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Rh will echo the sentiment of the cook who, after repeated failures from following the directions in other books, exclaimed, "No, Mrs. T., the pudding was no good. I tell you, we can't do any better than to stick to old Mary Jane." Mrs. Lincoln's latest printed volume is "A Cook-book for a Month at a Time," and her latest business venture is the manufacture of a pure cream of tartar baking powder, bearing her name, which is meeting with a ready sale.

The following is quoted from one of many press notices of Mrs. Lincoln: "Her personal magnetism, her naturalness, her enthusiasm and enjoyment in her work, win her many friends and pupils wherever she lectures. While instructing in language as clear and explicit as if her audiences were children, she never forgets that her hearers are ladies, and she answers the most absurd questions with unfailing patience and respect. She confines her talk to the subject at hand, and does not try to fill up every moment of the time by talking just for effect or to create a sensational discussion."

Mrs. Lincoln is the only living descendant of her father's branch of the Burnham family. She has no children. After the death of her husband, in 1894, she established herself in Boston, where in a sunny study, surrounded by her books and an interesting collection of pictures and souvenirs of a recent summer in Europe, she sends forth her weekly words of culinary and household wisdom, gathered from a varied practical experience, to help her sister housekeepers.

Mrs. Lincoln says that she "cannot be a business woman and a society woman at the same time." She prefers an active, useful life, and believes that success lies in doing one thing well. She is a member of the New England Women's Press Association, the Wheaton Seminary Club, the Charity Club, and the Cooking Teachers' League. Her greatest enjoyment is with her chosen circle of intimate friends, who often share the rest and quiet of her hospitable home.

An invitation from the publishers of the Scientific American, New York, to write the signed article on "Cookery" for their new Encyclopedia Americana, is one of Mrs. Lincoln's latest honors.

ARY ANNE GREENE, LL.B., daughter of John Waterman Aborn and Mary Frances (Low) Greene, was born in Warwick, R.I., June 14, 1857. She was graduated from the Law School of Boston University in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, magna cum laude, and was admitted to the bar in Boston the same year. She was the third woman graduated from the school and the second to be admitted to the Massachusetts bar. After practising two years in Boston, she returned to Rhode Island in 1890, and has resided in Providence ever since. She has an office practice, giving her attention largely to conveyancing and the care of estates.

Miss Greene is of the ninth generation of the Rhode Island family founded by Dr. John Greene, son of Richard Greene, of Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, Dorsetshire, England. John Greene came to Salem from Salisbury, England, 1635, was one of the original proprietors of Providence, 1636, and one of the original purchasers and founders of the town of Warwick, 1642. This family gave to the colony and State a number of public officials, among them a Deputy Governor, John Greene, Jr.; a Chief Justice, who sat on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas of Kent County all through the Revolution; Philip Greene, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; two colonial Governors, William and William, Jr.; and two Revolutionary officers of distinction. General Nathanael Greene and Colonel Christopher Greene.

Miss Greene's line of descent is as follows: John1 Greene, surgeon; John2  Greene, Jr., general recorder, Attorney-General, Major for the Main, Deputy Governor; Job3  Greene, Speaker of the House of Deputies, 1727-28; Philip4  Greene, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Kent County twenty-five years, 1759-84, and its Chief Justice 1776-84, also. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1768-69; Christopher5 Greene, Colonel-Commandant of the Rhode Island Brigade, Continental Line, of the Revolution; Colonel Job6 Greene, of the State Brigade in the Revolution and an original member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati; Simon Henry' Greene, for many