cles.

Mrs. E. Hamilton Myers, Englewood, is a dramatic writer and a poet of
rare talents. Being a musician, much of her verse is used for songs.

Mrs. Myers contributes to the English papers. Her first story was
published by a magazine which had accepted writings of her mother's.

Other than literature proper, we have Mrs. Lillian M. Mitchner, of
Topeka, a scientific writer; Mrs. Lumina C. R. Smythe, a writer of
verse, also of Topeka, who is co-author with her late husband in the
revised "Flora And Check List of Kansas."

Among the clever newspaper women of the state are Margie Webb Tennal,
Sabetha; Maud C. Thompson, Howard; Frances Garside, formerly of
Atchison, now with the New York Journal; Mrs. E. E. Kelley, Toronto;
Anna Carlson, Lindsborg; Mrs. Mary Riley, Kansas City; and Isabel Worrel
Ball, a Larned woman, who bears the distinction of being the only
woman given a seat in the congressional press gallery. Grace D. Brewer,
Girard, has been a newspaper woman and magazine short story writer for
ten years.

Among the early Kansas writers are Clarinda Howard Nichols, Mrs. A. B.
Bartlett, Lucy B. Armstrong, Sarah Richart, Mrs. Porter Sherman, and
Mary Tenny Gray, all of Wyandotte and Mrs. C. H. Cushing of Leavenworth.

Sara T. D. Robinson, the wife of the first governor of Kansas, was one
of the very first women writers of the state. Her "Kansas, Interior
And Exterior" was published in 1856 and went through ten editions up to
1889.

INDEX.

Adams, Mrs. E. M.
Albright, Sara Josephine
Allerton, Ellen Palmer
Aplington, Kate A.
Armstrong, Lucy B.
Arnett, Anna W.
Arnold, Anna E.
Arthur, Elizabeth Barr

Ball, Isabel Warrel
Bartlett, Mrs. A. B.
Bellman, Bessie May
Bennett, Mrs. Johannas
Benton, Jeanette Scott
Black, Eva Bland
Brewer, Grace D.
Brown, May Bellville
Bugg, Leila Hardin
Butler, Mrs. A. B.

Call, Jessie Lewellyn
Carlson, Anna
Champney, Elizabeth
Clark, Esther M.
Congdon, Laura D.
Cornelius, Mary A.
Cowen, Kittie Skidmore
Cushing, Mrs. C. H.

Don Carlos, Louise C.

Finn, Mary H.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fuhr, Lulu R.

Garside, Frances
Glazier, Ida Margaret
Graham, Effie
Graves, Jennie C.
Gray, Anna Deming
Gray, Mary Tenny

Hale, Lillian W.
Hall, Sharlot M.
Haywood, Edna