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birds and flowers of the pine scented Mississippi woodlands are the vary airy ephemera and cobweb daintiness of poetic thought - so dainty are some of them that they might have been etched with a thorn on the petal of a dog rose bloom.
"Pearl Rivers," first published article was accepted by Mr. John W. Overall, now editor of the New York Mercury, from whom she received the confirmation of her own hope that she was born to be a writer.
While still living in the country the free, luxurious life of the daughter of a wealthy Southern gentleman, Miss Poitevant received an invitation from the editor of the Picayune to come to New Orleans as the literary editor of his paper. A newspaper woman was then unheard of in the South, and it is pleasant to know that the foremost woman editor of the South today, was also the South's pioneer woman journalist.
Miss Poitevant went on the staff of the Picayune with a salary of $25, a week. The work suited her and she found herself possessed of that rare faculty in woman - the journalistic faculty.
After a time, she married the owner of the Picayune. When he died, she found herself with nothing but a big, unwieldy newspaper, almost swamped in a sea of debt. The idea of turning her back on this new duty did not occur to the new owner. She gathered about her a brilliant staff of writers, went