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384 Planet; but pressing and urgent duties soon forced her to discontinue the work in that direction.

About two years ago, Miss Lewis took up stenography, and after much diligent study and careful instruction under an excellent teacher, succeeded in mastering Graham's system. It was then that she obtained the position of stenographer and private secretary to the widely-known Max Eliet, of The Boston Herald, who is one of the cleverest woman writers and critics in the country, and who occupies an important editorial position on the staff of The Herald.

Finding that her duties as a private secretary called for a knowledge of type-writing, she set herself to the acquisition of that art, and is now able to write from dictation with ease and rapidity. In fact, her record for taking copy verbatim ranks among the highest in New England. Miss Lewis also does good reportorial and special work, as well as work in the society department of The Herald, upon the staff of which paper she is a regular salaried employee. Miss Lewis is peculiarly fitted for the position she holds.

The truth is expressed in the sentence which says: "Mrs. Lucretia Newman Coleman is a writer of rare ability." Discriminating and scholarly, she possesses, to a high degree, the poetic temperament, and has acquired great facility in verse. She was born in Dresden, Ontario, being the fourth child of William and Nancy Newman. Her father died when she was quite a child, and her mother soon after the death of her husband became an invalid, and died after thirteen months' suffering. The household duties then fell upon this "petted child."

Inspired by the words of her dying father and mother, she