Illinium She was married at the ago of sixteen and came to this country In 1881 I She entered upon n Journalistic career In Canada where wllh tho exception ot extended dolts to the United State and abroad she has since redded A remarkable feature feat-ure of her work Is that sho conducts successfully two entirely separate and distinct departments of Ibo newspaper I she represents being special traveling I i i v I KATiniis IILAUI WATKINS corrMpondcnt and editor ot the PIt devoted to the Woman Kingdom This latter department Is I one ot tho molt striking nnd nttractlvo on any Journal In the world nnd has gained a largo and steadily growing consllt < uency Mrs Watklns has published n series of popular sketches on Dlcklns land being Ibo remit ot explorations In every portion of London made famous fa-mous by the great ingllsli novelist Her letters from tho Worlds Columbian Colum-bian Imposition In 1S93 worn remarkable remarka-ble for their brilliancy and literary merit and she tins since Issued In book form a resume ot exposition Mr Walklns It I best known by her pennants pen-nants of Kit over which tho has I done the greater portion of her work Mils Harriet S Monroe ot Chicago occupies a securo paco among American Ameri-can poets A volume ot her poems published 1 under tho title of Valeria and Other Poems has won from well known critics pronounced and cordial commendation MUs Monroe was born In Chicago December S3 18CO her parents having moved from central New York five years earlier Her education edu-cation was begun In Ills public schools and continued In Dearborn seminary I and at the ago of sixteen she entered I tho Academy ot the Visitation at Georgetown II C whero she remained two years Whllo there she gavo special spe-cial attention to the study ot competition competi-tion and to some extent Indulged her Inclination to write verses for her own amuitmcnt After leaving school she engaged rcrlouily In literary pursuits but for some limo was content to have no other audience than her Immediate friends Valeria was first printed for private circulation In 1691 1 but In tho latter part of U92 tho work was enlarged and brought out by n Chicago publisher Ily request of Iho committee commit-tee on ceremonies of tho Worlds Columbian Co-lumbian Imposition 1 Miss Monroe wrote limo Opening Ode for tbo dedication of Ibo Whllo City which occurred October Octo-ber 21 1S92 Parts of tho poem were read and parts of It sung by the great chorus on that memorable occasion In prose Miss Monroe has done considerable consid-erable Journalistic work chiefly In tbo lino ot art and literary criticisms and t > h y yttll IIAItlllKT STONE MONItOU has written a number ot clever essays on the English poets She Is a graceful grace-ful and entertaining wrller |