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Show ILIFE Offi OF A GREAT WOMAN How a Tremendous Enterprise Originated in the Personality Per-sonality of a Remarkable Writer By CHARLES DWYER ly published bv her husband. Mr. Cyrus Cy-rus H. K. Curtits, and called the Tribune and Farmer, which, contrasted contrast-ed with tho great enterprises of the Curtis Publishing Company to-day. tells an eloquent story of a strong purpose In a modest beginning. Tho column of Loulso Knapp Mrf- Curtis expanded until it swept even the name away. And thus began and prospered Tho ladles' Home Journal, of v. hii-h she was t-ditor from 1SS3 to l.SS.l, when sho was succeeded by Mr. Bok. Sho was a woman of hih Intelligence, In-telligence, of clear vision, of uncompromising uncom-promising Ideals, of the most gracious social qualities, and when fortune tamo to her she found a field for her Interests Inter-ests In many sweet charities of which tho world will never know. It la impossible im-possible to pay an adequate tribute to such a life its worth, Its usefulness and its devotion but old readers will join us In this word of appreciation, not only for what she was In herself, but for what she did to turn into tho American home a constant stream of wholesome literature making for cleaner clean-er thought and bolter living. THERB passed away at her home near Philadelphia n few weeks ago a woman whose work and writings older readers will recall re-call with keen pleasure Louise Knapp, otherwise Mrs. Cyrus H K. Curtis. From the late seventies to the end of tho eighties her name wa3 a great In fluence In tho home magazine world. It Is not too much to say that sho was ono of tho chief and most powerful pow-erful pioneers In tho ideas and plans which have made the woman's magazine maga-zine the most astonishing fact in modern mod-ern publishing Her work began in the woman's column of a small week- |