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قراءة كتاب Kansas Women in Literature
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A sister, Mary Freeman Startzman, while living in Fort Scott, wrote a volume of poems, "Wild Flowers."
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.
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.
came near
With silken flutter of empurpled wings
That wafted faint, strange fragrance from
the things
Abloom where age and season never
sear.
The joy of mating birds was in my ear,
And flamed my path with dancing daffodils
Whose splendor melted into greening hills
Upseeking, like my spirit, to revere."
A fairy garden seemed
With lavender and eglantine;
And lovely lilies gleamed
Above the purple-pansy sod
Where ruthless passion never trod."
A keeper of the sheep, a peasant me,
Within a shepherd's cottage thatched with
vine
Now might we know the bliss of days
divine."
—"We are part of Heaven's scheme,
You and I:
Child of sunshine and the dew
I was earthly—born as you.