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meditation and writing. Much of her poetry and short stories are used in platform work.
Red Leaves.
Red leaves-- Aflame in the air, aflame in the trees. Blue streams, smoky hills-- Gold, gold the sunlight spills-- Red leaves!
Dead Leaves-- A swirl in the air-asleep 'neath the trees. Gone every lark and swallow-- Haunting echoes bid me follow-- Dead leaves! Bessie May Bellman--
Mrs. Henthorne's ``If'' is published in a New York reader.
``If, in a bird-heart, beating 'neath the gray There chants a song, no matter what the day. If, in a bird-heart happy sunbeams shine, Why not in mine?
If, in a flower-face, beat down by rain, The hope of clear skies be in spite of pain-- If, in a flower-face a great hope shine, Why not in mine?''

AMANDA T. JONES.
One of the few Kansas women to have a place in ``Who's Who'' was the late Amanda T. Jones of Junction City. She was one of the most prolific poets of Kansas.
Her ``Atlantic'' is a story of the rebellion; ``Utah and Other Poems;'' ``A Prairie Idyl;'' ``Flowers and a Weed;'' and ``Rubaiyat of Solomon Valley'' are volumes of verse. Her prose: ``Children's Stories,'' ``Fairy Arrows'' and ``The White Blackbird;'' ``A Psychic Autobiography,'' published in 1908; ``Man and Priest,'' a story of psychic detection; ``Mother of Pioneers,'' and a novel ready for publication, ``A Daughter of Wall St.''
Miss Jones originated a working women's home and patented many inventions, mostly household necessities.
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CHARLOTTE F. WILDER.
Charlotte Frances Wilder, Manhattan, has been writing half a century and it has won for her a place in Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, ``entitled to go down to posterity, her life- work preserved as information for future generations.'' She has written ``Land of The Rising Sun,'' ``Sister Ridenour's Sacrifice,'' ``Christmas Cheer In All Lands,'' ``Easter Gladness,'' ``Mission Ships,'' ``The Child's Own Book'' and ``The Wonderful Story of Jesus.'' Her essays, alone, would make a volume, original and interesting. She has written for the press since sixteen years of age and has been a Bible teacher forty years.

ANNA L. JANUARY.
Osawatomie claims Anna L. January, the author of ``Historic Souvenir of Osawatomie, Kansas,'' ``John Brown Battle Grounds,'' ``Calvin Monument,'' and ``Lookout and Park;'' also, numerous poems.
Mrs. January is a native of Wilmington, Ohio, coming to Kansas in 1898. She taught school three years and in 1901 married D. A. January of Osawatomie. They have one child, a son of four years. An active worker in the Congress of Mothers and interested in temperance and suffrage work, Mrs. January still finds time to write many short poems.
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HATTIE HORNER LOUTHAN.
Hattie Horner Louthan, a former White Water, Kansas girl, is the author of five books and many contributions to newspapers and first class magazines. After graduation at the Normal School, Emporia, in 1883, Miss Horner engaged in teaching and literary work. Ten years later, she became the wife of Overton Earl Louthan, who died in 1906.
She is editor of the Great Southwest and a member of the staff of the Denver Republican. Her first volume of poems came out in 1885; the next year, ``Some Reasons For Our Choice.'' ``Not At Home,'' a book of travels, was published in 1889; ``Collection of Kansas Poetry,'' in 1891; and ``Thoughts Adrift,'' in 1902. Her work is versatile; the rhyme easy flowing and strong.

GEORGIANA FREEMAN McCOY. ---- MARY FREEMAN STARTZMAN.
Georgiana Freeman McCoy, Wichita, has taught music in Kansas longer than any other teacher in the state and incidently writes verse. She remodeled Elizabeth Browning's ``A Drama of Exile'' and wrote the musical setting for Simon Buchhalter, the Viennese pianist and composer. A sister, Mary Freeman Startzman, while living in Fort Scott, wrote a volume of poems, ``Wild Flowers.''
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EVA MORLEY MURPHY.
Eva Morley Murphy of Goodland, recent candidate for Congress, is author of two books: ``The Miracle on the Smoky and Other Stories,'' and ``Lois Morton's Investment.''
She is a descendant of Nathaniel Perry of Revolutionary fame, and of Rodger Williams; an active temperance worker; and one of the women who made equal suffrage possible in Kansas.
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SALLIE F. TOLER.
Mrs. Sallie F. Toler, Wichita, has written on every subject from pigs and pole cats to patriotism. She is the author of several plays and three vaudeville sketches. A comedy, a racing romance, ``Handicapped;'' ``Thekla,'' a play in three acts; ``On Bird's Island,'' a four-act play; and ``Waking Him Up,'' a farce, are played in stock now.
Mrs. Toler contributes to many papers and lectures on ``The Short Story'' and ``The Modern Drama.''

MARGARET PERKINS.
As a 1914 Christmas offering, Margaret Perkins, a Hutchinson High School teacher, gave us her volume of beautiful poems. ``The Love Letters of a Norman Princess'' is the love story, in verse, of Hersilie, a ward and relative of William, The Conqueror, and Eric, a kinsman of the unfortunate King Harold.
``I thought once, in a dream,